Chapter 370： Neapolitan Pills!

Naples' warm-up match was still a mess.

All fans or media who are familiar with high and deep and familiar with Naples will not be surprised by this.

As Tianzi No. 1 Gao Chui Saki said in his column, Gao Shen has never paid much attention to the warm-up games. This is the stage for him to practice the team and try various tactical routines and team cooperation.

"I even heard that he was able to praise the player after the team lost to the Serie C team."

But this did not prevent the Italian media from desperately creating panic in Naples.

This is actually quite normal.

The media relies on this method to attract attention. Without these elements, in the warm-up stage, where would fans pay attention?

But as a result, media rhetoric also often contradicts each other.

In the words of high-level ridicule, it is, "Many newspapers are only suitable for single editions. After reading them today, they will forget them later. At best, they are just killing time. This type of newspaper cannot be read in bound editions, otherwise, you will doubt it. Whether they have some kind of inborn defect, then you might develop more sympathy for them."

In return, Gao Shen strongly recommended Saki's column.

This shameless guy writes a column every two days, sometimes even a day, so that Gao Shen couldn't help but exclaim in his heart.

Is writing a column so profitable these days?

Can you make a lot of money with just a few words?

It's really cool, the head coach of labor and management will stop doing it, and write a column directly.

Isn't it just the number of water characters?

Who wouldn't?

But I have to say that compared to those media, Saki's column is still very professional. Gao Shen believes that reading Saki's column in the bound edition can greatly improve the readers' football literacy.

More importantly, instead of buying a newspaper, register a Twitter account directly. This guy will refresh his column on Twitter on the night the newspaper is published. This is his agreement with the newspaper.

Well, Gao Shen is thinking, as a minority shareholder of Twitter, should he give Saki some money?

This ad is so tough!

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Starting from mid to late July, Naples sometimes plays once a week, sometimes twice a week, and the warm-up matches are flying high.

Opponents do not pick, sometimes Serie C, sometimes Serie B, anyway, they are Italian domestic teams.

This even caused the Italian media to question, is Naples really so poor?

Is it so difficult to even go abroad to play an away game?

But even if the opponents are Serie B and Serie C teams, Napoli's performance is not ideal, ups and downs, unstable.

One of the characteristics of Gao Shen is that he likes to mess around.

Obviously, 4231 is playing well, but he will suddenly change to 352, or even 361.

Macho's right midfielder in Sampdoria is the best winger in Serie A, but Gao Shen used him to play right back for a while, then pushed him to the right wing, and even tried to let him play as a midfielder.

The same goes for the other players, which makes Napoli's entire strategy a mess.

At least in the eyes of the media and fans, it is really unorganized.

People who are familiar with Gao Shen and Naples know that this is the norm, but they can't stand the fact that the vast majority of fans are not familiar with it. They have seen the media criticize and even accuse Gao Shen and his Naples.

There's a Neapolitan pill feel to it, and it's getting stronger.

However, if you study and analyze in-depth personnel arrangements and playing time, it is not difficult to find that there are actually some rules and regulations, and by constantly changing positions of players, they can better understand the situation and thoughts of their teammates.

This is called empathy.

Saki said in the column that Gao Shen is a chicken thief.

"He wants to make his opponent completely unaware of what he wants to do."

"Wait, he and his Napoli will still surprise everyone this season."

But as soon as Saki finished speaking, many media turned their guns on him.

Squeeze to death you, the number one number one in the sky!

…

Entering August, all eight international players who participated in the Olympic Games left the team and went to the national Olympic team to report.

There was a shortage of personnel in the first team, and Gao Shen suddenly played more waves.

Vidal and Thiago Motta took turns to play central defender, and there was a shortage of midfielders, and even the fifteen-year-old Verratti was able to play.

When the reporter asked, why?

Gao Shen said cheerfully: "I like this player so much!"

Not to mention Insigne.

The result of the wave is that Napoli played very easily, but the results of the game were good and bad, sometimes it was very exciting, but sometimes it was a mess, which was completely incomprehensible.

The media and fans who were unknown outside were anxious.

Nima, the Italian Super Cup is about to fire, you haven't adjusted your team yet?

Take a hammer to fight Mourinho's Inter Milan to the death?

In contrast, Mourinho's Inter Milan, the performance is getting better.

In July, Inter Milan played three warm-up matches.

One was against the Saudi champion and the other was against Barry. Both games were won steadily, but the team's performance was not ideal.

Later in the Tim Cup, facing Juventus and AC Milan, Inter Milan did not score a goal and conceded a goal. In front of two strong opponents, their performance was not ideal.

This also once aroused suspicion from the outside world.

But in August, Inter Milan went to Munich, Germany to participate in the Beckenbauer Cup. As a result, at the Allianz Arena, with the goal of Mancini Jr., they defeated Klinsmann's Bayern Munich 1-0.

In this game, Inter Milan returned to the four-three-three that Mourinho is best at, paying attention to wing attack and cooperation.

Gazzetta dello Sport said after the game: "Inter Milan's defense is super successful, and the team's personality is also very good. This is a great victory for Mourinho."

A warm-up match, described as a great victory, was a bit of a lick, but it also proved that Mourinho's team played well.

Sure enough, in the following warm-up games, Inter Milan performed better and better.

The opponents over there are getting better and better, and Naples here has never improved, so why not worry?

Even Sacchi called in the column that Gao Shen should establish the main lineup as soon as possible.

Especially the starting lineup in the Italian Super Cup, quickly run in.

Eight Olympic athletes still have a great influence on Naples, especially the central defender.

The two core central defenders from last season all went to China. After Domic was sold, there was only a small Cannavaro left in the team to be trusted.

Gao Shen went around and tried Vidal, Thiago Motta, Lichtsteiner and Benatia, but the results were not satisfactory, which also made many people worry about Gao Shen.

Just like that, can you fight Inter?

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Grosseto, Tuscany, Central Italy.

Speaking of Grosseto, Gao Shen is actually quite unfamiliar, but that is not the case in Naples.

Because this team was once a major rival for Napoli to advance from Serie C to Serie B, but they eventually lost in the promotion play-offs and failed to advance to Serie B with Naples.

But they only cared about staying in Serie C for an extra year, and soon they were promoted to Serie B and ranked in the middle.

It is worth mentioning that the head coach of this team is an old acquaintance, Pioli.

Yes, the AC Milan coach who will be famous for fighting fires in the future.

After Parma was beaten to the point of losing the coaching position, Pioli was idle at home for a full year and a half. It was not until September 2007 that he put out the fire in the middle of Grosseto, leading the team with outstanding performance and was able to stay in office.

Using what Pioli said later in an interview with the media to describe his year and a half, "In the past year and a half, I have watched every game of Naples repeatedly, from Serie B to Serie A, I have repeatedly watched. I have scrutinized every set of tactics and routines of Gao Shen in Naples."

Pioli believes that in the past year and a half, his entire tactical thinking has undergone a huge shift.

After coaching Grosseto, he began to move closer to the tactical style.

So Grosseto was in Serie B and played a tactic that was very similar to Napoli, but different.

Described by the Italian media: Grosseto's players will bite their opponents like mad dogs. They will form a numerical advantage in local areas by running at all costs. They advocate wing attack.

Like Naples, Pioli's team attaches great importance to pressing and pressing in the frontcourt. They will try their best to force the opponent's ball-handling players to the flanks, and then use the advantage of numbers to siege, and fight back as soon as the steal is successful.

So much so that after Grosseto performed well, many people believed that Pioli had the opportunity to lead Grosseto this season and stage the success of Naples.

However, this team has a natural weakness.

That is, there are too few home fans.

Grosseto itself is not a big city, with a small population and a small stadium, with a total capacity of only 9,000 people, but in fact, the daily attendance rate is not even half at all.

In a warm-up game like the one against Napoli, the attendance was not even a thousand people.

It is conceivable that the future of such a team is extremely limited.

However, Gao Shen just took a fancy to it.

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Before the game, Gao Shen specially reunited with Pioli, who claimed to be learning from himself, and chatted on the sidelines for a while.

Although he was beaten by Gao Shen and lost his handsome position, Pioli said that he learned a lot from Gao Shen.

And Gao Shen was not stingy, and gave some of his own ideas.

Although he didn't study the play styles of Grosseto and Pioli in depth, he had heard a bit about this kind of specious imitation. In fact, UU reading was not enough. Pressing oppression is not organized well enough.

After the overall pressure, the frontcourt is not well organized to press, and if the opponent cannot be suppressed, the gap behind him will be exposed. The opponent only needs a long pass to hit directly behind him.

That's why, last season, Grosseto conceded so many goals.

It is almost impossible to follow the ball one-to-one.

"Either just keep steady and step back a little; or just put more force and keep pressing forward."

Pioli was impressed.

After chatting with him for a while, Gao Shen turned around and walked back to the visiting team's coaching bench.

As soon as he got to his position, he saw Lucas walking out of the coaching bench.

"Our guys looked around and didn't find Inter's scouts."

After listening to Gao Shen, he smiled.