Chapter Seventy-Five: Shen Yue's Invitation
The halfway point of the Chinese League is over, and now the only remaining games for the Quancheng team are the AFC Champions League group stage with Gamba Osaka!
Ahead of this game, the Springs team have a week to prepare. In the last three rounds of the first half of the league, they won three percent in a row, but the excitement that should have been diluted by the AFC Champions League.
The match against Gamba Osaka hung like a sword over their heads, making the Izumi players feel threatened all the time.
"Hey, I'd rather play Buriram United than fight Gamba Osaka for a qualifying spot." A player sighed.
Buriram United is not too strong in the eyes of the Quancheng team. Although they were double-beaten by Buriram United, Springs' team had a lot of good chances when they played against Buriram United. Especially in the home game, if Lin Qi's shot was not blocked by the post twice, the result of the game would definitely not be like that.
It's entirely possible that they can hope to win against Buriram United!
Gamba Osaka is different, after playing Gamba Osaka once, the Izumi City team really doesn't want to face them a second time, let alone face them in such an important match.
When I think of Gamba Osaka, all the players of the Izumi City team can think of is despair!
Yes, despair. At the home of Gamba Osaka, Izumi tried their best to not change the result of the loss, and they couldn't even force them to draw.
Such a difference in strength makes the players very helpless.
In fact, the individual strength of the players of the Osaka Gamba team is not necessarily stronger than that of the players of the Izumi City team, and the reason why they can make the Izumi City team have no confidence. Mainly because of their tactical play.
Gamba Osaka believes in quintessentially modern team football, learning the European way of playing, focusing more on the overall fit than on the individual abilities of the players.
In Japanese teams, no matter how strong a player is, if he can't integrate well into the team, he won't get too many opportunities to play.
The Japanese place a much more extreme emphasis on team football than the Europeans!
Europe is developing slowly step by step, and while the importance of team football does not ignore the role of individual players, the Japanese have achieved complete team football in one fell swoop.
In Japanese football, the role of individual ability in the game has reached its lowest point.
Take Keisuke Honda, for example. As the absolute core of Japan's young generation. Keisuke Honda is undeniably powerful. But his strength is not the strength of his individual ability, but the understanding and execution of the team's tactics, and the ability to tie the whole team together.
You let Keisuke Honda one-on-one, he's no match for any player in the Izumi team. Even Lin Qi, who is the worst at defense, can't get by.
But you let Keisuke Honda hit two. Then his advantages will begin to play out. The football game is eleven against eleven. This will only make the advantages of Keisuke Honda and Gamba Osaka more obvious.
Chen Song really has no clue about the Japanese team's style of play, and he is interested in learning from Buriram United to control the pace of the game so as to limit the attack of Gamba Osaka.
But control the rhythm of this live. No one on the Springs team is good at it.
Just when Chen Song was in a hurry, he received an invitation from Shen Yue. The Qilu team, like the Quancheng team, only has one AFC Champions League group stage to play, and the difference between them is that the game of the Quancheng team is a decisive battle to determine the qualifying places, while the game of the Qilu team is irrelevant.
Qilu team has won five consecutive victories in the AFC Champions League and has already qualified as the top of the group in advance, and it doesn't matter how they play in the rest of the game.
So Shen Yue's current situation is very different from Chen Song, Shen Yue is very idle, idle to death, he entered his vacation in advance.
"What are Shen Yue looking for me to do at this time, damn, I don't know I'm very busy and annoying." Chen Song scolded in his heart. As the head coach of the Quancheng team, Chen Song has always been very calm in front of the players, but now he actually burst into foul language because of an invitation from Shen Yue, which is enough to see how upset he is now.
But Chen Song still chose to go to the appointment on time, and he also wanted to hear what Shen Yue had to do with him at this time.
When Chen Song came to the agreed hotel, he found that Shen Yue was already sitting in his seat waiting for him, and there were two bottles of liquor that looked not cheap on the table in front of Shen Yue.
Seeing Chen Song coming, Shen Yue did not get up to greet him, but picked up the liquor in front of him and poured a glass for Chen Song and himself.
"Come, drink!" Shen Yue picked up his wine glass and said.
"What kind of wine to drink, if you have something to say, if you have a fart, let it go!" Chen Song said impatiently.
"Hehe, you're in a very irritable mood?" Shen Yue didn't care, took a sip of wine to himself, and said to Chen Song with a smile.
"Aren't you!" Chen Song continued to greet him with a cold face.
"Drink first, and then talk about things after drinking. As a former best friend, it's always a good idea to have a drink. Shen Yue still smiled and persuaded Chen Song to drink.
"Friends? I don't have an unrighteous friend like you. If you have something, talk about it quickly, and I'll go back first if it's okay. Chen Song said and wanted to stand up and leave.
"You're still like this, and you're still so unsteady as a head coach. How can you be called a conspirator with such a straightforward character, those media are blind. Shen Yue didn't stop Chen Song, the old god was sitting in his seat, looking like he was talking to himself.
"If I say I have a way to deal with Gamba Osaka, do you dare to have a drink?" Shen Yue said and picked it up again, as if he was not worried that Chen Song would leave directly.
Sure enough, after Chen Song, who had just stood up, heard his words, he never took a step.
He sat down again angrily, didn't look at Shen Yue, picked up the wine glass in front of him, and took a sip of the white wine in the glass.
Chen Song had no doubts about Shen Yue's statement that there was a way to deal with the Osaka Gamba team, and with Shen Yue's insight and ability, maybe he could really help the Quancheng team think of some solutions.
So Chen Song didn't leave, but he also didn't show a begging attitude, he still had a cold face towards Shen Yue.
"Okay, refreshed!" Shen Yue roared, and then drank the wine in the wine glass cleanly.
"We haven't had a drink in more than ten years." Shen Yue, who put down the wine glass, said while pouring the wine again.
Chen Song nodded and did not speak.
"It's been more than a decade and we've all gone from players to managers. With so many players fighting for the championship every day, I really miss the time when we worked together for the championship. Shen Yue continued.
"You're a champion, I'm not, don't give me those useless ones." Chen Song's face was unhappy, and his tone of voice was as if he had eaten gunpowder.
Shen Yue didn't mind Chen Song's attitude at all, he continued to talk about the past, and kept persuading Chen Song to drink.
In the blink of an eye, a bottle of liquor was in his stomach, and Chen Song's words increased. The two of them just talked about the interesting things they had when they were players in the past, and they left the business behind.
The amount of alcohol for both of them is not bad, two bottles of liquor, and there is no last drop left. It was only at this time that Shen Yue told Chen Song about the way to deal with the Osaka Gamba team.
"I see, in this case, we might really win this game." Chen Song nodded frequently when he heard this, burped, and said drunkly: "You have helped me so much, and I don't want to owe you anything, I invite this wine!" ”
As he spoke, Chen Song called the waiter to settle the bill.
Shen Yue looked at Chen Song with a smile on his face and took out the money: "Originally, you invited me, but I also left my wallet in the office anyway." ”
"Hmph, it's still so disgraceful!" Chen Song snorted coldly......
"Aren't you still so straightforward and generous." Shen Yue laughed...... (To be continued......)