South of Madrid, on the eastern outskirts of Fuenlafrada, Chinatown Training Center.

Thick curtains were drawn in the conference room on the second floor, and club owner Gao Han, head coach Mauricio Pochettino, general manager Armando Marcos, technical director Carlos Cantarero, and Sergio García, who accompanied Gao Han, all sat and watched the video of the game on the TV screen in front of them.

It was just two days ago in the sixth round of La Liga at the Aldevilla Stadium, the home of the Chinese city team, against Sevilla, who are third in the La Liga table.

After three consecutive wins at the beginning of the league, China's performance began to decline, losing 1-2 away to Athletic Bilbao in the fourth round, which directly caused Chinatown to fall out of the top four in La Liga, and then drew 2-2 with Valladolid, the ranking continued to decline, and the team's morale was also affected.

This also led directly to the team's 4-0 defeat to visiting Sevilla in the sixth round of home matches.

This fiasco shocked the entire Spanish football world, and it was only at this time that everyone realized that Gao Han is Gao Han, and the China City team is the Chinese City team, and the two do not belong to the same type at all.

Perhaps it is because the China City team has been promoted in the past few years and won three consecutive games at the beginning, which has led many people to have the illusion that this is a cold team and should continue to win all the way, but as everyone knows, this is Pochettino's team.

It can be said that this fiasco not only shocked the Spanish football world, but also greatly weakened the morale of the Chinese city team, so that Gao Han, who was far away in Manchester, had to take advantage of the team's spare time on vacation to immediately fly to Madrid to deal with the matter personally.

Judging from the video of the game, the opening Chinatown team did not play badly, and the first 20 minutes with Sevilla were also meritorious and defensive, advancing and retreating, but until the 20th minute, Sevilla took advantage of a midfield long-range shot opportunity to accidentally break the goal of the Chinatown team and completely broke the deadlock on the field.

After conceding a goal. China City were in a hurry to fight back, made a mistake in the process of advancing the pass, launched a counter-attack after being cut off, and Capel drove in from the left to assist Negredo's close-range header.

In less than two minutes, they conceded two goals in a row, which brought an extremely painful blow to the Chinese city team.

It can also be said that after conceding the second goal, the China City team was in chaos.

Judging from the game screen, Pochettino himself was a little anxious, did not keep enough calm, failed to stabilize the team's mood and position at the critical moment, protected his goal first, but was a little anxious to score.

After a long time of attacking, in the last minute of the first half, Sevilla launched the last attack, the morale of the Chinese city team was a little low, the defense was a little unfocused, and the opponent's center Kanute grabbed the ball and scored again.

Entering the second half with a score of 0-3, Pochettino also struck hard, replacing two midfielders and replacing two strikers, further increasing the offensive in the front, and once beat Sevilla to a stagnation and was extremely embarrassed.

But what is terrible is that in the 54th minute, the central defender Otamendi, who was eager to equalize, pulled down the opponent's player during a scramble, and was shown the second yellow card of the game by the referee, accumulating two red cards and going off the field.

There was little suspense at this point, and Pochettino had to switch to a defender to stabilize his position.

But in more than 80 minutes, Sevilla still seized the opportunity and scored a goal.

In the end, China City suffered its heaviest defeat at home, and its biggest defeat since the team's formation, losing 4-0 to Sevilla.

This fiasco hit the team very hard, and Gao Han also attached great importance to it.

If you look at it from the perspective of the post-match review, the players have problems, and the manager has problems as well.

At the very least, Pochettino's failure to stabilize the disorganized team at the first time when he conceded the second goal, but to continue to increase the attack, is a problem that is too obvious.

Sevilla are well aware of this, so they seize this direction to play.

If it were Gao Han, he would definitely choose to defend at that time, stabilize his position, and patiently look for opportunities, so that even if he can't win, at least he won't lose miserably.

This is a bit like a gambler at the table, the most taboo thing is to gamble on red eyes and let go of everything.

But the result of this is often a worse loss.

Really good gamblers must know how to advance and retreat, know how to stop when they win, and know how to stop in time when they lose.

From an afterthought's point of view, Pochettino was also red-eyed and not calm enough.

The Argentine also seemed to be well aware of his problems, so after watching the game, he was a little ashamed, after all, it was the worst defeat ever for the Chinese city team.

Seeing Pochettino's guilty expression, Gao Han smiled and patted Pochettino's shoulder hard.

"Don't take it to heart, Mauricio, there are wins and losses on the football field, who doesn't have the lessons of a fiasco? The most important thing is not to live in the shadow of a fiasco, but to learn from the fiasco and improve yourself. ”

After all, Pochettino is also a new manager, this season is his first time in charge of the top flight, and the opening three consecutive wins have undoubtedly given him confidence and confidence, and maybe even a little inflated mentality.

Moreover, the China City team is also the youngest youth army with an average age in La Liga this season, and they are still inexperienced and have not been able to adjust their mentality.

The next three games without a win, especially the 0-4 defeat at home to Sevilla, were undoubtedly a slap in the face, which made him suffer and learn a lesson, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

The Argentine coach was a little ashamed, and he was also in high spirits when he won three in a row, but he didn't expect that the team's situation would take a sharp turn, from three consecutive wins to three games without a win, or even ......

"Mr. Gao Han, I ......"

As soon as Pochettino's words came out, he was interrupted by Gao Han's outstretched hand.

"If you want to apologize, then you don't have to, and if you want to reflect, then after we're gone, you reflect on yourself, you're the manager of the team, and I fully trust any of your decisions and judgments. ”

Gao Han said in a very sincere tone that he wanted to help Pochettino regain his confidence.

The most important thing for a team on the pitch is confidence, and if even the manager himself does not have confidence, how can he bring confidence to the players?

"Mauricio, I told you, in front of you, I am the president of the club, I welcome you to communicate with me, but you don't have to apologize to me for the win or loss of a game, or reflect on it, no one is responsible for the loss, whether it is you or the players. ”

Gao Han's statement moved Pochettino greatly.

Because that means the club will not react to this defeat and it will be all over the place.

"If you lose, you lose, no one can always win, and the most important thing is how to get out of the shadow of failure, how to learn from failure, you know, sometimes a failure can teach us more and more valuable wealth, it depends on whether you know how to have it. ”

Pochettino nodded heavily, he understood what Gao Han meant.

The 0-4 defeat was sad for everyone, including the coaching staff, including the players.

Therefore, now is not the time to pursue responsibility at all, the most important thing now is to take advantage of the national team game time in these two weeks to rebuild the team's morale as soon as possible, recover as soon as possible, and prepare for the next league.

According to Gao Han's estimates, if you want to be relegated in La Liga this season, you can only lose at most 15 to 17 games, depending on the number of games won by the team.

If you look at the number of wins, you need to win at least 10 games to be relegated.

China City is now ranked sixth in the league with three wins, one draw and two losses, which is already a good result.

But the challenge is not small, which is to get out of the shadow of the fiasco and the winless streak as quickly as possible, which is a very terrible cycle, like a curse, which will constantly corrode the minds of the players, break the morale of the team, and then create a vicious circle.

Therefore, Gao Han will say that the league suspension caused by two weeks of national team matches may not be a good thing for the Chinese city team.

"There is one more thing, I would like to take this opportunity to study it with you. ”

Gao Han looked at Armando Marcos, Carlos Cantarero and Pochettino, all three of whom looked at each other intently.

"The situation is not good at the moment, but I am still full of confidence in the relegation for the new season and we all know that there are a lot of teams out there who are salivating over our players and we have to guard against it. “

Gao Han's words were also echoed by Armando Marcos.

'yes, Falcao has scored seven goals this season and has done very well, there are already some rumours out there and I spoke to Jorge and he said that there are teams that have asked him about Falcao. ”

"Then we have to pay attention. Speaking of this, Gao Han looked at Armando Marcos, "What is the current financial situation of the team?"

"It's working well for the time being, there are still two sponsorships in the negotiations, and if they are negotiated, the salary structure can be appropriately relaxed, but ......"

Gao Han understands what Armando Marcos means, the Chinese City team has a weak foundation and cannot compete with some strong teams, even giant teams, for financial resources, so it is very difficult to retain some core players.

Especially a sweet tooth like Falcao.

"Even if you want to sell people, at least you have to sell the backbone of our China City team, so that all the teams that covet us know that the players of our China City team are not just anyone who can poach them. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Han's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness, "Either you don't sell it, or if you want to sell it, you must make the other party vomit blood, and you feel distressed." ”

In the professional league, they are all competing with each other, even if it is Atletico Madrid, if it is really necessary, it is not necessarily merciful to dig up the corner of the China City team, not to mention, it is not Atletico Madrid now, but other teams.

Gao Han has never been afraid of poaching, what he is afraid of is that the cost of poaching is too low.

Once everyone realizes that the cost of poaching the China City team is too low, this group of talents will soon be poached.

There is a way that tigers can't stand up to wolves, and no matter how sharp Gao Han's fiery eyes are, where can he prevent others from digging like this?

"Then start the contract extension as soon as possible, firstly, to retain the players, and secondly, to boost the morale of the team. Gao Han made a quick decision.

"Let's start with a few key players in the squad, players like Falcao, Marcos Senna, Otamendi and David De Gea. ”

As soon as the management decided on the main line, they immediately began to work on how to renew the contract, and Pochettino as the team's manager and Cantarero as the technical director were also involved, and the discussion was very lively.

On the contrary, Sergio Garcia was left out in the cold, and used the iPhone he just bought to watch the news when he had nothing to do.

As a result, when he saw a news item from the United States, he was shocked.

(End of chapter)