Chapter 18: The Yellow Submarine

As Nan Shaw's favorite football star is Argentine No. 10 Leo. Messi, it is precisely because of Messi's existence that Argentina deserves to be his home team in the World Cup held every four years; In normal days, in addition to watching Premier League games, Nan Xiao often stays in front of the TV whenever there is a Barcelona game, so he actually has a certain understanding of some well-known clubs in La Liga, although there is a certain gap compared with Shen Chao, but he definitely knows more than Chen Mingshuo. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Villarreal, the traditional powerhouse of La Liga, is a football club located in Villarreal, Castellón Province, Valencia, Spain, and this football club has a very loud nickname, called "Yellow Submarine", and when it comes to the interesting nickname of the team, we have to mention a very famous band "The Beatles" in the last century.

In the 60s of the 20th century, the most famous rock band in Britain at that time, "The Beatles", a masterpiece "Yellow Submarine" swept Europe, at that time, Villarreal fans whenever they came to the team's home stadium, Love Song Stadium to watch the home team's game, whenever they were in love, they would sing the popular "Yellow Submarine" together, so for Villarreal, who has not had its own official team song, this popular song has quietly become the team's "quasi-team song", Coupled with the brilliant yellow colour of Villarreal's home kit, it's no surprise that the 'Yellow Submarine' has been the team's nickname for decades.

Villarreal finished seventh in La Liga last season and narrowly secured their last ticket to the Europa League, so after this warm-up match against Liverpool, they are likely to meet Nan Chau's side again in the Europa League.

Villarreal's 26-year-old Congolese striker Bakambu impressed fans last season, with his speed and explosiveness almost always allowing him to win against opposition players for speed, while his dribbling skills are not bad, often getting shots out of the flank.

Liverpool's first warm-up game before the new season was played on their own doorstep, considering that the reinforcements had only arrived in the team for less than a week, so Nan Xiao's starting lineup in this game was mainly based on the original players, and new signings such as Aguero, Halilovic and Manolas were placed on the bench.

Although it was only a warm-up match, the visiting Villarreal team played their main role in this game. Soldado, Cedric. Bakambu, Bruno. Soriano, Honatan. Dos Santos, Victor. Ruiz, all in the starting lineup; On the side of the Liverpool team playing at home, Nan Xiao is still the team's best 433 formation, the starting goalkeeper is Belgian Mignolet, and the back line from left to right is the vice-captain Milner, Lovren, Matip, and Klein; The three midfielders are captain Henderson, No. 6 Wijnaldum, and "team grass" Lallana, of which Henderson still appears in the position of the midfielder, and Wijnaldum has seen enough than last season, switching back and forth between the back and the midfielder; The good trident is still the Brazilian twin stars Coutinho and Firmino partnering Senegal international Mane, but after the Argentine Aguero joined the team, Firmino's position is also in crisis, Nan Xiao may directly replace the Brazilian with Aguero, or it is also possible to let Firmino retreat to play his best forward position.

In the game, Liverpool's players are obviously more engaged than the opponent, and they are more energetic, among which they must be an important reason for fighting at home, and secondly, their tactical play is also more active in suppressing the opponent, but the most important reason is that the team's bench is now doing players who have a great threat to their main position; In the second half of last season, Liverpool's bench often saw a row of young players sitting side by side, such as 17-year-old Woodburn, 18-year-old Alexander-Arnold, 19-year-old Ajaria, 19-year-old Ojo, 19-year-old Gomez, so the then manager Klopp often faced the situation of wanting to change but no one could replace him, and on the other hand, the main players on the field did not have the slightest worry that their main position might not be guaranteed.

But now you look at Liverpool's bench, the main striker of the Argentine national team, Sergio Aguero, the Swiss thigh Shaqiri, the absolute midfield core of Malaga last season, Camacho, the former main central defender of Roma, Manolas, the new Dutch international Wiltman, Barcelona's potential new star, Halilovic who achieved excellent results with Nan Xiao last season, plus Emre. Zhan, Belgian rising star Origi, how dare these "main" players on the field dare to have a trace of slackness, and they all take out their 120-point state to try to leave a good impression on head coach Nan Xiao, especially Brazilian striker Firmino, everyone can see that Nan Xiao introduced Aguero to let him play the main team, so he knows how dangerous his current situation is.

In the first half of the game, Coutinho seemed to deliberately want to give Nan Xiao a welcome gift, and broke the deadlock on the field with a "cloud-piercing arrow" 30 meters away in front of the penalty area; Then, five minutes later, desperate to show himself for Firmino got on the scoresheet when he received a cross from Sadio Mane on the right near the penalty spot in the box, and without much adjustment met the ball with a furious shot that grazed the side-netting on the left side of the net before leaving Firmino's instep.

The score remained 2-0 until half-time, and Nan Xiao was very satisfied with the team's performance in the first half, especially the two goals scored by the Brazilian twins; However, although Firmino's performance in the first half was very good, Nan Xiao still replaced him at the beginning of the second half, because this substitution adjustment in the midfield was planned by Nan Xiao before the game, so it has nothing to do with the performance of the players.

At the beginning of the second half, Nanxiao made a large number of substitutions, Aguero replaced Firmino, Camacho replaced Wijnaldum, Shaqiri replaced Mane, Manolas replaced Lovren, and Kalius replaced Mignolet; As a result, four of the six signings that the team has brought in in in the summer have been on the pitch, with only Halilovic and Wiltman still sitting on the bench and waiting for their chance to play.