"I think it's necessary to introduce the so-called curse to all of you!"

Before the semi-finals against Italy, while the players came back from the court, changed their clothes and waited for the opening game, Yang Cheng was making the last team mobilization, hoping that everyone could enter the Donetskton Bass Arena with the best mental state.

After arriving in Donetsk, Ukraine, Yang Cheng began to arrange for the team to relieve stress. In the hotel, he specially arranged for players to watch movies together, and then prepared some group activities to allow the players to relax and avoid them being overly nervous.

Now, all the stress relief matters are no longer needed. He needs players to devote themselves to the game with great concentration from the first minute, and have absolute beliefs to defeat Italy from the first minute.

"In the past nearly a hundred years of football history, we have played a total of 29 matches with Italy. We lost 14 of them, draw 8 and win 7!" Yang Cheng wrote this set of data on one of the tactical boards, which made many international players in the team feel unbelievable.

During the training camp, they were banned from private interviews. In addition, the competition is now tight, so many of them have never known about this. In their impression, the German team and Italy are both world-class teams, and they should have their own victory or defeat, but why does it seem like Italy has a huge advantage?

"That's more than that!" Yang Cheng smiled, paying attention to the players' expressions and reactions, "We have played against Italy in the World Cup for 5 games, Italy has won 3 and 2 draws, and we have never won a single victory. The most recent time was the World Cup in Germany, where we continued this embarrassing shame at our doorstep."

Many players may feel a little surprised and feel shame when they hear it, because they have never won a single game in the World Cup, but there must be some people thinking. Have you always won the European Cup?

"We encountered Italy twice in the history of the European Cup, but unfortunately, both times were draws. One was the European Cup group stage played in the local area. 1:1, and the other was 0:0. This means that in the European Cup and World Cup, we had 0 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses against Italy. The opponent can be said to be unbeaten against us!"

"We won 7 games in all the records. They were all friendly matches, but sorry, our record in friendly matches was 7 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses, which was also a huge disadvantage. Even when I saw such a data, I suspected that I was wrong. This should be a contest between Italy and some national teams outside the sixty or seventy. How could it be the German team?"

All the players were speechless after hearing this because they really didn't know what expressions and reactions to give, because judging from this data, the German team really suffered from phobia, and it was still very serious. It lasted for more than half a century, and it would be embarrassing to say it.

"Today's game is the 30th match between our German football history and the third European Cup. It will also determine whether Germany's phobia will continue. Will you become the latest in this shameful data? Or will you become the hero who breaks the bottleneck of German football's history?"

"I want to know what you think in your heart, and who can answer me?"

As soon as Yang Cheng finished speaking, he saw Barack looking around his teammates, and Huo stood up suddenly, "That's all, of course, he was doing what his mother defeated Italy and avenged his previous shame, and let's do it. We'll do it!"

Barack's words were immediately responded by Schweinsteiger, "Yes, if you do it, Italy is nothing great!"

"We have confidence to defeat Italy!" Ram also stood up.

"Yes, defeat Italy and kill them!"

"After avenging your previous shame, what a hundred years of fear, go fucking!"

The players were talking and talking, and the atmosphere in the locker room immediately became hot and intense, especially the players' words.

When Yang Cheng saw this scene, he nodded and waved his hand to signal all the players to be quiet, "Okay, very good, but you must also understand that just shouting and your passion alone can't defeat Italy."

Speaking of this, Yang Cheng immediately showed another tactical artwork. They have introduced the specific details of this artwork before, but he still decided to select some of the key points and emphasize them.

"Italy will do everything possible to encircle our midfield in the game, but I ask all of you, especially the midfielders, including Sven Bend and Schweinsteiger, to pass and catch the ball and run quickly when we have the ball, so that the Italian midfielder can keep up with your pace and pace."

"Because only in this way can we avoid falling into a head-on situation with Italy, and only in this way can we play our characteristics and advantages. Once we make a mistake and lose the ball, everyone must give up everything else as soon as possible and launch a counter-robbery on the spot for me."

Yang Cheng's serious expression of instructing the task made everyone feel a bit of pressure and the head coach attaches importance to this.

As long as Yang Cheng pays attention, whoever breaks the precepts, rules, or is not committed enough in the game, then no one expects to play under his hands for even one minute. Yang Cheng can allow Gomez and Jerome Boateng to make mistakes because they actively participate in the game, but he cannot allow those players who do not work hard and do not work hard.

"Thomas Muller and Ozil, when they are out of the ball, your responsibility is to nail Pirlo to me. I want you to make sure that at least one person can appear next to Pirlo when he catches the ball, prompting him to pass the ball out as soon as possible, so that he completely loses the time and buffer for calm thinking and analysis."

Pirlo is indeed a very outstanding passer, but the problem is that this type of long pass must have enough time to prepare. As long as a player can press at the moment Pirlo accepts, forcing Pirlo to get the ball as soon as possible, the player's pass threat and accuracy will decrease.

"Also, pay more attention to Pirlo's passes to both sides and strangle him. When attacking, Thomas Muller should actively look for opportunities. Ozil is responsible for the response behind him and the passing ball. I want our midfielder to maintain a 5-to-4 or even 6-to-4 advantage at all times, and completely eat up the Italian midfielder!"

Yang Cheng drew a circle hard on the tactical board, and circled the entire Italian midfielder.

"When dealing with Balotelli and Casano's defense, if Italy's offense plays a long pass, most of them will look for Casano, Jerome Boateng on the left to pay attention to retraction. Kyle and Neuer should remind their teammates more of the position and don't let Italy's offense easily pull our defense out of the gap!"

All the players in the locker room listened carefully, and they all looked very serious and serious, because this battle will determine whether they will become the continuation of German football phobia or the heroes who break the history of German football competition phobia!

After introducing all this, Yang Cheng clapped his hands hard and looked at the players in front of him with a focused and confident look on his face.

"You must believe me. We have come to this day and we cannot be easily defeated. In this game, we will definitely win, definitely!" He seemed to be trying to spread his confidence to all the players through his eyes.

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"This is the semi-final of this European Cup, the German team vs. Italy, Donetskton Bass Arena!"

"We can see from the TV camera that the entire football stadium was full of people, and 50,000 seats were sold out several days in advance. Now everyone is waiting for this highly anticipated wonderful showdown!"

"Our reporters at the front got the starting lineup list of both sides in this game."

"Yang Cheng continued his mysterious use of troops in the past few games, and this game once again made a series of adjustments. It made people feel very curious about his game strategy. What attracted particular attention was the young player Tony Klos, who performed well after playing on the Czech substitute in the last game, appeared on the starting lineup this time."

"The German team's lineup is still 433 tactics, with goalkeepers Neuer, defenses are Ram, Kyle, Badstuber and Jerome Boateng. The three midfielders are Schweinsteiger, Sven Bend and Tony Klos, and the front tridents are Thomas Muller, Klose and Ozil."

"After playing the Czech team, the main central defender Hummels was suspended for accumulating yellow cards, but in this game, Yang Cheng did not choose the German main central defender Mertesak to start, but once again promoted another young player with pretty good performance, and Badstuber replaced Hummels' position."

"This is an unexpected choice. After all, whether it is based on the experience, strength, or the tacit understanding with Kyle, Mertesacker should be qualified for the starter, but it is obvious that Yang Cheng seems to be interested in promoting Bad Stuber, but isn't it too risky to use Bad Stuber in such an important European Cup semi-final?"

"There are also young players Tony Close. That's right, Tony Close performed well after substituting in several European Cup games, but now facing Italy like a wolf, which makes people feel a little worried!"

"Compared with the adjustments and changes of the German team, Prandelli's use of troops has not been much adjusted. The goalkeeper is Buffon, the defense is Chiellini, Bonucci, Barzari and Abat, the four midfielders are Pirlo, De Rossi, Marchisio and Montolivo, and the double strikers are Casano and Balotelli."

When introducing this, the on-site commentator couldn't help but smile, "Compared with Yang Cheng's adjustments and changes, Prandley's use of troops has not been adjusted much. The details may have changed a little, but in terms of specific positions and players' tasks, we still stick to the strategy of responding to changes in the same way. After all, Italy has been running-in very well so far."

While the commentator was talking, he saw the players on both sides slowly walking out of the player channel under the leadership of the referee. The 50,000 fans at the scene suddenly heard a burst of cheers, which made the entire stadium feel boiling.

Yang Cheng and Plandelli both followed the players. The two head coaches are the most impressive coaches in this European Cup, especially their team-leading results, which also attracted much attention.

"Prandelli once said when coaching the Serie A team that he highly praised Yang Cheng's free and open tactical style, but I don't know what kind of feeling he felt when he met Yang Cheng and was against each other?" The commentator on the scene joked when he saw the two shaking hands.

After playing the national anthem and guessing the side, Italy got the right to serve.

When the game time entered 21:45, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.

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Italians pay attention to tactics, which is well-known!

As an Italian head coach, even though many people say that Plandelli is alternative, he still retains the characteristics of a large number of Italians. The Italian team he coaches pays special attention to the choice of offensive routes and game response strategies.

Although he responded to changes with the same change, this does not mean that Plandelli was passively beaten. He knew very well how important it was to take the initiative to this game, so he made some polite decisions with Yang Cheng before the game. But at the beginning of the game, he did not meet Yang Cheng at all, and showed a very strong goal from the first minute.

Unlike the past few games, from the beginning of this game, Italy showed a stronger and aggressive attack power than in the past, which made them suddenly fight a round of offensives from the beginning of the game, which made the German team a little confused and caught them off guard.

After Chiellini got the ball on the left, he advanced a few steps, and when Thomas Muller threw Pirlo and rushed towards him, he chose to pass the ball across to Pirlo's feet.

Pirlo is known as the Italian puppet master. The so-called puppet master is actually called the controller, describing his control over the current Italian team. If the puppet master in reality uses extremely thin lines to control a puppet, then Pirlo's way of controlling Italy is his pass.

As soon as Pirlo got Chiellini's pass, he looked up at the front. He blocked Ozil who was rushing over with his body, swung his right foot, and passed the ball in a long arc, and then crossed a beautiful parabola. He landed on the front edge of the German team's left corner of the penalty area.

Casano pulled from the middle to the left to get the ball, which is also the most frequently used tactical cooperation in Italy. He used Casano's technology and creativity on the side to create opportunities for Balotelli in the middle, and this time they were obviously familiar with it and were ready to continue doing this.

After seeing Casano pulling to the left, he stopped the ball steadily. But Jerome Boateng rushed forward at the first time, blocking the route he wanted to cut into the penalty area and blocking him from the left side of the penalty area. In the middle of the German team, Kyle was preparing to support Jerome Boateng, while Badstuber looked at Balotelli, Sven Bend, Ram and others had already returned to their side as soon as possible to assist in defense.

Casano's dissatisfaction with Yang Cheng is already well known. As early as when he was still in Bari, he had already seen Yang Cheng feel unhappy. Later, when he arrived in Rome, he became even more aggressive. This made the old and bad things between the two of them have been hyped up by the media before the game.

Before this game, Casano himself expressed that he would celebrate the goal in front of Yang Cheng, and also helped Italy defeat the German team to humiliate Caesar.

Yang Cheng seemed nervous after Pirlo's long pass, especially after seeing Casano get the ball on the left, he immediately signaled Badstuber in the middle to watch Balotelli and never lose it.

When Thomas Muller ran over to defend Chiellini, Ozil should have followed Pirlo as soon as possible, but it was obvious that the two did not form enough tacit understanding, which led to Ozil being in place after Pirlo got the ball, but he could no longer form a defensive advantage. He could only watch Pirlo stop the ball and launch a long pass.

Pirlo made a long pass to Casano. The latter made a breakthrough on the left and then passed to Balotelli. The routine seemed simple, but the European powerhouses who fell under this routine were no longer aware of the number, so Yang Cheng did not dare to be careless at all and kept calling Badstuber on the sidelines, asking him to be careful.

After seeing Casano leaning against Jerome Boateng on the wing, he swept Kyle from the corner of his eyes. He knew that it would be impossible to drive the ball and cut inside, and Sven Bend had already returned to the penalty area to defend. At this time, the only thing he could do was turn around and get rid of the cross.

It must be said that Casano is a bit weird in character, but his strength is absolutely not doubtful, especially when he is taking the ball, this kid plays football with a sharp edge. He first leans on Jerome Boateng, but he dribbles the ball with a clever and clever way to complete a beautiful escape. He was like a slippery loach, and he slipped over from Jerome Boateng's defense.

As he grew older, Casano played football more and more maturely. He knew that it was already the limit to pass Jerome Boateng, and he could not complete more. So once he finished getting rid of it, he did not have the slightest right to play the ball, but directly swung his left foot, rubbed a curved ball, and passed the ball to the middle of the penalty area.

Balotelli had already ambushed in the middle of the penalty area, and he hid behind Badstuber, because in this way he could see Badstuber's reaction more clearly and make targeted actions. As soon as he saw the incoming ball, he immediately rushed forward and jumped high towards the incoming ball.!~!
Chapter completed!