Chapter 187: Six Balls and Six Points
After Valencia played their first Champions League game against Liverpool, the Spanish media were full of praise. Although Chang Sheng is not very popular among the Spanish media, it is only a contradiction among the people after all. You can do whatever you want behind closed doors. Playing the Champions League is a foreign war, and each team represents the image of Spanish football as a country.
Therefore, when fighting the European war, the Spanish media still has to be unanimous with the outside world.
Valencia played beautifully, beating Liverpool by three goals, which really deserves to be written about and praised.
And the media in England were in mourning.
They didn't expect the mighty Liverpool to lose so cleanly away from home.
Some of the English media thought it might be a tough game, but they felt it shouldn't be a problem to win.
I didn't expect not only did I not win, but I also lost so badly and lost so easily. Anyone who watched the game would have thought that Liverpool's loss was justified and that they simply didn't have a chance in the game.
After the game, the media in England discussed not only Liverpool's defeat, but also Valencia's tactics. However, their discussion was very limited, after all, the overall tactical literacy of English football is not high, and it has something to do with the fact that everyone is not interested in tactics.
However, Valencia's novel tactics still caught the attention of many people.
They had seen Valencia's tactics elsewhere before, but they didn't know much about it after all. This game gave these Englishmen the most intuitive feeling.
Some people of insight in English football even exclaimed: It turns out that football on the European continent has evolved to this point!
Actually, they overthought it...... Valencia football is not representative of European football at all. Valencia is ahead not just for England, but for all of Europe by at least six years.
The Chinese media also paid close attention to the match.
Because it's the Champions League. In the minds of Chinese media and fans, the Champions League is supreme, second only to the World Cup. The results achieved in La Liga are not as important as the results achieved in the Champions League.
The team led by Chang Sheng was able to beat Liverpool 3-0 in the Champions League, much to the delight of many Chinese fans.
Especially after the "Today's Morning Post" published a full-page interview with Chang Sheng's reporter from this newspaper, through this interview, many Chinese fans have learned a more real Chang Sheng, although the confidence is still incomplete, but it is better than the news heard from other media. Those media stuff about winning. Either it's hearsay, patchwork, or it's just nonsense.
Through this interview, many fans realized that what they knew before was always won after the media fabricated and smeared it. A real Chang Sheng is like what the reporter named Ji Leng wrote in his interview notes.
It should be a "humorous and funny, but also very serious and serious." has its own bottom line that cannot be violated. A principled, conscientious, ordinary person with a dull life, no different from everyone around us, except for his talent and ability in football coaching. Any smear and excessive hype is unnecessary......"
Previously, on the Internet, the evaluation of Chang Sheng by Chinese fans was very divided, and everyone admitted that he had two brushes in coaching the team, but also felt a headache about Chang Sheng's poor personal image.
Now, they are finally relieved - it turns out that it is not Changsheng's personal image is bad. It's because the media are deliberately smearing.
In this way, when they cheer for the victory of the victory, they will become at ease, and they will not always feel that there is something wrong with the person's character when they are cheering for the victory in their reign as before......
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After this Champions League match. "Today's Morning Post" is also ready to sign a contract, intending to take advantage of the constant win to lead the team to win the first victory in the Champions League, and then
This matter was announced when they first published the interview. There has been an uproar in China's domestic media circles.
Everyone didn't expect that the fact that "Today's Morning Post", which is not a professional sports newspaper, was able to get a winning interview was surprising enough. I didn't expect them to go further. It has become the official cooperative media authorized by Changsheng......
What can they do?
Other media outlets have analyzed the reasons for Chang Sheng's decision from various angles, from the influence of Today Morning Post in the Yangtze River Delta region, from the scale of Today Morning Post, and from the background of the group behind Today Morning Post...... Analyse. But no one could have imagined that the person who played a key role in this matter was an ordinary young reporter.
After the preparations and publicity were completed, the leadership of the "Today Morning Post" flew to Valencia to participate in the signing ceremony, which fully demonstrated the importance they attach to this matter - this is the hot era of Chinese football, and they have also tasted the sweetness of cooperation with Chang Sheng from previous interviews.
The signing ceremony invited all the sub-media of the group to which Today Morning Post belongs, as well as some other media that have a good relationship with Today's Morning Post. There were even two Valencian media outlets who came to join in the fun, giving the "Today Morning Post" a lot of face.
The two parties sign a contract under the lens and flash of the camera, and the contract is valid for one year.
In the past year, "Today's Morning Post" has been the spokesperson of Chang Sheng in China.
If the two parties cooperate happily, then the contract can be continued after one year.
At the signing ceremony, Ji Leng, as Chang Sheng's exclusive reporter, also appeared in front of the camera.
The newspaper leader patted him on the shoulder to thank him for his efforts and encouraged him to keep up his efforts and work hard, and the next day it was sent back to the editorial office in China.
aroused the envy of many people, thinking why didn't he go to Valencia to interview Chang Sheng in the first place? Otherwise, it's your turn to be in the limelight now......
As for how the editor-in-chief Wang feels...... No one cares anymore.
In addition, taking the opportunity of signing a contract with "Today's Morning Post", Chang Sheng finally opened the ban on interviews with Chinese journalists, and he clearly told the media at the press conference that anyone can now come to interview him, and he will never refuse their interviews for no reason.
But.
But the journalists of Sports Weekly are still excluded.
As long as it is an interview with Sports Weekly, he refuses it all.
He is the person who pays the most attention to the traditional virtues of doing what he says. He said that he would ban "Sports Weekly", and he wanted "Sports Weekly" to regret it all the time.
It is not uncommon for him to see if "Sports Weekly" is the largest professional sports newspaper in China.
If he is unhappy for a while, he will make the other party unhappy forever.
For Sports Weekly, when Chang Sheng first announced a ban on interviews with all Chinese media, they felt that it didn't matter, because no one could interview them, so they didn't feel deeply.
But now, when all the Chinese media can interview Chang Sheng. But only when they can't, this huge gap is revealed, and "Sports Weekly" finally feels the power of Changsheng's "walking the talk".
The so-called does not suffer from poverty, but suffers from inequality.
Everybody can, but not Sports Weekly. They were sidelined, they were left out in the cold. They have been treated unfairly.
But so what?
Who is Chang Sheng willing to be interviewed with? I don't want to be interviewed by anyone, this matter is completely up to Chang Sheng. No one can control it, not even the Central Propaganda Department. In other words, if Chang Sheng doesn't change his mind, "Sports Weekly" will always be treated differently.
For the first time, they began to seriously reflect and regret how they had offended such a plague god in the first place......
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In the third round of the league, considering that there was a flight to Moscow in midweek to participate in the Champions League group stage, the winning game continued to rotate, and most of them were substitutes.
In the end, Valencia drew 2-2 away from Malaga.
Despite not winning, their unbeaten run continues. They are now unbeaten in 41 league games.
Finish this game. The team had a day off, and then the next day the whole team had finished training and flew to Moscow.
They arrived there early, partly to acclimatize to the venue, but mainly to reverse jet lag.
Playing away games in Russia is not the same as playing in other European regions because it is too far away. If you don't fall jet lag. The players get tired, get tired easily, and they can't get out of shape.
Away against Spartak Moscow, Valencia tactics remain the same.
Chang Sheng believes that Valencia's mad dog tactics are now basically mature and can be achieved to the point of adapting to all changes with the same.
Anyway, the team's tactics are ahead of this era, and there is no need to worry about being studied by the other side for a while. Even later, Barcelona was so arrogant. Countless teams have studied how to break them, and the results are not very few?
The game against Liverpool proved the power of the mad dog tactic, and against Spartak Moscow, he did not plan to change tactics when he won constantly.
That's it. Valencia, the mad dog, who played with the main force, won another 3:0 away from home.
Neat!
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a brace in the game and put in an excellent performance.
Spartak Moscow coach Romantsev said in an interview after the match that his team was completely stunned by Valencia.
"They're just passing the ball on the pitch...... We can't do anything about it, bang and then we lose......"
The head coach shook his head, looking helpless.
"That's football, even though we have home advantage, the opponent is too much better than us......"
After the results of the original draw came out, Chang Sheng said that they had drawn a good lot. At that time, Romantsev was still very unconvinced, saying that he was not afraid of any champions, because they were the champions of Russia.
But now he doesn't talk about it at all.
The Champions League group stage has been played 3-0 in two games, scoring six goals, not conceding a goal, and accumulating six points, Valencia has taken the lead in this group.
The situation was clear, and he was in a good mood to win, and he announced that although there was a league game at the weekend, the whole team could still take a day off.
His decision was hailed by heartfelt cheers from the players.
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When Chang Sheng walked out of the airport with the whole Valencia team, he was warmly welcomed by the Valencia fans who had been waiting here for a long time.
Valencia fans were delighted to win both of their Champions League group games, scoring six goals and conceding a goal, and they flocked to the airport to welcome the triumphant warriors.
The players also enjoyed the feeling of interacting with the fans.
This time, though, they're not the only protagonists.
There have been times when the momentum of Valencia fans has been suppressed.
Not long after they stepped out of the exit, the Valencia players suddenly heard a scream from the other side, mostly girls and boys.
The screams even drowned out the cheers and wins that Valencia fans gave to the Valencia team.
Everyone turned their heads to look at the past.
I saw a group of young boys and girls dressed in rebellious clothes gathered at another pick-up gate, holding up all kinds of posters and slogans, waving their arms vigorously, and all kinds of screams coming out of their mouths. If you can listen intently, you will hear that they are actually calling a person's name.
When someone comes out of the exit, they get even crazier.
"Lavigny! Lavigny. Avril!! Avril! Avril!! We love you, Avril!! ”
These teenagers completely stole the limelight from the Valencia players, and the Valencia fans who were suppressed couldn't make a single sound......
"Wow, the Star Chasers are crazy!" Next to Rudy. Gonzalez couldn't help but grin after being startled by the screams of the teenagers.
"It's good to be young......"
Chang Sheng turned his head to look over, and he saw a petite figure in the crack. In fact, he wasn't sure if it was her, but the colorful hair made Chang Sheng think it should be her.
As she said on the phone, Avril came to Valencia to promote her new record, as well as ...... Birthday.