Chapter 547 The Horror of Crazy Li
Two days before the competition, the Uruguayan team flew to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.
However, Oscar Tabarez's team did not stay in Buenos Aires for too long. After leaving the airport, they quickly took the bus that the Argentine Football Association had prepared for them and rushed to La Plata without stopping!
There, the Uruguay team will have the final warm-up and adaptation training before the life-and-death battle... The Argentine team, which plays at home, has been staying in Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires is less than 60 kilometers away from La Plata, so Li Tongfan chose to borrow the candy box stadium, the home of the famous Boca youth team in the Boca district of Buenos Aires, to carry out the pre-match training of the Blue and White Legion!
6:0 sweeping the Peruvian team, bringing the current blue and white legion not only the growth of morale, but also the players and the Argentine coaching staff to fully admire the airborne head coach like the madman Li!
Li Tongfan finally mastered the team completely.
Now, even if Li Tongfan locks the Argentine stars in the conference room every day, like a lesson for primary school students, tirelessly explaining boring tactics, I believe no one will put forward any opinions!
But this time, Li Tongfan's arrangement is exactly the opposite - the team focuses more time on ball training and tactical drills.
Moreover, the 4-4-2 side pass used by the team in the last game was left aside. This time, Li Tongfan chose 4-3-3!
The reason is very simple - in terms of staffing, in addition to the players' personal abilities compared with Peru, Uruguay is that their general height is much higher than that of Peru!
Especially on the defense of Uruguay, central defenders Goldin, Lugano, full-backs Cáceres and Pereira are all star players who play for European giants such as Juventus and Benfica. The average height of these people is more than 1.84 meters. In the face of such a team, they want to use a simple side pass. Control the opponent, it's completely hitting stones with pebbles!
What's more, Higuain and Diego Milito are not famous for their headers!
In the face of strong teams, Argentina must return to the old routine of ground attack that it is best at.
For two days in a row, the team has been training to play the ball quickly and pass with one foot, as well as some simple tactics.
In addition, the positioning ball is also regarded as a magic weapon to win.
............Three days is definitely a torment for the waiting Argentines.
Yes, the madman Li's coaching is indeed a strong guarantee for the team's victory, but the madman Li has a 'shortcoming', which makes many people - even his fans hate it from time to time - too mysterious!
For example, the pre-match training of the Argentine team was once again covered by the madman Li.
The candy box court is closed in an all-round way.
In the past two days, no one can know what kind of tactics the Blue and White Army is preparing, no one can know how the players are doing, and no one can know what kind of tactics the madman Li will adopt... Such a mystery lasted until the last day before the game.
At the last pre-match press conference on November 17, Li, a madman who was still holding the pipa half-covered his face, finally appeared in front of many red-eyed media reporters who were waiting reluctantly!
However, the way he answered the question still seemed so bad - Reporter: "What do you think is the best way for Argentina to defeat Uruguay?"
Obviously, the reporter wanted to use such a vague question to figure out what kind of tactics the Argentine team would adopt in the game, but the crazy Li's answer was - "Goal, score more goals than the opponent"... It seems to be a reasonable answer, but it is no different from a colorless fart.
The reporters were unwilling and asked, "Will Messi appear in the starting lineup?" Do you think his position in the national team is important?
Crazy Li yawned, as if surprised, and asked lazily, "Definitely, Messi is the core of the national team. Is there any doubt about this?"
"This..."
The reporters can't stand it anymore.
Crazy Li's answer always gives people a casual taste. Since it is the core, why does Messi always come on as a substitute?
It's strange to believe you!
............Bang.
Turn off the TV.
After watching a scene at the madman Lee's press conference just now, Uruguay's head coach Oscar Tabarez turned around and asked Coen Castrot, the assistant coach beside him, "Coen, what do you think, what kind of smoke bomb is the madman Li putting on?"
"Messi will definitely not appear. I think the Catalan speculation that the madman Li is going to depose Messi should be true..."
Casrot did not hesitate at all and said affirmatively, "That madman will definitely do this, and he dares to do so!" Since he can't integrate the Barcelona star into the team, he will abandon it without hesitation. This is the consistent style of crazy Li!"
"Hehe, my opinion is completely opposite to you..."
Tabarez pinched the remote control, turned the TV back on, inserted the data tape, and adjusted it to the second half of Argentina's game against Peru. He smiled and analyzed - "Many people put the focus of this 6:0 game on the first half. Yes, Argentina scored three goals in a row in the first 15 minutes. The tactics are indeed weird, unexpected, and really wonderful..."
"However, in my opinion, the stage where this game can really reflect the tactical intention of the madman Li is in the second half!"
"In fact, if you look carefully, you will find that after Messi came on as a substitute in the second half, the focus of the Argentine team was completely focused on Messi!"
"Although the Barcelona superstar did not score in the game or send an assist, even the Aggans victory seems to have nothing to do with Messi, but if you pay attention to the scope of Messi's activities..."
"Have you found anything?" Messi enjoys absolute freedom on the court, a kind of freedom that surpasses any teammate... Think about it, in the crazy Li's team, if he hadn't given Messi this freedom, who would have dared to indulge Messi so much?
Tabares said this in one breath and looked at his assistant coach with his hands in his chest.
Assistant coach Cohen Castrot fell into meditation thoughtfully.
However, soon, the 35-year-old elegant middle-aged man thought of another possibility - "Oscar, maybe... Maybe this only shows that the madman Li is trying to find a way to stimulate Messi's energy in the national team, and, in reality, he seems to have failed, because although Messi got it in the second half The greatest tactical freedom, but there are neither goals nor assists..."
"Ha ha, Cohen, what you said can only prove that you don't really realize the horror of the madman Li..." Tabarez smiled mysteriously: "A head coach who has never failed since his debut, do you think his idea is really so simple?"
At this point, Tabarez's face suddenly became serious.
Tabares is a very temperamental and imposing man. His body flashes with the unique charm of a mature man. When he becomes serious, his whole body seems more convincing: "Messi did not score goals or assist, but on the contrary, I think that's the madman Li Zhen. The expected phenomenon..."
"What did the madman Li expect? Looking forward to Messi's sluggish performance?
Casrot was confused by his partner.
In this world, will there be a coach who will expect his players to play poorly?
"That's right, that's right..."
Tabarez didn't mean to joke at all: "The reason is very simple, because the madman Li did not really regard the Peruvian team as a team that could cause him trouble from the beginning... Haha, speaking of which, I really feel sad for poor Makarian. He is eager to defeat the madman Li to get Great glory, but in the eyes of the madman Li, the Peruvian coach is not even a qualified stumbling block..."
At this point, assistant coach Cohen Castro seems to understand what Tabarez means.
He suddenly thought of a possibility and looked stunned: "Oscar, you mean..."
"You finally thought of it?"
Tabares raised his hand to turn off the TV, went to the window and pulled up the blinds. The bright sun couldn't wait to shine in, which made the whole room suddenly open... The only world-class handsome man in Uruguayan history, known as the [mentor], looked at the scenery outside the window and was slightly silent. Finally, he sighed: "Peru is just a grindstone. The opponent that the madman Li really values is us, the Uruguayan team..."
He turned around, looked at his partner who was much younger than himself, and continued, "What a terrible young man... I think he must have found a way to use Messi, the sharpest spear of the Argentine team, from the second half, but he did not adjust at that time... Because, He wants to paralyze the outside world and paralyze us... By tomorrow's game, the whole world will see a horrible Messi with a sudden explosion!"
At this point, Tabares suddenly smiled bitterly: "Corn, do you think it's our honor or misfortune to be so valued by such a terrible opponent?"
Assistant coach Cohen Castro doesn't know what to say.
The analysis of the head coach Tabares made him seem to see a horrible beast standing in the dark and choosing people. Although the room was full of sunshine, there was a cold sweat behind him... He knew that for so many years, [mentor] Tabarez had been taking himself Cultivated as a successor, Castro was once proud to think that after following Tabarez for so many years, he had learned enough to make himself stand on his own and write his own glory in the European League... He even confidently believed that even the famous madman Li himself It's not much worse... But now it seems that I'm still too far away!
Casrot has never thought that a person, a football coach, can think about it to this extent, and can be so terrible!
However, a trace of unwillingness in his heart made Castro try to ask, "Oscar, will you describe the madman Li as too terrible? Maybe...maybe we overestimated him?"
"No, it's an overestimation at all..."
Tabares shook his head seriously: "Coen, you have to keep in mind that for a madman Li, a head coach who has never failed since his debut, no matter how horrible you think he is, it's not too much!"
Casrot nodded unwillingly.
"However, if you want to take the victory from me, if the madman Li has only so many means, it is far from enough. The Uruguay team is not the kind of Peruvian fish. In my hand, it is also a good card!"
Close the shutters with a "bang" sound.
Tabares became full of fighting spirit in an instant. He returned to his seat, turned on the TV again, and began to observe and analyze the video of the Argentine team's game.
(to be continued)