Chapter 209 Will It Rain? (19/21)

At dawn the next day, Lazio's players all turned their heads to look out the window.

As a result, the sun was shining brightly outside.

Some Lazio players laughed.

I think their boss is really neurotic...

Yesterday I told them all night what to do if it rains during the game... so that they went to bed at night and dreamed of playing on a rainy day.

As a result, I saw the sun shining brightly outside the window, the blue sky and white clouds in the past week, and the blue sky was like washing.

Could it be that the boss has returned to the Champions League final after many years and is a little nervous?

Many people started to get up and wash up, and then went to the restaurant downstairs to have breakfast.

When they walked into the restaurant, they found that Chang Sheng was already there. He was sitting on the table closest to the door. Every player who entered could see him, and he could see them too.

But he doesn't greet the players. Only when these players took the initiative to greet him, he would nod to show that he knew.

Obviously, he was the first person on the team to get up.

While eating, Chang Sheng kept looking out the window.

Several coaches who sat at the table with him felt strange. Finally Rudy Gonzalez couldn't take it anymore and asked him, "What the hell are you looking at, Chang?"

"I'll see when it will rain today." Chang Sheng said and turned his head to look out the window.

Rudy Gonzalez rolled his eyes along with the other coaches.

"It sounds strange to me, why do you care so much about whether it's raining or not?" Rudy Gonzalez asked after rolling his eyes.

"I don't know, maybe the rain will bring us some signs..." Chang Sheng coped absently.

He has an intuition in his heart, this intuition is perfect, does this mean that it will rain during today's game?

"Are you the mystical oriental wisdom? What if it rains against us?"

"For any team that insists on ground pass tactics, rainy weather is not good." Chang Sheng withdrew his gaze.

He wanted to take this opportunity to verify how much he had changed the world.

Then see if your memory still works.

It has been ten years since he came to this world. He has changed the world more and more. For example, Liverpool did not have Benitez, so Liverpool did not win the Champions League in 2005, and Mourinho's Chelsea won the championship that year. The tactician Benitez is still quietly working on his own future at Getafe.

Another example is because of himself, Inter Milan still has no league title.

For another example, this year's Champions League final, the two teams that entered the final were not Manchester United and Chelsea, but Manchester United and Lazio.

He has changed a lot, but he always likes to change a little. slower.

If today's game didn't wait until overtime before it rained, but it rained at the beginning, it means that there are more things that have been changed unconsciously.

And these things might seem harmless to him now, and might even help him... But who knows what will happen in the future?

If it waits until overtime to rain as usual, then everything is normal.

It's like the top spinning on the table has just turned. Or it didn't turn at all.

The absence of rain became a sign of some kind of symbolic meaning.

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It turned out to be waiting until the players were about to board the cars and the weather was fine. The weather forecast on the radio is also that there will be no precipitation over Moscow today.

It still looks the same as Chang Sheng remembers.

Logically speaking, he should breathe a sigh of relief, but in fact, Chang Sheng's feeling of desire became more and more obvious. He felt that every time he took a breath, it seemed that what he inhaled was not air. but water.

The club equipment manager who is responsible for player equipment, and the equipment of the players must start in advance.

Chang Sheng stopped him and asked him what he had brought.

"Two sets of jerseys per person, both short-sleeved. Shin guards, sneakers..."

Chang Sheng interrupted him: "What kind of nails are the sneakers?"

"SG's. When I got used to the field yesterday, the turf was soft and even a little unstable...so we decided to use SG's." The equipment manager replied.

Football studs are the most important part of football shoes, and there are many categories here. It's not just a simple distinction between long nails and short nails.

The studs used in most professional games are sg and fg.

sg is an abbreviation for ft_ud. The translation is soft grass. Eclectic studs are suitable for soft or very soft grass surfaces, such as natural grass. Especially after the rain. The studs of this shoe are usually metal studs that can be freely attached and detached, somewhat similar to the spikes worn by track and field athletes. There are times when we see football games where the pitch becomes creepy because of the rain and the players usually put on longer studs. Because the sneakers can be loaded and unloaded with various specifications of studs, they can adapt to various weather conditions. But because the metal spikes are relatively heavy, if you want to emphasize speed and flexibility, many people will choose to use fg sneakers.

The so-called fg, which is similar to sg, is the abbreviation of rm_ud, which translates to hard grass, which is suitable for grass with a relatively hard surface. In general professional games, players will only choose between sg and fg according to the softness of the field. wedges. These shoes are the most common choice for playing on natural grass.

There will also be many different stud versions of the same sneaker.

Take Nike's Assassin 8 as an example. The soles of the sg version of the Assassin 8 are all detachable prototype metal nails, while the fg version has non-detachable small oblong plastic nails.

In this game, because the players responded that the turf was very soft after adapting to the field, the equipment administrator chose sg sneakers with detachable studs.

The reason why Luzhniki Stadium has such a situation is because it was originally an artificial turf stadium. But UEFA stipulates that all Champions League finals must be played on natural turf. Therefore, in order to host this event, the Luzhniki Stadium began to cultivate natural turf nine months ago.

However, after the turf was laid in the last period, it was found that the turf was uneven, and such turf was obviously not usable.

So the turf that had been cultivated for nine months was just shoveled off.

Then they urgently imported a batch of turf from Slovakia. But this kind of turf is still unsatisfactory, but unfortunately, they have no time to look for other turf.

The turf that feels soft now is imported from Slovakia.

Chang Sheng thought of that premonition again, so he asked the equipment manager: "Long nails or short nails?"

"Short nails," replied the equipment manager.

"Bring another set of spikes." Chang Sheng said.

"Spike?" The equipment manager was a little surprised.

Spikes are only useful on very, very loose and muddy ground. Too long studs will affect the power and grip, and may cause ankle injuries, and the protection of the ankle is not particularly good.

Judging from his professional eyes as an equipment administrator, the turf condition of the Luzhniki Stadium in this game is just sg studs of normal length, and there is no need to change spikes.

"Well, I have a hunch that it might rain today." Chang Sheng had to explain to the equipment manager.

The administrator turned his head to look at the red sunset facing the window outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows.

Then he turned his head and nodded to Chang Sheng: "Okay."

Although he didn't understand why Chang Sheng did this at all, and the reason for the rain didn't make sense at all.

But anyway, bringing an extra set of studs does not take up space and weight, so just bring it.

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The equipment manager and his equipment set off first, about forty minutes later. The players are also on board.

The media surrounded the hotel lobby, and many enthusiastic Lazio fans blocked the door.

Seeing the Lazio players file out of the hotel lobby, the Lazio fans became excited, chanting the name of every Lazio player who appeared.

The reporters gathered together and pressed the shutters of their cameras.

The camera reporter carried the camera and stood on a relatively high ground. A panoramic view of the scene.

There are on-site reporters making connections.

"This is the first time in Lazio's history that they have reached the final of the Champions League. You can see from the number of these Lazio fans...the Lazio fans are very enthusiastic!"

In the camera, there are densely packed fans wearing sky blue Lazio jerseys.

What surprised the reporters and fans at the scene was why every Lazio player's first reaction after coming out was not to turn his head to look at the cheering crowd and reporters, but to look up at the sky?

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Every Lazio player looks up at the sky before stepping out and boarding the car.

There is no hot sun. But it didn't rain, and there was a bright moon in the night sky, and there were many stars, although the stars were not obvious. But the moon was still visible.

Even at night, it is still sunny...

Summer nights in Moscow always come late, but even so, it should be night.

It's 8:30 p.m. local time in Moscow.

The Champions League final will kick off at 10:45 pm local time. This is to take care of TV airtime in a huge part of European countries.

It was ten forty-five in the evening Moscow time, which happened to be the golden time in Western European countries.

The players who saw Mingyue lowered their heads and murmured in their hearts: "It doesn't look like it's going to rain? Boss is really nervous, right?"

Chang Sheng watched the actions of these players from behind. Heyed in my heart: "These brats!"

Obviously, everyone didn't believe his statement that today's game might be a water battle.

In fact, Chang Sheng can't tell now whether he should hope that it will not rain or that it will rain.

If it rains, it means that the whole day is different from what I remember. So how many things will be different from what he predicted in the future?

If it doesn't rain, wouldn't the competition skills I prepared in advance be all in vain?

For the four competition skills, he prepared them all according to the premise of fighting in the rain on a rainy day.

If it doesn't rain, although not all of my competition skills are useless, at least the effect will be discounted.

First of all, if it doesn't rain, you won't be able to walk in the air, and your competition skills for the top will be useless.

Secondly, there will not be too many long shots, because more of them rely on short passes to penetrate and hit Manchester United's penalty area.

Third, the frequency of the second landing point will not be as high as in the rain battle.

Perhaps only the game skills of physical confrontation will not be affected. Because regardless of whether it is raining or not, physical confrontation is required.

When Chang Sheng finally came out and was about to board the car, the cheers he enjoyed were the loudest. Lazio fans know very well who is the number one contributor to Lazio's success today.

They gave the cheers to the number one hero.

But what still surprised everyone and reporters was that even after Chang Sheng came out, his first reaction was to look up at the sky...

what on earth is it?

Did it appear in the sky?

So some fans and reporters also began to look up at the sky...

But without exception, all they can see is the moon and stars, and they can't even find a single dark cloud in the clean sky...