In the discussion between Wan Sheng and Hasen, the warm-up match is going on.

After about ten days of training, the team has just adapted to the new formation and can barely play the appearance. The basis of the tactics has not changed, many players don't really need to adapt to anything, and the key revelation is the cooperation of the players in the front court.

The most crucial change is also in the middle of the midfield.

After Morrisla, it has become the core of attack and defense in the real sense, and the diamond-shaped position in the midfield has become a triangular position in the middle, and the two wings are added in, which will increase the tightness of the midfield, which is beneficial to both offense and defense, but adjustment also means change, after Morisla, the offensive firepower of the front court will depend on the play of other forwards.

David Silva, Joey Barton, and Ivan Crewe, Mesut Ozil and others have to adapt to the forward position.

David Silva is the best of them all, with last season's adaptation and improvement, David Silva is enough to be the main position of the team, he and Morris work well together, coupled with outstanding individual skills, whether it is passing and receiving the ball, or individual play is quite good.

Joey Barton is a little worse by comparison.

The flaws in Joey Barton's personal ability are obvious, that is, his skills - personal breakthrough ability, passing and receiving ability are not outstanding, and there is a big gap between his overall personal skills and David Silva, but fortunately, Wan Sheng told him to cooperate with his teammates more, so there is no big problem on the field, and there are no highlights in the performance, but it can also be regarded as decent.

Ivan Crewe has also adapted to the position in the middle of the midfield, and he has done a good job of cooperating with his teammates in attack, slightly better than Joey Barton, especially with Morris, the two have been teammates for many years, and they have a tacit understanding. He is better than David Silva in this regard, the only problem is that his individual ability has no special highlights, and his performance is similar to that of Joey Barton, and he is not as good as Joey Barton defensively.

Ozil ...... is still just a young player, and his comprehensive ability evaluation is currently only 83, which is the lowest among several players in the middle of Manchester City's frontfield, plus no one has any tacit understanding with his teammates. Not even the tactics were fully adapted, and the performance went without saying.

It seems that he will need a lot of time to adapt to the team.

Wan Sheng gave Ozil 15 minutes of playing time, which can be regarded as a great importance for him. He wants Mesut Ozil to grow as quickly as possible, not to be a top star quickly, but to at least be able to keep up with the team and become a qualified frontcourter.

Even if the midfielders did not play up to real expectations, Manchester City still completely suppressed Nottingham Forest with absolute strength in front of Manchester City's strong strength. Nottingham Forest had no power to resist at all, and despite their desperate efforts to impress the fans, the gap in quality became an unbridgeable chasm.

In the end, Manchester City won the game comfortably 4-0.

Of course, the score is not important, and there is nothing to say about the process. Nottingham Forest are so weak that they are so far off Manchester City that Wan Sheng is still concerned about the effect of the formation change, and he found Joey Barton and Ivan Crewe alongside David Silva. It's not as good as expected, or it's also a problem of coordination, and it takes more time to adapt. If there is another competition, it is better to try the effect with someone else to find the problem.

In this warm-up game, this problem can be found, and it can be regarded as achieving the goal.

Wan Sheng was quite satisfied with the results of the warm-up match.

After the warm-up game, Wan Sheng and Hasen exchanged problems between the teams together, and recommended a few players who were still 'passable' in the Manchester City youth team, and then how to decide was up to Hassen himself.

He then led the team back to Manchester.

At this time, the Chinese media also began to report on the match between Manchester City and the Chinese team, and the media reports seemed to help Xinlang Sports, because CCTV seemed to have no interest in a warm-up match, so Xinlang became the only media to get the broadcast rights.

In the publicity, Wan Sheng, Sun Jihai, and Wang Xiaolei became the protagonists, and as for the players of the Chinese team, there were not many introductions.

This is a strange phenomenon.

Many Chinese fans can memorize the Manchester City squad by heart, but if you ask him who the main goalkeeper of the national team is, his answer is likely to be...... I don't know, and then I asked rhetorically, "Isn't it Wang Xiaolei?" Such an answer is really wry, but this is a common phenomenon in China.

In the final analysis, it is the fans who are too disappointed with the results of the national team.

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Before the game, there was a voice in the media, that is, I hope that all the players of the Chinese team will do their best, and if they can be favored by Wansheng, China will have one more player to break into the Premier League.

This is what a lot of people are looking forward to.

In terms of the current lineup of the Chinese team, domestic players account for the majority, but anyone knows that the five major leagues, even as long as they are foreign players, will have a higher level of strength, and most of the players are mixed in the lower leagues of Europe, Costa Rica, can often break into the World Cup finals, which is a clear proof that players from China will always be worse in terms of tactical awareness.

Therefore, the media and fans hope that more Chinese players can go abroad and move towards a higher level of professional competition, so that there will be more good Chinese players.

When Wan Sheng heard this voice, he could only shake his head silently.

This has nothing to do with being patriotic or not, it is entirely because of the reality of the situation.

The first is that Manchester City does not have so many non-EU players, Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei occupy two non-EU player places, if one more is introduced, he cannot guarantee the playing time of players at all, so the idea of bringing in a large number of Chinese players is simply unrealistic.

He also wants to contribute to the development of Chinese football, but he can only do what he can, and he will not be desperate for it.

In addition, the existing international players of the Chinese team basically have little room for training.

These national players cannot be too young, and their skills are often set, and they don't have much potential for improvement at all.

So to get him to take a fancy to a certain player and then try to bring in Manchester City is simply an unrealistic fantasy.

An exchange competition is an exchange competition. For Wan Sheng, this is a warm-up game, not mixed with anything else, but Wan Sheng's statement to the media before the game is, "The Chinese team is an opponent that needs to be taken seriously, and we will go all out!" ”

Of course, this is just a statement to give face to the Chinese team.

In fact, Wansheng is using this as an ordinary warm-up game, to test the team's new formation to find some problems. Then solve some problems, and at the same time let the players get used to the game, find the feeling of the game, and as for the all-out and non-all-out ...... Manchester City doesn't need to do that at all, otherwise if they win too many goals, the Chinese team will definitely not look good in face.

It's the best of both worlds.

Wan Sheng just wanted to have a warm-up match, not to fight hard, the two teams did not have so much hatred, and the purpose of the Chinese team to train in Europe. Just to play against a strong team, Manchester City is definitely a strong team, even if it is not serious.

In such an atmosphere, the match between the two teams began.

No surprises. Manchester City's starting line-up featured Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei, much to the satisfaction of the Chinese media, who would like to see them play for Manchester City.

As soon as the game began, Manchester City went on the attack.

At the same time, Wan Sheng also stood with Zhu Guanghu, the coach of the Chinese team. It's not an official game, you don't need to stand apart, both are standing on the sidelines. Communicate a little bit about the game, about coaching.

Wan Sheng still has some understanding of Zhu Guanghu, as far as he knows, this old coach who is over half a hundred years old, after 2000, coaching has been going downhill, he led the Chinese team, the results are really a mess, it is worth mentioning that in 2012, when the Football Association was revealed, Zhu Guanghu was also implicated because he bribed the chairman of the Football Association with 50,000 yuan, and his coaching career ended at that time.

But no matter how bad Zhu Guanghu's performance is, he is also a veteran coach in China, and he has a lot of experience, and his poor performance in coaching the Chinese team is not only his personal reason, there must be many other reasons, that is to say, he must have many advantages, and there are also things worth learning from Wansheng.

For example, now, Zhu Guanghu's attitude towards Wansheng is very modest.

In terms of coaching, Wan Sheng's achievements are more prominent, he is the coach of the Premier League club, and he has also led the team to win two league championships, but in terms of qualifications, he is still only a newcomer in the coaching world, not as good as an old coach like Zhu Guanghu.

However, Zhu Guanghu modestly asked about Wansheng's coaching experience.

Wan Sheng was a little flattered, so he greeted each other with a smile, and the two discussed in terms of preparation, which is also a problem faced by Zhu Guanghu, because the Chinese team is about to face the group stage of the Asian Cup qualifiers with Singapore, and this game is crucial.

Zhu Guanghu was talking about tactics and praising Manchester City's style of play, while Wan Sheng talked about the most important factor in victory, "Fighting spirit and on-the-spot play are more important, no matter what the tactics are, the players must play, no matter how good the tactics are, the team has no fighting spirit and is useless at all." ”

Zhu Guanghu nodded in approval.

Due to complex internal problems, many times the Chinese team really lacks fighting spirit.

But Zhu Guanghu is still interested in the tactical aspect, because he knows that the young people in front of him are very accomplished in this aspect, for example, the tactics of Manchester City on the field are quite gorgeous, the kind of continuous connection of short passes, which is dazzling, and it is not easy for the Chinese team to organize defense, so they can only compress the formation to squeeze the space.

So Zhu Guanghu asked about the tactics suitable for the Chinese team, Wan Sheng observed for a while, and also watched the Chinese team's two attacks, so he said, "I think simple tactics are more suitable for the Chinese team." ”

"Simple tactics?"

"Yes, now the Chinese team's style of play is very good, direct long and short pass coordination, and the players do not need to have too good awareness and too good personal skills." Wan Shengdao, "The complex tactical effect is indeed obvious, but it also requires the strength of the players to keep up, such as the English league, the lower league teams play very simply and directly, and many of them are not as good as the Chinese team." Even if we copy our tactics to the Chinese team, it will be difficult to adapt. ”

"At the heart of us is Morris." Wan Sheng pointed to Morris's position, "He is a very good player, whether it is personal ability, awareness, or overall situation is the best in the world, without Morris, my team will play the same tactics, the power will be much weaker." ”

It's the truth.

Morris's core position in Manchester City cannot be questioned, at least the current 4141 formation, he is the most critical member, no player can take his place, of course, without Morris, Wan Sheng can also adjust the formation, but that's another story.

"The strength of the Chinese team is not weak, and there is no need to pursue too complex tactics, I think the current tactics are very suitable, as long as the team has fighting spirit, everyone is playing in shape, and South Korea, Japan and other teams still have a fight."

This is also Wansheng's heart.

The Chinese team always loses to South Korea and Japan, is there really a gap in strength? Maybe there is a future, but now the strength of the Chinese team in 2006 is still very strong, Li Weifeng, Dong Fangzhuo, Li Tie, Shao Jiayi, including Sun Jihai and others, are strong old players, as long as they play their strength, it cannot be said that they are definitely stronger than Japan and South Korea, but they are not much worse.

The key problem is still in the mentality of the players, in the on-the-spot performance, the strikers always kick the empty goal...... There is no point in any tactics.

In the course of the conversation, Manchester City have scored two goals.

The first goal was scored by Anelka, who received a pass from Joey Barton and forced his way past defender Zhang Yaokun to volley the ball into the net.

The second was scored by Ivan Crewe, who took advantage of a free-kick opportunity to curl a shot straight from 25 yards, which goalkeeper Li Leilei failed to judge correctly, and the ball was hoisted into the goal against the right post.

2:0。

The Manchester City fans in the stadium were cheering for the goal.

This game is just a warm-up match, but due to the results of winning the Premier League last season, Manchester City fans have a lot of confidence in the team, in addition, Manchester City's gorgeous style of play has also attracted many fans, so the warm-up game is also watched by nearly 40,000 fans, which makes the warm-up game more lively than the average official game.

The cheers rang out non-stop, and Ozil and Boateng, who had just entered the team, were even a little nervous.

Wan Sheng also skimmed the two newcomers when talking to Zhu Guanghu, and then he thought about it and put Boateng in place of Leto Ziegler, and then he replaced Anelka and David Silva, and Darren Bent and Bergkamp got their chances.

This is the Dutch 'Ice Prince' making his debut at the Manchester Stadium and his first time representing Manchester City!

The moment Bergkamp stepped onto the pitch, he immediately became the center of attention.

The fans in the stadium applauded him!

The players on the field all looked at Bergkamp, including the players of the Chinese team, in the Manchester City team, the most famous was Anelka before, but now it has become Bergkamp, many Chinese players grew up listening to Bergkamp's name, and now the idol is in front of them, it is impossible for them not to pay attention.

Wan Sheng and Zhu Guanghu also applauded and sent their blessings to Bergkamp's debut.

That's the influence of Bergkamp, a generation of superstars. (To be continued.) )