Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 180

Messi and Anton joined forces to face the heroes of the Premier League in the "Green Life" simulator. Now the timeline has been pushed to the end of the season, and the last round of the league is left. Anton's "patchwork" team Liverpool even climbed to fourth place in the standings.

No.1 Manchester United, No.2 Chelsea.The rankings of these two teams cannot be shaken.Manchester United has even won the championship ahead of schedule.

The first three to the top five are all very tight. In the past, Arsenal led by Professor Arsene Wenger was only one point ahead of Liverpool; behind Manchester City, they had the same points as Anton's team, but their goal difference was two less.

The four-game battle continued to the final round: Anton's team has a high probability of competing with Manchester City for goal difference.In this round, Anton's team will face Wolves, who have not yet succeeded in relegation; while Manchester City needs to play the "Manchester Derby" in the last round against their rivals in the same city.

Judging from the schedule, Anton's match is more difficult.Relegation teams generally do their best to relegation smoothly, while Manchester United has already won the championship and there is no pressure at all.

Messi has been in La Liga for a long time, and he has rarely experienced such an exciting final round of the league: he actually needs to inquire about the opponent's score while playing the game.Therefore, this guy was extremely excited, and he had already set a time to play the game with Anton. For this reason, the two of them specially logged into the simulator an hour in advance, and discussed the tactical arrangement in advance.

In the process of preparing for the battle, Anton glanced at the player list, and suddenly found a player he had never seen before: Player Z.

"This should be an easy guess—"

Anton's first reaction was that there was finally a vest he could guess.

But he was so busy preparing for the battle that he had no time to pay attention to this player who appeared suddenly.

The last round of the game was really magnificent: the Wolves are worthy of being a giant killer and an away expert, and they were able to play offensive football against Liverpool at Anfield.Therefore, it is extremely difficult for Liverpool to win, and don't even think about scoring goal difference.

But Manchester City also failed to get a good deal from Manchester United.Even if Manchester United is fighting for honor, it will not easily let go of the "mortal enemy". Cristiano Ronaldo made his own point and made a penalty by himself. In the end, Manchester United defeated his "cousin" 1-0 and kicked Manchester City out of the top four.

Therefore, in the virtual world of "Life in the Green", Liverpool was very "lucky" to win the European qualification for next season.

Anton: I knew that a good brother would not disregard his friends.

Ronaldo: Ha, I'm just considering my comprehensive experience value, I want to raise the level!

Anton: ...Okay!

At this time, the system sent a notification: In the "Challenge of the Champions League", the summer window will officially open in 3 days.At that time, both sides can invite players to join their camp.

Correspondingly, in reality, the winter transfer window will soon open.The Sunderland coaching staff has already begun intensive preparations, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity of the winter window to strengthen the team again.

In the first half of the season, Sunderland's entire team showed impressive strength, and fortunately, they did not suffer major injuries.This is not unrelated to the club's various protective measures and the coaching staff's insistence on platoon rotation.But Anton still felt that they were extremely lucky that injuries did not disturb their rhythm of the game.

In several positions where rotation is particularly needed, Sunderland should consider introducing new players as a supplement to the main force of the existing first team.In addition, only Messi's position needs to be supplemented.

But easier said than done?

During this process, Sunderland also received many contacts from clubs and agents.

They first ruled out Vincent's long-planned "return" plan.After playing with Messi for half a season, the eyes of the whole Sunderland team have risen, and Vincent is no longer a striker they "see".Therefore, it is better to stop Vincent's idea early and let him play well at Villa.

Immediately afterwards, Martin tried to contact Real Madrid according to Anton's meaning.He just asked about Kaka's situation hintingly, and the other party snapped it back: It's not a question of how much money to pay, Kaka is not for sale. "Capelo" cooperates well now.

Martin was frustrated, and he didn't know why Anton thought Kaka had hope of joining.

Anton comforted Martin, "The winter window has not yet opened, and we still have about a month. How do you know that the other party will not change his mind?"

Martin: "...my dear coach, why are you so optimistic?"

Anton: "No, no, I'm actually not sure, but what if it's possible?"

Martin: ...? !

He has not yet successfully formed an alliance with Kaka in "Life in the Green", so naturally he dare not expect extravagantly in reality.

You have to have hope, don't you?

Anton has also considered other candidates, such as the ones he is super familiar with: Player F, Torres.

But it seems too inhumane to poach people from Liverpool now.Liverpool has lost two more games recently, ranking 18th after 12 rounds.Coach Hodgson continues to be in deep crisis of getting out of class.

In addition, Liverpool finally got rid of the financial squeeze of the "dog-blood duo". When the new boss finally has money to buy someone, it is even more impossible for the team to sell their own "sharp striker".

However, there have been rumors in the transfer market that Chelsea's owner Abramovich has "followed" Torres and hopes to "do whatever it takes" to usher in the Spanish golden boy in the winter transfer window.

Besides, Torres' position does not coincide with Messi's, and Torres' joining will not solve their problem of "losing" Messi.

After much deliberation, Anton couldn't find a better candidate.

Kaka is his best choice at this stage, and he desperately hopes that Kaka can join.

Before the winter window opened on January 1, the FA held the draw ceremony for the third round of the FA Cup as usual.

Sunderland were lucky enough to be drawn to play at home at the Stadium of Light. Their opponent was a League One team from Nottingham: Notts County.Their match will take place on January 1.

Also because the level of the opponents is far apart, this game is not the highlight of this round of the FA Cup.In this draw ceremony, the two most eye-catching teams are Manchester United and Liverpool. The match will be held at Old Trafford, Manchester United's home stadium, on January 1.This means that this season will "enact" a "double red meeting".

Because Sunderland drew a lottery to an underdog, the team's substitute lineup is gearing up and eager to try.Among them are many young people who have just been promoted from the youth team, and they are the "junior brothers" of Henderson, Colbeck and Pickford.Before that, they always watched the first team advance all the way, not to mention how envious they were.

According to Anton's original intention, before Sunderland can find someone who can replace Messi, they really should not devote their energy to another front.

But now that a League One team has been drawn, Anton simply boldly let these young people try.Guangming Academy immediately divided into two teams to prepare for the league and the upcoming FA Cup respectively. Except for Pickford, the starting lineups of the two teams will hardly overlap.

On January 1, the main members of the first team sat at the Stadium of Light at home and won Blackburn 1-2 cleanly.

On January 1, the team rushed to Villa Park Stadium and defeated the old rival 5-1 at Aston Villa's home court.

As of now, Sunderland has won the fifth consecutive victory after losing to Fulham on December 12, including a victory in the "Tianwangshan" battle, leaving Manchester United behind in the standings a cut.

England football exclaimed: Is this really a "bright miracle"?Will Sunderland copy the myth of Kaiserslautern back then and become another team in the five major European leagues that has gone from "promoted" to champion?

Most of the coaches who played against Anton were silent about it. Sir Alex Ferguson, professor Arsene Wenger, gourmet Ancelotti, and the unfathomable old Ray...these are all concerned about Sunderland's "championship" prospects Do not express any opinions.

The only one who jumped out to speak was still Liverpool's coach Hodgson.For some reason, the old coach always had trouble with Anton: "The game has just reached the 20th round, and there are still 18 rounds. It is too early to say that Sunderland can 'win the championship'. Wait until March talk later!"

There was nothing wrong with Hodgson's words.But for a head coach, if his coaching performance fails to meet expectations, this is the "original sin".

Huo Taigong's words aroused "crowd ridicule" in football, and incidentally implicated Liverpool.Most people ask: "Why don't you see where your team is now? Who did you lose to this time?"

Liverpool had just lost 1-5 to Blackburn on January 1 - and Blackburn had just been beaten by Sunderland.

The old man was annoyed by the voice of rebuttal, and he made up his mind not to respond again: who knows that there will be bigger news the next day, and the reporters will not get any response from Hodgson at this time.

On January 1, Liverpool Football Club announced that after peaceful negotiations with Hodgson, the club and the old coach terminated the contract.

At the same time, the club announced that Sir Kenny Dalglish would be the team's "caretaker" head coach.

When he got the news, Anton had just led his "bench lineup" to a 2-1 victory over Notts County.When he heard the news, Anton had mixed feelings: Player K finally realized his long-cherished wish and regained the leadership of Liverpool.

Dalglish must be looking forward to bringing Liverpool back to the forefront of the league, re-qualifying for the Champions League and returning to the top of Europe.

But this season Liverpool has dug a bit too big a hole. Can Dalglish save this difficult and uncertain team?

Anton is determined to win his Champions League challenge in "Life in the Green".

He talked with Kaka for a long time, and finally got Kaka's consent to invite Kaka to join his team in the virtual world.

For Kaka, the Istanbul night in 2005 is a thing of the past, and in 2007 he had revenge in Athens.These past events will not trouble him.

Coupled with Anton's kind invitation, Kaka finally made up his mind to try the feeling of wearing a red jersey.

Now there are only two people left to "form an alliance" in the simulator.