Chapter 571: The Confrontation of Technology Flow

This season is Benitez's second season taking over Liverpool. When this season comes, Benitez has basically completed the renewal of his team, changing most of his main players to his own lineup. Liverpool has also played quite well in the league this season. Although he has no chance to win the league championship, he has a chance to enter the Champions League for the first time since the 21st century.

Liverpool is also unlucky enough. Since the founding of the Premier League, one place in the Champions League place has always been the second place, two places in the Champions League place, and three places in the Champions League place, Leiden Oriental emerged to enter the top three, and four places in the Champions League place, and Chelsea are the first to be in the Champions League place, but there is still no Liverpool place...

This reminded Xiao Ming of an ancient joke about Chinese football - former FIFA president Avilanger hoped that he could see the Chinese national team enter the World Cup when he was in office. As a result, when the 24 teams participated in the World Cup, the Chinese team was the 25th place in the world, and when the 32 teams participated, China was the 33th place in China, which was just a little short of it anyway.

However, Liverpool played well this year. Although they had suffered consecutive defeats at the beginning of the game at Leiden Oriental and Chelsea, they gradually caught up with their high winning rate. Now they are only one point behind Leiden Oriental, five points behind Manchester United, and nine points ahead of Tottenham. It is very likely that they will re-enter the Champions League field after many years.

In this case, Benitez certainly hopes to defeat Leiden East at home and throw the opponent into the qualifiers of the Champions League. This is at least a proud start.

What's more, Benitez wants to avenge the revenge in the European Super Cup.

Unfortunately, before the lineup has stabilized recently and the better the Leighton East, Benitez failed to take revenge successfully. Instead, the old hatred has not yet left, and new revenge has been added.

The three main players of Leiden Oriental, who were resting against Juventus, all appeared. At Anfield, they played a perfect game again. After resisting the repeated bombings of Crouch, Garcia, Cice and others, Leiden Oriental scored two consecutive games by counterattack, defeating Liverpool with a clean and neat 2-0, and threw the opponent away by four points.

After the game, Leiden East was four points behind Manchester United, four points ahead of Liverpool, and as many as 14 points behind Chelsea, basically withdrawing from the league championship.

Chelsea leads Manchester United with five rounds left in the league, and there is only a matter of time left to the second league championship in history. In this case, Leiden Oriental can retain a glimmer of hope of winning the championship only if it defeats Chelsea at home.

And Mourinho naturally attaches great importance to this game.

As long as you don't lose in this game, there is only one opponent that can threaten Chelsea's championship, so Mourinho took a more stable approach in this game.

April 14th, Oriental Stadium.

When facing Leiden East, who was fighting at home, Chelsea played a defense that was even better than Juventus. In addition to Duffrobe in the frontcourt waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, even Drogba returned to midfield defense more. Chelsea played extremely ugly in the whole game. They even had less than five shots in the whole game. Leiden East shot as many as 23 times, but still could not open the opponent's solid goal.

In addition to Cech's extremely outstanding performance, Chelsea's large-scale running and involvement in the midfield is also one of the crucial factors. While his physical fitness is consumed sharply, the physical fitness of Leiden Oriental players is also rapidly consumed, so that when the game is about to end, many Leiden Oriental players rarely experience fatigue and cramps.

"This is really a guy who only needs the result and not the process." Xiao Ming looked at Mourinho speechlessly. Perhaps it was Mourinho's utilitarian approach that caused Abu's dissatisfaction? Did the fuse of the split between Abu and Mourinho start to be laid from today?

"It seems that I can't overtake this time."

After the game, Xiao Ming and Mourinho said while shook hands.

"Really? I thought you had given up on the league since winter." Mourinho said calmly. From winter to some time ago, Leiden Oriental has never set up a main lineup in the league and two domestic cups. Although if the main lineup is used to compete, Leiden Oriental will definitely have a chance to overtake again, but in that case, the young players of Leiden Oriental will not get so many training opportunities. In other words, Xiao Ming used his league results to lay a good foundation for the next few seasons.

From the bottom of his heart, Mourinho envies Xiao Ming for having such a high degree of freedom. You should know that even if he has established the highest prestige in Chelsea's locker room, Abram can still create influence at any time. He also hopes to have the opportunity to lead a team continuously, just like Ferguson and Xiao Ming, but he also knows that if he wants to achieve this goal, he has to achieve results.

Xiao Ming shrugged and changed the topic: "By the way, I haven't congratulated you on winning the league championship yet."

"We haven't won the league championship yet, at least Manchester United still have a chance." Mourinho said lightly.

"Time matter." Xiao Ming smiled: "But the competition in the league next season should become very fierce... Manchester United's vitality has slowly recovered, and they have to spend much more time to renew."

After saying this, Xiao Ming let go of his hand, then turned around and greeted his players. Mourinho looked at his back, thinking.

After this draw, Leiden Oriental's points leading Liverpool were reduced to two points again. Although he lost to Leiden Oriental at home in the last game, Liverpool still did not stop catching up. In this round of game, they beat Blackburn away, which also made Leiden Oriental continue to be under pressure on both sides.

However, Manchester United stopped moving forward. They were tied one-to-one by Sunderland at home, and were still ten thousand behind Chelsea. With only four rounds left in the league, the hope of winning the championship is already quite slim. Perhaps for Ferguson, focusing on the FA Cup final is the most realistic goal.

April 17th, the 35th round of the league.

In a round of league games that was held in advance, Liverpool swept Fulham five-1 at home, with one more game, temporarily leading Leiden Oriental by one point, which also puts additional pressure on Leiden Oriental. After a limited rotation, Leiden Oriental withstood the pressure. Messi made one pass and one shot in the game, helping Leiden Oriental defeat West Bromvic 2-0 away, leading Liverpool by two points again, and Manchester United defeated Tottenham away. Although Chelsea defeated Everton at home, Chelsea still won the league championship three rounds ahead of the league, it indirectly helped Leiden Oriental and Liverpool a big favor.

After 35 rounds, Chelsea ranked first with 86 points and won the championship three rounds ahead of schedule. Manchester United ranked second with 76 points, Leiden Oriental scored third with 72 points, Liverpool ranked fourth with 70 points, and Tottenham, ranked fifth, had only 61 points, and there was absolutely no chance to catch up with Leiden Oriental again. Even the nine-point gap with Liverpool was equivalent to being eliminated early - after all, they won three wins and Liverpool had extremely slim chances of losing three.

In this case, Arsenal, with a sixty-two, is destined to miss the Champions League for the first time since the 98-99 season, which is really bad for Arsenal.

After winning this game, Leiden Oriental breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, the qualification for the Champions League next season has been settled. What you have to do in the next three league rounds is to compete with Liverpool for third place, and maybe have a chance to reach the league runner-up, but that is no longer so irrelevant. The most important thing is to the next game in the Champions League.

Two Champions League semi-finals, one Champions League final - if anything.

The matchup situation of Leiden Oriental in the Champions League semi-finals is naturally much easier than that in the other half of the zone. The opponent is Villarreal, which is much easier than the battle between AC Milan and Barcelona in the first half of the zone.

However, Leiden Oriental is definitely not easy. The three consecutive league games and two fierce battles in the Champions League have allowed Leiden Oriental's main players to run for nearly a month. Although they had enough rest before, and although Xiao Ming has tried his best to rotate the main lineup to a certain extent in these games without affecting the results, Leiden Oriental's physical fitness has indeed been greatly affected, especially in the game against Chelsea at home. Leiden Oriental was also dragged poorly by the opponent. The large amount of physical energy consumption caused the players to cramp, which is also a wake-up call.

Maybe it only takes one week to adjust, but what they have to face is their last home court in the Champions League this season.

How unfavorable it is to play at home first and then away. Just look at how Inter Milan was dragged to death by Villarreal - but Leiden Oriental is not without good news. The opponent's main goalkeeper Vieira and the main central defender partner cannot play, Uruguayan goalkeeper Vieira is suspended, while central defender Gonzalo and Bolivian Pena are unable to play due to injury. This is a place that can be used for Leiden Oriental.

In fact, in Xiao Ming's view, Villarreal's defense is not a very good place. On the contrary, what is difficult to deal with is their offense. Riquelme, Fran, Solin and Jose Mali are all very distinctive offensive players, especially their cooperation between the frontcourt is already quite outstanding. In the group stage, they made the defense to the extreme. They only scored three goals in six games but only conceded one goal, and then qualified for two wins and four draws. In the knockout stage, they rely on the combination of offense and defense, and reached the semi-finals with the advantage of away goals. Only the home game against Inter Milan did not concede. In that game, in addition to the outstanding performance of the defense line, the bigger reason was the poor offense caused by the internal strife of Inter Milan.

In short, Xiao Ming does not think that his team will not break through Villarreal's defense, but he must consider the threat of the opponent's offense, especially when the first game is played at home. If the opponent scores an away goal, it will not be so easy to play. Inter Milan is the lesson of the past.

"Boss, Antonio's report is here." MacDonald walked into Xiao Ming's office and said.

Xiao Ming raised his head and looked at McDonald: "How is the situation?"

"Not very good." McDonald shook his head: "Jozel and Luther's physical fitness have reached below the risk. They have cramped against Chelsea. Jozel's physical fitness has been recovering normally. Luther has been very tired recently. Antonio's advice is... It is best for them to take a while, at least one week."

Xiao Ming nodded thoughtfully. He was mentally prepared for this situation. This period was an important game in the Champions League, and he encountered strong enemies and tough battles in the league in succession. It’s a good idea to say something about the young man, but the old guys must be unable to support their physical fitness.

Jin Clarze and Fanny cannot play, are there Messi and Ronaldo? Although Leiden Oriental has dropped a lot this season compared to last season, there is not a shortage of rotation players. As long as there are not large-scale injuries, there will be no shortage of people.

Xiao Ming never doubted Pintus's professionalism. Since he said that Jin Klaze and Fanny would be better off taking a week off, let them take a week off. Jin Klaze has a lot more chances of playing this season than last season. This is really a lot of pressure for Jin Klaze, who has more than two seasons of blank periods, and his health has never been very good. It is also a good choice to take a good rest at this time.

So Xiao Ming is more concerned about the physical condition of other players.

"The other players are fine. Crowder may have a little physical fitness, but it can still be done in a high-level game. However, if neither Joezel nor Luther can play, will our strong offensive ability be weaker?" McDonald said with some concern that Messi, Ronaldo, and Ronaldo, this trident will definitely not have any technical problems, but if the opponent defends intensively, the impact will be a little weaker.

"Don't worry, there will be no problem." Xiao Ming smiled: "Our offensive impact is a little weaker, but Villarreal's defense is definitely not as good as in the previous game... The main goalkeeper and two central defenders are absent at the same time, and this impact cannot be compensated casually. Besides, what we need is to seize the opportunity. Ronnie is definitely not worse than Luther at this point now, and he has also rested for two games. There will be no physical problem. In such a game, maybe a goal can be solved."

MacDonald nodded thoughtfully. Seeing that nothing happened, he pushed the door and left Xiao Ming's office, and Xiao Ming began to think about it.

When he traveled through time, it was the end of the 10-year World Cup, so what impressed him the most was that in addition to Spain, which claimed to be playing the most gorgeous attacking football in the World Cup, won the World Cup championship with four ugly one-to-zero, was the scene where Inter Milan won the Italian team's first triple-tall championship under Mourinho.

In the previous seasons, Inter Milan has never lacked the kind of strong and outstanding centers. From Zamorano in the mid-to-late 1990s to King Vieri and Emperor Adriano, they are all high centers who are tall and impactful and able to score a large number of goals. After Mancini took office and the telephone gate incident, this super center configuration has reached its peak. Adrian, Ibrahimovic, Cruise, Crespo, and the four major centers gathered together. This is a super front line that no team has ever had. However, what about? Before the telephone gate, they won nothing in the league, and after the telephone gate, they only won the league championship in succession but could never pass the quarterfinals in the Champions League. The offensive tactics of the super center are indeed majestic when facing weak teams.

Bafang, but when facing the same powerful giants with super central defenders, the effect has not been so good. But what kind of striker does Mourinho have? Etoho, Milito and Pandev's tridents can rely on their bodies to create opportunities in the penalty area, but they are a complete whole, so complete that even the talented young man Balotelli has no place to sit. Relying on such a overall attack, they have been killing the champions of the Premier League, Russian Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga, and won the championship of the Champions League and became the team that won the triple-championship team. This change may be said to be accidental, but it is inevitable for the development of modern tactics.

The gap between players' personal abilities is getting smaller and smaller, and players with tactical cooperation are becoming more and more important. Tactical cooperation and targeted arrangement are becoming more and more victorious. Modern football has completed the transformation from personal heroism to teamwork spirit.

So Xiao Ming has always insisted on fighting the ground, the organization and the attack. Fortunately than Wenger, he has absolute power and more resources, which laid the foundation for the wealthy families of Leiden Oriental.

Cultivating White is just a change in some special circumstances, just like Mourinho will send Balotelli to disrupt the situation when he cannot open the situation. However, overall, Xiao Ming still insists on playing in the frontcourt to cooperate with the pulling.
Chapter completed!