Chapter 54: Friendly Match (1)
The final training camp is completed, the invitational tournament paid by the old shopkeeper is about to begin, the three invited teams have arrived in C City, and the four teams will start a six-day competition, one game every other day, and do the final warm-up for the new season. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In addition to the Villa team, there is also a team that is also making trouble this summer--- Inter Milan, the most eye-catching thing in Europe this summer window is these two clubs, two teams with Chinese backgrounds have blown a whirlwind of RMB in Europe, Villa's buying and buying needless to say, setting two world records in a row, Inter Milan's hand is also quite generous, they bought Arsenal's thigh Sanchez for 68 million pounds, In addition, he spent 50 million euros to buy Paris Saint-Germain's defender Marquinhos, these two are coveted by all European teams, and they can spend not outrageous prices to accept these two, and the old Zhang family also spent a lot of money on personal treatment, Sanchez's weekly salary is 350,000 pounds, Marquinhos' weekly salary is 150,000 pounds, and Van Dijk's 90,000 weekly salary is indeed a bit unreasonable compared with Marquinhos, but there is an additional clause in Van Dijk's contract, If he performs well in his first year or can win accolades for the team, he will have the right to apply for a salary increase and sign a new contract.
Inter Milan can win these two, it seems that it is inevitable by chance, many suitors only have their bids the most straightforward, and the personal treatment is also the highest, compared to the old Zhang family's big money on the new water, the Villa team except for Griezmann seems a little stingy, but the two are still different, Li Haolong is more about the acquisition of young potential players, and Inter Milan is a famous star as soon as he comes up. Sanchez's departure is not too unexpected, the media has long guessed that this is inevitable, because tired of the Arsenal team's delayed titleless situation, Sanchez repeatedly postponed the renewal of his contract last season, and he is already destined to leave and go to a more ambitious and financially powerful team, and the emergence of Inter coincides. Another player, Marquinhos, has only one year on his contract, and the appeal of Ligue 1 has been unable to retain the talented 23-year-old Brazilian defender, who played for Roma before becoming famous, and Inter's golden yuan offensive has also strengthened his determination to return to Serie A.
Inter Milan had a poor start to last season, sacking De Boer and hiring former Lazio coach Stefano Pioli, the team gradually got on the ground and secured a Champions League spot, and this summer's big game for the title, the domestic demand is quite high, and fans are eager to see a team that can break Juventus' monopoly and return to the glory of the mini-World Cup.
Speaking of Sanchez, we have to talk about Arsenal, last season they habitually collapsed, in the Champions League quarter-finals 1-5 away to Bayern, this game became a watershed moment in Arsenal's whole season, and since then Sanchez has completely conceived of it. Arsenal is still playing gorgeous football, and their scenes in recent years are very good-looking, but they lack the toughness of the old captain Adams, and the whole team does not have the spirit that runs through the whole field. Arsene Wenger announced his resignation from all Arsenal duties at the end of the season after almost 21 years in charge of Arsenal and returned to France to take over the reins of Paris Saint-Germain. Arsenal is looking for a new helmsman all over the world, and even once Arsenal's famous Frenchman Henry had a higher voice, but the author is quite optimistic about him, his eye-catching approach as a football commentator is very immature, and he wants to prove his impartiality and blames Giroud, objectively speaking, this accusation is unfair and unobjective, and his personality is too casual and gorgeous to be qualified for the coaching position. When you look back on the history of football, you will inevitably wear rose-colored glasses that make the past full of warmth, which is also a feeling, but if you still wear these glasses and look to the future, you may find yourself in a dangerous and embarrassing situation. Arsenal were undoubtedly right, and they eventually chose Sevilla's Sampaoli, and paid Sevilla a buyout fee of ā¬15 million to secure his arrival. Sampaoli is a championship coach who led the team to the round of 16 of the 2014 World Cup, led the team to defeat Argentina on penalties in the 2015 Copa America, and led the team to defeat Argentina in the 2016 Centennial Copa America.
Fans love Arsenal, hate Arsenal's incompetence, hate the stinginess of the high-level, in fact, few people know that Arsenal's second boss is Russia's richest man Usmanov, with a net worth of 17.6 billion, Arsenal definitely has the economic strength to call for wind and rain in the transfer market, but Arsenal has not increased investment in buying players because of the high-level infighting, Usmanov has always wanted to expand equity and increase investment, but it has only just reached 29%, and the largest shareholder Stan Kroenke is incompatible with him, Both sides are scrambling to buy shares, and this situation will definitely continue for a long time until the two finally decide the winner, but now, buy, buy, buy? It is impossible, neither of them can pay a huge amount of money to buy players alone.
The midsummer of C city is quite hot, and it is even more so that it is about to enter August, the sky above the football school is cloudless, the air is full of scorching air waves, there are many woods around the suburbs, and the forest knows that there is a weak hissing, which makes the already hot and a little boring feel even more irritable, at this moment, the people in the football school do not have the leisure to take care of it, and the field is engaged in a fierce confrontation, although there is no audience, there is still a tense atmosphere.
The first game of the Villa team was against Espanyol, this team is very interesting, once some fans jokingly summarized that he only had four games in a season, two games to send Real Madrid 6 points, two games to grab Barcelona 6 points, and Asensio and Vazquez in the Real Madrid team have played for Espanyol, and everyone jokingly calls Espanyol a hardcore second-tier team for Real Madrid.
In the first game, Li Haolong used a full bench lineup, 433 formation, goalkeeper Johnstone, defenders Henry, Benkovic, Chester, Chalobah, three midfielders for Davenport, Lettimans, Jedinak, and the front three for Brandt, Enrique, Lincoln, this lineup except Johnstone, Chester and Jedinak, all are young people under 20 or in their early 20s, as soon as they come up, they impact the Espanyol defense with the speed and vitality of track and field athletes, and there are few such fast-paced teams in La Liga. The Espanyol team was stunned for a while, and this confusion lasted for at least half an hour, and it was easy to ease up. Villa, for their part, were also scoreless, and the players who were eager to perform themselves in the hot weather were quick and sloppy on the crucial kicks, and the coaching staff chose to silence on the sidelines, they deliberately wanted to see how well the players could self-regulate.
At the beginning of the second half, Chester was replaced by Abdul, because he felt a little uncomfortable in the first half, for the sake of caution, Walfast let him choose to rest, Li Haolong absolutely chose to obey the doctor in this regard, he has long emphasized that the players do not want to be tough guys insist on playing with injuries, once there is any discomfort, you need to tell the team doctor immediately, unless it is some untight injury, injury is the most important link in Li Haolong's coaching in addition to technical tactics.
The friendly match was limited to seven substitutions after several discussions, and there was a special replenishment time for the pause, but the Villa team only used five, Green, Darnell, Antivoros, McCormack and other players were also able to appear, the pace of the game was fast, Green showed good skills and amazing explosiveness and speed on the first appearance, and there were occasional bright spots on the left side, but the most brilliant players in the game were Letitigmans and Brandt, and the only goal was also completed by these two people. In the first match, Villa, who came on as a substitute, beat Espanyol 1-0.