Section 36 Prepare for battle
The first game of his league was against a team like Juventus, and Li Bin didn't have much confidence in his heart. Even after a long period of training, Esposito specially told him that the strength of the current team is almost the same as his ideal, but this still makes Li Bin a little uneasy.
Parma are now 20th in the league, while Juventus ...... Twentieth to last. No matter how confident you are in Li Bin, it is very difficult to play the first place in the league in the twentieth of the league.
Although it is said that a change of coach is like a change of knife, after the current Parma changed the manager, the morale has been greatly boosted and the strength has improved a lot, but Juventus is one of the strongest teams in the league after all. After all, the strength of the top three in the north is much more transcendent in Serie A, and Juventus is also different from AC Milan teams that focus on foreign European competitions, their focus is the league, which also makes it much more difficult for Li Bin.
Li Bin sometimes thinks that if he plays Milan and Inter Milan, maybe it will be much better. Although Milan is not weak, Milan's positional combat ability is indeed not strong. As long as he is willing to pull down his face and shamelessly put out the 901 big array to serve, Milan will not be able to bargain, and it will not be a problem to get a draw. On the side of Inter Milan, Mancini has not been in office for a long time, and now he has not even been able to figure out who is the main force and who is the substitute, Veron, Cambiasso, Zanetti and others are competing for the midfield position, and on the forward line, Vieri is aging very obviously, Adriano is a little unreliable, and they are not strong enough.
However, the problem is that it is Juventus who has met the problem. As the most stable of the top three in the north, although Juventus has problems that make people frown when they think about playing dirty, ugly, yin, and black, one thing is undeniable: in the top three in the north, they train the hardest and play the hardest. Unlike the two Milan players who always have nightclub rumors from time to time, the Juventus players, even if they complain that the team is not good, they also complain that Juventus' training is too hard, unapproachable, and does not have any club warmth. They regard training and competition as extremely important, and this is their most outstanding temperament. Inter fans always complained that Moggi was too dark and Moratti was incompetent, which led to Inter Milan not having a title. But in fact, looking at the attitude of the Inter Milan players to prepare for the game, and then looking at how Juventus treats the game, it is not difficult to see that it is not only a problem of Moratti and Moggi, but also the fundamental difference in the mood of each other's players.
Juventus's strength, although there are many factors, but their strength should not be underestimated.
However, even so, Li Bin still behaved calmly when leading the team to train and prepare, which also made Esposito a little puzzled.
"Do you have what it takes to win against Juventus?"
"Of course not, the level of our guys, you don't know how to play a winning game against Juventus?" Li Bin shook his head at Esposito's question.
"Then how did you manage to be so calm? This is the first league game of your career, why don't you care about winning or losing? ”
"I'm very concerned, but I know that at such times, it is useless to be anxious. Only by facing this kind of thing with the most peaceful mind can we get things done. Li Bin said, "We will inevitably meet two matches with Juventus in the second half of the season, and it is better to meet them now than in the future." ”
Juventus are currently top of the league and Parma are twentieth in the league. Even if Parma did lose to Juventus, it would no longer have any impact on Parma's morale. Even, as long as they play well in the game and don't have another big rout, Parma's morale may be even better.
And Li Bin is very sure that his approach, although it is difficult to defeat Juventus, at least let the two teams not play a big game. After all, under his transformation, it is now equivalent to seven people on defense, and Juventus has never been known for its violent attacks, so there will definitely not be too much of a score gap.
And if it's the best case...... If they do beat Juventus, then it will naturally be a doping injection, which can boost the morale of their team all at once, and if that is the case, it will be a surprise.
Since he can accept the worst-case scenario, what is there to worry about?
"Now what we're thinking about is how to try not to lose." Li Bin opened his mouth and said to Esposito, "And the gap in strength between our two sides is too big, even if we run in very well, and the players all work hard, they may not be able to beat Juventus." The hard gap is very difficult to bridge. And if we want to win, we can only think about a few aspects: adequate preparation, targeted measures, and the light of the opponent. And now, we are at the bottom of the table, this is the most likely time to let them undershoot, and we have a winter break to prepare, which is better than just a week, or half a week to prepare, this kind of game, it is good for us, why should I worry? ”
"But this is your first league game. It's not a good thing to lose the first league game, right? ”
"I'm Chinese New Year's Eve years old, maybe I'll be a coach for 40 years. Forty years of coaching, to command two thousand games, who cares what the first game is? And, if you just take over the team and win all the way, is it the high level of the coaches or the credit of the players? It's okay for the media to promote what is important in the first game, but we are coaches, and we should understand that it's not okay to be blind. And, as I said, that's the worst-case scenario, the best-case scenario...... Who says we can't win? ”——
The training that took place during the winter break has never been made public. Even Li Siman came to see the training a few times, but he was asked by Li Bin to keep it secret for the time being. Of course, closed training does not necessarily help them improve their level, but Li Bin believes that this is done with enough attention and can also make their confidence gradually improve.
And when the training was about to end, Li Bin was also very happy to find that his team had made a great recovery.
Tactically, their initial run-in has been completed - Li Bin has given a lot of freedom up front, and the run-in of the defenders is the strength of the Italian team, and after a while, they are now playing much better.
At the same time, Li Bin also received other news from the coaching staff.
"The players are recovering very quickly, the physical test report is here, and now they are quite full of energy, and within a month, they should have a very good physical advantage."
Borg's fitness report to him, which shows his team's fitness problems, is still very good. During the 20-day intensive training, Li Bin also knew that the role that Lu Dao could play was limited, but in Li Bin's planning, the training during this period was very important.
'The players are in good shape. Esposito also sent his report, "Mutu is still unavailable, he needs to continue to recuperate, but everyone else is in excellent form. Yaya Toure and Felipe Melo fit in very well, their physical condition and technical ability are enough to be the main force and even the core of the team, and they are also very satisfied with their arrangement. ”
This news is also the second news that satisfies Li Bin. Parma's players are slightly inferior in terms of strength, but if Yaya Toure and Felipe Melo are ready, then Li Bin also believes that Parma can give Juventus a small surprise.
'Nedved is back from injury and it's likely to be a tough battle for us. Soon, Van Raj's scouting report was also delivered.
Thought of it. Although this is the worst possibility, Li Bin is still prepared for this possibility.
Nothing was unexpected, and in this game, Parma will face the strongest Juventus. The only question remains, then: will Parma be able to trip Juventus.
After 20 days of preparation, the team has now taken shape according to its own ideas, so it is time to test how strong your team is. Juventus, as a whetstone, couldn't be better -
"This is Parma's home game against Juventus in the 17th round of Serie A, I'm Karachi, and I'm going to be the commentator for this game."
Looking at the stadium in front of him, Karachi's mood was not very high. Parma's Tardini Stadium is not very big, the small stadium of more than 20,000 people, far less enjoyable than Milan's stadium, and now this game, because Parma has not played well recently, and the fans are not many, this game, the attendance rate of the stadium of 29,000 people is more than half, such a game, naturally can not make Karachi satisfied.
"In this game, Juventus is still the same, they don't seem to change for 10,000 years, they will always be so stable and strong. Parma, on the other hand, have changed a lot of coaches, during the winter break, Bardini resigned after losing 5-1 to Roma, and now, they can't even find anyone to coach, so they can only let their former academy coach Li Bin take over as the team's head coach. Coach Li Bin has always been known in the Italian football world for his pragmatism and progressiveness, but it is doubtful what his level is as a head coach. He had a bit of luck against Besiktas, with Gilardino playing well allowing him to secure a victory. But in this game, in the face of Juventus, luck is unreliable, let's see if his strength is enough to make Capello look sideways. ”
Karachi is not optimistic about Parma – in fact, in the whole of Italy, no one is optimistic about Palma either. Li Bin sat as the head coach, in the final analysis, because the team is too poor, a team can't afford to change the head coach because it's too poor, and can only let the youth coach play, how can it make people confident?
It's just that this game seems to be a little different. Karachi was quick to notice that this team was different from the first half of the season.
"We saw that in this game, Coach Li Bin used the same 352 formation as in the previous game...... According to their arrangement, this should mean that 532 is also possible. Moreover, they brought in two new midfielders, and all of them started this game, and oh, if you count defender Zim Bonda, it can be said that all three of their signings have been started. And in the frontcourt, Giuseppe Rossi also got the opportunity to start the league for the first time - this team looks very different from the first half of the season, it just so happens that their opponent is Juventus, so let's see how they are! ”