Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 230

Jiang Yueming did not expect that their shooting would be so smooth, and they scored a goal right after the start of the game.

When the cheers were roaring in the Stadium of Light, Jiang Yueming was nestling in a corner of the front row of the stands, staring at a few professional photographers below the stage to take pictures of Anton.Several photographers are professionals with many years of experience in filming. The angles and positions they chose are very appropriate, and Jiang Yueming does not need to worry about it. Therefore, Jiang Yueming can't help feeling ups and downs when he looks at the scene in the stands.

This is one of the highest-standard and high-level stadiums in Europe. Although the level of the Europa League is not as high as that of the Champions League, when it comes to the knockout stage, the participating teams are all teams with two teams in the leagues of each country. It is a wealthy family.

Jiang Yueming finally felt that the leader's decision was very wise: as long as he followed Anton and photographed Anton's daily life, he could see the big from the small and witness the magnificent European competition.

In Jiang Yueming's heart, Anton, the "Teacher Lin", is very righteous. Since he nodded and allowed the film crew to film his daily life, he opened the door and let the film crew film. Not only the training ground of Guangming Academy, Anton also allowed them to enter The players' tunnel and changing rooms at the Stadium of Light.This kind of treatment is completely unimaginable for Jiang Yueming when he is in contact with other clubs.

As early as a few years ago, the Abu Dhabi Investment Bureau had not taken over Manchester City, but there was a Chinese star surnamed Sun in Manchester City, who conquered the hearts of all Manchester City fans with his steady performance and professionalism.Jiang Yueming's news team wanted to take this opportunity to shoot some documentary material, but at that time they failed to obtain permission and could not enter the Manchester City Stadium to shoot.

Jiang Yueming thought: I have to say, Sunderland is really kind.

Jiang Yueming himself is also a fan, his home team is Milan.With the rise of the Premier League, Jiang Yueming spent more and more of his overseas career on this small island country.If the leader can send him to the Serie A arena, he will probably be 100 times happier than he is now.

But this time Jiang Yueming felt very different, because there was Anton here - as a compatriot, Anton not only made him feel very kind, but he also intuitively believed that Anton was the most special protagonist in the entire Premier League. coach.

On the field, Sunderland continued to attack after taking the lead with a goal. The offensive was fierce and relaxed, so the whole first half was very interesting.The only pity is bad luck.Several very good chances failed to translate into goals. The score of 1:0 was maintained until the intermission.

But at this time, Sunderland had already pushed Paris Saint-Germain into the corner. Paris had to score two goals in a row in the second half, and at the same time, they had to hold so that Sunderland could not score again, in order to advance.It can be foreseen now that Paris will definitely push forward in the second half, strengthen the offensive, and make a last-ditch effort.

Jiang Yueming watched Anton lead his players to the player tunnel and went back to the locker room.He quickly gestured to the photographer who was following up in the venue, telling him to follow up.At the same time, he was not at ease, and quickly slipped down from the stands, found a shortcut to the locker room, showed his ID card to the staff, and rushed to the locker room.

This is the first time Jiang Yueming squeezed into the locker room with the entire team's players and coaching staff during the halftime break.

In order to prevent the room from being too crowded and affecting Anton's normal coaching, Jiang Yueming specifically asked only two photographers to enter, and each chose a fixed camera position far away to shoot, avoiding walking around.And Jiang Yueming himself only held an interview book, and secretly huddled in a corner of the locker room, ready to hear how Anton would deploy the players.

It was only heard that the printer placed in the corner of the dressing room was always working, and printing paper was constantly being spit out from the outlet slot.An assistant coach is handing out sheets of paper brimming with charts and statistics to every player on the field.

Jiang Yueming was very curious and wanted to know what was printed on the paper.It happened that Eriksson was standing beside him. Seeing Jiang Yueming's eyes, he called out "Teacher Jiang" empathetically, and handed over the paper.

Jiang Yueming quickly said thank you, and then looked at it together with Eriksson.

I saw that the paper was full of Eriksson's playing data in the first half of the game today, including his running distance, number of touches, passing accuracy, range of motion and positioning, etc... densely packed All in all, which also includes some very good handling of the ball and obvious turnovers, which are also marked on this chart.

Seeing that he made two turnovers in the first half, Eriksson blushed and covered that part with his hand so that "Teacher Jiang" would not see it.

Soon other reports were sent out, and Eriksson shared them with Jiang Yueming as usual after receiving them.Jiang Yueming discovered that this was actually a summary of the data of all Paris players on the field and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the performance of this game.

At this time, a projection was put on in the locker room, and there were two groups of dots marked with different colors on the projection, representing the positions and formations of the players on both sides.Based on the images of these activities, Anton predicted the opponent's formation in the second half, and at the same time deployed the tactics to the players that they were going to deal with Paris in the second half.

Jiang Yueming was speechless.

His understanding of a team coach is still limited to the image of the general manager standing on the sidelines and directing on the spot, so he really did not expect that Sunderland's ability to process player data has reached such a fast and detailed level-just after the first half. All the data from both sides has been processed and fed back to the players, and at the same time, through modeling to predict the opponent's reaction in the second half, in order to make their own responses.

Advanced! ——Jiang Yueming knew a lot of other teams, and relied on the question board and tactical board as well as the coach's instructions to complete the summary of the first half and the arrangement for the second half.Sunderland have made big strides technically.

But after seeing Anton's tactical arrangements for the second half, the locker room was very quiet, and it seemed that everyone was trying to understand the coach's intentions.

To be honest, Jiang Yueming didn't understand everything.Anton's English is indeed English, but it may contain a lot of tactical terms and a little Northeast flavor.Jiang Yueming was confused, but looking at the expressions of all the players in the locker room, he guessed that everyone didn't fully agree with the head coach's request.

At this time, a fat man who was about to be bald in the locker room said to Anton: "Anton, do you think we should continue to play beautiful football in the second half instead of utilitarian football, is that right?"

Jiang Yueming finally understood at this moment.It turned out that Anton asked his players to still be able to open and close in the second half, press high and attack the opponent's goal.This is probably contrary to what many people predicted in advance.

As long as Sunderland survives the last 45 minutes, even if they concede another goal, they can win the game by relying on the away goal priority principle.

They conceded a lot of goals against Paris Saint-Germain in the first round. If they blindly attack and let the opponent play a defensive counterattack and succeed in sneak attack with the ball behind them, then Sunderland will still face the danger of being eliminated.

Football is always a "result-oriented" sport. No matter how beautifully the losing side plays on the field, the adjectives they get after the game will only be "unfortunate", "tragic"...and so on.

Jiang Yueming recognized the fat man who was about to go bald. He knew that it was Russell, Sunderland's assistant coach. He had always been Anton's best partner and assistant.

It is estimated that in this locker room, only Russell dared to challenge Anton's authority so bluntly.

Russell spoke out everyone's aspirations: Shouldn't we defend well in the second half?In addition to being able to press high, don't they still have a big defensive weapon, chain defense?

Anton shook his head with a smile, pointed to himself and asked, "Do you think I'm the kind of person who only wants the process to be beautiful and not the end result?"

"Is there only beautiful football and utilitarian football in this world? I think football can be played beautifully and at the same time be utilitarian." Anton said.

"Paris will definitely launch the final attack in the second half. They should have expected that we will defend. On the contrary, they will definitely catch the opponent by surprise. In addition, if we score another goal, the chances of making the opponent overtake tend to be slim. , or even kill the game ahead of time, then I would say: Our tactics are very utilitarian, we just want to win the game. But at the same time, the fans can also see a pleasing football."

At this point, Jiang Yueming finally understood: In Anton's mind, offense is the best defense now.

He has never been willing to live up to the expectations of the fans.Now that Godin is back from injury, all members are here, and the whole team has no shortcomings, then they will still be released to attack according to the established plan.

Today, Pickford and Godin formed a new "keeper" combination. Hummels and Godin switched positions and pressed forward.In this way, Hummels' position is equivalent to between the defensive midfielder and the central defender.After this switch, the defensive effect is also very good.

Even if Paris presses heavily, they may not be able to break through Sunderland's defense.

After the head coach and the player coaching staff completely improved their communication, the entire locker room was full of confidence.Several players who are close to Godin put their hands together and shouted in unison: "For Godin!" Then they walked through the locker room door and walked onto the court.

The Uruguayan Godin who followed them seemed a little embarrassed.

As Anton expected, Paris aggressively pushed forward in the second half.They originally thought that Sunderland would focus on defense and occasionally seek counterattacks.Unexpectedly, Sunderland, like them, also went all out to attack. Both sides fought fast and had contacts with each other, and the scene suddenly became very good.

Sure enough, Sunderland scored the second goal in the 51st minute, which meant that Paris Saint-Germain was one step further away from advancing, and they had to pull three goals in a row to hope to win the game.

This goal was a huge blow to the morale of Paris, and in the next game, the Paris players found that they could not pass the half-time. This fact was more shocking than the score.

The Sunderland fans watching the game from the sidelines were very excited from the beginning to the end, and they were hardly willing to sit down for a while for a minute.

And the 2000 Parisian fans sat alone in a separate area watching silently.At this point, they can't force anything, they just hope to score a face-saving goal, and don't let this trip to England be so embarrassing.

The stand where Jiang Yueming was staying was not far from the stands of the Paris fans, so all the Paris fans saw that the reporter from the East was facing them, dancing alone.

Jiang Yueming was completely unaware of this, he only knew that Anton's tactics worked again.