The Midfield Master

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In the locker room of the visiting team, a gray-haired, five-year-old man with glasses stood in front of the tactical board and was explaining the tactical arrangement of the game to the Watford players again.

As for the Watford players, they were arranging their equipment or drinking water to listen to this man's explanation.

This five-year-old man with glasses and very wise eyes is Watford's assistant coach Antonio. The general pre-match tactical explanations are performed by the assistant coach.

The head coach, Flores, stood quietly aside, seemingly thinking about something.

Both Flores and Antonio were hired to coach Watford this summer. The head coach who led Watford to promotion last season left because of conflicts with the board of directors, so the board of directors invited the Spanish coach Fernando. Lores, Flores brought Antonio, who has been working with him, to the club.

Flores, a 51-year-old coach, is also well-known in European football. In the past few years, he was regarded as a famous young coach in Europe.

He has coached in La Liga all year round, and he has left his footprints in Getafe, Valencia and Atletico Madrid, and he has also coached briefly in Benfica and two West Asian teams.

The most brilliant achievement of his coaching career was when he led Atletico Madrid to win the UEFA Cup in 2010, which is the predecessor of today's UEFA Cup.

In the same year, he led the team to defeat Inter Milan and won the UEFA Super Cup.

Two intercontinental championship trophies, as well as training top stars such as De Gea, have achieved his reputation as a young Spanish coach.

It's just that after leaving Atletico Madrid, when he coached in West Asia for a few years, his experience after returning to La Liga was not satisfactory, so his recent reputation is not as strong as when he led the team to win the UEFA Cup.

But after all, he is a coach who can lead his team to win the intercontinental championship, and he is also very good at training the team's offensive end. Although it took only a month or two to take over the team, he has shown his level both in the transfer market and in daily training.

What's more, the team has two powerful forwards, which gave him a little more confidence in the transformation of offense.

In the pre-season warm-up match, the team's performance is also quite good, and now they will usher in the first game of the new season, which is also the first official game of Flores coaching the team.

Flores has honed his time in West Asia for several years,

I have long wanted to let the world prove once again that my coaching ability has never been weakened.

Even if he is now leading a newly promoted polo team, even if they are playing away games, even if the opponent is Everton, which ranked sixth in the league last season and reached the final of the FA Cup, the opponent just scored four goals in the game three days ago win.

But he still wants to tell the world that he will never give up this game easily.

His assistant, Antonio, is explaining to the players the tactical arrangements for this game. He spent a full two weeks preparing these tactical arrangements, and he wants to tell others at Everton's home court that he, Flores The team is not a soft persimmon, anyone can pinch it.

"Wallon, this game you play as a left midfielder, come back more to help defend, and keep an eye on the opponent's Deulofeu. No matter what, you can't let him play on the wing." Antonio said to a The blond player wearing shin pads said.

The blond player who was wearing shin guards nodded, with a strong body and a face covered with flesh, he could be seen as a ruthless character.

Wallon Behrami, Swiss international, 30 years old this year, joined the team from Hamburg for 4.5 million euros in the summer, and is one of the team's strong signings.

Behrami became famous in the European Cup jointly held by Switzerland and Austria in 2008. With his abundant physical fitness and fierce defense, he made people shine in the European Cup.

After the European Cup, he joined West Ham United in the Premier League. He has been in the Premier League for several years, so he is quite familiar with the game style of the Premier League, and there is no problem of adaptation.

After leaving West Ham United, he played for Fiorentina and Hamburg successively. He has experience in the three top leagues of Italy, England and Germany. It can be said that he is an experienced veteran.

Although he is a winger, he often plays a very important role on the wing by virtue of his running without hesitation and his ability to shovel as much as a midfielder.

At this time, the head coach arranged for him to guard against Deulofeu, who was in hot form, so he was naturally full of confidence.

In fact, with ten years more game experience than Deulofeu, he also has enough confidence to let this thin winger from La Masia have a drink.

After Antonio arranged Behrami's task, he said to another taller black player:

"Etienne, your task in this game is to closely monitor Xia Ze, the core of the opponent's offense. You must not underestimate him just because the opponent is only 20 years old. No matter what fouls you use, you can't let him turn around and organize the attack comfortably. !"

The black player nodded and said hoarsely: "Coach, I understand. I have been studying the video of that kid's game for a week. I will let him really taste the Premier League."

"Okay, then let him see the defensive strength of the Premier League!" Antonio nodded with satisfaction.

The black player is Etienne Capoue, and as long as there are fans who have watched Premier League games in recent years, they are no strangers to him.

In the past two seasons, he has played for the Premier League powerhouse Tottenham. This French midfielder is known for his strong defense. His height of 190 is enough to make many midfielders in the Premier League feel intimidated, and even some high center forwards can't take advantage of him.

Although he was not the absolute main force during Tottenham, every time he played, he was able to bring enough defensive hardness to the team and also won the capital to gain a foothold in the Premier League.

Using him to guard Xia Ze closely is definitely a value on Xia Ze's ability.

After Xia Ze moved to the Premier League in the middle of last season, because many teams didn't care much about a Chinese player, Xia Ze performed very well in half a season, and was even selected as a candidate for the best young player of the season.

After Watford's coaching staff studied Xia Ze's video, they already have a targeted strategy to deal with Xia Ze.

In fact, not only Watford, but other teams in the Premier League, after the match against Xia Ze last season, all understand Xia Ze's position in the Everton team and the threat of Xia Ze. More teams made targeted arrangements for Xia Ze. c