Chapter 295

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in Deportivo La Coruna's dressing room instantly became colder than ice.

The midfield is quite flawed???

That's how they play on weekdays, and today Sao Paulo is really the type they haven't been exposed to...... They've never played against a team that looks so much like them, so it's normal to feel a little subtle for a while, right?

How did it come to the mouth of their coach to become "very flawed???

Thankfully, Juan didn't make everyone nervous for too long, paused and continued: "Although Sao Paulo's style of play is very similar to that of Deportivo La Coruna, even when I played face to face, I kind of thought it was a mirror match. But obviously, the opposing players still have a big midfield flaw......"

This formation is familiar to him! I don't know whether to say that he was too lucky or São Paulo was unlucky, Juan was not sure at first, and one half time was enough for him to discern what the other party was.

“…… You just said that the huge midfield flaw refers to Sao Paulo opposite? Alan opened his mouth.

"That's right." Juan glanced at him, "Can I still say that I am a team that I coached?" ”

"......" is not a secret, that's what they think.

Juan got the message from some people's eyes, and the Deportivo coach in particular laughed at it: "How could I say that my team is not good? ”

Since taking over Deportivo La Coruna, he has never said a bad word about the players in the team, even if someone makes a stupid mistake, at most it is just a clean up, and he has never spoken harshly to anyone.

…… But this one doesn't need to be harsh, most of the people in the team just wilted when they saw him.

Juan obviously didn't know what he was like in the hearts of the team, and the young coach of Deportivo La Coruna agreed that he belonged to the kind of approachable manager who mingled with the players!

This misunderstanding was not solved until much later, and Pompons, the mischievous king of A Coruña, said: "Boss, although we train together on weekdays and do all kinds of fun things together, we actually have a hazy fear of you in private, and this fear grows deeper and deeper every time the game starts......"

Juan was even devastated, but by then he himself had already accumulated a lot of power in A Coruña, and what to do after a brief period of depression.

Of course, Juan is just a little depressed at this moment, and the game is more important at this time, so after jokingly complaining, he continued: "Sao Paulo's midfield attack is more than enough defense, their five midfielders are behind us, and in the arrangement of five people, only one person is responsible for defense, one person is responsible for scheduling, and three of the remaining four people are responsible for attacking, which is the biggest difference with us." ”

When Deportivo used a lot of 3-5-2 formations last season, their favourite midfield pairings were Redondo, Riquelme, Aimar, Bellerón and Gago.

Redondo dominates the whole field and is also responsible for intercepting opponents with the backcourt; Belleron has a strong overall view and makes the most suitable global scheduling at the right time; Aimar and Gago's offense and defense are combined, and the power of these two people when paired is huge; Riquelme tore through the opposition defence, the midfield that Deportivo La Coruna swept through most of last season.

But isn't there anything wrong with Deportivo LaCoruna's midfield combination?

Of course there is.

Redondo and Riquelme's speed is slow, Aimar's defense is poor, Gago is still too tender and frizzy, and Belleron has no desire to attack, but under Juan's funeral arrangement, the five people have a clear division of labor and make up for each other, which has greatly improved their abilities.

It was precisely because of a season's ruthless approach to the formation that Juan was able to quickly find the problem in São Paulo.

It's not a bad mix of them, and it's not a bad thing for players to do their jobs, and it's easy to focus on one skill and it's a lot of players and teams that have started to follow that path.

The so-called excellent door is not as good as a top-notch door, and that's probably it.

However, most of Deportivo LaCoruna's midfield is mainly to make up for each other, not the kind of compensation that you are good at this and I am good at, but to be more delicate.

Sao Paulo, as a Brazilian team, originally chose this more delicate method to integrate their midfield, but the actual conditions did not allow it, and the players themselves were not good at this kind of run-in - this is the result of Juan's own observations.

"Awesome boss, can you see this?" Puffy and Juan smiled: "You can also find it if you look at it more, although their midfield seems to be very strong, we have a way to deal with them." ”

It's not just the midfield that Deportivo is strong about.

The second half of the game soon started again, and the two sides almost got to know each other a little more after testing each other in the first half, and even looked at each other's expressions full of confidence......

As soon as the whistle blew, Deportivo La Coruna quickly launched an attack, and in the 47th minute of the game, Maniche volleyed a powerful free kick from 27 yards in front, which made the fans of Sao Paulo wipe a cold sweat and subconsciously looked in the direction of Kaka.

Maniche is indeed very good at long-range shots and powerful shots, but such a kick not only made Sao Paulo more vigilant at the back, but also raised his vigilance against Kaka.

After all, if you keep your nerves tense, you make mistakes, and São Paulo made a mistake under nervousness.

In the 56th minute of the game, Kaka broke through at high speed on the right side, and Ruosue saw that he was about to be unable to catch up, so he immediately reached out to pull Kaka's clothes, and the strength of his hands even made Kaka hear the sound of the clothes being overwhelmed, he was startled, but fortunately he quickly stabilized his footsteps.

Of course, such an action did not escape the eyes of the referee in the slightest, he immediately blew the whistle, and then raised his hand to signal-

Yellow!

Josue was booked for a tactical foul on Kaka.

The other party is indeed not going to Kaka, so a yellow card is not too much, Kaka glanced back, Ruosue and he hugged briefly, looking at the expression, the other party is indeed an old friend with Kaka, no wonder there is such a reaction.

Such a yellow card doesn't affect anything, and it's already the final at this time, who cares about the yellow card? It doesn't matter if it's not a red card. What's more, it can block an attack from the opposite side, it's worth it!

In the 61st minute, Bellerón made a wonderful pass to the penalty area on the left, and Luis Figo scored with a header from 8 meters in front of the goal, but unfortunately the Portuguese was offside and the goal was disallowed.

Figo was a little embarrassed, this was his second mistake! Although such mistakes are normal for a shooter, and no one will judge him with two mistakes, he is still a little anxious.

After all, he is relatively old on this court, how can he be inferior to these children in performance?

However, God may have played a joke on the Portuguese captain, Deportivo took the initiative on the field and had more chances to shoot, but he still failed to score once.

After Juan quickly found Sao Paulo's midfield defect, he commanded the players to quickly press up, directly cutting off Sao Paulo's mid-length supply, and instantly paralyzing Sao Paulo's attack in half.

In the 63rd minute, Morientes shot wide from 15 meters in front of the goal, and the Spaniard's performance on the pitch today was also remarkable, although he did not score, but he did better than anyone else in such things as involving the opponent's defense.

Figo then turned again in the box and fired a fierce shot from a tight angle, which was tipped over the crossbar by Rogerio Seni.

Apparently aware of Figo's frustration, Belleron decided to help his teammates a little.

In the 65th minute, Bellerón's corner kick from the right side entered the penalty area, and Figo scored with his left foot 6 meters in front of the goal!

The Deportivo players, including Figo himself, jumped up with excitement and were about to celebrate, when they heard the referee's whistle.

The long whistle sounds, attacks the opponent's goal after offside, and the goal is invalid!

Belleron was stunned on the spot, and there was obviously no offside or foul in the process just now!!

He wanted to ask the referee what he thought, his expression was very eager, on the edge of the court, Allen was already jumping up in a hurry, and the next second he wanted to rush to the fourth official, but he was stopped by Juan: "Where to go?" ”

"Where to go, our goal was disallowed, of course it's to appeal!" Allen couldn't understand why his own head coach could be so calm?

Juan sighed: "Don't go, this time it's a mistake by Belleron." ”

Who would have thought that Belleron, who has always been very careful and serious, didn't notice that the football had gone out of the bottom line before the corner kick, so it was normal for this goal to be invalid.

"Huh? But ......" Allen was a little unwilling, Juan shook his head: "Don't bother, the referee has obviously seen it, this referee's dynamic vision is good, and he can see it very clearly." ”

Allen was still a little unwilling, but probably thought that Deportivo still had a goal anyway, so he rejoiced again.

Belleron obviously didn't expect the problem to be here, and suddenly the whole person was stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he wanted to go to Figo to apologize with an apologetic face, but the Portuguese boss was obviously not in a very good mood at this moment......

He adjusted quickly, and by the time the whistle blew again to announce the resumption of the game, Figo had already collected his emotions as if he had just started the game.

In the 72nd minute of the game, Figo's powerful shot from inside the box was saved by Seni, but the football was not saved, and after some scrambling by the players of Sao Paulo and Deportivo La Coruna, the football quickly returned to the feet of the Deportivo players.

One minute later, Bellerón took the lead and distributed the ball to Morientes, and the Spaniard instantly judged the situation in front of him and quickly hit the goal, but unfortunately Edkalos followed very closely, and under his interference, the football did go towards the goal, but only grazed the goal, and Deportivo missed a good chance to score in front of the goal again.

In the 77th minute, Capdevilla crossed from the left, Morientes shot high above the crossbar from 16 meters in front of the goal, and Sao Paulo seemed to have found that the best offense was defense.

Of course, if Deportivo were to be trapped so easily, it wouldn't be Deportivo anymore.

Looking at the current situation of Deportivo on the field, Juan thought for a while and made an unexpected adjustment.

- Substitutions!

As we all know, Juan Díaz doesn't really like to make substitutions in the middle of the game, and after more than a season of games, he will not make substitutions unless the player has a sudden injury on the pitch or Deportivo has nothing to worry about.

Deportivo La Coruna has never been so urgent that he needs to change someone on the pitch to change the situation on the pitch, and the boys who can change the situation as soon as Deportivo are still young, and at the moment they want to change the state that nothing can be changed, so Juan has always adhered to the concept of "players can not be changed on the field".

But today, he chose to take the initiative to replace!

"Is it Deportivo La Coruna who thinks it's a win now? But a one-goal lead is not safe......" Frank was a little worried, but Dean was very optimistic about this.

"Look at it, Juan must have an idea of his own."

Juan did have a little idea of his own, he made changes to the lineup on the field, and made three substitutions at one time -

Messi replaces Aymar and Portillo replaces Morientes.

David Luiz replaces Nuno Maniche.

Just now, Pompons couldn't believe his ears when he heard the roll call.

He??!

Is it really him?!

Could it be that he has come to the bitter end?!

The expression that came from Peng Peng's mouth wide was so stupid that Juan couldn't help but smile and raise his eyebrows: "I said Peng Peng, if you don't come out to warm up and get ready to play, I'll call someone else." ”

"It's coming!!" Puffy immediately sprang out of his position and sprinted energetically to warm up.

"Is it okay to go to the puff?" Alan looked at his back worriedly.

"It's okay, don't underestimate Puffy." Juan curled the corners of his mouth slightly. "Besides, if he can't do it this time, won't we just go back and train him?"

"......" Alan opened his mouth, he always felt that this was the ultimate goal of the boss......

When the substitutions came on, not only the fans were a little stunned, but even the players who were substituted were a little incredulous - of course, they were not in disbelief that they were going to be substituted, after all, how could the players not be rotated once or twice?

They were just surprised that this time it was actually a change of puff......

"Deportivo La Coruna changed two youngsters in one go, and he also changed to Portillo! What does Dias want to do?! Frank obviously couldn't understand it, but he was used to it - Juan Díaz often made arrangements that ordinary people couldn't understand, but at the end of each time they realized that there was something deep about them.

But after all, people still have some bad habits, such as "heal the scar and forget the pain", Dean couldn't help but start his death journey again: "Juan Díaz thought he had won the game, and he replaced the young people who wanted to give them a taste of the international competition? Ha, if that's the case, he's totally-"

“goooal！ Lionel Messi!! Before Dean could finish his words, Frank roared loudly - he couldn't help but yell, after all, he had to take care of his partner's face after being a partner for so long.

…… Before Dean's words were finished, Deportivo youngster had already scored, which was really, loud and swift and crisp slap in the face.

This story tells us that if you don't die when you're fine, and if you know what the consequences will be, then it's no wonder that your cheeks hurt later......

In the final moments of the game, Deportivo La Coruna attacked wildly, and Messi's shot after coming on the pitch clearly drove Sao Paulo crazy, and they launched a fierce attack.

In the 88th minute, Júnior's header in the middle was ferried, Amoruso crossed from the left, and Aloisio pushed the goal in front of the goal!

- It's a pity that it's offside.

São Paulo thought he would finally be able to pull back a city before the end, but who knew that he still fell into the offside trap of A Coruña, Aloisio frowned and thought about what was wrong, only to see a thin and tall man with an explosive head running in front of him, sticking out his tongue at him as he passed by and smiling: "Hello! ”

"...... "What a good!" It's the offside trap you set?!

Aloisio almost rolled his eyes in anger, but thankfully he held back.

In the end, Deportivo La Coruna won the match 2-0 Sao Paulo, as well as the FIFA Club World Cup trophy.

It was a tough race, but the result was good.

Overall, Deportivo La Coruna benefited a lot from this match against Sao Paulo, for example, they also took the opportunity to review Deportivo La Coruna's midfield and make a self-summary.

In this game, if I have to say, it still depends on the unique skill that Deportivo La Coruna used again - the defense pressed a lot, a little bit compressed Sao Paulo's aggression and space, and finally Sao Paulo almost held his breath to play.

Why are you holding your breath?

Because the pressure of Deportivo La Coruna's army has left them with no breathing room, and Deportivo itself has a lot of room to stretch.

Of course, Sao Paulo is also a strong player in the Brazilian league after all, and it is impossible to let Deportivo calmly press and fight, and it also has the ability to bottom out several times, and it has also brought Deportivo several dangerous situations.

In the history of the Toyota Cup, the predecessor of the Club World Cup, Sao Paulo won the championship twice, beating Barcelona in 1992 and AC Milan in 1993, which also proved that Sao Paulo had the need to give La Coruna his all.

Fortunately, the opponent is not familiar with Deportivo LaCouna's triangle tactics, and the coach of Deportivo La Coruna seems to know very well about Latin American play, and there is no intention of calculating.

Instead of joining the revelry players, Juan went to the lobby for the post-match press conference – he would have really liked to have done it in the mixed interview area if he could, but it was clear that there was a lot of interest from both the organizers and the hosts, not just for the pre-match press conference, but also for the post-match.

Fortunately, Deportivo La Coruna won the championship, and Juan still had to say, otherwise it would be really embarrassing......

"São Paulo is a very strong opponent." Juan said word by word, finding that the eyes of the people around him had become very solemn, and the little coach of Deportivo raised his eyebrows, "What, what's wrong?" ”

“…… You seem to have said before that you would not say these polite words to your opponent, and you feel that it is an insult to your opponent......"

Oh.

Juan's face did not change: "Yes, but that doesn't stop me from showing kindness to my opponent after giving it my all, does it?" Sao Paulo is a great team, a team that has produced players such as Cafu, Kaka, Luis Fabiano, etc., and has brought so much joy and excitement to football, and I can't help but pay tribute to Sao Paulo. ”

The eyes of the reporters and the speakers relaxed.

…… But if you think about it, Juan wouldn't do that kind of thing to mock his opponent!

Even in the past, he has had friction with some coaches, but most of them have been the first to provoke - the whole football world now understands Juan Díaz to a certain extent.

This man looks cold and aggressive, and looks like a person who can only attack directly, but in fact, his team is flexible and changeable, and there are many examples of overcoming rigidity with softness.

Many psychologists say that if they want to know what kind of person a football coach is, then they only need to look at the style of the team he coaches.

The media have always found this to work, for example, the Lord and his Manchester United, Arsene Wenger and his Arsenal, Jose Mourinho and his Chelsea, and the team is full of the manager's personal style.

…… But Juan Díaz ......

Honestly, they always feel that the contrast seems to be a bit too big, and a little contradictory?

How can a person be cold and gentle, serious and nonsense, adventurous and cautious, both ice and fire?

The man sitting in front of them, even if he won the trophy, his expression at this moment was light and light, and that face couldn't make people believe that he was the head coach of the team.

Juan himself was talking and talking, and he was a little hairy by the reporters at the scene.

…… Seriously, he'd rather everyone rush to ask questions than be so dead silent...... 166 Reading Network