Godfather Of Champions

"Abangraho! YES! YES! YES! Abangraho!"

The English fans in the stands jumped up from their seats, raising their arms to cheer for their goal hero. An earthquake seemed to be happening at the Bernabéu Stadium, and even the camera lens was shaking.

Amidst the cheers of the mountains and the tsunami, Abang Raho broke free from the drag of his teammates, ran all the way to the coach's bench, and gave Dunn a strong hug. Everyone knows that he can appear in the finals and has a great relationship with Dunn. And his goal is also the best return for trust in the opponent.

"Aha! Dunn's unexpected adjustments made the Italians completely unable to react! In the twenty-fourth minute, we were ahead by one goal! Good job, Abangraho! Good job, Dunn!" John. Mortensen didn't question Dunn's substitution in the previous commentary, so at this time he said this with confidence.

After embracing Dunn, Abangraho found Mitchell in the crowd and rushed to hug him again.

"This goal is dedicated to you, Aron!" Excited Abangraho yelled in Mitchell's ear.

Mitchell was a little surprised, but he was quickly infected by the emotions of the players around him, and he bent down and hugged his teammate who was 21 centimeters shorter than him. They are dual teammates, national team and club team. He felt that perhaps because of this relationship, Abangraho would take the initiative to embrace him after scoring.

"Good job, Flash! One more goal!" Mitchell called him affectionately by the nickname he gave to Abang Raho.

Dunn saw this scene next to him and was very satisfied. The atmosphere in the team's locker room is very harmonious. This team is united. With such a team, he is not afraid of any opponents.

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The English were cheering for their lead, while the Italians were collectively silent.

Lippi didn't get angry on the sidelines because of this loss. In fact, no matter what the situation is, it is difficult to see him showing his emotions on the sidelines. Now he is just sitting on the coach's bench, his eyes hidden behind gold-rimmed glasses staring at the field. He is thinking about the mistakes they made before.

He didn't expect Dunn to make Abang Raho start, which is really unexpected. Therefore, in the preparations before the game, he did not make any targeted arrangements for Abang Raho. This directly led to his players not knowing how to deal with Abang Raho on the court. If England’s No. 18 is a bit more active, Italian players will know from experience that this is an important figure, and will naturally shift the defensive focus to him, but Abangraho’s previous performance is similar to sleepwalking. Let everyone, including himself, lower his position by several levels. They thought there was no threat to this kind of performance...

Now it seems that Tang En is indeed a master of psychological adjustment, very good at trying to figure out the psychology of others. He guessed what he thought...

Lippi admitted that he had made an empirical error, and he took it for granted in studying Dunn’s starting lineup-James Vaughan performed well in the semifinals, and there was no injury in training these days. News, then the finals will definitely start. Unexpectedly, Dunn would dare to withstand the huge pressure and press Vaughn on the bench.

This opponent is interesting.

He got up from his seat, walked to the sidelines, and gestured to the players inside.

He wants Chiellini to strengthen his defense against Abangraho and don't give him such a chance. I believe that with the ability of the Italian defenders, as long as they value Abangrajo, the opponent should have little room to play.

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Lippi's adjustment was expected by Dunn. Because if he is still indifferent after seeing Abangraho be active and score a goal, then Lippi must have been brained by an alien, which is abnormal.

He is not worried about Abangraho being targeted to death. Now they are ahead of Italy. Even if Abangrajo is prevented from doing nothing, it doesn’t matter. The important thing is to hold this advantage, and then use this advantage to draw the Italians out, so that their tight defenses no longer exist. .

He just asked the team to pay attention to defense for a period of time.

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Lippi didn't mean to rush to equalize in the first half, although the players will definitely fight back after losing the ball. But as long as some time later they will come back naturally.

The reason he was not in a hurry to tie the score was that a one-point lead would become a huge psychological burden for the England team. It is like a long marathon. It is unwise to be the leader from the beginning. No coach will make such a tactic for his athletes. The person who is truly capable of winning must be hiding in the second group, keeping the pressure on the leader at any time, and surpassing at the last moment.

Lippi's current thinking is the same as those of long-distance running coaches, he wants to throw the huge psychological pressure of leading to his opponent. Because this is not an ordinary game, this is the final, the final of the European Cup. As time goes by, a goal lead will become a huge psychological burden for the English players. Everyone will think in their hearts-absolutely must not lose the ball, otherwise our championship will be gone...

This kind of thinking will become heavier over time, until it completely crushes the England team.

Lippi decided to make adjustments during the intermission and only used his strength in the second half. As long as the score is equalized, the huge psychological advantage will fall to Italy, and the situation on the field will be fundamentally reversed. At that time, there is not much time left in the game, and the morale on his side will be high, while the England team will suffer. A major blow, the final victory must belong to the Italian team.

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The Italian team organized several waves of offensive after the re-start, trying to equalize the score. But in the face of the well-prepared England's intensive defense, they didn't ask for anything, so they retreated.

Dunn was very happy at first-the Italian finally pressed it out. But it didn't take long before he found a problem.

The Italian team did not panic because they lost a goal in the final, but rushed to bombard the penalty area of ​​England-although this is what Dunn hopes to see. After attacking several times, they found that there was no result, so they immediately retracted and returned to their previous defensive counterattack state, as if they were the leader.

This obviously has something to do with the white-haired old man directing the game on the sidelines.

Dunn lowered his head and pondered for a while, he guessed Lippi's thoughts.

As he often said to his players, "A goal lead is the most insecure score in the world". This is not his original creation, but just a general statement summed up by him. This is the truth for football coaches all over the world. Everyone knows that even if it is a 1:0 activist, they will often be bombarded by the opponent around the goal in the game, worrying about the psychological pressure of being equalized at any time.

Lippi must think so, intending to transfer this psychological pressure to the leading Englishman.

From this perspective, it is not a good thing to lead too early...

In a long marathon, the Englishman rushed out of the big team first and took the lead. The veteran Italians are hidden in the large army, and always keep a distance from the leader English. In the beginning, this was a competition of technology and strength. But when it comes to the end, technology and strength are no longer important. It is psychology that determines the final champion.

That being the case, let the team continue to strengthen the offense, so that one goal lead becomes a two goal lead!

Dunn walked to the sidelines and looked at the court. Only then did he remember: after Lippi asked Chiellini to strengthen his defense against Abangraho, England's striker has basically been frozen... even if he wanted to How to strengthen the offense?

Dunn cursed in his heart: "Old fox!"

Abang Raho is not a pure center after all. Once he is stuck by the opponent's guard in the penalty area, his role is actually quite small. At this time, Dunn will miss Mitchell especially, and at least his header will help the team tear the Italian defense.

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With the secret struggle of the two coaches, the game born in the first half was no different from before the goal. England made a strong attack and hoped to score another goal before the end of the first half, while Italy had a solid defensive accumulation and determined not to let the Englishman succeed.

Until the last moment, Dunn did not see his team score a second time.

The England team entered the dressing room with a one-goal lead. The Italian, who fell behind by one goal, was not so depressed. Lippi's cousin on his face was very calm when he walked back to the tunnel, making it difficult to guess whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied with this situation.

Narrators from various countries have expressed their optimism about England.

"England leads by one goal! In such a final, the side with the first goal must have the advantage, and it is more advantageous that they keep this lead until the break!"

"England's tactics were quite successful. The Italians did not expect Abangraho to become England's goal scorer. They neglected to mark him. Even though they followed closely against England's No. 18, they were one goal behind. The fact of has formed..."

"The first half was really exciting! The dull scenes I expected before did not happen. England's aggressive attacking attitude won my respect. They also naturally received a reward-one goal lead! The champion belongs to the active attacking side. It belongs to offensive football!"

Even England fans are very satisfied with the result.

In the stands, Billy Skinny was excited about the first half of the game: "Awesome! We are ahead!"

"Hey, Bill, what do you mean by that? Shouldn't we be ahead?" Someone feigned anger.

"Nonsense, of course it should be ahead! I just didn't expect it to go so smoothly! As long as we keep this result, we can win the championship! Tony is the best at defending, under such circumstances he can always win the game! Now it’s only an hour before we won the European Cup for the first time in our history... I’m excited just thinking about it!" Bill didn’t lie, he was shaking slightly now.

"Tony really has an idea to start Abang Raho, even I, a Forest team fan, didn't expect it. I think Lippi and the others must have not thought of it. Otherwise, how come no one is dedicated to defending Abang Raho?"

"That's right! Before the game, everyone was talking about Vaughan, Vaughan... I'm tired of listening. The best result was that England won the European Cup, and our Nottingham Forest players scored the only goal. Haha!"

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The fans and the commentator were very optimistic, but Dunn was not at all optimistic. When walking into the dressing room, every English player can see the wrinkles in the middle of his brows. Obviously, their leaders are not happy because they are leading by a goal. On the contrary, they are worried about something.

Players always think less than coaches, because they are players and they are only responsible for implementing the coach's tactical intentions on the court. To put it harder, they are tools. The head coach is at the helm of a team. He must think more than any smart player, and look farther, otherwise his ship will run into something I don’t know where. Submerged reefs ran aground from light to sinking.

Now no player can think of the crisis they will face later, maybe that will not happen at all, but Dunn has thought that no matter whether it will happen, he must consider it. His task is to try his best to prevent a bad situation from happening.

"We are leading by one goal, that's great, guys. It stands to reason that I should praise you at this time and congratulate you. But I'm sorry, I can't do this at the moment." Dunn shook his head and said. "I thought about the crisis we might face in the second half. I hope you know that it is definitely not a good thing to lead by one goal."

The players thought that their head coach would say "a goal lead is the most unsafe score in the world", but they didn't.

Dunn just said: "The Italian team is used to post-control. Think about the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. How did the Italian team equalize with one goal behind, and drag the game into a penalty shoot-out, and finally defeated the French team. The Golden Cup? The French are a lesson for us. We can't be satisfied with this score. In the second half, if possible, I hope you try to seize the opportunity to score..."

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"You did a good job, gentlemen." Lippi said to his players in the dressing room. He was not in a hurry, his tone and manner of speaking were still very elegant. "I'm not ridiculing you. In fact, in the first half of the scene against England's strong attack, you only lost one goal, which made me very pleased. Now, it is time to consider our counterattack."

"In the first half we gave England the chance to take the ball at our midfield. In this case, it won't exist in the half. We have to regain control of the midfield." He glanced at De Rossi and Aquila. Ni, these two people will be the key.

"Their two wingers are very high. We have to use this when we attack in the second half. Paroski, you have to run more on the wing in the second half to get more opportunities. Forty, you continue to stay. In the middle, we need you to adapt and transition in the middle, push their defense line inward as much as possible, and create space for our midfield."

The two forwards nodded. They barely saw them in the first half, and some even suspected that they did not play. For them, the forty-five minutes of the first half was a torture. They desperately need to perform in the second half. In any case, this is also the final of the European Cup, no one wants to do nothing in such a game. Look at Abangraho, the kid was sleepwalking before, but once he scored a goal he became a hero.

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"In the second half, we no longer continued to attack, instead we defended and counterattacked."

No one was surprised when Dunn said that. Because this is something they knew the day before the game. According to their plan, in the first half, they strived to score the lead, and then gradually contracted the defense in the second half and began to play defensive counterattacks. Either to keep this advantage, or to take advantage of the opponent's attack and eager to equalize the score, wait for an opportunity to sneak attack and expand the gap.

This is England's wishful thinking, but it is hard to say whether it can be achieved.

"When you counterattack, you must be fast..." At this point, Dunn glanced at Abang Raho, and he will continue to play in the second half instead of being replaced immediately. Because of his amazing speed, this is a very important weapon in the counterattack.

"Gabriel." Dunn called his name. "You don't need to be in the front in the second half. You have to retreat actively and catch the ball in the midfield. We also try our best to pass the ball in front of us. There is room for Abangraho and Rooney to run. But if the counterattack is blocked, immediately stabilize, keep the ball under your feet, and don't easily waste the opportunity to attack."

Hearing Dunn's words, Abangraho knew that he would not be replaced soon. But the other person is uncomfortable.

James Vaughn knew that Abangraho would continue to be trusted, and he looked down at his jersey. There was also a T-shirt in it with the words "We are with you, Aron". This was specially prepared for Mitchell by him.

But now it seems that it may not be of much use. He was thinking about taking it off for a while, after all, it was a bit hot to wear two T-shirts.

Since you can't make it, why do you still keep this T-shirt with words? (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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