opening a balotelli

Chapter 237 The key battle of the world preliminaries, preparing for the Neon

Before the game, many people thought that Sheffield United, which has strong offensive firepower, and Chelsea, which is taking the road of technology, would present a goal battle, but they did not expect such a result.

Defend, counterattack, defend again, counterattack again.

Speed ​​used the simplest and safest tactics to teach Di Matteo a lesson at Stamford Bridge.

Defensive counterattack, you say it has technical content, but it is not necessarily true. The focus is on economical benefits. Basically, any team can use it, but when you have suitable stars in your team, then It seems very useful.

He was talking about Li Mo and Bell, and Di Matteo gritted his teeth as he looked at these two.

It's really "give me a player like me and I can win"!
Sheffield United had 42% possession of the ball in this game, and they only shot [-] times in total. Among them, Li Mo took [-] shots, [-] shots on target, and scored [-] goal. Bell shot [-] times, [-] shot on target, and scored [-] goal. Di kicked a plane after coming on in the second half, and it was gone.

With such data, coupled with De Bruyne's magical pass, Sheffield United won the final game.

However, Chelsea had to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat when they had 58% ball possession, [-] shots and a total of [-] set-piece opportunities.

Are you angry? It's so annoying.

But this is football, tactics are never good or bad, only suitable or not.

Sheffield United gave up the ball for a lot of time in the game, but Chelsea couldn't get in.

In the end, it was basically a shot from both sides of the penalty area, but Torres couldn't do it, and neither could Sturridge. Lampard was forced to push into the Sheffield United penalty area to act as a fulcrum in the final period of the game.

In such a situation, Sheffield United directly let Chelsea "swipe the data".

Anyway, your offense can't really threaten my goal, strangle Hazard who broke out, and you can play high-altitude balls if you like.

After making up for the shortcomings of the central defender, Sheffield United is really not afraid of opponents playing high-altitude bombing.

If Drogba is still in the Chelsea team, then Sheffield United will give the greatest respect, but if you take Sturridge and Lampard to compete for the top in the penalty area, who do you look down on? !
At the last moment, Ivan the Great, Terry and David Luiz entered the penalty area of ​​Sheffield United, which made Speed ​​nervous.

But it turns out that in front of Maguire, Vertonghen, Matic and Li Mo, Chelsea's central defenders are still a bit meaningless.

Advancing, attacking, retreating, and defending, Li Mo once again staged a miraculous performance. In the last 5 minutes, he succeeded in single-handedly defending Terry, almost killing Terry.

Are you a central defender or am I a central defender?

The defense is so good, the header is so good, come to Chelsea and drive back with us!
When the whistle blew for the end of the game, Terry looked at Li Mo who was celebrating happily with his teammates, and shook his head helplessly.

"If Didier was still around, I'm sure this game wouldn't have turned out like this."

When Terry took the initiative to hug Li Mo, he said such a sentence with some regret.

In his opinion, Drogba was in a very good state last season, so there is no need to go to the Eastern market so early to make money.

But the old friend is obviously satisfied after winning the Champions League. Everyone has his own ambitions, and he can't force it.

But now he is not very optimistic about the few forwards in the team.

In contrast, he even felt that Lukaku, who was loaned out this season, was not bad.

You know, in the previous training, he has been teaching the opponent to be tougher. Compared with Drogba when he was young, Lukaku was too "soft". After training, I still don't have the strength to play for Chelsea.

However, the performance of Torres and Sturridge today made him quickly change his mind. Compared with them, Lukaku is so good, anyway, his speed and impact are much stronger.

Forget about the fulcrum, let’s talk about other aspects.

Li Mo just smiled and said nothing. After exchanging jerseys with Terry, he said politely and wished them all the best for the next game.

The development trajectory of professional winger Lukaku is really hard to describe.

However, Chelsea has been suffering for the past two years. When the prosperous beauty Costa arrives, they will be able to live a good life with a fulcrum. Now, they can only bear with it.

After a brief celebration of the third win at Stamford Bridge, the Sheffield United team also rushed back to Sheffield that night.

For the players who are about to report to their respective national teams, Speed ​​nagged for a long time, repeatedly emphasizing that they should protect themselves and not get injured in the national team games.

After all, it will not be long after playing the national team to play the Champions League, and it will be very troublesome to hurt a main player at that time.

But on the international match day, whether the players will play and how many minutes they will play depends on the arrangement of the coaches of their respective national teams. All Speed ​​can do is pray that the goddess of luck will protect the Sheffield United players more.

As the team's most watched star, Li Mo will not be able to keep a low profile if he returns to China this time.

Uncle Li Lijun is still helping him find local young coaches with real talents and knowledge in China, and will ask Mendes to help him get further training in Europe.

Don't get me wrong, it's not about cultivating professional coaches to lead clubs to play games, but to first create a group of youth training coaches with correct scientific concepts.

So Li Mo is still returning home alone this time.

Well, it's not appropriate to say that he is alone, because his assistant team will go back with him, and Charlie will also help him negotiate some business cooperation in Huaguo.

Now it is true that you may have to work wherever you go, and Li Mo has no choice but to learn to adapt.

But on the way home, there is also good news.

That is, he is about to meet up with Hao Junmin and the others in Frankfurt, so he can be regarded as a companion on the plane.

When they met, Li Mo saw Wu Sanshi for the first time. Standing between Zhang Linpeng and Huang Bowen, he didn't seem to have become much thicker, but he looked more energetic, and he also cut A short inch, greeted Li Mo warmly when he saw Li Mo.

After meeting and saying hello, Li Mo squeezed Wu Sanshi's arm directly.

Hey, it seems that Wu Sanshi has not lost much meat during this period. Although he looks lean, he has gained a lot of muscle.

"Your coach still seems to value you very much. You have all played. Although you are still coming off the bench, I think you are doing well. Keep working hard."

Li Mo's praise made Wu Sanshi smile naively.

When he was in Xia Chuang, he was introduced by Mendes' team to Cologne for trial training. Director Xu happily agreed to the Cologne team's loan request after hearing that the trial training was successful.

There is no buyout clause, but Director Xu believes that Wu Sanshi can stay in Germany because he is his best disciple.

After Wu Sanshi's special training in the summer, although he still has some minor problems that he developed while playing in China, his speed and running ability impressed the head coach of the Cologne team immediately, so he stayed Still not difficult.

With the care of several elder brothers who play football in Germany, Wu Sanshi has not encountered any major problems in life.

After more than two weeks of high-intensity rhythm training with Li Mo, he was mentally prepared and worked hard after staying in Cologne.

In addition to earnestly completing training every day and meticulously doing physical therapy to protect his health, what he does most is to practice shooting.

Being able to score from both sides and playing football unselfishly made him quickly gain the trust of the Cologne coaching team.

However, before playing the game, he also experienced the hard work of gaining muscle.

But the head coach of Cologne also gave him a chance. After he met the requirements of the game, he was sent off the bench at the end of the first half in the fourth round of the Bundesliga Bundesliga that just ended.

He played 57 minutes without scoring or assisting, but Wu Sanshi made a key penalty kick to help the team beat the opponent 2-1 at home, and also helped him win the hearts of the fans of the home team.

Regardless of the four rounds of the Bundesliga Bundesliga, Wu Sanshi has just played, and he feels that his chances are less. On the contrary, Li Mo feels that the head coach of the Cologne team pays enough attention to him.

After all, it was only a short time for Wu Sanshi to go to Germany. Muscle building is a long-term process. Wu Sanshi may have just reached the minimum appearance requirements of the coaching staff in more than a month, but the head coach dared to play him at this time. It shows that his strength and talent are quite recognized.

As long as there are no serious injuries in the future and he studies his shooting skills carefully, Li Mo feels that Wu Sanshi will be able to kick him out sooner or later.

However, Zhang Linpeng and Huang Bowen are now maintaining a good performance, and they have continued to stabilize their respective teams as the main force. In comparison, Zhang Linpeng has already had rumors with several Bundesliga teams, and his development prospects will be better. .

Of course, compared with Hao Junmin, the current development of the two is not enough.

Frankfurt started with two consecutive victories. Hao Junmin also played two games as the main defensive midfielder. In the second round of the victory over Hoffenheim, he even contributed two assists. Completely blasted the pot.

Although the Bundesliga has just started, it is still impossible to draw conclusions on the strength of each team during this period of time, but Frankfurt is now on the same score as Bayern, ranking second in the Bundesliga only with a goal difference disadvantage, and it is also the only goal that the Bundesliga started with two consecutive victories. Team, such a result cannot be faked.

Hao Junmin returned to the Bundesliga with an extremely flamboyant gesture after settling down for a year in the Bundesliga. His inspirational script made his popularity soar. Now his fame in the Chinese football circle is second only to Li Mo. It can be said that he is in the limelight. Sheng.

However, Hao Junmin's own mind is very clear. After meeting with Li Mo, he also joked that he has now become a "sweet pastry" in the eyes of the domestic media.

He still remembers the praise and insults that the media gave him back then, and it seems that he has suffered a lot, and he doesn't pay much attention to it from the outside world.

This made Li Mo feel relieved. It seems that this person really has a lot of tempering, suffering, beating, and despair before he can truly become calm.

Hao Junmin's current mentality is as stable as an old dog. With him in Germany, Li Mo believes that Zhang Linpeng and the others will not become smug. This is the role of an example.

Several people chatted happily on the plane, but at the moment the neon sports circle is tense.

In the new season of the Premier League, Sheffield United won all three games, and Li Mo even scored seven goals in three games. Not to mention that he is in terrible form. Now Hao Junmin is also playing in the Bundesliga. It's hard not to be nervous.

Not only Huaguo regards the world preliminaries against Neon as very important, but so does Neon.

Many media even shouted the slogan that the biggest opponent in the same group is not Australia, but China.

Australia's past record is scary, but its performance in the top ten this year is really not good.

In the first round against Oman, it was a humiliating draw. In the second game, the Neon team was beaten again at home. If the Neon team hadn’t had good luck in the game, Australia might have ushered in their first defeat in the top ten. .

0-0 in one game, 1-1 in one game, Australia only had two points after two rounds, and the problem of weak offense was very serious.

In contrast, with two consecutive victories in the top ten matches and six points currently, second only to Nihong, which has seven points in three games, the Huaguo team, which ranks second in Group B, seems a bit "supermodel" in terms of offensive firepower.

Now no one dares to say "Li Mo is the only Hua Guo team".

In the face of Li Mo, a bug-like big devil, who is completely dimension-reducing and attack-like in Asia, the coaching team of the Neon team has been studying repeatedly for several months.

Originally, they expected that Li Mo's condition would not be good in the new season, but after seeing Li Mo perform back-to-back hat-tricks in the Premier League, the coaching staff of the Neon team lost their hair in handfuls of worry.

The famous Italian coach Zaccheroni who took over the coach of the Neon team in 2010 is also worried about watching Li Mo's game video at the moment.

Different from the European division, the overall level of the teams in the Asian division is really too low. Under the general environment, only Neon, South Korea and Iran are currently at a good level.

Australia is going downhill, and Zaccheroni has never really regarded Australia as the opponent of the Neon team. Only the sudden emergence of the Huaguo team gave him a headache when he thought about it.

Because Li Mo's strength is too outstanding.

It turned out that we could try to bully the Huaguo team's midfielder, by cutting off the link between the Huaguo team's other players and Li Mo, so that Li Mo would fall into an endless loop of fighting alone. Using this method to beat the Huaguo team, the effect Should be fine.

But it's hard to say now. Facing the combination of Hao Junmin, Huang Bowen and Shao Jiayi, although the Nihong team's midfielder still has the upper hand in strength, they don't have the confidence to talk about completely suppressing it.

The Huaguo team's midfield strength has improved too fast, especially Hao Junmin's transformation after precipitation, which made Zaccheroni take the Huaguo team's current strength seriously.

If you have to find a breakthrough, the Huaguo team's defense may not be stable enough, but with the Huaguo team's midfielder providing effective support to Li Mo, the Neon team can really catch up before Li Mo breaks the goal. To score first?
Zaccheroni does not know, because there has never been a superstar like Li Mo in the history of Asian football before.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi's performance in their respective national teams has not met the expectations of the fans. That is because their competition areas are also full of strong players, and their opponents are also world-class superstars, but what is strong in Asia? player?
Even if it is the Neon team, although their defensive players are good, they are really mediocre in the five major leagues, and they are not good enough in front of Li Mo.

To give the simplest example, Drogba may be more difficult to play against the defense of Ferdinand and Vidic, but let the peak Drogba play Makoto Hasebe and Maya Yoshida, guess what the situation will be ?

Li Mo is now inferior to Drogba at the peak, and he is only one-handedly short of experience, and may be slightly inferior in confrontation ability, but he is completely surpassed in scoring ability.

Facing Li Mo, if you don't invest a lot of energy in defense, you will definitely be unable to contain it. However, investing a lot of troops on the defensive end means that the Neon team cannot fully support the offensive players.

This is an almost unsolvable conundrum.

The Oman team and the earlier Jordan and Iraq teams even told Zaccheroni with their tragic experience that Li Mo didn't care how many people defended him.

It would definitely be a stupid defensive tactic to limit Li Mo by stacking people.

Because Li Mo's destructive power can be fully released even with the simplest crossing method. The Hua Guo team's moves can be very simple, but Zaccheroni can't deal with it simply.

Struggling to the end, Zaccheroni could only do his best and obey the destiny.

He plans to use a formation that the Neon team has never played before to meet the challenge of the Huaguo team. As for the final result, he has no idea. He can only pray that the goddess of luck will stand on the same front with him at that time
The news of the "Overseas Legion" appearing at Hongqiao Airport swept the entire Hua Kingdom on the evening of September 9.

However, several parties concerned stayed in the hotel where the Hua Guo team stayed on Chongming Island in a low-key manner.

At present, except for a few overseas players who have just returned to China, the other players of the Huaguo team have already started training.

On September 9th, we will leave for Neon, so the time is relatively tight. The friendly match is also arranged on September 10th. The Huaguo team will complete the final warm-up before the big battle with the Iraqi team in Shanghai.

However, Director Gao thoughtfully gave the players studying abroad more rest time.

It was only a few days after the European league game, and the overseas players were actually in good condition. Therefore, on the afternoon of September 9th, Li Mo and the others started recovery training with the team.

After the match in the team ended on September 9, Director Gao basically confirmed the list of starting players for the match against Neon on September 5.

With the addition of Wu Sanshi, all overseas players will start on the 11th. In the friendly match against Iraq on September 9, Wu Sanshi also appeared on the left side. He played very well and dared to take the ball to make moves. , The speed is fast, and the technical characteristics are fully displayed, which makes the home fans of Shanghai very happy.

After all, Wu Sanshi is also a domestic genius who has gone out in the magic city, and his popularity in the magic city is quite high.

After Li Mo scored two goals easily in the first half, he didn't sweat much and was replaced by Director Gao. In the second half, Gao Lin and Wu Sanshi both played the center forward position, and the final score was also a neat 4-0.

Li Mo scored twice, Wu Sanshi scored a single goal in the second half, and Huang Bowen scored a wonderful long shot.

In addition, Hao Junmin and Zhang Linpeng performed quite well, and Zheng Zhi's physical fitness did not show any signs of decline, and he maintained it very well.

However, the fans of Shanghai Magic City still couldn't get enough of it.

Everyone just wanted to get a few more glances at Li Mo, and managed to get a ticket. Why did they go down after playing for less than half an hour?
Fortunately, the Hua Guo team will face Nihong in a few days. The battle is imminent, and the fans will continue to wait patiently.

It was Zaccheroni who frowned even more when he heard that Li Mo scored two goals in another [-] minutes in the friendly match.

With the attention of the entire Asian sports world, the focus of Group B of the top ten competition has been hyped up by the media, and the heat is overwhelming.

Li Mo did not make any sound before the game.

But he and his teammates are ready.

This battle must be won!
(End of this chapter)