Chapter 153: Grim and Very Grim

Also taken aback was Celta's head coach Victor. Fernandez.

But he wasn't scared by his own speculation, he was frightened by what he saw.

He has Getafe's starting line-up for this game in his hand.

Unlike Harvey, who can't access the Internet in time when he is outside. Passos.

Celta's boss has a dedicated person who is responsible for gathering information about opponents, and the opponent's starting line-up is also among them.

Especially when the other party has not announced the starting list for a long time, they will pay more attention to this matter.

While there has been speculation in the media and Celta coach Victor. Fernandez's own guess is not far from ten. But he's a cautious guy, so he's going to have to see the real starting line-up before he stops.

Now he sees the real starting list.

His assistant coach has just been found out from the official website of the Football Association.

In this list, Getafe is the main force to the fullest!

Especially in the frontcourt offensive combination, Charlie Steas, Luis. Garcia and Mysta are all on the list.

This came as a great surprise to Fernández.

His previous judgment was that Chang Sheng should give up this game, so it is unlikely that he will play with all his main forces.

The other party should have been the last batch of substitutes, and they dealt with things casually.

But now......

He was holding this starting list and was a little hesitant in his heart.

Does this starting list mean that the opponent is not willing to give up this game?

Or is this starting list just too obvious because Chang Sheng is unwilling to surrender?

He thought about it in his heart for a long time.

The decision was finally made.

Regardless of the opponent's purpose, the result of this match cannot be changed.

Even if they are at their best. Victor. Fernandes also doesn't think Getafe can beat his own team with the main players, even if they are all substitutes.

But Celta's substitute is also a level higher than Getafe's main team.

Even if the other party is going to die and struggle. That also means they're going to die.

Victor. Fernandez is a very cautious person, but he is also a person who does not easily change his decisions once he has made them, and he always believes that these two points are his

When he thinks that Getafe can't beat Celta anyway, he doesn't think about other possibilities.

Caution is habitual, but that doesn't mean you don't have confidence in your team.

Chang Sheng watched the players in the dressing room.

They had just returned from the warm-up.

Because of the proximity, the Getafe players were able to arrive at the pitch a little later, and the warm-up was naturally later than the visiting Celta Vigo team.

Chang Sheng looked at them. And silently.

He can see the inside of the players in their faces.

All of them seemed unwilling.

It's still very unhappy that he, the head coach, took the initiative to show weakness before the game.

But that's exactly what he wanted.

If these players lose their fighting spirit and confidence because of his pre-match remarks, then he is self-defeating.

But Chang Sheng knew that these players would not do this.

Because their sum is very high.

A team's main squad has more than two-thirds of these players. Then this team will naturally not give up easily.

Even if the manager doesn't think well of them, they will do everything they can to get the manager to admit that he is wrong.

It is precisely because of these characteristics of the players that Chang Sheng chooses to continue to deceive the players on the training ground.

Otherwise, if it were someone else, I am afraid that I would not dare to make such a decision at all.

Because the consequences of this are not as simple as losing a game. It could also be a complete loss of trust from the players.

But because he can see the attributes of the players, he knows what kind of people they are.

Even so, Chang Sheng is not 100% sure that his strategy is correct.

Now, he still doesn't plan to solve the mystery.

He felt it was not yet time to confess the truth to the players.

He's going to look at the first half first.

So now he's still acting.

He didn't say a word. His brow furrowed and he looked very worried about the upcoming game.

will look like no confidence. It is vividly displayed.

Naturally, he fell into the eyes of the players.

Seeing that the game is about to start, the head coach is still like this. Although they don't quite understand why their manager is almost the same as before, it doesn't stop them from burning with fighting spirit.

The appearance of the head coach made them even more convinced that they must win against Celta in the game.

What about the First Division?

What about finishing eighth in the league?

No matter what difficulties you encounter in the game, you must beat them!

Twenty minutes later, the second round of the Copa del Rey began, which was not particularly important or high-profile.

The only surprise was that Getafe fielded a full squad for the game.

Getafe fans were amazed when they saw the line-up.

Previously, the media was overwhelmingly promoting that Chang Win would admit defeat in advance, so they all decided that Getafe would definitely have a full bench lineup for this game.

In fact, Chang Win took the initiative to admit defeat, which did not affect the perception of Getafe fans.

Chang Sheng has won the initial recognition of many Getafe fans through the final result of leading the team to relegation last season.

This season, because of the unexpectedly good results of the team, the fans of Getafe have become even more fanatical about his worship.

In the minds of many Getafe fans, the status of a winning man has surpassed everyone else at the top and bottom of the Getafe club.

No matter what decision Chang Sheng makes, he must have his reason and is right.

They don't have to discuss why they do it, they just have to wait for the final result.

If the winning is also a prestige show for the fans. Then it must be the worship of Mange.

When it comes to this matter, fans also believe that the decision to win is the right one.

After all, the difference in strength between the two sides is there.

Even if Getafe tried his best, he might not be able to beat Celta.

It also affects the team's results in the league.

Although the Copa del Rey is known as the "hotbed of underdogs", it is based on Getafe's current situation. But I don't even think about it.

Even if it is an upset, it is only a game or two, do they still think that Getafe can really win the Copa del Rey?

However, it is to be promoted to the first division, which is what Getafe fans are looking forward to the most.

The First Division, for Getafe fans, means another world.

It means that they have the opportunity to see the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid on their doorstep every year.

It means they can also go to football temples like the Bernabeu and Camp Nou to watch games.

This is what they have always dreamed of.

In comparison, the Copa del Rey is naturally not an urgent request.

So they don't think it's a shameful surrender to give up the Copa del Rey early, on the contrary. They think that Chang Sheng is calm and wise enough. Such a manager can give them more confidence.

Journalists and match commentators were surprised when they were given the starting line-up for the game two hours earlier, but their surprise was over.

When the game starts. Their attention was drawn to the game.

The commentator didn't even bother to lament Getafe's all-main lineup.

Because Celta is launching an onslaught against Getafe.

Even Getafe's substitutes are very proud.

It would be a shame to have to fight 90 minutes against a second-division team to decide the winner.

So Celta's players are going to get the match right from the start.

Be sure to score first.

After the first goal, they can play whatever they want.

I have to admit that Celta's strength is quite strong. Even if it is a substitute lineup, against Getafe's main lineup, it can also have an advantage.

However, Chang Sheng is not surprised by this.

He knew Celta's strength very well, otherwise why would he go to such great lengths? Players who do not hesitate to deceive themselves. At the risk of being betrayed.

In order to increase your chances of winning.

It's not that if he does that, he can beat Celta 100 per cent.

Not even 70 percent.

Maybe only forty percent.

But anyway. Forty percent is better than 10 percent......

Although at the time of the perennial crossing, Celta had not appeared in Spain's top flight for many years. They were relegated from the First Division in the 06/07 season. It was up and down in the second division until the end of the 2011/12 season, when it returned to the second division as the second place.

However, in the era where Changsheng is now, it is a glorious period for them.

In two seasons, Celta will reach their peak.

In the 2002/2003 season, Celta finished fourth in La Liga, qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in their history.

Of course, this brilliant achievement actually hides a murderous motive. Now that they have reached their peak, they will naturally begin to slide into the abyss.

In their second season, Celta struggled to cope with the two-pronged campaign, reaching a record round of 16 in the Champions League, but their performance in the Champions League dragged them down in the league, and in the end Celta finished 19th in the league in 2003/04, relegated to the second division.

One season later they came back to the kill.

But when they were relegated again in 2006/07, it wasn't so easy to come back.

Today's Celta team is full of masters, and it is far from being comparable to the Getafes.

It's no wonder that the media and fans are not optimistic about the winning teams.

What an international player and big names there are in Celta's main squad today.

For example, their goalkeeper is Pablo. Oscar. Caballero.

However, Roa, who performed well in the 1998 World Cup, was due to religious beliefs. And in 1999, he chose to retire, you must know that he was still at the peak of his career at that time......

Caballero thus became Argentina's main goalkeeper.

Chang Sheng also knows that in the 2002 World Cup, Caballero played all three games as Argentina's main goalkeeper.

However, Argentina under Bielsa, although they performed well in the South American qualifiers, did not even qualify for the group stage in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea......

Caballero's performance was also average.

But even in general, for today's Chang Sheng, that's a top goalkeeper. Fortunately. He was not in the starting line-up for this game.

Compared to the backline, Celta's attacking lineup is more famous.

They have Gustavo. López, Calpin, and Mostovoy, as well as McCarthy.

This offensive line is already a first-class level in La Liga.

At that time in the Argentine national team. There are two López who are very famous, one is Claudio who has the title of "flea". López, the other one is Gustavo. López too. As an Argentina international, although he did not play in the World Cup in '98, he has also made 31 national team appearances.

At the 2002 World Cup. He was named in Argentina's final 23-man squad against Solari, who was Real Madrid's left-sided mainstay at the time.

He was sharp on the left and his assists were accurate. Of course, thankfully. He also did not appear in the starting line-up for this game.

"Tsar" Mostovoy is a representative of football in the former Soviet Union. Excellent technique and excellent midfield command. It is the main core of Celta. He is also the captain of Celta. At the turn of the century, Celta was a new force in La Liga, and Mostovoy played a major role. Of course, although he is thirty-one years old, Mostovoy is still the absolute main force of Celta, the soul of the midfield, so in this game, as the main force, he naturally did not appear in the starting lineup.

Karpin is also an excellent player cultivated by the former Soviet football system like Mostovoy, with solid skills, accurate crosses, and good at moving on the wing, but he can also play a cameo role in the central playmaking attack, so he has a large range of activities and is a versatile player in the frontcourt. He and Mostovoy are old friends, and the two were teammates when they played for Spartak Moscow. Now in Celta, they are fighting side by side, and their tacit cooperation is the main contributor to Celta's outstanding achievements in recent years.

But now he and Mostovoy are in a different situation. Also thirty-one, Mostovoy is still the main player of the team, but he has been reduced to a substitute.

Just last December, the dust finally settled on the high-profile "Karpin case", Calpin won the lawsuit against the Spanish Football Federation, and as a Russian player, he will enjoy the same treatment as other EU players, without having to be unavailable due to the limitation of three non-EU players.

Before that, though, he was a substitute for Celta.

This means that he will play as a starter in this Copa del Rey game......

South African shooter Benny. McCarthy was bought by Celta Vigo from Ajax for six million euros, setting a record for the value of a South African player at the time. He made 31 appearances last season and scored only eight goals, which is not very good for his transfer to Celta Vigo in terms of only 19 appearances at Ajax last season, and he scored 11 goals, so he has also been reduced to a substitute this season, making only seven appearances and not scoring a single goal so far.

He also started the Copa del Rey match against Getafe.

In addition, the starting goalkeeper of this game, who is also the usual substitute goalkeeper, is also famous.

That's Barcelona's substitute goalkeeper Pinto! That whistle dude......

Now he is only 24 years old and plays as a substitute for Caballero at Celta Vigo.

Just looking at such a lineup, you can see why Chang Sheng went to great lengths to lower the vigilance of the opposing head coach and send substitutes to play.

Even so, the Celta substitute squad that Getafe will face is still strong......

The situation can be described as serious, but if Chang Sheng does not use those means, the situation is "very serious".

Now that the word "very" has finally been removed, it can be regarded as an increase in the winning rate......