Chapter 375: Blind Optimism
Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~
Xie Zhulong's resume is very gorgeous.
15 years ago, Xie Zhulong was already the vice president of BJ Sports University, and then in 1996, he was transferred to the director of the Group Department of the National Sports Commission, and then successively served as the director of the Athletics Management Center, the deputy director of the Sports Research Institute, the deputy secretary of the AK Municipal Party Committee of SX Province, and the secretary of the Party Committee of the Electronic Information Center of the State General Administration of Sports.
Vice chairman, 'responsible for the daily work of the Football Association', means that he can manage everything, so Xie Zhulong is almost the leader of the Chinese Football Association.
In the Chinese football circle, his power and influence are very large.
In the past many years in politics, Xie Zhulong has a very large network, especially after serving as the vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, using the various resources of the Football Association, his network is even larger.
Power, status, and a huge network of relationships have given Xie Qianlong a lot of confidence.
In Xie Qianlong's view, Wan Sheng is just a person with a little success in football, maybe he is also successful in business, but Tagore Wan Group has just entered the country, what relationship and influence can it have?
In short, in the domestic circle, he must be much stronger than Wan Sheng.
If he goes abroad, he is an ordinary person, but at home, Wan Sheng is an ordinary person.
The country is his territory!
When he wanted to suppress an ordinary person, there were too many ways he could think of, the only thing was that Wansheng people were not in the country, so some methods could not be implemented.
So the most straightforward way. It is to use the public opinion of the media to fight poison with poison!
Aren't all the media saying good things about that damn young man? Aren't most of the comments on various sports news sites in support of that guy?
Never mind!
That's just because the upper echelons didn't interfere!
For example, a large media such as "Xinlang Sports", which manages news work, seems to have big rights, but in fact they are the bottom figures, and the real big people are those directors, investors, and superior leaders, and these big people generally do not interfere in normal operations, but as long as they interfere. Then the low-level people can only do it!
Xie Zhulong made this move.
On that day, he began to call many people constantly, using his network of connections to get those high-level people to meddle in news releases.
The first person to 'do things' was a senior executive of Xinlang.
The senior executive's name is Deng Zhilong.
Deng Zhilong had contacted Xie Zhuanlong on behalf of "Xinlang Sports" before, and Xie Zhulong gave a lot of aspects, so when Deng Zhilong heard Xie Zhulong's request, he felt that it was not a big deal, and he immediately complied.
Deng Zhilong recruited an employee of the technical department who was working on the complex compilation of the homepage news. instructed him to write a statement that was unfavorable to Wansheng, and then posted it on the front page of "Salary Wave Sports", and promised that the year-end bonus would be more if he wrote well.
Ordinary employees simply can't refuse the leader's request, especially if it seems to be beneficial. It is not harmful to publish this kind of report, so the news on the homepage of "Xinlang Sports" soon appeared a detailed analysis report about "Wansheng is not patriotic".
Even if the report is underneath. There are many netizens who refute and reprimand, but Deng Zhilong doesn't care, anyway, he has already completed what Xie Zhilong explained. He doesn't care about the specific effect.
Soon, other major domestic media also published similar articles and manuscripts.
There is a lot of discussion among fans on the Internet.
It is said that the three of them become tigers, when many media all express similar views, some people who are not firm in their attitude are also affected, everyone says so, is Wansheng really so unbearable?
Where there is doubt, there is controversy.
In the next two days, domestic fans and netizens can see remarks about 'Wansheng is not patriotic' everywhere, some fans know Wansheng very well, and those who don't know think that China really comes out of such an 'unpatriotic' guy.
So there was a blockbuster controversy on the Internet again.
There are more people who resist Wansheng, and there are many people who support Wansheng, and the two sides are fighting on major websites.
But no matter what, compared with the previous domestic public opinion's support for Wansheng, it is now much worse.
This is exactly the effect that Xie Jinlong wants.
Xie Zhulong's approach is very effective, but he can hide it from ordinary people, but he can't hide it from well-informed industry insiders and those who stand at a higher level.
What ordinary people see is that everywhere there is a discussion of 'whether Wansheng's love is patriotic or not', but those who know the news know very well-
This is the Chinese Football Association's move to 'rectify' Wansheng.
Both sides have already wrestled their wrists!
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At the same time, Wan Sheng is ready to lead the team to the first game of the Champions League against Lyon.
Previously, Lyon coach Alain Perrin said that he was very confident in the play against Manchester City, Wan Sheng did not say anything in particular, in fact, he did disdain about it.
Lyon is a French giant, but in the European arena, it has not achieved good results, in fact, mainly because there is a gap between the French league and the Premier League, Serie A, and La Liga in terms of level.
Lyon is the leading team in France, and there is a gap between the strong teams in other leagues, but it does not mean that Manchester City will definitely be able to beat Lyon, after all, the difference in strength cannot win or lose the final.
Wan Sheng didn't quite understand why Alain Perrin had so much confidence, but he thought it would be difficult for Lyon to win favor with his own team.
However, strategically despise the opponent, but tactically it is necessary to pay attention to the opponent.
Wan Sheng still has some research on Lyon.
As the 'representative team' of France, Lyon have a French style, their football is both technical and tough, and if they really play in form, they will be difficult opponents to deal with.
But in Wansheng's view, herein lies the problem.
Lyon's technical strength is good, and the game is also very tough, but it can be said that they are not as good as the Spanish giants in terms of technology, and they can't catch up with the giants of England when it comes to toughness.
The confidence to win is also here, because Manchester City is exactly 'similar' to Lyon - there is skill, there is toughness.
Manchester City have a good fit. But because many of the teams are English teams, and many players focus on physical play, so at the purely technical level, there are still some gaps between Manchester City and the traditional giants Barcelona in La Liga, Manchester City is also tough, and the style of play is also very tough.
To put it in layman's terms, "Manchester City will be able to cope with one of the most confrontational games in the world - the Manchester derby, let alone against Lyon - a French team?" ”
Regardless of technique and toughness. On both fronts, Manchester City are a bit better than Lyon.
If it is against other European giants, the team needs to be careful and deal with it carefully, Lyon...... Manchester City is the all-round strength suppression.
However, if you have the strength to suppress, you may not be able to win.
Lyon still have something to pay attention to, such as their midfield is still very strong, the combination of two strikers, Govu and Benzema. It's not bad to be efficient, but it's just 'good'.
The strong combination of Lyon boasted by the French media can only be regarded as 'good' in the eyes of Wan Sheng, compared with the combination of Torres and Darren Bent. Govu and Benzema are genuinely ...... Weak explosion!
Although he has a great grasp of the game, Wan Sheng still has some expectations.
In recent days, Wan Sheng has been emphasizing, "Playing should be more practical." The kick is more targeted. 'He's talking about attacking, it's the ability in front of goal.
I want to think back on it, before the fight against Aston Villa. The team has always played very 'fancy', playing control, playing attacking football, smooth coordination, suppressing the opponent, but there is no goal, and the number of goals scored last season is not as good as Manchester United, which is enough to explain a lot of problems.
Manchester City were league champions last season, and the team gave the impression that they were playing completely attacking football, but by the end of the season the team had scored 11 fewer goals than Manchester United, who were second in the league, and an average of 0.289 fewer goals per game, which is already a big difference.
Now that I think about it, that's the problem!
Therefore, when discovering problems and trying to solve them slowly, Wansheng also hopes to use a Champions League match with a strong team to prove that the team's efforts are in the right direction.
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Manchester City did not target Lyon and did not make any tactical changes.
In fact, Wansheng summoned Pierce, Diamares and Bergkamp to discuss the issue, but in the end, none of the four came up with any opinions on the style of play.
"I think it's enough for the team to play normally. Our players are no worse than them and there is nothing wrong with tactics. I don't think they have any players who need to be particularly defensive. Pierce said.
Bergkamp then said, "I agree with Stewart. ”
Diamares just nodded, he was in charge of training and rarely had any opinion on how to deal with his opponents.
Wan Sheng thought about it for a moment and said, "Okay, let's fight according to normal tactics!" ”
The advice of the coaching staff to the players is, "If you use what you have in training for the game, we will definitely beat the opponent!" ”
Manchester City face Lyon with confidence.
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Before the game, Wan Sheng has been busy training, and has not had any war of words with Alain Perrin, if the opponent is changed to AC Milan and Barcelona, he has to think about how to hit the opponent with words, Lyon forget it, even their coach is an 'acquaintance', Fei that brain cell is not necessary.
But the French press didn't see it that way.
They lack understanding of Wansheng, and they all think that Wansheng is a manager who can fight with words, but when they face Lyon again, they will die down?
Isn't he afraid of Leon?
Many French media think so, they feel that Wan Sheng is showing weakness, Manchester City must not be sure about the game, so they shouted even more, and reported the previous Alan Perrin and some recent Lyon players about the game over and over again.
Under their encouragement, many Lyon players are very optimistic about the game at the Manchester stadium.
"We're going to win!"
'Man City had a good result, but it was in the league and last year they were only in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
"That young Chinese don't have much European experience, Manchester City is also a new team, they played in the Champions League once last year, how can they compare with us? We've been in the Champions League a lot! ”
"So he didn't dare to speak! It is said that he is arrogant in the English league! ”
"It's just England arrogant, and it won't work if you run into us!"
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It was in this atmosphere that Manchester City's home game against Lyon came.
Alain Perrin feels like he has a chance to win, because he understands that Wan Sheng is not a silent man, and he often fights with the managers of various clubs in the media.
Now that he is the coach of Lyon, Lyon is in the same group as Manchester City, so he is also qualified to be on an equal footing with him, right? So since the other party doesn't reply, it must be no confidence.
So in the pre-match press conference, Alain Perrin said with confidence, "We are all confident and capable of taking the three points at Manchester Stadium!" ”
Wan Sheng looked at him with a 'fool' look, and in retrospect, the Portsmouth coach he knew before was not like this, could it be that a year's success, coupled with coaching Lyon, made him so arrogant?
Wan Sheng was a little confused.
He just didn't have much energy to say, "It's useless to talk so much." The game is about to begin, and you can tell who wins and who loses. ”
Lyon is very high-profile.
Manchester City are very low-key.
In many media, this seems very weird, sitting at home, and the strong Manchester City did not say anything, but the away challenge of Lyon made a lot of nonsense.
The Guardian pointed out in its analysis that "Perrin seems to be a little blindly optimistic......
All Lyon fans also stepped into the Manchester Stadium with blind optimism, strong self-confidence and a beautiful reverence for the game.
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In fact, Alain Perrin has a good level of coaching, otherwise Lyon FC would not have chosen him as the manager.
In league and European competitions, he also studied his opponents carefully and did a good job of preparation, the only thing is that his impression of Manchester City is too thin.
In his season in charge of Portsmouth, he led the team to Manchester City, and there was no disadvantage in two games, so he considered himself experienced against Manchester City.
But in fact, any team will have mistakes, when Manchester City's loss to Portsmouth was a 'small' mistake, injuries, busy schedules and other effects, it is impossible for a team to always maintain the best form, and losing to a small club in the league is actually not a big deal.
In other words, the experience of Alain Perrin and Wansheng is actually not experience at all, it can only be said that he has experience with Manchester City, which is not in good shape.
Now Manchester City has matured, full of personnel, in excellent form, and is completely equal to two teams like Manchester City two years ago.
In addition, Alain Perrin also overestimated the quality of Lyon, or rather, he overestimated the quality of his players.
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