Defeating Manchester United 2:0, Scaloni became the absolute protagonist at the post-match press conference.
In an interview, Scaloni said that his team performed very well, perfectly executing the battle plan formulated by the coaching staff, successfully attacking at the beginning of the game, and setting the tone for the final victory in one fell swoop.
Of course, Scaloni also thanked his boss Pan Yi for his support as always.
He said: "The boss attaches great importance to this game and discussed the game tactics with us very early, especially what to do at the beginning. Facts have also proved that the advice he gave me is very effective."
Seeing Scaloni become the protagonist of the press conference, Mourinho always had a gloomy face.
He has always been the protagonist, but now he has been robbed of the limelight by a head coach from a League One team, which makes him feel very depressed.
Moreover, listening to what Scaloni said, Pan Yi still deserves the credit for this game?
After trying it all, he still couldn't win over this little bastard Pan Yi. Of course, Mourinho became even more depressed.
It is a fact that the relationship between the two of them is good, but as a world-famous football coach, he can't even beat Pan Yi's command of "listening to politics behind the curtain", let alone the blow to Mourinho. .
So when it was Mourinho's turn to speak, he said angrily: "I hereby wish York City to be promoted to the Premier League quickly, so that I can give them a good beating!"
This sentence immediately amused the reporters at the scene.
And when Pan Yi found out what Mourinho said in the next day's newspaper, he laughed loudly.
Thank you for your good advice. I at York City really want to be promoted to the Premier League immediately!
It's just that it's hard to say whether Mourinho can really beat York City by then.
It’s not about the comparison of the strengths of the two teams, whether Manchester United will beat York City or something like that...
But can Mourinho persist until that time?
Because Pan Yi, who has experienced his previous life, knows that even though Mourinho has received widespread support from Manchester United fans this season, he will not be able to do it in the second year, especially the classic "Mu three years".
As the record declined, the conflict between Mourinho and the Manchester United players led by Pogba became increasingly prominent. In the end, he was dismissed midway through less than half a season.
In other words, if York City really breaks into the Premier League next season, it also depends on whether the game between Manchester United and York City is in the early or late stages...
If he is ranked in the 18th or 19th round, Mourinho may not have a chance to lead Manchester United to revenge against York City in the Premier League.
Of course, in addition to Mourinho's always popular remarks, what was reported in the newspaper focused on the praise of York City's victory.
After all, as a English League One team, it is not easy to reach the FA Cup final!
And if we can win the championship, it will create a record in the history of English football.
For the first time, a third-level team has won the FA Cup, and the FA Cup winner will also represent England in the Europa League next season. What an honor it will be!
This made York City become the darling of the British media overnight, and the media continued to rush to interview and report on York City.
Almost overnight, the city of York became famous on the streets of the British Isles.
That’s what big games do.
Defeating a giant team like Manchester United in the semi-finals of the FA Cup will certainly have a much higher impact than winning 10 or 20 consecutive games in English League One. Defeated Tottenham and Arsenal in the fourth round.
Differences in levels and rounds are bound to affect differences in attention.
For example, if there is a certain World Cup final between two non-traditional strong teams, such as Norway versus Colombia, then its influence will be greater than the showdown between France and Brazil in the top 16.
After another FA Cup semi-final held the next day, not only York City, but the words "Pan Yi" frequently appeared on the front pages of major sports media.
That's because Chelsea has also reached the final!
In the semi-finals, they tied with Manchester City 1:1 within 120, and finally defeated their opponent through a penalty shootout and entered the finals for two consecutive years!
So this year’s FA Cup final is York City versus Chelsea!
These two teams are obviously inextricably linked to Pan Yi.
Even the head coaches of the two teams, Scaloni and Arteta, are both Pan Yi's direct disciples, and they belong to the same civil war!
Such a final match certainly made the media and fans extremely excited.
Many people are also analyzing the tactical differences between the two teams to see if these two Pan Yi disciples have any skills that they have come up with after coaching alone.
Regarding Arteta's Chelsea, everyone generally believes that there is not much difference from last season, because there are no changes in the players, and there is no reason to make major changes in tactics.
As for York City, due to their limitations in strength, they always focus on defense when playing against strong teams in the FA Cup. Their tactics are of course very different from Chelsea.
However, York City's defensive method of controlling space has surprised some experts. They think this defensive method is very interesting.
For example, when playing Manchester United, the Red Devils almost never faced York City's goal head-on throughout the game because once their space entered York City's field, it was immediately blocked.
It is commonplace to use off-ball running in offense, but being able to use off-ball running in defense and combining it so perfectly with controlling space, York City's defense in this game is indeed very good.
The media always like to exaggerate, especially the media in Manchester and other places. They defined York City's victory over Manchester United as a victory of conservative football and thought York City's victory was ugly.
At this time, as a die-hard fan of Pan Yi, Lineker, who loves his home and his home, criticized this statement on the Sky Sports program.
He believes that as a third-tier English league team, York City's performance can be described as wonderful in being able to enter the FA Cup final.
As for being conservative, do they think York City should compete with Tottenham, Arsenal, and Manchester United? That is truly a step backwards in football tactics and extremely stupid.
At the same time, Lineker also asked those who criticized York City to watch York City's games in the English League One and see what it means to be overwhelming and what it means to be a ferocious attack.
Moreover, York City's offense is very rhythmic, with waves of attacks always coming one after another, and the space in front and behind is kept very compact.
This is also the result of the coordinated running of York City players. Every player is closely linked to each other and running together. Whether they are advancing or retreating, they are all very rhythmic.
In addition, York City is very good at catching loopholes. Through pre-game research and in-game observations, they can always find the loopholes of their opponents, and then seize the loopholes to attack wave after wave to suppress their opponents.
This has led to the fact that although York City always puts themselves on the weak side and uses defensive tactics when facing strong opponents in the FA Cup, once they have the opportunity, their offense will show strong efficiency.
Including the first few minutes against Manchester United, the sudden attack speed caught Manchester United off guard, and then directly scored two goals to win.
In general, York City's tactics are more flexible and can be adjusted according to the opponent's situation. This is highly consistent with Pan Yi's characteristics during his coaching period.
As for Chelsea, because their strength does not allow it, they rarely engage in counterattacks. They rely more on strong control and offensive firepower to destroy their opponents.
In this regard, Lineker even kindly gave Chelsea advice, thinking that they might as well lower their posture a little, lure York City to attack, and then control the connection between the opponent's forward and midfielder.
Lineker also described this position as the throat of York City, especially when Alonso and Rice send shells forward. If it is pinched, York City will die.
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York City's tactics were studied in newspapers by various media and professionals, and also had an impact on the team's remaining two League One games.
Whether it was against Bradford or Oldham, they adopted a strategy of three midfielders or even three midfielders plus three central defenders. This was to maximize control of York City's midfield.
You can't criticize them for being conservative - after all, York City is more conservative than anyone else - and they did successfully contain York City's offense.
Especially since the connection between Baker and the midfielder is cut off, the midfielder is forced to frequently find Baker through long passes, or find two wings. However, the success rate is greatly reduced.
At present, York City's three midfielders are usually configured with Alonso partnering Rice and Kulusevski, and sometimes Karlström. In addition to protecting Alonso, these players can also Build an urn in front of the back line to strengthen the protection of the back line.
This is why York City's defense is so strong.
However, after being strangled by the opponent with heavy troops in the midfield, York City's midfield back row attack power was insufficient, which also affected the team's scoring ability.
Playing away against Bradford, York City was defeated 1:0;
In the home match, York City also drew with Oldham 0:0, and they played an egg-to-egg match with their opponents in both rounds.
Moreover, they failed to score a goal in both games, which shows that the opponents' targeted tactics are effective.
"Sure enough, being stared at by the media is no good!" Scaloni said with a wry smile at the coach's analysis meeting after the game.
In the past two days, the atmosphere within the team has also become serious.
On the one hand, the team is about to face the most important final in team history. On the other hand, the last two League One games were really not very good, which somewhat affected morale.
When these two average teams faced York City, they seemed to know York City's fate in advance, which made York City's game particularly difficult.
For this reason, Scaloni is also under pressure.
"I think Lineker is right. We do lack an offensive point from the middle and back row. Having this extra point can make our offense more varied and make our offense more threatening. , but we lack such a candidate." De Zerbi analyzed.
Then he added: "Alonso could have been able, but now he is older. Such a player needs to be able to open up depth in the middle, protect the ball, and at the same time have speed, so that he can connect with us The speed of the frontcourt.”
"It seems that I have to work again this summer..." Pan Yi thought to himself after hearing what the coaches said.
Now when there is such a meeting, he will participate, but usually he will sit in on it. If there is nothing particularly important, he will not speak.
However, there is currently no hope for new players, that will be after the summer.
Besides, it is still unclear what scale of signings will be carried out in the summer. The variable lies in the FA Cup final.
If they really win, York City will become a secondary league team representing England in the Europa League!
This pressure is quite high.
After all, the English Championship is the same as the English League One, with 24 teams and 46 rounds of games. The schedule is also intensive. It is really difficult to cope with one more European competition.
The last team to do this was Wigan Athletic, which defeated Manchester City in the FA Cup final in the 2012-2013 season.
They were still in the Premier League at the time, but fell to the Championship after the season, and finally participated in the Europa League as a Championship team.
Due to lack of strength, they were eliminated in the Europa League group stage, which also affected their results in the league and failed to return to the Premier League immediately.
And the impact of this season's failure was even more profound, because in the next season they dived directly into League One!
Since then, Wigan Athletic has become a "lift" team between the English Championship and English League One. They often win first place in English League One this season and are promoted to the English Championship, and then are relegated to the English Championship the next season, and then again the next season. Took first place and then got promoted back...
But in short, it is getting further and further away from the Premier League.
Pan Yi certainly doesn't want to make this mistake again.
If he really wants to play in the European war next season, then he will definitely have to make a large-scale signing, at least to be able to support the second to third-line operations, instead of basically having one lineup to fight to the end like now.
But it's still too early to consider this. At the moment, we still need to study Chelsea first and win first!
Of course Pan Yi knew the issues De Zerbi mentioned.
But will Chelsea really use this three-midfield formation like the English League One team?
Pan Yi doesn't think so.
Now Arteta's 3-5-2 is used in a pure way, and in the system Pan Yi established for Chelsea, it is often a combination of single defensive midfielder + double attacking midfielder to maximize the attack. force.
When encountering a strong enemy, at most it will be converted into a double midfielder + a single front midfielder, such as Kante + Matic + Hazard, and three midfielders will rarely be used.
And is York City considered a "strong enemy"? not necessarily.
So Scaloni and De Zerbi discussed theirs, and Pan Yi didn't interrupt.
If it's not a problem that needs to be solved right now, he's not in a hurry.
After their review of the English League One was over, he then participated in the tactical formulation of the FA Cup final with Chelsea.
This time is extremely abundant.
Because this season’s English League One regular season ends on April 30, followed by the semi-finals of the home-and-away promotion play-offs held a week later, and finally the play-off playoffs at Wembley Stadium on May 20. The final of the competition determines the last place to go to the British Championship.
At this time, the direct promotion quotas and play-off quotas for the English League One are of course also released.
Ranked first is of course York City, whose final record is 31 wins, 10 draws, 5 losses and 103 points.
In second place is Sheffield United, which has been chasing closely behind. They have 30 wins, 10 draws and 6 losses, a total of 100 points.
The gap between them and York City is only one victory, which also shows that it is not that easy to stand out in League One.
Ranked third to sixth are Bolton Wanderers, Scunthorpe, Fleetwood, and Bradford. These four teams will fight each other to compete for the last promotion spot.
After that play-off final, another week later on May 27, it will still be at Wembley Stadium. This season's FA Cup final will continue to be played here!
In other words, for York City, which has been promoted, they are still close to a month away from the FA Cup final.
During this period, they can deploy and train according to Chelsea's tactical characteristics and player characteristics.
What the coaching staff is more worried about is how to maintain the players' competitive status within this month...
Therefore, it is essential to invite some teams to warm up. You can also invite some nearby small teams to play a "friendship match", such as a 20-0 game, which can also relax the players' minds. Boost confidence.
As for York City's opponent Chelsea, they don't have this worry, because now the Premier League has played 36 rounds, which means there are still two rounds of games to end.
In the just-concluded Premier League match, Chelsea defeated Middlesbrough 3-0 at home.
Chelsea took the lead in the 23rd minute. Hazard made a precise diagonal pass. Fabio failed to intercept. Lukaku's close shot from the left side of the penalty area passed between Guzan's legs and entered the net, 1:0.
Chelsea expanded the score in the 34th minute. Azpilicueta made a diagonal pass. Marcos Alonso's shot from a small angle on the left side of the penalty area hit the inside of Guzan's left leg and deflected into the net, 2:0.
Chelsea sealed the victory in the 65th minute. During the corner kick melee at Seat B, a cross was made from the right side of the penalty area. Matic stopped the ball on his chest and volleyed in front of the small penalty area. The ball then passed between Guzan's legs and entered the net, 3:0.
The game resulted in a dramatic outcome.
Middlesbrough were relegated 2 rounds early, while Chelsea won the championship 2 rounds early!
That's because, in the next game, Tottenham, which had been chasing behind them and was only four points behind, fell behind and lost to West Ham 0:1.
West Ham general Lanzini scored the only goal of the game, which also ended Tottenham's nine-game winning streak.
This also resulted in Chelsea already leading second place Tottenham by 7 points with only two games left in the Premier League!
This means that Chelsea has once again won the Premier League championship, which is also their third consecutive championship!
In this way, their next two games against West Bromwich Albion and Sunderland will become "warm-up games" to prepare for the FA Cup match against York City.
Of course, after Chelsea won the championship ahead of schedule, the media's focus inevitably turned to Pan Yi again.
York City won the English League Championship, Chelsea won the Premier League Championship, and these two teams will meet in the FA Cup final!
The popularity of this "Panyi Derby" was once again hyped to unprecedented heights before the game!
(End of chapter)
