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Chapter 297 The Battle Begins

Shen Yang used the metaphor of 'Broken Arm Venus' to welcome many Liverpool supporters.

In the past, the general impression of Shen Yang among Liverpool fans was that he was a "Chinese profiteer" who helped Liverpool in training, not a "Chinese profiteer" who paid extremely high fees. No matter what contributions he made in the field of sports science and medicine, the fans didn't care at all, "sheep and sheep" What they care about is whether the football training group will help Liverpool win the championship, but most fans hold negative opinions on this point.

Now Shen Yang's image has improved a bit.

"This Chinese profiteer is at least on the side of Liverpool! And he dares to confront Mourinho hard." Many fans think so.

For the Liverpool club, especially the head coach Benitez, what ordinary fans think and how the media comment is just an outside matter. What he cares about is only the final, and the most annoying thing before the game is still the row The formation of soldiers, Liverpool's third-line starters, the back line and the midfield line don't need to be considered too much, the most important thing is the striker starters.

Liverpool's striker ability is really a headache.

Unlike Manchester United, which has a lot of talents, Liverpool's striker has always been a problem. Since Michael Owen moved to Real Madrid last year, Liverpool has started to have a headache for the striker. The summer transfer introduced Cisse, but Cisse's efficiency is not so high , his personal skills are not so outstanding, and his performance has always been mediocre.

Smicer has good efficiency, but he is a veteran, unable to support his physical fitness, and often cannot keep up with his running.

Czech center Baros is a tactical center with poor foot skills and a limited number of touches per game.

Not to mention Neil Melo as a fringe striker, his scoring efficiency is too low, and he will only be sent on the field in very helpless situations.

Benitez has a headache for the front line, and none of the several front line players can be a leader.

This is also the reason for Liverpool's embarrassing league results.

Throughout the season, various statistics also showed that Liverpool's midfielders scored more goals than forwards, and the team's top scorer was Steven Gerrard, who was the team's core and captain on the field. Gerrard's excellence also directly proves the weakness of Liverpool's striker. Otherwise, a player who acts as a midfielder and takes care of many defensive tasks cannot become the player with the most goals.

When facing a big game, Liverpool's striker becomes very embarrassing.

The combination of Cisse and Baros is the first choice in Benitez's heart. A fast, flexible striker, combined with a tactical center, can also pose some threats to Chelsea. Think about the talented Chelsea striker. Benitez felt his confidence was gone, but he didn't seem to have any other options.

"I think Smicer should be played."

In the coaching staff meeting to determine the starting candidate, Shen Yang was also among them, and Benitez needed to refer to other people's opinions.

When asked about his starting idea, Shen Yang immediately pushed out the veteran Smicer, "I don't know tactics or anything, but Smicer is in very good form, and he is also one of the best in the team, only Gera Virtue can be compared with it.”

Sammy Lee and other assistant coaches dismissed Shen Yang's opinion. They couldn't see the player's state, but Benitez became thoughtful after hearing this.

Benitez hesitated for a while, "Smichel? His efficiency is indeed higher than that of Cisse, but he is already old and it is difficult to support such a high-intensity game."

"It's not a big problem." Shen Yang said, "Smichel is old, but his physical fitness hasn't declined too much. I believe that there has never been a situation where he had to leave the field because he couldn't run, right? You all think that the old general will not support him. Live, but it also depends on the veteran, in this kind of competition, the veteran may be more trustworthy than the young players."

This sentence made many people nod their heads.

Often when encountering a big game, any head coach likes to send a veteran to play. Smicer is almost 33 years old, but he has performed well all the time, and he is indeed a good choice.

Benitez thought about it, and finally nodded, "Then let Smichel start."

"It's decided like that?" Sami Lee felt incredible.

In this kind of starting meeting before the game, if the suggestion is adopted, it shows that the head coach attaches great importance to it.

Benitez asked each of them for their suggestions, but finally adopted the suggestion of the Huaxia kid, which made him feel secretly unhappy.

Benitez looked at Sami Lee suspiciously, "Shen is right? Smicer has been performing really well all the time, and this time we will focus on defense. Veteran, who can also help the defense in the middle, Smicer is very suitable."

Sammy Lee was stunned for a while, but could only nod helplessly.

After the coaching staff meeting, Shen Yang left directly. He was not interested in what starting lineup Liverpool would choose. He didn't know enough about football tactics. Benitez asked him to make suggestions, but he just put them up from his own point of view. He doesn't care if he adopts it or not, and he will not stay in Liverpool anyway.

In the morning of the next day, Shen Yang made a training plan related to time arrangement for all the players on the roster.

"It's a training session in Istanbul that everyone has to do."

After Benitez's speech, Shen Yang distributed the training plan to each player, and said to them solemnly, "As long as you complete these trainings, I believe you will perform well in the game."

After a week of training, all Liverpool players are in very good condition. They don't know exactly how they will perform in the game, but at least they all feel that they are very energetic, so everyone has become more and more trusting in Shen Yang.

Sami Lee and other members of the coaching staff are still not satisfied with Shen Yang's arrangement.

In the afternoon, the Liverpool team will fly to Istanbul, Turkey, where the Champions League final will be held.

On the day before the final, daily training will definitely be affected, and the players will not have much time to train.

To complete the training of the 'Yangyang Football Training Group', it will definitely take up other training time.

For this reason, Sammy Lee took the initiative to stand up and questioned, "I don't think they have time to complete your training."

Shen Yang said seriously, "Those trainings are very necessary." He turned his head to look at Sammy Lee, "On the contrary, I think that many of your daily trainings are repeated with mine, and there is absolutely no need to complete them all."

Sammy Lee was suddenly a little annoyed.

Benitez said, "Shen is right. I have seen their training, such as some physical training, which is repeated with daily training. I think it can be appropriately reduced and left for state training time."

"But……"

Sami Lee was very annoyed that Benitez supported Shen Yang, but he couldn't say anything. What the two said was the truth, and there were indeed conflicts in the training of the two sides, because in fact, the daily training is to let Shen Yang Players keep in shape, with 'state training', what else do they need for daily training?
In the end, Benitez made a final decision to make time for the training of the 'Sheep and Sheep Football Training Group'.

When everyone disbanded, packed their bags, and was about to leave for Istanbul, Shen Yang walked up to Sami Lee and said, "Mr. Li, I don't know why you always target our training, but the Champions League final is over and we are leaving soon." , then you can train however you want, it has nothing to do with us.”

Sami Li looked at Shen Yang's back and sighed helplessly.

Why does he want to target the other party?
Since the opponent's team arrived, he was neutral at the beginning, especially when he heard the opponent talk about scientific training, he knew that the opponent must be proficient in training.

But the 'Yangyang football training group' made the entire Liverpool coaching staff feel a huge sense of crisis, especially when the 'status training' showed results, their sense of crisis became even stronger.

The coaching staff of professional players is responsible for leading the training.

These trainings include physical training, specific skills training, and will also cooperate with the head coach in tactical training, but daily training to keep players in shape is the real top priority.

If there is a training group that can better help a team maintain its state, then what's the point of their training work?

Maybe in the future...they will face layoffs!

This is the worst crisis!
Sammy Lee is not worried that he will be laid off, but he also has a sense of crisis in his heart, let alone other coaches with no special ability, they all have the same sense of crisis.

So when the effect of 'state training' appeared, they subconsciously rejected the 'Yangyang football training group', and it was the same until just now.

They don't want to admit the effect of 'state training', and they also reject allowing players to continue to do 'state training'.

But the facts are in front of us!
Sammy Lee has some hope that the 'Sheep and Sheep Football Training Team' will leave Liverpool soon.

"Hope they don't come back in the future!"

he thought.

But if this training group appears in the opponent's coaching staff, it will definitely be very bad news for Liverpool.

For a moment Sammy Lee felt flustered.

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The UEFA Champions League final - Chelsea v Liverpool - is approaching, and the eyes of the world are on Istanbul, Turkey.

Istanbul is one of the most famous cities in Turkey and a city full of historical sites.

Also known as Constantinople, it was once the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In 1923, the Turkish Republic moved its capital from Istanbul to Ankara. It has always had a prominent position in history.

Istanbul at this time has been filled with the atmosphere of the Champions League final.

In addition to the promotional pictures of the Champions League final that can be seen on the streets, a large number of foreigners have poured into the city, mainly British.

This is a feast of Turkish football, but also a carnival of English football.

Liverpool, Chelsea!

After 20 years, Liverpool has returned to the UEFA Champions League stage, making Liverpool about to usher in the most glorious moment in recent years.

Chelsea reached the Champions League final for the first time in history.

Both teams are very famous, but both teams are so strange standing on the stage of the Champions League final.

According to the relevant regulations of UEFA, Liverpool and Chelsea each allocated about [-] final tickets, and these tickets were snapped up by crazy fans in the shortest time.

Each team has [-] fans, and the total is [-] fans.

How to transport such a huge number of fans to distant Turkey has become a small problem. Liverpool finally used John Lennon Airport, which was not used often in the past, and about [-] flights will take off from this airport to Ista. Bull, it is estimated that tens of thousands of fans will be sent away.

It is much easier for Chelsea to be located in London. The London International Airport has specially opened a fan channel to ensure that [-] Chelsea fans will be transported in place.

Many England fans arrived in Istanbul as early as a week before the start of the final. They came here to feel the atmosphere and prepare to cheer for their respective teams.

The confrontation between Chelsea and Liverpool, which is also the confrontation between England's north and south football, will definitely appear very intense, but the 'external conflict' is even more troublesome.

Due to the notorious history of England fans and their numerous grievances with Turkish fans in recent years, the security situation in Istanbul has become the focus of attention.

On the British side, the police are closely monitoring the list of fans who have gone to Turkey in the past few days to prevent football hooligans among them from entering the right and wrong places. Various airports have also stated that they will refuse boarding to those drunk fans.

Three days before the start of the game, 31 fans had been detained by the police during the boarding process. Interestingly, there was a fan named Christopher Oakley, a Liverpool fan, [-] years old, He knew that the police would not allow him to go to Istanbul, so he planned to go to Germany first, and then transfer to Istanbul from there. Sturt police stopped his attempt at the airport and confiscated his passport.

The British police have also repeatedly urged fans without tickets not to go to Turkey. Merseyside Police Chief David Lewis said: "All the final tickets have been allocated, and we don't want fans who don't have tickets to go to Turkey too. Go to the final venue. According to the Turkish side, they will check the tickets of the British fans as soon as they arrive. If some people do not have tickets, then there is a good chance they will be sent back to the UK."

However, judging from the past situation, no matter what appeals are made by the relevant parties, there will still be a small number of British fans going to the away game in various ways and causing a series of troubles there.

At present, the British Consulate in Istanbul is on the alert. They believe that UEFA, Merseyside Police, London Police, Chelsea Club, Liverpool Club and the Turkish local government must work together to avoid another sensational stadium in the international football world. tragedy.

In such an atmosphere, the Liverpool team arrived at Istanbul International Airport.

(End of this chapter)