heir to the red devil

Chapter 415 Try a new formation!
After the experience of the summer warm-up match, as well as the opinions of Scholes and Phelan, Kintag finally determined the starting lineup for the next season.

4-4-2 formation: the goalkeeper is De Gea; the defense is Smalling and Vidic partnering central defenders, the left and right sides are Alonso and Rafael; the midfielder is Kante and Lampard, Mahrez and De Bruyne are on the left and right; the forwards are Lewandowski and Griezmann.

After determining the starting lineup, Kintag also made targeted arrangements in training to make these players more familiar with their respective habits so as to achieve the greatest degree of running-in before the start of the new season.

In addition, Kintag made a new adjustment in training, which surprised everyone.Not only the players were surprised, but even Scholes and Phelan were dumbfounded!

Scholes asked Kintag very puzzled: "Captain, do you want to practice the 4-3-3 formation?"

Jin Taige nodded: "After trying for a period of time, combined with the current technical characteristics of our team, I have been thinking about a question: If the team changes to a 4-3-3 formation, what will be the effect?"

Phelan shook his head: "I don't think the effect will be too good. After all, it is a tradition for Manchester United to play 4-4-2. The players are very familiar with this formation. Once the formation is easily changed, the players are very uncomfortable and the team's combat effectiveness will definitely be affected. affected."

Jin Taige explained: "I don't plan to change to 4-3-3 this season, I just think that 4-3-3 will be one of the development trends in international football in the future, and this formation is more flexible. It is suitable for a team with strong attacking ability. At present, there are many midfielders in our team, and this formation is also very suitable. Of course, if you want to change the formation, you must play steadily and step by step."

So in this day's training, Jin Taige rarely used a 4-3-3 formation.

4-3-3 formation: the goalkeeper is De Gea; the defense is Smalling and Vidic partnering central defenders, and the left and right sides are Alonso and Rafael; in the midfield position, Kanter drags back, Lampard and De Bruyne rushed forward, Mahrez and Griezmann acted as wingers on the left and right; Lewandowski was at the center.

Manchester United players are also very puzzled by this change. They don't know why the head coach has to make this change temporarily, especially for Manchester United's old players. They have already understood the 4-4-2 formation. , very familiar, this sudden change, indeed a little uncomfortable.

Jin Taige's change of formation was originally just a simple attempt, and he really had the idea of ​​changing formation in his heart.Manchester United has been playing a standard 4-4-2 formation. In many cases, Manchester United's midfield is paralleled, but in the current mainstream of international football, this formation is outdated.This is not only to say that the formation is outdated, but that the formation of parallel positions is not deep enough, and the use of the width of the field is also very limited. More than a decade ago, Manchester United had wing wizards like Giggs and Beckham. Fei's style of play can be like a fish in water, but the current formation obviously has great limitations.

Therefore, although Kintag was also using a 4-4-2 formation last season, he has been making changes.For example, let Kanter's position retreat to protect the back line; another example is to let the two forwards stagger back and forth to echo each other; and let the two wingers press forward and cooperate with the center, which almost becomes 4-3 -3 formation.

And today on the training ground, Jin Taige even changed his lineup directly, wanting to see how the effect is.

He had predicted it in advance, the players must be very uncomfortable, but the final result made him very happy-the players adapted to the new formation very well!
Little has changed for the two centre-backs, but the two full-backs have taken on more prominent roles.Because the new formation cancels the so-called full-backs, the two full-backs have more space to move forward, and they take on more offensive tasks, which allows Alonso and Rafael to give full play.

The three midfielders, Kante, De Bruyne and Lampard, did not perform well in training. This is because the new formation requires a high degree of tacit understanding of the midfielders. Not enough, it takes more practice.Kintag has already considered it. After Lampard's two-year contract, it is estimated that he will face retirement. At that time, his midfield trio will be Kanter, Kroos and De Bruyne.The three of them, one defending, one controlling the field, and one advancing, can definitely improve Manchester United's midfield to another level. If they can all reach the height of development in later generations, then the three of them are likely to become the best midfield combination in the world. one!

What pleased Kintag the most this time was the three strikers.For Lewandowski and Griezmann, they just joined the team, and they didn't have the solidified thinking of the 4-4-2 formation in their minds, so they quickly got used to the 4-3-3 formation, and Mahrez was extremely aggressive. The fast speed is also a duck to water in the winger position.

In addition to changing formations, Kintag asked the players to strengthen the passing and control of the midfield and the frontcourt. After losing the ball, they can directly counterattack in the frontcourt, expand the defensive area of ​​the entire stadium, and increase the speed of advancing with the ball.

After two days of training, Jin Taige decided to test the effect of the new formation in actual combat.

In the fourth game of this training, Manchester United played against the New York Red Bulls.

In this game, Jin Taige directly arranged a 4-3-3 formation to face the opponent.This game turned out to be the best-watched game of the four.Manchester United played a lot of attacking football on the field because they had no pressure.They changed their previous routine of flying on both wings and crossing from the wing, and began to play pass-and-control football.The head coach of the New York Red Bulls was taken aback. All their previous pre-match deployments were invalid!

The final game of this game was 3-0, and Manchester United won by a big score.

Although the result was good, it was still far from Jin Taige's expectation.There are still big problems in the connection between the midfield and the frontcourt, which is more due to the lack of tacit cooperation between the players; Kanter has done a good job in protecting the defense in the midfield and is as stable as ever; Lewandowski has also played very well. Stability, goals, pillars, and bridgeheads, he has done everything a center forward should do; and Griezmann seems to be more adaptable to the new position of winger than a striker. This new position allows him to move flexibly and shoot well Jia's advantages are brought into full play.

Although the result of this game is good, it does not mean that Manchester United will become a 4-3-3 formation.This change of formation is just an attempt. Any change to a new formation will require a lot of time and game adaptation. Therefore, Kintag does not think that they will be able to compete in Europe with a 4-3-3 formation next season, but through this change In the formation, he sent a signal to all players.

Manchester United is undergoing tremendous changes under his leadership!
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