Chapter 370: Conceivable
Zhang Tiehan's injury recovered, and returned to the club for normal training, this news is only known to the Liverpool team, and those who really understand the situation, except for Benitez and Zhang Tiehan, there are only a few players, and when Zhang Tiehan really trains with the team, the whole team will know.
"Zhang is completely recovered?"
Even a lot of Liverpool players couldn't believe it, and they were sure to accept it many times.
But Benitez told everyone not to disclose the news to the media as soon as possible, and everyone was silent in their hearts, Zhang Tiehan's return is very important for the team, and before the second Champions League game with Benfica, it will definitely be beneficial to the game...... If the opponent is not prepared, it may be able to surprise them with no small surprise.
There is also news about Zhang Tiehan's return to the team for training in various media, but it is still about the same as before, they all feel that Zhang Tiehan is just doing simple training to recover, rather than really training with the team, and the mainstream public opinion still believes that Zhang Tiehan wants to return to the team to play, at least a month, which does not include the time for him to re-adapt to the team and recover his state.
You haven't trained for three months and if you want to get back to your previous form, you have to get used to it for a while, which is common to all players.
Zhang Tiehan is the same.
The most important job for him to return to the team is not to train hard or anything, but to adapt to cooperate with his teammates, adapt to internal confrontation training, etc., which can help him get back to the feeling of the game, three months is really long enough, and Zhang Tiehan also needs some adaptation.
But he is still different from ordinary players, mainly because his ability is too comprehensive, and his memory, control and grasp of football are much stronger than ordinary players, and he doesn't need long to adapt. It only took a small training match for him to regain most of his feelings.
So after training with the team for a few days, Zhang Tiehan didn't have to adapt to it, and he couldn't wait to play.
With three days to go before the match against Benfica, Zhang Tiehan began to do some personal training.
Like shooting.
Zhang Tiehan approached Magnus and asked him to help him with shooting drills. After not seeing Zhang Tiehan's shot in three months, Magnus may have forgotten the power of Zhang's previous shot, so he immediately agreed, and then he began to suffer the most shocking journey of suffering.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
This sound is heard everywhere on the field, everyone knows that it is Zhang Tiehan practicing shooting, and it is Magnus who is devastated by the shot, which makes Carlsen fortunate that Zhang Tiehan's shooting is still accurate, and he always aims at the corner of the goal. As long as he hits the right position, Magnus can't save at all, so it won't hurt him anything, and even if he doesn't hit the right position, the ball will generally fly over the sideline, instead of rushing to Magnusson.
This adds some courage to Carlson.
But an hour later, Carlsen gave up...... He really didn't have the courage to face such shots in a row, even if none of the balls 'hit' him.
After this incident. Everyone knows that the Zhang Tiehan in their hearts is back.
It's really back. And it feels a little scarier.
I don't know why, everyone just feels this way, especially after seeing Zhang Tiehan's 20-odd meters shot out of the dead corners, he could do it before, but it was by no means as sharp as now, and some people found that there were a few shots on goal. The football flew into the net and spun with a little bit, which is really surprising, you know, Zhang Tiehan's previous powerful volleys did not spin, and it was very difficult to kick out the spin of that kind of powerful shot. But now that there is, they don't know if it's because Zhang Tiehan hasn't found his sense yet, or if his shooting ability has increased again?
If it's the latter, it's terrible.
Zhang Tiehan didn't know what his teammates thought, in fact, he felt like the former, not that he didn't find the feeling or anything, but after his body had internal strength, he was somewhat uncomfortable.
The internal force of his body has brought him a little increase in strength, not much, but with Zhang Tiehan's control of the strength of the whole body, he is still very clear.
If it's just a simple increase in strength, Zhang Tiehan won't care, the key is that these forces also bring him some changes, such as every time he plays football with all his strength, the internal force of the whole body seems to automatically protect the body, with a buffer, it feels like a shock absorber for a car, which can make his body have a balance and leave some spare strength.
This would have been high-end...... But suddenly having this feeling, Zhang Tiehan was really a little uncomfortable.
In summary, when he exerts too much force, the internal force of the body will automatically form a kind of protection, form a kind of buffer, so that he can recover from the 'too much' faster, and at the same time strengthen his shooting slightly, and when he shoots with all his strength, he can even kick some spin, which is the result of spare power, even if he uses all his strength to shoot, he has the spare strength to grasp the force used.
This makes his shots more powerful.
After Magnus left, Zhang Tiehan was still shooting again and again, he had to do his best to get used to it, as long as he could adapt, he believed that his strength would be improved, and he couldn't wait to think of this.
When Zhang Tiehan was training to shoot, the rest of Liverpool had already been talking about it yesterday, they didn't expect Zhang Tiehan to recover so quickly, and they didn't expect Zhang Tiehan to return to his previous state after only two days of training with the team, in their opinion, Zhang Tiehan was even more fierce than three months ago...... Some people have to complain in their hearts - this guy is simply a monster, of course, they can only complain, which does not affect Zhang Tiehan's own training at all.
The news of Zhang Tiehan's return to normal training was not announced to the public, even if some fans saw him training, they just thought it was the adaptation stage in the early stage of returning to the team, Liverpool did not announce the news to the public, and the official website only had a few photos of Zhang Tiehan's training.
The media speculated that it would take another month for Zhang Tiehan to fully recover, and at least two months for him to really recover, but in short, they didn't take Zhang Tiehan's return to the team for training seriously.
The media thinks so, and so do Liverpool's opponents.
Benfica, for example.
In the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, Benfica defeated Liverpool 1-0 at home and went to the second round of the Anfield. Benfica's whole team is also full of fighting spirit, perhaps their fighting spirit comes from the play against Liverpool and Liverpool's recent situation, all the points show that Liverpool is suffering from 'goal phobia', Benfica is completely dependent on defense to start, they only need to play defensive counterattacks at Anfield. Victory is likely to fall to them.
Liverpool's goals have been a real problem since around Christmas.
It's no secret in European football.
Facing the second leg of the Champions League round of 16, England's three teams have completely different tables, with Chelsea fans worried about the Campano clash as they lost to Barcelona at the Camp Nou in the first round, while Arsenal supporters cheered on the Real Madrid visit, beating them in the first round at the Bernabeu and returning to Highbury in the second round.
Liverpool?
The media evaluation is only two words: "Hurry!" ”
Benfica's goalscoring ability is mediocre, but the defense is enough to scratch the scalp of Liverpool's forward line. Since New Year's Day, Liverpool have only scored two strikers. Cisse scored two goals at Anfield, one to beat Manchester United in the FA Cup and one to beat off Uruguay in a warm-up game; The other is Poigele, who is not at Anfield at the moment and was loaned out to Blackburn Rovers after Christmas for Sunday's league game against Tottenham. He passes and shoots.
Perhaps after the winter transfer window closed, Benitez regretted the decision.
Liverpool's other goals all came from midfield. Steven Gerrard, Marcos Alonso, Garcia, etc., Liverpool's midfield can be described as blossoming across the board, especially Gerrard, who has scored six goals since December, which has also worried England coach Christian Eriksen. He was worried that Gerrard's constant appearance would affect his performance in the national team, after all, the World Cup competition will start in June.
However, before the second round against Benfica, Benitez looked confident, as if to say. 'We're going to get the goals we need.'
"Every one of our players is full of confidence and I can tell you that we can score goals against Benfica. Of course I'd like to see the strikers score, but no one can criticize them for not doing their best. ”
However, the media was dismissive of Benitez's claims.
Liverpool made it all the way to the final last season, and one of the key factors was the knockout rounds in the previous rounds, where they were in the lead, winning at home against Bayer Leverkusen and Juventus, and drawing away from home against Chelsea. Once they got the lead, Liverpool's defence was bogged down.
This season, Liverpool has Zhang Tiehan in the first half of the front, which may be Liverpool's most successful recruitment, Zhang Tiehan's forward table is quite strong, but since Christmas, Liverpool has not scored two goals at home, just like meeting the hapless Newcastle in the festival, that game, Liverpool shot as many as 21 times but nothing, the Daily Telegraph laughed: "Benitez's optimism is a bit like those who sell life insurance." ”
Liverpool have to score two goals if they want to knock out Benfica and it takes a lot of luck to make sure Benfica don't score away goals.
Before the game, on the Liverpool side, except for Benitez, only Gerrard stood up and spoke: "I know what the media will say about us when we draw Charlton, there have been more 1-0 games recently, and Charlton didn't even make it 1-0, we just keep creating chances and then hope that the wind will be smoother." The atmosphere of the Champions Cup will be very different and I am sure the whole team will play the rhythm very fast. ”
Gerrard's solemn look convinced many people that he was confident.
But what Gerrard was thinking, they couldn't guess at all...... In the game with Benfica, Zhang Tiehan will be able to play, this news Liverpool is still covered and no one knows, when he saw Gerrard being interviewed, Zhang Tiehan felt that he would have to be careful of this guy in the future, he said that there was indeed something wrong, as if he was cheering up his team, in fact, the reality and the idea are completely different.
Gerrard looked like he didn't know he was coming...... It is estimated that after listening to Gerrard's words, Benfica will definitely not believe it.
So two hours before the match between the two teams, some media found that Liverpool reported to UEFA had Zhang Tiehan's name in the squad, and it is conceivable what the reaction was. (To be continued......)