Liverpool has a very strange tradition.

The night before each home game, the hotel teams gathered to stay at is the Hope Street Hotel.

But after the game, or their favorite place to go, is the St. Thomas Hotel.

The two hotels are not far away, and it is about ten minutes' drive to Anfield, but for Liverpool, it looks like two places with different functions.

If the players are in a good mood or win at home, they must be celebrating at the St. Thomas Hotel.

The owner of the hotel is a die-hard Liverpool fan. He will definitely chase every game, whether it is home or away. He will definitely come.

Of course, the owner of the Hope Street Hotel is also a die-hardcore Liverpool. This hotel has been a hotel that Liverpool has stayed at before the home game for so many years and has never been changed.

The only difference is that there is a St. Thomas bar in the St. Thomas Hotel, which is the best atmosphere in Liverpool and is also the favorite place for local fans to go to. Liverpool players often gather here.

Daniel Agge's Italian restaurant is also nearby.

Interestingly, the night before the game against Chelsea, when the players checked into the Hope Street Hotel, they were discussing how to celebrate at the St. Thomas Hotel after tomorrow's game.

Because the owner of the St. Thomas Hotel has already said that as long as the team wins Chelsea and advances to the finals, he will ask everyone in the team to celebrate and all the drinks in his bar are provided for free.

Of course, the target is limited to Liverpool's players and employees.

This is definitely a tempting condition for Gerard and Carragher and others.

Every player saw different things. Some saw the atmosphere, some wanted to go to drink, and some thoughts of beauty.

And then, it will definitely be another sleepless night.

...

Yang Yang and Harvey Alonso were not interested in these things, so they took the initiative to ask the head coach to apply for the same room.

Benitez agreed.

So, throughout the night, Harvey Alonso sat on the bed and read books. Yang Yang studied his opponent on his laptop, and wore headphones to videos with Su Ye. He was now even worse than Maxwell at the beginning, and he wanted to see Su Ye every day.

It was finally almost time to come, but Yang Yang turned off the computer.

"Do you find it strange?" Yang Yang suddenly asked after turning off the lights.

"It seems that there is no targeted training." said Harvey Alonso.

In the darkness, Yang Yang nodded, "Boss just asked us to conduct a shooting training."

It was a training class this afternoon. Benitez asked Aurerio and Aveloa to pass the ball to both sides of the penalty area on both sides of the penalty area arc, and the other players then took the ball to the closest corner.

Yesterdam took a notepad and recorded there.

Each player shot a few times in both positions, but the coaching staff did not explain anything about what happened.

"It's normal, he's always mysterious." said Harvey Alonso.

"But he is very reliable every time." Yang Yang replied.

What Benitez once told him in his mind sounded in his mind. He discovered a very secretive loophole that Chelsea might not have discovered. But he still hides what it is.

Could it be that this time the shooting training is related to this?

"I remember, once he said that when playing games with national teams, there are often many players who are familiar with each other. When communicating before the game, the content of the game will inevitably be involved. If you are not careful, you may be guessed by your opponent. There have even been cases where the opponent's players deliberately fetch information before."

The stadium is like a battlefield, and it is understandable to obtain information before the game. I can only blame myself for not having enough confidentiality.

"So, since then, he has never released some tactical details in advance before the game. He will only announce them on the day of the game, sometimes even in the pre-game locker room, just to avoid leaks."

Yang Yang found this a bit funny when Harvey Alonso said this, but he didn't resist.

He has never been a very curious person. If it is related to him and needs him to do it, Benitez will tell him sooner or later, and there is no need to be anxious.

"Hey." In the darkness, the voice of Harvey Alonso came from the bed next door, "Yang, will we make it to the finals?"

"Yes!" Yang Yang replied without hesitation, paused, and he added, "Not only will we reach the final, we will also win the championship!"

"That's really done by Gerald!" Harvey Alonso said with a smile.

Yang Yang couldn't help laughing, and the night that Harvey Alonso told him the same thing.

"He is a fortune teller!"

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The next morning, Yang Yang still ran to the gym to train for a while.

De Michelle accompanied him throughout the whole process, and he is now in charge of the training programs for everyone in the team in the gym.

On the day of the competition, all itineraries are strictly scheduled according to the time, including lunch break.

Yang Yang is a special one because he has become accustomed to his own training mode, such as going to the gym in the morning and swimming at noon. These are the habits he has accumulated over the past few years, and his body has already adapted.

Even to a certain extent, whether it is a gym or swimming, it is an alternative relaxation for him.

Two hours before the game, the team departed on time from the Hope Street Hotel on time on bus.

When the players walked out of the hotel, Liverpool fans were already waiting at the entrance of the hotel. When they saw the players cheering, singing team songs, shouting the players' names, cheering for the team, hoping that they could defeat Chelsea tonight.

But no one will come to the pool team because they all know that players before the game need to be calm.

Every evening game is at the end of Liverpool.

The police car will open the lane for Liverpool's buses in front to ensure that the team arrives at Anfield on time as expected.

The players were on the bus without communication or speaking, and there was silence.

When he was in Ajax, Yang Yang would enter the super training ground to train, but not at Liverpool, because it was only ten minutes away.

Wherever the bus passes, there will be groups of Liverpool fans cheering on the side of the road.

There are also some special seats in the car. Some players are more casual, but some are more superstitious. They always deliberately choose the same teammates to sit together. For example, Aurelio, he insists on sitting with Yang Yang because he believes that this will bring him luck.

In fact, after sitting with Yang Yang, he performed well in every game.

But Yang Yang sometimes really wants to tell him that the reason he performed well was because he was holding himself in front, not because the two of them sat together before the game, because Yang Yang didn't like to sit with Aurelio very much.

The two have a good relationship, but Aurerio likes to talk when he is nervous.

But today, he didn't speak.

This is the first time he has reached the threshold of the Champions League final!

Benitez sat in the front row, usually reading newspapers or playing Sudoku, and he was very obsessed with this math game.

Yang Yang felt a headache about this because he was not interested in brain-consuming calculations like Sudoku.

But the Spanish were obsessed with this, which was in line with his image.

What is different from usual is that when the team bus passed by Liverpool University, several Chinese students put out Chinese slogans to cheer for Yang Yang. They all wore Liverpool jerseys and were obviously planning to go to Anfield. This made Yang Yang feel moved to meet an old friend in a foreign land. He waved to them through the car window and expressed his gratitude.

...

After arriving in Anfield, I prepared, rested, entered the venue to warm up, and returned to the locker room...

Everything is going in an orderly manner, and everyone is used to this day-to-day home preparation.

Facts have also proved that Liverpool's home performance this season is really good.

As the player returned to the locker room and was preparing for the final game, head coach Benitez finally revealed his last killer move in this game.

"I always believe that an excellent head coach must know how to be far-sighted. Before a most important game, his tactics must be reserved. In fact, I have always done this."

The locker room was so quiet that only Benitez's voice remained.

Everyone knows that this is the final tactical arrangement before the game, and everyone listens very carefully.

"I had already noticed a loophole in Chelsea long before the first leg, but in the first leg, I was useless because I was not sure to hit a hit at Stamford Bridge Stadium, so I deliberately kept it for the second leg."

Benitez was full of confidence when he said this, and this confidence also infected every player in the locker room.

"If you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that we have never practiced set pieces in the past few games, right?"

After hearing this, the players thought for a while and nodded at the same time. They did not practice it.

"If you think about it again, in the first round and the past two league games, have I deliberately asked you to punish you for the back of the set-piece, or the middle of the penalty area?"

Everyone nodded again.

All corner kicks and free kicks in the frontcourt were punished this point, so when facing Portsmouth, Hypia scored a header. Everyone thought that this was a loophole in Benitez who saw the opponent, but unexpectedly it was to prepare for this game.

Yang Yang guessed it all at once, and this is called trying to cover up, because he knew that Mourinho would definitely study Liverpool's recent games, especially set pieces tactics.

Then, if you do the opposite, Mourinho's Chelsea's loophole must be set-piece defense, and it is the front point!

"So, I want to tell you tonight that Chelsea's set-piece defense, the near post is their weakness. They always have loopholes in the near post, but the opponent often fails to grasp the loophole and use it to score goals."

"So tonight, I need a guy who, when the team takes a corner kick or a set ball in the frontcourt, is near the small penalty area and rushes in, he can get out of the crowd and attack the opponent's near post at the right place!"
Chapter completed!