Mourinho is in a very excited state. After all, Liverpool is the team he most wants to coach. The team's football philosophy is perfectly matched with his tactical philosophy to a certain extent. Moreover, as a top club, Liverpool has a great overall strength foundation, and the players' abilities do not need too much training. As long as they hone new tactics, they will be able to go into battle soon.
And more importantly, Mourinho has the hottest star in the world - Gu Ran.
The morning training focused on physical recovery and getting familiar with teammates, and there was no intensity or tactics involved.
Gu Ran was also very active in training. The whole team was in high spirits and got along very well with each other.
At noon, everyone ate together in the restaurant. The new coach Mourinho did not provide any special treatment, but ate in the restaurant with the players.
After the rest, the afternoon training began to gradually get on track, but the intensity was still very low.
After all, everyone had just returned to the training ground from a long vacation.
The intensity of training on the second day was slightly increased, but it was more about the team members adapting to each other.
The training intensity on the third day had reached half of the usual training intensity, and Mourinho's new tactics were also incorporated.
Mourinho's tactical style is defensive counterattack. Of course, although it is defensive counterattack on the surface, in fact, what Mourinho really emphasizes is offense. The so-called defensive counterattack is just for better offense.
The defensive counterattack tactic is consistent with Liverpool's usual tactical style, but the difference is that Mourinho will hardly adopt the current popular full-court pressing and high-pressure defense, because this requires forwards and frontcourt offensive players to use most of their energy on defense, which will disperse their offensive power. Mourinho, whose core is offense, will not do this. Mourinho will more often use quick retreats and actively retreat to his own half, giving the opposing team space to advance with the ball, but doing his best to curb the opponent's space to pass the ball in key areas.
To put it bluntly, it is a positional warfare, which means forming an effective position through rapid retreat and preventing the enemy from quickly attacking or penetrating.
If this kind of rapid retreat positional warfare is used to the extreme, it would be like parking a bus.
It can be said that Mourinho's tactical process is not good-looking. Compared with another great coach Guardiola, 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 card in his hand, plus a trump card, it will be even more awesome.
Starting from the third day, the entire Liverpool team gradually entered into Mourinho's tactical integration process, and the entire team showed great enthusiasm and ambition.
Soon, after more than half a month of training, the Liverpool team was basically renewed!
At 3pm on August 18, the opening match of the 2012-2013 Premier League season kicked off! This opening match also attracted the attention of fans all over the world. The two teams in the game were the recently popular Liverpool team and the last Premier League and Champions League double champion Chelsea team! Since ancient times, the red and blue have been mortal enemies.
What's more, Chelsea was originally confident of Gu Ran's joining, but was snatched away by Liverpool. Chelsea is extremely resentful of Liverpool!
Today's game is really a battle between two mortal enemies.
Judging from the value of these two top teams alone, this opening match is of great value. In addition, this is Gu Ran’s first game after transferring to Liverpool, so the value is even higher.
The Premier League officially carried out a super large-scale global live broadcast for this purpose. Just from the live broadcast rights of TV stations, online media, and advertising fees at the stadium, the Premier League officially made a fortune.
With this game alone, the Premier League is expected to earn one-fifth of last year's total Premier League revenue.
Football is truly the world's top sport.
This game is played at Liverpool's home ground, at Anfield, and the game officially starts at 3 pm.
The stadium was opened to fans at 12 noon. Fans from both sides, who had been waiting for a long time, entered early and the atmosphere in the stands was very hot.
Before the players entered the field for warm-up, the Liverpool Club held a special welcome ceremony for Gu Ran.
At the introduction of the on-site DJ, Gu Ran, wearing the No. 9 Liverpool jersey, came on the field 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 juggling for Liverpool fans.
Gu Ran has flexible skills and he frequently performs difficult and brilliant technical moves when dribbling the ball, which draws screams and cheers from Liverpool fans.
After the juggling performance ended perfectly, Gu Ran bowed and left the stage, but the applause from the stands continued for a long time.
Immediately afterwards, players from both sides took to the court for pre-match adaptive warm-up training.
At 3 o'clock sharp, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.
In today's game, Chelsea also sent out the original team from the Champions League final.
They lost to Liverpool in the battle to sign Gu Ran, and now, they are eager to prove that Gu Ran was wrong to choose Liverpool instead of Chelsea.
They want to use this opening game to make Gu regret his mistake and turn back to Chelsea next season.
Chelsea's new head coach is Di Matteo. The previous head coach Ancelotti has taken over the coaching of Real Madrid and became the head coach of Real Madrid. Di Matteo was Chelsea's meritorious midfielder in the 1990s and was also the assistant coach when Ancelotti was the head coach of 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 Gu Ran, one of the world's top players, but they also lost Ancelotti, the meritorious head coach.
To be honest, Di Matteo was a good player when he was a player, but he is still far from being a coach. However, there is no way, Chelsea is currently in a vacancy for a head coach, and the Chelsea club can only let Di Matteo, the assistant coach, take over.
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 against Southampton with a score of 3:1.
Therefore, Di Matteo was quickly promoted by Chelsea club from interim head coach to head coach, and signed a two-year contract.
Of course, Di Matteo was a very "short-lived" head coach in history.
Di Matteo was officially promoted in August, but was sacked by the impatient Chelsea club in November of the same year.
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