Lazio's opponent in the final of the International Toto Cup is Deportivo La Coruna.

The result of this draw is really good news for Chang Win.

Because at this stage, the last thing he is afraid of playing is the Spanish team's more than four years of coaching experience in Spain, which makes him familiar with the characteristics of the Spanish team. Deportivo is also an old rival, and Chang Sheng knows how his Lazio should deal with Deportivo Lazio.

It's impossible to take your opponent as easily as you used to, but I feel like I'm still capable of beating Deportivo La Coruna.

There are more than ten days before the two-legged final, which is enough to prepare for a permanent victory.

Although there was a match in the International Toto Cup, Chang Sheng still arranged a warm-up match.

Although theoretically speaking, try not to arrange a double game a week during the preparation period of the season, but Chang Sheng relies on his long preparation time in the early stage and sufficient physical reserves, so he dares to do a double game a week at this time.

Although the Toto Cup can also be regarded as a kind of warm-up match, it is an official competition after all, and there is pressure on results.

And there can only be three substitutions in a game, and there is no way to test the state and level of the whole team.

The main purpose of a warm-up game where you can change as many players as you want in a game is to get as many players as possible to get enough playing time, and the coaches observe their condition, find out the problems of different combinations, and then solve the problems.

Time flies very fast at this pace.

With the first leg of the Toto Cup final just around the corner, the most obvious thing about Lazio's players during this period is that the level of chemistry between them seems to have increased again, and their understanding of the new tactics has also improved.

It's a feeling that can't be described in words, they just feel that they have a better understanding of the tactical requirements laid out by Chang Sheng in training and in the warm-up games. When I got to the court, I knew how to play better.

It's not like it started out, it's a complete mess and I don't know what the new tactics are. No matter how much Chang Sheng says, it is just a bunch of meaningless word combinations in their minds, which have no meaning and cannot form a sense of picture.

But after this period of training. Lazio's players all have a feeling of being at home.

Although there have been many legends about winning in the past, there is a new tactic that can be practiced in a week.

But most of them don't believe it, thinking that there must be something wrong with the media coverage.

But now they are experiencing the magic firsthand.

However, in a very short period of time, they felt that they knew more and more about the new tactics, and they became more and more tacit.

They can't figure out why, even though the coaching staff work hard, it's not so amazing, right? It is more effective than special drugs......

In the end, they can only attribute it to the boss's mysterious oriental sorcery!

So in my heart, the awe of this head coach is even deeper.

No one was even lazy during training, for fear that they would be hurt by the boss's sorcery.

Chang Sheng is also happy to play the role of a mysterious master among the players, and having the players in awe of him will help him completely subdue the dressing room.

Although he has almost emptied the original locker room. But it's always good to be cautious.

Now the atmosphere in the team's locker room is quite harmonious, and there is nothing that makes Chang Sheng feel a headache.

That's a good thing.

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In the first leg, Lazio took on Deportivo away.

The two sides fought fiercely for 90 minutes, and finally shook hands 2:2.

Lazio have the lead with two away goals in hand.

After the game, some Spanish media said that the winning habit proved that he is still a dominant manager in Spanish football, even if he has left Valencia and changed to an Italian team that is running in, there is still no good way for Deportivo La Coruna.

Lazio supporters can't wait to start celebrating their qualification for the UEFA Cup.

They don't believe a return to home will allow Deportivo to turn things around.

This kind of thing can happen to any team. It just can't happen to a team that wins all the time.

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As the preparation for the season progressed, Lazio's players developed a growing understanding of the new tactics. They can also show more tactical demands on the training ground.

Chang Sheng began to give the players more weight and came up with more tactical routines for the players to practice.

A variety of offensive routines, defensive routines, set-piece offensive routines, set-piece defensive routines, and different training skills.

Chang Sheng threw all the training skills that he didn't have a chance to use in Rome on Lazio.

If you want Roma to regret it, you have to make Lazio a real powerhouse!

On August 24, Lazio welcomed Deportivo La Coruna at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

The final score of this game was unexpected.

5：0！

Lazio slaughtered Deportivo at home!

Although many people thought that Lazio would win at home. But I didn't expect to usher in such a hearty victory!

In this game, Lazio was completely in control of the situation on the field, Deportivo was beaten helplessly, Lazio played a modified mad dog tactic on the field, so that Deportivo players felt both "friendly" and strange. Because this tactic is different from the group of mad dogs they have encountered in La Liga......

They're faster! More through balls. The sharper, the greater the threat to the goal.

Valencia's tactics, on the other hand, are more controlling, slower and slower-paced.

If you want to make a more intuitive comparison, Valencia is grinding their opponents to death, like a boxing championship that lasts for 12 rounds and finally wins by points. Lazio, on the other hand, won by direct knockout through a stormy attack.

It's hard to say which one is more threatening, it's safer to win by points, and it's basically not easy to make mistakes, just waiting for the opponent to make a mistake, but it's more physically demanding, because you need to play a full twelve rounds. As for directly knocking down the opponent, it is possible to do this only with strong attack power and explosive power, and the disadvantage is that once there is no way to knock down the opponent. It is likely that he will be knocked out by the other party in turn.

But if you ask Deportivo now, they definitely don't like to play against Lazio even more.

In an interview after the race, Chang Sheng expressed his sympathy for Iruetta: "Irueta has been working in Deportivo for eight years and has achieved very good results. Under his leadership, Deportivo La Coruna, a small team with such an unknown name, became 'Super Laco'. But with little ambition on the club's part, his efforts have now come to naught. A team manager is always a team that is signed once a year. The team that is reluctant to buy people and only knows that it sells people obviously has no future. ”

Some media believe that he is talking to Lazio President Lotito, suggesting that he should not just go in and out of the transfer market in order to repay his debts.

But in fact, Chang Sheng is just emotional.

When he became the head coach of Valencia, he used the banner of finishing Super Laco to build momentum for himself.

Now, this 5:0 means that he really buried Super Laco with his own hands.

From then on, A Coruña will be completely reduced to soy sauce.

There's no Super Laco anymore.

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Lazio, who won 7-2 on aggregate, won over Deportivo La Coruna and qualified for the UEFA Cup.

They will begin their UEFA Cup campaign in mid-September.

This season's UEFA Cup format is to play the first knockout round, with 80 teams going through a single round of home-and-away, two-legged matches to decide the winner, and half of them are eliminated. The remaining 40 teams are divided into eight groups of five teams each, and after five rounds of home and away group stages, two 32 teams will be determined to make it to the knockout stage.

These 32 teams will fight each other again to determine the top 16, the top eight, the top four, and finally the champion.

Deportivo fans can't imagine what their team will end up with in the UEFA Cup, and they don't expect anything like a UEFA Cup title.

They were just happy to be able to play in the League Cup.

Because as a sworn enemy in the same city, Roma also qualifies for the League Cup. Now that they have it, Rome will not be able to rise before them.

It is out of this simple hatred. After Lazio qualified for the UEFA Cup, Lazio fans have fully embraced the new manager.

If they still had doubts about Changsheng before, after all, the Italian media is full of money, and many people are worried about whether Changsheng can really adapt to Italian football, and now, no Lazio fans will question Changsheng.

The two Lazio in front of them looked like they were going bankrupt and disbanded at any time, and now a group of vibrant newcomers have arrived, and the team has actually reached the League Cup!

This time. Lazio fans feel that their boss has really made a good deal, and they love and support the club with their love and support, and they also love and support the club's slamming boss. In fact, in the one season that Lotito has been in charge of Lazio, fans have had a lot of complaints about the stingy president.

They always felt that under the leadership of such a slamming club president, Lazio's future was dark.

Now, they feel that their boss is really wise. Under his leadership, the club will surely go from victory to victory, regaining its revival and glory.

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Having qualified for the UEFA Cup before the start of the league was an excellent morale boost for Lazio.

This will help the team to face the long and difficult season ahead with full morale and spirit.

Chang Sheng is also very satisfied with the result.

In particular, during this period, the team's training results have improved by leaps and bounds, and the players' understanding and execution of new tactics have improved significantly.

This makes Chang Sheng full of confidence in the new season.

In this way, with three days left before the start of the league, Chang Sheng announced that he would pay for a meal out of his own pocket.

It is to wish Lazio a good performance in the new season and a good result.

This decision was unanimously welcomed by everyone.

The players in the team, even if they are the lowest-paid, are not invited to have a meal together, so they are not bad for this meal, they just express their affection for the head coach to be so close to the people.

In this summer's pre-season training camp, Chang Sheng always played the role of blackface, he kept a close eye on the training status of each player, once a player did not train seriously, or did not meet the standard in the weekly training assessment, what awaits them is Chang Sheng's roar and punishment.

The light is a fine, and the worst is to go to the reserve team to think about it for a week.

Under such a punishment mechanism, no one dares to be lazy.

So this pre-season training camp may be the hardest they have ever had.

Of course, now that the team has qualified for the League Cup, everyone knows that their hard work is worth it.

It was only when they saw Chang Sheng's approachable side that everyone realized that their head coach didn't just train people with a straight face.

After possessing the attributes of awe and mystery, Chang Sheng has the attribute of "kindness" among the players.

And Chang Sheng also secretly sighed, there are more raw melons and eggs, it is just a fool, and the problem of affinity is solved in one meal......

However, from this meal, Chang Sheng also felt that this might be a good tradition. Every year before the league starts, after the transfer market is closed, it's a good idea to pay for a meal yourself. It can enhance the relationship between yourself and the players, especially the new players, and it can also allow the new players and the old players to get to know each other better and deepen the friendship.

It is necessary to stick to this matter. (To be continued)