Chapter 121: Ambition to Win

Two national team games left Benzema injured.

In the first national team game, he was replaced early due to injury.

At that time, Chang Sheng also called him as soon as possible to inquire about his injury.

Benzema told himself it was fine.

However, Chang Sheng still advised him not to play in the next national team game.

As a result, in the second game, the head coach of the French team, Domenech, still included Benzema in the list.

This time it was even worse, Benzema only played 30 minutes of the game, and was replaced early because of an injury that prevented him from continuing the game.

This made Chang Sheng, who saw this scene in front of the TV, very angry.

Karim Benzema is the main right winger in his squad.

His importance to the team cannot be overstated.

In his own club, Benzema is used carefully for regular wins, for fear that the young talent will be injured.

As a result, the player he took care of was treated roughly by Domenech, resulting in injury.

Chang Sheng can't tolerate this kind of thing. If you don't teach Domenech a lesson, how can you suppress other national team managers who are ready to make a move in the future?

As the head coach of the club, you should be on the same page as the head coach of the national team. Either the east wind overpowers the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind.

The game was not over yet, and when Benzema was substituted, Chang Sheng made a strong statement on his website.

"Domenech, that idiot! Benzema was injured in the first game, why is he still on the list? It's good now! Congratulations, you've managed to break my players! ”

After the game, Chang Sheng said: "The French team defeated the Faroe Islands 5:0, which is really majestic!" But I want to ask Mr. Domenech to play a team like the Faroe Islands. Is it necessary to play a player who was injured in the last game? I believe that without Benzema, France could easily beat the Faroe Islands. Forgive me for being stupid, I don't see any need to put my players on the pitch and leave with an injury! ”

As the birthplace of many of Changsheng's remarks and quotations, Changsheng's personal website has attracted much attention because it is full of strong Changsheng's personal style. Many reporters even squatted on Chang Sheng's personal website to capture every message sent by Chang Sheng, and then synthesized it. It's a news story.

So these two messages of Chang Sheng quickly appeared in the mainstream media.

This incident has aroused everyone's interest, as Chang Sheng has never clashed with the national team manager because of an injury to a player in a national team match, even in his last season in Valencia, when a number of players were injured in the national team game and suffered a wave of injuries. Chang Sheng has not had any conflicts with the head coach of the national team.

It was the first time he had fired at Domenech.

So the media is particularly interested.

A reporter ran to interview Domenech to see what he thought about Chang Sheng's claims.

Domenech pouted: "He has his own opinions, and I can't stop him." ”

"So why put Benzema, who is already injured, on the field against the Faroe Islands?" The journalists asked.

Domenech: "He only had a minor injury in the last game, so I let him go down just to be on the safe side. Let him because he meets the requirements. ”

Domenech then refused to answer questions about Benzema.

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Chang Sheng can't afford to fight Domenech on his website.

He is now only concerned about Benzema's injury.

Karim Benzema returned to Italy after the game, where the Lazio club conducted a detailed examination of him.

The final result was a relief to Chang Sheng, not a serious injury. It's a mild muscle strain. Just take a month off and you're fine.

So Chang Sheng said in an interview that he spared Domenech this time, if Benzema is seriously injured, he must be over with Domenech!

Domenech made a shrunken turtle directly, and he knew that Chang Sheng's mouth was powerful. So it was wise not to spit on each other with Chang Sheng.

Although he is also a first-class hardliner in French football, he feels that he is still a person, and what about always winning?

Chang Sheng is a mad dog, and whoever is targeted by him is unlucky.

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This is how the storm over Benzema's injury in the national team has passed.

After Benzema's injury. His place will be replaced by Cazorla. Although in Villarreal, Cazorla played in midfield. However, under Chang Sheng's team, anyone must be multi-skilled, and adapting to multiple positions is an almost essential quality.

Even the goalkeeper has to be able to play the scavenger - that's not an exaggeration. Handanovic's control has become more and more under the tutelage of Chang Sheng, not only in the entire penalty area, but even outside the penalty area, which must be the area he can control.

Mad dog tactics require goalkeepers to have a large range of movement, so goal-line goalkeepers who have good goal-line skills but don't like to attack and have a limited range of control don't want to win even if they are good and often win.

That's why Valdés' butter hand plus a convulsive goalkeeper was able to play in Barcelona. Because of his large range of control, many times he even uses it directly as a scavenger.

The disadvantage of Cazorla playing as a winger is that he is not fast. So tactically, we have to make some adjustments to win often.

For example, in the position of a right winger, you still need speed, but not speed with the ball, but by passing and running to maintain speed.

This is something that Chang Sheng believes Cazorla can do.

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The first match after the international break is the sixth round of the league, with Lazio hosting Cagliari, the final match of the league round.

Before that, the other teams had finished their games and the latest standings in the standings appeared.

Roma, who had four wins and one loss, lost another game this time.

Inter Milan, on the other hand, won the game and are at the top of the table with four wins, two draws and 14 points.

As Chang Sheng knows, without his Lazio, this season would have been the rise of Inter.

But now......

I had to say sorry to Moratti.

In the last game of this round of the league, Lazio defeated Cagliari 2-0 at home and continued their unbeaten run.

Five wins, one draw and 16 points. Two points ahead of Inter Milan and back at the top of the table.

Next up is the second game of the Champions League group stage.

Lazio take on Olympiacos away.

Although it is an away game, because the difference in strength between the two sides is too large, this game has little suspense for Lazio. Therefore, Chang Sheng did not send all his main players to the away game, because the players who played the national team game need to rest.

This time in addition to goalkeeper Handanovic and central defender Jose. Except for Passarella and Modric, he basically used a non-international lineup.

This game showed that Lazio have a strong non-international squad as well.

Goalkeeper Handanovic, central defender Jose. Passarella, Campagnaro, left-back Coentrão and right-back Abate. With Khedira, Ledesma and Luka Modric in midfield and Falcao, Cazorla and Rocchi up front, Benzema's injury has left Chang Sheng with few substitutes up front.

Such a lineup. Jean Lazio beat Olympiacos 2-0 away.

After the game, Chang Sheng praised the performance of the players.

It's not because of how good they played in this game, or how crucial it was to win this game.

Quite simply, the performance of the substitutes made Chang Sheng happy with the team's ability to play on multiple fronts.

Although it can still only focus on one side, Lazio will always have to fight on multiple fronts in the future. Blooming everywhere. This is the ambition of permanence.

It's not easy for some coaches to have a treble in their careers, but Chang Sheng doesn't see it that way, he has already won a treble, but he wants more.

The treble is the supreme pursuit of a head coach.

What's the big deal about leading a team to a championship? Doing their best to be on one front, with the strength of the giants, it is easy to win the championship.

But it's not easy to win three titles in the same season.

Alex Ferguson is known as the greatest manager in the history of the Premier League. How many times has he led the team to the Treble?

Once.

Until he retired, it was just once.

Why is Jose Mourinho the most powerful manager in football today? Quite simply, he led two different teams to the treble achievement, once in Porto. Once at Inter Milan. Of course, Porto was a small "treble". Because it's the UEFA Cup, not the Champions League. But he completed the real treble at Inter Milan.

Pep Guardiola's claim to fame as Barcelona manager was due to the treble in his first season in charge.

Even if it's a big team. To be able to accomplish the Triple Crown is remarkable.

Because of the Triple Crown. It's not just about strength, it's about luck.

Since the professionalization of European football, as of the 2006-2007 season, only five teams in the national leagues combined have won this award.

In 1967, after beating Inter Milan 2-1 in the UEFA Champions League final, Scotland's Celtic became the first club team in history to win the "treble".

In 1972, Ajax from the Netherlands also competed against Inter Milan in the final of the European Champions Cup, and Cruyff's brace helped the team defeat the opponent 2:0 at the same time, and also achieved the most glorious "treble" in its history.

In 1988, after Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, also from the Netherlands, was the third team in history to win the "treble". PSV Eindhoven defeated Portugal's Benfica 6-5 on penalties after extra-time in the UEFA Champions League final to dominate the European competition again after winning both the league and the Dutch Cup.

In 1999, Manchester United from England won the UEFA Champions League with two goals from Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in three minutes of stoppage time against Bayern Munich 2:1, and became the first team in English football history to win the "treble" honor with the previous Premier League title and the English FA Cup.

Then in 2004, Valencia, led by Chang Sheng, defeated Jose Mourinho's Porto in the Champions League final to become the first 'treble' in Spanish football history – an honour that should have belonged to Pep Guardiola's "dream three".

Chang Sheng has already won a treble in Valencia, and he has more to come.

Because he has an ambition.

What started as his dream was to become a professional football coach, and then this dream evolved into becoming one of the top coaches, and now this dream has become one of the most successful, the most great, the top managers.

In order to achieve this, he must develop a lineup that can adapt to three fronts fighting at the same time.

At Olympiacos, Chang Sheng saw the clue.

He was pleased.

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After the away game against Olympiacos, the next Champions League group game is not until 31 October.

There are three league rounds in between.

They are away to Catania.

Away to Sampdoria.

and home to Regina.

These are the last three league games in October.

The main squad was well rested, and Lazio beat the promoted Catania 3-1 away team.

However, the careless Lazio lost 0:2 away to Sampdoria. It was their first defeat of the season.

After Lazio lost the match, it was reported by the entire Italian media, among which there was no shortage of people gloating.

Ignoring the winning man, he responded with a 4-1 home win over Regina.