At the same time as the perennial wins and FIFA matches, the Lazio team competition continued. ※※

It's impossible to say that it's just FIFA and give up the game or something.

The first match after the award ceremony was the Coppa Italia, which was Lazio's first Coppa Italia match of the season.

Host Genoa.

Meanwhile, in Qatar, the Asian Cup has begun.

In addition to the national football confederation, Chang Sheng is also concerned about the Asian Cup.

Even if he didn't use Gao Hongbo to speak for him, he would have watched all the games of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup.

Although he had seen it all in his previous life.

But this time, he wanted to see what difference the Chinese team's Asian Cup journey would be after his own intervention.

The first group stage was played on January 8, and the Chinese national team faced Kuwait, the first opponent in the group stage.

In the end, the Chinese team won the game 3:0.

Unlike the memories of Chang Sheng, the first game of the Chinese team scored one more goal than the memory of Chang Win.

But Chang Sheng can't say whether this is really his role, or whether it's just a butterfly effect.

The second group stage is the real test for the Chinese team.

The first group game between the hosts and Uzbekistan was not a regular winner, with Uzbekistan beating Qatar 2-0.

Now Qatar is cornered.

If they lose again, they will be eliminated early.

As the host, it was a shame to be eliminated from the group without qualifying.

The Qataris will definitely play yin in the game, which is a difficult test for Gao Hongbo.

Football is not a blank slate, football is black and white. There is white and there is black.

Therefore, this situation cannot be eliminated, and what the Chinese team should do is not to complain that the opponent may play match-fixing, but to do their own thing.

Chang Sheng talked on the phone with Gao Hongbo almost every day to learn about the preparation of the national team.

Gao Hongbo joked that he was more like the head coach of the national team than himself.

Always win and laugh.

This is the first time he has helped the national team since he crossed over, and he wants to see if his help is useful, and whether the path he came up with is useful.

Because this involves future cooperation, if Gao Hongbo is still in the position of coach of the national team. He also wants to continue this cooperation, Lazio Club can be the training base of the Chinese team in Europe, and can come to Europe to train once a year, and he will help contact the warm-up opponents, and he will arrange the warm-up plan.

He doesn't care if he spends money on it. He is a Chinese fan, and he wants Chinese football to be good.

But the premise is that this can really benefit Chinese football.

If you can't, then don't bother......

China's match against Qatar was on January 12, the day before Lazio and Genoa's Coppa Italia.

Chang Sheng can watch the game in his hotel room.

On that day, he specially advanced the time of the tactical meeting to make time to watch the game.

This is known from the course of the game, although often winning. But still nervous.

He wanted to see how the match would be different from what he remembered.

As in Chang Sheng's memory, the referee of this game in Qatar was indeed dark...... Basically, there is a clear bias towards the host. There is physical contact between the two sides, as long as the Qatari player falls to the ground, it is basically a foul by a Chinese player. And if it is a Chinese player who falls to the ground. The referee will turn a blind eye.

Gao Hongbo did not rotate in this game, but continued to use the starting lineup that beat Kuwait 3-0 in the previous game.

This is also Chang Sheng's advice to Gao Hongbo, because as a traverser, he must know that Gao Hongbo's rotation eventually bought the foreshadowing for this defeat, so Chang Sheng in this game asked Gao Hongbo not to rotate. There is no problem with the fitness of the team.

This time, the national team went to the Asian Cup to get results, not to train. So there's no need to rotate every game.

Fix a set of main lineups, maximize the strength of this lineup, and then ...... How far can you go.

If you want to train, it has to be considered after the group has qualified in advance.

Gao Hongbo followed Chang Sheng's advice.

The Chinese team, which played with all the main forces, chose to defend and counterattack in this game and did not face Qatar head-on.

Use their excellent ball control skills to maneuver around midfield and Qatar.

Gao Hongbo's strategy in this game is to keep the draw.

Fight for a draw.

Because earlier, Uzbekistan defeated Kuwait 2-1, so now Uzbekistan has qualified early.

The Chinese team ranks second with three points, Qatar is third with zero points, and Kuwait, which has lost two games in a row, has been out of the tournament in advance.

As long as the Chinese team can draw Qatar, they will be able to accumulate four points, so that they will face Uzbekistan, which has already qualified in advance and has no desire, in the final round, and the situation of qualifying is much better.

Of course, if the Chinese team can beat Qatar in this game, it will also qualify in advance.

But Gao Hongbo knows very well that this is the host, and they definitely can't accept losing to the Chinese team, being forced to draw by the Chinese team, and they still have hope of qualifying.

So if the Chinese team wants to win Qatar, it will lose.

Gao Hongbo's strategy is very correct.

In the memory of the winning game, Qatar's two world waves did not qualify until the end of the game, and Qatar was helpless in the face of the Chinese team's skillful ball control and running coordination.

Of course, they can use fouls to intercept, but the referee doesn't dare to do it too blatantly after all, and the Chinese team does not plan to beat Qatar, Qatar still has a chance to qualify, and it will not do things too badly.

In the end, the Chinese team drew 0:0 with Qatar.

At the end of the game, Chang Sheng applauded the Chinese team in the room. It feels a bit like going back to before he crossed over, still an ordinary Chinese fan, and when the Chinese team is doing well, he will be excited in front of the TV, gritting his teeth and shouting "Pio Liang!" ”

This time too.

He was not only happy for the performance of the Chinese team, he was happy more because his efforts proved to be useful.

After receiving high-level training at the Fermelo training base and playing against high-level opponents, the level of the Chinese team has improved. The effect is obvious.

The passing and possession ability shown by the Chinese team in this game is very different from the Chinese team in their memory.

If the Chinese team continues to adhere to this style, there is still hope.

The physical fitness of the yellow race is not as good as that of the white and black races, so this tactic of emphasizing the passing may be more suitable for the Chinese team.

The Japanese learn from Brazil, South Korea from Germany, so why can't we in China learn from Spain?

That's what Chang Sheng thinks.

He is glad that the performance of the Chinese team has proved his thinking.

Now, no matter what the results of the Chinese team are, he intends to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with the Chinese team.

He wants to use his own methods to help the Chinese team.

This is his fight.

Let him be the head coach of the national team, the effect may not be so good.

And now he is in a detached position, but he is more able to do something.

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After the game. Chang Sheng sent Gao Hongbo a text message, congratulating him on his team's performance, but also reminding him to be careful of the last group stage opponent.

Don't think that Uzbekistan is no threat if it qualifies early.

No one will deliberately admit defeat. And if Ukraine loses to China in the final round, they will go from first in the group to second in the group. It is also not conducive to their quarter-final draw matchups. So Uzbekistan will not show mercy.

And if they lose to Uzbekistan, Qatar will certainly use the off-the-beaten-track to qualify - even if the two games are played at the same time, it will be too easy for them to do so. Match-fixing is simply a racial talent of West Asians.

So in order to avoid being killed by Qatar by such means, in the last game, the Chinese team must try to win.

After sending a text message, Chang Sheng turned off the TV and prepared to rest.

There's the Coppa Italia tomorrow.

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On the second day of the Coppa Italia. The perennial winners were in the D-squad – a handful of first-team players, plus a large number of players from the reserve squad and youth squad.

And among these few first-team players, including David. Silva.

The player, who had just lost the Ballon d'Or, was scheduled to start by Chang Sheng.

For the victory will encourage him. Support him.

Now David. What Silva needs is not rest, but to keep fighting.

Lazio fans also fanned for David. Silva offered comfort.

They unfurled a banner like this at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome:

"David, don't pay attention to that group of idiots at FIFA, in our hearts. You're Mr. Golden Ball! ”

A trophy for the Golden Globe is also painted underneath the banner.

When David. When Silva came out, the stands were filled with shouts.

Every Lazio fan is holding his name with all his might.

They shouted, "David." Mr. Golden Ball! You're Mr. Golden Ball, David! ”

And David. Silva also looked excited.

Losing the Golden Globe made him very depressed for a while.

He even had a distraction in training.

He felt that he might not be fit enough to handle the game.

But Chang Sheng insisted on letting him play, and he was still a starter.

Now he suddenly understood why the boss was doing this.

Amid the enthusiastic cheers of the fans, his wounded heart is being mended.

He felt empowered again.

He's only twenty-five years old, and he still has a long career ahead of him.

He believes that if he can maintain this form and continue to play under the boss, then there will be no shortage of championship honors, and since there will be no fewer championships, then he will always have the opportunity to win the Ballon d'Or.

So this game David. Silva is in very good form.

And the biggest difference between him and Messi is that he is not only in good shape, but he also leads the whole team to be in good shape.

The commentators were all commenting on the game for David. Silva exclaimed: "What is not worthy of the Ballon d'Or for such a good player?" It's the Golden Globe that doesn't deserve you, David! ”

David. Silva is in very good shape, and when used against Genoa, it is really a bit of a knife to kill chickens.

Throughout the game, Genoa didn't have any chances.

Although in the recent league, Lazio only beat Genoa 1:0 away, but at that time the whole Lazio team was not in good shape, after all, just after a holiday, many people need to recover from body to mentality.

And now, the form of the whole Lazio team has recovered, and it is on their home turf again, plus there is a scrappy David. Silva, it's not a problem to get a team like Genoa.

In the end, the "coalition" defeated Genoa 3-0 at home and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia.

Little by little, they are getting closer to defending their treble title – but the players themselves don't know it, and it's still in the minds of the winners.