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Chapter 1041 Do your best, listen to destiny

Chapter 1041 Do your best, listen to destiny

"Good job, awesome!"

In the stands, Yang Huan clenched his fists and shouted excitedly after seeing Zlatan Ibrahimovic score the opening goal.

This goal should be regarded as a complete vent of the team's depression in the past five warm-up games, right?

In the stands of Jincheng Water Drop Stadium, the fans of Jingcheng Guoen also celebrated loudly and sang the team song of Jingcheng Guoen.

But the Delta fans were not to be outdone, this was their home stadium, so those who booed, cursed, and everyone who should have come came.

Fang Wei, who was sitting next to Yang Huan, shook his head helplessly, "The domestic fans are really unfriendly to the visiting team."

When Master Ke Huan heard this, he laughed directly.

"If this is too friendly to the fans of the visiting team, then is football still interesting?"

Fang Wei was taken aback for a moment, but it was true.

The reason why professional football is interesting and fascinating, and even called a war without gunpowder smoke, in the final analysis lies in the kind of confrontation between the enemy and us, and I am invincible.

If in the stadium, the attitude of the fans on both sides is peaceful, hello, me, hello, everyone, then professional football is really boring.

"Swearing at people, throwing things, and even interfering with players are common in European football. This is also normal. There must be such an atmosphere in football stadiums, but there must be a scale."

Fang Wei understood what Master Huan meant.

It's like fans can boo and even scold players of the visiting team in the stands, but they can't make personal attacks or racial discrimination.

This is the bottom line. Once discovered, the club must pay attention to it, and even punish it.

Also, it is very important that the hostile atmosphere inside the stadium cannot be carried outside the stadium.

For the time being, domestic professional football has just started, especially in recent years, with the recovery of the Chinese Super League and the influx of young players into the stadium, the quality of fans still needs to be strengthened by club and league managers.

"Pochettino is still very good!"

Yang Huan has watched a lot of football now, and has gradually figured out some tricks.

"Ibrahimovic suppressed the opponent's two central defenders, and one person at least caught the attention of two players. Harvey Alonso in the midfielder position, Terry and Lei Tenglong in the central defender, these three players basically sit in the defense."

Speaking of this, Yang Huan smiled slightly and said it was the back line, but in fact, when Jingcheng Guoen pressed the entire midfield to the opponent's 30-meter zone, the positions of these three players had already advanced to the center line.

Terry and Lei Tenglong are at the back. Even when Delta striker Montero retreats, they rarely cross the center line. This should be the key arrangement of Pochettino, and Terry is always telling Lei Tenglong.

This made Yang Huan happy.

Lei Tenglong is a strong player and deserves to be cultivated. He should be able to learn a lot from Terry's side.

The same situation applies to Park Cheng, who partnered with Harvey Alonso as a double midfielder in this game. If he can learn something from the Spanish midfielder, it will be of great benefit to his future development.

However, although he is a defensive midfielder, Pu Cheng's position is very high, actively advancing forward and participating in the attack of the frontcourt,

Harvey Alonso played a single midfielder, which is indeed a bit risky, after all, the Spaniard is not young.

But it also depends on the situation, just like Barcelona, ​​Busquets also plays a single midfielder, is there a problem?

There is also Southampton, Toni Kroos is also a single midfielder, and even sometimes it is no problem to use Kovacic to play.

The key is control.

If the frontcourt can be controlled, a single midfielder is not a problem.

The team presses together, the midfielder plays a single midfielder, and the two full-backs actively participate in the frontcourt offense. Pochettino's tactics are indeed aggressive and risky, but very interesting.

On the whole, he is in line with the current Southampton tactics.

If you look at the ball carefully, it is not difficult to find that the iron triangle positions of Harvey Alonso, Terry and Lei Tenglong in the backcourt basically follow the position of the ball and move left and right on the center line of the court.

Terry and Harvey Alonso did a very good job, and as soon as Lei Tenglong's position moved a little bit, Terry and Harvey Alonso immediately called him back.

The reason is simple, they are preventing the opponent's quick counterattack.

Once the opponent breaks through the control of the frontcourt, these three players can quickly intercept and return to the defense at the first time.

Therefore, the movement of these three players, as well as the control and prediction of the game situation, are very important.

Only Terry and Harvey Alonso can make Pochettino implement this set of tactics with such confidence. If it is a domestic player, he may not be so sure.

Pochettino adopts such a set of tactics, the advantage lies in the offense.

In the previous Manzano period, the Guoen team's philosophy was to defend, to defend first, and then to attack. In terms of offense, Manzano focused on the wing and cross.

But Pochettino pays attention to control, so he doesn't like crosses.

After using Zlatan Ibrahimovic to suppress the opponent's two central defenders in the frontcourt, the personal abilities of the three players behind Zhang Xizhe, Wu Lei and Chen Zhizhao are quite good when compared to domestic players.

Pochettino also gave them enough trust. The three players surrounded Ibrahimovic, often crossing positions, using running and holding the ball to mobilize surrounding opponents and attract defensive attention.

Coupled with the support of Pu Cheng behind him, Jiang Zhipeng and Zhang Chengdong actively stepped in, assaulted and supported the attack on the two flanks, Guoen put seven players on the frontcourt at one go, and this alone was enough to deter the opponent.

With more people and a clear division of labor, the options for attacking tactics will be richer and opportunities will be created.

Another place that can reflect Pochettino's characteristics is when he loses the ball and countersteals.

Pochettino basically asked Ibrahimovic, Zhang Xizhe, Wu Lei and Chen Zhizhao to keep the four players active in the frontcourt to contain the opponent's midfield and backcourt so that they can launch a counterattack as soon as they regain the ball.

But this does not mean that these four players did not contribute to the defense.

On the contrary, they will have a fixed defensive area and counter-stealing responsibility, and they will be the forefront of the team's defense and counter-stealing.

It should be said that Pochettino's set of tactics is very clear, which is to suppress the opponent and control the ball.

In addition, the team's offensive and defensive conversion speed is very fast, which is estimated to consume a lot of physical energy for the players. This is exactly the same as famous coaches such as Bielsa, Simeone, Klopp and Guardiola.

In today's professional football, without excellent physical fitness, it is impossible to play high-position pressing.

It should be said that Pochettino's set of ideas is not uncommon in European leagues, and many people are not surprised.

But in the Chinese Super League, it seems to be quite new.

At least Yang Huan felt that after the opening game, the Jincheng Delta team was very uncomfortable with Jingcheng Guoen's style of play.

"Guo En, who was coached by Manzano before, also implemented transmission control, but the operation speed is relatively slow, so it is easier to adapt."

Bielsa, who was sitting on the other side of Yang Huan, also commented.

"But now, the team is running at high speed, and it will be very difficult for the opponent."

At the end, Bielsa couldn't help smiling.

Yang Huan understands that Manzano may not want to speed up, but because of the limitation of the level of foreign aid, and Manzano may not be able to play this style of play, so last season Guoen only passed and controlled, but did not speed up.

When the pace is not fast enough, the threat of a high press is not great.

But now with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, John Terry and Xabi Alonso at the back, things are very different.

Do not underestimate this point.

To put it simply, the faster the speed, the less time is left for the players to think, and they have to make decisions in an instant, which places high demands on the players.

But if there are trustworthy teammates like Harvey Alonso and Terry behind him, once the passing line is not found when receiving the ball, it doesn't matter, and it will be passed back to the back. Harvey Alonso and Terry are the most secure support points behind them.

It is also because of this that Pochettino dared to speed up in an all-round way.

"Why did you choose Chen Zhizhao on the right side?" Fang Wei asked a little puzzled.

After Chen Zhizhao joined Beijing Guoen, although there were occasional high-profile performances, overall, he was not satisfactory.

Many people speculated before that Pochettino might use Zhang Chengdong to play on the right, but unexpectedly it was Chen Zhizhao.

Bielsa smiled again, "This player is very good, with strong personal abilities, excellent skills, and quite good physical fitness, but his physical fitness is a bit poor. There are many reasons why his performance was not ideal before, but Mauricio and I feel that if he can play at a high level, he will definitely be a sharp knife for the team's frontcourt."

Regarding this point, I believe no one will deny it.

But is it that easy?
"The previous Tactics of the Guoen team did not give too much freedom to the two wide players, and more emphasis was placed on advancing along the side and going to the bottom. Because of the two full backs and the premise of ensuring the team's defense, the wide players can easily fall into a situation of isolation and helplessness."

Yang Huan understood.

With the personal ability of a professional player, one-on-one, even Messi, cannot guarantee the success rate, let alone a domestic player.

Once caught in a double-team on the wing, Messi didn't move.

"Not only that, but in the past, the wide players had to bear a lot of pressure to return to the defense, and they often had to run back and forth between the front and the back defense. This also made these wide players at a loss and exhausted."

"But now, their task is to be in the frontcourt, they don't need to return to defense, and there are other players watching behind them. They only need to be responsible for the area they are in. This is very clear."

Bielsa's analysis is very clear and straightforward, and it should be considered more pertinent.

Although he pointed out the problems of the Guoen team before, everyone who is familiar with Guoen knows that this is not necessarily the problem of the head coach Manzano, and it also largely comes from the shortcomings of the team's lineup.

For example, two full-backs.

Now that high-level foreign aid has been introduced and the shortcomings of the lineup have been strengthened, Pochettino must have better cards than Manzano, so the lineup is more easily arranged.

But at this time, Yang Huan had a doubt.

"Old Bei, do you think this Chen Zhizhao can really do it?" Yang Huan asked with concern.

If this is really activated, Chen Zhizhao is definitely at the international level, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he is the strongest in the country.

Bielsa looked at Master Huan, shook his head, "I tried my best."

Yang Huan hummed, no one was sure.

Even as a head coach, who dares to say that he will be able to make good use of a certain player?

"Mauricio is very concerned about him, whether it is in training or in normal times, he attaches great importance to him. I hope he can play well."

Bielsa obviously had no idea.

At least from the warm-up match and the game until now, he still seems to be tepid.

If according to Bielsa's plan, give him a little more time, at most a few games, if he really can't play the effect, then it can only be a substitution.

After all, professional football is a cruel arena where you can live and die, not a warm-hearted training camp.

Therefore, to sculpt players, you can only do your best and obey the destiny!

(End of this chapter)

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