Chapter 37 Atypical Mallorca
When Galatasaray fans were still busy hanging banners in the stadium stands, preparing drums and placing various fireworks, they were shocked to find that the opponents who should have appeared in the stadium after half an hour were now on the stadium.
"Haha, those Spanish cowards, why are you here so early? Do you want to be killed by us sooner? Fool! In two hours, you will leave Istanbul in tears!"
"Spanish idiot! Don't have any idea of time? No wonder you can't even play in the Champions League group stage, so you don't deserve four Champions League places!"
For a moment, verbal abuse broke out in the stands. After a while, someone took the lead, and fireworks began to ignite in the stands. The dull drum sounded from a corner of the stands, which immediately drove the atmosphere of the stands!
The fireworks lit up in every corner of the stands, and immediately generated smoke from the audience. The sound of drums came from all directions, and at the same time, countless crazy curses and shouts began to ring from every corner of the stands!
It’s not that Galatasaray fans are brainless and don’t think anything strange. But they also need to be more afraid of such live games. After all, they are unwilling to affect the image of Galatasaray fans. Now, the game will not start for more than an hour. The broadcaster responsible for broadcasting the game will not start broadcasting so boringly so early. Taking this opportunity to intimidate the opponent’s players, at least they will scare the opponent’s players to make them weak and easily hand over the victory to Galatasaray whom they support!
Thousands of people are trying to end without success - there are more than one thousand people on the scene!
The Ali Samiyan Stadium, which can accommodate 40,000 people, was full. Except for the about 1,000 Mallorca fans who came to watch the game away, everyone else was a hardcore Galatasaray fan. In front of those vicious Galatasaray fans, Mallorca fans rationally kept quiet - they had to fight against each other and wait until the game started before fighting against each other.
Spanish fans rarely have any accidents abroad. One of the reasons is that they are more accustomed to team action, often in groups to watch games away, which will reduce a lot of trouble. In fact, fans in most countries act like this. Only English fans like to act alone. In addition, the reputation of English fans and football fools is also very unlucky abroad - they are easily attacked by opponents and easily arrested by the police as the culprit.
One thing that shocked the world in the League Cup this season was that Leeds fans splattered blood on the streets of Istanbul, which triggered conflicts between England and Turkey's national teams. Later, Beckham was provoked by Alpay in Istanbul, and Alpay was immediately terminated by Aston Villa and was swept out. There may not be no conflicts between the two sides caused by the death of Leeds fans.
In fact, before this, Leeds fans had committed an incident in the away game against Roma in the eighth final. At that time, in a skirmish on the streets of Rome, four Leeds fans were injured in the conflict, two of whom were taken to the hospital. A sixteen-year-old boy was seriously injured, but no one died that time, so there was no trouble. This situation is often because the fans did not act in groups but went to the away game alone. English fans often had the habit of drinking, so alcohol surges naturally prone to cause trouble.
It is precisely for this reason that Jose dismissed the appeal of Mallorca fans not to go to Istanbul. As long as it is a team action, nothing will happen. Spanish fans are relatively mild among European fans and nothing will happen. In fact, the same is true.
Jose wrapped his hands around and looked at the Galatasaray fans in the stands whose eyes were about to be gradually congested, and the corners of his mouth bent upwards slightly.
"That's great. The more you scream, the more your team will be unable to stand it on the court later... With these dozens of minutes of adaptation period, the guys should almost not be disturbed by the atmosphere of the stands..."
I have to say that Jose's move to fight poison with poison is quite effective.
When we started to warm up, the players in Mallorca were indeed shocked by the warm atmosphere suddenly burst out in the stands - you know that it is just a warm-up now! Will those guys in the stands become more and more crazy when the game is played later?
This nervous mood even affected their warm-up effect. However, after half an hour early, the warm-up time naturally became much more abundant. Under the command of five or six assistant coaches, the players began to move every joint and muscle one by one and adjust to a suitable state for the game. With this process, their thoughts began to focus more and more on the warm-up and the upcoming game, rather than focusing on the fans who looked vicious in the stands.
"I think after such a long warm-up, you should have adapted to the atmosphere on the court."
Jose paced back and forth in the locker room, looking at the player whose expression had completely calmed down, and said with a smile, the players looked at each other, and then nodded vigorously.
"Very good, that's how it is. No matter how crazy the fans in the stands are, they can't come down to help their team play football. We don't need to worry that we have to use 1,011 people to deal with their 39,011 people... Even if the 1,000 fans who support us in the stands are at a disadvantage, those who play on the field are just eleven to eleven... Maybe we can't hear the fans' support on the field, but we know that there are a thousand brave Mallorca fans who have traveled across the ocean to Turkey and come to this place that is infinitely close to Asia to express their support for us! Our performance in the league this season is average, and the League Cup is the only game we can repay our fans! Galatasaray is not qualified to stop us at all, because they can't compare with us! Now go to the field, defend their offense, and seize the opportunity..."
Jose first opened his hands and then closed them suddenly: "Kill them!"
"That's right, kill them! Kill them with the defense we are best at!" Mallorca's players shouted loudly, and then captain Ngongga took the lead and rushed out of the locker room with great momentum!
Fatih Trim frowned tightly as he watched the game on the court.
Trim, who has the title of "Tyrant", is the best head coach in Turkey. From 1993 to 1996, he was the head coach of the Turkish national team. He led the Turkish national team to the finals of the European Championships and performed well. He then began to take charge of Galatasaray. This season is his fourth year of coaching Galatasaray. He has a broken temper and an iron fist. It can make Galatasaray the real overlord of the Turkish league. He relies not only on his iron fist and the former head coach of the Turkish national team. Under his training, Galatasaray has become a strong team in the European arena, and no one can ignore Trim's role.
Trim also attaches great importance to the collection of intelligence. Although he could not collect more information due to the limitations of conditions, he still tried every means to get videos of Mallorca's first two League Cup games - in such a game, no team can hide their strength.
In those two games, what Trim observed was that the team's offense was quite distinctive and fierce. The two forwards cooperated very well, had strong personal abilities, and had excellent breakthroughs and passing skills on both sides. However, there were signs of disconnection between the front and back courts when the offense and defense were converted. Although he scored six goals in Monaco in two games with a strong offense, he also conceded three goals. It was obvious that he was a team with great offense and great flaws in defense.
Trim is not afraid of such a team. His Galatasaray is a team that is quite threatening in offense but has average defense. Otherwise, he can't win AC Milan three to two, and he will not lose five goals at home. You know, although Chelsea is a British team, but with a large number of Italian players in the team, they are more like a Serie A team. In that game, he defeated Galatasaray with beautiful counterattacks and solid defense. Although AC Milan is a Serie A team, their head coach is Zacheroni, a firm user of the three-43 formation known as "crazy Zach", so he was beaten by Galatasaray with attacking against attacks.
Although AC Milan's players seemed in poor condition due to interference in that game, they defeated AC Milan head-on by attacking against attackers such as Shepchenko, Bierkhov, and Boban, which also proved Galatasaray's offensive strength!
So if Mallorca is really a team with strong offense and weak defense, then Trim is not worried that his team will lose to his opponent in the offense. You should know that although Galatasaray's offense is not the top European team, it is also a very powerful team. In addition to the fanatical atmosphere at the home court, few teams can beat Galatasaray in the offense.
However, what Trim did not expect was that in those two League Cup games, he saw an "atypical" Mallorca team.
In the first home game, Jose made Monaco foolishly recover and gave up control of the midfield. Although he scored the first goal, he was attacked with all his strength. Mallorca, who was lucky, scored four goals in a row - it was rare to award two penalty kicks in a game, and Mallorca's luck in that game was so good, otherwise he would not have easily scored four goals in Monaco. In the second round, Jose captured Puel's psychology and scored two goals through the fierce attack at the beginning, and the next thing became more natural.
Like Puel, Trim also misjudged Mallorca's style due to various factors. Because of the wrong judgment, Puel's Monaco lost in the San Mois Stadium, which directly ruined Monaco's future in the League Cup. What will happen to Galatasaray now?
With Trim's frowning, Galatasaray, who launched a fierce attack from the beginning, firmly suppressed Mallorca in the half, while Mallorca recycled almost all the players to carry out intensive defense. Nino was next to Hakan Suk, Soler and Ngongga stung Haji to death, and Olesora blocked Okan's breakthrough on the wing. The entire team's defense was incomplete and solid!
Chapter completed!