Legendary Road

As the summer draws to a close, major European leagues are rekindled, and as one of the world's most influential top competitions, the upcoming UEFA Champions League also attracts the attention of countless fans all over the world.

There are three teams representing the Bundesliga in the Champions League this year. In addition to the Champions League regulars Bayern Munich, the other two teams are Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund.However, only Bayern Munich has received a lot of attention from foreign media-although the Bundesliga has ranked fourth in European competition points in recent years, except for the outbreak of Dortmund in 97, the Bundesliga team also relies on Bayern to pull points.

Dortmund, who qualified for the Champions League main match through the Champions League play-offs, will face the challenge of the Portuguese superpower Porto in the first group match.

Although Porto was the champion of the Champions League in the 03/04 season, but with the meritorious coach Mourinho leaving for London, the team's core Deco and other top players were lost. In fact, the team's strength has long been inferior to before.

The plane carrying Porto players arrived in Dortmund yesterday. The club notified Yan Jing that Porto's stepping time to adapt to the field was arranged at [-]:[-] tonight, and Dortmund started training at [-]:[-] pm.

The training task arranged by Yan Jing today is the final rehearsal of tomorrow's game tactics, which involves the formation and staffing that will be used in the official game.Originally, Yan Jing wanted to have a fully enclosed training, but under the persuasion of the Dortmund Media Department, Yan Jing still gave the media 15 minutes to complete the task and take pictures.

After the staff at the scene kindly invited out all the reporters who had been lingering around the stadium and refused to leave, Yan Jing officially distributed the vests representing the starters and substitutes to the players who had finished warming up.

When Yan Jing handed over the last vest representing the substitute to Suarez, he could easily feel that the Uruguayan boy in front of him was a little too cautious, so he reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

"Louis, are you starting to feel nervous now?"

"No, I didn't..." Suarez was halfway through his speech, but suddenly he couldn't remember how to say the word "nervous" in German. He held back for a long time before he came up with a word with a close meaning, "uneasy."

This is the first time he has been included in the team's squad by Yan Jing. In the previous league, German Cup and Champions League play-offs, he didn't even touch the side of the squad and could only play in the second team.

But this time he actually entered the squad for the Champions League?Suarez was a little confused. His performance in the previous warm-up match really disappointed him. Although he did not doubt his own strength, he was sent to the second team by Yan Jing without saying a word.

On this point, it is impossible to say that Suarez has no grievances at all.

If it wasn't for Suarez knowing that his agent had so many big-name players that he didn't have time for a nobody like him, he would have called to complain.

Come to Dortmund to play, this is the advice Mendes gave him.Mendes explained to him the various benefits of joining Dortmund, and the word he talked about the most was "future".

Mendes told him that Dortmund is a team with unlimited potential. In fact, he didn't know much about the specifics of European football, but he chose to listen to Mendes' words. Des fame.

Three days ago, he was playing games in the player's dormitory, but suddenly received a notice from Yan Jing asking him to come to the first team to report immediately. This unexpected joy immediately destroyed the bad mood he had accumulated in the recent period It's all gone.

"Your German has improved compared to before." Seeing Suarez's unnaturalness, Yan Jing smiled and skipped this topic, "You have a strong learning ability."

"thanks……"

In order to let Suarez hear more clearly, Yan Jing tried to slow down his speech: "Now you only need to train with peace of mind, and don't think about the rest, okay?"

Suarez nodded, put on his vest and returned to the training ground.

The Porto team that Dortmund will now face is led by the Spanish marshal Victor Fernandez.

The 43-year-old Fernandez was the head coach of La Liga teams Celta and Zaragoza before coaching Porto. He has led Celta to participate in the UEFA Cup 5 times and led Zaragoza to win the UEFA Cup in 1995. Champion of the European Cup Winners' Cup, he has rich experience in European wars.

Even last season, he was selected by Real Madrid and included in the list of candidate head coaches, but he finally came to Portugal to coach.

Another reason why he was favored by Porto is that in his tactical system, he uses four backs as the basis of offensive tactics, which is very similar to Porto's meritorious coach Mourinho.

Although Mourinho is no longer in Porto now, it is clear that his defensive legacy is still affecting Porto's tactical system-and the reason why the former Porto coach Del Neri was dismissed is precisely because of his tactics The system is far from Mourinho's.

The defensive counterattack tactics that Mourinho is famous for are not complicated to put it bluntly. First of all, he takes defense as the foundation and requires players to obey the tactical arrangements when defending, and must not be rash.

"In tomorrow's game, Porto's defense may be stronger than you think. They have strict tactical discipline. The tactics we used in the past to lure the opponent's formation to press may not be effective."

Yan Jing recently stayed up late to watch dozens of Porto's recent games, and has a certain understanding of the opponent's tactics, and he believes that Fernandez will never change his coaching thinking easily.

"Therefore, I ask you to try more long-range shots! David, Lars, try to use long-distance heavy artillery to change the situation on the field when you can't open the situation! Suppose the ball is kicked? Don't Worry, I also understand the success rate of long-range shots, you just need to attack Porto's goal as boldly as possible!"

Secondly, another tactical feature of this current Porto team is that Fernandez's requirements for the midfielder are the same as those of the Mourinho era-you must have a strong lateral protection ability, shorten the distance from the back line, and compress the center back as much as possible. The space of the field, oppressing the opponent's mistakes to grab the ball, and then quickly changing the rhythm from defense to offense.

In fact, Yan Jing's current tactics have more or less borrowed some of Mourinho's methods of using the midfielder, but the difference is that Yan Jing has given a certain amount of pressure to the full-backs while ensuring the stability of the defense. Freedom to participate in the attack.

"Kyle, when you get the ball in the backcourt and reduce unnecessary possession by the midfielder, their players will quickly follow up and counterattack, you have to give the ball to Lars or Klinger before that... ..."

Porto uses a defensive counterattack, so why not Dortmund?

"When you bring the ball up the pitch, you usually have two choices. First pass the ball to the side and then go forward, or first dribble the ball and break through by yourself, and then divide the ball."

Yan Jing asked all the team members to get closer to him as much as possible to see what was on his tactical board.

"Yang, your task on the field will be different from usual in tomorrow's game." Yan Jing casually raised his head and saw the tall and tall Jan Kohler standing behind him, and raised his hand to signal him to squeeze over quickly, "Although your position is not the same as usual. There is no difference, but you are no longer in charge of attacking for the team, but attracting the attention of the opponent's defense in the penalty area, squeezing their defense as far back as possible, and giving Lars who plugged in and the big players on the wing Help them create opportunities."

Jan Kohler nodded, this is what he should do as a center forward.

"What should we do when we get a set kick or a corner kick? We have practiced many times in the past few days, so I won't talk nonsense." Yan Jing then used a pen on the tactical board to represent the center of Porto. A mark was marked, "It is worthy of your attention that Porto's midfielder Ricardo Quamarez."

"His speed is not very fast, but you can't take it lightly, because his full explosiveness makes it possible for him to pass you by force at any time. Although he usually moves in the middle, according to recent Porto game video From the looks of it, Quamarez is also often active on both sides."

In order to ensure the safety of the game, Yan Jing sacrificed a lot of sleep time to do a detailed research on Quamares, and he continued to summarize the information obtained these days to his players one by one.

"Kuamarez has a good sense of going forward and shooting. Although sometimes his shots go too far, he will also come out with a beautiful world wave. Usually when you see him on the left side preparing to cut inside Now, you have to be vigilant and guard against him. His instep shot from outside this line has caused many teams to suffer. Last point, he can often catch the opponent's back line to pass the key. It doesn’t matter if you send a free kick for a foul, but don’t give him the chance to kick a cross at will.”

Most of the time when Yan Jing explained the tactics, he focused on explaining the points that the players need to pay attention to in terms of defense. The tactics on the offensive end are extremely simple. It can even be said that anyone who knows a little bit of football can come up with tactics. .

But so what?Although the tactics are simple to say, it is not so easy to defend.

Maybe this makes the offense less pretty?As long as he can win the game, Yan Jing doesn't care how many goals he can score in the opponent, the only thing he cares about is 3 points.