Soccer Card System

Chapter 56 Luton's defensive tactics

Chapter 53 Luton's defensive tactics
"The lights at Stamford Bridge look brighter than those at Worth Stadium." A fan in the visiting team's fan area sighed.

The fans who came to Luton looked at the team owner, David Morton had to pretend he didn't see anything, because it doesn't cost money to change the stadium lights.
The reason why fans pay attention to things like lights is that Chelsea have been in possession of the ball for the past 3 minutes, but in fact they did not push the ball into Luton’s penalty area at all, so the scene of the game is quite boring.

Of course, Chelsea wanted to press hard and eat up this arrogant Second Division team in one bite, but as soon as the football passed the center circle, Chelsea players could strongly feel the defensive pressure brought by the opponent.

Lampard retreated from the position of the front midfielder to the center circle to get the ball, because Deco made a cross pass from the left and right of the midfielder before, but he couldn't find a forward line, so Lampard came back to ask for the ball.

Although Scolari wants to establish Deco's core position in the team, facing a Chelsea dressing room boss like Lampard, Deco still dare not confront the opponent.

Lampard took the ball and turned around. From his line of sight, there was a whole area of ​​players wearing orange jerseys, and Chelsea's players seemed to be cut one by one by Luton's players. Short forward passes were almost impossible. Luton concentrated a large number of players in a small space to participate in defense.

Lampard wanted to pass a long pass, but found that he was approached by players on both sides of the ball, so Lampard then passed back.

After Ivanovic got the ball, he tried a long pass, but because the distance of his long pass in the backcourt was too long, after the football landed, Luton's overall formation almost moved over.

"The efficiency and discipline of formation movement are very good!!"

Scolari, who was wearing a blue tracksuit, shook his gray beard next to his lips, and glanced at Gao Bo who was standing not far away.

This young man is not just a big talker. Judging from Luton's performance in the past few minutes, this is a well-trained team.

Luton's defense is not an iron barrel formation in the general sense, but like a piece of brown sugar moving back and forth on the court. With the development of the ball, they also piled up a large number of players on the side with the ball, making Chelsea players feel that there are far more Luton players than Chelsea players locally.

This is why Chelsea have not been able to quickly pass the ball to the frontcourt.

"We need to pass the ball faster!!!"

It was also the first time Lampard saw such a defensive tactic, but he quickly discovered the weakness of this tactic.

Speed ​​up the pass! !
Accelerating the passing speed is indeed an effective way to crack Luton's tactics.

However, speeding up the passing speed is easy to say, but not all teams can easily do it.Chelsea is a powerhouse in European football, but before that, Chelsea was not a team known for passing and controlling the ball.Scolari's transformation of Chelsea is only superficial at present. He just increased the weight of Deco holding the ball. Now Deco is a central midfielder with a retreat position. He gets the ball through Deco, and then Chelsea's players run again.

Gao Bo referred to Simeone's defensive system in Atletico Madrid in the future, and accumulated enough personnel in some areas to put huge pressure on the opponent's ball holder.

But the weakness of this formation obviously also exists. Back then, Barcelona defeated Atletico Madrid with a continuous and fast pass.

It is now 2009, and it is the first time that Luton's defensive tactics have appeared in the mainstream media's field of vision.The current dense defense is more of an iron barrel formation in the traditional sense. Four defenders who will never leave the penalty area of ​​their own side, plus three or four defensive midfielders in front of the defenders, two iron-like lines of defense lie in front of the goal.

Establishing an absolute superiority in numbers at key positions is the essence of the Iron Barrel formation's tactics.

Establishing a numerical advantage in a local area is also what Gao Boyi said.However, this number advantage can be in the restricted area or in other areas
For Luton, this is a defensive and offensive formation. Once Chelsea makes a mistake, Luton can immediately launch a counterattack once the ball is stolen! !
After all, Scolari is still an old-school football coach. In fact, the way of playing with a single core is now increasingly abandoned by the times.Even Barcelona, ​​which has been insisting on pass control, is now gradually moving away from single-core tactics. After all, when a player controls too much ball power, it is easy to be targeted by opponent tactics.

The same is true for Chelsea now. Gao Bo's eyes have been staring at Deco. When Lampard came back to take the ball, the muscles around Gao Bo's mouth trembled. Lampard came back to spoil the situation.
What a pity.
"Luton deserves to be a prestigious team in the Second Division. Under the training of Chinese coaches, this team's tactical style is full of distinctive personal characteristics. This is the first time I have seen this way of playing in the English league." Letkinson said.

"This method consumes too much physical energy for the players." Redknapp Jr. questioned, "I doubt whether Luton can last until the second half with this way of playing football."

Little Redknapp’s doubts are justified. In fact, in the development of modern football, one of the fastest-changing items is the running data. In Redknapp’s era, football tactics are very different from now.

In Gao Bo's later life, in the time period of 2018, after a football game with sufficient quality, the players often ran about ten kilometers! !
On the one hand, this is because the change of football rules makes the rhythm of football faster and faster, and on the other hand, the development of football tactics increasingly requires players to run.

Gao Bo is not worried about Luton's physical condition. In Luton's daily training, physical fitness is the top priority.Moreover, most of Luton's lineup are young people in their 20s. This is a young army with plenty of energy.

Chelsea's passing speed has indeed accelerated.

Both Lampard and Deco have good skills at their feet, and they can handle such quick passes.

The two passed several times in the midfield, and they quickly passed the ball to the front of Luton's penalty area.

Then Lampard took a long shot from outside the penalty area, which was considered to have completed the first shot of the game.

The fans in the stands burst into cheers, and the Luton fans were also taken aback.

Gao Bo didn't have much reaction to this. He saw Chelsea's intentions. The continuous cooperation between Lampard and Deco was perfect just now, but can they always have such a perfect cooperation?

Not necessarily.
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