After the day's training, the media blocked every Chinese team player at the gate of the training ground, and they wanted to inquire about the results of Zhou Yi and the team's joint training through all means, whether it was good or bad?

While they could have guessed by the laughter coming from the training ground, it was ultimately their speculation, and there was no real evidence.

They want to know the right answer from the player or the coach.

Of course, he practiced with us...... It feels good, I can't tell it's the first time he's practicing together......"

"We were all stunned, Zhou Yi's adaptability was amazing......

"Today's training was a success......

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The answers given by everyone interviewed made Chinese journalists ecstatic.

They didn't have hope for the effect of Zhou Yi's return to the team for training, and felt that Zhou Yi and the team practiced together, and the symbolic meaning was greater than the actual significance.

But now that I heard what the players who had participated in the training said, I was surprised and happy at the same time - Zhou Yi's return turned out to be more than just symbolic......

Subsequently, when Lippi gave an interview, this was confirmed by him as the head coach.

“...... Today, as we all know, Zhou Yi participated in the team's training and practiced with us. Happily, the training worked well. We are all very happy to see that after almost a month of absence, Zhou Yi and the team's first joint practice has achieved good results......"

Lippi's words are tantamount to confirming the statements of the previous players, and completely confirming the news that Zhou Yi's first training effect after returning from injury is good.

Although Lippi could have lied that it was not working well to release smoke bombs on the Spanish side, he did not do so.

On the one hand, it is such a high-profile issue, it is difficult to fake, and it is impossible for him to control everyone's mouth. On the other hand, and the main reason, Lippi didn't feel the need to play this little trick. Even if he lets the Spaniards know this, he is confident that he will lead the Chinese team to defeat Spain.

Perhaps he had experienced the humiliating group exit of defending champions Italy four years ago, so he could now guess Spain's thoughts and know that Spain was nothing more than a bluffing-looking "paper tiger" who looked like the reigning World Cup champions, but in fact this team was completely different from the world champions four years ago.

After two consecutive defeats in the group stage, there have been many articles in the media analyzing this team.

There's a very right point of view – there's no such thing as a universe-invincible tactic, it's just a group of players at the best age with the right tactics.

In Lippi's view, neither Barcelona nor the Spanish national team's Tiki-taka is the greatest tactic in the world, and Tiki-taka is far from being the most popular tactic in world football, nor can it bring the trend of popularity.

Quite simply, this set of tactics is very demanding of players, and not all teams can be like Barcelona in the 2008-2009 season, like Spain in the 2010 World Cup, and have a group of players who are in their prime and just right for this strategy.

At the beginning, Gao Hongbo wanted to implement Tiki-taka in the Chinese team and imitate Barcelona, but the effect was not particularly good. Why?

Although the Chinese team has a midfield core comparable to Xavi like Zhou Yi, the Chinese team still lacks many suitable players in other positions.

Now this Spanish team is in full swing and the Spanish team is in full swing, in fact, the reason is the same - time.

From 2008 to 2012, the Spanish national team won the European Championship twice and the World Cup once, because these players were in their playing years. And now?

The main center forward Villa is thirty-two years old, Torres is thirty years old, Iniesta is thirty years old, Xavi is thirty-four years old, Xavi Alonso is thirty-two years old, and Casillas is thirty-three years old.

Among them, Xavi's aging has had the biggest impact on the team.

Combined with the fact that they have won all three tournaments in the past three tournaments, the team's desire to win is not as good as it used to be.

They can't go all over the pitch like they used to.

No one can survive time, and there were times when the Armada was defeated by the British corsairs, and the collapse of the Spanish dynasty was also very consistent with objective laws.

Spain is already declining, and on the other hand, the Chinese team under Lippi is different from the aging of most of the core players in Spain, and the core personnel of this Chinese team are only about 22 or 3 years old, which is full of youth and vitality.

The so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

If Spain is a tiger, it is also an aging tiger.

The Chinese team is a newborn calf, and no one is afraid.

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Zhou Yi practiced with the team on the first day, and the news of outstanding results soon appeared in major media and networks.

The Chinese fans cheered and were inspired.

Although it's only a little late now, the training effect is good, which is quite gratifying.

The Spanish media is also paying attention to Zhou Yi's situation.

This news is of course bad news for them.

But there is a part of the Spanish media that is always good at spotting the bright spots in the bad news.

For example, some media claimed that it is difficult to say whether Zhou Yi has outstanding training results. Because no one saw it, they all listened to the players and coaches of the Chinese team, and they could lie completely in order to create tension for Spain's preparations. Persuade the Spanish national team not to be too nervous, if you put all your attention on Zhou Yi, in case Zhou Yi doesn't play by then, won't Spain waste its efforts? It also disrupts the Spanish team's own preparation rhythm.

The Spanish media also hacked China by the way, saying that China has a tradition of making and selling counterfeits, and they are good at making fakes, and many famous European brands have suffered from it. In order to cover up their fraud, the Chinese also invented a slightly more pleasant term called "shanzhai". In addition, at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, there was a little girl singing, which was later proven to be lip-synching. The Spanish media used this incident to show everyone that at such an important opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Chinese dare to fake, so what is the collective lying during the group stage of the World Cup?

Of course, the Spanish media may have forgotten that their famous Spanish ready-to-wear manufacturer, Zara, makes money by copycating the clothing styles of other well-known brands...... Every year, they lose a lot of money in lawsuits, and of course they make more money by plagiarism, which is a good deal for them. However, such a brand can appear in a prominent position in major high-end shopping malls in China. I have to say that foreign monks can recite scriptures, and plagiarism is more fresh and refined......

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The next day, Zhou Yi practiced with the team for the second time, and the effect was still significant.

On the third day, the last day of training before the game, Lippi mainly practiced set-piece training.

In crucial life-and-death battles, set-pieces have always been an important means of scoring goals.

In between training, Zhou Yi chatted with his teammates, and he had a whim to design a few more sets of set-piece tactics for the team.

Zhou Yi's proposal received a warm response from everyone.

Then everyone got together to use their brains, brainstorm, and give full play to their imagination.

They really got them to design a few sets.

Then everyone went to the training ground and began to practice several sets of set-piece tactics that they had devised themselves.

The coaching staff had no one to stop them, but watched from the sidelines.

"That's good...... "Lippi's assistant coach Madaloni muttered.

"After Zhou Yi returned to the team, the feeling was different. Pezzotti, the national team scout, also nodded.

"He has a natural leadership temperament, and he doesn't need a loud voice or exaggerated body movements to make people listen to him. The team's physical trainer Gaudino also commented.

Lippi did not participate in the discussion, but listened quietly from the side, always smiling on his face.

He believes from the bottom of his heart that the Chinese team will definitely be able to complete a historic breakthrough in his hands, qualify from the group, and maybe even go further......

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After the last day of training, Zhou Yi was blocked by reporters on the sidelines of the training ground, who wanted to hear Zhou Yi's views and prospects for tomorrow's game.

Of course, what they are most concerned about is whether Zhou Yi will definitely be able to play in tomorrow's game.

Faced with this question, Zhou Yi did not give a positive answer: "I don't know, I train hard and do everything I can." As for whether I can play, that's what the manager thinks about, and if he asks me to play, I'll play well. If I wasn't allowed to play, it must have been his consideration. I don't have any opinion on that. ”

Zhou Yi's words are not leaky, but they are not what reporters want to hear.

Reporters then asked him what he thought of Spain becoming the first team to be eliminated from this World Cup.

"Surprisingly, before the World Cup, no one could have imagined that something like this would happen. But that's football, on the pitch, anything can happen. The defending champions could also be out of the group, nothing is impossible. ”

"So it's possible for the Chinese team to beat Spain?" asked a Chinese reporter.

Zhou Yi smiled and said nothing, but everyone understood what he meant.

"But Spain is fighting for honor, and teams fighting for honor are not easy to play against...... said a Spanish journalist.

Zhou Yi smiled: "And we are fighting for survival." ”

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