Super Storm

After two weeks of national team match days, Liverpool's internationals returned to Melwood for training.

Gerald came to the training base earlier than usual as usual, but after entering the parking lot, he found that the familiar champagne Cayenne was once again parked in its exclusive location.

Yang Yang is back!

After Gerald parked the car, he took the training backpack and entered Melwood. When passing the security room, he asked the security guard casually.

"Did Yang come back?"

"Yes, he has been back for four days."

"Four days?"

Gerrard was a little surprised because he knew that the club's vacation to Yang Yang was just reporting on time today.

Unexpectedly, Yang Yang came back four days in advance.

After entering Melwood, Gerald did not go to the locker room and went directly to the gym. He found that Yang Yang seemed to have completed the equipment training and was standing aside wiping his sweat. What did Hyer talk about.

"Hey, Young." Gerrard shouted as soon as he entered.

Yang Yang and De Michelle turned around and saw Gerald, Yang Yang greeted him with a smile.

"Hi, Steven."

"Eh, wait, wait, it's all sweat, don't hug it." Gerrard quickly persuaded him, pointing to his clothes, as if to say, my clothes are not cheap, get your sweat Not good.

Looking at his nervous look, Yang Yang and De Michelle both laughed.

"How? How does it feel to be on vacation?" Gerrard asked enviously.

It is definitely not easy to get a week's rest in the middle of the season. It happened to be the national team's game day again, and Yang Yang can take a rest this holiday.

"It has benefited a lot, and it feels good." Yang Yang told the truth.

Gerrard nodded, "Then we will have to work harder. We are going to play Middlesbrough, Inter Milan away and Chelsea on weekends. We all need you."

Yang Yang felt the weight of Gerrard's remarks and nodded solemnly: "Relax, I will go all out."

"I believe you."

After speaking, Gerrard left the gym and went back to the locker room.

After sending Gerald away, Yang Yang started cycling training.

But more and more Liverpool players returned to the team. After seeing Yang Yang's car, they all came to the gym.

Yang Yang's popularity on the team is indeed good, very popular, and his relationship with his teammates is also very harmonious, so even if he gets a week's rest, no one on the team will complain.

Everyone knows that he really hit the peak in the first half, and he really needs a good rest.

Xavi Alonso is the most sensitive. When he saw Yang Yang, the Spanish midfielder nodded with a smile. "You do look a lot easier, and the whole person is different."

"Thank you, Harvey." Yang Yang smiled.

He returned to the team four days ago, and had a long period of communication with Benitez and Yesterdam, and then conducted a physical examination. In the past few days, he continued to train and train as before, without any slack. .

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During the winter break, Muhammad Sissoko left.

The Mali midfielder moved to Juventus in Serie A for a price of 11 million euros.

After the relegation of the Zebra Legion, it took two years to return to Serie A. The overall strength is not good, but the foundation is still there. Mohamed Sissoko is a player they need very much, so the Zebra Legion pursued him for a long time.

After sending off Sissoko, Liverpool received a transfer fee of 11 million euros, and the team took the money and introduced Slovak central defender Martin Skotel from the Russian St. Petersburg Zenit team. .

The twenty-three-year-old center defender reached a height of one meter and ninety-one. His style is very strong and brave, and his ability to prevent high **** is very good. Its characteristics are very similar to the team's Hypia, which is very in line with Benitez's requirements.

Obviously, Benitez will have four central defenders in the future, and the employment will be more generous, so that after the injury of Daniel Ag is recurring, Hypia's state of depression will be hardened by the embarrassment on the scalp.

After the introduction of Scott, Liverpool's winter break will not be recruited.

Originally Benitez was interested in introducing Aston Villa's captain Gareth Barry to fill the vacancy in Sissoko, but the management eventually shouted to stop this transfer, because Gareth Barry's The price is really expensive.

However, Rick Parry promised that if the team's performance this season is excellent, this summer the team will receive a transfer of referral funds.

This undoubtedly made Benitez and the team more and more motivated.

Although Yang Yang has been in a poor state for the past month, Liverpool still intends to renew his contract.

After receiving the World Footballer and the European Golden Globe Awards, Yang Yang's worth is obviously higher than before. In addition to paying two high bonuses to Yang Yang, Liverpool also hopes to sign a new contract.

But because Yang Yang has already received a top salary of 150,000 pounds in the Premier League, it may be difficult for Liverpool to renew his contract this time.

Yang Yang said he hopes to postpone the renewal, because he hopes to put all his attention on the game.

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Although the next game is played in Middlesbrough, this team is not in Liverpool's plan.

After the players returned to the team, time was limited, and Liverpool arranged two tactical trainings, one of which was daily oppression training.

"Press!"

"lock!"

"on!"

A continuous stream of Liverpool players cried out at the Melwood training base.

During the game, the fans watching through live TV may not feel it, but if they are watching the game on the spot, they will not be curious, because such shouts are very common in Liverpool games.

Gerard, Xavi Alonso and Mascherano who shouted the most.

These three midfielders have the broadest vision and the clearest understanding of the situation on the court. At the same time, they control the team's overall rhythm and formation forward and retreat, so they shout the most.

Pressing is to remind the player to start preparing to oppress the opponent, force the opponent to take the ball, and take the initiative to regain control of the ball instead of waiting for the opponent to make a mistake.

Once the midfielder yells the word, it means that the whole team has invested in pressing and pressing.

Lock, this is more when the ball appears on the side, the purpose is to force the opponent to go to the middle or pass back to smash their attack through the blockade and pressing of the side.

When the ball is on the left, the midfielder shouts to lock, then including Yang Yang, the left forward, the left guard and the midfielder's left midfielder, and sometimes even Gerald, both must be blocked and forced.

As for up, that is the signal that presses up, pushing the overall formation forward.

When analyzing the Liverpool tactics, many media outside the world often emphasize Liverpool's double-back configuration. They think Liverpool likes to press forward and press high. This is certainly not wrong, but it is actually problematic.

High-level forced oppression has very high requirements on the player's physical fitness and will. No team can use this style of play throughout the field, so there is up and down, and there is retreat when there is pressure.

As for when to go and when to go, this requires the head coach and the players on the court to adapt.

Not only that, some teams are very dangerous to use high position to press and suppress. For example, some teams who like long passes and have speed players can not use high position to press and oppose in the face of such teams, but for some who like to pass and control the ball With the team, it is very effective to press and grab high positions, such as playing Arsenal or Barcelona.

Inter Milan is obviously not a team that likes to play long passes, even if they have the two high points of Ibrahimovic and Cruz, but in fact the Nerazzurri's long pass is not much threatened .

This is clear, so Benitez's strategy for Inter Milan is to press high and press.

Press! lock! on!

Liverpool's targeted training was obviously discharged in order to restrain Inter Milan's tactics, and it is also a tactical style that Liverpool is best at.

In addition to the high-level defensive and oppressive tactics of practicing defense, Liverpool also conducted an offensive training class.

In this tactical training, Benitez still excluded the combination of Yang Yang, Crouch and Kuyt in the front field. Surprisingly, he adjusted Yang Yang's authority on the field and he allowed Yang Yang changed his position according to the situation on the field, and even went to the right.

That is to say, he is trying to make Yang Yang a free man offensive in the frontcourt, let Crouch this tactical fulcrum, Kuyt this frontcourt running countermeasure, all do his best to cooperate with Yang Yang's attack.

Although no one said it clearly, everyone, including Yang Yang, knew very well that Benitez placed all of the team ’s offensive tasks on Yang Yang, and if the effect is good, it is estimated that Yang Yang will get more More tactical freedom, even he can play as he pleases.

This is really an incredible decision for Benitez, who has always regarded tactical discipline as his life and has even been criticized by many people for treating players as machines. However, it is not difficult to see how he treats Yang Yang. Respect and trust.

You should know that Yang Yang has been in a state of weakness for more than a month before. As a result, Benitez not only let him take a rest, gave him a week ’s vacation, and returned to the team gave him such an important task. It really is Yang Yang felt the pressure, but at the same time was grateful.

In any case, Benitez really did what he promised when he invited Yang Yang to join Liverpool.

In the past two years, his use of Yang Yang has always been intimate, and his trust has been increased. Even in the low days of his state, the Spanish still do not change their trust in Yang Yang.

Yang Yang didn't say anything. After understanding Benitez's intentions, he didn't even say a word, devoting himself to training and preparation.

He is well aware that professional football is cruel.

Benitez's trust and reliance on him bears no small risk, even if the first round is away, but in the end it is also an important Champions League round of 16 elimination. If you lose, Yang Yang may be fine in a bad state. But Benitez probably had to lose his head.

Therefore, Yang Yang's thanks are useless. If you really want to thank, you have to come up with a state.