The investment matter was decided so happily, and the Spring Festival passed so simply. Fan Shang did not let his father return to the Celestial Empire www.biquge.info, and now the money has been invested, and he will go back until May and June, and collect the rice, and then there will be a direct company operation.

There will be league and cup competitions to follow, and the French Cup is also quite interesting, with the schedule mainly focused on February, where both the French Cup and League Cup will decide the two finalists who will reach the final, and then the final in April and May.

Bordeaux are now in the quarter-finals of the French Cup and the semi-finals of the League Cup, with five games to go together. With 13 rounds left in the league and the UEFA Cup to reach the final, Bordeaux will need to play 24 games in the three months from February to May, and about 6-7 games per month.

Fan Shang is already starting to work on the rotation, if the players can't have enough rest to combine work and rest, then the second half of the season will definitely be empty.

Therefore, in addition to the League Cup semi-final match with Montpellier, Vincent sent all the main lineup, and in the other two league games and two French Cup games, Vincent was a mix of main and substitutes, giving each player time to rest.

Four wins and one draw in those five games, with the draw coming in the league match against Guingamp. Guingamp is too rough, the first round in Bordeaux was a big move, and now at home is even more unscrupulous, Fan Shang can only replace a few main players early to avoid the risk of injury.

The four victories were Montpellier in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup, Nice in the quarter-finals of the French Cup, Laval in the semi-finals and Marseille in the league. Here is Marseille, the old French giant, who has fallen to Bordeaux three times this year.

In this way, Bordeaux completed the February games perfectly, although almost all of them faced the weak teams, but the successive wins in the knockout game were also a kind of incentive for the team.

France's two major cup finals, one in April and one in May. The French League Cup final is on April 12 and Bordeaux will face Strasbourg. The French Cup final was held on 10 May against a brutal Guingamp.

If the schedule is dense in February, then March is the devil's schedule for Vincent, and the first three weeks of March will be played in three consecutive weeks, although the opponents in the league are all at the mid-table level, but the two UEFA Cup games have brought a lot of pressure to Bordeaux.

On the first day of March, the whole team assembled and flew to Germany. This time, Bordeaux's opponent in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup is the German powerhouse Schalke 04, and this time Bordeaux is another away and then a home.

Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 is located in the Schalke region of Gelsenkirchen, in the state of North Rhine-Wester** in western Germany. They had a period of financial crisis that only eased last year and finished third in the league. The management of Schalke 04 is also quite strange, and the general club is mainly based on the league in the selection of league and European games, and then impact the European game if it is within its ability. But Schalke 04 did the opposite this year, and the club's leadership decided to attack the UEFA Cup on the premise of relegation. Last season's third-place finish, this season's goal turned out to be relegation......

However, their team is still more competitive, under the leadership of Dutch coach Stevens, the ups and downs in the league are now two places away from the relegation circle, but they have passed the League Cup and entered the quarterfinals with excellent defensive counterattacks. Now, the two defensive counter-attacking teams have come together, see if your shield is hard or mine.

Fan Shang had already set his goal before coming to Gelsenkirchen, and it would be good to get a draw and go, but it was a big deal to practice penalties and beat his opponent in a penalty shootout after he went back.

The first round of the UEFA Cup quarter-finals at the Garden Stadium in Gelsenkirchen can only be described in four words. The two teams have ...... each other The word defending, attacking was definitely eaten by both teams. The number of shots on goal can be counted with your fingers, and the shots in the goal frame are all from set-pieces, and the sports battles are almost all not giving the opponent a chance at all, this game is definitely the pinnacle of defense.

Fan Shang didn't really know that the Dutch coach, who is known for his all-out offense and all-defense, actually played such a slippery defensive counterattack in Schalke. After this game, Fan Shang asked people to collect information and get to know the head coach in depth. He is also a standard Dutch coach, and Roda JC, who was previously in Dutch home, was not so conservative either. But he is definitely a person who adapts to local conditions, seeing that Schalke's materials are not suitable for his original tactics, he directly changed the defensive counterattack, and this defensive counterattack is based on relentless running, almost tailor-made for the German players.

This kind of defensive counterattack is still different from what Vincent used in Bordeaux, Vincent also needs the team to run, but except for a few people, the whole team will not be required to carry out this kind of running, and Schalke 04's defenders are almost running when defending, and even the running distance of the central defenders throughout the game is very impressive.

After this game, Vincent saw clearly that the two defensive counter-attacking teams collided, and the most effective means of scoring was set-pieces, and the following week, set-piece training became Bordeaux's top priority.

Of course, in the league at the weekend, Bordeaux sent all the substitutes, suffered their first defeat of the season on the road, and lost 0-1 away to Strasbourg, Vincent didn't care about the outcome of this game at all, his mind was the championship, what he needed was a fourth-line attack to win the title.

Now the French Cup and the League Cup have advanced to the finals, and in the league, Bordeaux is the best in the dust, and the gap with the second place is not at all three or five games to catch up, only the League Cup is now the most difficult, must be fought one game at a time.

In the post-match interviews, the media, which had already moved from criticism to praise, returned to the old path of Black Vincent and Bordeaux, and one game directly changed the direction of the wind.

"Bordeaux suffer their first defeat of the season and a brutal schedule could lead to a continued slump in Bordeaux"

"Although the league is leading, the gap is gradually narrowing" At this time, which media posted it, Fan Shang really admired this reporter, no matter how small it was, it had no impact on the ranking.

"Bordeaux lost to Strasbourg on the bench, and the main squad is suspected of suffering a large number of injuries" I'll go, this can be made up, please take a good look at the schedule, this is just to give up the league for the League Cup. Fan Shang suddenly found that his decision was similar to the strange high-level management of Schalke 04. Fan Shang laughed at himself several times in his heart.

The day after Vincent returned to Bordeaux, Theo came to the club and decided to talk to Vincent.

"Fan Shang, you have also read the media reports, I don't know what you think?" Theo asked Vincent

"Louie, can you believe this kind of report?" Vincent couldn't understand how Theo could believe the newspapers, "Although I gave up this round of the league, I was preparing for the League Cup, and I think the League Cup is much more important than the league right now. If you look at the reports, it's not a little bit of a star ahead in the league, it's not really important whether a game is won or not. ”

Theo smiled, "Vincent, I know this, I don't think you and François are very good at the media," he paused, "look at these reports, you don't have a good relationship with the media right now, I wonder if you need someone to help you deal with the media?" ”

Fan Shang feels that this thing is not bad, but he feels that it is not right, where did you go when the media hacked me before? Now the second half of the season is coming out?

Teo came this time in fact to install another person in the club, originally counting on Lauret, but from the first half of the season, in addition to being a watch, he did not play a role in representing himself at all, and now taking advantage of Fan Shang's trouble with the media, he is ready to give Bordeaux another media spokesperson, which can not only ease Bordeaux's current relationship with the media, but also make his voice heard.