Chapter 102: Players who want to know the list, coaches who refuse to publish the list

In the cafeteria of Gaya Center, Jiang Yuan was having breakfast with the players of Team B. The players of Team B were very interested in Jiang Yuan, this Chinese boy.

Because he is the only one in Porto's first team who lives in the base and eats breakfast in the base cafeteria.

Of course, this is also related to Jiang Yuan’s contract. Jiang Yuan’s salary is not only unable to support him to buy a house in Porto, but his salary is even lower than that of most of the B team players.

But Jiang Yuan doesn't care about these. He always sticks to one belief - play well and everything will be fine.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan took a big sip of beetroot juice and murmured, "System, start!"

Jiang Yuan: 17 years and 0 months
Height: 180.0cm
Weight: XNUM X kg
……

To sum up, I didn't grow taller, but I gained weight.

Of course, for Jiang Yuan now, gaining some weight is not a bad thing. In the confrontation on the court, more weight corresponds to a more stable center of gravity of the body.

It can be said that weight plays an almost decisive role in the confrontation, otherwise boxing matches would not divide the players into 17 super heavyweight classes.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan suddenly had a big appetite and stuffed a piece of wheat bread into his mouth.

"Jiang, you need to eat some of this"

Klein came over. He was the team's physical trainer. This German was in charge of Jiang Yuan's physical training after he joined the first team.

"Sir, this is..."

Jiang Yuan glanced at the plate in Klein's hand. It was a large white insole with a black circle around it. There were three slices of lemon on it.

Klein pushed the plate to Jiang Yuan's face and sat down opposite him. "Black cod, lemon black cod."

Jiang Yuan raised his eyebrows: "Mr. Klein, is there any difference between this and the black cod I ate before?"

Looking at the white insole, Jiang Yuan really couldn't eat it. The black cod he ate in the cafeteria last night didn't look like this.

"Of course there is a difference, this is a whole piece of fish!"

Klein took a fork and cut the fish for Jiang Yuan. He ate a piece and motioned for Jiang Yuan to eat a piece as well.

Jiang Yuan was puzzled. Since the fish meat had to be cut and eaten in the end, why not cut it before frying it, making it look like a shoe insole?

Having said that, Jiang Yuan didn't want to disappoint Klein's kindness, so he picked up a small piece and ate it.

It's soft and sticky, but a little salty.

“Not bad!”

Klein looked very proud. "I asked the chef to make this for you. You know, the last physical examination showed that you were lacking in vitamin A and vitamin D. Eating some black cod would be good for you."

Jiang Yuan ate another piece and said, "I understand the reason, but next time please don't make it into a shoe insole, okay?"

"Insoles? Haha, Jiang, I didn't realize it until you told me! Never mind...you eat first, I'll go prepare for the afternoon training."

Klein was about to leave when Jiang Yuan stopped him. "Sir, I would like to ask you something. If I want to gain some weight, can you make a suitable plan for me?"

Hearing Jiang Yuan's request to gain weight, Klein was quite surprised: "Why do you suddenly want to gain weight? I remember that you weighed 69.5 kg during your physical examination. You have lost some weight, but you don't need to gain weight!"

Klein sat back in his chair and noticed the three or four empty plates stacked on the table. It was obvious that Jiang Yuan had eaten a lot.

Jiang Yuan curled his lips: "You know, I always can't beat others, which will make me lose a lot of opportunities"

Hearing this, Klein nodded. Jiang Yuan's words made sense. A striker needs to face a large central defender, so the ability to fight back is absolutely indispensable.

However, as a professional fitness coach, Klein obviously has more issues to consider.

"Jiang, I don't think there's any need to rush this step. You're playing in the Portuguese Super League now, and you're facing established defenders. They're certainly strong in confrontation, but you're still young, so you don't necessarily have to gain an advantage in physical confrontation."

Klein said slowly, "Your epiphyseal line is still some distance away from closing, which proves that you still have room to grow taller. The best time to gain weight should be after your height is determined, not now."

In fact, it is not just because of the height. Because of Jiang Yuan's playing style, he is destined not to have too exaggerated weight. All factors that will put pressure on the knees should be avoided as much as possible.

"Um……"

Jiang Yuan held his chin up and thought that this seemed to be true.

Seeing that Jiang Yuan didn't say anything, Klein advised again: "Don't be impatient, you are already very good now."

"Thank you, sir"

……

"Here, here, haha, look at me!"

In the 2V1+1 competition, Jiang Yuan received a through-the-crotch pass from Neves and directly volleyed the ball with great force. Goalkeeper Elton jumped up to save the ball but was unable to kick it out.

"Jiang, it's very good!"

Quaresma clapped his hands and laughed. He had to say that Jiang Yuan's shooting skills were indeed getting more and more sophisticated. Since the start of the confrontational training, his shots have always been the most accurate in the team. It was hard to believe that such tricky shooting angles always appeared on a teenager.

"Mr. Ricardo, shall we be a team in the next round?"

Jiang Yuan said tentatively that Quaresma would certainly not refuse the invitation.

"Reuben, midfielder and midfielder, forward and forward. You stand here and don't move. I'll go switch positions with Carlos!"

After saying that, Jiang Yuan ran over, took off his fluorescent vest and handed it to Casemiro. Casemiro also gave his orange vest to Jiang Yuan.

“I didn’t expect that someone would take the initiative to ask to team up with Ricardo, Jiang, you are this!”

Casemiro secretly gave Jiang Yuan a thumbs up, expressing his admiration for Jiang Yuan's behavior.

Everyone knows Quaresma's temper. He will be scolded if he fails to pass the ball well, so even Casemiro, who has a good temper, is not very willing to be in the same group with Quaresma.

Jiang Yuan put on an orange vest and said nonchalantly: "You can only play well if you have pressure."

Lopetegui on the sidelines watched everything and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't. He glanced at the team's assistant coach Hemiel, who was watching him on the other side.

Lopetegui spread his hands, signaling to Hermione not to be anxious.

It was Jiang Yuan and Quaresma's turn. The Portuguese pushed the ball to Jiang Yuan and ran to the side to receive it.

Jiang Yuan looked up and saw Torres standing in front of him, with his feet one in front of the other, ready to defend.

It would definitely not work to pass directly, so Jiang Yuan took a few bicycle kicks and slowly moved forward. When the time was right, he made a passing move, but in fact he used the outside of his foot to pass the ball to Quaresma.

The latter also used the outside of his foot to rub the bottom of the ball, and the arc shot was completed in one go.

"Clap clap clap!"

Quaresma clapped his hands twice and gave Jiang Yuan a thumbs up.

"You're dressed much better than Carlos!"

"Haha!" Jiang Yuan glanced at Casemiro, who was looking at him innocently.

"What? I'm a midfielder. Isn't it normal that I can't dribble past Jiang?"

Casemiro tried to defend himself, and Jiang Yuan joked: "But the problem is, I don't seem to have dribbled past anyone..."

"Forehead……"

Casemiro curled his lips. Jiang Yuan did not pass Thomas, he just passed the ball successfully.

So it seems like it’s really my own thing?

Casemiro shook his head, determined not to lose to Jiang Yuan.

"Reuben, wait for you to kick off, I'll pass the ball!"

Casemiro said as he passed the ball to Neves, who started his regular run after the kick-off.

After Casemiro got the ball, Herrera rushed over immediately. At this time, the defensive players must not have any hesitation, because if they do not stand in front of the player with the ball in time to reduce his shooting angle, the goalkeeper will most likely be in trouble.

"Hector, come closer!"

Casemiro meant for Herrera to defend seriously, and the Mexican did not show any courtesy to Casemiro, moving forward little by little to block Casemiro's shooting angle.

Then, Casemiro pointed at Jiang Yuan and made a cycling motion.

Wow, he is going to get assists in the same way as Jiang Yuan!

Casemiro pedaled past them one by one, but Jiang Yuan found that Casemiro's cycling was not very smooth, as if this guy had never practiced cycling before.

The flow is not the point, the point is whether Casemiro can succeed.

Casemiro suddenly pushed off the ground to accelerate, and the ball temporarily lost protection. Herrera seized the opportunity and stretched his foot to complete the interception.

"Hahahaha!"

Neves, a teammate in the distance, laughed out loud. Jiang Yuan even complained: "Carlos, if you can't dribble past others, don't force yourself. It's okay."

Hearing Jiang Yuan's ridicule, Casemiro stuck out his tongue and said, "It's normal for professional players to make mistakes, and you don't succeed every time!"

Jiang Yuan shrugged: "Okay then, let's see who has the highest success rate. The one with the lowest success rate will not be allowed to drink Yakult today!"

Hearing that he couldn't drink Yakult, Casemiro finally stopped being stubborn and pointed at Jiang Yuan: "Jiang, you are a bad person"

Jiang Yuan stretched out a finger and waved it in front of Casemiro, then made a series of fluent bicycle kicks and shot.

"duang!"

The ball bounced off the post and finally went into the net.

"Well, Jiang, you are really good at passing people!"

Casemiro compromised. The training content of the two was different. Casemiro had only three dribbling training sessions a week, while Jiang Yuan had at least nine.

As the saying goes, you can't use your weaknesses to challenge other people's strengths.

But it doesn't mean that you can't use your strengths to hit other people's weaknesses, so Casemiro said: "Jiang, let's compete in defense!"

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yuan sat down on the ground: "Hiss, I feel a little uncomfortable in my thigh muscles, how about we compete another day?"

"Haha, Jiang, come on, why are you like this!"

Casemiro spread his hands.

Of course, everyone knows that this is just a joke and no one is going to take it seriously.

In a mature team, every player has something he needs to do. Casemiro is mainly responsible for intercepting and stealing in the backcourt, so the requirements for his defensive ability will be higher than his offensive ability.

As for Jiang Yuan, Lopetegui would not assign him any defensive tasks at all.

Because Lopetegui had suffered a lot before because he didn't understand Jiang Yuan.

If you dribble past someone, you'll have to show off, but if you defend, you'll have to let them leak.

This is the characteristic of Jiang Yuan in Lopetegui's eyes now.

Soon, the morning field training ended, and Lopetegui took the players to the conference room to hold a tactical discussion for the match against Bayern the day after tomorrow.

All first-team players, whether or not they have played for the first team, will participate in this discussion, including Jiang Yuan of course.

"No. 9 Robert Lewandowski is a typical center forward, right-footed, but also very strong with his left foot and his shooting skills are amazing. So the pressure on our defense will be relatively large. Maicon and Indi, you two should pay attention and try to block the shooting angle of this Pole as much as possible."

"No. 25 Thomas Müller, I don't need to say much about him, he has comprehensive skills, good passing and heading. Guardiola will definitely attach great importance to his frontcourt connection with Lewandowski. You know what I mean, don't give them the chance to connect!"

Lopetegui was writing on a whiteboard with a pen, and a slide was playing on a large screen next to him.

"There is also Josep Guardiola, a coach who is very particular about passing and controlling the ball. If nothing unexpected happens, Bayern will probably play high pressure with us and control the ball in our half."

"So, defense is definitely our top priority. Counterattack, this is our only chance of winning!"

Lopetegui took out 6 magnetic buttons and stuck them on the tactical board, 4 at the back and 2 at the front, and then pulled the button on the left side of the front down.

550 formation!

This is indeed the way to play against strong teams, there is nothing wrong with it.

But the question is, shouldn’t we first talk about the game roster and starting lineup before discussing tactics?
The players sitting on the chairs looked at each other, confused.

Especially Quaresma and Brahimi, their appearances in the Champions League are not guaranteed.

Jiang Yuan is the one who doesn't care the most now, because the team roster has nothing to do with him at all.

As Lopetegui became more and more excited, Quaresma could no longer sit still and stood up and asked, "Sir, we need to know the starting lineup first, otherwise we can't implement your tactics."

Neves below raised his hand: "Mr. Hulun, um... it would be better to announce the full list as well, thank you!"

However, facing the two people's request, Lopetegui did not speak. He glanced at Jiang Yuan and finally said: "Don't worry about this. I will tell you the two lists tomorrow."

"tomorrow?"

Nearly 30 players in the conference room were stunned. Quaresma asked again: "Sir, this is a Champions League knockout match, not a league match. As players, we should know the starting lineup at least 2 days in advance, which will be good for the game."

Quaresma was right. In Porto's last Champions League knockout match against Basel, Lopetegui told the players three days in advance about the starting lineup and the appearance list.

Now that we are facing stronger opponents, shouldn’t the roster be announced earlier to give the players some time to prepare?
In this regard, Lopetegui's attitude is very firm: "I said, I will announce these two lists tomorrow"

"Ricardo, Reuben, you two take a seat first, thank you!"

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(End of this chapter)