Extraordinary coach

"GOAL!!!!!"

"What?" Breitenreiter was stunned for a moment when he heard the cheers. Was it a goal?

Who? Which team scored?

Soon, Breitenreiter was completely stunned. Because he had realized that the cheers came from the fans of the Nice team at the scene. There were not many fans of the Schalke 04 team, and they could not make such a big noise.

"We are behind!" Breitenreiter looked up at the field, and after seeing the players of the Nice team cheering and celebrating, he leaned back in his chair a little dejectedly.

How did they fall behind?

Soon, Breitenreiter learned the whole story from the replay on the big screen.

It turned out that when his attention was turned elsewhere, the Schalke 04 team on the field made a mistake in passing the ball under the pressure of the Nice team. After Salah got the ball, he immediately showed his attack, and under the interference of the defender, he forced a long shot from inside. Salah's long shot was saved by the goalkeeper, but Balotelli made a supplementary shot first.

After reading it, Breitenreiter was a little confused. He lost the ball before he could come up with a countermeasure. Although he had a plan for losing the ball, that plan was not realistic.

"Yeah!! Haha. Sun, we succeeded!" Dio was very excited. He was worried before, but now his face was full of excited smiles.

"Yes. We succeeded!" Sun Yi smiled calmly. It seemed that he had expected all this.

After clapping hands with Sun Yi, Dio looked at Sun Yi's calm appearance, and his face couldn't help but show admiration. At this moment, Sun Yi looked like a famous coach who was confident and had everything under control in his eyes.

Sun is really a natural coach! In time, he will definitely become a figure like Guardiola!

But Dio didn't know that Sun Yi's calm appearance was pretended. In fact, he just breathed a sigh of relief from super tension. The reason why he pretended to be calm was just because he didn't want people to know that his arrangement today was just a gamble.

"Brother Sun, you are amazing! Your move was so unexpected and so well used! The opponent didn't expect us to play like this today and was stunned. Awesome!" Dong Fangzhuo next to him gave Sun Yi two thumbs up.

Dong Fangzhuo's flattery made Sun Yi feel very happy. He couldn't help but smile proudly.

After Dong Fangzhuo finished flattering, he looked at the field and said with envy: "Balotelli has exploded in these two games! I'm so envious! When will I have the opportunity to kill like him on the field?"

Sun Yi turned his head to look at Dong Fangzhuo, patted his shoulder and comforted him: "It will be soon. You should work hard now and prepare to participate in training next week."

"Really?" Dong Fangzhuo's eyes lit up. He has always participated in training, but that was only as an assistant coach. The training in Sun Yi's words has another meaning.

"Work hard." Sun Yi nodded.

"Yeah!" Dong Fangzhuo smiled, his eyes full of expectation.

"Watch Balotelli carefully, see his movement and handling of the ball, and then think about how you would handle it more reasonably if it were you." Sun Yi continued.

"Okay. I understand."

Sun Yi's eyes turned back to the field. The game had already started again.

After losing the ball, Schalke 04 obviously intended to counterattack, but inspired by the goal, Nice played more actively and more vigorously. Schalke 04's intention to counterattack failed to be realized.

Looking at this situation, if they continue to play like this, the game will be completely controlled by Nice.

Breitenreiter obviously couldn't accept this situation, so he made a substitution not long after.

He replaced Schepf, who started today, with Ukrainian international Konoplyanka. Schepf is a frontcourt player who is very active in defense and likes to steal. Let him start, the intention is to press Nice in the frontcourt. But Nice unexpectedly turned around and pressed high in the frontcourt, making him unable to play his due role.

Konoplyanka is a fast winger, and his strength has reached the A- level. He is the backbone of Schalke 04's fast counterattack. Sun Yi was most worried about him.

Now Konoplyanka came up, obviously to increase the threat of counterattack. And when Sun Yi saw him coming up, how could he let Breitenreiter's idea succeed? He also began to command his teammates on the field to change the formation.

"Change to tactic number one. Give up tactic number two. From now on, we will change to tactic number one." Anyway, we are already leading, so let's just start defensive counterattacks.

After hearing Sun Yi's words, after a little hesitation, the players on the field began to do what he said.

"Our situation is pretty good, don't we continue to press in the front court?" Back on the bench, Dio asked him with some confusion.

"No. They sent Konoplyanka up. His counterattack is very threatening, we can't give him a chance. And we are already ahead, there is no need to rush." ​​Sun Yi said lightly.

The fans are the ones who don't understand Sun Yi's arrangement the most. They were watching happily and were expecting the players to score again. This sudden retreat made them unhappy.

"What are you doing? We are playing well now, why are you retreating?"

The fans of the Nice team were a little unhappy, and Breitenreiter was even more unhappy. Seeing the change in the formation of the Nice team, he felt that his previous adjustment was like a punch on cotton, which made him very uncomfortable.

If Nice had changed its formation earlier, he would not have replaced Schöpf. Now that Konoplyanka had just been substituted, he could not make another substitution immediately. After all, it had only been less than 30 minutes. Who would replace two players in less than 30 minutes? It would only be possible if there was an injury.

The more Breitenreiter thought about it, the more depressed he felt. From the beginning of this game, he was led by Sun Yi. He was always passive! But now he had no choice but to hope that Nice would change its formation to give Schalke 04 more opportunities.

But all that Breitenreiter hoped for did not happen. Nice's current No. 1 tactic has become more and more perfect after Sun Yi's continuous improvement.

The backcourt area compresses the space to build a defense line, the midfield area conducts high-pressure scrambles, and as long as there is an opportunity, a quick counterattack is launched to launch a wave of "Mourinho counterattack". Nice's No. 1 tactic made Schalke 04, who was preparing to suppress the frontcourt, very uncomfortable.

Schalke 04 wanted to press hard in the frontcourt, but Nice forced them to fight in the midfield. Then, under the very threatening counterattack of Salah and others, they did not dare to press forward with all their strength.

This situation prevented Schalke 04 from equalizing the score after the first half.

In the second half, Breitenreiter made substitutions and adjusted tactics, and also added set-piece tactics. However, in the face of Nice's increasingly mature No. 1 tactics, it still had little effect. In addition, they became more and more anxious as they played, and the threat they could not bring to Nice was not too great.

Throughout the second half, Breitenreiter racked his brains but failed to turn the situation around for Schalke 04. In the end, he could only helplessly swallow the bitter fruit of losing.

1:0, Nice wins.