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Volume 5: Flying Dragon in the Sky Chapter 675: Dig a hole for you to jump into

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    Chapter 675 Digging a hole for you to jump into

    ¡°We are first in the groupI don¡¯t know who our next opponent will be.¡±

    After a heavy rain during yesterday¡¯s game, the weather was extremely sunny this morning. The sun shone on the streets with raindrops, making the entire Zurich look crystal clear.

    Such beautiful scenery also made the coaches who got up on time feel relaxed and happy. After yesterday's big victory, Xiao Ming gave the players a half-day off. They were originally going to Basel today to prepare for the quarter-finals. Naturally,  Training cannot be scheduled on time. The players who had been holding back for a long time played all night last night and were basically catching up on their sleep at this time.

    Venables looked at the beautiful scenery outside the window and couldn't help but mutter. Xiao Ming laughed: "Spain, Italy, Swedenit's definitely one of these three teams, but it depends on the situation.  It is unlikely that we will go to Spain, and we will probably meet one of Sweden or Italy."

    This is quite normal. Spain has basically qualified in advance. As long as it wins Greece, it will guarantee the top three. If Sweden wants to qualify, it must draw with Italy. If Italy wants to qualify, it must beat Sweden. If it draws, it will be eliminated.

    "Spain is probably unlikelySweden and Italy, our opponents are probably one of these two teams. Looking at the situation now, Sweden seems to have a better chance. Their defense and offense are not bad.  Italy their strength dropped very quickly after the World Cup." Pierce thought about it for a while, and then said: "Sweden is not very good at playing. They have many players who have played in the Premier League and are familiar with us, and Italy  Bu is in good form and scored one goal in each of the two group matches."

    "I think Italy is more likely to encounter us." Xiao Ming laughed: "Don't underestimate Italy. Although Italy's defense is not very good, in terms of offense, it is quite good.  It¡¯s unique.¡±

    This Italian team is not a standard Italian team. They conceded a lot of goals in the qualifying matches and group matches. On the contrary, Donadoni did a very good job offensively. He used Cassano and Toni as partners.  It was effective. In the previous game, Toni and Cassano each scored a goal to help Italy defeat Greece.

    "They have to win to qualify, and Sweden has entered the quarterfinals in three consecutive competitions. Their performance in the group stage has always been good." Seeing Xiao Ming's confident look, Venables reluctantly  He kept saying something.

    Xiao Ming glanced at him and half-smiled: "Then let's make a bet. If our opponent is Italy, then you can treat us all to coffee tonight. If our opponent is Sweden, then it will be my turn. Okay.  no?"

    Venables readily agreed: "Okay, let's do it."

    "What if our opponent is Spain?" Pierce suddenly asked such a question.

    Xiao Ming laughed: "Stuart, it's your turn to invite me!"

    "Why me?" Pierce said dissatisfiedly. It's okay to invite him to drink coffee, but why is it him?

    "Who asked you to invite Spain? You just said it was impossible. If you don't invite it, do you need someone else to invite it?" Xiao Ming laughed, leaving Pierce speechless.

    Venables really shouldn't have bet with Xiao Ming - Xiao Ming has always been very lucky and will never lose a bet.

    In the two games that afternoon, Spain defeated Greece 2-1 with most of its substitutes, winning two and drawing one to qualify first in the group. Italy, on the other hand, showed strong strength in the life-and-death battle, relying on  Thanks to the goals of two midfielders, Pirlo and De Rossi, they defeated Sweden with a clean score of 2-0. After a disastrous defeat in the first game, they won two consecutive games to qualify and will face England in the quarter-finals.

    "It's Italy"

    Seeing that he lost the bet, Venables didn't show any displeasure. After all, it was just a few cups of coffee, but it didn't matter, but the match against Italy made him feel that maybe it would be easier to deal with Spain.

    Not only he was thinking this way, but almost the entire England coaching staff was thinking this way. Although Spain played very well in the group stage, and the 4-1 slaughter of Italy made people feel that it was a bit too strong, but under the guidance of these professional coaches,  It seems that Spain is still a bit unstable. This was the case in the World Cup two years ago. They also played extremely well in the group, and then won consecutive wins and qualified, and then they were immediately beaten by the old, old, and small French national teams.  Three to one, for England, it may be much better to encounter Spain, an unstable pseudo-rich team, than Italy, an absolute giant that can break out at any time.

    Yes, no matter how brilliant Real Madrid and Barcelona are, inXiao Ming has now begun to like the feeling of coaching the national team. This is a completely different feeling from coaching a club. There is no need to think too much about the future. All that needs to be considered is the present, how to combine the strengths at hand to form a diversified team.  Tactics, which further tests the skills of a head coach.

    In fact, Xiao Ming was originally a head coach with a stronger tactical vision than a strategic vision. His previous strategic vision was just taking advantage of the prophet. On the contrary, his results in the cup were much better than those in the league.  More, at least no head coach seems to be able to compare with him in terms of his probability of winning the Champions League.

    For this European Championship, Xiao Ming did not regard it as a cup competition at all, but as a game - the pit he dug before was like using ordinary tactics to paralyze the opponent in the first half.  Then prepare to highlight the Qi soldiers in the second half to kill the opponent

    Before, digging a hole for Van Basten to jump to was like setting off a smoke bomb before the game, but now digging a hole for Donadoni to jump to is using the most unexpected substitutions to kill the opponent midway. The difference is just in time.  In essence, there is no difference.

    These stars are certainly majestic when they play football, and they are also good people - players who are not smart enough cannot become coaches after being stars like them, and no one will dare to hire players with some mental problems even after they retire.  They are the head coaches - it's just that Donadoni and Van Basten have the same problem. Their experience in coaching the first team is too short. Van Basten has been serving as a youth coach, while Donadoni has become an Italian coach.  The head coach of the national team played in the United States for the past four years, and after that he only served as a Serie A coach for less than one season. He has a huge lack of experience. Although Xiao Ming considers himself not a genius coach, he has been working with top-level coaches for so many years.  After the competition, the coach found that as long as he carefully dug a hole, Donadoni would not be allowed to jump.

    Imagine that Donadoni has carefully planned how to deal with England's traditional tactics and Xiao Ming's defensive counterattack, and suddenly encounters a midfielder disrupting the game and England without a standard forward. Donadoni's expression will be  Seeing this, Xiao Ming felt like laughing.

    He is looking forward to this game more and more.
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