Chapter 120 Tactics (20/136)

Real Madrid are being targeted by mad dogs. In this attack, although Valencia failed to score, the next corner kick did not pose a threat.

But when Real Madrid ended another attack and it was Valencia's turn to attack, the Mad Dog tactics came back.

Facing Real Madrid's frontcourt pressing, Valencia used quick passes and cuts to move, and it was broken.

For Valencia's seemingly disorganized tactics, which are constantly passing the ball and running positions, Real Madrid really has no good solution.

In fact, it's no wonder that Real Madrid is ignorant.

It's really because Chang Sheng's tactical thinking is so advanced, and not many people know it in this era, let alone understand it.

His tactical thinking comes from the future, and it is a new thing that has been developed and changed over more than ten years. Although most of it is the basis of the previous entry, the changes in the details determine the final form.

The core of Changsheng's tactical thinking, to put it bluntly, is very simple, which is to organize the master's retreat.

His approach is incompatible with the current football fashion trend and is unique.

This is the reason why he can restrain the giants such as Real Madrid - tactics, epoch-making new tactics.

As a time traveler, he can penetrate ancient and modern times, learn both Chinese and Western, and can learn useful things from others, and it has been proven by practice.

But Real Madrid's coach Bosque, no matter how famous and powerful he is, must have some historical limitations. They are not time travelers, so they will inevitably fall into the situation of "authority fans".

Let's talk about the development of football tactics. Although this may not have much to do with the game itself, and I don't like to hear it, it is indeed the foundation for Chang Sheng to settle down, and it is also the key for him to beat Real Madrid in this game.

It's just that fans tend to like to watch wonderful goals and personal performances, and lack interest in tactics. If Chang Sheng is just such a fan, then no matter how hardcore he is, he will not be able to be the head coach after time travel, even if he has the help of Golden Finger. Because he himself lacks the thinking ability to think about problems at the tactical level.

Thanks to him for making the coach his idol since he was a child, and for his enthusiasm for playing football manager, and for collecting and studying various tactics. When other fans talked about the outstanding performance of a certain star, he was able to talk about the relationship between free tactics and chain defense and whether "this penalty area to that penalty area" type players are outdated.

The development of modern football is always changing and fluid,

From one trend to another, and from this trend to the next.

During the period between the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, the trend in world football was that the defensive midfielder was used for defense, and the attacking midfielder was the business of organizing the attack. At that time, the classic midfield match was a shoveling fierce animal waist partner with the classic No. 10 playmaker. Most giants were faithful believers in this "black and white match", such as Juventus's Davis and Zidane , or Manchester United's Keane and Scholes. The collateral effect of this trend is that Guardiola, a master of organization in the midfielder position, loses his own living space.

Yes, Guardiola, who lost his position in Barcelona and was picked up by Chang Sheng, has already planned to transform into a coach.

Why does Changsheng have to dig Guardiola from Barcelona? Because he knows that his tactics are inseparable from such a master organizer in the midfielder position, whether it is Mad Dog or -taka.

In 2004, the 33-year-old Guardiola should have continued to show his brilliance on the court, achieve his own career, and even achieve the pinnacle. In front of the defensive line, this player with not outstanding physical fitness shoulders the mission of controlling the overall situation, and uses his omnipresent sharp passes to benefit those teammates with more dazzling stars.

But the reality is indeed cruel. At this time, he has fallen to the point where he doesn't care about it. At that time, he went to the Middle East, and he was completely looking forward to retirement. A year later, he quietly retired from the Dorados in Mexico...if not winning, that was his eventual fate.

And because of his constant victories, he was able to show off his superb pass and control ability in the Copa del Rey final against Real Madrid.

Without winning, his whole set of midfield skills has become a dusty antique, and modern football has abandoned the likes of Guardiola. Although he maintains the best physical condition of his career, he cannot be found on the pitch. own shelter. In a sense, the inability to appreciate Guardiola's talented and exquisite passes is the tragedy of the younger generation of fans.

※※※Guardiola's tragedy is a side product of the continuous development of modern football.

Because the speed of modern football games has been improved, the physical confrontation has also been greatly strengthened. This is too demanding for players who control the ball at the midfielder position and then pass the ball. Because any coach will focus on defense, they will ask the midfielders to defend first, and then defend. If you can make a good tackle, that is the player that the coach needs most. Of course, if Your passing is also good, good, but that's just icing on the cake.

Perhaps the most famous example is the Argentine midfielder Gago.

When he was in River Plate, he was considered as Redondo's second, and his excellent running and passing ability made him quickly become the most eye-catching star in Argentina. Then he joined the giants Real Madrid with Higuain.

But in the giants, his passing organization is not needed at all, but he needs to make more contributions to the team's defense in the midfielder position. So in order to get a chance to play, Gago had to practice his defense diligently, running on the court, tackling, galloping, and tackling. In this way, Redondo Er, who was full of aura when he debuted, disappeared, and was replaced by a four-faced player with a waist like a beast and an organizer who was not like an organizer.

Losing his own characteristics, he naturally has no place in Real Madrid. In the end, he could only leave sadly.

When the black and hard defensive midfielder became popular in football all over the world, the coaches naturally had to come up with a solution.

Because the defensive midfielder is aimed at the organization's midfielder, in order to prevent the core of the organization from being stared to death by the opponent's midfielder, what should we do?

It's very simple, move the position back... So, the organization's midfielder came into being, or it reappeared.

Move the core of the organization back to avoid the defensive midfielder. The organizer can control and pass the ball calmly, and even dribble the ball forward by himself.

The appearance of Pirlo created a brand new trend.

More and more playmakers began to appear in the midfielder position.

Perhaps the most famous are Spanish players such as Xavi, Alonso and Cesc Fabregas.

The tactical trend of international football is slowly shifting the focus backward.

The original midfielder has become a second striker. For example, a modern attacking midfielder like Kaka is actually a second striker. What he is best at is definitely not passing organization. In terms of passing ability, he is better than the other three Milan No. 10 players at that time-Rui Costa, West Dorff and Rivaldo are far behind, but his fast dribbling ability in defensive counterattacks and excellent long-range shooting ability won him the favor of Ancelotti and became indispensable in the Christmas tree formation part of the

Later, he moved to Real Madrid. Due to frequent injuries, his speed was no longer, and his explosive power gradually faded. He began to transform and transformed into a playmaker. Real Madrid's real playmaker is Alonso, a pass master who drags in the midfielder position, and the offensive core is an assaulter like Cristiano Ronaldo.

Kaka's characteristics overlap with Cristiano Ronaldo's, but his state is not as good as the opponent's. Naturally, he can only gradually become a substitute, and a substitute for the substitute.

Some people think that Ozil's outstanding performance is the culprit of Kaka being only able to play as a substitute. In fact, the characteristics of the two players are completely different, and there is no competitive relationship at all. They can completely coexist. But who told Real Madrid to have a Cristiano Ronaldo?

When a midfielder like Kaka is in full swing, a classic midfielder like Rui Costa gradually loses room to play.

The traditional classic number ten is starting to die. Because these classic attacking midfielders with elegant footwork and precise passing often have poor physical fitness, they are often at a disadvantage in the contest with the "Makelele-style midfielder", and they cannot get rid of the suffocating defense. .

Riquelme's experience in international football may illustrate this problem.

However, the trend of the so-called doomed birds has in turn weakened the status of Makelele and the others—are you able to guard against them? I make you defenseless!

Therefore, most of the later creators ambushed in a deeper position, leading the team with more organized passing, which is what Cesc Fabregas and Andre Iniesta did in their respective teams. The role played.

And the defensive midfielders also got rid of the notoriety of "shoveling machines" in one fell swoop, and instead took on the task of passers. Butzkes and Michael Carrick are the beneficiaries of this tactic. Without this tactic, Butzkes might not have reached the heights he later achieved.

Suddenly, the game of midfield escaped the stereotype of "physical" and "grabbing" and was sublimated to a new level - passing became the essence of everything, just as the likes of Barcelona and Arsenal showed.

But the problem came again soon-the core of the organization has retreated, and they can organize at will and become the engine of the normal operation of the team, so who can stop them? After all, no one wants to be at a loss when facing them and can only raise their hands in surrender.

Football tactics are always a contest of counter-counter and counter-counter, just like war.

At the beginning, in order to break through the black and hard midfielders, the organization cores retreated one after another.

Now in order to be able to counteract the core of the organization in the position of the midfielder, a new profession has begun to appear-the black and hard midfielder.

These players are characterized by muscular development, excellent defense, and strong running ability. The most typical example is Milan's Boateng. He is actually a midfielder, but Allegri pushed him to the position of the midfielder. Unexpectedly, he received a miraculous effect.

In addition to the defensive midfielder, there are also such exhausting evolutions in other positions. For example, the definition and use of centers in world football is also such a process of constant change.

When everyone mentioned a center forward in the 1990s, they used labels such as "shooting machine", "scoring goals like hemp" and "number nine".

But what about ten or twenty years later? Center forwards have become more focused on ball handling ability, defensive ability and running ability, and shooting goals are not so important. Think of Dirk Dirk, think of Husky who was blacked out, they are actually like this A representative work of this center tactical concept. This kind of center forward does not appear to score goals for himself, but to allow his teammates to score more goals.

The tactics of world football are constantly evolving and reincarnating like this. Maybe one day, the extinct free entry tactics will be brought back to life?

※※※In history, it was Guardiola who led his own Barcelona to complete the restoration of this tactic. Later, it was under Guardiola that the world-renowned midfield masters Harvey and Iniesta truly became indispensable to the team. In the era of Rijkaard's dream team two, the status of these two men was not as stable as people thought-for example, in 2006, in the final that witnessed Barcelona's Champions League title, this pair of post-mortem gold midfielders The combination sat on the bench collectively, replaced by two defensive midfielders Edmilson and Van Bommel.

At that time, the strength of the Premier League made strength the mainstream of world football.

Later, the rise of the Barcelona Dream Team brought passing and skill back to the mainstream.

However, this is destined to become history that will not appear.

Because in the summer of 1999, world football quietly ushered in an uninvited guest, a reborn guest with the memory and experience of later generations-Chang Sheng.

He promoted his mad dog tactics in Valencia, which is actually Barcelona's kind of football that pays attention to passing and ball control skills.

He made Guardiola the brain core of the team, which is actually what he is accustomed to in common sense-returning the organization core from the front midfielder to the midfielder.

Guardiola may not even coach Barcelona again, and Barcelona's Dream Team 3 may not appear. The fate of Iniesta and Xavi? Hey, who cares about them!

Perhaps in the future, when world football experts write articles describing the changes in international football tactics, they will attribute the emergence and maturity of this revolutionary tactic to the name of Changsheng.

But no one would know that he used to be an ordinary fan. He just took a longer view than the current one because he has personally experienced those eras.

This is the advantage of how a traveler can be a head coach, instead of just knowing which players will be famous in the future, and then go digging around, the result is likely to die a miserable death... ※※※PS, used Four thousand words are used to introduce the tactics and the changes in the tactics, it is really not just to make up the number of words. It's because I think that as a head coach, tactics are the most basic and most important. If a head coach can only talk wars and knows nothing about tactics, it is difficult for people to believe that such a head coach will become a victorious general.

So I wrote such a chapter specifically to introduce to you Changsheng's tactics and the changes in world football tactics in the past ten years.

After reading these, I think it can help everyone understand why Changsheng chose Barcelona's pass-and-hold tactics instead of Real Madrid's defensive counterattack-my novels used to be anti-counterfeit.

But if you look at it from the perspective of the protagonist of the football coach, Barcelona's tactics are indeed the most suitable for winning.

So Chang Sheng plagiarized Barcelona's tactics shamelessly, making himself the patriarch of the school. He accepted Guardiola as his younger brother, and asked Guardiola to help him create this set of tactics. Look around in the transfer market for players who fit into this tactic.

A reader once asked me to dig a card. I thought about it at first, but I gave up later. Why? Because Kaka is not suitable for the protagonist's tactics, he is suitable for defensive counterattacks.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the protagonist should just copy Barcelona's style completely, and that's not acceptable, because the players can't all be the same. Changing a group of players to Guardiola's set will definitely not have such a good effect. This tactic requires a perfect combination of tactics and players.

Therefore, Changsheng's tactical concept will continue to develop and mature in the novel, and finally form its own style.

Playing defensive counterattack in Getafe is just forced to help, and it is just a start in Valencia. Please look forward to his maturity.

Finally, I would like to declare again that it is really not about counting the number of words, otherwise, I can write 20,000 words or even more. Because more things can be derived from one tactic, various classic cases, various citations... But after all, it is still a novel, and what everyone wants to read is the story of the author, not a rigid and boring tactic explanation.

So just this chapter.

In fact, there is another idea, or ambition, that is, I hope that my novel can be used as a football promoter to make more friends who are not interested in football interested. While entertaining, I can also learn a little bit from my novels, even if I can use them to brag to my friends during the European Cup and World Cup in the future.

Hope you like it.