That evening, the second semi-final was over, and Getafe's opponent in the final was revealed.

It's not a giant, but it's not weak, it's Mallorca.

If you look at this season alone, maybe Mallorca's strength is still above Barcelona.

First of all, they are higher in the league than Barcelona, they are third in the league and fourth in the Barcelona league.

Secondly, they have played Barcelona twice in the league and have not lost. In the first leg, they beat Barcelona cleanly 2-0 at home. In the second leg, they drew 1-1 at Barcelona at Camp Nou.

With such a performance, it can be seen that their strength is there.

So they beat Barcelona in the semi-finals, and it wasn't an upset.

It is the result of a normal balance of strength.

Although Barcelona are giants, their performance this season is really not flattering.

At the end of last season, Louis van Gaal left in anger. It's not just that he left the company, and he also broke out a scandal of internal strife in Barcelona at the press conference of his departure.

He slammed Barcelona's players for having no quality to speak of and simply not capable of achieving good results.

Since then, Barcelona has fallen into a low ebb and begun to sink.

This is also known to Chang Sheng.

Maybe he doesn't know the details of Zaragoza, but he knows the trajectory of Barcelona every season. Who makes Barcelona a big club and more tolerant of attracting attention?

Barcelona finished fourth in the league this season. Until the final round of the league, they were struggling for a Champions League spot.

For the giants Barcelona. It's a rare thing.

And Barcelona, the second-most successful team in the history of Spanish football, to fight for a Champions League place is a failure in itself. But they can't help but fight. Otherwise, there really is nothing left of the season.

In the final round of the league, Barcelona host Valencia, direct rivals for next season's Champions League spot.

It may not have been the best game of a season for Barcelona, but it was definitely Rivaldo's best game of the season, and even the masterpiece of his career. He scored a hat-trick in that game, saving Barcelona alone, free-kicks, long-range shots, barbs, like textbooks. He showed all the scoring methods he does best.

Especially in stoppage time, his wonderful upside-down golden hook on the line of the penalty area directly sent Barcelona to the Champions League next season. For a long time, the foot barb was considered a classic among barbs.

It's just that Vardo's bravery in this game could not completely save the team's fate.

Barcelona's performance has not improved since then.

Until 2003. After the new president Joan Laporta came to power, Barcelona ushered in a nirvana rebirth.

Now...... They're still in a mess.

It was no surprise that they were knocked out of the Copa del Rey semi-finals by Mallorca.

They would have had the opportunity to salvage their season with a Copa del Rey title.

Now, they've given up that golden opportunity to Mallorca......

But. Is Mallorca really cheaper?

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No one knew that Chang Sheng ran to meet Jonathan during this day's vacation, not even Carlos. Mediano. Pedrosa doesn't know, and the players don't know.

When the team resumed training the next day, Chang Sheng gathered everyone before training. Not only the players, but also the coaches and team doctors were called. Everyone formed a big circle on the lawn of the training ground. Always win in the middle.

He had something to say to these people.

He patted his chest in front of Jonathan and promised to win the championship, but he really won it. It's not as simple as saying a few words.

From now on, he has to unify the thinking of the whole team, whether it is the players or the staff, everyone must be united, think together, work together, only then can they have the possibility of winning the championship.

So the most important thing before training is this thing - unify your mind.

Standing in the courtyard, he kept turning around, looking at everyone, and then he said, "We have only one last game left in this great season." Yes, this season has been great, it's been amazing, it's all us. We came out of the economic crisis and with 10 rounds of league promotion and 13 rounds of league title when everyone was not optimistic. And then we've beaten it out of hundreds of teams to reach the final of the Copa del Rey. ”

"Has anyone ever thought of such a fantastic season before?"

He asked.

No one answered him, because there was no need to answer – no one could have imagined that they would have such a great season.

"But right now, this great season is not complete enough. Because there is one last final left. It's only complete when we get the Copa del Rey back from the Pizjuán Stadium. We had strong opponents, with Mallorca finishing third in the First Division this season and beating a number of strong teams, including Barcelona. For us, Mallorca is a tall windmill that straddles our path, looking down on us with disdainful eyes, waiting for us to retreat and return the way we came. ”

Chang Sheng raised his hand and drew a circle. "Now we do have to turn and go back, but not to go back the way we came. We are here to distance ourselves and then ...... Charge! ”

"Remember what I said? With four rounds left in the league, we launched a charge that seemed impossible to win in the eyes of others. But we won. The windmill that looked so powerful was nothing more than that, and we won. So in the final of the Copa del Rey, we had another windmill in front of us that looked powerful. Then keep charging! Maybe the windmill that looks so powerful will be swept away by us this time? A lot of people think it's a miracle if we were to beat Mallorca. Then we'll perform a miracle for them! ”

Carlos. Campo cried out, "But I haven't heard anyone say that, Boss......"

Chang Sheng waited angrily for this kid who jumped out and smashed the field: "Soon there will be!" Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, when you're done. Go home and turn on the TV, and you'll be able to see something like this! ”

He was absolutely sure.

Because he knows what the media thinks.

Just because Getafe can beat Zaragoza doesn't mean they can beat Mallorca.

"I'm willing to bet the whole world won't look on us, no matter how many incredible things we've done and how many great opponents we've won't beat. None of them were convincing before this game. Because this is the final of the Copa del Rey, there is no place for Mallorca to be underestimated. In this case, how can we defeat an opponent who is much stronger than us in absolute strength? So it's normal for them not to be optimistic about us. ”

"But we are going to defeat such a formidable enemy. It's simple – we're all in the finals, we've gone through so many hardships and beaten so many opponents. Is it just to come to the final and win the runner-up? No, you can win the championship, no one likes to be the runner-up. I don't like runners, I even hate runners, if you have to fail. I'd rather lose at the start than lose at the finish line! So this game, no matter how strong the opponent is, we have to win. Everyone, only think about the champion! ”

"Think about what I'm saying. Then train! ”

To win this game, of course, it is not as simple as saying a few nice words like just now.

It has to be meticulous enough. And targeted preparation, which is training.

But before training, as a head coach, he has to know which direction to train in.

To study the opponent.

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To study the opponent, you must first study the opponent's head coach, because a team's tactical style, playing style characteristics, and team personality style will be deeply influenced by the head coach and will obviously bear the imprint of a head coach.

So when you know the head coach of a team, you know the team.

Mallorca's head coach is Jose. Louis. Aragonés. Suarez.

The name was so long that people generally called him "Louis." Aragonés".

Chang Sheng is definitely no stranger to this name.

Of course, people today are familiar with this name.

In the previous life, Chang Sheng knew more about Aragonés from Euro 2008.

In that tournament, the veteran coach Aragonés led the Spanish national team all the way to the Delaunay Cup, achieving their second European Cup title in history.

But in fact, before he became the coach of the Spanish champion, he was already well-known in Spain, otherwise the Spanish Football Federation would not have chosen him to take over Seth as the coach of the national team.

Being in Spain, it's easy to get to know the king of Aragonese.

As a player, Aragonés was a famous player at Atletico Madrid.

However, he started as a member of Getafe, who 195758 and now are not a single Getafe, which was formed by the merger of many teams.

It can also be said that Aragonés has little to do with today's Getafe.

He spent a year in Getafe before being signed by Real Madrid, but until he left he was not able to break into Real Madrid's first team and was sent on loan.

He then moved to Oviedo, where he played for the first time in the first division.

A season later, he moved to Real Betis with four goals in thirteen games. From 196164, he made 86 appearances in three seasons and scored 33 goals.

The performance is getting better and better, and he is eyed by Atletico Madrid.

He played for 10 years at Atletico Madrid, scoring 172 goals in 372 appearances, including 123 goals in 265 league appearances.

As a player, he won three league titles for Atletico Madrid and a Copa del Rey.

He also came close to helping Atletico Madrid win their first Champions League trophy in the club's history. In the 1974 Champions League final, Atletico Madrid faced Bayern Munich at the Heysel Arena in Belgium. He gave his team the lead with a free-kick in the final. But a minute later, Bayern Munich equalised and the game was dragged into extra time. In extra time, Bayern Munich scored four goals. Defeated Atletico Madrid with an aggregate score of 5:1.

Atletico Madrid missed out on their Champions League honours.

He then announced his retirement and immediately became the head coach of Atletico Madrid, when he was only thirty-five years old.

As a coach, he also has a good track record. Especially in the early stages.

He won the Intercontinental Cup with Atletico Madrid as soon as he took over, and then won La Liga for Atletico Madrid in the 197677 season. At that time, Atletico Madrid had only won a total of eight La Liga titles, and Aragonés had won four for Atletico Madrid when he was a player and a coach. It accounts for half of the team's total championships. It can be said that Atletico Madrid can become the third largest team in Spain, and Aragonés's contribution is huge.

So until now, Atletico Madrid fans love him, and he himself has always regarded Atletico Madrid as his favorite team.

One thing may prove it.

Just the following season. Aragonés will leave Mallorca, where he has managed a stellar record, to move to Atletico Madrid, who are struggling in the second division. Then it took him a season to pull Atletico Madrid out of the mire of the second division.

So there can be no doubt about his feelings for Atletico Madrid.

As head coach, he managed Atletico Madrid four times. Brought Atletico Madrid a Serie A title and three Copa del Rey titles. An Intercontinental Cup, a Spanish Super Cup, an Iberian Cup, in addition to a second division title that has yet to be born.

He then moved on to coach a number of Spanish clubs. Including Real Betis, Barcelona, Espanyol, Sevilla, Valencia, Real Oviedo, Mallorca, ......

He is currently in charge of Mallorca.

This season, Mallorca ended up third in the league under his leadership. Beat Barcelona.

However, after he left Atletico Madrid, he was in the other teams in general. Nothing to do.

It was just a Copa del Rey title in Barcelona.

In terms of individual honours, the season in which he led Atletico Madrid to the league title, he won the award by the Spanish Don Brown. Baron was awarded the Season Don. Baron Best Coach Award.

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Aragonés has coached a number of teams and his style is a bit more hodgepodge. Although his tactics for the Spanish national team in the future are impressive, they are not yet at the point of being a master at this time.

He is better at watching the food fall, that is, he develops his own tactics according to different players.

It's not static, and sticking to one tactic doesn't know how to change.

This earned him the nickname: "The Wise Man of Odalesa".

Mallorca's tactics this season are somewhat similar to those of the regular winners at Getafe.

It is a defensive counterattack, a strict defense in the backcourt, and a quick counterattack in the frontcourt relies on the small cooperation of several people.

Defensive counterattacks are not uncommon in Spanish football, but they are not mainstream, but there are still very few desperate counterattacks that are as ugly and ugly as Chang Win and achieve the ultimate in stubborn counterattacks. Getafe's original defensive counterattack was completely focused on the result, completely ignoring the process, and even if he won, it would give people the feeling of "this kid has gone shit luck again".

Defensively, Aragonés is not as thorough as the perennial winners, and offensively not as imaginative as the perennial Getafe.

He relied more on Samuel Eto'o's sprints and Luke's playmaking.

Since Mallorca is a defensive counterattack, and the specific tactics are somewhat similar to Getafe's defensive counterattack, what will be the result if they still insist on counterattacking with defense?

Chang Sheng simulates the game in his head.

Then he found out that the game would be ugly. Because both sides defended and counterattacked, and no one was willing to take the initiative to attack, there were really no bright spots in this game.

At the same time, because everyone is defending and counterattacking, they will be familiar with each other.

Basically, there is nothing new in it, it is to fight the hard power of the two teams in each position, to see who is stronger and plays better.

Of course, it is necessary to be more patient and shameless.

On patience and shamelessness. Chang Sheng felt that he should be far superior to Aragonés. But in terms of hard power, his Getafe may not be as good as Mallorca.

A very simple comparison, can his Getafe finish third in La Liga this season? He thinks it's hard.

But Mallorca of Aragonés did it. And Mallorca's performance in the first half of the season was also mediocre. They are the back-to-back forces.

In the end, they finished third in the league with a lead of eight points ahead of fourth-place Barcelona.

So if everyone uses defense to counterattack, Chang Sheng feels that the win rate is very low.

He knows Mallorca's tactics, and Aragonés must know his tactics, he knows very, very well, maybe by this time he has broken up his tactics and crumpled and analyzed.

If you want to play in front of the "wise man of Odalesa", I am afraid it will be difficult for me to play in front of my own defensive counterattack.

Only by surprise can there be a glimmer of life.

But how can you think of targeting. And at the same time, what about new and surprising tactics?

This has to start with the analysis of the opposing team.

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After analyzing the opposing manager, let's analyze the team.

Mallorca have been very good this season, especially in the second half of the season.

It has a lot to do with their players.

Because Aragonés is a manager who is very good at using the players he has to make tactical arrangements.

Look at these players in Mallorca right now.

The striker is the quick-paced Samuel Eto'o, who Mallorca bought out half of the ownership from Real Madrid this season. Mallorca shares with Real Madrid.

Samuel Eto'o's speed is his greatest trait, and he has shown it in the counter-attacking tactics that Aragonés has tailored for him.

The man who partnered with Eto'o was Luke.

The player and Luis. Garcia also came through Barcelona's La Masia academy, but he didn't get the opportunity from Barcelona until he was 20 years old. I had to leave and came to Mallorca.

On loan at Mallorca, he got twenty-three appearances and scored three goals. He performed well and Mallorca gave him a chance in the first team this season. to replace Diego, who moved to Deportivo La Coruna this season. Tristan.

He has been the team's main striker this season, scoring nine goals. He is the second leading scorer within the team. Second only to Samuel Eto'o, who scored eleven goals.

In midfield, Argentine Ibaghasa is the striker, responsible for organizing the attack, although he is not well-known in international football, but in Spain, he is definitely a first-class player, and at only 23 years old, he is the absolute main force of Mallorca.

In Yugoslavia international Jovan. After Stankovic moved on loan to Marseille, he was a key player in Mallorca's attacking playmaking. He has scored 10 goals in 34 league appearances this season.

Finity. George, a Nigerian international and one of the founders of the Ajax dynasty, now plays on the right side of the midfield for Mallorca. Thirty-one league appearances and five goals.

On the left is Álvaro. Novo, who was in Mallorca B last season, has also been promoted to the first team this season and has taken the starting position. Thirty-four league games, three goals scored.

Plus a midfielder Ngonga. Descended from Equatorial Guineans, it has good physical fitness and strong attacking power. He was the first black international in the history of the Spanish national team and played in the 2000 European Championships. Thirty-one appearances this season, with an unprecedented two goals. He had never scored for Mallorca before......

There are a number of veterans at the back, with only centre-back Fernando being the only one in charge. Nino was younger, twenty-six years old.

The man who partnered with him is a famous person, the central defender of the Spanish national team, Nadal. He made his debut in Mallorca and moved to Barcelona and became Barcelona's main central defender. Now at the age of thirty-four, he returned to his hometown team at the end of his career and intends to retire here.

He has a nephew who will be famous in the future and will be more famous than him - Raphael. Rafael Nadal, Spain's greatest tennis player.

Uncle is a Barcelona centre-back. The nephew is a die-hard Real Madrid fan.

Right-back, 30-year-old Javier. Olesola, who played for Mallorca for six seasons, has been Mallorca's main right-back.

The left-back is 36-year-old Mikel. Soler. Despite his age, he is indeed Mallorca's main left-back, with a lot of experience and a record of eight international games. He played for Barcelona for many years and was a regular player. He is also the only player in Spanish history to have played for both Madrid and Barcelona.

In the goalkeeper line-up, Mallorca prefer the Argentine.

All three of their goalkeepers are Argentine!

The main goalkeeper is the young Leao. Franco, who quickly became Mallorca's main goalkeeper after the former main goalkeeper Roa ran back to Argentina to avoid the end of the world due to religious issues. And he's only twenty-three years old now.

Both of the backup goalkeepers were Argentina internationals. Roa was the Argentine national team's first-choice goalkeeper at the 1998 World Cup, making a name for himself for successfully stopping England in a penalty shootout.

Many people think that the future of his career is smooth, but it is because of religion. Roa gave up football halfway through. Roa is a believer in the "Christ of the Seventh Day", and according to the doctrine, Roa can only participate in training and matches every Saturday after the sun has set, and many matches in La Liga are played on Saturdays, which caused him a lot of trouble. In addition, he believed in the end of the world, and in order to avoid the end, he announced his retirement at the peak of his career and returned to Argentina. Spend the apocalypse in the mountains and old forests. But the end of the world has not come, but he always has to survive. So he returned to Mallorca.

Originally, he was still the main player this season. However, because of injury, I didn't play a few games. It made Franco the main force again.

Another substitute goalkeeper, Boggs, is also an Argentine international, but as a substitute. Boggs, who has long hair, has been complained about more than once that his goalkeeping ability is not as good as his ability to sing rock 'n' roll. Radio Marca has a feature that only three of the 20 coaches in La Liga are willing to use Boggs, for the simple reason that Argentines may be better suited to rock 'n' roll than goalkeepers.

Later, he became the main goalkeeper of the Argentine national team, and was deeply trusted by Bielsa in the World Cup qualifiers in Japan and South Korea. But the strange thing is that in the end at the World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the main goalkeeper of the Argentine national team became Caballero.

Such a team is Mallorca's basic main lineup.

There were also some good substitutes.

For example, Francisco in the midfield position. Soler, an old courtier of Mallorca, has been playing for Mallorca since his debut. Now in his 11th year in the first team. Twenty-two appearances this season and was an excellent substitute for Ngonga.

There is also Spain international Armando at right-back, who is also an excellent substitute.

In addition to the central defender position, Gustavo. Leonel. Civiero has always been a regular centre-back and was a regular when Mallorca finished runners-up in the Cup Winners' Cup. However, this season he has slipped due to injuries and other reasons, and has become a substitute. But the experience is rich, and the strength is still there.

Such a team, with excellent players, experienced managers and a tradition of counter-attacking – they almost knocked out Lazio in the Cup Winners' Cup final, relying on counter-attacks.

It can be said that it is a very difficult opponent to deal with.

But he must win, because he said that he must show miracles.

How to win?

After learning about Mallorca's tactics and the team's situation, Chang Sheng was even more determined to not be able to use defensive counter-attacks against this team.

If you don't use what you do best, what do you use to counter-attack?

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ps, the addition of the 3480 monthly ticket has been delivered, I just watched the national team's game, and I killed Iraq at the last moment!

When I took the corner, I was still thinking, "The Chinese team needs a hero, who can stand up?" And then it's lore!

Winning is not pretty, not exciting, not convincing...... But none of that matters, the important thing is that we won. Look at the painful and desperate expressions of the Iraqi players when they conceded a goal, and that's the difference between victory and defeat.

If you can be a winner, you should never be a loser!

This game still exposed many problems of the Chinese team, but that is something that the Chinese team's coaching staff should consider.

And we, ordinary fans, don't need to pretend to be deep and just enjoy the victory in this game.

For this lore, add more! ……)

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