When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, Yang Cheng raised his clenched fists high, as if he was facing the whole world, announcing his return to the king!

Compared with the first game when he was not scoring against Spain, in this game against Portugal, Yang Cheng's team firmly implemented the targeted tactics he arranged before the game, firmly suppressed Portugal from the beginning, pinched Portugal's fatal point, and then made Portugal unable to fight back.

Sometimes things on the football field are that simple.

But if you despise it and think it is easy to coach a team, then I'm sorry, you're wrong!

When playing against Portugal, every player of the German team showed enough standards. In Yang Cheng's view, they performed about 80% of their state and strength, which was better than when they played against Spain in the last game. So they did well in the field, scores, and ability to seize opportunities.

Some people say that Yang Cheng was almost perfect as the head coach in the first game of Spain, because from the entire layout to every adjustment in the game to the final counterattack, it can be said that he is impeccable. The only thing he is worse than Boske is luck.

It's hard to say about luck, just like Yang Cheng has no way to stop Klose from being injured, or he has no way to stop Gomez from failing to make a single shot, let alone stop Jerom Boateng's mistakes. These are all tactics and have nothing to do with the head coach. This can be said to be an emergency in the game that the head coach cannot realize.

But in Yang Cheng's view, there is another reason why so many accidents have happened is the physical and condition of the players.

Sometimes things are so strange, just like this game in Portugal, from tactical execution to the players' personal performance. All of them can be described as excellent, because their bodies have begun to get out of the bottleneck of large-scale exercise training before the European Cup, and their condition has begun to recover quickly.

Many things will affect the whole body. As long as your body is better and your condition recovers, everything will be easier to do.

After playing Portugal, Yang Cheng was confident in the last game against France because he knew where the French team was, just as he knew where the fatal point of Portugal was.

While Yang Cheng stood on the sidelines thinking, the players on the court were already celebrating excitedly.

After the first tragic blow to Spain, they all felt angry and can finally vent their anger, which made the group of German internationals seem inexplicably excited.

On the other hand, the players of the Portuguese team who competed in the same field were all holding their heads, looking very depressed because they lost to the German team, which means that their hope of qualifying was very slim, and it can even be said to be unlikely.

In the last round, Germany beat France, Portugal hit Spain, and Portugal only has the opportunity to qualify if it beats Spain. Germany and France also strive to win the opponent, but relatively speaking, Portugal has the least hope of winning, unless Spain, which has already qualified in advance, deliberately lets the water go, but this is obviously unlikely.

All fans around the world are staring at the European Cup. Isn’t it equivalent to letting Spain destroy its image?

"Congratulations, boss!" Xiao Xiao Luo immediately showed an indescribable smile on his face when he saw Yang Cheng walking towards him. This kid was not good at making fakes and insisted on him laughing, which was even more ugly than crying.

Yang Cheng patted his shoulder, "Your performance is amazing, don't blame yourself!"

Little Luo sighed deeply. Sometimes he felt that this was fate?

He can perform well at Liverpool and Real Madrid, and he can have a lot of teammates to help him. He can be successful and become the world's top superstar, but in the national team, he cannot get such treatment.

This reminded him of Shevchenko, who was also a tragic figure, so he smiled, "There is nothing to blame for yourself. Speaking of which, I am much better than Shevchenko!"

When Yang Cheng heard this unpredictable joke, he laughed and said, "It's so cold, but it's okay if you can joke!"

Xiao Xiao Luo nodded to Yang Cheng, "I have to go to the locker room. We are not completely unavailable. We must play until the last minute. Good luck, boss!"

Yang Cheng nodded and watched the proud disciple walk back to the player passage. Looking at his back, Yang Cheng felt that he was much more mature and no longer the child who was hiding in the quilt in the room because of his father's death and cried bitterly late at night.

Sometimes I think about it, isn’t a person’s maturity forced by the environment?

"I wish you good luck, boy!" Yang Cheng looked at the player channel that had lost the back of Xiao Xiao Luo. He was muttering to himself, but only he could hear the voice.

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"No one should scold me now, right?"

At the post-match press conference, people gathered reporters and media from all over the world. They were waiting for the appearance of the head coaches of both sides, hoping that they could give some explanations and comments on this game, especially Yang Cheng.

Paul Bento was the first to appear, but his influence was not enough to arouse the reporters present. It was not until Yang Cheng appeared with a playful smile that there was a commotion at the scene. However, as soon as this guy sat down, his first sentence jokingly ignited the confrontation between him and the media.

His words immediately made most of the reporters present laugh, and a very small number of them felt ashamed, but they had to admit that after this game, it would be unreasonable for anyone to criticize Yang Cheng and his German team, because at least so many games have been played so far in this European Cup, and the German team's style is the best.

Dare to play against Spain directly and dare to fight Portugal wildly. The German team won the favor of fans in both games.

"Mr. Yang Cheng. How do you view this victory?" A reporter was the first to raise his hand and ask.

"It was a very hard game, Portugal was strong and created a lot of threats for us, but in the end we won the game. It was very important, and the victory belonged to everyone and the entire team."

Another reporter stood up. "Mr. Yang Cheng, Gomez and Jerome Boateng both performed poorly in the first game. They were also controversial after the game, but you continue to trust them, and they also repay you with excellent performance in this game. Did anything happen in the middle? Also, how to evaluate the best Hummels in the game?"

This should be everyone's doubts, because after playing this game, Gomez and Jerome Boateng's performance was the most eye-catching, but the best performance in the German team was central defender Hummels. The central defender who replaced Mertesak, seized the opportunity and showed world-class performance in one fell swoop, shocking the whole game.

"First of all, the first question, I had proper communication with Gomez and Jerome Boateng, they were my players, I knew and trusted them, and they made some mistakes in the first game. But I think they had done their best, and I believe no head coach would criticize a player who played with all his strength, right?"

"Similarly, no head coach would put a dedicated player on the bench and not allow him to contribute to the team. So I asked them to start again, and I think it was just a normal decision that all head coaches would make."

Yang Cheng did not attribute the credit to himself at all. His tone could be heard, that is, everything is the credit for the player's own transformation and has nothing to do with the head coach.

"The second question is that I have always believed that Hummels is a top central defender. I have always said that he has the ability to play as a main player in this team, but I also said that he still has the potential to continue to improve, so for Hummels, what I can say is that he is good, but not good enough because he can be better!"

Many reporters at the scene affirmed Yang Cheng's answer. This guy is really in the style of a general when dealing with the reporters and the media. At least among the head coaches of the national team, there is really no other head coach who can make the reporters and the media obedient like him.

"We have received news before that Klose has recovered. I believe all fans are looking forward to Gomez's performance in this game. If Klose recovers, who will be the main player in Germany's forward line? And central defender, is Hummels qualified to challenge Mertesacker?"

Yang Cheng nodded with a smile and replied, "The characteristics and styles of the two players are different. I will choose players based on the opponent. Just as I said before, playing in major competitions like the European Cup depends on the joint efforts of 23 players in the team, not just a group of players."

An instant reporter raised his hand, "Does this mean that you will make some adjustments when playing against the French team?"

"Of course!" Yang Cheng nodded, "The French team and Portugal have different characteristics. I can't play against the French team according to the tactics of playing Portugal, right?" After saying that, he also smiled.

"Mr. Yang Cheng, what do you think makes your team win this game? Also, what is the most satisfying part of the team in this game?"

Yang Cheng thought about it and replied: "I think the concerted efforts of the players, their hard work and their hard participation and participation in the game are the key to our winning game. What I am most satisfied with is our defense. The solid German team I see, and I also see a very strong German team that wants to win**."

"As I said after the game I played in Spain, the real German team is back, but he still needs to grow and time, so I believe that as the European Cup deepens and the accumulation and excitement of the game experience, the German team will become stronger and better!"

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While Yang Cheng was singing praises to the players, the players were interviewed by reporters in the post-match comprehensive interview area, and they also sang praises to the team's head coach.

"I'm very, very happy because I scored a goal!" Goal master Gomez seemed very excited when interviewed by reporters. "But I should be more grateful to my head coach. He trusts me very much, even when I am controversial and questioned, and he has never even said even a word of distrust to me."

"This moved me very much. After playing Spain, I secretly swear that I would repay his trust in me. So from the beginning of the game, I felt very good. I believed that I had the opportunity and ability to score goals. In the end I did it!"

With one pass and one shot, Gomez can be said to be a great contributor to the German team's victory over Portugal. If Hummels, who was not in the central defender, had it been too eye-catching, the best in the game should have been to Gomez. The forward finally showed his bloody fangs.

"My competition with Klose? No, my relationship with him is good, at least there is no problem between us, and I believe that our competitive relationship will not affect our friendship. He is a very high-level striker. I hope to learn more from him, but I will not give up the main position easily!"

In an interview, the team's captain Ram also said, "It is very important to be able to defeat Portugal in the second game when the first game is unfavorable. The head coach's targeted arrangement before the game is very important. He lets us know clearly from the beginning how to play, laying an advantage from the beginning, making this game easy."

"I think the biggest change in this game is our defense line. The arrangement of the 3rd midfielder has stabilized our defense line, but everyone can see that the three midfielder does not mean that our tactics are conservative. On the contrary, even if we play the three midfielder, our attack power is still so outstanding."

"I believe that our head coach has found the best tactics for the team to play stably!"

The other two defenders, Jerome Boateng and Hummels, who performed well, praised Yang Cheng in an interview with reporters, believing that the head coach's targeted arrangement and tactical preparation before the game were the key factors for their outstanding performance.

However, the team's deputy captain Schweiingsteiger said in an interview after the game, "There is nothing to celebrate to win Portugal. We have not yet qualified from the group. We need to win the French team again, but the victory in this game has rekindled our pursuit of the highest honor."

"In May, our training and preparations were all about winning the European Cup. Now, we should continue to move towards this goal. Beating Portugal is just the beginning, and we should not forget our ultimate goal!"

The team's captain Barack also warned his teammates in an interview with familiar reporters, "Don't be complacent because of a victory. We lost to Spain in the first game, which made us lose to Spain for three consecutive major competitions, which fully proves the gap in strength between us and this team."

"If we want to go further in the European Cup, Spain will definitely be our strongest competitor, so we must constantly improve ourselves and support the war. Only in this way can we have the opportunity to encounter Spain again and strive for all efforts to defeat this powerful opponent and avenge our previous shame!"

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The words of the players and the head coach appeared in major European and world newspapers the next day. Everyone highly praised and recognized the game of the German team defeating Portugal, but many famous celebrities including Beckenbauer believed that the German team still had the opportunity and potential to continue to improve.

But when the outside world was noisy, the German team returned to Gdansk overnight. Yang Cheng still chose to give the players' families a chance to enter the resident for a night. Avril and Natalie and his son also came to the resident to visit, but after a night, the team immediately entered the intensive preparations for the last round of the group stage.

Like the German team, the French team must win the last game to ensure the group qualifying. Therefore, Yang Cheng strictly required everyone in the team to do their best from the beginning, and this battle against France cannot be missed.

While the team was preparing for the game, the European Cup continued, and Group A held the last round of the game, with the Czech Republic defeating Poland 1:0 and Greece defeating Russia 1:0, which directly led to the unexpected reversal of the previous favorite Russian team. Although the Czech Republic unexpectedly lost to Russia in the first game in the group, he qualified as the first in the group with the subsequent two consecutive victories.

According to Yang Cheng's previous speculation, unless Spain loses to Portugal in the last round, if the German team qualifies, the most likely opponent is the Czech team in Group A, so a series of investigations around the Czech Republic have started very early, but after the Czech team qualifies as the first in the group, the process became even more nervous.

On the second day after the last round of Group A, the two games in Portugal, Spain, Germany and France, and Group B will be held at the same time. This is also the organizing committee specially arranged to be held at the same time in order to avoid any team deliberately letting go.

The German team's field in this game was the Lviv Stadium in the first group game. They have played one game in Lviv, so they are relatively familiar with this stadium. On the contrary, the French team draws and loses in two groups, and now they are on the edge of the cliff.

Therefore, before the game, Yang Cheng believed that the French team should be able to line up a relatively more proactive formation and tactics. At least, the group will have to fight in the last game and actively fight a tough battle with the German team. Anyway, there will be no chance if they don’t fight. If they fight, they may have hope of killing the German team.

But what he didn't expect was that Blanco not only did not choose to play with the German team in this game, but also chose an extremely passive tactical formation, which made Yang Cheng, who was full of confidence before the game, miscalculated the plan. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!