Chapter 119: Control
finally sorted out the discordant things in the team, and Fan Shang's heart was finally relaxed. The pen %fun %www.biquge.info has fewer black sheep, and the efficiency of training is higher. Especially Pire, after making friends with Fan Shang, he obviously focused a lot, and the original posturing defense also began to do it one by one.
Fan Shang is very satisfied with this effect, if the next league is in this state, why can't he win it? However, the most important thing is to consider how to reverse the promotion in the League Cup.
Fan Shang should really be glad that when it comes to the UEFA Cup game, the league opponents in the middle are all weak teams, the last time it was Nice who are in the bottom of the bottom, and this time it is against the promoted Mannancy this season, who are now fourth from the bottom.
Fan Shang's impression of Nancy is still stuck in the time when Li Dayu was still playing in Nancy, although he himself did not perform much in Nancy, but this let the Celestial Empire know that France still has such a team. In fact, Nancy's most glorious time was in the 70s, when in 1978 they won the first and only national championship in the team's history, the French Cup, under the leadership of French superstar Michel Platini. That's right, what Nancy is most proud of is that Platini came out of Nancy, and that's the only thing they can be proud of now. If you look at the results, they are completely wilted, Nancy has definitely been in Ligue 2 longer than Ligue 1, and even Platini dared to be relegated when he was still in the team, think about how frustrating.
What Fan Shang didn't expect the most was that Lemaire, a fat man, had also played in Nancy, and he had also been teammates with Platini, and the two were sitting on the bench together at the time, when he was in his 30s, Le Fat was because of his poor level, and Platini was less than 20 when he watched the game on the sidelines.
Vincent laughed at Le Maire for a long time because of this incident, and finally Le Maire couldn't bear it again, and said to Vincent lightly, "A person who has never even played professional football is embarrassed to laugh at me here." This made Fan Shang speechless, of course, this is all for later.
The most important thing at the moment is to win Nancy at home and then prepare for the next game against Slavia Prague. Of course, Nancy was also very face-saving in this game, and the score fully reflected that the gap in the standings was not in vain, Bordeaux easily won Nancy 2-0 at home, further consolidating their position at the top of the table.
Both goals came from Papin, who has been playing to the fullest in his limited playing time this season and is now on the scorers' charts with six goals, three short of the 10 goals of first-placed Rennes.
Givash? That's right, it's that Givash, the biggest laughing stock of the France 98 World Cup. Fan Shang finally figured it out, no wonder even if he didn't score, he would still be the main striker of France in the 98 World Cup in the future, and his performance this season was eye-catching enough. If he didn't know the history, Fan Shang might have recommended this person to Jacques, and might even persuade Taio to buy it.
The assist to Papin is Nedved and Sanuno, it is worth mentioning that Sanuno, after Fan Shang opened a small stove for him, it is simply by leaps and bounds, and now the absolute midfield panacea, this game replaced Pire, although the breakthrough on the side was not so sharp, but Sanunno's passing was fully played, and he sent a lot of good balls to the striker, and finally assisted Papin to score, which was also a good reward for him. If it weren't for the fact that Sanuno's body was not so strong, Vincent would definitely put him in the main lineup, and after this game, Vincent decided to let Lamote take Sanunno to practice his strength, so as to correct his number one henchman as soon as possible. However, his performance added new options to Vincent's formation.
Before the match against Slavia Prague, Vincent decided to agree on tactics with the coaching staff. At this time, there was a disagreement, some people feel that they should attack strongly, after all, now the score is 1:3, if you don't score, then you can only be eliminated, and some people feel that they should continue to adhere to the first solid defense and wait for the opportunity to counterattack, so as to ensure that the team will not be widened again, plus counterattack or free kick to score two goals can be expected.
Fan Shang summoned them for this issue, and Fan Shang couldn't make up his mind. Let's attack, the probability of scoring goals increases, but it is not what Bordeaux is good at. Defensively, Bordeaux is very proficient, but whether they can score on the counter-attack has become a problem. These people argued noisily for a long time, and they didn't discuss the reason, and Fan Shang had to make up his own mind. Every time Fan Shang has something he can't figure out, he will have a cup of coffee and sit in front of the window to meditate.
Now Fan Shang and the coaching staff can think of a tactic, it is estimated that the Czechs can definitely think of two points, either choose to attack or defend, or think of a surprising winning idea. Slavia Prague as the second largest Czech giant, although the strength is similar to the middle and upper reaches of the five major leagues, especially in this year's European Cup, the Czech Republic performed so well, their state can now be said to be explosive, coupled with the toughness of the Eastern Europeans, anyway, Fan Shang feels that a hard attack is not a good idea.
After thinking about it for a long time, Vincent decided to visit Nedved, who was always a Czech, and had fought against Slavia Prague many times in China.
Before the game, Vincent announced the starting lineup, the defense is still the same five, Chilavert, Lizarazu, Toyes, Song and Gamarara, there was a change in the midfield, Fan Shang replaced the usual sweeping back and replaced him with Sanunno, the other three are Nedved, Dacourt and Pire, Pire's training state in the past few days is really good, and his attitude on the plane is also correct, so that his starters have nothing to be dissatisfied with, and Shevchenko and Papin on the forward line are attacking Bordeaux together. Slavia Prague continued their line-up from their previous win over Bordeaux.
After Bordeaux opened, they first desperately tried to grab the ball and expand the defense to the entire stadium, but after grabbing the ball, the Bordeaux players made a very puzzling move and passed the ball back. After that, they were caught up in a long and dragging back-to-back between the Bordeaux backline and the midfield.
This is what Vincent prepared for this game, Vincent carefully analyzed before the game, what he knew and the information he got from Nedved about Slavia Prague, this team is dominated by the overall style of play, there is no outstanding individual, the style of play is tough, and he likes to go straight.
In fact, Fan Shang likes to deal with teams with superstars, strangling one point, you can limit a lot of things, especially football is a sport of 11 people, even if it is two to three people to defend one person, it is not impossible.
But for this kind of team that relies on the whole is what Fan Shang likes to encounter the most, and it is really difficult to play, unless it is crushed by strength, but Bordeaux against Slavia Prague has not yet reached this point.
So Fan Shang thought about it again and again and decided to use a compromise solution. Let the players focus on control in this game, not give the ball to the opponent as before, and only defend themselves. Now the ball is here in Bordeaux, although the overall formation is still relatively backward, but it can pull out the formation of Slavia Prague, so as to find a vacancy.
In fact, Fan Shang has also thought about using this style of play in the league before, but the players' abilities are not very compatible, and they are prone to mistakes when playing against teams with technical flow. Slavia Prague is a hand-to-hand team, and it's time for Vincent to test that idea. The stakes are a bit big, but it's worth a try, at least for the first half.
Bordeaux on the pitch now is a bit like Pep Guardiola's Barcelona, passing for the sake of passing, controlling for the sake of control, which is not efficient at all. But this is the effect that Fan Shang wants, he wants to provoke the Czechs and make them rush up, although the bus is also for them to rush over, in fact, the effect is completely different.
Bordeaux was on the back for nearly five or six minutes in a row, and at first the Czechs didn't care, slowly moving to watch Bordeaux play with themselves, but they really watched the opponent pass the ball unscrupulously, and their emotions came up and began to pounce on the Bordeaux players.
Fan Shang has already explained that as long as the opponent forces over, he will pass it back, and the big deal is to re-serve Chilavert in the end. Chilavet's skills and experience are still well recognized. In this way, Bordeaux was like fighting with Slavia Prague, Bordeaux kept passing the ball and the Czechs kept chasing the ball.
It is estimated that no one in the audience would have imagined that a League Cup game could be such a child's play, especially since Bordeaux is still in a backward position. Although the fans are not booing Vincent now, if Bordeaux does not advance, Vincent will definitely be drowned by them with a mouthful of spit.
That's what Fan Shang can do, at this time he just sits in the coach's box, his eyes are fixed on the situation on the field, and he needs to grasp every minute of the changes on the field, and at the same time observe the situation of the players in Slavia Prague.
It didn't take long for Slavia Prague to compress their formation, almost all of them pressing Bordeaux's receivers and passers. Fan Shang finally saw the opportunity, he originally wanted to go to the sidelines as usual and find a player to teach him face-to-face, but he was afraid that the sound of the fans would attract the attention of his opponent after he walked up. So Vincent called a substitute and said a few words to him, and then he ran behind the Bordeaux goal, first to warm up symbolically, and then to shout a few words to Chilavert close to the goal.
Although Chilavert didn't look back, Fan Shang saw Chilavet's slight nodding.