Chapter 38
After the first half of the season, Jardim has a deeper understanding of the team's tactics.
He had a one-on-one talk with the team's frontcourt at the beginning, telling them that defense will be the most important part of the team this season, so no matter what position you are in, you must run to defend, even if you just interfere with the opponent.
He must instill defensive awareness into every player.
In the following training, he also included defensive training in the daily training of offensive players, not only in the frontcourt, but also goalkeepers.
In order to withstand the devil's field in the second half, the team must do a good job of defense. For this reason, the few new recruits he recruited this time basically have defensive attributes.
In the last few games of the first half, the team was able to keep the opponent scoreless for several games under such difficult circumstances, so this also gave him a bolder idea, that is, to do defense to the extreme.
The abundant offensive end gave him the confidence to implement this set of tactics perfectly on the players.
Zone block defense, running chain defense, fast defensive counterattack, all of these must be practiced.
So in the following period of time, the players found that the coach's requirements became more. If they still wanted to play in the comfortable way before, they would have to face the roar of the coaches, and there might even be the danger of being placed in the substitute team.
During the training process, Jardim clearly told them that if they wanted to enter the starting lineup, there was only one condition, defense.
If you don't practice your defensive ability well, you can only sit on the bench.
This is a bit hard for Mbappe, because he found that his training volume is greater than everyone else. Not only in defense, he was strictly required by the coaches, and even in the offensive end, he also faced various assessments.
Faced with the requirements of the devil coaches, Mbappe could only grit his teeth and accept it timidly.
Just as Lei Ming often said to him: "If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight." The current devil training is to make everyone call him King M in the future on the field.
He is bound to become the third person in the Rome era.
Training is boring, time is fast, and with the heavy transfer news of major European clubs coming to an end, Monaco also ushered in its first game after the holiday.
This is a warm-up match with the French Ligue 2 team Nimes. Surprisingly, Lei Ming did not enter the starting list, and even did not enter the 18-man list.
He did not even leave Monaco. Before the game, the head coach met him alone and told him clearly about his plan. He would not play in the two warm-up matches. Keep in good shape. He will start in Marseille in a few days.
The goalkeeper who played was Subasic, who had just returned from injury. The third goalkeeper also went with the team as a substitute goalkeeper.
Subasic was also very serious about his first game after his comeback. Even though it was just a warm-up match, a training match for the coaches, he still treated it as a Champions League final and tried not to let the opponent have any chance to score.
The final result was fixed at 0:5, and Nimes was completely bloodbathed.
For such a result, the opponent's top and bottom were very unhappy. From the players to the head coach, no one looked at Jardim well. Where did the friendly exchanges promised before the game go? What's the point of not even giving us a goal!
Jardim could only laugh awkwardly.
He did let the defense relax, but he really forgot about Subasic.
The opponent had just come back and was eager to show himself, which was understandable, but he just didn't know how to express it to the Nimes team.
In the second friendly match with Lens the next day, Jardim learned his lesson and directly arranged for the third goalkeeper De Sanctis to play. De Sanctis did not disappoint the players of both teams and directly caused Monaco's first defeat in the second half.
The score of 3:2 made the head coaches of both teams smile.
This made De Sanctis feel cold. As soon as he saw the head coach like this, he knew that his starting position next season would be far away again.
This was clearly a smile with a knife hidden in his smile!
The look of wanting to stab someone could not be covered up even with a smile.
Everyone was happy, but Subasic, who went with the team, was very unhappy. In this game, no matter how he proposed, the coach would not let him play, which made him a little depressed.
I feel like I
Some are not taken seriously.
He really hopes to continue to prove himself through the performance of this game, so that he can enter the starting list of the league three days later. Their first opponent in the second half is Marseille from the sixth place in the league. Although the opponent is very strong, this is the best stage he thinks.
After all, if you are not strong, you can't show your strength.
But in the end, the coaches didn't want him to show his ability.
One win and one loss, although the result is not ideal, but in this process, the coaching staff saw what they wanted.
The defensive awareness that has been forcibly implanted into the players' minds for more than ten days has gradually taken shape. I believe that as long as they practice for a while, the team's defensive awareness will definitely get better and better.
During the two days when the team was warming up, Lei Ming was not idle. He and Mbappe, who also did not go on the expedition, continued to sweat in the training ground.
In order to welcome the critical second half of the season, everyone is making twelve points of effort.
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"Dear audience members, I think you are like me. On days without games, even the strongest wine is boring. The twenty-day rest day makes me feel like I have been living a year. Fortunately, such a difficult day has finally come. Next, let us welcome the players..."
"In this game, Marseille sent out a 433 lineup:
Goalkeeper: Pelle
Defenders: Hiroki Sakai, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Rolando, Rekik
Midfielders: Lopez, Wayne Wayne, Zamaba
Frontfielders: Tovan, Gomis, Cabela.
Obviously, this lineup seems to be aimed at Monaco. It seems that before the game, Marseille's Tudor obviously learned the lesson from the last time. , they placed a big center forward as a fulcrum on the offensive line. "
"There is no surprise in Monaco's lineup, it is still a 442 formation:
Goalkeeper: Lei Ming
Defenders: Toure, Glik, Sidibe, Germelson
Midfielders: B Silva, Fabinho, Bakayoko, Lemar
Frontfield: Falcao, Gilman.
In this round of games, Jardim obviously had no intention of training. None of the newly recruited players played, even the young player Mbappe was not allowed to play. Obviously, Monaco also wanted to take Marseille seriously, so that they could open the record for the new schedule and get a good start. "
The host of the live broadcast of this French Ligue 1 game shouted passionately in the live broadcast room, and that passion deeply infected those viewers who did not go to the stadium to watch the game.