1261 The Opponent Is Released!

The Chinese team's promotion to the top 16 of the World Cup actually had psychological expectations from the outside world before the final match of the group stage, so it will not cause a sensation. Their real sensation came after they defeated Nigeria in the first two rounds and drew with Belgium.

After Situ Yunbing dealt with the post-match interview, he led the team back to the hotel, and then sat with Alonzo in the restaurant of the hotel, ordered some special dishes, a bottle of fine wine, and the two smiled and toasted each other.

Alonzo's record in leading Liverpool over the past few years is not bad. In the four seasons of the league, he only lost the league championship once, and also won a championship in the Champions League, and fell to the semi-finals the other three times.

In two of them, the team was full of injuries. Either there was no one available on the front line and they could only rely on the teenager Sancho and veteran Bell, or the midfield defense was completely pieced together.

The invincible lineup once built by Situ Yunbing has indeed had a great impact on the team's record due to injuries in recent years.

After the absence of Iron Man Van Dijk, Liverpool's back line will be reduced in strength. If Kanter cannot play, then the world will know who is supporting Liverpool's midfield defense line. If Casemiro is injured again, then Liverpool The midfield defense has become very mediocre, and on the front line Mbappe, Lewandowski and Sane, if two of them cannot play at the same time, then Liverpool's striker strength will also be greatly reduced. Among them, Lewandowski Ski is another very important link, but he can't resist the impact of injuries.

Compared with Situ Yunbing in coaching, Alonzo is only slightly inferior in two aspects. One is the decisiveness of on-the-spot response. In the final analysis, it is whether he can fight for his life with ideas and whether he will hesitate when everything is overwhelmed. Back off. At this point, looking back at the key battles Liverpool lost in the past four years, we already have the answer. The second point is the renewal of the team. Liverpool also tried to sign in to supplement the lineup, but the effect was not very good Well, in the past four years, there have also been one or two Red Army players who have been labeled parallel importers by Fleet Street.

But on the whole, looking at the record of the Red Army in the Premier League, it is still difficult for other teams to surpass.

So Alonzo's coaching position is still very stable.

After all, there is currently no coach in European football who is recognized as being able to do better than him.

Alonzo came to Qatar this time not only to pay attention to the Chinese team's game, but also to inspect some players on the candidate list.

In addition to congratulating the Chinese team on their achievements, the two recalled the glorious past, and then Alonzo said to Situ Yunbing: "Boss, I am very optimistic about Guo Xuantu, and I hope to bring him to Liverpool next summer." ,what do you think?"

When Situ Yunbing took Guo Xuantu to Monaco, the scouting system of the entire European football giants would list Guo Xuantu as a key observation target.

There was Zhao Fenghua in the front, Luo Cheng and Luo Xin in the back. In addition to the emergence of Chinese players in European football, the club has great ambitions for the commercial market behind the players.

Situ Yunbing smiled and said: "If you can guarantee that you will stay in Liverpool for at least 5 years, then I will suggest him to go to Liverpool, but if you can't make a guarantee, I don't think it is a good choice for him to go to Liverpool. His plan is to play in Monaco for at least three years. Whether it is the growth of technology and experience, or his personal stable development, I hope he can lay a solid foundation in the early stage. When he is 21 years old, we will see where he can go, the Bundesliga or the Bundesliga. La Liga is the first choice, the Premier League? I never recommend that Chinese players go to the Premier League. Although they can hone their confrontation, they can get very limited improvement in terms of skills and tactics, unless they can go to Manchester City or Liverpool."

Alonzo was lost in thought, and after a while he smiled wryly: "I can't make any guarantees. To be honest, I suddenly had a thought in the past year. I hope to start coaching again from a small team, such as a mid-range team in the Bundesliga or La Liga. Like the burgers we went to back then."

Situ Yunbing nodded and said: "This idea is very good. I guess you have experienced some failures in the past few years to make you realize that you have no challenges in Liverpool most of the time, but when the test comes, you will lack confidence. Teams are different. Almost every game they play is a test. You must be able to win against a weak team, but you must learn to survive against a strong team. The most important thing is that they cannot retain core players. Blood, and these are things you rarely have the opportunity to experience and face in Liverpool."

Alonzo nodded approvingly, what Situ Yunbing said was the main point.

Situ Yunbing can actually understand Alonzo's situation. When Liverpool is going smoothly, winning the championship is just a matter of course.

But once Taishun's team encounters a crisis, then dealing with the crisis is not a temporary idea, but definitely needs experience and ability!

Alonzo's coaching career started not badly, but the starting point was too high, which often made him less experience in the bottom-up process.

Letting go of Guo Xuantu's matter, Alonzo didn't feel relieved anymore. After a long discussion with Situ Yunbing, he also made up his mind to leave Liverpool next summer and go to coach a mid-range team to continue learning and gain experience.

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In addition to celebrating the team's promotion to the top 16 of the World Cup, Chinese fans will start to pay more attention to the situation in Group D. The situation in Group D is a bit chaotic. Before the final game, three teams have hopes of qualifying.

Spain, Mexico, Sweden.

The Chinese team will play against the second place in this group in the knockout round.

From the perspective of selecting opponents, Chinese fans will cheer for Spain, hoping that Spain can get the top spot in the group.

As for Mexico or Sweden to get second in the group, anyway, it is much better than Spain's second place.

I am afraid that Belgium is just thinking about it. They hope that Spain will not get the second place, or they will be the top of the group, or they will go home altogether.

In the evening of the next day, all members of the Chinese team watched the final match of Group D in the hotel.

Situ Yunbing also watched the game very seriously. After the Chinese team reached the top 16 of the World Cup, his game challenge task was only the last level!

As long as he leads the Chinese team to the quarter-finals of the World Cup, he will be freed from this survival game of more than ten years!

It was the first time for the players to see Situ Yunbing taking notes with a notebook while watching the game. This made everyone watch the game more seriously. They also kept their voices down when communicating with each other very solemnly, for fear of disturbing them. The work of Situ Yunbing.

Generally, Situ Yunbing would only work like this in his own office or when he was alone, but he had to buy time.

The picture on the big screen is divided into two areas, two games are played at the same time, and the Chinese team is also watching two games at the same time.

Situ Yunbing didn't get distracted at all, his eyes switched back and forth between the two games.

It seems that he is doing two things at once, but his thinking is very clear.

Record the usual lines and styles of play of these teams on offense, the role of core players, deployment adjustments during defense, and those players who may have unexpected impact when they play freely.

Before going to the World Cup, the Chinese team has done a detailed investigation on the three teams in Group D, from personnel to play style, and research on the game, so under the premise of doing enough homework, Situ Yunbing will not be confused. He has a very comprehensive understanding of the players on the team through the data.

When the game is over, Situ Yunbing has finished writing in a thick notebook, and he will go back to summarize and rearrange the useful information.

In the end, Spain took the top spot in the group, Sweden was eliminated, and Mexico ranked second in the group.

In this way, it would be useless for Situ Yunbing to record the information about Sweden tonight, but he didn't feel that his energy and time were wasted at all.

The Spanish information may not be useful now, but what if it will be useful in the future?

As for Mexico, it will be the opponent of the Chinese team, so first-hand information is worth a thousand dollars.

All the generals of the Chinese team also know their opponents in the 1/8 finals in the future. It is not to say that they are relieved because they avoided Spain, but at least some pressure has been reduced and they have become more full of fighting spirit!

Now every step forward will be a new history of Chinese football!

The advantage of the Chinese team is that they have one more day off than Mexico. At the same time, the Chinese team can prepare and understand their opponents earlier than Mexico.

It is conceivable that it is impossible for Mexico to consider who will play in the 1/8 finals before the end of the group stage.

And when they advance to the top 16 and look back to study the Chinese team, they are also behind the Chinese team in terms of time.

Studying opponents is for better preparation, but the Chinese team has more time to prepare!

Without Situ Yunbing's reminder, the coaching staff asked the players to go back to their room to rest.

Situ Yunbing continued to work after returning to the room, sorting out the information, and at the same time asked Feng Kuoyang to bring the previously prepared Mexican materials, as well as the videos of the two Mexican games before the group stage.

Seeing that it was getting late, Feng Kuoyang reminded Situ Yunbing to rest early, but Situ Yunbing smiled at him and shook his head, saying, "After the World Cup is over, I have a lot of time to rest."

Feng Kuoyang seemed to realize something, so he stayed in Situ Yunbing's room to provide assistance to Situ Yunbing.

Once upon a time, Situ Yunbing and Alonzo also worked in the hotel without sleeping and eating. In recent years, he has rarely done so. After all, time is not forgiving, and a man over thirty should also pay attention to physical maintenance.

But now it is the World Cup, after the group stage, the preparation time is very tight, so Situ Yunbing started working overtime again.

The next day, during training, the players saw Situ Yunbing standing on the sidelines holding a coffee cup in his hand. The coaching staff sorted out many targeted deployment plans for the next game, and then let each player keep them in mind. The players Without thinking about it, he knew that this was the result of Situ Yunbing's work almost staying up all night.

They will not be moved in their hearts, only have a higher respect.

Therefore, it is more serious to complete the preparation training requirements of the coaching staff.