Chang Sheng was too lazy to fight with Houllier, nor did he bother to pay attention to the media in England.

He has more important things to do. That's to study how to deal with Liverpool.

In fact, Liverpool's stupid and coarse tactics are indeed a great threat to Valencia.

In Spain, it is rare for Chang Sheng to come across this style of tactics.

Even if there is a defensive counterattack, it is rarely such a simple and crude long pass. After all, there are few players as strong as Husky in a Spanish team, and they are paired with a player as fast and agile as Owen......

Liverpool play typical English football.

A French head coach leads the team to play typical English football...... It's a bit of a pain in the ass.

Chang Sheng cherishes this opportunity.

Because it's a collision between his mad dog tactics and other European football styles, he wants to see how his team can perform against these very different styles.

By the way, let's see how well I can perform.

The first game of the Champions League was a good litmus test.

The coaching staff had been talking about their Champions League rivals Liverpool since a week ago, before the second round of the league was played......

Based on the scout's report and the video footage of the game, everyone can clearly understand what Liverpool's tactics are.

"They seem to be transforming...... "After watching footage of Liverpool's last few league games, one coach came to this conclusion." I remember last season Liverpool's tactics were all downright defensive counter-attacks, long passes, and hanging. Why in the last few rounds of the league, they have started to try to go more foot......"

"That's right, because Houllier's tactical thinking is seriously behind the times. At a time when even teams in the Premier League are starting to focus on technology, only his team is still clinging to what was from the 80s. Chang Sheng nodded. Houllier had to reform, because failure to reform would be a dead end. If Liverpool are to make a name for themselves in Europe, they cannot afford to rely on this outdated set of tactics. ”

"They were very unsuccessful in changing it." Next to Rudy. Gonzalez laughed dismissively. "If you want to break our tactics, defending the counterattack and extending the pass is the best."

Chang Sheng nodded in agreement: "Houllier will definitely choose his old tactics." Because this one is more secure. Now we're going to think about how to break down their defensive counter-attacks and long passes. ”

Then a group of coaches got together and continued the discussion.

Mainly Rudy. Gonzalez and Pep Guardiola spoke, and Chang Sheng pointed out a few words in the general direction, and the details are a matter for the coaches.

In the end, the coaching staff came up with a set of tactics against Liverpool.

Valencia's counter-attacking tactics against Liverpool were not much different from his tactics against Mallorca in the first round of the league.

It's not about how to attack. It's about how you defend.

Tiki-Taka's defense is basically about control. If Liverpool wants to press, then walk the monkey, pass back and forth, and make the other party lose the will to press.

If the opposition is going to rest, then suddenly pick up the tempo and storm around the Liverpool penalty area. Forcing Liverpool to run for their lives.

This style of play. In less than seventy minutes. It can deplete most of Liverpool's players.

Against Heskey, Valencia's solution was to not let him get the ball up front at all.

With a strong and swift offensive to force Husky back to defense, as long as Husky back to defense, it will be difficult for him to rush up again, after all, the speed is slow, this is a hard injury. People can't go up, what's the use of Liverpool's long pass?

If the Husky doesn't come back...... Then wait for offside.

The mad dog tactic originally required each player to keep a close distance between them, which made the overall formation compress more ruthless and a little less careful. The opposing striker was offside......

For this reason, Chang Sheng also intends to use such game skills in the game to increase the success rate of offside.

As long as Husky can be contained, Owen is no threat. Because Irving's play is pinned on Husky.

Whether it's Ayala or Carvalho, you have to pay attention to controlling the second drop point. If Husky really got the ball, don't let Irving get the second spot.

Of course, the defense still has to work on the roots. The best thing to do is not to let Liverpool pass the football to the front of the pitch at all.

That required Valencia to press the defence up front, like a pack of mad dogs, frantically pressing every Liverpool player – including their goalkeeper Dudek. Forcing the opponent to either not pass the ball at all, or rushing and blind big feet, there is no accuracy at all. It can only be called a bigfoot break, and it can't be regarded as a "long pass" at all.

The three-pronged approach ensures that Liverpool has no temper at all.

And most importantly, it's also a tough flaw for the English team.

It's that the tactical literacy of English teams is generally poor. Especially Liverpool. Under Houllier's tutelage, the tactical literacy was very poor. They were only able to chase Valencia's pass in the game, and they were quickly stunned by Valencia's back-and-forth passes.

The tactics of winning are the tactics of being ahead of the times, while the tactics of Houllier are the opposite, the tactics of completely falling behind the times.

The collision between the lead and the backward, which is stronger and which is weak, in the view of Chang Sheng, there should be no suspense.

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Chang Sheng was busy formulating tactics and directing the team's training.

and did not respond to the war of words provoked by Houllier.

Fighting a war of words is to win, and it is a kind of psychological warfare.

As long as there is an opponent who is difficult to entangle, Chang Sheng will consider a verbal battle.

But for a game that is destined to be won, there is no meaning and value in a war of words.

The English media, which only lacked knowledge of Chang Sheng, took Chang Sheng's current silence as a sign of weakness, and they shouted even more happily.

Under their encouragement, many Liverpool fans are optimistic about this away game.

After all, Valencia's manager lacks Champions League experience – it was his first Champions League game with his side. Although he played in the UEFA Cup last season, the UEFA Cup and the Champions League are completely different worlds and cannot be compared simply.

And Liverpool's manager Gérard. Houllier, on the other hand, is a well-known coach with a lot of experience.

In this kind of matchup, experience is an important factor in determining victory or defeat.

And so Valencia's Champions League match at home to Liverpool came.

Houllier himself feels that he has a chance to win, and the silence of the Valencia manager should be a sign of lack of confidence.

In the pre-match press conference, Houllier looked confident. He says his team have the ability and confidence to take the three points away from home.

Chang Sheng means less nonsense, how to do it, everyone will see the real chapter in the game!

Compared to Houllier's high profile. Chang Sheng is much more low-key.

It looked like Liverpool were on the line.

It's a strange situation, with the home team keeping a low profile and the away team being high-profile. But no one is willing to dig into why.

Liverpool fans were just blindly optimistic, and they stepped into the Mestalla Stadium with great confidence and good expectations.

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In fact, Houllier's thinking is fine, and to deal with Valencia's mad dog tactics, it really requires a power-based style of play. Just like Barcelona's nemesis will always be Chelsea with Didier Drogba.

But he has a problem. That is, he overestimated the quality of his players.

Husky is not Drogba after all......

This Liverpool team is not the Chelsea team that Mourinho will build in the future. Purely from the point of view of tactical literacy. Liverpool are far behind.

Once the game started, when Liverpool were going to play a long ball, they found they had little chance to do so.

Except that after they played like this at the beginning of the game, the next thing the ball was firmly controlled by Valencia, passing back and forth, and they were not in a hurry to push forward or score.

It's just passing the ball non-stop, as if you're doing passing training.

Houllier has seen Valencia's tactics in the match footage. But when I experience it myself, it feels different.

He was amazed at how skillful the Valencia players were at passing the ball back and forth, and they were able to make very quick back-to-back transfers when pressed by Liverpool's players. Two or three kicks can pass the ball out and make Liverpool's pressing useless.

And then they always pass it back and forth, all the way around.

After another failed grab. Owen waved his hand and motioned for everyone to press up a little more, and don't just let the forwards grab the ball in the front court.

So Liverpool began to press forward layer by layer.

When they pressed high enough, they didn't expect that there was already a large vacancy behind them.

At this time, Deco, who was holding the ball in the midfield, suddenly sent a through pass!

Because the Liverpool players pressed high enough, several of their own lines were compressed into one. Everyone is compressing the formation, but the difference is that Valencia is actively compressing, and they attack to facilitate passing. Defensively easy to create offside. Liverpool, on the other hand, are passive compression, and they don't even realize it. This shows the lack of their tactical literacy......

Deco's through ball penetrated all of Liverpool's defences!

It was a diagonal through ball from the middle of the pitch to the left side of the pitch with plenty of advance.

This ball is for Vicente!

The fastest of Valencia's striker three is Vicente.

This is the perfect way to make the most of his strengths.

"Deco!!" In the exclamation of the commentator, I saw a figure shoot out of Liverpool's defense like an arrow from the string!

Vicente was running at high speed. Catching up with football, the rest is easy.

It's a standard one-on-one meeting!

Vicente faced the attacking Polish goalkeeper Dudek, shook him down with a feint, and then shot with his feet!

The football flew into the goal without any suspense.

"Vicente!! Vicente! Valencia take the lead at home! It's only been seventeen minutes since the start of the game! Valencia is already 1-0 ahead! ”

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Amid the cheers of Mestalla, Tsuneo raised his fist.

The trial was successful!

Mad Dog tactics can attack and retreat, and playing a pseudo-strong team like Liverpool is really no pressure at all.

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After taking the lead, Valencia played more comfortably and they can now be more open-minded and use their passes to stall for time.

This scene made Liverpool's players grit their teeth, so they pounced even more fiercely, wanting to cut off the football and then directly hit Valencia's counterattack.

The result?

The English team lacked tactical literacy, but they did not lack hard work and fighting spirit. It's just that when the tactics are fully suppressed, hard work and fighting spirit have become important factors for the players to die.

Valencia did the same, scoring another goal.

This time it was Vicente who assisted, and Ibrahimovic, who followed up in the middle, scrambled to score.

Valencia had a two-goal lead before the end of the first half.

The game basically lost its suspense.

When Ibrahimovic takes off his shirt. As he flexed off his muscles, Hollier sat in the dugout, his face very ugly.

The countermeasures he had worked so hard to come up with turned out to be useless!

It's a good idea to play a long ball, but first the football has to be under their control. Liverpool have very few chances of possession right now, so what's the use of just a few chances? Liverpool's attacking success rate is not 100 per cent. Keep kicking like this. There is nothing that can be done about it in their own team......

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At half-time, Houllier didn't come up with anything to break the game.

The long pass was the best way he could come up with, but this best way didn't work at all.

Watching Valencia score another goal in the second half, Houllier, who was sitting in the dugout, suddenly felt very powerless.

It's not a precursor to a heart attack, it's what he feels most intuitively about this match.

No matter how hard your team tries and how aggressive you are, you will only feel powerless. There is simply no power to change the status quo, no power to solve problems, no power to win the game.

Houllier just felt like he couldn't do anything about it, and it felt terrible.

In fact, the away loss was 0:3. It's not a big deal. The key is the process.

The process is more important than the score.

Judging by the process, Liverpool have nothing to do when they face Valencia. That's what makes Houllier feel the most powerless.

This means that not only this game, but the next time the two sides meet again, Liverpool is afraid that there is still no way.

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After Valencia scored the third goal of the game in the second half, the sky over the Mestalla Stadium was filled with the singing of Valencia fans.

It was Valencia's first Champions League game of the new season and they didn't expect them to face what is said to be the strongest opponent in the group. How can there be such a good performance......

Valencia fans were confident of their team's victory, but they didn't expect it to be so easy. It's as if Liverpool and they Valencia are not on the same level at all......

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, the singing, cheering, and shouting over the Mestalla finally converged into a force that swept the sky and the sky and exploded over the stadium.

"It's over! Valencia won their first Champions League game of the season! They beat Liverpool at home! Three goals, clean! And Liverpool have nothing to fight back! ”

"It was Chang Sheng's first appearance in the Champions League and he delivered a perfect answer! Valencia used this 3:0 to announce to the world. They are the favourites to make it out of the group! ”

When the draw came out, Chang Sheng said that Valencia had drawn a good lot. His arrogance caused him a lot of trouble at the time, and a lot of people criticized him, I remember that Coach Houllier was among them? Let's look at the results now. It's a good sign. Even Liverpool, the strongest and most famous in this group, lost so cleanly......"

The lens of the TV camera was firmly aimed at Chang Sheng.

This man has already brought too many surprises to everyone in La Liga, and it seems that in the Champions League, he will still be ......

A reporter thought of Chang Sheng, who once said that he would surpass Real Madrid in the number of Champions League trophies.

At present, it is still difficult to achieve this goal. But in the minds of journalists, at least it's no longer just a joke.

Because his constant wins have shown his ability in the Champions League.

It was his first Champions League game in charge and he and the whole team were at home.

Looking at this performance, everyone can only sigh - it turns out that there is really such a genius in this world!