Chapter 341 Benitez's Ambition 2

Bournemouth is really lucky!

As a League One team, it is more than strength to play in the top 32 in the FA Cup. This sentence seems to look down on League One teams, but the fact is that in England, League One belongs to the third-level league. The teams in this level are worse than the Premier League and even the Championship. It can't be calculated from the distance. It's just the cost of TV broadcasting for a season. The gap between the two can be calculated in millions of pounds, and that's what a League One team often has.

Think about it, over time, the gap between the two will gradually widen until it is completely impossible to catch up.

That is to say, when a League One team meets a Championship team, it is often more difficult to play than a Champions League team meets a Premier League team. It is the same level worse, but it is really much worse.

Bournemouth is really lucky. After entering the top 64 knockout stage, the opponent they met was an amateur team. In fact, most of the 64 teams are newly joined by the Football League Championship and the Premier League. Think about how rare Bournemouth can play until now.

It's a pity that they have run out of luck.

In the top 32 knockout matches of the FA Cup, their opponent was Liverpool. Not to mention Liverpool, which is one of the best in the Premier League, even if you meet an ordinary Football League Championship team, Bournemouth will have to do its best. Rivals like Liverpool seem too powerful for Bournemouth.

Before the game, all the players in Bournemouth were not depressed.

In fact, it should be said that these players are very excited to play against a Premier League team and an English team, which is a rare opportunity for Bournemouth players. Not only the players, but also the club's attitude is very good. Anyway, Bournemouth can't be arrogant enough to compete for the championship, so it's the same wherever they fall. For Bournemouth Club, it is their pursuit to achieve the greatest benefit in the FA Cup.

Obviously, when they meet Liverpool at home, even if they lose the game easily, they can at least earn millions of pounds in the game, which is more practical than a meaningful honor.

One million pounds is a huge number for a League One team, which is even enough for them to buy two or three good players.

Of course, each club has a different definition of 'good player'.

If you are in Liverpool, not to mention a million pounds, even if you are a 10 million pound player, it depends on whether you meet the tactical requirements of the head coach. However, in League One, young team players of some teams are often good football players, and more players are dug from lower leagues or even amateur leagues. These players have very low tactical literacy and extremely poor personal ability. Those who are excellent are often veteran players, and players worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are already good.

It's lucky to meet Liverpool.

But this is not the only luck. When Bournemouth came to the home court to play with a heart of failure, he found that almost none of the Liverpool players warmed up opposite.

This is strange.

Liverpool's main players are also well-known in the Premier League. In the football circle, stars often attract attention, but now in the Liverpool lineup opposite, there is only one player that can be recognized by Bournemouth players... It's a famous striker, Mailer. It is said that this guy was sent to the reserve team by head coach Benitez two weeks ago. I don't know when he appeared in the first team again, as if he was on the game list.

But it's nothing.

Compared with other players, Mailer is a little famous, because few people can name other players in Bournemouth and reporters. It just so happens that a local reporter in Liverpool saw a player who turned the ball and said his name - Chris. Hahn, Liverpool youth team substitute goalkeeper...

This seems to mean something.

The head coach of Bournemouth was overjoyed. Anyway, the club has got most of the money in this game. As for Liverpool's main force or substitute, who cares so much? In case Bournemouth really beats Liverpool and advances, that's the most celebrated thing.

There is nothing impossible about this.

Liverpool opposite now is just a youth team, Liverpool's youth team? Compared with the Manchester United youth team, the Liverpool youth team is much worse. In comparison, the Manchester United youth team can be regarded as having the strength of the first or second place in the League One, and can barely relegation in the Football League Championship. In fact, the events that the Manchester United youth team participates in are equal to the League One, and they are also the champions of the English Youth FA Cup. A regular visitor of the army. However, the Liverpool youth team is at most equivalent to the level of an ordinary League One team, and the gap between the two can be easily distinguished.

For Bournemouth, it is really not surprising to beat the Liverpool youth team.

Bournemouth was happy. The reporters were lost, and the fans who came to Bournemouth to watch the game were mixed. Some of them came to see the stars. As a result, the stars did not see it, but saw a group of young players. It was really boring, but many people also held a trace of the illusion of the team's victory. I think this kind of result can't be more beneficial to Bournemouth.

As a result, some time before the game, the Bournemouth coach instilled the idea that the players changed from 'we don't care about winning or losing' to 'strive for victory'.

Such a temporary change makes many players uncomfortable.

As a result, when the game started, Bournemouth's overall performance was not very good. They seemed to have a bit of punching into the air. Originally, the whole team was ready to face Liverpool's main team. Suddenly, the opponent dropped two levels, and the players felt very uncomfortable.

And Liverpool is the opposite!

Have these young players ever thought that they would represent the first team?

Now there is a chance, and the head coach is watching on the sidelines, and they don't work hard one by one. For these young people, victory is indispensable, and they also have to strive for their own performance. To achieve this, it is a perfect combination of teamwork and personal ability, and they must give full play to their strength of 120 percent.

Under the balance, after the two teams with similar strength met, Liverpool had the upper hand. As a result, Liverpool took the lead by two goals in the first half. This situation caught Benitez off guard. What he wanted was to let the team lose, but now that he wins two goals in the half, does he want to 'teach' the youth team players to let go?

Well, the Spaniards don't seem to be so thick-skinned.

At halftime, Benitez praised everyone's performance and said, "... You should perform well in the game. Everyone is very clear about the situation of the first team now. I don't mind giving him a chance..."

This statement is to let the youth team players perform themselves and reduce team cooperation in order to make the team unstable.

A very 'insidious' mind...

But after the beginning of the second half, Benitez saw a bloody Liverpool. Every player on the field was trying to show himself. As a result, each of the two strikers in the youth team had a solo performance, while the players in other positions all worked hard. Bournemouth almost did not play in the second half. Any chance is more miserable than the first half.

Sympathy... People who watched the game all sympathized with Bournemouth. They felt that it was really unlucky for this team to meet Liverpool. Although Liverpool sent a youth team, they also had no way to fight back. They were beaten -4 to zero by a youth team, and they were also humiliated and lost to grandma's house.

This game is obviously not a level of battle!

Obviously, he had a chance to advance, but he did not advance because of his poor performance. This is equivalent to missing a great opportunity for a League One team. After the game, the head coach of Bournemouth looked very depressed in the face of reporters. He said that his team did not play well. At the same time, Liverpool was praised, Beni Tes used a youth team to play the game, which was said by reporters as a sign of confidence in the team.

“...... We saw a brave young Liverpool. Benitez knows when and what kind of team to play with. He did it perfectly..."

Benitez just laughed off these praises, but he was very depressed.

Won again!

Losing in the league and winning the FA Cup, even if all the youth and reserve team players are sent, it doesn't seem to help. In the face of players like Bournemouth, the youth team players all showed unexpected strength, which really makes Benitez really don't know what to be like.

"Why can't I lose the ball?" This is the current state of the Spanish mind.

But the next league is still important. In order not to make the same mistake, before playing Charlton, Benitez even asked the team to do two consecutive in-team training matches to test the status of each player. He also let the team doctor watch the game on the sidelines and conduct a physical examination of each player after the game in order to determine some Stability may lead to injuries, and also to see who is suitable to play in the next league.

This seems to have some effect.

In the game with Charlton, Liverpool players performed very well. They played against the weak team on the road. This time, Liverpool players were no longer soft. They beat Charlton one-to-three away from home, giving a big slap to those media who promoted the 'Liverpool's failure theory'.

After that, it was Fulham again.

In the face of Chelsea's sworn enemy, the Liverpool players seem to be very good. They feel that they should let their opponents go and let them teach Chelsea a lesson, because the next game is the London derby between Fulham and Chelsea. Fortunately, this kind of indulgence did not last long. When the substitute Morentes returned to his form, Don Jack's sharp footing began to be shown. After a dull first half, Morentes took the lead in scoring in the second half. Don Jack scored two long-range shots in a row, which fixed the score at 3:1.

But after the game, Benitez was very dissatisfied.

In the face of a group of reporters, the Spaniard expressed dissatisfaction with the team's defense.

At present, Liverpool's midfield is the most short of people, but the players in the backcourt are rarely injured, and the depth of the player's bench is also sufficient, but no matter how the player is changed, the team's defense is always weak and unbearable. Losing two consecutive games is the most obvious performance.

Benitez expressed his dissatisfaction with the team's defense. Perhaps the only defender who satisfied the Spaniards was Jamie. Carragor, this strong man will always be the backbone of the defense, while other defense players make mistakes from time to time, which puts the team in crisis. Even Josemi is the same, and other veterans and young players are even more so. This situation is worrying. The Spaniards are even considering a raise of two youth team players to try. "I'm very satisfied with the last FA Cup. Maybe I should give these young people a chance..." He said so.

This is a kind of mental tactic, in order to put pressure on the team's defenders.

Due to the strength of Liverpool's front line, these defensive players seem to be a little slack, and Benitez also has to tell them in this way: "If you don't defend well, sit on the bench immediately. There are many people who can replace you."

This may be a little useful.

In short, in the next league game against Birmingham, Liverpool did not lose another goal, but won a -2 clean victory.

In this game, Liverpool took the initiative from the beginning. Birmingham's two quick counterattacks were controlled by the defenders. The goalkeeper Kirkland had no room to play, and he became the most free man in the game.

Benitez believes his judgment more: it's not that the team's defense is not good, it's that the players don't work hard!

He firmed his opinion.

This makes him very happy. The strength of his team is really good. The future games will be tough. If there is a problem with the defense line, it will be useless to be strong in the front court. If you lose too many goals, you will rely on the strong front line. It is a fool's dream to win the championship.

What made him even happier was that Chelsea finally stopped winning streak!

1:1, Chelsea drew with Fulham, its rival in the same city. In this way, Liverpool caught up with two points in the league, and the gap between the two teams has narrowed to one point, only one point, which made Liverpool take another step forward in the competition for the league. Now the two teams are no longer fighting for victory. Who makes fewer mistakes, and fewer mistakes means one step ahead of the opponent, which is more likely to win the league championship.

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For the club, the schedule seems to have come to an end, because in the next ten days, it is the time for the World Cup qualifiers, and each player will return to their national team to participate in the regional qualifiers.

Don Jack is under no pressure. He doesn't join any national team, so this is his vacation.

During his vacation, he was no longer in Liverpool. He returned to Munich, Germany, to visit his sister Li Xue. Now it's really awkward to say that he is his sister. In Jack Don's eyes, Li Xue is already more like his wife, but this wife has been taken care of since she was a child. She has always been obedient to him. Let him Sometimes I find it boring.

However, Jack Tang dares to be very sure about Li Xue's love. It is a kind of love that exceeds family affection, and it also surpasses love. The combination of the two feelings makes Li Xue the most difficult person in the world.

Looking at Li Xue, maybe also looking at Vanessa.

This little German girl has been very busy recently. The actress's career seems to have come to the ** period. Since her relationship with Jack Don has been made public, it has played a huge role in promoting Vanessa's career. Many film companies that want to get along with Jack Don have come to Vanessa. For these companies, Vanessa usually refuses directly. After all, they are not looking for themselves.

Even so, in the entertainment industry, fame has everything.

As Don Jack's public girlfriend, Vanessa's reputation in the entertainment industry is rising day by day, and this rising trend has made many companies that look down on her join the competition. In the past, Vanessa went to the interview to look for photo opportunities, but now she has completely turned around. Her agent took over a lot of contracts and selected them to let her choose the most suitable one for the audition.

Such a situation makes Vanessa, who has always wanted to get in the entertainment industry, surprisingly busy with her work. When Don Jack came to Germany, Vanessa was still in Berlin.

After staying in Munich for three days, Don Jacques went to Berlin, which might be a trip for him.

But in fact, he is not in a good mood. He finally came to Germany once, and Vanessa has been working, which makes him feel that work seems to be more important than himself. Men always have such a heart. Jack Don is just more serious. In short, he doesn't feel good.

The two were very embarrassed when they met. It was Vanessa who came in time. After a few words of conversation, the little girl left directly with her agent without stopping, which made Jack Don very disappointed. He felt that it was a wrong choice to find such an actress as a girlfriend.

Without saying hello to Vanessa, he returned to Munich by himself.

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During Don Jack in Germany, Benitez has been studying his next opponent.

It's not the league, not the FA Cup, but the European Champions League knockout match!

Christmas has passed, and the time has entered the end of February, and the Champions League knockout match will begin immediately, and Liverpool's opponent is the weak team in the top 16 - Leverkusen. At this time last year, when Don Jack faced this opponent, he will still be a little nervous and looking forward to it, but now Liverpool's mentality is completely It's different. Compared with Liverpool, Leverkusen is really only a weak team. There is nothing more fortunate than this when it meets a weak team in the Champions League. Because there are not too many mistakes, Liverpool can easily advance to the quarterfinals.

This made Benitez regain a little self-confidence.

In the FA Cup, the Spaniard has never lost if he wants to lose, and the three consecutive victories in the league also put him in a good mood. He feels that the team is very smooth this season. The league and Chelsea compete, and now the Champions League encounter a weak team, and the FA Cup sends a full substitute team can easily win.

This is so logical!

Benitez didn't expect to have such a result in the first season of the Premier League. People's desire is endless. When Benitez saw that the team was so reasonable, he had a new idea.

The team's bench depth is not enough, but why do we have to give up the FA Cup?

This cup is very influential in England. It's really a pity to give up easily. I'm afraid it's not what the club wants to see, so let's play normally, just in case... Just in case the club can really win three championships, then his Benitez coaching career has reached a new level.

Benitez is very excited.

Last season, the annoying Portuguese Mourinho led Porto to win the Triple Crown. Why can't Liverpool do it?

He has never thought about this problem, but now think about it, it is actually possible to win more championships. Although practicing this possibility may cause great losses, Benitez still decided to let nature take its course. Anyway, everything is going well now. Let's play the game as it takes its course. At present, His performance has already exceeded the expectations of the summer. Even if he will fail in the future, he has taken the position of head coach. This season is not good. Isn't there still a chance next season?

In order to win this one, everything is worth it!