Chapter 45: Preparing for Villarreal

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Iello and David. After reading Valencia Sport, Silva went straight to the dressing room at the training ground to change his clothes before moving to the training ground.

When they came to the training ground, there were already six or seven people on the field, and when everyone saw Elo, they were instinctively stunned, with puzzled expressions on their faces, isn't this guy the first to come every day? Why is it so late today??

Seeing everyone's doubts and puzzlement, Ailo took the initiative to say: "I watched Valencia Sports Newspaper with David in Uncle Lucas's janitor room for a while, so hehe"

Only then did everyone show their expressions.

"Hey, Ai - I can't see you're photogenic?" Aurelio flipped the ball and joked to Iro, who was sorting out his socks.

When Iroh saw Aurelio juggling the ball, he quickly got his socks and took a soccer ball from a basket not far away, and put it on the spot to point it at the soccer ball that Aurelio was juggling, and only after playing did he say, "That must be good, and don't look at who I am." Haha"

Boom!

The sound of a soccer ball hitting a soccer ball.

“oh――yes!! Hit the !! Iroh jumped up excitedly.

"I'll go!!" Aurelio raised his middle finger high at Iro, then proceeded to pick up the ball and juggle it.

The latter laughed happily.

Seeing that Aurelio was about to continue juggling the ball, Iroh took another soccer ball from the basket and prepared to repeat it, placing the ball on the ground and aiming for it.

But this time Aurelio was ready, and when he saw Iroh swinging the ball, he was ready, and when Iroh kicked the ball, he turned around decisively, kicked the ball into his thigh, and then slowly rolled back to Iro's feet.

Aurelio then made a triumphant gesture.

"It's boring!" Iroh pouted, stepped on the rolling soccer ball, then turned and pulled, just in time to see David. was also juggling the ball, so he said: "David, while the coach hasn't come yet, let's play net football, whoever loses will have a treat at noon today."

Haven't waited for David yet. Silva replied, and the rest of his teammates heard that they had lost the treat, and quickly replied: "Wow, I'm coming!" ”

And then another "I'm coming!" ”

And finally, one after the other

"I'm coming!!"

"I'm coming!"

In the end, the players present wanted to participate in this more interesting game, so under the organization of Albelda, they were divided into two groups, four against five. The rule is that you can hit the ball with any part other than your hand and arm, and the ball can land once or without landing in your own area, and the receiving party will hit the ball and then land in your own area for failure! Each person can only hit the ball once at a time, and cannot hit the ball 2 times or more in a row, otherwise it will be a failure! Each team can make a maximum of three strokes, and a net touch counts as one stroke, and the third time the ball must be bounced back from the net to the opponent's court.

After fifteen minutes of fierce battle, the final battle was led by Iroh and David. Silva, Albelda, Amedeo. Calponi's four-man team narrowly beat Aurelio's five-man team by two goals.

“oh-yes――baby!!” Iroh and three others high-fived in celebration of victory.

Free lunch in hand!

However, it can be noted that today Iroh consciously began to touch the ball with his left foot more, although it was a little wrong at first, but with the increase in the number of touches on the ball, the ball sense increased, and it got better.

"Hahaha-Aurelio, let's go out in your car at noon, don't be reckless."

At this time, silence is better than sound, stretch out your middle finger and give it to you.

Aurelio gives his middle finger up, high!

Not long after the game of tennis football, Ranieri and his assistant Benetti arrived at the training ground. Last night there was a fierce UEFA Cup match, so today's arrangement is still focused on recovering fù training. The players are under the leadership of the physical trainer Olnes for a normal recovery training.

After the warm-up, sit down to relax the muscles, and fully stretch the muscles at the same time, which is conducive to relieving the tense muscles, reducing muscle soreness, and preventing muscle strain.

After the muscle relaxation and grooming activities, they each went to Olnes to pick up a homemade sports drink and drank it, which would speed up the recovery of the muscles.

Ranieri and Benetti sat on the sidelines discussing the next round of the league game at home to Villarreal, and the two looked at each other with sad faces, obviously discussing what to do.

The city of Villarreal has always been unknown, and the population of the entire city combined is not as many as the Mestalla Stadium, but since Pellegrini, known as the 'Chilean Engineer', took office last year, the team has changed, integrating Pellegrini's style, and its clear line, delicate and smooth style of play has begun to make the entire La Liga counterparts respect, and Valencia lost a 0-1 in the last leg at Villarreal's home Love Song Stadium, Villarreal's points have soared this season, and they are now ranked fifth in La Liga, two points away from fourth-place Sevilla, and only five points away from third-place Valencia, which is equivalent to a six-point game, so it makes the two sad.

However, they are not without good news, the good news is that Villarreal also participated in the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Cup last night and also reached the quarterfinals, speaking of which, Valencia still has a slight advantage, and Villarreal, who also played the UEFA Cup in midweek, is coming to the away game at the weekend, Valencia only needs to wait at home.

At the same time, Ranieri circled the three names on the number with a red water-based pen: Juan. Roman. Riquelme, Diego. Forlan and goalkeeper Reina.

Looking at the names of these three people, the head hurts again, Riquelme needless to say, is known as the last ancient typical forward midfielder in modern times, and its powerful Cheng dù needless to say, super personal ability and super straight ball ability, as of the twenty-five rounds of La Liga, Diego. Of Forlan's sixteen league goals, Riquelme alone accounted for nine assists, and his ability to pass through the ball was evident. Diego. Forlan is characterised by his agility, superb shooting skills and a first-class nose in front of goal. In the first half of the season, the home team played the invincible Barcelona 3-0, and goalkeeper Reina contributed a lot in that game, and he made ten thrilling saves in that game, which is a world-class table! In the first half of the season, a small away goal loss was also due to goalkeeper Reina, Ranieri remembers clearly, that game was Reina saved Aimar one after another, Vicente's two consecutive shots, and Valencia did not have a temper at all. This left Ranieri to be careful not to capsize in the gutter.

After all, the league is in the second half of the season, and the UEFA Cup has also entered the quarterfinals, and the slightest mistake will be empty, and the next class will be his final result.

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Ranieri's troubles as players, of course, they can't understand it, their job is to train and play, and they can't manage so much at other times, so after the two-hour training in the morning, they left like scattered chickens, among them, the fastest runner was Aurelio.

"Hey, don't run! Don't want to run a single !! Seeing Aurelio running to the locker room first, Iroh shouted loudly behind him and chased after him.

This scene was watched by the Valencia players and enjoyed in their hearts.

Interesting!

Can Aurelio outrun Iro? The answer, of course, is that it can't.

Therefore, Aurelio also stopped knowingly, shrugged his shoulders, and said: "Hey, isn't it just a matter of a meal, do you want to chase so tightly, I just have an urgency to urinate, and I just want to go to the toilet." ”

"The toilet is over there," Iroh pointed to the restroom next to the locker room.

"No peeing in the locker room??" Aurelio raised an eyebrow.

"Poof! - You!! Iroh was stunned for a moment, and then, as if he had discovered a new world, pointed at Aurelio with an incredulous look.

Aurelio hurriedly covered Iroh's mouth until the rest of the team had finished walking, and then let go, "Wait until you finish showering in the parking lot!" ”

"Hey, you want to send me away for a meal? Be careful that I told the aunt who cleaned the club's locker room that you defecate a lot, but she often complained about the smell of the locker room," Elo looked at Aurelio with a smile on her chest.

"Count you kid ruthless, two meals!"

"Four meals!" Iroh held out four fingers

"Three meals at most!"

"Deal!"

In the end, Aurelio spent 300 euros and invited nine people to have a beautiful rub.

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Before the afternoon tactical lesson, Ranieri finally thought of a countermeasure, and said to his assistant: "Now we can't defend against Riquelme and Diego, who are in excellent form. Fran, why don't we give it a go and fight violence with violence, we will fight Villarreal in Mestalla! ”

The assistant coach Benetti was stunned, is this still the conservative old Italian man he knows? Why did you suddenly become so open? It was impossible for the word "sparring" to appear in Ranieri's dictionary!

Ranieri's words then explained his confusion, "We have Iro, who has a very strong breakthrough ability, and a David who is skilled and has good organizational skills. Silva, Baraja and Albelda are also good passers, so why can't we play against them? Besides, Vicente will return from injury next week" But when it comes to Vicente, Ranieri frowned, and Iroh and Vicente are both left wingers on the field! It's hard to do it for two people to give up on the other, Vicente has been running in with the team for a longer time and working better together, but Iello also has his characteristics, his individual breakthrough ability is first-class, and his inside shot is his characteristic.

Is this a blissful annoyance? Ranieri muttered to himself.

The afternoon tactical class started on time at half past two, and Ranieri's tactical play surprised the players again. Fight against the attack? It's not like the style of our team, is it? Didn't you always rely on defense to win games on counterattacks? Some players are even wondering, Ranieri, the old man, should he have a fever?

Ranieri's next words said that the players who were thinking about it pulled back to reality, "I know that changing the tactical style of play at this time is not immediately acceptable to everyone, but I want everyone to know the meaning of 'countering violence with violence', we will host the 'Yellow Submarine' Villarreal in the next round, I believe everyone here still remembers the game in the first half of the season, right?" Clear, delicate and smooth lines are their characteristics, but they are also their fatal shortcomings! He paused and drew a circle on a large open space on the projector, "The easiest thing to score is a quick counterattack, and when they come over, we have to be careful, if they make a mistake and we break the ball, then what will happen to this open space?" ”

The players in the audience are not stupid, and they instantly understood what the coach was trying to express, after all, they are all professional teams, and their understanding of tactics is very strong, and some people in the audience even secretly gave Ranieri a thumbs up.

As a good player, who doesn't want to attack the city and just defend and wait for the opportunity to counterattack?

Well done, tinker!