Fengba Greenery

Chapter 429 The Road to the New Season

Chapter 10 The road to the new season
The Manchester United team took off from Chicago Airport and flew directly to Manchester International Airport the day after the International Champions Cup match against Paris Saint-Germain.

After more than ten hours of flight, the plane arrived in the UK across the Atlantic and landed at Manchester Airport.

The city of Manchester is very familiar to Li Qingshan. He spent the most turning point in his life here for two years.

He overlooked the city through the window on the plane, and the houses on both sides of the Grand Canal gradually became clear.

His football career started here, and now he is back here.

When the players walked out of the airport, the Manchester United fans who had already gathered outside the airport to pick up the plane immediately became excited.

And the players did not leave the airport in a hurry, but walked forward, and only boarded the Manchester United bus after meeting the requirements of the players to sign and take a group photo.

Li Qingshan, as the player who spent the most transfer fee in the history of the Manchester United club, also received a warm welcome from Manchester United fans.Moreover, Li Qingshan also had the identity of a former Manchester United player, which made some Manchester United fans even try to think of him as the "red kid" produced by the Manchester United youth academy.

Of course, such a relationship is obviously very reluctant, but that's what some fans think if they can't stand it.

Therefore, Li Qingshan has become the most popular player, and he is even more surrounded by fans than the captain Rooney who has played for the team for many years.

The players also ignored the fatigue of long-distance travel and fully satisfied the fans' demands.Manchester United is probably the most commercialized club in the world, but in terms of football tradition, because of Ferguson's long-term coaching relationship, Manchester United still maintains many English football traditions.

For example, in terms of the relationship with the fans, Ferguson requires the players to be friendly to the fans.

And Manchester United fans are also very enthusiastic about their own players. This kind of good relationship between the club and the fans is very obvious in the English team.Even those unknown teenagers who have just been promoted from the youth training camp are surrounded by a large number of fans.

But one exception is Di Maria.

What Di Maria said two months ago completely offended Manchester United fans.

After the end of the season, Di Maria accepted an interview with the Spanish media "Marca".In the interview, Di Maria said that Manchester is a very unfriendly city for him. His relationship with Van Gaal and the lack of sense of belonging in Manchester United made him want to leave Manchester United urgently.

While still a Manchester United player, throwing out such nonsense can be regarded as annoyed to Manchester United fans.

Therefore, even though Di Maria performed well in the warm-up match, there are no Manchester United fans flocking around him at this moment, asking for autographs or group photos.

Di Maria was alone and got on the team bus alone.

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There is still some distance before the transfer window closes, and Manchester United's signings and team slimming work continue.However, some fringe players and young players come in and out, which has little impact on the framework of the team's main force.

Hummels, Li Qingshan's new addition to the team at the Carrington base.After the official announcement, Hummels did not go to the United States, but went directly to Manchester for a medical examination and signed the contract.

Kramer finally found his relatives. Kramer, who doesn't speak English very well, has been suffocating these days. There are no Germans in the Manchester United team, and no one speaks German with him.This made Kramer suffocated.

The joining of Hummels has added a German to Manchester United's first team, and it has also allowed Kramer to find an organization.Hummels' English level is very high. In England, Hummels has no language barriers at all.

So Kramer's big brother Hummels in the national team became his translator.

The joining of Hummels made Ancelotti breathe a sigh of relief. At least in the position of central defender, Ancelotti can finally have a pawn that he can rest assured.

The Premier League is about to start on August [-]th, and Ancelotti seized the last few minutes to conduct tactical training.

On the offensive end, the core of course revolves around Li Qingshan.The most important offensive routine is to use the space of the two sides to make side crosses.Manchester United's current lineup can be described as full of elders.Especially on the central axis, Li Qingshan, Fellaini, Kramer, Hummels and others are all over 190 centimeters tall, while other players such as Smalling and Phil Jones have poor physical confrontation ability. Very strong.Therefore, Ancelotti naturally hopes to give full play to the advantages of Manchester United's players in physical confrontation and high-altitude balls, and create opportunities for wing crosses and set kicks as much as possible.

This is why Ancelotti must keep Di Maria.With the existence of such a winger, he can use his breakthrough to create crosses and set-piece opportunities, and the two full-backs Valencia and Sandro on the other side also have a good ability to insert assists, and their Speed ​​and physical fitness can also support them to turn up and down.

On the bench, Manchester United also has wingers like Ashley Young and Nani. In terms of wingers, Ancelotti still has plenty of players available.

On the defensive end, Ancelotti relied on three midfielders and a defense led by Hummels to form the cornerstone of the defense.

Due to Carrick's advanced age, Ancelotti did not intend to let Carrick play the main force, but chose Cramer, Herrera, and Fellaini to form a three-man midfielder, of which Herre Both Laura and Fellaini can move forward to the front midfielder at any time, and both of them have the ability to play central midfielders.

As for the offensive organization of the midfield, Ancelotti intends to hand over this task to Mata.Although his position is arranged on the right wing, he can still use his running position to thread needles for several players in the midfield.

The concept of side front waist existed very early.

Front midfielder, as the name suggests, combines the characteristics of full-back and bridge play. The representative tasks of this type of players all have the characteristics of short stature and outstanding skills at their feet.

Compared with the pure winger and front midfielder, the side midfielder is more flexible in the range of movement and position. It can not only pull the offensive from the side, find loopholes in the opponent's defense line by dribbling horizontally, so as to send out cooks for teammates, or Complete the fatal blow.

There is no doubt that Mata is one of the representatives of contemporary side midfielder play.Ancelotti let him connect Manchester United's frontcourt organization on the wing, and Mata has enough ability to complete it.

With the pace of the Premier League approaching, Ancelotti gradually established his team's main lineup.

Despite spending [-] million in transfer fees, Manchester United's first team actually only introduced four new aids.Ancelotti did not intend to make a big change to the original Manchester United lineup, but retained the main framework, but added fresh blood in some key positions.

A lot of money was spent, but not many people bought it.

However, the outside world generally believes that Manchester United's signing operation this season is undoubtedly quite successful.

First of all, of course, is the introduction of Li Qingshan, which is a rare product among the current excellent centers. The existence of Li Qingshan is almost the guarantee of scoring ability.Manchester United spent huge sums of money to bring Li Qingshan back to Old Trafford, fully demonstrating the ambition of Manchester United's revival.This time they didn't raise the price, Ed Woodwood really spent his money!
The joining of Hummels also made many people think that this is another proud work of Edward Wood.There is no doubt that Hummels is one of the top central defenders in the world. After the introduction of Hummels, Manchester United has world-class players on the central axis of goalkeeper, central defender and center forward.In this way, Manchester United, which originally had only dim stars after Ferguson retired, seems to have regained the starlight of its peak period.

In addition to the introduction of big-name players.The joining of two powerful players, Cramer and Sandro, also illustrates Ancelotti's pragmatism.Especially Sandro, in the face of the competition of many giants, Manchester United successfully won the target, which also shows that the sign of Manchester United is still quite attractive.

Ancelotti actually considered whether to introduce another big enough star in the midfield to completely set up Manchester United's entire central axis.But after weighing it several times, he still gave up on this plan.

This is certainly not because of money, Manchester United's purchasing power is enough for Ancelotti to squander.But now it is too difficult to buy a good enough midfielder.

If you just buy people for the sake of buying people, then there is not much need.

Ancelotti believes that Manchester United's current lineup is actually competitive enough in the Premier League.

In the Premier League, Manchester United's main opponents are undoubtedly Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, and perhaps the gradually rising Tottenham Hotspur.

Manchester United's record against these five teams last season is actually not bad. Among them, they double-killed Arsenal and Liverpool. Even against Chelsea and Manchester City, Manchester United did not show much difference in strength.

In fact, in the Premier League, what really determines the ownership of the championship is the stability when facing those mid- and low-level teams.

Due to the success of the commercialization of the Premier League, even the middle and lower reaches of the team have enough financial resources to chase those stars worth 2000 million.In this way, when the downstream teams face the top-ranked teams, they also have a few guns in their hands that can create a murderous intent. There are many things that capsized in the gutter on the team.

Many famous coaches said in interviews that the Premier League is the most difficult league among the five major leagues.There are generally two reasons. In addition to the fact that the schedule is too dense, the biggest reason is that there are almost no soft persimmons in the Premier League. Even a relegation expert like Sunderland can spend a transfer fee of 1000 million pounds to buy Ronaldo. deville.However, in La Liga and Serie A, many downstream teams are worrying about the league transfer fee of more than 100 million euros, and the financial gap between the two sides is very large.Today, as football games are becoming more and more commercialized, more money means that you can buy capable players to strengthen the team's combat effectiveness.

On the one hand, it is a highly competitive league. On the other hand, several Premier League teams at the top of the standings have also entered a trough due to their own different problems. The strength began to decline, the competitiveness of Manchester United declined, the rise of Chelsea and Manchester City, coupled with the original powerful Arsenal and Liverpool.

Ferguson's retirement seemed like a landmark moment, marking the beginning of a chaotic era for the Premier League.

In such a chaotic Premier League, the top few teams, whoever can take the lead in stabilizing, will be able to avoid losing points as much as possible in the face of mid-lower teams.

Last season, Manchester United only ranked No. 4 because they conceded too many points when facing mid-lower teams.

Ancelotti mainly believes that this is due to the serious decline in Manchester United's offensive strength due to the aging of Van Persie and Rooney.

Last season, Manchester United could control the ball in the midfield, but they were often unable to attack for a long time, and were finally counterattacked by the opponent. Such scenes were repeatedly staged.

And this season, the addition of Li Qingshan has basically solved the problem of Manchester United's inability to score goals to a large extent.

Therefore, Ancelotti's ideas are very pragmatic. The current Premier League as a whole is very chaotic. This is a chaotic world without a ruler.Therefore, what he pursues is to stabilize the team as quickly as possible and play steadily.After all, in such a situation, the more stable the team is, the more likely it is to finally win the Premier League championship trophy.

Ancelotti, who was fired by Real Madrid, urgently needs a champion with enough weight to return to people's vision.

The game between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur is the opening match of the Premier League's 2015-2016 Premier League season.The game time is several hours earlier than other games.

In order to take care of the audience in the Asian region, the Premier League officials have greatly advanced the game time. The match between Manchester United and Tottenham on August 45 will be held at [-]:[-] noon local time!It's almost lunch time.

Many local fans usually complain about such a schedule, but in fact this time also has an impact on the game.

Many stadiums in the Premier League have decades of history and are not closed stadiums. Therefore, if a football match is held at noon, the sun will directly shine on the stadium through the top of the stadium, forming a so-called "yin and yang field". Players on both sides of the game, especially the goalkeeper's line of sight will cause adverse effects.

But for the sake of money, Premier League officials often arrange a game at noon every round.Because 45:45 London time is exactly [-]:[-] BJ time, in Asia, this is the prime time for watching games.

Old Trafford was still packed on match day, although many fans complained about the timing.

Li Qingshan is still living in the hotel at the moment, he plans to find a house in Manchester, and is going to take a driver's license test.

It's just that Manchester United's training tasks before the start of the season are very intense, and he has never had time to spare.

On August [-]th, after Li Qingshan woke up, he took a taxi from the hotel to the Carrington Base.Manchester United's players will be here, taking the team's bus to Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United.

The Carrington training base is located six miles west of Old Trafford. When the bus carrying Manchester United's first team departs from the Carrington base, the opening game of the new Premier League season will be there soon, waiting for players from both sides.

(End of this chapter)