Chapter 642 The Song of Red and Blue! The grand opening game of the Premier League!

That morning, the new Liverpool team held its first training camp.

Mourinho is in a very excited state. After all, Liverpool is the team he wants to coach most. The football philosophy of this team perfectly matches his tactical philosophy to a certain extent, and as a top club, Liverpool as a whole The strength foundation of the team is also very good, and the players' abilities do not require much training. As long as they practice new tactics, they will be ready to play in no time.

And more importantly, Mourinho has the most popular star in the world-Gu Ran.

The training in the morning focused on physical recovery and familiarity with teammates, without any emphasis on intensity or tactics.

Gu Ran was also very active in training. The whole team was beaming with joy and they were very harmonious with each other.

At noon, everyone ate together in the restaurant. The new coach Mourinho did not make any special arrangements, but ate in the restaurant with the players.

After resting, the afternoon training gradually began to get back on track, but the intensity was still very low.

After all, everyone has just returned to the training ground from a long vacation.

The training intensity on the second day was slightly increased, but it was more about the players adapting to each other.

The training intensity on the third day has reached half of the usual training intensity, and Mourinho's new tactics have been added.

Mourinho's tactical style is defensive counterattack. Of course, although it is defensive counterattack on the surface, in fact, Mourinho really emphasizes offense. The so-called defensive counterattack is just for better offense.

The defensive counterattack tactic is also consistent with Liverpool's usual tactical style, but the difference is that Mourinho will rarely use the now popular full-court press and high defense, because this requires forward players and front line defense. Offensive players spend most of their energy on defense, which will distract their offensive power. Mourinho, whose core is offense, will not do this. Mourinho will retreat more quickly and proactively. Defend into your own half, giving the opposing team room to dribble the ball forward, but try your best to limit the opposing team's space to play the ball in key areas.

To put it more bluntly, it is to fight positional warfare, which is to form an effective position by retreating quickly, so that the opponent cannot make a quick attack or penetrate.

If this kind of positional warfare of rapid retreat is used to the extreme, it is to set up a bus.

It can be said that Mourinho's tactical process is not good-looking. Compared with Guardiola, another peerless coach, Mourinho's tactical process is simply ugly, but Mourinho's tactics are very practical.

Mourinho doesn't even need extremely capable players to bring the team's final results to a very good level.

And when Mourinho has a big name and a king bomb, it will be even more awesome.

Starting from the third day, the Liverpool team gradually entered the process of adapting to Mourinho's tactics, and the whole team showed great enthusiasm and ambition.

Soon, after more than half a month of training, the Liverpool team basically looked brand new!

8月18号当天下午3点，2012-2013赛季英超比赛的揭幕战开启！
This opening match has also attracted the attention of fans all over the world. The two sides of the match are the recently popular Liverpool team and Chelsea, the last double champion of the Premier League and Champions League!
Red and blue have been mortal enemies since ancient times.

What's more, Chelsea originally had a chance to win Gu Ran's joining, but they were defeated by Liverpool. Chelsea's resentment towards Liverpool is huge!

Today's game is really a battle between mortal enemies.

Judging from the value of these two giant teams alone, the value of this opening game is very high. In addition, this is Gu Ran's first game after transferring to Liverpool, and the value is even higher.

The Premier League official has conducted a large-scale global live broadcast for this purpose. Just from the live broadcast copyright of the TV station, the live broadcast copyright of the online media, and the advertising fees at the stadium, etc., the Premier League official has already made a lot of money.

In this game alone, Premier League officials are expected to capture one-fifth of last year's Premier League revenue.

Football is truly the most popular sport in the world. Gu Ran is truly worthy of being the best in the world.

This game is Liverpool's home court, played at Anfield Stadium, and the game officially starts at 3 p.m.

The stadium opened to fans at 12 noon. Fans from both sides who had been waiting for a long time entered the stadium early. The atmosphere in the stands was very lively.

Before the players came in to warm up, Liverpool Club also held a welcome ceremony for Gu Ran.

Under the introduction of the on-site DJ, Gu Ran appeared on the stage wearing the No. 9 Liverpool jersey, holding a football, and waved to the fans.

All the Liverpool fans at the scene stood up excitedly and cheered and applauded crazily for Gu Ran.

Next, Gu Ran performed for the Liverpool fans.

Gu Ran's skills are flexible, and he often performs difficult and exciting technical moves when bumping the ball, which caused the Liverpool fans to scream and cheer.

After the ball-bumping performance came to a perfect end, Gu Ran bowed and left the field, and the applause from the stands continued for a long time.

Immediately afterwards, players from both sides took the stage to conduct pre-match adaptive warm-up training.

At 3 o'clock sharp, the referee on duty blew the whistle to start the game.

In today's game, Chelsea also sent their original team from the Champions League finals.

They lost to Liverpool in the battle to sign Gu Ran, and now they are eager to prove that Gu Ran was wrong in choosing Liverpool instead of Chelsea.

They want to use this opening game to make Gu regret, so that he can "turn back from his lost ways" and transfer to Chelsea next season.

Chelsea's new head coach is Di Matteo. The previous head coach Ancelotti has taken over the coaching staff of Real Madrid and became the head coach of Real Madrid. Di Matteo was Chelsea's meritorious service in the 90s. Midfielder, he was also An’s assistant coach when he was the head coach at Chelsea.

Ancelotti's departure was a bit sudden. Chelsea did not expect that after winning the Champions League, not only did they fail to attract the world's top player Gu Ran, but they also lost Ancelotti as a meritorious head coach.

To be honest, Di Matteo was a good player when he was a player, but he is still far from good as a coach, but there is no way. Now Chelsea has a vacuum of head coach candidates, and Chelsea Club can only let Di Matteo Special Olympics, the assistant coach, came to help.

However, although Di Matteo is a novice coach, Chelsea's players are still very good, especially captain Lampard, who is equivalent to half a head coach.

With this configuration, Chelsea just won the Community Shield with Southampton with a score of 3:1.

Therefore, Di Matteo was quickly corrected by Chelsea Club. From the beginning as interim head coach, he was officially promoted to head coach and signed a two-year contract.

Of course, historically Di Matteo was a very "short-lived" head coach.

Di Matteo was officially rehabilitated in August, and was dismissed by Chelsea Club who lost patience in November of the same year.

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