Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 272 Mourinho's biggest enemy turned out to be him
The closer the match with Liverpool is, the more lively the city of Rome will be.

It's not that the top three in Serie A in the north are not well-known enough, and the games against them do not attract the attention of fans, but that the city of Rome hasn't ushered in a heavyweight Champions League-level giant team for several years.

Coupled with the aesthetic fatigue of the domestic league, it is easy to see that the local fans are far more excited about the arrival of Liverpool than when the top three in the north are playing away games.

Under the coordination of UEFA, Rome left 12000 tickets for the away game. After the 58000 tickets sold locally were released online, they were booked out in an instant.

Of course, there are a lot of hospitality tickets.

Needless to say, the celebrities in Rome, Totti, De Rossi, Cafu, Aldair, and even Batty and other famous celebrities who have not stayed in the team for a long time will observe on the spot,

A group of people also came from Liverpool, from the "King" Dalglish, John Barnes, to Gerrard, Carragher, and Michael Owen, who was later excluded from the ranks of celebrities by Liverpool fans because he switched to the Red Devils Manchester United. They also came to Rome.

In addition to the celebrities of the two teams, there are also many third-party fans who have booked their seats through the Club of Rome in advance, or announced in advance on social media that they will also come to watch the game:

Italian national team coach Roberto Mancini, Spanish national team coach Luis Enrique, Dutch national team coach Louis van Gaal, Croatian national team coach Dalic, Argentine national team coach Scaloni, and England national team coach Southgate also came to the scene.

There are also Gary Neville and Thierry Henry as live commentators for Sky Sports.

There are many other legendary players like Ronaldo, Pirlo, etc. who have no clear reason.

Those who knew it knew it was the opening match of the Champions League group stage, but those who didn't know it thought it was the final of the Champions League, making it so eye-catching.

As England fans arrived one after another, the Roman police were also on standby.

In just three days, more than 40 England fans, or more precisely football hooligans, were arrested and detained for drunken brawls with local supporters in the city centre.

But the local fans in Rome are naturally not vegetarian. Several major fan organizations have formulated detailed "reception" plans, making giant crowd flags held by hands in the stands, raising and waving team flags, posters, slogans, and even preparations. Well there are a couple of songs dedicated to sparring, sarcasm and lashing out at Liverpool.

Don't think that all the contests will not happen until after the game starts. Outside the bar where England fans gather, there are diehard Roman fans singing war songs in teams there.

The English, on the other hand, do not have the opera talent of the Italians. They prefer to solve problems with their fists when they are drunk, which is why the Roman police are chasing them around.

Mourinho hopes that the players will focus on the process and the result, while underestimating the opponent in the battle is Liverpool.

The underestimation he said does not mean looking down on or underestimating the opponent, but not thinking that playing against Liverpool is such a great thing, but in the end it becomes a behavioral burden.

Many young players will become "abnormal" when they play against the giants they support and idols they admire. They are either restrained, or they want to prove themselves too much and walk away.

You know, wanting to prove yourself too much on the court is the same as underestimating your opponent, which will cause deformation of movements and tactics.

Three days before the start of the game, Chen Xiaoliang finally finished his recuperation and observation, and returned to the team to participate in training.

The result of the last 3-3 draw, plus an assist to Dybala, allowed him to gain 5 training points, and the training two days before the start of the game brought another 8 training points.

Training value 36 → 49
The ability is basically 15, and if it goes up, it will need 80 training points. These 49 points can only be saved for the time being.

But before the game started, Chen Xiaoliang encountered a "challenge" on the training ground.

During the half-court offensive and defensive drills, Gwadior took the initiative to defend Chen Xiaoliang time and time again. Whether it was blocking shots, tackling dribbles or competing for high-altitude balls, every time it was like clockwork, there was nothing wrong with it. The captain in front of him showed some sympathy.

And Chen Xiaoliang also found it interesting. This kind of experience was often staged between the two in extra training when Enzo first joined the team. The opponent's offense advances, and Gwadiol, who is the team's last line of defense, will use more defensive methods to end the offense.

Faced with such a highly targeted "challenge", Chen Xiaoliang had no good solution for a while, especially the half-court offensive and defensive drills. It was not a random bullfight or a one-on-one fight. Both sides had clearly stipulated tactical arrangements by the coaching staff. The attacking team represented by Chen Xiaoliang practiced the combination of side and center, and in the new defensive combination, Gwadiol was just given the task of intercepting and attacking by Mourinho.

This is also to use his characteristics of speed, daring to strike, and tough style of play to make up for the shortcomings of the existing two main right center back players, Smalling and Mancini, who turn slowly and have weak second defensive return ability.

However, although the intention of the challenge is very clear, Gwadiol has no problems in terms of personal conduct and quality. Even if he sometimes collides with his teammates because of his fierce feet, he will greet him politely, and then take the initiative to reach out to the ground. Teammates pull up.

But maybe after a while, he will shovel and grab it fiercely.

But Chen Xiaoliang didn't care. Instead, after the training, Sesco and Enzo asked him when they practiced with him:
"Captain, why don't you give the newcomer some color? This is not like you."

Chen Xiaoliang chuckled: "How can I show him color?"

Cesko stared at him: "Shoot him!"

Enzo said: "I also want to shovel him, but he and I are both defenders..."

Chen Xiaoliang laughed loudly: "Then I'm on the offensive side, and I can't tackle him. It's okay. The coach will be very happy to see his attitude. I also hope that when he comes, the team's defense can be less. some mistakes."

Cesko whispered: "That can't make the newcomer so arrogant..."

Chen Xiaoliang: "Hey, let me go. You were too elegant when you first came? Didn't you squeeze Tammy (Abraham) to the bench? Besides, he is a central defender. How much do you think I and a midfielder can have?" This is the second chance to grab the ball from the opposing centre-back."

"Stay focused on the next opponent."

The three were chatting, while Kvaratshelia remained silent.

The sunny and generous Cesko can never hide his words in his heart: "Keva, don't be nervous, it seems that you don't say a word."

Kwa turned his head and smiled at him: "I'm not nervous, but I don't know if the head coach will let me start."

Chen Xiaoliang was really amused by these three football-obsessed peers, and said to Kewa: "Don't worry, he's been waiting for this moment."

Those who know birds, Xiao Liang also.

Although the grievances between Mourinho and Guardiola represented by "Guamu look at each other" are more familiar to fans, in fact, in Mourinho's coaching career, Klopp is his biggest sufferer.

In the Red Country, many people have given Klopp the nickname of "Falling, Falling and Falling Worker".

Among the coaches who have played more than 5 times, the German coach is simply the nemesis of Mourinho.

The two have played against each other 13 times. Mourinho has 2 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses. He is absolutely weak, with a winning rate of only 15%, which is lower than Ronald Koeman's 16.7% and Guardiola's 20%.

During Mourinho's time in charge of Real Madrid, his team met Dortmund twice in the Champions League, once in the group stage and once in the Champions League semi-finals.

At that time, in the group stage, Dortmund first defeated Real Madrid 2-1, and then tied the Galacticos 2-2 in the away game.

In the Champions League semi-finals, Dortmund won 4-1 at home and lost 0-2 away, but still eliminated Real Madrid and reached the final.

In the Premier League, Mourinho once confronted Klopp once as the coach of Chelsea, and the result was a 1-1 defeat. Thorn, it is a 3-game losing streak.

And the 4th and 5th "Magic Bird Busters" are the current Tottenham coach Conte and Frank Rijkaard, one of the Dutch Three Musketeers who have retired for a long time. Mourinho will face the two teams , with only a 33% winning rate.

In the 4-1 match between Dortmund and Real Madrid at home, Lewandowski in the Westfalenstadion showed his power and scored four goals. Real Madrid was defeated. Accept, dismiss get out of class sadly.

In the Premier League 2.0 era, Mourinho, who returned to Chelsea for the second time earlier, really couldn't avoid Klopp's killing star: In December 2015, the "Mu II" Blues encountered Liverpool and lost 12 To 1, the team completely collapsed.

After this battle, it was exactly one month later that Mourinho, who had lost consecutive games, heard the boss Abramovich's second dismissal bell in the middle of the league.

Do you think it is enough for one person to send Mourinho out of work twice?

No, it's not over yet.

When Mourinho moved to Manchester United, Klopp was still with him.

In the first two matches between the two in the "Double Red Club", Mourinho briefly took the lead with 1 win and 1 draw. It seemed that everything was moving in the direction of changing fate. Witnessed by more than 2018 players, as well as members of the board of directors including the Glazer family, Sir Alex Ferguson, and CEO Ed Woodward, the audience was blasted 12 times by Liverpool and lost 6-36 to Manchester United. I tried my last patience with Mourinho.

This time it took less than a month, and only one day later, Manchester United issued an announcement and fired Mourinho.

When the rest of the Premier League expressed their dissatisfaction with Klopp's inhumanity and insisted on kicking Mourinho out of class, Klopp did not forget to add salt to the wound. He replied like this Reporter's:

"He wants to be successful at Manchester United, but when the results don't go his way, the manager has to suffer the consequences. I certainly don't doubt he'll find a job two days after being sacked, compared to those in the lower leagues who have nowhere to go. Coach, Mourinho is so lucky."

The implication is that in his eyes, Mourinho is just a "lucky guy" who lives on his laurels and works.

But don't think that this is Klopp's initiative to pick things up. In September 2018, three months before he was shot 9 times, Mourinho, who was already embattled at the time, lost to Tottenham. A wild spray at the press conference unexpectedly involved Klopp for no reason:

"Klopp? Does he have an intercontinental title?"

Since then, every time Klopp scores a goal in a game, he will definitely perform his iconic "Farmer's Three Punches" in front of Mourinho.

After the madman came to Tottenham, the fate continued.

In the 2019-20 season, Mourinho led Tottenham to put the bus twice, but in the end they lost 1 goal to Klopp's Red Army.

In the 2020-21 season, the two teams drew in the first 90 minutes. Mourinho, who thought he could finally end the losing streak against Klopp, was killed by Firmino in stoppage time...

The second game was a clean 1-3 loss at home.

Although Klopp is no longer the culprit for Magic Bird's dismissal this time, the poor record against the other five teams in BIG6 finally made Mourinho's fate.

Therefore, when a fan claims to be a loyal fan of Mourinho, but regards Guardiola as the number one enemy, it can basically be verified that he does not watch Mourinho's games very much...

This is why this season, Mourinho, who is strong and strong, insisted on suppressing the secret weapon of Kwa until the last moment of Xia Chuang before playing.

Because the three Premier League teams in the second tier, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, plus Barcelona, ​​excluding Juventus, the impossible team from the same country, 7 of the 4 teams are full of grievances, 57 The probability of encountering a big enemy makes Mourinho have to prepare in advance in order to let out a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, he got the person he most wanted to defeat.

He wants to end the humiliating five-game losing streak against Klopp, and give him a fatal blow when the German leads Liverpool in the new season, and let him taste how he treated himself in the past.

How could Chen Xiaoliang, his head coach, not be clear? Sometimes even Mourinho himself felt that the captain he carefully selected knew him better than he imagined.

And on a few occasions, he also felt that Chen Xiaoliang did not agree with all his ideas and arrangements, but would make full use of his influence in the locker room to lubricate the relationship between the head coach and the locker room.

This is also the reason why this Roman team has always been highly united despite its thorns and contradictions, and there may be thorns and contradictions in the future.

He doesn't need to use Ronaldo and others' foreign faction to check and balance the local faction headed by Casillas like he did in Real Madrid, nor does he need to use Terry, Ivanovic, etc. to support his own in the second period of Mu. The old man, to suppress Hazard, Courtois and other newcomers who have no affection for Mourinho.

The Eva incident is nothing more than an obvious trigger. In the politically correct environment, this has given some players who were already dissatisfied with Mourinho a legitimate reason to challenge and question.

After Rampart and Drogba have left the team, and Terry, Ivanovic and others have lost their playing time due to aging, they have been unable to help Mourinho fully control the locker room.

In this case, the madman will always perform his most frequently used, but also the most double-edged behavior - publicly berating the players in the press conference.

At Chelsea, he did this, and the locker room collapsed completely. Afterwards, Manchester United and Tottenham also did not get the support of the locker room, let alone two of these two teams who were very capable of doing things. The French - Pogba and Lloris.

The ability of this group of French players to engage in affairs and internal strife seems to be innate, does not need to be adjusted, and is inherited in the same strain.

But now in Rome, after publicly naming and accusing Karlsdorp at the press conference, Mourinho accepted Chen Xiaoliang's private suggestion and promised that at least during Rome, he would not adopt this approach again.

Because he now has a weapon that is more deterrent to thorns and has the least side effects on foreign affairs-the locker room isolation.

Chen Xiaoliang will try his best to unite all the players, and help them ease the relationship with teammates and the coaching staff, but once Karlsdorp makes irresponsible mistakes on the court, he will still die in the locker room. , Players who think they have made no mistakes and forcibly dump the blame will surely be unanimously isolated in the locker room.

This is why Spinazzola and Mancini apologized to the team as soon as they made a big mistake in the last game against Udinese.

They know that if they want to save face, they will suffer.

After all, confidence comes from strength, and absolute confidence comes from absolute strength.

Just like what Pellegrini said to Cristante after the training, those players in the team who thought they were the No. The supporting role will do.

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