Gao Yuan was promoted to assistant coach, and his work was mainly in charge of intelligence collection and data analysis. However, his status had changed significantly. His former master, Lao Lin, was now his subordinate, and he had people working under him.

People can do Gao Yuan's work more easily.

As the core of the coaching staff, Gao Yuan also has the opportunity to be more deeply involved in daily training and pre-game tactical preparations. With Fabio and others beside him, Gao Yuan has more opportunities to observe, learn and ask for advice in detail, and his vision has been improved.

In order to further expand, various ability values ​​have also been rapidly improved.

A week later, national-level players at all levels finished training and returned to the team. The Taishan team finally assembled the strongest lineup, with strong troops and horses, ready for the game.

The first game of this stage is to face the domestic football hegemon - Yangcheng Evergrande at home.

Yangcheng Evergrande is the well-deserved overlord of the Chinese Super League. Since being promoted to the Chinese Super League in 2011, it has won 8 Chinese Super League championships and 4 Super Cup championships. In 2012 and 2016, it also won two AFC Champions League championships.

There are so many strong players, almost every domestic player has the experience of being a national player, and there are even more big-name foreign players. You can't imagine, but you can't buy them. With sky-high prices one after another, they are constantly breaking the transfer fee record of Chinese football.

In the past two years, with the aging of the players in the team and the departure of famous coaches such as Lippi and Scolari, the dominance of the Evergrande team has declined. However, it is still the main sufferer of the Taishan team. In the past ten years

In the record of the competition, the Taishan team lost more than they drew, and it was difficult to win for many years. Following the previous "Korean phobia", in recent years, it has suffered from "Hangphobia".

As a die-hard fan of the Taishan team, Gao Yuan naturally hopes that the team can break the fate of losing consecutive games against Evergrande. Therefore, in addition to carefully collecting and sorting out the opponent's intelligence, he also put forward his own strategies to defeat the enemy in the report.

Gao Yuan believes that the Evergrande team has not been in good shape recently. Many of the main players in the team are absent, and only Talisca and Paulinho are available for foreign aid. Although the coach Cannavaro is a former World Footballer, the player

He played first-class football, but he was not a successful coach and had obvious shortcomings in on-the-spot command.

Gao Yuan suggested that in view of the above situation of the opponent, the Taishan team should win by surprise, select players with strong offensive power as the main players in the lineup, play offensive football, and win the Evergrande team at home with the momentum of "swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger".

However, his proposal was opposed by other members of the coaching staff.

Hao Wei once served as the assistant coach of Evergrande for a period of time and is very familiar with the strength of Evergrande.

He was the first to object: "Even though the strength of the Evergrande team has declined, but the skinny camels are bigger than horses, I think their strength is still above us. Especially Talisca and Paulinho, two super foreign players

, you can’t defend one-on-one at all, you have to defend as a whole, so I think we should focus on defensive counterattacks.”

Fabio also disagreed with Gao Yuan's opinion: "This series of schedule is very important, and the first game at the beginning is even more important, so it must be treated with caution. Play it safe and draw with powerful opponents at home.

Getting 1 point is strategically acceptable."

Pep also agreed with both of them.

Other members of the coaching staff objected, and Gao Yuan could only pin his hopes on coach Li Xiaopeng. After all, he was the final decision-maker and talker.

Li Xiaopeng pondered for a long time, and finally rejected Gao Yuan's proposal in the name of the minority obeying the majority.

Gao Yuan was very disappointed. He had carefully thought about and carefully prepared for this game, and had repeatedly conducted deductions based on the data in the system. He firmly believed that he was right. However, he could not change the final decision of the coaching staff because he was so humble.

Gao Yuan is not surprised by the statements of Fabio, Hao Wei and others. Although they are experienced, it is precisely this rigid experience that shackles their thinking. Assistant coaches are assistant coaches after all. Among their coaching attributes, various training

Their attributes are very high, but their courage and decisiveness values ​​are generally low. This also limits their career development. It is more than enough to be an assistant coach, but it is difficult to lead a team as a head coach.

What really disappoints Gao Yuan is Li Xiaopeng's attitude. Li Xiaopeng has been his idol since he was playing football, and he has been a die-hard supporter of Li Xiaopeng for so many years. According to Gao Yuan's observation, Li Xiaopeng's coaching attributes are the best among domestic coaches.

He is second to none, even among coaches of this age group in the world. But the shortcomings of domestic coaches are too obvious after all. According to the "barrel theory", the shortest piece of wood determines how much water a barrel can hold.

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The lack of decision-making ability ultimately determined that Li Xiaopeng could not become a world-class coach.

Gao Yuan couldn't help but think of what Li Xiaopeng said that night in the library, "These are all my shortcomings, and they are also common problems among domestic coaches of our generation. The outside world says that I am a young marshal, but now I am 45 and 6.

It’s not easy to learn new things anymore. If Chinese football wants to truly change, the hope lies not with us, but with young people like you.”

Maybe when the time comes, I should go out as soon as possible, be on my own as soon as possible, and see the bigger world!

After the game started, as Gao Yuan expected, the Evergrande team only played two foreign players, Talisca and Paulinho. However, seeing that the Taishan team did not dare to attack rashly, they turned away and began to put pressure frequently, constantly attacking Taishan.

The team's defense.

The Taishan team focused on stability, and most of the starting players they sent were veteran players who were good at defense and lacked offensive vigor. Guedes, who is good at kicking the ball and breaking through, did not play. The tall Pellet was unable to get the support of his teammates.

The kite is floating in the opponent's penalty area, isolated and helpless, and cannot pose any threat.

Seeing that the Taishan team was beaten without fighting back, the Evergrande team became more confident and bold in attacking. Various short pass combinations, long pass transfers, personal breakthroughs, and long-range attacks made the game very easy. Especially the two foreign players were in great shape and frequently relied on

Personal ability creates damage, and the Taishan team's defense line is overwhelmed by the sudden attack.

In the 26th minute of the game, Talisca was brought down by Fellaini and won a free kick in the frontcourt. Talisca personally took the penalty. Although it was 36 meters away from the goal, Talisca's free kick was extremely fast and powerful.

It was huge and had extremely strong spin. Wang Dalei tried his best to block the ball from the bottom line by diving sideways.

The Evergrande team won a corner kick. Just when the home fans were still worried about the free kick just now, Talisca stood up again and used his height of 1.90 meters to break through the siege and nod the ball in front of him.

Push into the mesh nest.

0:1, Evergrande team takes the lead.

After that, the Taishan team strengthened their offensive, and the situation improved slightly. The two wingers stepped up their crosses, which gave Pellet in the penalty area a chance to come into play.

However, the Taishan team's offensive performance was not very good. Since players with offensive talents were absent, tactically they could only rely on simple routines such as crosses from the wing to organize the offense.

Li Xiaopeng had a serious look on his face and was pacing back and forth in the coaching area, as if he was having a fierce ideological struggle, thinking about whether to change his formation in the second half.

But his troubles did not last until the midfield. At the end of the first half, the Taishan team received a free kick from the wing. The tall Pellet finally grabbed the first point and broke through the Evergrande goalkeeper's fingers with a shot.

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This goal was a bit of a fluke, relying entirely on Pellet's personal ability. However, it also dispelled the concerns of the Taishan team's coaching staff. They did not adjust during the halftime break and continued with the previous formation and style of play.
Chapter completed!