Gao Yuan was promoted to become an assistant coach, and his work is mainly in charge of newspaper collection and data analysis, but his status has changed significantly.

As the core of the coaching staff, Gao Yuan also has the opportunity to be more deeply involved in regular training and pre-match tactical preparation. At the side of Fabio and the others, Gao Yuan had more opportunities to observe, learn and ask for advice in detail, his horizons were further broadened, and his various ability values were also rapidly improved.

A week later, the players at all levels of the national brand have ended the training camp and returned to the team, and the Taishan team finally gathered the strongest lineup.

The first game of this stage is to face the domestic football hegemon - Yangcheng Evergrande at home.

Yangcheng Evergrande is a well-deserved overlord of the Chinese Super League, since it was promoted to the Chinese Super League in 2011, it has won the Super League championship 8 times, won the Super Cup championship 4 times, and won the AFC Champions League twice in 2012 and 2016. The fierce generals in the team are like clouds, almost all domestic players have the experience of national brands, and foreign aid is even more big-name gathering, only unexpected, no can't buy, with one sky-high price, constantly refreshing the transfer fee record of Chinese football.

In the past two years, with the aging of the players in the team, coupled with the departure of Lippi, Scolari and other meritorious coaches, the dominance of the Evergrande team has declined. But it is still the bitter master of the Taishan team, in the more than ten years of confrontation records, the Taishan team has lost more and less draws, and it is difficult to find a win for many years. Following the previous "Koreanophobia", in recent years, he has suffered from "permanencephobia".

As a die-hard fan of the Taishan team, Gao Yuan naturally hopes that the team can break the fate of consecutive defeats against Evergrande. Therefore, in addition to carefully collecting and sorting out the reports of the opponent, he also put forward his own strategy for breaking the enemy in the report.

Gao Yuan believes that the state of the Evergrande team has not been good in recent times, many of the main players in the team are absent, and only Tariska and Paulinho can play; Although coach Cannavaro is a former world footballer and a first-class player, he is not a successful coach and has obvious shortcomings in on-the-spot command.

Gao Yuan suggested that in view of the opponent's above situation, the Taishan team should win by surprise, and focus on the players with strong attacking power in the selection of the lineup, play offensive football, and win the Evergrande team at home with the momentum of "swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger".

But his proposal was opposed by the rest of the coaching staff.

Hao Wei has served as an assistant coach of the Evergrande team for a period of time and knows the strength of the Evergrande team very well.

He was the first to object: "Even if the strength of the Evergrande team has declined now, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, I think their strength is still above us." Especially Tariska and Paulinho, two super foreign aids, one-on-one can't be defended at all, and they must be coordinated as a whole, so I think it should be based on defensive counterattacks. ”

Fabio disagrees with Takato: "This series of fixtures is crucial, and the first game of the opening game is the most important, so you have to be cautious. To be on the safe side, it is strategically acceptable to draw against strong opponents at home and get one point. ”

Pep agrees with both of them.

The other members of the coaching staff were opposed, and Gao Yuan could only pin his hopes on coach Li Xiaopeng, after all, he was the final decision-maker and speaker.

Li Xiaopeng pondered for a long time, and finally vetoed Gao Yuan's proposal in the name of the minority obeying the majority.

Gao Yuan was very disappointed, he had thought carefully and carefully prepared for this game, and repeatedly deduced according to the data in the system, and he firmly believed that he was right. But he is too soft-spoken to change the final decision of the coaching staff.

Gao Yuan was not surprised by the statements of Fabio, Hao Wei and others, although they were experienced, it was precisely this kind of conformist experience that shackled their thinking. After all, the assistant coach is a teaching assistant, and among their coaches, the training is very high, but the courage and determination values are generally low. This also limits their career development, and it is more than enough to be a teaching assistant, but it is difficult to be a coach and lead a side.

What really disappointed Gao Yuan was Li Xiaopeng's attitude. Li Xiaopeng has been his idol since he played football back then, and he has been a die-hard fan of Li Xiaopeng for so many years. According to Gao Yuan's observation, Li Xiaopeng's coaching is second to none among domestic coaches, even among coaches of this age group in the world. But the shortcomings of domestic coaches are too obvious after all, according to the "barrel theory", it is the shortest plank that determines how much water a barrel holds.

The lack of decision-making ability ultimately determined that Li Xiaopeng could not become a world-class coach.

Gao Yuan didn't remember what Li Xiaopeng said that night in the library, "These are my shortcomings, and they are also the common problems of our generation of domestic coaches." The outside world says that I am a young marshal, but now that I am 45 or 6, it is not so easy to learn some new things, and if Chinese football wants to really change, I hope it is not on us, but on you young people. ”

Maybe when the time comes, I should go out early, take charge of myself, and see the bigger world!

After the start of the game, as Gao Yuan expected, the Evergrande team only had two foreign aids, Tariska and Paulinho, but after seeing that the Taishan team did not dare to rashly press the attack, they turned against the guest and began to put pressure frequently, constantly impacting the back line of the Taishan team.

The Taishan team focuses on stability, and most of the starters sent are veteran players who are good at defense, and their offensive sharpness is insufficient. Guedes, who is good at the ball at his feet and breaking through, did not play, and the tall Pelle, who was like a kite with a broken string, was like a kite with a broken string, floating in the opponent's area, isolated and unable to pose any threat.

Seeing that the Taishan team was beaten and did not fight back, the Evergrande team became more and more assured and boldly attacked. All kinds of short pass coordination, long pass transfer, personal breakthrough, long-range fire, handy. In particular, the two foreign aides are in great shape, frequently relying on their personal ability to create damage, and the sudden Taishan team's defense line is overturned.

In the 26th minute of the game, Tarisca was brought down by Fellaini and won a free kick in front, Tarisca personally took the penalty, although 36 meters away from the goal, Tarisca's free kick was extremely fast, powerful, and spinning.

Evergrande won a corner, and just when the home fans were still apprehensive about the free kick just now, Tariska stepped up again, using his height of 1.90 meters, to nod the ball in front of the encirclement and put the ball into the net.

0:1, Evergrande team leads.

After that, the Taishan team strengthened the offensive, and the scene improved slightly. The two wings strengthened the bottom cross, giving Pelle a place to play in the area.

However, the attack of the Taishan team did not play well, due to the absence of players with offensive talent, so tactically they could only rely on the simple road of cross from the side to organize the attack.

Li Xiaopeng's expression was grim, pacing back and forth in the coach's command area, as if he was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, thinking about whether to change the formation in the second half.

But his troubles did not last in midfield, and towards the end of the first half, Taishan ushered in a free kick on the side, and the tall Pelle finally grabbed the first point, and smashed the top to break the ten fingers of the Evergrande goalkeeper.

It was a fluke, a goal that relied entirely on Pelle's individual qualities. But Rao is so, and it also dispelled the concerns of the coaching staff of the Taishan team, and did not adjust at halftime, continuing the previous formation and style of play.

The hesitation of the coaching staff also made the Taishan team miss the last chance to win the game.

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