If the personality of a manager determines the personality of a team, then conversely, looking at a team's training and games, you can guess what kind of personality the head coach of that team has.

Some teams are tough, angular, and open fire to rob the fruits of the victory; Some teams are ostentatious, lest the world know about it, so they are always doing something that others dare not do; There are also teams that are high-profile, even arrogant, and they dare to open up all their training sessions.

Of course, this may just be a strategy of the manager, but from these moves, you can guess what kind of person the manager is like.

It seems that as long as Yang Cheng is mentioned, everyone will naturally think of closed training!

Some people once joked that Yang Cheng's mystery was like the mysterious motherland behind him, their mystery was full of seriousness, full of seriousness, full of attention to the game, to competitors, and to the future, and they were always cautious.

Remember, someone said that any act of exposure to the spotlight is a sign of immaturity!

Then, on the other hand, keep yourself away from the spotlight, secretly accumulate strength in a place that others can't see, and seek physical and tactical improvement and breakthroughs, which is the most important move for any mature team.

Jose? Pekerman believes in this, so his Colombian team, like the German team, has adopted a closed training system, and in his opinion, the reason for the closure is to keep the outside spotlight away from him, to block all the scenery out of the team's training camp, so that everyone can settle down and prepare for the game.

War is a very serious, life-and-death brutal competition, or to heaven. Or go to hell. There is no third way to go, so Pekerman has never taken a football war with a serious attitude, which is what has made him so far. The reason why it can be noticed and appreciated by the world.

As early as before the World Cup, there were already many media speculating about the most likely dark horses in this World Cup, and many of them were very optimistic about the two teams. Belgium in Europe, Colombia in South America.

As for Uruguay, this is a traditional powerhouse, not a dark horse!

Pekerman has not said anything about this, but he knows that his team has the quality and potential, but there is still a long way to go to achieve that goal, and most importantly, in the opening game of the group. Overcoming the hurdles of the German team allowed himself to emerge from the group.

Colombia used to be the kind of typical South American team that overemphasized the individual ability of its players. Emphasis is placed on the player's individual improvisation. Ignoring the overall team's coordination, these made the Colombian game look good. It can even be said to be beautiful, but it is difficult to achieve good results.

The predecessor Gomez reshaped Colombia, especially in the Europa League, where more and more players stood out, and he began to seek a European style, hoping to better play a kind of overall European football, but Gomez's Colombia gradually moved towards a physical confrontation.

After taking office, Pekerman also began to inject more of his own ideas into the team, and he did not intend to continue on the path of Europeanization, nor did he intend to return to the Colombian style of de-Europeanization, he intended to strike a balance between Europeanization and tradition.

Throughout Pekerman's past coaching resume, he has always been a flat style, even when coaching the Argentine national team, which is known as the most passionate in the world, he can make this team sane, and the so-called sanity is actually a balance between passion and boredom.

Colombia has always been very interesting, the squad looks really good, but every time they get to the big game, they can't show results, and there are many such teams, such as Ivory Coast, Mali, Belgium, and even England, and these teams actually have some deep problems.

For Colombia in South America, their biggest problem is that they do not have a stable fixed framework, players are constantly changing, every manager comes up is a new batch, every time it is demolished and rebuilt, and after the results of the tournament are sad, it starts again.

In the past few years, the Colombian Football Federation can be said to have changed their minds, starting from the predecessor Gomez, they began to pursue a stable style, because now even Venezuela, Bolivia and other teams are emerging, because they have their own stable style, which makes them even in the face of Brazil and Argentina, will not be completely powerless.

After Gomez, Pekerman took over Colombia, and he also continued to adjust Colombia's tactical framework with small changes, but it was relatively stable in terms of personnel allocation, and further tapped the team's technical and tactical capabilities under the fixed 442 tactical framework.

But is it a South American team, Colombia's two full-backs are playing in Serie A, and the left-back is Udinese's Pablo? Almeiro, right-back is Napoli's Camilo? Souniga, both players belong to the kind of players who are stronger in attack than in defense, which also allowed Perkman to set the tone for the team's midfield.

In the face of the German team, a team with a solid defense and a sharp attack, Colombia must be very cautious, and the games in South America, whether it is the Copa America or the Copa Libertadores in the club competition, the reference value is more in the South American region, for South American teams, but in the World Cup, when encountering European teams with stronger tactics and integrity, South American teams often suffer more losses, and once they encounter problems, they are easy to collapse completely.

This is especially true for a team like Colombia, which seems to have a strong squad but has never been able to show enough fighting power.

At the end of the day, it's a psychological problem!

For Pekerman, who coaches Colombia, he cannot compare with the head coach who coaches German and European teams in terms of resources, because no one can deny that the core of today's football is in Europe, and the most profitable is also in Europe, so the financial strength of Europe's mainstream leagues and football associations is also incomparable to that of teams like Colombia.

At least. Yang Cheng has the ability and financial resources to form a large number of people. An all-pervasive think tank that spies on each team's confidential information and collects video footage of each team's games for him. But Pekerman certainly didn't enjoy such treatment, and even his coaching staff was not as good as Yang Cheng.

You have to do everything yourself, even if it's pre-game. Pekerman had to think about how to fight Germany for himself!

He secretly watched the warm-up match between Germany and Ecuador before, and what he saw were two completely different sets of tactics, one is a typical no-ball running system without a striker tactic, emphasizing smooth passing and receiving with running without the ball, and the other is a side impact tactic dominated by Gomez, emphasizing the offensive suppression and pulling of the two wings to create space for Gomez.

Both tactics have their own characteristics, with the strikerless tactics relying on the tacit understanding and overall awareness of the players, while the wing tactics rely on Gomez's impact. The German striker's physicality is so good that no one in the Ecuadorian backline can stop him, which also makes Pekerman himself uncertain.

"Will Zapata be able to finish off this guy?" Pekerman asked to himself.

Christian? Zapata. He played for Villarreal and AC Milan. It was also very favored by European teams for a time, but later after moving from Udinese to Villarreal. Zapata's performances plummeted, missing out on the best stage of his career, and as a direct result of his failure to become a first-class centre-back.

Zapata's advantages are not bad, personal ability, physical confrontation are good, and defensive skills are also mixed up in Serie A, not much worse, but in terms of positioning, judgment and foot work, it is not enough, especially a little frizzy at the feet, and from time to time there will be a little heart-pounding performances and mistakes.

Thinking of this, Pekerman felt a headache, there is a way that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and this is the case of Colombia, what he can do as a head coach is actually to bring Colombia out of the group stage to the maximum extent on the current card, and take one step at a time.

"If Germany didn't play with a striker, maybe it would be better!" Pekerman felt.

Without Gomez's heavy tank, the German team would be less of a threat to Colombia, and as for the strikerless tactics, Pekerman feels that Colombia is fully capable of defending against him, after all, Colombia's defensive ability has always been not weak.

What kind of tactics will Yang Cheng use, this is Pekerman's biggest headache.

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"I think Pekerman is a very good manager, he has led Colombia to perform well in the Copa America and World Cup qualifiers, and there are a lot of players in the team, such as Falcao, who is a natural killer, and midfielders Guarin and James? Rodriguez, Giovanni? Moreno, he also played in my home country! ”

This is Yang Cheng at the pre-match press conference, when asked by reporters, answering his opinion on Colombia.

Moreno, who played in the Chinese Super League and played for Shanghai, is a tall player who has shone in the Argentine league but has good skills and passing ability.

Many of them have taken him and Giovanni? Hernandez is on a par, because the two have the same name, and they both play as a striker, although the latter has not been famous in his life, but he has excellent personal ability, tricky short passes, outstanding long passes, these are Hernandez's weapons, but this player has never been able to prove himself in a big club or a mainstream league in his life, and finally mixed in a small club team for a lifetime, but no one can deny his strength.

'It's a very difficult South American team, they have their own strengths and characteristics, I know it's going to be a tough game because we're playing against a team that we don't know well, but I have 100 points of confidence in my players and I believe we can beat them!'

If Uruguay is the kind of team that is more Europeanized, then Colombia's South American characteristics will be stronger.

"Mr. Yang Cheng, can you tell us about Klose's recent injury progress?" A reporter stood up and asked.

Yang Cheng nodded, "Milo's situation has improved, but we don't have the means to disclose more details to the public for the time being, but I believe that he will be able to return to the football field, and he agrees with me on this point!" ”

Another reporter raised his hand. After being made a gesture of please by Yang Cheng. Standing up, "Klose's absence has caused some problems for the German team's forward line. And you put Gomez in the 18-man squad for this game, plus he played well against Ecuador before. Would you consider starting him? ”

"Guess!" Yang Cheng smiled, noncommittal, neither nodded nor shook his head, "Against Ecuador, Mario came off the bench and performed very well, and I am also very satisfied with his performance, but I can't reveal more about whether he will start for the time being." But against Ecuador, we had more control of the game in the first half! ”

Does this mean that Gomez will not start? Will Yang Cheng be looking for a more controlling team configuration?

No one knows. You can only choose to guess.

But everyone knows it. Yang Cheng attached great importance to this opening match, so he led the team to El Salvador a day in advance to prepare for the match. It is hoped that the team will avoid running around and train and adapt in El Salvador in advance.

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The first two days of the World Cup were all unsightly, with Brazil causing a minor upset in the opening game of the group, with Jurgen Klinsmann leading the United States to a surprise 1-0 win over hosts Brazil, and Scolari's side suffered a disappointing opening game.

This game was played in Sao Paulo, because it was in Sao Paulo for training, so Yang Cheng also watched this game on the spot, Klinsmann's American team still insisted on his ground cooperation and penetration characteristics, and Scolari did not play negatively in this game.

However, it was indeed not a commendable game, as both sides looked conservative, focused on defense, and did not invest enough troops in attack, and a quick counterattack by the United States caused a mistake in Brazil's backline, which directly led to the United States winning the first game of the World Cup.

This upset is a wake-up call for all teams participating in the World Cup, this is the World Cup, and no team that can participate in the finals is a weak team at all, and anyone can be upset, even if it is the host Brazil!

Perhaps influenced by the Brazilian team, Spain played relatively steadily in the first game of the group, insisting on their own style of possession as always, and choosing to grind their opponents with possession as always, and even Bosque's team's pursuit of possession was even more devastating than a year ago.

In the end, Spain managed to grind their opponents to death, and although they scored 2 goals, the whole game was still dizzy.

This is also a touching thing, because just because there are many goals does not mean that the game is necessarily good.

The two favourites failed to show their impressive strength, which directly led to everyone's high hopes for the first game of the German team, hoping that Yang Cheng's team can make people see hope, at least, Yang Cheng, who has always been known for offensive football, should make all fans enjoy it and play offensive football.

Regarding the appeal from the outside world, on the day of the game, when Yang Cheng was interviewed by the German media in the hotel, he smiled and said that he would adopt more proactive tactics to win, but no matter what, the most important thing is that the team can stand out from the group stage well.

"For me and the players, the primary purpose of going to the World Cup is to win, and to play beautifully, that's second!"

The outside world interpreted Yang Cheng's words, and many people were pessimistic that Yang Chengcheng might also adopt a more negative tactical style of play, because in the absence of Klose, the German team lost the tactical axis of the frontcourt, and the offense was greatly affected.

Colombia's head coach Pekerman also gave an interview to reporters when he arrived in El Salvador, and he also admitted that Colombia has a big gap with the German team in terms of strength.

"For us, the German team is a strong presence, so from the beginning our tactics were very clear, which was to put ourselves in the position of the underdogs and play to our strengths so that we had a chance to beat the opponent!"

Pekerman's remarks were as low-key as ever, which undoubtedly made people believe that this match would be a dull matchup, and even some media have said that the most dreary World Cup in history could be born in Brazil.

However, whether it is the German team or Colombia, it will not be affected by the outside world, both teams have chosen to prepare for the game in a low-key manner, Yang Cheng is himself to come forward to be interviewed, the players are strictly forbidden to be interviewed by reporters in private, and reporters and their families are also prohibited from entering the hotel where the national team is stationed, so as to avoid the players being affected.

This is the usual method that Yang Cheng has pursued since he took charge of the national team, and the players have long been accustomed to it, and they all know that after the game, they can get a night with their families and a half day the next day, and then start to devote themselves to the new round of preparation.

This is when the team's record is good, but if the record is not good, it is not excluded that Yang Cheng directly prohibits all players from contacting the outside world.

As if in response to the call of the outside world, the starting lineup arranged by Yang Cheng and Pekerman did not make people see any trace of offensive football, so when they got the starting lineup of the two teams, the on-site commentator even issued a sad cry, "Even our Caesar has begun to play three backs, this is a World Cup where offensive football has been completely lost!" ”