Early Saturday morning, Bilic was the first to arrive at the stadium, about 9 o'clock, he and his assistants have begun to enjoy breakfast, which is his custom after leading the team back to Beijing. The 11 a.m. training session was about to begin, and Bilic communicated with the Chinese coaching team in advance to set up the training content, waiting for the players to arrive one after another.
Even in the intervals, the intensity of the training did not decrease. Bilic's every training session lasts about 100 minutes, training volume, confrontation intense, most of the time by the assistant coach to lead the team, Bilic only in the key moment to express their views. During training, he always wears a hat, after coming to China, the hat has become his trademark dress, not only shade, but also means good luck.
At the end of the four rounds of matches, the Nationals had two wins and two losses, with six points. This is not a good result, especially with the unexpected two consecutive losses to start the league season. For Bilic, who just took over, his first season did not start well.
After two consecutive defeats, there were questions about Bilic and he faced sharp questions during the conference, but the Croatian has long been used to the pressure and the ups and downs did not shake his confidence. The support from within the club was also an important factor in keeping him calm. Fortunately, the subsequent two games Guoan team have won, the team gradually find the state, Bilic is also considered to pass the difficult pass.
It is difficult to fully evaluate the performance of Guoan team in the new season in four rounds of matches. The team is not well organized, the return of Augusto and Fernando is undecided, the international players are not in good shape, and the players such as Bieira, Yu Yang and Wang Gang are injured consecutively ...... It is also difficult to evaluate Bilic. From the technical and tactical and personnel point of view, Bilic coaching Guoan team still retains the shadow of the past, if there is a change, in addition to the introduction of newcomers, the intensity of confrontation seems to have improved.
As for Bilic himself, he is also different from the image people imagined. Before his arrival, the image that came to people's mind was one of passion and passion, and it seemed that the rock manager and the Beijing soccer team were a match made in heaven, and that the Guoan team should be able to rekindle their lost "soul". However, after the game started, his image was very different from what he had imagined. Bilic is very calm, and with the players, he is more like a big brother; command of the game is not exaggerated, the locker room mobilization is not boiling blood, even when facing the camera, accepting interviews, his body language is not much. He is like a bass player who has already closed the mountain, will be beloved strings after scrubbing clean, put back in the box, only the left ear of the shiny earrings proved that he had passionate.
Now, forget about the music and the rock and roll, Bilic said, "Let's have a good talk about soccer."
Soccer Reporter: "Hello! Do you come this early every morning?"
Bilic: "I don't know how early you mean this early. For me, it's a habit, because it's normal for me to be at the training ground two hours before training, it's been a habit since my first day as a coach. In that case, arriving a little bit earlier allows me to prepare for the day's training, and then with my Croatian coaching team, and the whole Chinese coaching team, I'm able to say hello and meet in advance, and then wait for the players to arrive."
Soccer: "It reminds me of the saying in my country that the bird gets the worm in the morning."
Yes, we have similar words there, it's a worldwide consensus, isn't it, that whoever is hardworking, whoever is willing to go the extra mile, is bound to succeed, relatively speaking, without too much difficulty.
Soccer: "Let's talk about soccer, what's the overall impression of the Premier League after four rounds?"
This year's league is another special season. As we all know, due to the epidemic, the league is in a state of closure and has to be divided into several segments, but in general, the arrangements, organization and related work of the league in our country are very meticulous and well arranged. The league is generally divided into two major groups, each group is intertwined with strong teams, slightly weaker teams, whether it is a strong team or a weak team, it can be seen that our technical and tactical requirements are very high, kicking the game are very structured.
In addition, due to the restrictions on world travel caused by the epidemic, the entire Chinese Super League no team is not affected, more or less will be affected by some, coupled with the individual salon's own problems, the formation of a few teams or perhaps the final moments of the formation of the team to participate in the league, so perhaps they are affected by the impact of the larger. However, in such a difficult situation, the final game shown on the field, the tactical content of each team is still very high, no game is particularly easy, even the so-called title contenders, against the weak team, to get points is not very easy.
FOOTBALL: "Guoan has taken six points from the first four rounds of games, is that a little bit far from what you expected before the season?"
Before the start of the league, if someone proposed to me, or maybe to our salon, that we give you six points for the first four rounds, would you agree? I would not have accepted it. But after the first four rounds of the future, especially our own first two rounds of the situation is not very good, coupled with the other team's performance, I can feel the epidemic formed by the special situation, such as our main players are not in, some players are in the preparatory period when the continuous return, the formation of the impact is still very big. Therefore, the final six points, I should say is still able to satisfy people. Plus a few other strong rivals, they also more or less appear some problems, in this case, the final results of the difference is not so big, the feeling of one or two games is also able to catch up.
We are facing personnel problems, compared with the previous year is very obvious, Park Cheng in front of a few games are not in, temporary rental Alan contract expires back to Guangzhou, Hou Yongyong injured, Augusto and Fernando did not come back, Bieira and Bakambu is in the preparatory period of the late return. In fact, Bieira and Bakambu's situation we have long predicted, they must not be in a too short preparatory period to prepare, but to go through the competition to prepare themselves, to improve their own situation, including Li Ke came back late, Bakambu more unfortunate, due to the problem of the new crown, he also stayed in the hospital for a month. Then Jin Minya, Wang Gang, Yu Yang this injury is even more fall into the well, other than our multiple international players not only once, twice, each time to go to the national team training for more than two weeks ...... These conditions put together then, I feel that the final 6 points is still let a person satisfy.
In addition, I also have an optimistic point of view, if you look at the whole season, the league early so many difficult conditions, we can be said to be the most affected by the problems of several teams competing for the title can still not fall out of the team, I think that if it is a normal situation, the whole team can be gradually improved in the late stage, gradually neat, then I think it's still very much expected, and I'm very cool to love this team! I love this team.
For a team, the main players if the loss of 3 people is a big problem, the loss of 5 people, the problem is too big, and I am now 9, they are more important players in the past, now are not. I want to especially commend the remaining players, it is because of their courage, their commitment, to be able to make up for the lack of these nine people, including our new young players, are playing a very good effect.
Soccer Reporter: "I remember the first pre-match conference, you said that we don't expect too much from the first match, does this mean that you already had expectations about the team's overall condition at that time and felt that you might encounter problems in the first match?"
Bilic: "In fact, my wait for the new season has been very high, because I am wearing this Guoan uniform, it is very heavy, this team is a big team, I have been full of waiting. And I came to my country this resolution, is with high expectations.
In fact, I think not only the salon itself, everything related to Guoan, like the fans and so on, they have high expectations for this season. I just talked about so many difficulties, not to find an excuse to say that 6 points is enough, and not to escape my own responsibility, or that is to lower our policy, I just review the entire preparatory period and the first four rounds of the situation, I said that more to prove to us, we have a lot of difficulties, but such a difficult situation, our existing personnel can play this result, which can make us have a higher expectation, not to be disappointed, but to be more optimistic, we should not be disappointed. We have a higher expectation, not to be disappointed, but to be more optimistic, we gradually personnel, we better integration, we can completely realize the first year of the policy.
Because I feel that in such a difficult situation, we are still gradually improving, for example, the game against Shenhua was particularly poor, but the game with Shanghai Harbor was good. In fact, we seldom come across the opening two losses so bad a situation, generally, a big team, the first two consecutive losses, often will form a lot of problems, and then go downhill. Immediately after we played Dalian is not so good, especially before the goal, the situation is very stalemate, but we rely on the courage, unity, of course, also by their own level, and finally scored a goal, and then gradually stabilized, which is a phenomenon that makes me feel very optimistic.
Soccer: "The first two games, the whole condition of the country is not good, the latter two games two consecutive wins, what kind of adjustments have been made during this period?"
Of course, we must analyze the competition to see where the reasons for poor, and then according to find the problem, to do some fine-tuning, the most important thing is to let the players do not put the head down, that is to say, do not lose confidence, and then adhere to the team's stability, adhere to the calm. The first two games in fact can not be completely thought of as two big north, because these two games are of a different nature, like Shenhua that game, I do not think we are lost, because Shenhua this way of playing is too special, you are very difficult to build up your offense, to flow to hit something, in such a difficult situation, we play the Shanghai seaport immediately adjusted.
In fact, the only thing that needs to be changed in the game against Shanghai Harbor is the rhythm we entered the game, the situation of conceding too many goals in too short a time, which needs to be changed, especially the situation of conceding two goals in four minutes. Of course, I don't deny that Shanghai Harbor deserved to win this game, but I think it's too difficult for a good team to come back and score two goals so easily. Maybe fate was not on our side in that game, but I still found a lot of things that made me feel active. In fact, if you look at the game between us and Dalian, the real improvement is that we didn't let the other team to catch our kind of stupid mistakes, a seemingly simple change.
Soccer: "At halftime against Dalian, I want to know what you said to the players? Because until then Guoan's two and a half rounds of competition in the new season, there was no expectation of success, but after that half-time adjustment, Guoan opened up the road to success."
In fact, we have a big problem in that game, that is, Bieira was kicked and injured, can only be replaced. At that time, I asked the midfielders need to enter the penalty area to grab more, more shots, the second half does play a role in the effect, and soon scored two goals in the future, we will relax, can be normal to play. In fact, the beginning of each new season is like this, the players will have some uncertainty in the heart of the idea, he will go to the proof, I this year this preparation period how ah? I have reached a better condition, can I play the original level?
Especially in the prep period it's not very systematic, due to closures, due to tour constraints, maybe a lot of guys coming in late, and all that kind of stuff, so he's going to have a lot more questions about that. This is actually the same for the individual, for the whole team. The best thing you can do to go and give him a positive answer is a success. Of course, sometimes it may take a little bit of fate to be able to go and get such a positive answer early on. Sometimes it may also need a single talented player, to use his individual ability to deal with the problem, our game is the two fast goals of the rare Zhe, helped us a lot.
FOOTBALL: "Which of the four games was relatively satisfying, or perhaps which clip from which game was closest to what you wanted?"
Bilic: "Maybe it was after the second goal in the match with Wuhan, that 10 minutes or so, I felt that our whole team was completely relaxed, completely playing the soccer they wanted, and in such a short period of time, we invented three absolute chances. In fact, what I like most is our continuous transmission and circulation style of play, even in the game we lost to the harbor, except for the first few minutes when we conceded the goal, most of the time after that, we still have the shadow of this. In addition to the lack of some aspects I mentioned, perhaps the players' way of thinking also has some areas that can be improved.
Although I am not an expert on the Chinese Super League, but after a period of time, including the preparatory period, including some of my preliminary research on the Chinese Super League, I feel that this year's epidemic of this special situation, China's homegrown players will probably have to play a greater effect than in previous years. Of course, in the earlier Chinese Super League, I also know that when the number of foreign aid places is relatively small, it is also the main home town players. Later, with the increase in the number of foreign aid, the level of foreign aid is also improving, and then we are accustomed to, especially those superstar foreign aid more and more in the future, is indeed a very high level, so we are accustomed to to rely on them, to rely on their play to deal with the problem.
To the second year of the epidemic, coupled with our salary cap and other salary limit policy, the situation began to change, of course, foreign aid still still occupies a very important position, our wait for them is still very high, but some of the foreign aid can not come back, under the salary limit policy, the salon may not be too happy to pay so high salaries to the foreign aid, so the constraints on foreign aid more and more big, like the Shanghai seaport such as damage to the very small salon is too little, their several foreign aid, like Arnau, like Muy, Lopez, Oscar and these players are all in, so it this loss may not be big or even no, the remaining impact is very big. They have a few foreign aid, like Arnau, like Muy, Lopez, Oscar these players are in, so it this loss may not be big, or even no, the remaining impact is very big, not only us, and the Guangzhou team and so on.
Our biggest loss is Augusto, after all, he is the captain, is a symbolic figure, in the field to play a key effect, and other Fernando can not come back, plus Bieira and Kim Min Jae and the two of them. So now I have to rely on us, these particularly outstanding Chinese players, hometown players.
From another point of view, this is also an opportunity for them to improve themselves, to get used to each other, to fill these gaps left by the absence of foreign aiders, and then divide their duties. The best example is Xuanzhe, not only as usual he can pass and receive the ball, pass out the
