Grassroots Glory

After a few days, the players got used to it, and even enjoyed the feeling of being sore and paralyzed on the training ground after training every morning.

One and a half hours of mountaineering every morning, according to Magath, this can only be regarded as a warm-up, followed by two hours of endless push-ups and leapfrog training from ten to twelve o'clock, which is to let everyone reach their own goals. limit.

In the afternoon, there will be training with the ball. With the team's physical data as the basis, Magath's formation arrangements will also be targeted.

For example, Zhou Tiancheng, who has always ranked first in the team in mountaineering, push-ups and leapfrogs, is the single midfielder in Magath's new tactical system.

That's right, Magath completely overturned the 4-4-2 formation design of Slomka's period. Because he feels that this method really achieves an efficient counterattack. Moreover, Zhou Tiancheng's running ability as a B2B midfielder has not been stimulated to the maximum.

Magath's idea is to change the formation to 4-1-2-3.

In the past few days of training, Magath has been trying to put Zhou Tiancheng in front of the defense, responsible for the defensive coverage of the entire midfield, and at the same time make full use of his long passing ability when switching from defense to offense, while Rakitic and The newly joined Holtby is the two offensive midfielders connecting the preceding and the following. The main task is to control the tempo in positional warfare.

It has to be said that Magath's tactical design is indeed better than Slomka's. Rakitic is better at attacking than defending. In this formation, he can attack without any worries.

The most important point in Magath's tactics is to emphasize the high position and close press. This is also the place where players are scolded the most in tactical training every day: Unlike Slomka, Magath emphasized that even the striker must actively put pressure on the opponent's defense. In particular, Kuranyi is obviously not suitable for such tactics, and he is also the one who has been stopped and scolded the most by physical coach Reuthard.

Kevin, run! Haven't you eaten? Why don't you fight and grab?

Although he doesn't care about the team's tactics, it is also his job to urge players not to be lazy on the training ground. Among the team members, he has become the most heinous minion of the devil Magath.

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Schalke 04 has only had ten days of preparations at the Heerzlake training camp. Before the start of the season, the whole team has to rush to the United States to participate in a new commercial event this year: the World Football Challenge.

In order to expand the influence of football in North America, especially the United States, this commercial event was sponsored by Relevant Sports. And the event organizers hope to make this game the most valuable pre-season commercial game in world football. At the same time expand the influence of football in North America, especially the United States.

Europe has always been the absolute center of world football. However, the United States, the world's number one economic power and a country with a highly developed sports industry, is a veritable football desert. Although the US team has always been a frequent visitor to the World Cup, the US women's football team is the top team in the women's football team. But for a long time, football has not had a high audience in the United States. The influence of the Major League Soccer is far less than that of the Baseball League, the Football League and the NBA, and even the influence of the North American Professional Hockey League.

The world's number one sport, but in the United States is an unpopular event.

But it can't stand the strong funds of the organizers of the event, so the teams invited to the first competition are very valuable. Premier League giants Chelsea, Milan duo Inter Milan and AC Milan are all traditional giants with huge fan bases. And Schalke 04 was invited due to the strength of last season's Bundesliga champion and the Champions League semi-finals.

Naturally, Schalke 04 will not ignore this opportunity to warm up before the season and the giants.

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Only four teams were invited to the first World Football Challenge, so the competition system directly adopted a single round robin. It is worth mentioning that, in order to increase the enjoyment of the game, the organizer has made some changes to the scoring rules: every time a goal is scored in the regular time, the team will get a point, and the winner of the regular time will get an extra three points . If there is a tie in regular time, the two teams will each add one point and enter a penalty shootout.

The penalty shootout winner gets an extra point. The final four teams will decide the championship by points.

According to the schedule. Schalke 04's first opponent is Inter Milan. The game is played at Stanford University Stadium in Palo Alto, California.

Magath takes this game very seriously. Although the intensity of the pre-season commercial competitions is definitely far from that of the Champions League, it is after all an actual combat training, and the effect cannot be compared with the team training games.

More than a dozen international mainstream media, including CCTV, chose to broadcast the International Champions Cup. In the first game, the contest between Schalke 04 and Inter Milan was the focus of attention.

Since the announcement of the starting rosters before the game, the two teams have aroused heated comments from major media.

Magath directly used the 4-1-2-3 formation in training in this game. The defense is still the main force last season. Goalkeeper Neuer, four defenders Hewedes, Westermann, Rafinha and Bordon. Zhou Tiancheng is the single midfielder in the midfield, Rakitic and Holtby are the two central midfielders, the striker trio Asamoah is on the left, Altintop is on the right, and Kuranyi is a single arrow.

Magath is very cautious about the use of young players. Although he is very optimistic about the young Matip, he feels that young people who come from the echelon should not start too early. Starting from the bench, there is no harm in grinding patience. Jiang Hao also did not appear in the starting lineup for the same reason.

Now it seems that Zhou Tiancheng is really lucky. Slomka's use of young players is more daring than Magath, otherwise it would not be so easy for him to become a blockbuster in the first season.

CCTV commentator He Wei has already roughly understood this series of changes, and the training after Schalke 04 arrived in the United States is open. Naturally, it was immediately known by the media. At this moment, he commented on Schalke's starting lineup: Magat still continued his attacking style when he coached Wolfsburg last season. In Wolfsburg, he mainly relied on Dzeko and Grafite. And Arriving at Schalke. Obviously, Magath hopes to play a good combination in the midfield. Although Zhou Tiancheng's position is relatively late, he will definitely not be nailed to this position. Magath's tactic is to press down with an oppressive high position To drive efficient counterattacks, Zhou Tiancheng's position should move to the frontcourt as the game progresses, Magath will never forget his offensive firepower, last season is still fresh in his memory.

On the Inter Milan side, Jose Mourinho finally presented an ideal starting lineup at this stage.

The main goalkeeper is the Brazilian national Julio Cesar, Lucio and Samuel partner in the central defender, the left back is the Brazilian international Maicon, and the right back is the captain Javier Zanetti; the double midfielder Cambia Suo partner Thiago Motta; Macedonian international Pandev and Cameroon Cheetah Eto'o are separated on the left and right sides, Sneijder hit the midfielder position, and the forward arrow is Argentine international Diego Milito.

Xia Chuang has six signings, and four will start this game. The eleven people standing on the field are worth as much as 200 million euros!

It's no wonder that Inter Milan's attention in Italian football overwhelms its rival AC Milan. This starting lineup has reflected the Nerazzurri's goals for the new season, and it is definitely not just defending the league title.

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