Chapter 42: Losing Meets People's Hearts (Ask for Recommendation!) )
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Chang Sheng said that the players should forget about the past three consecutive wins and prepare for the next brutal game.
He's right, the next two league games were brutal.
Playing against Osasuna, Villarreal, and Las Palmas before was actually not a battle of life and death.
Because even if Getafe loses to these teams, it will not necessarily be fatal to them.
They can lose to these teams, and their relegation rivals can also lose to other teams, and the chances are equal for both sides.
In fact, even their colleagues who have won back-to-back games, their direct rivals in relegation, have lost the game.
How else could they go from second to bottom in the league to fourth from bottom?
The results of both sides are changing and influencing each other.
Now that Getafe has drawn and lost one, the ranking has changed from the bottom four to the bottom three, and it seems that it is a little far away from getting out of the relegation zone. The lifting rules of the Spanish Football Second Division are "three up and four down", that is, the top three are promoted and the bottom four are relegated.
Because they lost, but their rivals won.
But the next two games, Getafe are a must-win.
The opponent in the 38th round is Compostela, who is currently 17th in the league, although from 16th to 20th, there is not much difference in points between these teams. It's just a four-point difference.
Compostela currently has 39 points, exactly three points behind 20th-placed Getafe.
If Getafe can beat Compostela and move from 20th to 17th place in the league from bottom 3 - provided the other teams lose - they will be out of the relegation zone.
But even if it weren't such a perfect situation, winning this game could help Getafe have a chance of relegation.
In the 39th round of the league, Getafe played the second-to-last Huelva away from home.
Originally, Huelva were third from the bottom, and they were squeezed into the bottom two because of Getafe's excellent performances in these rounds. It can be said that it is a direct victim of the recovery of Getafe.
So they will be tempted to beat Getafe at home in this game, and the gap between the two sides is only two points.
If Getafe loses in the 38th round and Huelva wins, then Getafe will be relegated to the penultimate in that round.
Then we lose to Huelva and we really can't climb out of the relegation quagmire.
Therefore, Getafe must win both games, winning the first game can tie the seventeenth Compostela team, and winning the second game can kick the opponent into the relegation abyss at the same time, borrowing the power to rush up, and the relegation quagmire is getting farther and farther away.
Then the opponents in the last three rounds of the league are all teams that have no hope of promotion and no relegation worries, they have no desire, and they are much better than these two games.
That's what Getafe intends to do, and so do their opponents in these two games.
Everyone wants to defeat their opponents and keep themselves alive.
So it's two games worth six points.
In order to survive, people can do anything, let alone the team.
In order to survive, these usually worrisome fish belly teams often burst out with strong combat effectiveness, and if they are not fully prepared, they will be pulled down by the other party.
So this kind of game is often more difficult to play than against the team that is competing for the title.
Especially in La Liga. The second division is the most ridiculous, and who teams will show off how many second division trophies they have won? The second division has only one meaning for these strong teams, and that is a springboard for promotion to the first division. It doesn't matter who wins the championship, as long as they can be in the top three in the league and qualify for promotion.
After qualifying for a promotion, they tend not to push too hard.
The relegation team is different, if you don't work hard, you have to die.
These two games will be the toughest test of the first team that Getafe has ever faced.
He hopes that the defeat to Las Palmas and the draw at Sporting Gijón will serve as a wake-up call to players who have been feeling good lately and let them know that they have no right to be proud of.
In particular, the defeat of Osasuna, the first in the league, will make many Getafe players look down on them when facing a team of the same level as them, thinking that they have even won the first place in the league, and they are afraid of you fish belly!
But in fact, at the end of the league, the most terrible thing is these fish belly.
There are a lot of championship teams that will give these teams a bite if they are not careful.
Now Chang Sheng feels that losing to Las Palmas is not necessarily too bad.
At the very least, it can warn the players and get them right.
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Once Chang Sheng saw it, he didn't think that losing to Las Palmas was too bad.
But the media doesn't see it that way.
They finally seized the opportunity to vent their inner dissatisfaction with the team's constant victory.
For a time, overwhelming criticism came to Chang Sheng.
If you only look at the media reports, you think that the winning position is in jeopardy, and he will be sacked by Getafe the next day.
But in reality, these are all illusions created by the media.
Chang Sheng found that even if he lost, it didn't seem to affect the feelings of the Getafe fans towards him.
He felt this most deeply in the apartment building where he lived.
On the second day of the race, Aunt Maria still invited him to dinner, and she came to knock on his door, and he was a little embarrassed: "Didn't you lose, Aunt Maria?" ”
Aunt Maria's eyes widened: "I invited you to dinner because you are our neighbor, and you live alone and no one takes care of you, anyway, I plan to do more today...... And you are not the head coach of Getafe is not half a Peseta relationship! ”
Chang Sheng found that Aunt Maria was really good at finding reasons, one by one.
However, when he was eating at Aunt Maria's house and chatting with Old Grande and Little Grande, his heart was very warm.
He knew why Aunt Maria had come to invite him to dinner at this time, because he was afraid that if he thought he had lost the game, the neighbors would look at him strangely.
She wants to let Chang Sheng know that no matter whether the team's results are good or bad, it will not affect their friendship.
But she didn't say it directly, and she didn't say a word about it for the whole time of dinner, and even Grant and his wife didn't say a word about the game.
This is not easy for the two of them, who are avid fans.
In the end, Chang Sheng couldn't stand it anymore and took the initiative to talk about that game.
"Don't be like that, Uncle Grande and little Grande. Actually, this game was just right. He had to explain to two fans who were both nervous and worried.
Hearing that Chang Sheng took the initiative to probe this pizza, the two of them suddenly came to their senses, and Chang Sheng could even see that the eyes of the two people lit up obviously.
"That's that! We never doubt you, ever! Old Grande laughed and agreed.
Little Grande frowned and said, "Our opponents in the next two games are direct competitors...... That's two games worth six points! Often, you're sure, right? ”
Chang Sheng nodded: "Of course, I'm sure." ”
Without the slightest hesitation, his tone was firm, and he had an expression of nonchalance.
In fact, he has a ghost grasp, the game is not played, and no one knows the result. However, with his consistent confident performance, he will say that he is sure of things even if he is no longer sure.
If one day he says he's not sure...... Then it is estimated that it is really the end of the world.
But the two Grandes don't know, they see that Chang Sheng is the head coach of the team, and they are so confident, so maybe this time it's really okay!
Losing a game is nothing......
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The next day, outside the first-team training pitch at Las Margarita Sports City, a lot of media flocked to the stadium.
These media outlets are all trying to see the winning jokes.
They believe that the reason why he can win the support of the fans and the club is that it has something to do with his winning.
Once he loses, the pressure will show up, the club will be suspicious of him and the fans will definitely not support him.
At that time, the media will bombard and bombard again, and the bastard Chang Sheng will be said to have betrayed his relatives!
They came today to see what the fans were going to do with Chang Win.
The journalists could even imagine the crowd of fans gathering on the sidelines of the training pitch and booing Chang Sheng.
That's a ...... What a touching scene!
They looked at the growing number of fans, as if they had seen the tragic situation of winning and dying.
When Chang Sheng appeared on the sidelines of the training ground, all the eyes of reporters fell on him.
These gazes are tinged with obvious schadenfreude.
The journalists have decided to make a big splash about what is happening here today in their respective media.
We must make Changsheng lose face and be cornered!
But in the next second, the smug smiles on all of their faces froze!
Because just after Chang Sheng appeared, a group of fans on the sidelines took the lead in shouting: "Chang! We're still here to help! ”
"Losing just one goal to Las Palmas is good enough!"
"Ignore what the damn reporters say, they're all a bunch of sluts!!"
"That's right, I read what the media said! It's just nonsense! ”
"The quality of the journalists is worrying! We still believe in you more, China Chang! ”
Hearing the shouts of these media, the faces of the reporters suddenly became very unpleasant, and they suddenly regretted that they should not have come here!
Damn, how can you forget that this group of people are all fucking confused by that bastard Chang Sheng?
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Chang Sheng listened to the sudden voice, although it was chaotic, most of it he couldn't hear clearly, but the key words still heard it.
These fans are here to support him.
He suddenly saw the young fan in the crowd who had asked him for an autograph.
He raised his arms and shouted, shouting as vigorously as he could.
Chang Sheng knew that these fans might have been organized by that guy, or maybe they were his companions.
What a cute boy.
Manuel Garcia said next to Chang Sheng: "Look, Chang. The support that many people get when they win the ball is not necessarily precious, but the support that they can win when they lose the ball must be the most precious! ”
Chang Sheng nodded: "Yes...... So I have to thank them. With that, he waved to the fans and responded to their support.
Then there was a burst of cheers from the sidelines.
The cheers made the reporters' faces look like their own sons had died.
"But that's not enough." The constant winner continued to say to Manuel Garcia, "Thank them so much, we have to win the next two games!" ”