Chapter 133: The Magical Old Job
The end of the League Cup will give the team a breath of relief, and the celebration of the championship will make the team feel relaxed, but the season is not over yet, the next task is more important and more difficult, and Wan Sheng does not want to see the team face the game, showing no form.
So before the game against Sunderland, Wan Sheng asked the team to step up training, and he wanted to get everyone back to normal in this way.
Wansheng is strict in training, and talks about the league to each player, motivating them to work hard to win the league championship, but the effect is not very good, after all, it is just lip service, and it is still difficult to bring those players who are still immersed in the championship back to reality.
So Wan Sheng had to use tough tactics - to exclude several players who were not in good form from the squad.
This can make the players panic.
They didn't expect the coach to come and exclude them from the list.
So they are honest in training, and they are willing to work hard in training, but they will definitely not be able to participate in the next round of the league.
For this round of the league, Wan Sheng is very sure because the opponent is Sunderland.
With 26 league games played, Sunderland have won just two, drawn three and lost the remaining 21 games, and their performance in the league has been extremely poor.
Seeing Sunderland's results, Wan Sheng couldn't help but think of his first time as the Derby County coach, and when he met Sunderland, he needed to seriously consider the issue of playing style. Both teams were in the second division at the time, and Derby County were even worse than Sunderland, making them a serious opponent.
Now against Sunderland, Manchester City don't need to prepare anything at all.
A team with such a bad record would only need a semi-bench lineup to cope with it.
It's not a matter of carelessness.
Sunderland has been suffering from internal and external difficulties recently due to their poor record, and even head coach McCarthy is fighting a war of words with the club. and published a series of remarks criticizing the club's "inaction", which attracted the attention of all England and became the gossip news that many people talked about after dinner.
Sunderland's current relegation woes have been met with manager Kevin McCarthy complaining ahead of last weekend's league game against West Ham and blaming the club's 'financial constraints' in the player transfer market for their poor results, arguing that the club's stinginess in buying players has made the team uncertain from the start of the season.
"There is an opinion that. Of course we should be able to stay in the Premier League and still do well. "But the truth is that we didn't do it because our players were very inexperienced. If we have a lot of experienced and well-paid players but we don't play well in the league, then you can say that there is really something wrong with our team. ”
In the face of McCarthy's accusations, Sunderland club chairman Bob Murray gave a harsh response, and there was no shortage of fierce words such as "insulting" and "ridiculous" in Murray's words, and it seemed that there was no room for maneuver between the two of them to get back together in the future.
"I was very angry when I read his comments over the weekend." Murray said angrily. "The above statements are untrue and insulting to us. We don't come to the Premier League to play and we don't play with the idea of coming and playing and then going back, it's ridiculous. ”
'We did think it would be a tough game in the Premier League, as would Wigan Athletic and West Ham United, who were promoted to the Premier League with us, but what we didn't expect was the outcome of the team today and none of us would be happy with that. Our policy has always been to buy players who will help us stay in the Premier League. The board also doesn't dictate exactly how many players can be bought or which players should be bought. All of our players have the same contracts as most of our club players. It's all linked to their own performance, but also to the team's final result. But anyway. All of them are purely commercial. ”
'The truth is, last season in the Championship we were top of the table, 21 points more than West Ham and seven more than Wigan, and we spent at least as much in the summer transfer market as the two teams mentioned above. Our goal is to keep our Premier League spot. Not bad. Both Wigan and West Ham made additional investments in player acquisitions during the January transfer window. If we were in the same situation as theirs, we would do the same. Unfortunately, the team's performance and results were not as good as they could have been. “
When it comes to player wages, Sunderland club president Murray is even more angry.
'I spoke to the president of the club before the game against Derby. He told me. Although this is their second season in the Premier League, their players' wages are not much higher than ours. It's not that we don't have ambitions, it's not that we don't want to pay our players the high wages that match the Premier League, or that we simply don't want to stay in the Premier League. ”
It is not difficult to see from Murray's speech that his relationship with coach McCarthy has been "sabre-rattling".
With a team that has already been relegated confirmed, the president and manager of the club have been engaged in a public war of words in the media, and the manager has yet to submit his resignation, it is conceivable what Sunderland will do.
The match between Manchester City and Sunderland took place in Sunderland's most difficult moments.
In this game, Joey Barton, Darren Bent, Distin, Ivan Crewe and other main players did not play, and young players Miller, Mills and others got a chance.
Despite this, Sunderland were powerless against Manchester United, who had been widowed for many years.
The young Miller was the star of the first half, as he scored the first top-flight goal of his career for Manchester City, and then netted a second from the penalty spot just before half-time.
Young players are like that, when they are in form, they don't perform worse than those stars.
Miller, who scored twice on the first goal, was thrilled and after being praised by Wan Sheng at half-time, he continued in the second half and took advantage of Musampa's cross from the wing to head the ball into the back of the net.
By this time, the game had reached the 85th minute of the game.
Seeing this goal and the excited Miller on the field, Wan Sheng was also amused. Sunderland's goal is almost undefended, and so far in the game, their players have not even bothered to do defensive runs, and they have already conceded defeat, they prefer the game to end quickly, and the fighting spirit does not need to be said at all. Miller is going to get his chance, and of course, he won't say anything about the confidence of these batters, after all, Miller is also a good substitute up front, a young man with some development value.
It's a good thing to get a win easily, Wan Sheng was in a good mood after the game, and he rarely praised Sunderland's two young players who did well, "Elliott and Robinson are very good and cause us a lot of problems. ”
And then. Not anymore.
Despite this, the two Sunderland players who were praised were still very happy, and even thought that Wansheng had taken a fancy to them, so the two began to have the idea of leaving the hapless Sunderland and going to Manchester City to become big stars.
This is actually normal.
In the past few seasons, Wansheng has cultivated many young people, including Bolton Reiter and others, who have been hovering in front of the gate of the England team. Eriksen has even shown interest in the media to call up Alfred and Darren Bent to the England squad.
Before England's squad for the 2006 World Cup was announced, they were all hopeful.
Morris and Layton Bynes have both been confirmed for the squad. Lescott is certainly a substitute, Morris is no worse than Gerrard and Frank Lampard, Barcelona are said to be interested in Morris, and several other giants are also looking to bring in this rare technical flow of English midfielders to strengthen their strength.
And that's just England players, such as Leto Ziegler, who have already made it to the Belgian national team, not to mention Van der Vaart and Franck Franck Ribery. The two are already considered famous stars.
The above are all players related to Wansheng, most of them were unknown before, but now they have become famous players or big stars, which must be inseparable from Wansheng's vision and training, so when young players are praised, you can imagine what kind of mentality it is.
Wan Sheng is actually just a polite compliment to the opposing player. The two youngsters were very average in technique, but at least they were very scrappy, unlike the other Sunderland players on the pitch, but the media didn't think so, and they quickly took Wansheng's words as appreciation.
So after the game, Elliott and Robinson became Sunderland's young talents, many local media called them 'future big stars', and reminded the club that they must keep their talents, not let them leave 'easily', of course, for Sunderland, who are about to be relegated, there will definitely be some financial problems, if there is a club that offers a high price, they don't mind selling talent, after all, compared to talent, the club is more important.
Wan Sheng didn't expect these self-inflicted farces, and he didn't care about them at all.
A club doomed to relegation, two youngsters with little potential and nothing particularly noteworthy, after the game against Sunderland, he will prepare the team for the game against Liverpool.
Rafa Benitez is definitely a worthy opponent to watch, but this opponent, like Chelsea's Jose Mourinho, is actively preparing for the Champions League and certainly can't take the league 100 per cent seriously.
At the moment, the European battlefield is hot, and Benitez happens to be good at European competitions, they created the 'Istanbul miracle' last season, and they are working hard this season.
Despite Liverpool's poor league results, they are likely to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League if they can knock out rivals Benfica.
It was in this situation that Manchester City and Liverpool met.
Manchester City's away challenge to Liverpool, or a high-profile game, before the game Manchester City noteworthy thing is that Sun Jihai was injured, the Chinese media paid a lot of attention to this matter, fortunately, Sun Jihai is only a small injury in training, and he can reappear on the field after a break of half a month, in addition, it is worth mentioning that Anelka appeared in the public eye, and David Silva was also seen in pre-game training, although Manchester City did not announce anything to the public, but the media speculated that both have recovered from injuries, It's just that neither of them appears in the squad.
In fact, Anelka and David Silva are also surprised by this, they are still recuperating and, according to doctors, it will take about two to three weeks before they can fully recover from their injuries before they can return to training at the training ground.
But Wansheng asked them to end their recuperation early and return to the team for recovery training.
This is the first time this has happened.
There was also a serious injury in the team before, that is, Musampa, Wan Sheng also let him return to the team in advance for recovery training, but Musampa was injured for too long, everyone thought that he wanted to return to the stadium to adapt to the atmosphere, who thought that this was Wan Sheng asked him to come?
Anelka and David Silva didn't expect the coach to ask for this, but the two were already able to walk normally, so they still arrived, so Wan Sheng handed them a recovery training plan.
It is not surprising that Morris, Ziegler, Ivan Crewe and Musampa have experienced this, but the other players are very strange, they pull a few people to ask why, and then they know Wansheng's ability - use recovery training to make players recover faster!
It's amazing!
'It's the boss's old job, he was an assistant coach when he first came to Derby County, and that's what he did. Ivan Crewe explained to his teammates that he was always very excited about it, as if he had done it himself, "He made Taylor recover very quickly, according to the doctors, Taylor had to recuperate for an extra month, and Ferdinand, I've been injured too, and the recovery training he arranged was always very effective. ”
It was hard to believe one person talking about this, and then Morris, Ziegler and others were also asked, and Ivan Crewe's statement was affirmed.
Then everyone got curious.
On the way to Anfield, many players were still discussing this in private, Anelka and David Silva have become guinea pigs in their hearts, and they are waiting to see the real effect, after all, hearing is false, seeing is believing!
This relaxed and lively atmosphere has kept the City squad in decent form, scoring two goals at Anfield and Liverpool scoring just one from Steven Gerrard's set-piece.
In the end, Manchester City won the game 1-2 away.
After winning the Carabao Cup, and winning consecutive victories over Sunderland and Liverpool, the team's performance was somewhat unexpected, which also made Wansheng relieved, as long as the team can maintain a normal state to deal with every game, he does not have to worry about the league title.
He believes this season's title will definitely belong to Manchester City.
In addition to relaxing, Wansheng also has a very important thing to do, which is to summarize his research papers and submit them to three journals: Nature, Science, and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Nature and Science are two of the world's top scientific journals, and they have a great influence on the scientific community and are the most authoritative scientific journals in the world.
The New England Journal of Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Association, which is currently the world's most popular and widely read peer-reviewed comprehensive medical journal.
If the research paper could be published in this three-point journal, then his master's degree at University College London would be fine.
In fact, this is very difficult, after all, the three magazines are very influential, and there are countless scientific papers submitted to them, and it is not easy to stand out from them.
Wan Sheng is very confident.
He believes that his research results are 20 years or more ahead of the current level of sports medicine, and in addition, sports medicine is a new subject in the medical field, and the scientific community will take care of it.
The next thing is to wait.
If the research paper is selected for publication, it will naturally be the best, and if it is returned, then he can only choose a more subordinate journal.
Wan Sheng has an indifferent attitude towards this, after all, football is more important.
After the process of research, he has a certain eyebrow for the connection between the task requirements of the football training master system and reality. Even if he doesn't rely on the Soccer Trainer system, he's a great sports medicine specialist, and that's what it was meant to be. (To be continued.) )