Football: Rebirth 04, I Create a Black Shop in Football

The new season is coming.

In the following days, the topic of Li Shiguang's introduction of Rivaldo and Camoranesi has never stopped. The joining of the two has also changed people's inherent view of Li Shiguang's style of signing players. After all, this is the first time that Li Shiguang has introduced players over 30 years old in almost 2 years since he took over Leeds United.

Camoranesi is okay. People who understand football are very clear about the problem that Leeds United's two wing forward positions are relatively weak in personnel reserves, and he is also in his prime, so everyone is more accepting of this deal.

But when it comes to Rivaldo, the public opinion has changed. Even Norman Hunter, who has always been a fan of Leeds United and Li Shiguang, raised doubts in his column this time: "When Li just took over Leeds United, many people questioned his transfer strategy. At that time, most people thought that Li bought some young players or players eliminated by other teams just for cheap. To be honest, I was one of them at that time. But Howard's transfer deal shocked me. Later, the outstanding performance of Adebayor, Sneijder and others in Leeds United completely made me recognize Li's vision. But today I still have to say that I really don't understand why Li would spend millions of euros to buy an older player who has been messing around in the Greek league. Although he was once one of the best players in the world, times have changed. I don't think he still has the ability to play in the top league now..."

Li Shiguang is of course aware of the doubts from the outside world.

But as a head coach, Li Shiguang only believes in data and everything he sees.

On Wednesday morning, Rivaldo and Camoranesi completed the physical examination, and the physical examination report was delivered to Li Shiguang in the afternoon. Li Shiguang pretended to look at these things that were already visible on the system at any time, and then put them aside.

Compared with these things, he paid more attention to what the players could play on the field.

After a few days of observation, Camoranesi was quite standard, his playing style was very pragmatic, and there was no difference from Li Shiguang's impression of him.

But Rivaldo was a little beyond Li Shiguang's expectations.

It is undeniable that the increase in age has really affected Rivaldo's competitive state, but this impact is more on the physical level, such as physical fitness, speed and physical confrontation. In other aspects, such as the timing, accuracy and vision of the pass, he is not much worse than Deisler at his peak.

In Li Shiguang's memory, Rivaldo is a player who needs the ball. To put it bluntly, he is more "independent". Li Shiguang had seen it in the news before. It was because he did not listen to the command and was unwilling to implement Van Gaal's tactical arrangements that the relationship between the two became very tense. But in the past few days of training, Li Shiguang found that his playing style was completely different from the Rivaldo in his memory.

Li Shiguang emphasized the efficiency of counterattacks in the game. He was worried that Rivaldo's sticking to the ball and dribbling style would be incompatible with the team's style. But after a few days of training, he found that Rivaldo almost never took the initiative to challenge the defensive players. After getting the ball, he almost kicked the ball out and pulled out space through cooperation with his teammates. And there is another point that Li Shiguang likes very much. Even if he holds the ball for a little longer, he will find an opportunity to pass the ball after attracting the defense, instead of forcibly showing off his skills and seeking breakthroughs.

Once he got the ball at the top of the penalty area, attracting the attention of Silva and Garcia, but he just passed the ball sideways in the entanglement of the two people, and directly penetrated the defense line.

This scene made Li Shiguang on the sidelines applaud. At that moment, Li Shiguang's mind had emerged with the scene of Rivaldo, Modric and Alonso on the field at the same time, playing around with the big and rough Premier League backs.

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Time soon came to Saturday, and Leeds United will face West Brom at home this round.

It has been only a few months since the last confrontation between the two teams, but West Brom has changed a lot. After the last home game was bloodbathed with 6 goals, Blackwell has been fired by the team and replaced by Brian Robson. Howard, another acquaintance of Li Shiguang, was listed for sale by the club before the opening of the winter window, but because he has not found a new home, he has now been demoted to the second team by Robson to maintain training.

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After taking over West Bromwich Albion, West Bromwich Albion's performance has improved slightly. After the last round of games, it ranked fourth from the bottom in the league with a goal difference advantage, barely out of the relegation zone.

But facing the popular Leeds United, Robson did not think that West Bromwich Albion could easily retreat from the away game. With the idea that getting 1 point was a victory, West Bromwich Albion took a defensive stance at the beginning of the game. Except for a striker, everyone else stayed in their own half. Even if they got the ball, they just kicked it towards the Leeds United half. They were too lazy to pass the ground ball. But you don't say that it was this kind of pure bus that made Li Shiguang shout headache for a while. In this game, Li Shiguang arranged three strikers. In addition to Berbatov and Falcao, who have been in good form, Dzeko also started today. But Leeds United bombarded West Bromwich Albion's goal for almost half an hour, but didn't kick a goal. However, West Bromwich Albion's passive style of play also attracted boos from the fans on the scene.

The two sides were deadlocked until the 35th minute, when Leeds United broke the deadlock with a direct free kick.

Toure sent a diagonal pass on the right side, which was a very beautiful pass, and passed behind all the West Brom defenders. On the left side of the field, Falcao rushed out of the crowd at a very fast speed to receive the pass, and ran quickly with the ball into the penalty area.

Seeing that he really couldn't catch up, West Brom's starting central defender today, Davis, got excited and used a scissor kick to shovel Falcao.

Seeing this kick, Li Shiguang immediately ran towards the fourth official on the scene with a roar, and Milner, who was not far away from them, immediately rushed up and grabbed Davis' collar, asking him why he did such a dangerous move.

After a commotion, Davis was directly sent off by the referee with a red card.

On the Leeds United side, Falcao, who could no longer fight, was replaced by Vardy, and Milner, who rushed up to support his teammates, also received a yellow card....

Fortunately, Modric then kicked a beautiful free kick to let Leeds United take the lead, which made the angry Li Shiguang feel a little better.....