Beast King Costa

Chapter 82 Starting three wingers?
The 2-0 score remained until the end of halftime.

Although it is still a "dangerous score" to a certain extent, because Maritimo has lost one man in the back line and cannot organize a decent offense in the frontcourt, it is already very safe for Braga .

During the intermission, Jesualdo Ferreira also made a decisive rotation of the frontcourt.

Still the teenager Rodrigo Dantas replaced Diego Costa.

Candi Costa was also used to replace Mateus, who has been playing all the time recently.

For Jesúaldo Ferreira's substitution adjustment this time, Diego thinks there is no problem.

In the first half of the game, I once again overfulfilled the task of ensuring my physical health-running a total of 45 meters in 2 minutes plus 6200 minutes of stoppage time.

In addition, after Maritimo was sent off by a red card, Ulis Mole immediately made a tactical substitution-substitute defender Philip Oliveira replaced Rincon, who was the only threat in the frontcourt, to ensure The team's defensive system is complete.

In this way, Ulis Molet's request for the second half of the game is basically to avoid conceding the third goal.

Therefore, Braga used an all-substitute frontcourt in the second half of the game, which can be regarded as a positive response to Ulis Molet: We only need three points, not 3-0.

Even, Jesúaldo Ferreira did not have any tactical arrangements for the second half of the game. The old coach reminded Davide Dias not to stand still and wait for the ball, and asked Carlos Marinelli to participate more actively in the team's game. After defending, he studied the team's opponent in the 28th round in advance - "Flying Eagles" Benfica!

"This morning, my friends in Lisbon told me that Benfica's lineup for Condi Town is only a half-main lineup. The familiar Nuno Gomes, Simão, and Petit all stayed in Lisbon and did not travel with the team. Rio Avi is away. Obviously, Coach Koeman attaches great importance to our game next week!"

Jesúaldo Ferreira looked sad. People who didn't know thought that Braga was behind 0 to 2, and even kicked one player less...

"With Rio Avi's broken cans, they have no chance to complete relegation this season. With Benfica's semi-main lineup, it is enough to win an away game. So! We can only lead Benfica One point for the next round."

While Jesualdo Ferreira was speaking, the assistant coaches were also distributing the overtime work this week to the players, and counting the summarized preparation materials.

After taking the information in hand, Diego also studied it with great interest.

Under Caesar's "successful temptation", Diego's research on the tactical system is at least an entry-level level.

Once the tactical formation is in hand, and based on the technical characteristics and statistical statistics of each player on the data, Diego can guess a lot about the team's technical and tactical play.

however……

When he saw Ronald Koeman, the famous Dutch coach's frontcourt configuration, Diego suddenly felt... Did Jesúaldo Ferreira's coaching team make a mistake?Or are Dutch coaches so weird?
"Huh...why, there are three wingers in the starting lineup? Besides, they are all left-footed wingers?"

Diego was dumbfounded.

Although Diego knows that the Dutch are good at using wingers, in the tactical system of the Dutch coach, wingers have a very high tactical status.But... the tactical system of the famous Dutch coach Ronald Koeman is too extreme, right?Three left wingers up front?What kind of fairy tactic is this?

"Diego, you found the key problem..."

Wende, who is next to Diego, has recently studied Benfica's tactics with Jesualdo Ferreira's coaching staff.

In this regard, Wende still has a certain right to speak.I saw Wende explaining with a smile: "To a certain extent, Benfica has no real center forward at all. The top international footballer Nuno Gomez in Benfica's tactical system is more of a shadow forward who plugs in and shoots. The role, of course, is that Nuno Gomez is very well rounded, and despite being under 180cm, he has a great jumping ability, so he has a lot of goals with his headers."

"Wow! No front?"

Diego was a little surprised. He thought that the rise of the frontless formation came after Spain won the 2008 European Cup "Matador Legion".Unexpectedly, in the Portuguese Super League in 2006, you can see the Dutch version of the frontless formation, which is really an eye-opener.

"Yes! Ronald Koeman, as a Dutch football star, has a lot of innovative tactics. Although he took over Benfica, he did not bring Benfica to beat Porto and Sporting Lisbon to the top of the Portuguese Super League standings. But I have to say, Koeman The no-front formation that Coach Man has deployed many times recently is really puzzling."

Diego muttered in a low voice: "Well, doesn't it just rely on frontcourt penetration and small-scale cooperation to penetrate the opponent's back line? Is it that complicated?"

"Diego, you are right when you say that..."

After Jesúaldo Ferreira pondered for a while, he continued his analysis to the players present.

"According to Benfica's 'no striker formation' in the last game, it should be that Gustavo Manduca is at the top, Lauren Robert is on the left, Simao is on the right winger with reverse foot, and Benfica's head striker Nuno Gomez can play anywhere in the frontcourt, acting as a free man."

Speaking of this, the old coach's face is particularly dignified: "Their offensive center of gravity is on the wing-they can quickly gather three offensive players on both sides at any time, and make a crazy impact on the hinterland of the penalty area. Using the three players' speed, skill, Consciousness is the small-scale cooperation between the top attackers in the Portuguese Super League to quickly penetrate the opponent's defense line."

"what……"

After hearing this, the side players immediately expressed emotion.

Benfica's offensive launch is on the wing, which means that the defensive task on the wing in the next game will be very heavy.

Diego nodded as if he understood something: "That means that coach Ronald Koeman plays a 4-2-4 formation?"

Jesualdo Ferreira nodded and said: "It can also be said to be an unconventional 4-3-3 formation, but Nuno Gomez's position is very free, sometimes reaching the front line, sometimes participating in the midfield Scheduling, organization, and maybe even an initiation point for long balls."

"A free man in the midfield!"

Diego nodded slowly.

After listening to Jesúaldo Ferreira’s analysis, Diego understood completely—the key to scoring points at the Stadium of Light in the next game is not only the team’s wing defense, but the most important thing is How to pinch Nuno Gomez, the elusive tactical core!
As long as Nuno Gomez can be pinched, in fact, Koeman's side attack tactics are difficult to say.

"Nuno Gomez! Nuno Gomez..."

While sticking Nuno Gomez's name, Diego even showed an evil smile.

Why such an evil smile?

That's because Diego saw an evaluation of Nuno Gomez by the coaching staff from the data: average physical fitness and average athletic ability!
"Hey! Let's see how I pester you in the next game so that you can't take care of yourself!"

(End of this chapter)