Chapter 43 Preparing for the Champions League
David Silva suddenly figured out the problem that had been bothering him for a long time.
Why should he compete with Glory?
I am a man on earth, but glory is not.
Are Earthlings competing with an alien monster?
Isn’t this unhappy?
Thinking of this, he suddenly laughed.
I used to be so stupid that I lost two precious months because of this. During the most important period of season preparation, I did not keep up with the team. Now he has to adapt to the team like a player who transferred to Manchester City in the last second before the transfer window closed.
But this is not a fault for Rongguang. He is just following his own habits and is trying to compete with him...
And judging from his attitude towards him, he may not know how he felt to him before...
Rongguang was stunned and then silent again. After being silent, he suddenly laughed, and he was confused.
Did David Silva take the wrong medicine today?
At this moment, David Silva suddenly said, "I want to apologize to you, Captain."
"Ah?" Rongguang was strange. Why did David Silva apologize to himself?
"I used to have some opinions about you... but now it's gone," David Silva said sincerely.
Rongguang looked at his sincere face, and although he didn't know why, he decided to accept David Silva's apology.
"Ha, that's nothing." He scratched his head and smiled, and then he invited David Silva: "Are you going to train together?"
David Silva shook his head repeatedly: "Forget it, forget it. I don't want to hurt myself again. I'd better follow the training + paddle for me by the coach...you can continue to practice your fallen leaf ball..."
Rongguang corrected him after hearing this: "It's not a fallen leaf ball, it's an elevator ball."
"Elevator ball?" David Silva was surprised, but he didn't expect that there was another way to call this free kick.
"Yes, the elevator ball." Rongguang nodded.
This name was named by Jose Alemane. Of course, he had to respect others, so he followed the name he gave. This special free kick was identified as the "elevator ball" by Glory.
"Why do you call this name?"
"Don't you think this free kick is straight up and down, it's like a football taking an elevator?" Rong Guang asked back.
David Silva imagined it in her mind, then nodded: "It's really. This name is cool, you can keep going, don't worry about me."
Rongguang nodded, turned around and returned to the training ground, and continued to start his elevator ball practice.
David Silva looked at it from the side and found that the successful elevator ball was really like Glory said, straight up and down, and there would be no left and right direction deviation.
He also noticed that the movements of Glory's free throws were very standard and consistent, and there would be almost no changes. It seems that this should be the trick to kick the elevator ball...
David Silva couldn't help but imagine in his mind that such a set of actions would have to be repeated for more than 20,000 times...
Ask yourself, can he do it himself?
Silva shook his head, feeling that he could not do it.
Such simple, mechanical and boring training made him unable to stand it if he persisted for thousands of times, let alone more than 20,000 times... And that was only half a month in June, and it was September now. He must have contacted him many times in the middle, and maybe he had 50,000 times... He is such a terrible person, so terrible that he is respectable...
David Silva can fully understand why players like Iniesta will admire Glory so much and are even willing to be his brainless fan.
As long as you look at such a terrible amount of training, many people will probably kneel down for him, right?
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During the national team's game day, the team still has training, but the training content is mainly based on physical training and restorative training, and there is no tactical training.
Sometimes, first-team players who stay in the training base will also play games with the reserve and youth team players to maintain the game state.
David Silva began training with the team.
After a month and a half of muscle strain, David Silva can finally train with the team. Although the first team is still in a remnant team and most of them are youth team players, David Silva is still very happy.
He chose Manchester City, on the one hand, because the personal contract that Manchester City had issued for himself was simply difficult to refuse, and on the other hand, he naturally wanted to see with his own eyes how great the glory was.
Although he has never played in Manchester City in a single game, he has seen how powerful the glory is.
What surprised him was that Manchester City was also very powerful.
Not at all like he did.
Manchester City's performance is excellent and stable, and has not lost the ball since the start of the new season.
Neither the league, the Community Shield, nor the Champions League qualifiers have lost.
Manchester City maintained a complete victory.
This really gave him a great surprise.
Now it seems that I have come to Manchester City right...
You can make both big money and honor.
Isn’t this the highest pursuit of professional players?
Make money and win championships.
It’s just that in some teams you can make money but not win the championship, in some teams you can get honors but not have a high income. It’s too difficult to enter the teams that can make big money and get honors.
Manchester City now seems to be a potential stock that can be expected.
David Silva is full of longing and expectation for his future.
He hopes to meet the standards of playing games as soon as possible, and then work hard with his new teammates for the two ultimate goals of winning and making big money.
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Since Benitez decided to compete with Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the Champions League, he has been working on those two opponents since now.
First, it is intelligence collection, and the videos of the last few games of the two teams were obtained, and then the videos were carefully studied.
In addition, we must collect all news related to the two teams, from the news of club seniors to the news of ordinary players.
Because it is very likely that the team's current state or a certain player's current state can be inferred from these fragmented news.
This will be the useful information he can use in the competition.
It just happened to take advantage of this period of time that the team's training task was not heavy, so he could study his opponents carefully and make plans for the team's targeted training.
When the players finish the national team game and return to the club, it is time to fully launch the Champions League preparations.
Benitez prioritized research on information from Bayern Munich.
Because the opponent in the first group stage was Bayern Munich.
The core of Bayern Munich is definitely Ribery. As the successor of glory, Ribery's personal ability is nothing to say. It is very outstanding and is also the core of the French national team.
Ribery was troubled by injuries last season and played only twenty-five games, but still scored seventeen goals and five assists.
He played eight times in the Champions League, scored four goals and assisted twice, and was also very outstanding.
But with so many goals, Bayern Munich lost the league championship and was revenged by Magath and led Wolfsburg to complete.
This season, Bayern Munich bought Robben from Real Madrid again.
Ribery and Robben, one left and one right, form the new wings of Bayern Munich.
These two wingers who are fast and flexible, delicate, can break through, pass and shoot, will pose a huge threat to Manchester City's defense line.
In the middle, Bayern Munich dug Mario Gomez from Stuttgart. At this time, he was a tall and strong center with good heading skills and foot skills.
He can form an offensive fulcrum for Robben and Ribery in the frontcourt, allowing both individuals to insert with confidence and boldness.
Benitez is not sure if Manchester City's defense can be defended.
Because Manchester City's defense line is the biggest problem, the full-back is mainly offensive, and neither Leiden Barnes nor Sabaleta have outstanding defensive abilities. However, in the center back, neither Kompani nor Lucio are still bulky central defenders, although they are very tall.
However, Lucio is already old. At the age of 31, he declined due to injuries last season, and his physical fitness was not as good as before.
This is a big problem.
Fortunately, there is also a Kompani.
Although Kompani is tall, he is relatively flexible and not slow. He is a tall and flexible central defender.
Now it seems that only one Kompany can count on.
In short, studying Bayern Munich made Benitez feel that this opponent was not easy to deal with. Although he told his assistants that Bayern Munich was not as powerful as he thought.
But you can't really think so when preparing for the game. To be honest, Bayern Munich is now stronger than last season's Bayern Munich.
Robben's arrival relieved Ribery's burden, which might instead liberate Ribery.
Robben's experience in Real Madrid proves that as long as this man is not injured, he is almost unsolvable. In his last period of time in Real Madrid, Real Madrid's attack was basically entirely dependent on him.
After changing from the left to the right, Robben mastered a skill of cutting inward shots. His inward shot shooting percentage is very high, which is difficult to guard against.
So Benitez couldn't understand why Florentino asked Robben to leave Real Madrid...
Sneider is also there. The game at Manchester City proves how outstanding Sneider is, and Real Madrid is trying to force others to leave.
I can only say that being rich is really willful...
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Rongguang doesn't care about what tactics they will use when fighting Bayern Munich. Anyway, he is not a coach, so it's not his turn to consider this kind of problem.
He just needs to keep honing his body and be able to keep himself in his best form in the game against Bayern Munich.
Anyway, if the head coach asks him to play, he will do his best and defeat his opponent.
Chapter completed!