Yan Feng and Modric's coffee party, the big men in the team, may think that the team is in tandem in the eyes of people who don't know the situation, but in fact, Yan Feng asked Modric and them to drink coffee, just to give his teammates a chance to relax.

For someone like Luka Modric, who is starting to enter the latter stages of his career, glory and historical status are the greatest pursuits. This is true even for the leisure time after training.

Drinking coffee is actually a communication between teammates. Talk about some of the changes that are taking place in the team and how you feel about yourself. As soon as he talked about it, Modric really said a lot of things and worries. It's okay for Sandell, after all, he's also a veteran in the team. He is younger and more adaptable.

Saying the emotions in his heart, this is what Yan Feng wants. After Modric fully expressed his thoughts, Yan Feng just listened at first, and it was only later that he said that the team needs a stronger manager if it wants to have a more ambitious ideal. If you want more, you often need to pay more.

It is estimated that I have vented, and my mood is a little calm. Yan Feng didn't know if his words were useful, but Modric was indeed in a much better mood after that. And in the subsequent training, it did show a tendency to try to adapt to the new system.

Later, Modric said: "I really want more, so I'm willing to try to adapt and try." ”

As the team's big man, Modric has no tendency to resist or resist, so there will not be much resistance to Mourinho's transformation of the Granada team. His accession to the throne can be described as very smooth.

In this way, Mourinho's time in charge soon reached a month. In the past month, Mourinho has been very efficient in preparing for the new season of the Granada team.

During the preparation period, Granada played several friendly matches. The opponents in these friendly matches are strong and weak. And the result of the game is also a loss and a win.

Judging from the situation of these games, Yan Feng found that the team's offense was indeed no longer so gorgeous, while the defense was constantly strengthening.

At first, Granada will play like last season from time to time, but as training progresses, Granada will transform more and more into the team Mourinho wants in friendly matches.

To say that against strong and weak opponents, the Granada team has both wins and losses. It's not that their strength is getting weaker, it's going up and down. Yan Feng clearly felt that the team was becoming stronger and more dominant.

The reason why there are winners and losers is that Mourinho is constantly trying new formations. What 442 formations, diamond four midfielders, or 352 formations, or even 541 bus formations are all laid out.

Jose Mourinho is experimenting with the effect of a new formation, and as the players get used to it, the effect has been getting better. In the later friendlies, the Granada team could even make their teammates fall into despair with nowhere to speak.

Of course, friendly matches, this is not even a small test. At least that's what Mourinho thinks.

And when all the preparations are over, the Granada team finally ushered in the first real test after Mourinho took charge - the new season began.

A new season, a new coach, a new Granada. They have their first round of fixtures of the new season at home.

The first opponent of the Granada team in the new season is not a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch, but a very strong Espanyol team.

Espanyol is not strong, at least in the Europa League, they rarely get a ticket. It's not strong, but there are always times when they even gnaw off the Barcelona team. Such a team, once it goes crazy, any team must be mentally prepared to lose.

Because it is everyone's first game of the new season, everyone wants to get off to a good start, so the Espanyol team is very invested. Add to that the fact that Granada won Real Madrid and Barcelona last season. Espanyol got even more excited.

Espanyol really gave it their all, they were so committed that a lot of people thought they were playing Barcelona.

Espanyol did show the momentum they had when they played Barcelona, but in the face of Mourinho's 451 team, they had nothing to do. What's more, the Granada team's defense is also very fierce. Espanyol can't do what they did to get rid of Barcelona.

In the end, it was the Granada team that got off to a good start.

1:0. Granada won by just one goal.

Mourinho looked very happy to get off to a good start. At the post-match press conference, he talked eloquently and seemed very chatty.

"My players did a good job in this game. I'm satisfied, it served my purpose. ”

Jose Mourinho is satisfied, but the Granada fans are not satisfied.

"Sure enough, in Mourinho's hands, you don't want to see a refreshing game. Obviously, he can get three, but he only needs to get one. ”

"I miss last season. That beautiful way of playing is what you like in football. ”

Mourinho doesn't care too much about similar sentiments from fans.

"The greatest joy in football is winning, didn't I do that? Or do some people like to lose?"

To be honest, Mourinho's tactical style is not much appreciated by fans. It's just that the players don't feel good enough. Yan Feng also felt that in fact, in this game, the Granada team could have scored more goals. However, sometimes when he wanted to go up, Mourinho would shout: "Yan, watch your position." ”

Playing defensive counter-attacks, naturally there will not be too much investment in offense. As a result, Modric, as a midfield maestro, naturally does not have too many opportunities to perform. Compared to last season, the number of impressions has dropped a lot.

However, because the only goal in this game came from the assist of Modric. Half the credit for the goal was given to Modric, and he won the game. Modric doesn't have much of an opinion.

"Brother Feng, it seems that my data is shrinking in the new season. I had set a goal to go to the next level. "Modric has no opinion, but it is Lin Fan's turn to have some opinions. After the team took the lead, Lin Fan was very eager to step forward and participate in the attack, but Mourinho's request made it impossible for him to realize his idea.

"Well, obviously we could have scored more goals. This is simply a waste of a great opportunity!" Lin Fan's opinion is not small.

"This is just the first one. He's new here, so he always has to be a little more cautious. There will be a lot of games in the future, and there will definitely be more opportunities. I think with your current form and ability, there will definitely be a considerable increase in this season's stats. Yan Feng comforted.

"I wish so!" Lin Fan still looked a little skeptical.

As for Yan Feng himself. He handed over the attacking power to Luka Modric last season, isn't that an improvement in attacking stats?