Chapter 54 Physical Fitness
Vicente Moscodo was horrified to find that the Chinese boy he was not optimistic about was leading the team towards the goal of relegation step by step.
The media wondered why an inexperienced Chinese could lead a team out of the relegation zone in just seven league rounds.
Also puzzled is Moscow.
In his forty-seven years of life experience, he had never encountered such a thing.
A coach who has never had any experience in coaching the first team before, and is only a 28-year-old Chinese, can lead Getafe to successfully avoid relegation!
How on earth did he do it?
I searched the newspapers and couldn't find the answer.
But this is not important anymore.
What matters is that he is about to succeed.
Once he is successful, Moscow will have to cede the transfer power to him, which is the most important power.
Now he really regrets why he had to go crazy and write this in the contract.
If I had known earlier, it would have been better to make a verbal agreement with him.
It's time to turn your face and deny it.
Now it has been written in the contract, in black and white, for everyone to see. If he doesn't admit it, and people sue him, he will be the one who will be unlucky in the end.
And the relationship between this kid and that old fellow Flores is pretty good, Flores always defends him everywhere, even if he wants to do this, first of all he can't pass the hurdle of the club chairman.
The only thing that can give Moscow a little more comfort is that the contract period is only one year. A year later, he just found an excuse to kick Chang Sheng - he didn't believe that Chang Sheng could achieve any success in Getafe.
Even if he can lead the team to relegation, it has something to do with his short coaching time.
Because of the short time, everyone couldn't study him thoroughly. Because the time is short, the players always have a sense of freshness.
If he waits longer, he will inevitably expose more problems. By then, his opponents will have thoroughly studied him, and his players will lose their freshness towards him.
At that time, what means does he have?
In Moscodo's view, the follow-up Changsheng could not last even a season.
At that time, the team's performance will be in a mess, and he will see how Flores will protect this young man!
At that time, I will threaten him with the team's poor performance, or leave early, or return the transfer right!
Thinking of this, Moscow's mood finally improved.
He can't change this season.
Then wait patiently for next season...
He wants to see how this idiot will use the transfer power. He didn't believe that this young man had any sense of people. Vision requires the accumulation of experience, and it takes time to accumulate experience. What experience does a young man have?
Maybe it's just that the head coaches of the clubs in England have the right to transfer, which means that everything in England is good, so they came to make this request.
In fact, he guessed that Chang Sheng himself didn't know how to use the transfer right!
Then I'll just wait and see the joke!
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Winning two games against direct competitors for relegation gave the ever-victorious team full of confidence, and their colleagues also became more imposing.
The current ranking of the league from 16th to 22nd is like this.
The sixteenth place in the league is Badajoz. They currently have 44 points. They can be said to be the team with the most optimistic relegation situation. Unless they lose all the last three rounds, they may be relegated.
The seventeenth place is the Atletico Madrid B team, which is Atletico Madrid's reserve team currently with 42 points.
The 18th place is Getafe led by Chang Sheng, also with 42 points, but because of the low goal difference, it is temporarily ranked below the Atletico Madrid B team.
Entered the relegation zone from the nineteenth place.
Nineteenth Compostela, forty points.
The twentieth place is Rogeronis with thirty-nine points.
Twenty-first, Huelva, who just lost to Getafe at home, has 37 points.
The penultimate Toledo, with only 33 points after 39 league rounds, has basically been relegated early.
According to the rules of the Spanish Football League, the bottom four of La Liga are relegated to Group B of La Liga. With a nine-point gap between Toledo and fifth-to-last Getafe, relegation is only theoretically possible.
And Getafe are two points away from 19th in the relegation zone.
From the points point of view, the victorious team is only two points ahead, which is not a safe score.
But considering the morale of the whole team, these two points may be a starting point.
Because the opponents in the last three rounds are average, they are not considered a strong team. The most important thing is that they have no worries about relegation and no hope of promotion, which is a typical example of wanting nothing.
Such a team lacks motivation and fighting spirit.
When Getafe show the momentum of fighting to the death, they will hold back-they really can't afford to fight a relegation team.
This is the truth of any level of league.
Unless they also have to fight for something, that's another matter.
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There are still three rounds left before the end of the league. For all the teams that want to relegation, they must grit their teeth and persist in the last three rounds. Because after a long season, their physical fitness has already had problems, and injuries have increased, allowing limited players to take on more work. Playing a game at this time will be more tiring than playing a game at the beginning of the season.
Getafe's fitness coach, Juan Carlos Zavala Agaz, knows this well. So in recent weeks he has been closely monitoring the team's physical consumption.
And I am going to put forward opinions to the head coach Chang Sheng on the changes in physical fitness and modify the training plan.
For example, it is required to increase the amount of physical training, and the team doctor Ruben Rodriguez is required to follow up in time.
It stands to reason that the final stage of the general season is the time when things are most likely to go wrong.
Juan Zavala has experience with this.
But this time he felt very strange.
According to his observation, he found that the physical condition of the Getafe players is quite good.
At least the level is higher than the same period in previous seasons, even higher than the level of other teams!
He did know that Chang Sheng put a lot of emphasis on physical training after he took over the team, but can it really bring about such an earth-shaking change in the team's physical condition in more than a month? He also read Chang Sheng's training plan.
He knew Chang Sheng and didn't think there was anything special about it.
That is, the intensity of general physical training should be higher, and the volume should be larger.
But can this achieve such an effect?
This Getafe team has at least 10% more physical fitness than other teams in the same period! Although it doesn't seem like 10% is much, but with the final three rounds left in the league, this 10% physical advantage may be able to change the overall situation.
When you feel powerless, even if you have 1% more physical strength than others, you may be able to seize the opportunity, let alone 10% more!
It is naturally impossible for Juan Zavala to know that this is the effect of the winning game skills. Before the start of each game, he will choose to use the "undead running" skill in this game.
Of course, he only has this skill available.
But at the end of the league, only this skill is the most useful.
Other things like "increasing the chance of winning a physical confrontation by 5%" and "increasing the success rate of counterattack by 5%" are all flashy at this time.
Both confrontation and counterattack require physical strength to support.
Without stamina, nothing can be done.
It is no exaggeration to say that physical fitness is the root and foundation of modern football.
Just like a car needs gasoline, a team needs physical fitness.
So Juan Zavala never felt that he was a physical coach, just inferior to others. Because the work he has done is the cornerstone that supports the entire team.
Zavala didn't know it was a winning skill, but he was happy that his coach put so much emphasis on physical fitness and it paid off.
He is now more confident in the team's relegation.
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In fact, Chang Sheng also noticed that the team's physical condition is good. Of course, he did not follow up and observe like Zavala. He just learned from the players running actively during training and games, but they did not perform well. The conclusion drawn from the obvious fatigue.
He knows what it does.
He didn't make such a fuss like Zavala.
After confirming the function of [Undead Run] once again, he put his mind into the last three rounds of work.
In the last three rounds, you must work hard.
Start by breaking through the first enemy, keep your spirits high, and then wipe out all opponents!
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On May 21st, the 40th round of the Spanish Football League kicked off with a whistle.
Getafe vs. Tenerife at home.
This team was also a member of La Liga last season.
After being relegated to the second division, it also sank quickly, with a large number of players leaving without financial support.
Now it's not doing well in the second division.
Although it is said that it is in the mid-range and there is no worry about relegation, but returning to the first division this season is not to be expected.
When the ever-victorious Getafe faced Tenerife at home, their momentum was like a rainbow, which greatly exceeded the expectations of the Tenerife people.
And when the Getafe players frequently showed their lethal defense at the beginning of the game, the Tenerife people were also honest. Of course, Getafe also paid the price of two yellow cards within ten minutes.
In the end, relying on tenacious defense and sharp counterattack, Getafe defeated Tenerife 1:0 at home and got a victory and three points.
However, after the game, none of the Getafe fans or players left. They all stayed in their positions, waiting for news from the other two venues.
The 19th place Compostela played against Eibar at home, and the 20th place Rogronis challenged the Atletico Madrid B team away.
A few minutes later, the latest news came from the stadium radio: "Compostela was tied by Eibar! Rogeronis lost to Atletico Madrid B team!!"
When the news got out, there was a huge cheer from the entire Alfonso Perez Stadium.
This result means that the rankings of several teams will not change in any way, and they are still 18th, 19th and 20th respectively. In this way, the points gap between Getafe and the relegation zone widened to four points.
Four points means that as long as Getafe wins in the next round of the league, they will succeed in relegation one round ahead of schedule!
The goal of struggling for a season is finally within reach, within reach!