898 One Thing Falls One Thing
"I'm really leaving?"
A simple sentence has become what Yang Cheng heard the most in the past few days, and his ears are almost heard.
The listener is the same person, but the person and place of the question are completely different.
This time, in the Political Consultative Hall of the Royal Plaza in Monaco, before preparing for the UEFA Champions League group stage draw ceremony, Ferguson, who was sitting next to Yang Cheng, asked him this question with concern. It was obvious that his expression revealed all sincerity.
"Jazz, I can finally be sure that we are good friends!" Yang Cheng said that I was really not wrong. "At least you are not as gloating as some people. He must be secretly happy now. If I leave, he can be the boss!"
As soon as Yang Cheng said this, Mourinho, who was passing by Ferguson, suddenly froze and his smile turned completely ashen. His expression when he looked at Yang Cheng was full of murderous aura. If he was given a knife at this time, perhaps he would really think about it and directly penetrated into his heart and stabbed this bastard to death.
Mourinho's expression was very interesting. Ferguson and others wanted to laugh after seeing it, thinking that this guy was so incredible.
"I have told you many times. I hope to work hard while I was young and fulfill all my wishes. When I am old, I will retire and enjoy life well. At least don't work as hard as you, brother!" Yang Cheng patted Ferguson's shoulder with an expression that I was worthless for you.
"Get out!" Ferguson slapped his hand off. He couldn't hear that Yang Cheng was teasing him.
Yang Cheng quickly retracted his hand and smiled at Ferguson. The latter had no choice but to look at him, but he was upset. Why did he drink alcohol and vomit so much bitterness with this bastard, making him talk about these things all day long, making him, the famous coach, have no demeanor at all.
But Ferguson did not reflect at all. Don’t he often make fun of Yang Cheng?
Good friend. Who isn't you teasing me? I'll tease you?
But if you think about it carefully, if Yang Cheng really leaves, the football field will undoubtedly become much boring. At least there will be no Caesar in the football field again in the future. Yang Cheng is the number one person, Ferguson and others will undoubtedly lose one opponent and one direction of struggle.
"I know, you guys don't need to pretend to be reluctant to leave. In fact, you are all happy. I wish I could get out quickly. I know your thoughts too much. As long as I am still here, you will never want to win the championship, so you are now eager to open your throat and yell to celebrate."
Seeing Yang Cheng's appearance, Mourinho nodded seriously, "Hey, you really understand me!"
Yang Cheng was choked by him and he was really speechless. Everyone smiled when they saw it. The two of them were often used to fighting.
"I'm leaving this time, I'm really not coming back?" Wenger also asked with concern. After all, Yang Cheng is still so young.
"Even if you come back, you will definitely not be your competitor!" Yang Cheng smiled slightly. He had no specific plans yet, so he didn't want to say everything to death, leaving some room for him.
"Fuck. Your decision is so admirable and hated!" Ferguson couldn't help but scold him.
I admire him mainly because of Yang Cheng's intention. He was able to resolutely choose to leave at the peak of his career and the most glorious time. This intention is not something that ordinary people can do. At least Ferguson did not completely retire when he was 60 years old. He knew in his heart that he was more or less a little less than Yang Cheng's current broad mind.
As for hatred, that's certain. Over the years, they have won fewer wins and lost more, and they have suffered a big loss overall. If Yang Cheng still continues to coach, then they may still have a chance to take revenge, but if Yang Cheng retires, who will they seek to seek for revenge in the future?
Yang Cheng retreated at the peak of his life or withdrew from the professional coaching field. This has to be said to be a very wise decision. At least anyone who talks about Yang Cheng in the future will only remember his glorious history and his glorious achievements.
But if he continues to stay and continues to coach, he will inevitably encounter Waterloo and will inevitably encounter failure.
There is a saying that is right: Crock pots are hard to break away from the well, and generals are bound to be killed in the battle. Isn’t it a wise choice for Yang Cheng to choose to retreat bravely in the air?
"You can see more clearly than me!" Ferguson patted Yang Cheng's shoulder and praised.
Yang Cheng smiled slightly and said nothing. Ferguson was a senior he respected very much, even now, he still!
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In the past, UEFA's annual awards ceremony always awarded the best goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, forward and best player. However, after the merger of the French Football Golden Ball Award and FIFA's World Football Master last year, UEFA also cooperated with the European Sports Media League to launch a new European Best Player Award.
In order to highlight this award, UEFA announced the cancellation of individual awards from other four positions, promoting the best player in Europe, and even vaguely showing signs of competing with the FIFA Golden Ball Award. The selection scope of this award is players who play in the league under UEFA's jurisdiction and is voted by reporters from 53 European countries and regions.
However, what is very different from previous selections is the change in the selection rules.
The selection of the best players in Europe was divided into two rounds of voting, with reporters from 53 countries and regions voting, and points were given according to the ranking. The top three with points were automatically entered into the second round of voting. According to the data given previously, the top three were all included by Real Madrid, namely Cristiano Ronaldo, David Silva and Kaka.
In other words, no matter what the second round of voting results are, the first European best player will be defeated by the Bernabeu.
Interestingly, during the award ceremony and draw, the new UEFA President Olsen announced that reporters from 53 member states would vote on the spot to vote on the rankings of these three players. Each person has a vote and can choose to abstain, but cannot vote for two players at the same time.
The whole session was very lively, as if it was a festival. Three players were specially invited to the stage for a simple interview, which was considered canvassing and said a lot about Real Madrid's internal affairs, and naturally they also talked about the topic of Yang Cheng's possible departure from Real Madrid after the end of this season. The players generally expressed their hope that Yang Cheng would continue to stay.
"He is a very incredible head coach. He not only led us to win, he also taught us how to win. He not only allowed us to taste success, but also made us understand how to succeed. He has established a team structure and ideas for us to maintain a successful long-term long-term. This is undoubtedly the most precious wealth he left to us!"
David Silva praised Yang Cheng in an interview with the host.
"We all share the same belief that Real Madrid will be stronger this year than ever before!"
But unfortunately, although David Silva got 11 votes and tied for second place with Kaka, he still couldn't stop Cristiano Ronaldo, who won 30 votes alone, becoming the first European best player. One of the 53 reporters abstained because it was too difficult to choose, and the effective vote was 52.
When Ronaldo won the award, he once again expressed his intention to keep Yang Cheng in office. "I firmly believe that all those who love football hope that he can continue to stay. Because he is the greatest head coach in the world, he should always be with us and be our leader forever!"
Everyone at the scene immediately gave Ronaldo warm applause. This was obviously not only for him, but also for Caesar, who was sitting in the front row. He has almost become a phenomenal figure in football today.
After awarding the European Best Player Award, the Champions League group stage draw ceremony was followed.
As the strongest team in football today, Real Madrid has undoubtedly become a headache for all teams. No one wants to be assigned to the same group as Real Madrid, especially the second-level AC Milan and third-level Manchester City and other powerful teams. They all know very well that being assigned to the same group as Real Madrid represents grief.
This also made all Real Madrid players and management feel proud. Once upon a time, Real Madrid was bullied by everyone in the Champions League. After years of defending the Champions League quarterfinals, even teams like Lyon dared to take action against Real Madrid, and the image of the giant team was gone.
However, after Yang Cheng took office, he directly shouted that he would make all teams who meet Real Madrid in the future feel scared, and that all European powerhouses avoid Real Madrid and avoid Real Madrid. Undoubtedly, he has fulfilled his promise now!
Real Madrid was finally assigned to the same group as Lyon, Ajax and Dynamo Zagreb. The three opponents were not strong enough. Yang Cheng asked himself that he should be able to win the opponent steadily. He was even sure that Real Madrid had already obtained the right to qualify in advance.
"Be careful, don't take the second place in the group!" Ferguson looked at Wenger and Mourinho with a smile.
Both of them shook their heads tacitly and smiled bitterly. Real Madrid's group first should be the first. If anyone accidentally wins second in the group, they are likely to encounter Real Madrid directly in the knockout stage, which is not an interesting thing.
"Then let's see you in the top 8!" Yang Cheng stood up with a smile, pulled over his suit buttons, buttoned them up, got up and walked out of the lottery venue, with his expression and posture, indescribable confidence.
"You wear a suit, and they also wear a suit, but he looks better than you and is more graceful than you, Jose!" Ferguson turned his head and watched Yang Cheng walk away, then he laughed and teased Mourinho.
The latter just stood up. After hearing this, he had done half of the action of buttoning, and gave up, snorted coldly at Ferguson, walked directly from him, without shook his eyes.
Ferguson laughed loudly. Mourinho's fatal point is Yang Cheng. Who made the Portuguese fall into Yang Cheng's hands in the Champions League finals in a row? This may be called one thing to defeat another!
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There is a lot of controversy about Yang Cheng’s transformation to Real Madrid this season.
Some people say that Real Madrid's current tactics are more aggressive, aggressive, and at the same time stronger. Many times, the whole game gives people the feeling of adults ravaging children, and the opponent has no way to deal with it. This is very obvious whether it is the Spanish Super Cup against Barcelona or the Bernabeu Cup.
But some people say that Yang Cheng's transformation is not very ideal, because in order to keep it tight, he pressed the front line too hard, especially almost blocking the opponent's 32-meter area. This is equivalent to exposing the large gap behind him. If in this case, the opponent's big foot directly drives the ball to the frontcourt and matches it with a speed player, it will almost be a perfect match.
In fact, from any perspective, no tactic is flawless and has no risk.
If you want to attack, you have to expose your defensive loopholes. If you want to defend, you must not invest too much offensively. This is a recognized fact. When truly outstanding top coaches consider tactics, they often make choices and avoid defects as much as possible.
For example, the problem of Real Madrid's front-line pressure is too high, and the strategy adopted by Yang Cheng is to tighten and oppressive tactics in the frontcourt.
If the defense line is pressed to the 32-meter area, then that is to say, in this 32-meter area, there are 21 players from both sides, including a goalkeeper on the defending side, which has even occupied all the space to some extent.
Therefore, if Real Madrid wants to avoid the opponent's long pass counterattack to the greatest extent, then all players need to actively fight back on the spot. It is precisely because the three lines are compressed very densely, so the counterattack effect is very significant, because no matter who gets the opponent's ball, Real Madrid players will immediately force them up and try not to give him time to think and buffer.
This is a bit like Barcelona in Yang Cheng's previous life. Many teams play in Barcelona, and they all know that as long as one person can hold the ball in intensive defense and pass the ball out, it is enough to destroy Barcelona. But why are there only a handful of teams that can do this?
The reason is precisely Barcelona's frontcourt counterattack and close-fitting pressure.
High-intensity oppression has become an inevitable link in today's football tactics. The Real Madrid carved by Yang Cheng over the past five years is an expert in this field, so Real Madrid is not afraid of counterattacks, but can avoid counterattacks to the greatest extent.
Or, before the opponent finds an opportunity to counterattack, Real Madrid's offense is enough to destroy the opponent's defensive will!
Offense is the best defense, and this is absolutely true for Real Madrid today!
In the European Super Cup against Porto, Porto's tactics are actually to play a defensive counterattack. Once you get the ball, you directly look for Moutinho, hoping that the latter can pass the ball and let the forwards in front of Hulk and other forwards fight against Real Madrid.
But what about the actual effect?
When Porto was not determined enough in defense, Real Madrid scored a goal in just 10 minutes of the game.
After Iniesta got the pass from Delarede in the midfield, he formed a two-pass and one-way cooperation with Kaka, tore open the opponent's defense line, and passed the ball accurately behind him like a sharp scalpel, cutting through the loophole in Porto's defense line, accurately finding Ronaldo who was inserted from the left high-speed diagonally. The Portuguese shot hard about 15 meters in front of the goal.
The ball was slightly higher, but it hit the net accurately, 1:0!
This goal completely disrupted Porto's plan, and their defense could not stop Real Madrid's attack.
According to their pre-game idea, they stabilized their defense first and then slowly planned to counterattack. However, during the game, they found that Real Madrid was pulling the whole game, looking for gaps, and passing threatening balls, which made them exhausted. Not to mention finding gaps, Moutinho was simply using himself as an engineer's midfielder.
The forwards in the frontcourt need to assist in the backcourt defense, who else has enough time to run?
In the 39th minute, midfielder Sousa made a mistake in the harassment of Kaka. After Thiago Silva got the ball, she accurately passed the ball into the front of the opponent's penalty area with a precise diagonal pass. After Messi got the ball, she killed the penalty area directly, stopped the ball, picked the ball, pushed the ball, and shot. The whole action was completed in one go, and the ball went straight from the side of the goalkeeper who was attacking, 2:0!
Porto completely collapsed. They expected Real Madrid to be strong, but they absolutely did not expect it to be so strong. They didn't even have the chance to easily control the ball in Real Madrid's half. Often, as soon as the ball entered Real Madrid's half, they were forced to pass it back, either because of an offensive mistake or the front was blocked and had to be reorganized.
This result of being crushed by the opponent in the half was definitely something Porto did not expect, especially as Boas, who led Porto to perform well last season and was detained with Mourinho II. He really couldn't have imagined that Real Madrid's tactical attack power this season would be so strong.
In fact, it is not difficult to guess that the offensive formation and treads composed of Cristiano Ronaldo, Aguero, Messi, Kaka, David Silva, Iniesta, the six most powerful offensive players in the world are definitely a nightmare for all defenses. They have the ability to find or create gaps and loopholes on any defense line.
In the second half, Real Madrid launched a round of fierce attacks at the beginning and scored two goals against Porto in one breath, Boas was really a kind of sadness of helplessness, because even if his team defended, they could not defend Real Madrid's attack, so how could they talk about counterattack?
Besides, Real Madrid's defense line, Ramos, Thiago Silva and Aveloa, are all very fast and have strong defensive and predictive abilities. Porto's players really have no advantage in them.
When he was lagging behind in all aspects, Boas and his Porto could only swallow the bitter fruit of their defeat!
The League Cup champion last season was beaten 0:4 by the Champions League last season, and lost this season's European Super Cup in shame. Real Madrid took advantage of this game to win the two major cup championships before the season and fired the first shot for the new season.
Chapter completed!