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229 Guardiola facing the old master

Update time: 2012-07-03

In the league, in addition to Betis winning two consecutive victories, four teams La Coruña, Celta, Alaves and Villarreal also won two consecutive victories.

Among them, Celta climbed to the top of the scoreboard with two big wins of three to zero.

La Coruna ranked second with five wins.

Although Betis also scored three goals, he was only ranked third in the league.

Tang Feng was very calm about this.

He knew very well that the advantages of winning goals in the first few rounds were all over the clouds.

Only by playing steadily and getting enough points is the most reliable!

Tang Feng took it for granted that he had won two consecutive victories in the league, because in his opinion, his overall strength of his team can rank among the top even in La Liga. Then, it is naturally normal to win when facing mid-range teams like Malaga and Espanyol.

However, for the media, the strong performance of Betis, as a newly promoted team, made them shine.

Although Betis had already surprised the media in the Cup of del Rey last season, it was a cup after all. The chance of the cup was much higher than the league.

Therefore, before the new season begins, many media are not optimistic about Betis' performance in the league. They believe that these young players in Betis who lack experience in the top league game will experience huge tests in La Liga.

Even after Betis won two consecutive league wins, many media still believe that the instability of this group of young people will gradually be reflected in the long season...

Tang Feng has become accustomed to the attitudes of the media.

Since the day he became Betis's head coach, the media have never stopped questioning him and Betis.

What he is best at is using the team's performance to make these people who question him shut up!

...

After the national team match day, Betis will usher in an extremely intensive schedule.

From September 10th to October 7th, in less than a month, Betis will play nine games, basically one game every three days.

Obviously, the pressure on Betis' third-line combat has gradually begun to appear.

Tang Feng also had his own choices for the three events.

First of all, the most important thing is naturally the league!

For a club team, the league has always been fundamental. Only by having stable results in the league can you have the energy to expand the European arena.

Secondly, Tang Feng also holds certain hope for the League Cup.

Just like last season's King's Cup, no one of them thought they could win the King's Cup championship at that time. But Tang Feng had the idea of ​​fighting, and his ideas were finally realized.

This time, Tang Feng is the same. He will not publicly say that his team wants to win the League Cup. After all, even if a giant like Real Madrid and Barcelona participate in the League Cup, they are not sure that they can win the League Cup!

Once such words are said, they will only add more pressure to the team and will also become the target of public opinion.

Tang Feng is not that stupid. He knows very well that in various competitions, things like "the hottest will die" happen frequently.

Even within the team, Tang Feng will only encourage players to take the League Cup seriously and not say anything to win the championship. At least, Tang Feng will not say such things before reaching the semi-finals.

In the end, what Tang Feng paid the least attention to was the King's Cup.

First of all, the team has won this championship last season. Tang Feng and the players’ desire for the honor of championship is not that strong.

Secondly, the King's Cup is really cheaper than the League Cup and the league. With the team's energy limited, Tang Feng will not let the team spend too much energy on this event.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Cup of Rey will become a venue for Tang Feng to train substitutes and newcomers.

Of course, if the team's character explodes and reaches the semi-finals or even the finals, Tang Feng doesn't mind defending his title. Even if the King's Cup is of average value, he is still a champion, right?

A young coach like Tang Feng who is still empty on the honor book is obviously not qualified to look down on the champions of the King's Cup!

Three days after the second league round with Espanyol, Betis ushered in the first round of the Cup of del Rey this season.

In this round of the game, Betis' opponent was Salamanca, who had played in the Spanish Second Division last season.

For such an opponent, Tang Feng sent out a lineup mainly based on substitutes without hesitation.

Drogba became the starting center, with Robben and Maxi Rodriguez on both sides.

In the front midfielder position, Luis Garcia also got a starting opportunity, while the two back midfielders were Senna and Cascro.

From right to left on the back line are Alves, Vanito, Xavi Navarro and Gialny.

Goalkeeper Antonio Platz also got a rare opportunity to play.

Even though he sent a lineup mainly based on substitutes, Betis's strength is undoubtedly stronger than Salamanca, which is ranked in the middle of the Spanish Second Division.

In the end, on the away game, Betis eliminated Salamanca with a three-to-one goal with goals from Drogba, Luis Garcia and Robben, and successfully advanced to the second round of the Copa del Rey.

Tang Feng did not show much excitement about winning this game.

After all, he does not attach so much importance to the King's Cup. More importantly, his energy has already been devoted to the next round of the league!

In the third round of the game, Betis will face the challenge of the strong Barcelona at home!

Although Barcelona only achieved one difficult victory and a draw in the first two rounds of the game, Tang Feng still dared not take any care of such a traditional super giant.

Therefore, as early as after the second round of the league, Tang Feng had already let Boas start his investigation into Barcelona.

As a veteran, Tang Feng knew that in the early days of Real Madrid's Galaxy battleships, Barcelona was completely suppressed by Real Madrid in the league.

The club's civil strife and turmoil have never stopped. It will take until Laporta becomes Barcelona's chairman, and the Black Swan Rijkaard takes over Barcelona and Ronaldo joins the club, so Barcelona's situation will improve.

But when Tang Feng saw Barcelona's lineup this season, he still shouted that he was against the will of heaven!

On the defense line, Serge, Frank Debor and Aberrado are both old and stronger, and rookies like Puyol have gradually entered the main lineup.

The midfielder is even more exaggerated, including Koku, Enrique, Harvey, Herad, Gabrie, and Roshenbak, Giovani, who joined this summer and Arteta who returned.

As for the front line, it can definitely be called luxurious!

Dutch scorer Cruivet is still at the peak of his career. The newly joined rabbit Saviola is full of spirituality, Rivaldo is the king of Camp Nou, and Dutch fast horse Ovimas. These are all hot stars in world football!

Tang Feng really doesn't understand how such a team with almost two or three world-class teams can never achieve results?

After thinking about it, Tang Feng felt that in addition to the club's civil strife, Barcelona's coach was also a problem.

This season, Barcelona's coach is the club's legendary star Rexac.

Lexac was extremely glorious when he was a player. As a winger, he scored 197 goals in 560 games he played for Barcelona. Such efficiency is absolutely terrifying.

However, as a coach, his record is very average. Before this, he had coached Barcelona twice, but those two coaching experiences were not considered successful.

If Tang Feng remembers correctly, Lexach's third entry into the palace still seems to have ended in failure...

Lexach's experience proves well that a great player does not necessarily become an excellent coach!

...

At the tactical discussion meeting held as usual before the game, Guardiola, a former Barcelona player, provided a lot of useful information for Tang Feng.

Although Guardiola has a very deep relationship with Barcelona, ​​he is also a very professional player and part-time coach.

Moreover, when Tang Feng asked Guardiola again whether he was willing to play in the game against Barcelona, ​​Tang Feng still got a positive answer!

This also made Tang Feng once again think that it was a great decision to choose to sign Guardiola for free!

With the help of Guardiola and the first-hand information collected by Boas, Tang Feng quickly formulated a targeted play and lineup.

He will practice repeatedly in the last few training sessions before the game.

...

Betis' home match against Barcelona became the focus of this round without any suspense.

As early as after the second round of the game, the media began to hype the game.

The person who attracted the most attention in this game was not Tang Feng, but former Barcelona captain Guardiola who left Barcelona this summer!

As the former king of Camp Nou, Guardiola's departure this summer caused a huge sensation.

When everyone thought Guardiola would leave La Liga and go to a new league to avoid being enemies with Barcelona, ​​Guardiola unexpectedly chose to condescend Betis, a new La Liga player.

From that day on, people have begun to look forward to the match between Betis and Barcelona!

What makes the media and fans even more excited is that when there are three days left before the game, Guardiola said in an interview that it will appear in this game against Barcelona!

In addition to Guardiola, Reina and Arteta, who only returned to Barcelona from Betis this summer, faced their old owners.

However, these two young players do not have a stable chance of playing in Barcelona, ​​and their chances of appearing against Betis are also slim.

Last season, Betis once slaughtered Real Madrid, La Coruña and Mallorca, the top three league leaders in the Cup of del Rey.

Barcelona, ​​who ranked fourth in the league at the time, was eliminated early, so they failed to meet Betis.

This time, their belated conversation with the Betis team of Magic Don's Betis finally came.

Betis fans are very looking forward to the team's outstanding form in the King's Cup last season and defeating Barcelona in one fell swoop.

Barcelona fans hope that the team can defeat Betis, which proves that the reason why Betis passed the game last season was entirely because they did not meet Barcelona.

In this way, the media and fans' eyes were already on the Lopela Stadium on September 17...[(m) Read without pop-ups]
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