"I've said it many times that our goal is to qualify from the group and I did that, so it's just a matter of taking it one step at a time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The tinkerer Ranieri smiled, but the reporters didn't believe his words, as early as Leicester City, Ranieri was a master of character accumulation, no matter how close to the Premier League championship, Ranieri was a sentence to be relegated.

It is clear that Ranieri has brought this to the national team this time, and so far, Ranieri has been successful, he has led LinkedIn Gran to the semi-finals, which is England's best result in recent World Cups.

Suddenly, a reporter asked, "Are you worried about off-the-field factors?" ”

"What off-the-field factors?"

"It's a clash between Russian fans and England fans, and as far as I know, the two sides are arguing again on the Internet."

Ranieri smiled: "Everyone is an adult, we should all be responsible for our own actions, and I believe in FIFA's management ability. ”

Ranieri's words are beautiful, and he is not offended in all aspects, and I have to say that at this age, Ranieri is almost complete.

Perhaps Ranieri should be grateful to the ruthless Leicester owner, if he hadn't sacked him, Ranieri would not have been called upon to play the role of tinkerer again when England was in a critical situation in the World Cup qualifiers.

It's funny to say that if Ranieri takes over a good team, he will often mess up, but if he takes over a team that is messed up into a pot of porridge, Ranieri can often turn decay into magic, and it seems that the name of tinker can never be taken off.

*****

"Sochi, we're back!"

The Chinese team's first match against Portugal was in Sochi, and now in the semi-finals, the Chinese team is back in Sochi.

The familiar feeling, where the dream of the World Cup began, is now a bigger question for the players of the Chinese team whether they can make this dream a bigger problem.

Li Guo has been studying his opponents in recent days, England's game, Leicester City's game.

Li Guo knows that it is difficult to win the Premier League title, even Pep Guardiola can't do it, and the grassroots like Leicester City can do it, it is not just luck, there must be a unique way.

Like the myth of Kaiserslautern in the 90s, Rehhagel later managed to replicate the myth in the Greek national team.

"Great tactics must be replicable," Li Guo thought to himself.

Stephen Chow has a saying in "Kung Fu" - the world's martial arts are only fast and unbreakable, and the football world is also like this, Leicester City's specialty is a lightning-fast counterattack.

Li Guo did the math and was surprised to find that Leicester City's counterattack speed was faster than Atletico Madrid in its heyday.

Atletico in Simeone's era was fast enough, but a little worse than Leicester City, Atletico counterattacks were still passed through the ground, while Leicester City was directly a big foot, and then Vardy attacked the opponent.

So Leicester City sacrificed the success rate, but the speed of the attack was faster, the only thing Li Guo didn't understand was that this set was not universal, after all, the scale of the Premier League is relatively large, and many actions in the World Cup are relatively strict.

*****

With only four games left in the World Cup, the pace is getting tighter, and a lot of teams are gone, and their fans are gone, so now the organising committee is free to keep an eye on the Russian and England fans.

In Sochi in recent days, the two sides have not caused anything, which is actually Li Guo's worry, delaying the game is even worse for the Chinese team, after all, the Chinese team's bench is not as strong as England's.

Another thing that relieved Li Guo was Mu Fei, he was not punished additionally, that is to say, in the next game, no matter whether the Chinese team is playing in the finals or the third or fourth finals, Mu Fei can play, and the Chinese team can use everyone else except Liao Lisheng, which is very important to Li Guo.

Mu Fei was absent, the Chinese team did not have an equally good full-back substitute, and Li Guo came up with two plans.

One is to change the formation and play 352, then send three central defenders, and the other is Lin Zhijian to withdraw, after all, he was a right-sided dragon when he was in Hamburg, and both fullbacks and full-backs can be played.

But Chen An and Jihai seem to be dissatisfied with both plans, especially the first plan, the Chinese team has not succeeded in changing the formation for so many years.

"Why don't you give it a try?" Chen An asked.

Li Guo had also thought of this, but he had not tried it, so Li Guo naturally did not dare to use it in such an important competition.

This time Chen An was stubborn, "Li Guo, I think this is the best choice, you can only mess up yourself by changing around, I like Gao Zhunyi a lot, he has the potential to be a general." ”

Li Guo thought in his heart: "It's rare that Chen An insisted on it so once, and he didn't insist on it." ”

"Okay."

"What about the front waist?"

The three of them were silent at the same time, Pu Shuang couldn't choose, this guy is not suitable for starters, if the Chinese team is ahead, it would be good to replace him in the second half and delay time.

At this time, Jihai spoke, "Head, the virtuous do not avoid relatives, I recommend a suitable person." ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Guo and Chen An both understood, it must be Zheng Zhi, Li Guo suddenly smiled, "Well, it's very suitable, at this time, only veterans can suppress the formation." ”

Jihai was a little confused, and thought, "I haven't said it yet!" ”

Chen An patted Jihai, "Needless to say, it's very suitable, right, Li Guo." ”

"Yes, even the only option."

*****

That night, when he saw the starting list in the internal WeChat group, Zheng Zhi burst into tears, he thought that his last World Cup must be a soy sauce to the end, but he didn't expect that he would be able to start in the semifinals.

Zheng Zhi immediately dialed the phone to his family, and when the phone was connected, Zheng Zhi immediately hung up and slapped his thigh, "Mom, I almost broke something big, I'm really happy and sad." ”

Li Guo is disciplined, and the internal list is strictly forbidden to be leaked, but the domestic phone call came back, and Zheng Zhi picked it up.

"That wife, I accidentally pressed the wrong button just now, this smartphone is so smart, I guess I miss you."

This is obviously a lie, and the other end asks, "What's wrong?" Strange talking? ”

"It's nothing, I really miss you."

Since you don't say it, you can only hang up over there.

Throwing the phone on the bed, Zheng Zhi jumped up from the bed, "YA, YA, I'M NOT A SOY SAUCE PLAYER, I AM THE ASIAN FOOTBALLER, THE FORMER FIRST BROTHER OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM, HEAD, YOU BELIEVE ME, CHOOSE ME, THAT'S RIGHT." ”

It was just that moment, the veteran's ambition poured out, and it was difficult to calm down.