.I don’t know when it started, but Real Madrid started to go to Austria to practice in summer when preparing for the battle.

The central and western Austria is very high in a high altitude and is considered a plateau area. In the entire southern Europe, the temperature here is more like autumn. If it is in the morning, it can even be said to be winter.

Low temperature, high altitude, thin air and less oxygen, which are the characteristics of typical plateau areas.

Before he arrived in Austria, Yang Cheng had already made the team ready to deal with altitude sickness. Even the diagnosis and treatment equipment and equipment he moved from Valdebebas were more than the players' luggage. All the team doctors of the team came out and followed the team to Ildenin, Austria.

The temperature suddenly dropped by more than ten degrees, and the players had to be careful when keeping warm. Chris had reminded before that it was difficult to get a cold in the plateau area, so the team also changed from three practices a day to two practices a day. The first training class was also held at 11 o'clock, but the players would start to come to the training ground from 10:30 to do all the warm-up movements.

No one wants to get sick before the season, which will completely waste the hard preparations before the season, so they all meticulously complete the tasks arranged by the coaching staff.

Three days before arriving in Yildenning, Yang Cheng did not dare to arrange high-intensity training, for fear that the players' bodies would not be able to adapt and not be able to move, which would easily lead to injuries. He took some methods such as circling obstacles, walking monkeys, and running in a twisted line to adjust the players' bodies.

Among them, games like snatching the circle can play a huge role at this time, because this kind of exercise similar to a game, but in fact it moves to every link of the body, which can relax muscles, promote blood circulation, and increase the player's tacit understanding.

In the afternoon, Yang Cheng arranged for ball cooperation to cooperate with training, but basically some passes and catches in quick running, speed change, and players formed a triangle to cooperate with one-foot passes and catches.

In the last half hour, Yang Cheng would arrange group confrontations in small venues, but in order to prevent players from getting injured, he would appropriately expand the scale of the venue so that the intensity of the confrontation would not be so large and the pace would not be so fast.

After careful maintenance, three days later, the team started to play a lot.

When he came to the plateau to prepare for the battle, he wanted to have better physical fitness reserves. Although Yang Cheng still practiced a day, the intensity of both training classes was comparable to a formal football game. Whether it was physical fitness reserve training in the morning or team technical and tactical training in the afternoon, the intensity was very high.

At night, Yang Cheng would hold an internal meeting two days later to instill his tactical ideas into the players.

No matter how skillful the football tactical ideas are, they must be reflected by the players on the football field. The more complex the tactics, the longer it takes to accumulate. Any set of skillful tactical ideas cannot be completed overnight, or even in one or two years, which is simply impossible.

Yang Cheng suffered a lot when he was in Inter Milan, so he later began to slowly figure out some of his own methods, that is, he would teach the players some of the most basic things at the beginning, so that they could use some of the simplest and most effective tactics well, and then slowly improve and improve.

As all head coaches generally recognize, the factor that affects the victory of a football match is actually to see who makes mistakes in details and is caught by the opponent. This is often the case with all goals, and the more complex the tactics, the more likely it is to make mistakes. The more cautious you have to be.

In fact, football tactics are simply divided into three parts: defense, offense, and offense and defense conversion!

Yang Cheng made a very direct and clear requirement that under any circumstances, the three lines must be kept compact and closely connected, and maintain sufficient tactical depth. It cannot be like Real Madrid in the past, with a loose overall formation. The offense depends more on personal ability, lacking an orderly offensive level, and the defense does not have enough tactical depth.

When defending, Yang Cheng required all players to be involved in the establishment of the defensive system, maintain cooperation on the three lines, and ensure that the opponent does not easily pass the ball into the 32-meter area. This is also a major sign that tests the defensive system.

Real Madrid's current defense is centered on Cannavaro and Touram. Ramos and Aveloa teamed up to build the entire defense line. Ramos and Aveloa are separated from the left and right sides. Ramos' offense is better, but the defense is relatively frigid, but the right forward is Beckham, which will give Ramos enough offensive opportunities, just like the combination of Beckham and Gary Neville back then.

Aveloa on the left has stronger defense and good offense, but since there are Mata and David Silva and others ahead, his responsibility is more about defense, and his offensive contribution is more about support and support.

In the offensive state, Yang Cheng emphasized the most about pulling and leveling. He repeatedly stated that offense is not a one-time deal, and requires sufficient patience. Players should run more, pull more, and open up gaps to allow players who are inserted behind to use it. This will require higher requirements for Villa and Raul.

But one thing that is very important for Yang Cheng's offense is to keep the ball moving and passing quickly.

If nothing unexpected happens, the two forwards in the new season will be Villa and Raul, both of whom take the route of forward and retracement. The specific situation will be two forwards who make their own arrangements according to the situation, but Yang Cheng is trying out the offensive routines of Negredo, Soldado and Aguero playing forward.

However, what Yang Cheng emphasized the most is the offensive and defensive transformation.

All the teams that Yang Cheng coached give people the impression that the offense and defense are very fast, and whether it is offense or defense, they are outstanding in this regard.

Regarding the offensive and defensive transformation, Yang Cheng emphasized that at the moment of conceding the ball, everyone around must invest in the on-site counter-attack and double-team as soon as possible. Everyone must limit the opponent's ball output route in the shortest time, delay their counterattack, and create buffering time for the teammates behind him.

As for the offense, what Yang Cheng mentioned most was continuous passes and a touch of the ball, as well as long passes from Alonso and Beckham.

Real Madrid also practiced this repeatedly during training, such as allowing multiple wing players to constantly practice the continuous touch pass and match from their own bottom line to the opponent's bottom line. There is also the three people forming a group to repeatedly advance the routine, etc.

Yang Cheng pursued a tactic in Real Madrid as a double midfielder. When attacking, it looks like 4411. Taking the forward retreat midfield route, Raul is undoubtedly a very suitable player in this position. His tandem consciousness, running without the ball and passing are excellent, and his back insertion is also a major offensive weapon.

Yang Cheng didn't hear the outside world's call, but Guti did perform well after he came on the bench, so in the third warm-up match, he replaced Guti with Harvey Alonso, allowing Beckham to partner with Mascherano in the middle to play the midfield, and Master 14 gained more freedom in the frontcourt.

But in the end, Real Madrid's organization was still in chaos. Ramos was even intercepted after a downshot on the right, and almost hit a counterattack by Fulham. Fortunately, Tulam and Cannavaro performed steadily, resolved a crisis and tried to ensure that the goal was not lost.

The final result of the game was 0:0, and Real Madrid saved a draw in a relatively embarrassed manner.

After this game, the Spanish media began to get furious. They all believed that after Yang Cheng took office, although Real Madrid's overall tactics tended to be balanced and their defense was strengthened, especially the joining of Cannavaro, Touram and Mascherano, which guaranteed the team's defense, but it lost the most famous offense during the Galaxy Warship period!

Yang Cheng's reputation accumulated in Kaiserslautern, Inter Milan, and Liverpool was indeed very famous, but this cannot be a guarantee of his success at Real Madrid. Because there are countless famous coaches who suffered Waterloo, Van Gaal was at his peak in Ajax, but he was defeated in Barcelona.

Similarly, there are a lot of other famous coaches who failed after changing jobs.

The same is true for Yang Cheng. After coming to Real Madrid, everything will start over. His previous fame and reputation can only allow him to get support and patience from the board of directors and fans for a longer period of time.

Now, the team's performance in the warm-up match was average, and the outside media criticized it, but Marca and Ashes all supported it. They all felt that it was impossible for them to play a refreshing offense in a short period of time for a team that had only been formed for less than a month.

"It takes half a year for Zidane to join Real Madrid. Why can't we give Caesar more time?"

Real Madrid fans also left messages on the official website to support Yang Cheng. They believe that the frequent change of coaches of the team is an important reason for Real Madrid's decline. Now that they choose Yang Cheng, they should give him plenty of time and power to form a team he wants to win.

"If even Caesar can't save Real Madrid, then we don't think anyone in the world today is more suitable than him!"

In addition to the general recognition of outsiders, players within the first team also generally provide support.

In an interview, Raul said, "We can see from his tactical thinking that he is not a conservative head coach. On the contrary, he is very keen on offense. But we should see that the team's problems are accumulated over time and are very serious. He must let the team get into the regular business as soon as possible and then pursue good-looking football!"

"Over this period of time, he has instilled a lot of his tactical ideas into us, all of which are very simple tactical ideas, but we need time to adapt, and you can see from it that our team cooperates more than before, but we don't have a tacit understanding with each other enough, which takes longer to build."

Casillas also highly praised Yang Cheng, "He is definitely a phenomenal head coach and the most suitable coach for Real Madrid. Our team is constantly moving towards better aspects. We need more time to understand and adapt to the coach's tactics. We believe that the best Real Madrid will come soon."

But the media criticized Casillas and Raul's words.

"Casillas said he likes Yang Cheng, that's certain. In the past few seasons, he has been threatened by the opponent in every game at least three times. But now after three warm-up games, the opponent can only have a pitiful shot that threatens him!"

"In other words, our Saint Cassi can stand comfortably in front of the goal line for breakfast, but if you just want to defend firmly, Real Madrid should invite Capello without spending so much energy and financial resources to invite Yang Cheng."

"As for Raul, he can stay in Real Madrid, continue to be his captain, and continue to play his main force, instead of being cleaned up and going to a certain team to retire. He should really support Yang Cheng with all his strength!"

The Spanish media also seem to like to make trouble, and Yang Cheng undoubtedly provided them with good materials because he did perform mediocrely in these three warm-up matches and had no way to argue.

But surprisingly, Real Madrid's management collectively silenced this time, and no one gave any support to the outside world. This was understood by the media as Florentino was also very dissatisfied with Yang Cheng's performance in the warm-up match.

In fact, this is an agreement between Yang Cheng and Florentino. It is not only now, but it will be hard to hear them standing up to comment on the team or players in the future.

Ironically, in the fourth warm-up match, Real Madrid played an amateur team in Austria with an ildening area. This amateur team composed of bakers and restaurant owners was slaughtered 14:0 by the Galaxy Battleship in the game against Real Madrid, which immediately caused the Spanish media to explode.

The Galaxy Battleship reappears a gorgeous offensive movement!

Yang Cheng led Real Madrid to sound the offensive football horn!

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In short, a lot of praise came to my face. Some newspaper even made it even more funny that it directly published Real Madrid's 4 warm-up matches and scored 16 goals, and its offense was stronger than the time of the Galaxy Warships, etc.

Yang Cheng can only smile at such praise, at least he can't say it. Don't praise it like this. I feel embarrassed myself, but when I returned to Madrid, Yang Cheng smiled and sarcastically while being interviewed at the airport.

"You should report in the future that the new Real Madrid averaged 4 goals and 0 goals per game!"

I believe that many reporters at the scene would want to find a hole to drill, because they did have been a bit too much before.

After the team returned to Madrid, they only had a two-day rest and will go to Salt Lake City, USA on the 8th. They will play two warm-up matches with Washington United and Royal Salt Lake City, and then return to Madrid on August 13, and then lead the team to participate in two traditional events: Carranza Cup and Bernabeu Cup.

This is a itinerary that Yang Cheng had already booked before taking over Real Madrid, and Yang Cheng had no choice but to do so.

But on the same day Real Madrid arrived in Salt Lake City, Barcelona also headed north from Mexico and arrived in Houston.
Chapter completed!