With the accumulation of points and talent cards used up, the whole person became different.
Coming to the training ground, Cao Baiming felt an additional confidence in his heart.
This day, a drizzle began to fall. Although the raindrops were not yet heavy, the sky was already overcast, looking like a precursor to a storm.
The players of the Tang national team still had no holiday this day.
According to Li Gang's words, how could such a little rain stop our passion for playing football?
Walking onto the field, Cao Baiming's eyes flickered. The other players around him didn't feel anything unusual at all, but the enhancement of talent had already begun to take effect from the moment they stepped onto the field.
Simple passing, ball control training, and running training. In these routine technical training processes, the effect of talent skill card enhancement had already begun to show, but it was obviously not as obvious as in formal matches, so much so that everyone had not noticed it at all.
But the subsequent friendly match was completely different.
The Tang national team was directly divided into two teams, one wearing blue uniforms and the other wearing green. These two types of uniforms were custom-made training wear for the team, representing two completely different teams. One team's main attacking direction was the left goal, and the other was the right goal.
As a midfielder, Cao Baiming naturally followed the coach's arrangements, even in internal training matches.
After a short five minutes, his team successfully scored the first goal.
In the head coach's opinion, this goal was indeed a bit beyond his expectation, because this goal was not directly created by Cao Baiming's individual dribbling on the wing. Today, I will draw my sword on Shenshan and create this direct volley opportunity.
The scorer of this goal was the absolute main striker of the Tang national team, his name was Wu Lei!
Cao Baiming's lips curved slightly upwards. He knew that scoring this goal was definitely not just relying on his own ability, but this top-tier weather enhancement played an absolutely crucial role.
From the moment he saw it in the photo, he wanted to test how obvious the improvement on the wing was. Now, from Han Tang's individual breakthrough and a wonderful pass, to Wu Lei's timely interception in front of the goal, and a volley shot without stopping the ball.
Whether it was any of these, it had definitely surpassed the player's own ability. If this wasn't talent enhancement, what else could it be?
Even they themselves were very surprised, but this surprise was not so sudden. After only a few seconds, they had already reconciled with themselves. There was nothing to be curious about this goal, it was within their basic capabilities.
Then, in the next few minutes, they kept trying and verifying the talent enhancement. It was verified that the enhancement it brought was a real improvement to every player in the entire team!
This training match didn't last long before the other side completely couldn't hold on.
Cao Baiming and Wu Lei's team had already completely crushed the opponent with a score of 10:0.
At the same time, thousands of miles away at Arsenal Club, the former rival was also undergoing intense final training.
The next match was tomorrow, and they would face Chelsea, who were ranked third in the Premier League standings this season.
In several matches, Chelsea had successfully achieved a seven-game winning streak and a nine-game unbeaten record.
Even Manchester City, ranked second in the league, was inferior in this regard.
At this moment, Arteta was passionately shouting on the field, coaching the players.
Winning this match would mean a true fifteen-game unbeaten streak, and this achievement would be accomplished. However, the prerequisite was that they must at least secure a draw in this match.
But compared to the previous two matches, the opponent this time had clearly improved by more than one level.
With the "beast" Drogba playing as a striker for the team, Chelsea had been dominant and unstoppable this season.
They not only maintained their traditional tactic of prioritizing defense and supplementing with offense, performing excellently in defense, almost impenetrable, but also became incredibly sharp in offense due to the presence of a monster like Drogba.
Such a team with a balanced offense and defense, and top-tier performance in both aspects, was indeed not an easy team to deal with.
Arteta had always been reluctant to face this, and the biggest stone in his heart that he had to face had arrived!
The last day of training had nothing new, nothing more than going over the tactics again and practicing them to increase familiarity, so that they could even execute them subconsciously on the field.
The players' mentality had reached a delicate state at this moment.
Time often felt very long at such moments, and once you felt that your belief was not yet strong enough, it would become very fast again.
In the blink of an eye, the last day of training passed unconsciously. When the actual match day arrived, looking back at what they had practiced on the field, they couldn't remember anything.
No matter what, they had to brace themselves and go!
Until the roaring cheers of the fans from the sidelines, and the players stepped onto the tunnel leading to the field, the Arsenal players still felt a bit lacking in confidence.
Arteta also knew that this match was likely to be a dangerous one. All he could do was field a formation that had never been used before, focusing primarily on defense and secondarily on offense.
This tactic was nicely called counter-attacking defense, but to put it bluntly, the word "counter-attack" could even be removed. In essence, it was a siege of a fortress against relentless bombardment.
But could a resolute defense really stop the fierce beast Drogba?
At this moment, the referee's sharp whistle blew, and Arteta was startled!
At this moment, he was also powerless. The time that followed would depend on the players' teamwork. May heaven bless them and achieve a draw at the end, holding on for a zero-zero result!
As soon as the match started, Chelsea adopted a defensive stance, seemingly still holding some respect for this Arsenal team that was supposedly very strong in attack.
Coupled with their reputation for defense and counter-attack, such a team would naturally not employ a strong offensive tactic that they were not very familiar with right from the start.