Chapter 94 won the Serie A Player of the Month for August! This season's Champions League has received the most attention in China in the past five years. In addition to following and reporting on the Champions League performance of Lin Feng and others, domestic media reporters are also very concerned about the situation of other overseas players. In addition to Lin Feng, Chen Tao and Feng Xiaoting, three players who have already appeared in the Champions League, Zhou Haibin of PSV Eindhoven, Hao Junmin of Schalke 04, Zhao Xuri (loan) of Rapid Vienna and Mao Biao of Fenerbahce all have the opportunity to appear in the next Champions League games. However, compared to Lin Feng and others, they have not yet established a firm foothold in the team and are still struggling to compete with their teammates for playing time. If they can win the competition within the team in the future, it will only be a matter of time before they play in the Champions League. If you fail in the competition within the team, you can only consider changing the environment to play football. But no matter what, domestic fans are already very satisfied to see so many Chinese players in the Champions League in the same season. In order to watch more of these players' Champions League games, fans even started counting their chances of qualifying on their fingers: "Lin Feng's Inter Milan and Feng Xiaoting's Barcelona are both strong and powerful clubs, so it shouldn't be a big problem for them to qualify from the group. However, Chen Tao's Werder Bremen is in a bit of danger!" After losing to Barcelona at home, Werder Bremen is currently ranked third in Group C, with only one more goal difference than Panathinaikos at the bottom. Well, actually both teams have a negative goal difference...
"Yes, they also have a strong team called Udinese in their group. Judging from this round of games, Udinese is also coming on strong and their strength should not be underestimated!" "Yes, I also think that Werder Bremen's biggest competitor for qualification is Udinese." Barcelona is too strong, and the result of this game also clearly reflects the huge gap in strength between the two teams. It is almost impossible for Werder Bremen to shake Barcelona's position in the group, and if they want to qualify, they can only focus on Udinese. If they can beat Udinese in both games, they will basically be able to qualify for the group. Of course, the prerequisite is that they cannot let down the team when playing against Panathinaikos, which is at the bottom of the group. If they fail even against this easy scorer, then Werder Bremen will really be eliminated. "I don't know if Hao Junmin and Zhou Haibin can play. If they can, there will be another Chinese derby in the Champions League." Schalke 04, where Hao Junmin is located, and PSV Eindhoven, where Zhou Haibin is located, were also placed in the same group, but unfortunately neither of them played in this match. In the end, PSV Eindhoven, playing at home, narrowly beat Schalke 1 0:04 and took a favorable position in the battle to qualify for the group. Since there is AC Milan in the same group, the situation is different from that of Barcelona and Werder Bremen. One of the teams they are in is destined to be eliminated. This makes the fans very confused and they don't know who to support. Forget it, just support whoever can appear! Influenced by the trend of studying abroad, more and more players choose to play football abroad, and Chinese players have appeared in European leagues of all levels. It’s only the first year now, and fans are not yet used to it. When such things become normal in the future, everyone will probably be even more confused. …… [Congratulations to the host for completing the Champions League debut mission! ] [Award one chance to win a lottery, 10% progress towards opening the second module! ] After completing his Champions League debut, Lin Feng received a reward from the system as expected. After getting this chance to draw a lottery, his accumulated chances to draw a lottery have reached 3 times, so he can consider using them all at once.
What surprised him even more was that after receiving the 10% progress rewarded by the system, the activation progress of the second template had reached 90%, and it was not far from being fully unlocked. In addition to the good news brought by the system, Lin Feng also received good news from the Serie A officials. With his outstanding performance in the match against Treviso, he was selected by Serie A as the best player of Serie A in August. This is the first time that a Chinese player has won the title of Player of the Month in the top five leagues! The person who was closest to this record before was Fan Zhiyi who played for Crystal Palace, but he won the best player of the team, not the best player of the league, which is a level lower than Lin Feng's award. Lin Feng deserves this title. After all, completing a hat trick in a debut is unprecedented in the history of Serie A. On the official website of Serie A, they commented on Lin Feng as follows: "This young Chinese player arrived in the Apennine Peninsula amidst all kinds of doubts from the outside world, but it only took him one game to silence all the doubts from the outside world. He is the first player in Serie A history to complete a hat-trick in his debut, and also the youngest hat-trick record holder in Serie A. He is incredibly fast and his playing style is similar to Kaka, but he also has strong organizational skills and has the potential to become a top midfielder. Considering his age, we should have higher expectations for his future. Perhaps, we are witnessing the birth of a legendary superstar! " After learning that Lin Feng won the Serie A Player of the Month award for August, domestic fans were extremely excited. Especially when they learned about the official Serie A evaluation of Lin Feng, they were so excited that they couldn't sleep. "Oh my goodness, does the Serie A official think so highly of Lin Feng?" "Haha, it's still the foreigners who dare to speak up. Although we are optimistic about Lin Feng's development, no one has ever dared to brag that Lin Feng can become a superstar in the future, but the Italians dare to do so!" "If we say it ourselves, it's just like Wang Po bragging about ourselves, but if the Italians say it, it's completely different. After all, they have no obligation to brag for us for free!" "I hope it's not a bad omen. After all these years, our country has only produced a good talent like Lin Feng!" "Chen Tao:??? That's not what you said before!" "Ahem, I'm not saying that Chen Tao is bad, but judging from their current performance, Lin Feng is still much stronger than Chen Tao!" Judging from the current situation of national youth players studying abroad, only Lin Feng and Chen Tao have established themselves in their respective clubs and become main players. But there is also a gap between the main players. Lin Feng's team is a giant like Inter Milan. It is more difficult to gain a foothold in a top club than in an ordinary club, not to mention securing a starting position in a top club. In comparison, Chen Tao's team is still of a lower level, and the competition within the team is not as fierce as that of Inter Milan. Moreover, the strength of his teammates competing with him for the main position is much weaker than Lin Feng's opponents. Any one of Veron, Solari, Cambiasso, Stankovic, Zanetti, Pizarro and others can definitely start for Werder Bremen. "I think that this is the official Serie A trying to build momentum for Lin Feng!" Someone seriously put forward a point of view, which immediately aroused everyone's curiosity. "Oh? To create momentum, what momentum?"
"The annual European Golden Boy Award will be announced in December. Lin Feng is now a hot candidate for the Golden Boy Award, and his main competitor is Messi in La Liga. Serie A officials definitely hope that the Golden Boy Award will come from their own league, so they took this opportunity to help Lin Feng hype up as much as possible and help him win this year's Golden Boy Award. "The organizer of the Golden Boy Award is Turin Sports Daily, which is an Italian newspaper after all. The official hype of Serie A will definitely have a certain degree of influence on their selection results. In addition to helping Lin Feng build momentum for the Golden Boy Award, Serie A officials are also helping Adriano and other players on the Ballon d'Or candidate list to build momentum, hoping to win the Ballon d'Or as well. Although 2005 was not a year for major tournaments, there were still some very prestigious competitions such as the Confederations Cup. The champion of this Confederations Cup is Brazil, so Adriano's main competitor is his teammates in the national team. Ronaldinho, Ronaldinho, Kaka and himself, as well as Liverpool captain Gerrard, who led the team to an epic comeback and won the Champions League, are the favorites for this year's European Golden Ball Award. If Kaka hadn't lost the Champions League final, he would probably have been the top favorite. But unfortunately, he lost. Judging from the current situation, Ronaldinho, who has performed very well in both club and national team, has the highest voice in the battle for the Golden Ball. If nothing unexpected happens, he should win this year's Golden Globe. Without the Ballon d'Or, the Golden Boy Award naturally cannot be monopolized by La Liga anymore. That’s why the Serie A officials started building momentum so early! …… With the momentum of a big victory in the Champions League, Inter Milan continued its good form after returning to the league. On September 9, the third round of Serie A kicked off. Inter Milan faced the challenge of Lecce at home. Seemingly stimulated by the fact that the Ballon d'Or has entered the final selection stage, Adriano returned to full strength in this game, scoring twice in the game and helping the team to a 3-0 victory over the opponent. It is worth mentioning that Inter Milan’s super substitute Cruz came on as a substitute in the second half and scored another goal. This was his third consecutive goal in all competitions. Since the start of this season, Cruz has scored in every game he has played. The Argentines are in explosive form! This makes the outside world generally believe that it is a waste for such an excellent striker to stay as a substitute in Inter Milan. Many people feel sorry for him and think that with his ability, there is no problem for him to leave Inter Milan and become a main player in other teams. Some nosy reporters interviewed him and asked him why he didn't change to a team that could provide him with a starting position? But Cruz said that he really enjoyed his time at Inter Milan and not only did he not want to leave, he even hoped to retire at Inter Milan. This statement has won Cruz the favor of a large number of Inter Milan fans, and the number of fans supporting him is greater than before. This puts Mancini under a lot of pressure. Cruz is in good shape, but Adriano's starting position cannot be easily changed. It's okay to rotate a few games occasionally, but if Adriano is really taken out and Cruz is made the starter, then Adriano will definitely explode. If given a choice between 23-year-old Adriano and 31-year-old Cruz, I believe most people would choose Adriano. After all, this guy's talent and physical fitness are there, and he looks like a good candidate to become a world-class striker. Many people even think that he has the potential to replace Ronaldo.
So Cruise can only suffer a little longer, and I will take the blame! …… There is a rule in football that is recognized by many people: players who play in midfield are more likely to become famous coaches after retirement. This has been proven many times in the future. Guardiola, who led the Dream Team III to Barcelona; Ancelotti, who led the Milan dynasty; Zidane, who led Real Madrid to win three consecutive Champions League titles; and Alonso, who led Leverkusen to break Bayern's Bundesliga monopoly, are all midfielders. These people are the brains of the team, which requires them to have strong game reading and interpersonal communication skills to observe the movements of teammates and the positions of opposing players, find space on the court, and direct the movements of teammates so as to seize fleeting opportunities to complete offense and defense. With more experience accumulated from games like this, they will easily develop their own football philosophy. Once they take up the coaching position, they will implement these ideas into the teams they coach. Since midfielders need to have both offensive and defensive capabilities, they will be more balanced when formulating tactics, and will not have situations where forward coaches are too fond of offense or defender coaches are too fond of defense. A team that is too biased in one area will find it difficult to go far in the league. What Mancini has is the typical problem of a forward coach: he focuses too much on offense and neglects defense. Many coaches have suffered because of this problem, including Kevin Keegan of the Premier League and Maradona, the Argentine football king. These two people have a lot of experience in how to play a good offense. Under their training, the teams they coach can play a very gorgeous offense. But both of them have little experience in how to play good defense. As expected, the teams coached by the two eventually collapsed due to defensive problems. After consecutive victories over Artemedia and Lecce, Mancini was greatly encouraged and realized the importance of defense. Last season, his team played offensive football and led Inter Milan to score 65 goals in the league, second only to the championship-winning Juventus and 2 goals more than AC Milan next door. But the team's defense was terrible, conceding 37 goals in a season, far higher than AC Milan and Juventus. This season, Inter Milan only conceded 3 goals in the first three games, which is a significant improvement over the 5 goals conceded last season. What is even more commendable is that in these three games, two of them were shutouts. Last season, Inter Milan conceded goals in every game in the first three rounds. In two games, they even scored first but were equalized by their opponents due to defensive problems. This shows that as long as Inter Milan can do a good job in defense, their performance can be improved. Although they are currently ranked only sixth in the standings, they are still behind the championship group. However, because AC Milan unexpectedly lost to Sampdoria away from home, Inter Milan's ranking surpassed AC Milan. In the last round, Milan fans were still laughing at Inter Milan, this round, it was Inter Milan fans' turn to laugh at the other side. AC Milan had a very bad start this season, with one win, one draw and one loss in the first three games, earning only 4 points and falling outside the top 10 in the league. But Milan had the same start last season, and their fans are used to it. It's not like they haven't won the league title before. AC Milan topped the league in the season before last. Compared to Inter Milan, they are not as hungry for the league title. But when it comes to the Champions League title, Milan fans are obsessed with it. Who in the family understands? It's outrageous that we were reversed even though the score was 3:0 at halftime.
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