Chapter 258 Bruce

When the Liverpool players gathered during the afternoon training time, everyone saw that the team's brunette boy was no longer as dull as yesterday.

After yesterday's game, Don Jack's performance and face were really scary. Even Gerrard said a few words and stopped talking. He 'understanded' Don Jack's poor performance and was under great pressure, but the feeling of rejecting people thousands of miles away still made people feel very bad.

But now, the original black-haired boy is back!

Gerrard feels very happy. He has always regarded Liverpool as his home. The members of the family are harmonious and happy, and he will feel very happy. What's more, Jack Don has long been his good friend.

This mentality spread to the whole team.

Although he didn't win yesterday's game, because the head coach Benitez' face was also full of a smile, the whole team was not dull, and there was also laughter during training. This scene made Benitez satisfied, and he felt that the team had returned to the regular development path.

Thinking of this, he looked at the team's No. 10, which was the effect of this boy's transformation. He is really an indispensable member of the team!

However, the Spaniard doesn't seem to think about himself. You know, the head coach is the one who has the most influence on the team. If he keeps standing on the sidelines and scolding the players, I'm afraid no one will be happy.

For coaches, daily training is not the main work. In fact, except for special circumstances, this work is generally done by the coaching staff. Seeing that there is no problem with the team, Benitez is rushing to study the opponent of the next game.

Although it is difficult for media reports to affect the mentality of a famous coach at the level of Benitez, it will not feel good to hear so many doubts. Benitez is the same. What's more, now that the gap between Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea in the league has widened, he must work hard to lead the team to get a A victory, catch up from behind, so that Liverpool will not fall behind in the competition after Christmas and will not leave the first group competing for the league championship in advance like Manchester United.

Maintaining such results will not be possible until the end of the season to win the league championship.

The whole season, in the eyes of ordinary fans, is a game. In the opinion of the coach, a season can be divided into several stages. For various reasons, such as the early, middle and late, it will affect the team's performance at a stage.

If you want to win the league championship, you must always maintain the stability of the team, which is not easy. Especially after Christmas, the intensive schedule and the progress of various key events will suddenly increase the pressure of a team. In addition, the increase of injuries will make a ball with good results. Team, the results have plummeted.

This is normal.

For example, last season's Arsenal, they even led Manchester United by 13 points before Christmas, but in the end Manchester United won the league championship, which is why the team plays a stable role. Compared with Manchester United, Arsenal is still immature in this respect.

Not to mention Liverpool, which has never had good results!

However, Liverpool is better than Arsenal because the team does not have so many too young players. The state of the players can still be guaranteed, that is, the age of the front line is a little younger. Two young players, Pongle and Don Jack, Benitez can't guarantee that the front line is still stable Cise, and Baroche's supplement. He is not too worried.

That seems to be far away, and it is still the next game.

What Benitez thinks is that he must win the next game directly and give a slap in the face to those media who question Liverpool. What Liverpool needs is not only three points, but also a clean victory, so that the team can regain its lost confidence.

The impact of the three-game defeat is too great. Even the mental state of many Liverpool players has been affected. If there is no more victory, Benitez will not have much confidence. For this reason, he must work hard.

Obviously, Jack Don also thinks so.

In the eyes of ordinary players, it is normal not to score goals in two games, but the goal factor in Don Jack's body is about to burst out. After all, he is not an ordinary player, but he has internal support, and his technology has become mature. He does not score goals in two games and even loses. How can this be acceptable?

No at all!

Constant victory is what I pursue, and it is impossible for mediocre career to spend on my own. Thinking of this, Jack Don's training worked harder. Because there was no tactical training on this day, the wall of the Liverpool office building suffered again. After the afternoon training, Assistant coach Holt found the club's staff to 'repair' as soon as possible, and asked to repair it as soon as possible, otherwise it would not be a trivial matter to delay Don Jack's training.

Maybe in a few days, Jack Don will be able to use a thickened wall for shooting training...

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At the same time, in Birmingham City, 70 kilometers away from Liverpool, in Birmingham Club, Birmingham's head coach Bruce is also studying the next round of Premier League opponents, their opponents are Liverpool.

Birmingham Club was founded in 1875. Its initial name was Little Heath United. Unfortunately, this team is not as good as Everton. At least the latter is very competitive with Liverpool, and Birmingham has been living in the shadow of the same city team Aston Villa. Until the early 1960s, after Birmingham played two European teams, Barcelona and Rome in the European Expo Cup final for two consecutive times and won the English League Cup, Birmingham's name began to be noticed.

However, Birmingham sank in 1989, setting a record for the first time in the club's history to play in the Third Division.

But this setback aroused the team's fighting spirit. At that time, head coach Francis tried his best to upgrade the team, but in the three promotion play-offs, he was defeated by Wattford, Bardsley and Preston.

It was not until former Manchester United star and current coach Bruce took office that Birmingham's performance began to rise steadily. In the promotion play-offs in May 2002, Birmingham defeated Norwich in a penalty shootout, which finally made the team realize its wish to rise to the Premier League. In that season, Birmingham successfully completed relegation and defend I won a hard-earned Premier League seat.

Last season, Birmingham's hardness was amazing, and their tight defense also gave Chelsea, Arsenal and other teams a headache.

This summer, Bruce made a lot of tricks in signing, renewing the lease of Foser and buying famous players such as Glenshar, Husky, Melchiot, etc., so that Birmingham even has the confidence and strength to hit the European arena. At least at the beginning of the league, Birmingham emphasized it to the outside world.

It's a pity that nothing is absolute...

This sentence is most suitable to describe Birmingham. Every team has a goal at the beginning of the season, but it may not be able to achieve it. After 11 rounds of the league, Birmingham has only accumulated 14 points, ranking 15th in the league, and the position will only be relegated. It is too far from participating in European competitions.

"It's relegated again!" In the face of this achievement, Bruce also sighed.

There is nothing we can do. The current result is like this. What he must face is to play every game and strive for every point, so that Birmingham will not enter the relegation zone. In this game with Liverpool, Bruce was supposed to give up. For a relegation team, it is the top few in the league. The main thing is that doing so will not bring points, especially for a strong team like Liverpool, which can often bring indelible pain to the ball... For example, Norwich.

However, in the last three league games, Liverpool's three consecutive defeats have rekindled the hope of Bruce.

If the opponent is in a bad state and doesn't work hard to fight for points, he will be a fool. That's what Bruce thinks. He doesn't think he is a fool, so this guy has been studying Liverpool's video and thinking about the tactics of the next game.

He even has the intention to get three points at Anfield...