The first defeat of the new season is definitely a painful blow to Chinatown.

Especially the away game was lost to Atletico Madrid.

This team has always been the miserable of Chinatown. In the quarterfinals of the Champions League last season, Chinatown stopped in front of Atletico Madrid, and the then head coach Pochettino also had no choice but to deal with Simeone's team.

Times have changed, but I didn't expect that Chinatown, which is unstoppable this season, will fall under Atletico Madrid, which makes the team feel extremely depressed.

Zidane clearly felt this atmosphere in the post-match locker room.

The competition in La Liga this season is very fierce, and it has been bayonet from the beginning.

Although Chinatown has only lost one game so far, it immediately fell to the top of the standings and gave it to Barcelona by one point, which is the same as Atletico Madrid, but due to its unfavorable results, it can only rank third.

Fortunately, after the twelfth round, Chinatown had a full week of rest.

Once the best football player on the planet, Zidane's understanding of professional players' emotions will not lose to anyone. He knows better than anyone else that the game against Levante is the key in a week.

It is not scary to lose a game, what is scary is that the team's anger is extinguished and they lose again and again.

On the morning of the second day of the competition, Zidane arrived at the Chinatown training base early.

In the past two years after following Gao Han to coach, he also developed a habit of going to the training base a little earlier than others.

The security personnel at the gate also recognized Zidane's Mercedes-Benz ML-class amg. It was before this season. After the team and sponsor Mercedes-Benz re-signed a car sponsorship contract, Mercedes-Benz provided it to the club coach and players free of charge. Even the license plate numbers were connected, which was very recognizable.

After parking the car, Zidane went straight to the office.

Although the training base provides free nutritious breakfast, Zidane is still used to eating at home.

When he came to the office, the first thing he did was to read the newspapers placed on the coffee table in front of the sofa early, paying attention to various news and information in the morning. The hot topic was undoubtedly the game last night.

The away loss to Atletico Madrid was a lot of criticisms, but it still understood more.

For example, Matayana believes that Chinatown lost this strong dialogue and is not worth making a fuss. The key is how to play the next game well. At the same time, he also analyzed that the current injury in Chinatown was mainly caused by multi-line combat.

Since next year is the year of the Brazilian World Cup, major European leagues have reduced their schedules this season, and have always interspersed with several mid-week league rounds in the middle of the Champions League, which has put the players in a significantly greater game pressure.

Zidane's rotation has shown good results so far. The Champions League and Manchester United have advanced together, and the La Liga has once jumped to the top of the list. Now it is just a step back, at least one point from Barcelona. It is absolutely convincing to hand over such a report card.

However, Matayana also mentioned that the average age of Chinatown is the lowest in La Liga, and the mentality of players is often not stable enough. It is easy to become careless when winning continuously, and the morale will be greatly lost after losing. This requires the club to pay attention.

In addition to Matayana, de la Morena also reminded Chinatown and the coaching staff on his radio program last night, roughly analyzing it is similar to Matayana.

However, what surprised Zidane was that he read several newspapers in succession but did not see any interviews about Chinatown management, Cantalero and Armando Marcos did not, and Gao Han's name was not even mentioned a word.

This surprised him.

Since he coached Chinatown this season, Gao Han has become very low-key. It can even be said that he seems to have disappeared. If he had not appeared in the stands in every game, he might have been forgotten long ago.

This is definitely unreasonable.

Gao Han sat in the chairman's stands in this game. This is well-known. Media reporters cannot forget him, especially when they lost the game. The only reasonable explanation is that the management of clubs such as Gao Han and Cantalero intend to avoid interviews from media reporters, but they do not want them to take advantage of the situation.

Thinking about this, Zidane suddenly smiled.

Of course he understood Gao Han and the management's intentions. After all, if the team loses the ball, no matter what they say, no matter what praise or criticism, it will inevitably have an impact on the team. Therefore, the best way is to deal with it coldly and not show up.

Zidane knew that this was also the tradition of Chinatown, such as the support of Pochettino in the first place.

But in the past, I just heard that after I personally experience it, I have to admit that the management of Chinatown really reassures him, at least he won’t feel much pressure.

As early as the day he signed a contract with Chinatown, Gao Han, Cantalero and Armando Marcos told him at the same time that Chinatown's tradition is that there is no hierarchy and communication is not blocked. If the management has any ideas or opinions, they will be directly conveyed to him, rather than through the media or a third party.

By the same token, if he has any opinions or ideas, he can also directly raise them to Cantalero.

This is to make Zidane understand that no comments made by any media or third parties will be counted.

Based on the current situation, Zidane couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart. No wonder Lian Pochettino mentioned Chinatown's coaching environment after leaving Manchester United, and he still gave high praise to the team with the best coaching environment in Europe.

After Zidane read the newspaper, the club staff also came to the training base one after another.

Sergio Garcia is in charge of the data and intelligence analysis department, so Zidane's chief assistant coach is Marklele.

It is obvious that this French legendary star, Zidane's close friends, were also concerned about the team's situation. As soon as he arrived at the club, he went straight to Zidane's office.

"Wait a minute and say to Dr. Peters that in the next week, I will get a player's psychological assessment every day."

After hearing this, Marklele nodded and agreed.

Steve Peters is an expert in sports psychology that Gao Han relies on and is also an authority in this area. He has followed Gao Han for many years. After Gao Han retired, he officially joined Chinatown and served as a psychological consultant. He not only serves the first team, but also takes into account the youth team and is even a youth training center in China.

"In addition, tell Lorenzo again that I need him to give me a report on the recovery of the injured as soon as possible and the physical examination and analysis report of every player in the team." Zidane instructed again.

Many people have the impression of Lorenzo Buenaventura as the best physical coach in the world. After following the high altitude for more than ten years, they are second to none in physical training, but few people know that he is actually an expert in sports medicine.

As early as ten years ago, after Gao Han left Chelsea, Buenaventura officially joined Chinatown and focused on establishing Chinatown's medical and rehabilitation department. Now he is the head of the department, but he is also responsible for the team's physical training.

Of course, like Sergio Garcia, he was carrying a group of people under his command to do things.

Chinatown’s major lies here. Every department has the most professional and authoritative experts, which allows the head coach to focus more without distractions.

Marklele nodded and agreed, and stood up and left.

Zidane sat on the sofa, thought for a while, and finally took out his cell phone, found Gao Han's phone number, and sent a text message.

"Don't worry, I can do it!"

Zidane still admires this boss who is even younger than him but is both a teacher and a friend.

Especially in the past two years, he has learned so much from Gao Han that he is now eager to coach a team independently and transform these theories and conjectures in his mind into reality as much as possible.

Gao Han's text message was also quickly replied, with very simple content, three words.

"I believe in you!"

This made Zida feel warm and smiled knowingly.

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On the evening of November 9, Leganes Brock Stadium.

In the last round, he lost to Atletico Madrid 0-2 away and suffered his first defeat in the new season. Chinatown's unstoppable momentum was curbed, and the young team coached by Zidane was also questioned.

In another focus match held one day earlier, Real Madrid defeated Real Sociedad 5-1 at home, and Pellegrini's team won another big victory, defending his precarious coach position.

Everyone is full of expectations for Chinatown's match against Levante.

Should we reverse the situation of the crushing defeat in the last round of strong dialogue, or further sinking?

Zidane gave the answer in a rare high-profile manner before the game, and he will win this game!

Just eleven minutes into the game, Isco assisted Hazard and scored his first goal.

The group of young players from Chinatown played a fierce attack at their home court, and Levante, who was visiting in the future, was a little dizzy.

After scoring a goal, Levante defended with all his might, but Chinatown still took the initiative in the game.

After the second half of the game, Chinatown once again made another wave of attack after the opening. In the 54th minute, Hazard assisted Alex Sandro to score a goal, and the strong shot from the Brazilian left-back scored his first goal of the season.

Afterwards, Chinatown took advantage of the victory and launched a fierce attack on Levante like a wolf.

In the 64th minute, Levante central defender Navarro made a malicious foul while defending and was sentenced to death by the referee and sent off with a red card.

The subsequent game completely entered the rhythm of Chinatown, with the ball possession rate rising continuously, and Zidane also began to make substitution adjustments.

In the 81st minute, Griezmann helped the team score another goal.

In the end, Chinatown defeated Levante three-to-zero home with goals from Hazard, Alex Sandro and Griezmann, and scored a hearty victory.

What shocked everyone even more was that Chinatown's possession rate in this game was as high as 72%, setting a new high this season and making everyone dumbfounded.

Many media and fans even said that Chinatown is likely to become the most controlled team in European football since Barcelona.

But facing a complete victory, Zidane remained calm and low-key.

At the post-match press conference, the French coach said that the team's victory was expected, but the process was not perfect, because Chinatown wasted a lot of opportunities, especially as many as eleven corner kicks, which did not create a threat. This is the lesson the team needs to learn.

But Zidane also said he was satisfied with the player's performance and he firmly believed that the team had come out of the shadow of the previous away defeat.

"I firmly believe that we will continue to hit the league list!"
Chapter completed!