In the following two weeks, in the first week, Kaizer Chiefs went through hell, almost all players were stripped of a layer of skin under the devil training of coach Yang Chen and others.
In the physical examination a week later, almost all players met Yang Cheng's requirements. Even those who had gained weight during the winter break returned to standard weight within this period of time. In addition, several players' physical condition was very satisfactory.
First of all, Van Nistelrooy, the Dutch striker, even during the winter break, voluntarily trained and strengthened his physical condition, which made him return to the club after the winter break with a very good physical condition. After a week of devil training, the Dutchman's weight reached 81 kilograms.
At 1.88 meters tall and weighing 81 kilograms, Van Nistelrooy's body is not abnormal but absolutely reasonable, because both Schemichel and Tim think that with Van Nistelrooy's technical characteristics, keeping his weight around 80 kilograms will not affect his physical strength, nor slow down his speed or action frequency.
It can be said that after half a year of hard training, Fan Ni has finally trained his body to a satisfactory standard state, and now it's just a matter of when he will make his move.
The second one to reach the weight standard was Denilson, a Brazilian who had always been resistant to physical training. This time, he showed great effort and enthusiasm in the devilish training sessions, even going to the gym voluntarily after each session for extra strength training. As a result, his weight finally reached 68 kg after a week, which satisfied Schmidt with his physical condition, although it was still a bit thin, but this type of player is like that.
But what's strange is that, as a technical player, Daessler, who is 1.82 meters tall, was required to weigh over 70 kilograms, and the German reached 73 kilograms in this physical examination, making great progress. With his outstanding performance, Daessler, who had just celebrated his 17th birthday, was also selected for the German youth team.
With the help of Yang Cheng and Kaiser Slawtun, Daisler's family all moved to Kaiser Slawtun to live. Although his parents still didn't seem to have any signs of reconciliation, at least they were no longer quarreling every day. Daisler's training enthusiasm and state also improved a lot, and his performance was getting better and better.
A week of devil training, Yang Cheng began to carry out the team's grinding training.
Before this, Yang Cheng specially used the Super Coach Auxiliary System once again.
After outstanding performance in the first half, Yang Cheng's achievement points accumulated again. This time he directly purchased the service of improving the team's defensive position sense, because he clearly saw that in the second half of the game, whether it was the Champions League or the German Cup, Kaiserslautern's opponents were all stronger than their own side.
In this kind of knockout match, defense is often the key to deciding the outcome, Kaiserslautern's offense is no problem, the key is the defense against strong opponents, so he spent most of his achievement points to buy services that improve the team's defensive capabilities for a period of time in the future.
The remaining achievement points were all used by Yang Cheng to enhance the growth rate of young players, further strengthening the growth of young players in the team.
After all this, Yang Cheng began to devote himself wholeheartedly to the team's training and preparation.
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After a week of preparation, Kaiserslautern welcomed Hamburg at home for the German Cup semi-finals.
This Bundesliga team is not to be underestimated, especially the right winger Salihovi? in the team. This side attacker has no flaws in terms of speed or technique and is the core of Hamburg's offense. Two years later, he joined Bayern on a free transfer and won the title of "Angel Wings".
Yang Cheng still adheres to his own principles when arranging tactics, that is, he will not disrupt his tactical deployment for a particular opponent player, because he always believes that as long as the players pay attention to positional defense, they can certainly freeze the opponent.
On the contrary, if a player is specifically assigned to defend against Salihovi?, it may disrupt the team's defensive formation. After all, Kaiserslautern has always emphasized overall offense and defense, and there is no need to disrupt their tactics because of one person.
Yang Chen implemented this idea in tactics, although he also strengthened the players' attention to Salihamidzic, but did not send a special person to defend him.
Kaiserslautern's defensive system has frozen Dortmund's Reus and Muller, as well as Bayern's Schweinsteiger and Bastian Schweinsteiger. Now that the players have a better understanding of this defensive approach, their defensive strength has also improved, making it not difficult to freeze out Sahilhamidzic.
Bremen, Nedved and also the actively participating Drenovac isolated Salihamidzic on the right side almost completely, while in midfield there was Gattuso causing trouble and destruction. Hamburg were separated and isolated by Kaiserslautern's tactics from the start of the game.
The match ultimately ended with Kaiserslautern's 1-0 victory over Hamburg, thanks to a goal from Denni?en, but the entire game was firmly under Kaiserslautern's control and plan, leaving visiting Hamburg without any hope of winning.
With this victory, Kaiserslautern advanced smoothly into the final.
After this game, Yang Cheng immediately received a message from Cottbus.
"Host Cottbus surprisingly defeated Karlsruhe 3:0?"
Everyone's first reaction to this news was shock, because Karlsruhe is a strong team in the Bundesliga, while Cottbus is only a third-tier team in Germany. The two teams have a huge gap in strength, but Karlsruhe suffered a crushing defeat.
"It's said that for this match, Cottbus had 150 fans recruited in advance to do voluntary snow-shoveling and ice-clearing work on their field. The Football Association's stadium inspection committee also inspected it and thought it met the standards, so the game continued. It can be imagined how bad the situation of this team is. Karlsruhe obviously still underestimated this team."
Yang Chen is not unfamiliar with Cottbus, because this city is near Chemnitz, and later, Chinese player Shao Jiayi also played here, so he has some impression of this team. However, he absolutely did not expect that this team would have the potential to be a dark horse, an even darker horse than Kaiserslautern.
However, this also reminded him of the Copa del Rey match where Real Madrid lost 0-4 away to Alcorcón. Every country's cup competition has its own upsets and overnight sensations, such as the 1992/93 German Cup final between Leverkusen and Hertha BSC II, only this time it was Cottbus that became famous overnight.
"It seems this team isn't a fuel-efficient lamp either, let's be careful!" Yang Cheng furrowed his brow and reminded.
Paul Bier and the other coaches exchanged a look, nodded in agreement. "Don't worry, I'll start gathering information about this team right away. They're preparing to storm into the 2nd Bundesliga this season and are located near Dresden, so consider it done!"
"Take care of it, Paul!"
Paul Bier stared at Yang Cheng for a moment, as if he was blaming him for being so polite.
After finishing the German Cup, Yang Cheng's headache turned to the 2. Bundesliga.
According to the previous penalty decision made by the German Football Association against Yang Chen, Yang Chen must be suspended for rounds 18, 19 and 20 of the league. He will be prohibited from appearing on the bench but can sit in the stands.
Unfortunately, two of these three matches are away games for Kaiserslautern, which is a problem.
"If it's a home game, the club can empty the seats behind the coaching bench and I can give instructions nearby, but away games are not possible." Yang Cheng sighed with some distress.
Many famous head coaches were banned in the next few years, but none of them are suitable for him now, because Germans are notorious for being rigorous and rigid, they will not give Yang Cheng any chance to intervene in the game.
