The gym is located on the top floor of the hotel, which may have been specially designed to allow exercisers to enjoy the night view of the city of Milan during their breaks.

The entire top floor is reserved for the gym, which also includes a small section of the sky garden.

The gym is dimly lit, the wallpaper on the walls has a heavy metal feel, there is groundwater flowing through the corridor, and there are some low bamboos inserted on both sides of the wooden corridor.

On both sides of the corridor are the strength area and the heart and lung area, and all kinds of equipment are stacked neatly. There is a small counter next to the heart and lung area, where there are free energy drinks and fitness supplements such as protein powder.

There is also a bar in the sky garden outside the gym with colorful wine glasses.

It's just after dinner time, and many travelers choose to have a drink here and enjoy the evening breeze in the Apennines.

"Here... It's not like a gym at all. Sun Xiang couldn't believe that the place in front of him was actually a gym.

"Haha, who called this a high-end hotel, you must know that the people who come to live here are people with heads and faces, plus Europeans themselves have a lot of fitness, they pay more attention to their own image, so of course the gym here has to be very advanced." Zhang Yuning explained to Sun Xiang.

"That's great..."Sun Xiang didn't seem to have enough of it.

"Alright, don't look at it! Hurry up, let's go run for a while and warm up. Oops, don't look at it! ”

“......”

For two hours, they basically practiced all the usual training in the gym, but the amount was reduced by half on the original basis, after all, there was still serious training waiting for them the next day, and now that they practiced coolly, tomorrow would be enough for them.

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Early the next morning, Sun Xiang followed the national team's bus to a natural football stadium located on the outskirts of Milan. The quality of the turf here seems to be very good, and it looks like it is the result of regular maintenance.

The first training session with the national team was mainly about passing and tacit understanding. Because the Chinese Super League has already started, there is no need to spend a lot of time on physical training, but more about cultivating teamwork and tactical awareness.

The beginning is a warm-up, and March in Italy is not so warm, and it is easy to get an unnecessary injury such as a strain without an adequate warm-up. Jogging and leg presses and gun hoopings are things that every club does, and the players are no strangers to them.

After the warm-up, Lippi divided the players into two teams, assigned them according to their familiar positions, and let everyone play a half-hour match.

The main purpose of this matchup is to examine the specific characteristics of the players, so that Lippi himself can provide an effective data analysis in determining the starting line-up.

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At the beginning of the game, the green side led by Zhang Yuning took the lead.

The Green winger is a typical No.11 player, and his sharp breakaways leave the Red team's defence with little to do with him.

When he broke through to the bottom line, he crossed directly, and Zhang Yuning in the penalty area fought for a header, and the strong waist and abdomen strength made his header full of strength. The goalkeeper saved the ball, but he couldn't change the outcome of the goal.

1:0, the confrontation has only started for 2 minutes.

"Marcheno, what do you think of the green winger?" The assistant coach asked.

Lippi stared at the player who stepped forward to celebrate with Zhang Yuning, and then said with a little meaning: "Who knows, the game has just begun." ”

He always felt that there was a little bit of a problem with this player and that he needed time to check it.

"Mine my! Didn't look at him, my pot! Zhang Le raised his hand in the backcourt.

Zhang Le played as the right wing-back of the red team, which happened to be opposite the winger of the green team. Zhang Le was really careless in the defense just now, I didn't expect him to be so flexible.

He would never let him go next time, he said to himself.

Five minutes later, the red team equalised.

Zhang Le and Sun Xiang played a one-two, and then Zhang Le stuffed the ball straight to find his own striker who was ambushed on the back line.

The striker was small and not tall, but he was fast. Zhang Le's through ball speed was a little fast, but he was still caught up.

"This is Aubameyang Jr." The defenders muttered inwardly.

His speed was so fast that he couldn't even control himself.

"Marcheno, look at this ......"

"It's fast, but the combination of man and ball is a problem, and if this problem is not solved, it's useless to have a speed." Lippi responded immediately.

In this national team's 23-man squad, only a few people were hand-picked by Lippi, and the rest were young and talented players recommended by the club itself but could not play.

And this striker is clearly not in the scope of Lippi's scrutiny.

In the blink of an eye, the striker was already in the box with the ball.

"Stop him! Can't let him go any further! The Green goalkeeper shouted. But then he found that no one replied to him, because he was left far behind by this striker.

"Damn it!" The goalkeeper cursed in his heart and then struck before he could touch the ball the next time.

Like an arrow off the string, it's just as fast.

It was clear that the striker was intimidated by the goalkeeper's speed and his next touch was all at once.

In the face of the striker's mistake, the goalkeeper clearly did not miss it, and a sliding tackle on the ground scooped the ball out.

"Huh~" The red player hugged his head and let out a regretful sound, this is a good opportunity to equalize.

The striker, who was taken in the way, got up from the ground and asked the referee for a penalty.

The fitness coach who was the referee on the occasion shook his head and there was no penalty.

Lippi nodded in relief, he was satisfied with the goalkeeper's performance.

His name is Zhu Yan and he is from Luneng Youth Training.

At that time, Zhu Yan was known as "Little Neuer" in the youth training, and as a goalkeeper, his defensive area was far larger than the scope of the penalty area.

The coverage is large, and the success rate of the attack is very high, which is also the key reason why Luneng U18 has been able to win the U18 group championship for a long time.

So, even though his height is a disadvantage among goalkeepers, Lippi still brought him here by name.

Zhu Yan's attack just now made Lippi believe that his choice was not wrong.

However, even if Lippi is calm there, there is no guarantee that there will be no choppy waves on the field.

Although Zhu Yan's tackle shoveled the ball away from the danger zone, the goal in a vacuum made the whole court another danger zone.

And Sun Xiang stood in the center of the danger zone.

He didn't go any further after seeing the goalkeeper attack, thinking that maybe this was the end of the attack, and the ball might go out of the touchline.

I might as well get back to my position and defend.

"Sun Xiang! Behind you! Zhang Le, who was returning to the defense, shouted at Sun Xiang.

Sun Xiang was stunned for a moment, then turned around to look, just in time to see the ball falling in front of him.

Out of instinct, Sun Xiang did not hesitate to face the falling ball.

The ball spun upwards at first, but suddenly dropped when it reached the penalty line!

Deciduous balls?!

The crowd exclaimed.

Without any interference, Zhu Yan didn't even have time to make any moves, and the net in front of him set off white waves.