Chapter 31 New Valencia

La Liga starts in late August and early September.

Valencia didn't win any championships last season, so naturally they don't need to prepare for games like the European Super Cup and Spanish Super Cup, and they don't need to participate in the UEFA Champions League draw.

So Chang Sheng has a very complete pre-season training, which is a good thing for his first season in Valencia.

His training plan can be implemented in its entirety without the risk of being disrupted midway.

In August, the team flew to the United States for a one-and-a-half-week training camp and played two warm-up matches with two American teams.

Both warm-up matches ended with victory for Valencia.

But the media and fans still don't understand what kind of football Valencia plays.

Because Chang Sheng disrupted the lineup, so far no one has been able to analyze what Valencia will look like under Chang Sheng's hands and what the lineup is through the warm-up match.

Chang Sheng did this, on the one hand, to hide his true intentions on purpose, and on the other hand, he naturally hoped that more players could integrate into this tactical system, so he wanted the substitute players to play more games, confusing the main force and Substitute difference.

In fact, with the current staffing of Valencia, it is difficult to tell the difference between the main force and the substitute.

After all, Valencia is not a small team like Getafe, so it would be nice to be able to make up a set of eleven players to play the main force.

Valencia was a team that had always fought on two fronts before, and they still had the necessary personnel reserves, and they also had the awareness of rotation.

Otherwise, why did Keeley Gonzalez and Vicente, both left wingers, play a lot of games last season?

Now that Valencia has been replenished with constant victories, the strength of the main and substitute lineups has been greatly improved.

They have three goalkeepers, among whom Chang Sheng, the main player and the first substitute goalkeeper, are very familiar.

The main goalkeeper Canizares, this is the main goal of Spain. Substitute goalkeeper Palop. Chang Sheng is also familiar with it. Because later when Sevilla won the UEFA Cup for two consecutive years, Palop was the main goalkeeper of that Sevilla team. He also had a record of goal lore in the league.

Today Palop is twenty-seven years old. It was during the golden age of a professional player,

But it's a pity that there is Canizares on top of his head, so he has to continue to play as a substitute.

Speaking of it, Palop is also quite tragic. As a native of Valencia, he once hoped to represent Valencia in La Liga very early. But when he started to make his mark in Valencia's youth academy in the B team in 1994, Zubizarreta moved to Valencia. For four years, Palop had no chance to gain a foothold in the first team.

Zubizarreta retired in 1998. He thought his chance had come, but at this time Valencia bought Canizares again. Until the move to Sevilla in 2005. In six years he only played 43 league games for Valencia.

no way. Canizares is too awesome, and he is only 31 years old now, which is the most mature time for a goalkeeper. How could Palop win the Spanish national team?

Chang Sheng knows that he will be great in the future, but now Palop still appears to be incompetent and inexperienced. lack of confidence.

Three deficiencies are fatal enough. In the goalkeeper position, Chang Sheng has more reasons to trust an experienced veteran than a substitute goalkeeper, although the substitute goalkeeper is actually not small. Of course, it is not ruled out that in some non-insignificant games, Changsheng will send Palop to play.

The other goalkeeper, David Rangel, is even younger. He is only 22 years old this year and was drawn from the B team. If nothing else, he may not have the chance to play all season.

In the central defender, the victorious Valencia has Ayala, Carvalho and Pellegrino. And David Navarro, who was often promoted from the B team. Ayala, Carvalho, and Pellegrino all have the ability to play the main force, but Changsheng tends to let Carvalho and Ayala play central defenders, and the 29-year-old Pellegrino plays Substitute, the kind who is ready to play at any time.

Navarro was discovered by Chang Sheng while browsing the list of the B team.

At first, Chang Sheng felt that he had found a treasure. He thought it was Navarro, the main central defender and captain of Sevilla.

But soon he discovered something was wrong. Because this is David Navarro, and the Sevilla captain he remembered was Harvey Navarro. The names are all different.

Regarding this David Navarro, Chang Sheng's deepest impression about him may be the incident when Inter Milan met Valencia in the knockout round of the 2007 Champions League.

After the game at that time, players from Inter Milan and Valencia clashed. It was just an ordinary conflict, and everyone has seen this kind of conflict a lot. Inter Milan's Burdisso and Valencia's Marchena had a dispute. Players from both sides rushed up, but they went up to break the fight.

It was at this point that Navarro, who had been on the bench for the entire game, seemed to have finally found a way to vent his energy - he rushed straight onto the court and punched Burdisso. , This punch not only planned the bridge of the Argentine's nose, but also aroused the anger of everyone in Inter Milan.

But Navarro then showed the speed and agility in front of the crowd that did not match his position as a central defender. He escaped from the interception and encirclement of Inter Milan players. Although he suffered a flying tackle from Maicon, he was unharmed. back to the bench...

Chang Sheng was deeply impressed by this incident, especially the speed and flexibility of Navarro running all the way.

So Chang Sheng decided to transfer the 21-year-old to the first team and learn slowly on the bench. Under the competition of Ayala, Carvalho and Pellegrino, it is impossible to want to be the main player, but it is enough to be a qualified substitute.

There are many candidates for the right back position in Valencia, including the veteran Angloma, Curro Torres who returned to the team after his loan period in Tenerife, and Ferre, who Changsheng introduced from Setúbal. pulled.

Anglomar has rich experience and has been the team's main right back before. But after Ferreira came, he may have to gradually adapt to his life sitting on the bench.

Curro Torres is also a qualified substitute. He played 39 league games in Tenerife last season, so there is no problem in terms of experience.

On the left back, Changsheng did not add players because he felt that it was enough. There are veterans Carboni and Fabio Aurelio, and Harvey Palatz.

Carboni is too old, and Chang Sheng will not let him continue to play the main force. Aurelio will be righted by Changsheng to the main position.

He only played seven league games last season and was Carboni's backup. In the new season, the positions of the two will be changed.

Aurelio later played for Liverpool, but because of injuries, he didn't have too many opportunities to play. In Valencia he performed very well. Is a typical Brazilian full-back, with excellent assists and average defense.

The configuration of the two full-backs is quite in line with Chang Sheng's set at Getafe. One full-back focuses on attacking and one full-back focuses on defending.

There are also three people in the midfielder position, Baraja, Albelda and Guardiola.

This means that there is really no distinction between the main force and the substitute. Anyone can play the main force, but when Baraja and Albelda are combined, they tend to be defensive, and the defense is very tough.

If any of these two men are paired with Guardiola, the team may be more imaginative in attack.

This is a variable, Changsheng likes such a variable, because it will make his team's tactics more unpredictable.

There are Romanian internationals Dennis Serban and Aimar in the midfielder position. In Changsheng's 4231, someone is needed in the front midfielder position. Looking at it now, it must be Aimar. Dennis Selban's ability is not good, and Chang Sheng plans to use it as a substitute.

On the right side of the team, there is only Mendieta alone. Changsheng plans to let Serban also serve as a substitute here, and Angulo can also play here. This solves the replacement problem here.

In addition, Angulo can also play as a striker, so there is also a substitute for the striker.

Keely Gonzalez went on the left, but with Vicente, he is the absolute main force. Reyes can only start with his backup.

On the front line, Valencia now has Ibrahimovic, Villa and Carew, and Angulou can also be regarded as a striker.

Four strikers are enough.

You must know that Chang Sheng played as a single forward.

Four strikers are already too much...

Angulo just asked him to play Mendieta's backup.

Carew... The team always needs to prepare an extra set of tactics, not just one set of tactics. The second set of tactics that Chang Sheng prepared for Valencia is a typical defensive counterattack, which is the one he is most familiar with and the one Valencia is most familiar with.

In the defensive counterattack, sometimes Karoo may be used.

Anyway, Carew has a good temper, even if he was asked to play as a substitute, he didn't complain.

That's all the winning cards right now.

If nothing else, he'll have to play a full season with this lineup.

For Chang Sheng, this lineup is already very strong, a hundred times stronger than when he was coaching Getafe.

After more than a month of closed training, he can't wait for the start of the new season.

He wants to use real combat to test his tactics. In those warm-up matches played before the season, Chang Sheng doesn't care at all.

Winning 1000:0 in the warm-up match is meaningless to him.

But before starting the official league, Chang Sheng has another thing to deal with.

If he didn't handle it well, he would feel like he was carrying a time bomb on his way to win the championship. If the bomb exploded, he would be finished with it.

This thing is...he has to go and have a good talk with the captain of the team, Mendieta. . . )

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