(a)

After a 15-hour journey, Fulham arrived in Hamburg and were already sleepy, but the assistant coach Lelivinson and the Fulham team manager made preparations in advance, fortunately, there was a four-day gap between the end of the Premier League and the Europa League.

With only 48 hours to play in the league back in London after the Europa League, it is no wonder that Hodgson denounced the FA and UEFA bureaucrats for not caring for the players at all, but purely using the game as a cash cow.

In Hamburg, the Hamburg club did not make things difficult for Fulham in terms of the noise around the hotel, the transportation from the hotel to the training ground and the competition venue, and the familiarity with the stadium.

However, in the process of adapting to the venue, Fulham's request to clear the stadium was rejected for the reason that the training at the Hamburg Stadium two days before the game was open to fans and required a fee, which was the request of the Hamburg club's four major fan associations to use these two "pre-match open training days" to raise funds for the earthquake-stricken areas in China.

Reasonable, and very international humanitarian, Hoffman can only smile when he speaks, but Fayyad did not pick up Hoffman's words, did not mention donations, Fayyad and China do not have much to do, although a large number of Chinese tourists will visit his department store when they visit London, and will take pictures in front of the statues of Dodi and Diana, but that is business.

Hoffman didn't say much about Fayyad's coldness. Chen Zhuo is in the Hamburg team, not in Fulham, and if it weren't for the Chinese players in the Hamburg team, what happens in China has little to do with the Hamburg club.

There was no closed training environment, and Hodgson did not conduct more tactical secret exercises, it was all some basic recovery and regular contact, and the club's on-site staff recorded Fulham's training in full, and Moniz himself was on site for more than two hours when Fulham trained.

(b)

'Fulham are just mid-table teams in the Premier League, they have the same characteristics as our opponents Mainz who just finished that game, they are weak in attack and strong in defence, and Fulham are such a team. Hamburg's clean sheet is a certainty, the key is a matter of how many to zero, it could be 3-0, 4-0, it could be 0-0, and now I think that if Fulham parked the bus in front of the goal, the excitement of the game would be greatly reduced, but I'm afraid they will do that......" Chen Zhuo said at his pre-match press conference.

For example, the top three teams in the Premier League this season, after 35 rounds, Chelsea scored 86 goals and conceded 32 goals, Manchester United scored 78 goals and conceded 27 goals, and Arsenal scored 78 goals and conceded 39 goals. The same is true in the Bundesliga, where Bayern and Schalke have scored 58 and 49 goals respectively after 30 games, conceding 28 goals and placing them in the top two.

Strong offense and strong defense are first-class, weak offense and weak defense are undoubtedly relegation teams, there is no need to cite examples, and then there are two kinds, one is strong offensive and weak, and the other is weak and strong, both of which are midstream teams.

Relatively speaking, Fulham belongs to the team with weak attack and strong defense, many midstream teams in the five major leagues that lack excellent strikers are based on tenacious defense, after 35 rounds, Fulham conceded only 37 goals, two fewer than the third-place Arsenal conceded goals, but in terms of the number of goals, Fulham only 35 goals, not even half of Arsenal's half.

In fact, when analyzing a team, there is also a data analysis of the points obtained by these goals, taking the Premier League as an example, Chelsea has 86 goals and 77 points, Manchester United has 78 goals and 76 points, and Arsenal has 78 goals and 71 points. Fulham, on the other hand, have 43 points from 35 goals and are undoubtedly the most valuable of their goals!

And what about burgers? The Hamburg team is a slightly stronger team in attack and a little weaker in defense, and can be classified as a middle and upper team.

So far this season, Hamburg have scored 50 goals, one more than Schalke, conceded 34 goals, only five more than Schalke, and a goal difference of four points, but six points less than Schalke 04, which is two wins.

The confrontation between such two teams is actually as Chen Zhuo said, if Fulham is determined to defend 0-0, the Hamburg team may not be able to break through their solid city defense!

(c)

"Was he already in Hamburg when Fulham played Juventus? Oh, I'm sorry I forgot, at that time he was still thinking more about whether he could play football, and he didn't have the energy to pay attention to that legendary shocking reversal, although for at least a week or so the whole shijie was applauding Fulham, 4-1 victory over Juventus, hehe, he shouldn't have been to Italy yet, oh, it seems that he hasn't been to England either, young people are always a little arrogant, hehe...... "Hodgson is actually a very elegant old man, according to the meaning of the Fulham press spokesman, There are a few places where the tone is not like this.

"At that time, he was still thinking more about whether he could play football or not", and the original sentence should be, "At that time, he was still elated to play for a few minutes in garbage time"!

"It seems that he has never been to England either, young people are always a little vigorous, hehe......", it should be "It seems that he has not been to England either, London is a big city, you must have a guide for him......"

Hodgson's rhetorical sneering still cut out the more damaging words.

After saying this, "Hamburg Sport" immediately refuted Hodgson, citing many examples of "nerve knives", and even said things about many inexplicable defeats during Hodgson's trough to cheer for the Hamburg team.

(iv)

Those are all peripheral tidbits, at best, it just means that the event has not even started, and the smell of gunpowder is in the air. However, Chen Zhuo also knew that it was impossible to shake Hodgson's stubborn belief by relying on these!

Due to the importance of this game, before the game against Mainz, the coaching team of Hamburg, as well as the Jishu Center of Spanwitz's agency, began to search for Hodgson's detailed coaching materials according to Chen Zhuo's requirements, and Chen Zhuo also had a request, hoping to find out who was most affected by Hodgson's tactics and where he was taught, this thing Hamburg's coaching team was powerless, and finally the Jishu Center of Spanwitz's agency found it.

After seeing it, Chen Zhuo was also happy, fate! Actually, the leader of the coaching career of the veteran coach Hodgson is him, Bobby Horton! Former coach of the Chinese Olympic team!

Roy Hodgson was Bobby Horton's assistant coach for six years before he took charge of Malmö in 1985. In 1985, Houghton went to West Asia to pan for gold and served as the head coach of the Saudi Arabian First Division team Ettiad, so Hodgson changed from an assistant coach to the head coach of Malmo.

According to the information provided by the Spanwitz JISHU Center, Houghton and Hodgson were actually brothers, and they were both taught by UEFA's then JISHU director Alan Wade, who rewrote the "Coaching Manual" in the late 70s and divided football at that time into two schools: the "English model" and the "German academy......

Looking at it slowly, Chen Zhuo felt that he was getting clearer and clearer.

Hodgson, like Houghton, stubbornly insisted on a 4-4-2 style of play, insisted on the "England model", not a long pass! The focus of the "England model" is "pressing, zone-marking and counter-attacking through passes", which was the same tactic used by Houghton when he was in charge in China......

At that time, the Chinese sports media attacked Horton's rhetoric, saying at the time that Horton's style of play was that "the main task of the midfield is to defend, the attack is from the back to the midfield, and the two forwards compete with the opposing defender for the high ball and then shoot".

In fact, Horton has explained in detail in his book "Tactics", and it is not as interpreted and criticized by the Chinese media.

Hodgson's 4-4-2 and Houghton's routine in the Olympic team are actually the same thing!

It's just that Horton didn't explain that his "England model" first requires a lot of physical fitness from players, and then a player's individual ability, especially defensive ability, has high requirements.