Chapter 909

According to the rules of UEFA, the visiting team will be arranged to the venue for adaptability training in the afternoon before each game, which is also the best opportunity for the visiting team to get in touch with the venue before the game.

The match took place on Wednesday night, while Manchester City arrived in Madrid at noon on Tuesday, and on Tuesday afternoon, under the arrangement of UEFA, they came to the Bernabeu stadium for adaptability training.

But as soon as they got into the Bernabeu stadium, all the people around Manchester City immediately found a problem.

When Brian Kidd led the players to carry out adaptive training on the field, Gao Han was called to the sideline by assistant coaches Sergio Garcia and Buena Ventura. Then he saw Buena Ventura kneeling on the grass, which made Gao Han very strange.

"What's the matter?"

Buena Ventura quickly compared a size with his hand, stood up and shook his head toward the cold, saying: "the lawn is too high."

"Too high?" Alpine also squatted down, reached out to press the turf, and then compared the height of the turf.

"Preliminary estimate, at least 50 mm." Buena Ventura said.

Alpine nodded, squatted on the grass, looked up, the big Bernabeu turf is very flat, it goes without saying, it must be all too long.

"But it doesn't make sense. They've only played in the last eight knockout matches before, and..." Sergio Garcia soon realized the problem. "The last round of Real Madrid was away from home, with a few days."

Buena Ventura nodded, "yes, now there is a kind of forage growth agent. It only takes a few days to make the turf grow rapidly. If Real Madrid has been using this kind of fertilizer in the past few days, it's not surprising that it can produce 50 mm, even in some places it may be more than that."

According to the regulations of UEFA, the height of the turf is limited. The artificial turf should be between 13 mm and 30 mm, and the natural turf should not exceed 30 mm. But now, the turf of the Bernabeu stadium is more than 50 mm.

It can be said that this is a very obvious violation.

"If I remember correctly, the turf of the Bernabeu stadium should be contracted to SIS?" Gao Han asked.

Sergio Garcia nodded. "It's this family, that's right."

SIS is a company specialized in turf laying and maintenance. Many teams in the Premier League use their turf and contract them for maintenance. The most famous thing about this company is that it can replace a whole set of turf within 24 hours, which makes their business so good that it can explode.

After Gao Han came to power, Manchester City is now using the company's turf, and Gao Han has dealt with them. Knowing the company's ability and the quality of their turf, there must be no problem in this respect.

That is to say, the only thing that can go wrong is Real Madrid.

In fact, the vast majority of fans tend to only care about the stars or the stadium. If they go deeper, they may care about football or football boots. Few people care about the turf of the stadium.

In the eyes of ordinary fans, it's just a piece of green space. What's worth paying attention to?

But things often dig deep into the details, it can reflect the extraordinary.

Football matches are always completed on the lawn. The quality of a piece of lawn is also very important to the football match itself. For example, teams who are good at passing and controlling the ball often like the lawn to be wetter and shorter, so that the ball can run at the fastest speed on the lawn.

But for teams like Real Madrid who defend and fight back, when they face teams like Barcelona and Manchester City, they often like the lawn to be dry and longer, which can greatly slow down the speed of passing, which is conducive to their defense and response.

It is precisely because of different turf conditions, height, wet, will affect the game, so UEFA will strictly require the implementation of the standards of the venue, but still can not stand the home team a variety of tricks.

For example, in Manchester City, teams under the management of high cold often play by passing and controlling. Therefore, the height of the lawn should not exceed 23mm in both the home court and the training ground. Generally, the height of the lawn should be controlled between 20mm and 23mm, and the court administrators also carry out routine maintenance on this basis.

Therefore, Manchester City often play better in the city stadium because they not only adapt to the size of the home court, but also are familiar with the turf of the stadium, which allows them to play their own strength.

As far as the cold is concerned, Barcelona's Camp Nou has similar requirements for turf.

But there are exceptions, such as Atletico Madrid.

The height of the lawn of the bedspread regiment was always controlled within 23mm during the period of high cold, but it was generally about 25mm during the period of heinks. After Simone took office, he raised the requirement to 28mm or even 30mm, which proved that the requirements of the three coaches of the bedspread regiment were not the same.

But these are relatively good. Real Madrid directly promoted the lawn to 50 mm this time, which is absolutely excessive and greatly exceeds the requirements of UEFA.

But the Galactic battleship is certainly well prepared and can fully accept the warning and even punishment from UEFA.

"It's just that he's out of his mind." Gao Han said with a sneer, "needless to say, they won't be expected to water the lawn tomorrow."

Sergio Garcia couldn't help laughing. "He also watered the lawn. He didn't pour sand into the lawn. You should have snickered. This guy is really..."

Speaking of the end, the Spaniard also feel very speechless, in order to win so unscrupulous, really rare.

"Why don't you complain to the referee?" Buena Ventura suggested.

According to the competition process, tomorrow morning, the referee will lead the referee team to inspect the home court. If Manchester City protests against this, and the turf is too high, the referee team can ask Real Madrid to trim the turf until it meets the requirements of UEFA.

"Complaints?" Sergio Garcia shook his head and said sarcastically, "if complaints were useful, they wouldn't have done it blatantly. Anyway, this time he'd let it go."

Gao Han agrees with Sergio Garcia's judgment. Neither the referee nor UEFA can shelve such a world-famous focus game because of the high lawn, which will bring huge losses to the major sponsors. UEFA can't afford it. Therefore, even if Manchester City complains and Real Madrid doesn't implement it, the game will continue.

At best, it can only wait until after the end of the game, and there is no other way for Manchester City to sue Real Madrid.

"However, although we know that it is useless to complain, we still have to do what we have to do. Follow the procedure and then protest to UEFA. In addition, we ask UEFA to spray water on the lawn before the match and at half-time, so that they can check it at the right time."

As soon as the words were finished, Sergio Garcia and Buena Ventura looked at each other and laughed bitterly.

"Is such a request useful?"

"No matter it's useful or not, follow the procedure first. If Real Madrid really violates the rules, then we will protest in writing after the game and ask for punishment of Real Madrid." Alpine said here, ha ha a smile, "we Chinese have an old saying, how to say? I can't remember all of a sudden

"It's better to use your brain more on the technical and tactical level than to have the mind to do these messy little moves."

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"Did he really ask UEFA to mow the lawn?"

After Manchester City finished their adaptability training and left the Bernabeu, he was soon called by the manager of the stadium.

On the phone, he reported the situation of Manchester City's adaptability training, including several training, how long, who was arranged in what position, what cooperation and so on, to the side of Jose.

But what really interests the Portuguese is a movement after training.

"It's true, but UEFA officials said at that time that the specific situation could not be decided until tomorrow morning when the referee team inspected the stadium, so they did not give a reply on the spot."

After listening to this, he hummed and laughed. Of course, it was all within his expectation.

He has been in charge of the Champions League for so many years, and he knows all about the process of UEFA.

He believes that alpine should also be very clear, put forward pruning advice is just to go through the formal process, better than nothing.

"What else did he say?" Asked Jose in a deep voice.

"I also heard him say we hope we can water the lawn before tomorrow's game and at half-time to avoid being too dry and stiff The court manager replied on the phone.

It was obvious that he had expected this for a long time.

"He's really methodical, following the flow."

"What shall we do now?" Asked the court manager.

"What to do?" "Don't talk to them, don't spray!" he sneered

"But UEFA will definitely get involved."

"What if they are really pressing, then we will spray, but when we turn on the tap, we has the final say. When we find a reason, we say that the faucet is broken or something else is going to start before the game is played, and it will be done if we want to spray it."

"What you need to know is that UEFA has rules to say that it is necessary to spray water, but when it is time to spray, how to spray and how much it is, there are no rigid rules, but we has the final say."

With a smile, isn't that what we call home court advantage?

"But one thing you have to remember is that lawns should never be mowed, at least until the end of the game."

It took him a lot of energy to make it. If he trimmed it before the match, wouldn't he give up all his previous achievements?

"What if the referee team is dissatisfied?"

"It's up to them. If they want to be punished after the match, can they still be suspended?"

Jose has made up his mind, anyway, this time is to fight with Manchester City.

Not only on the court, but also off the court.

After he took over Bernabeu, he gradually took over the power of Real Madrid, especially this season. In the internal struggle of the team, he knocked down general manager bardano and let the latter step down, while he successfully took over the power of the team's competitive level.

The fact that Felipe Melo and mutinio were introduced during the winter break is the best proof.

Now, basically has the final say of Mourinho in Real Madrid. No one dares to go against it.

Including this time facing Manchester City, he made all kinds of arrangements before the game.