World's No.1 Football Manager

Chapter 566 Tottenham's Maginot Line

Just 30 minutes into the first half, Gao Yuan made a substitution.

Ronaldo was replaced and Aduriz was replaced.

"..."

All the commentators broadcasting the game around the world were silent for a while.

Because they really don't understand what Gao Yuan is going to do.

At the moment of stalemate, remove an organizational midfielder in his prime and replace him with a striker who is over 40 years old and has retired once!

If nothing else, let's talk about the intensity of the game, how long can Aduriz last?
Can he survive the remaining 60 minutes of the game?
However, analysis still has to be analyzed.As for whether the analysis is right or not, that is a matter of opinion.

Some analysts said: "This reflects Gao Yuan's consistent tactical thinking of military tactics. It definitely exceeded Mourinho's expectations and caught the opponent by surprise."

It's a correct piece of crap, certainly unexpected, but it's an effect, not a cause, and doesn't explain why it happened.

Some speculated: "The young coach wants to use the experience of the veteran. In such an important game as the Champions League knockout, experience is crucial!"

However, Ronaldo is also 30. He has experienced ups and downs, ups and downs, and has a mature mentality and enough experience. To a certain extent, he has more experience than Aduriz in the competition.

Some disdain: "Gao Yuan is too young, he messed up his position first! It's so stupid to think that adding forwards can break the deadlock!"

But this kind of argument is pure blindness. Anyone with a little common sense knows that Gao Yuan is definitely not a guy who doesn't know how to advance or retreat.Taking a ten thousand step back, it is also a draw now, so there is nothing to be confused about.

The commentators in the world are not all idiots, there are still many insightful people, and they guessed Gao Yuan's intentions.

"Gao Yuan should have done this to simplify things. Facing Mourinho's steel bus, it is difficult to penetrate through the ground. It is difficult for a small and fast player like Ronaldo to play a role in the muscular jungle. He simply replaced a center forward and added a player in the penalty area to form a multi-point outflanking situation. So this substitution is not a simple personnel adjustment, but a change in tactical play!"

This is indeed a lofty purpose!
At the beginning of the season, the retired Aduriz was introduced to the team through Mendes, just for this day!
It's not a lofty oracle, the research predicts that he will meet the defensive master Mourinho in the Champions League.Instead, based on his judgment of the team's strength and reputation, Gao Yuan expected to encounter more and more "buses" of various types in future games.

Breaking the dense defense is a worldwide problem, and using a center to hit hard is the simplest and most direct one of the few countermeasures!
Today, Gao Yuan encountered an iron plate in White Hart Lane. Gao Yuan judged the situation and decided to use double centers to strike the iron!

Soon, audiences all over the world discovered that Maritimo's tactics had changed.

Although he used to play defensively and counterattacks, he prefers to keep the ball under his feet, but now he plays more directly, with all kinds of big-footed long passes flying all over the sky, long passes from the backcourt, 45-degree explosions, bottom crosses... The ball is flying around in the air, just like the bombs dropped by the United States in Iraq.

Although Gao Yuan's tactics are simple and straightforward, the outflanking of the offensive players is extremely layered.

In the penalty area, Dzeko and Aduriz are not the only two people to count on, but there is always a full-back as the third attack point.

If the ball is passed from the left, Vukovic from the right will enter the penalty area and outflank the point; if it is a pass from the right, then Wang Zi from the left will also enter the penalty area and grab a point to outflank.

And if it is a long pass directly from the backcourt, then maybe Vukovic and Wang Zi will both enter the penalty area to support the offense.

Both Wang Zi and Vukovic have good physical fitness and can grab headers. This is why Gao Yuan replaced Ronaldo and kept them on the court.

As the game progressed, Mourinho frowned.

As a defensive master, his team "bus" puts it at a high level.

A solid defensive system, like chains horizontally, deep vertically, sweeping in the midfield, and returning defense in the frontcourt.

If the opponent wants to tear the defense line by passing and receiving the ball, it is very difficult to do so.

My pre-match deployment is to wait for the opponent to make a mistake, to expose flaws in repeated unsuccessful attacks, and then to kill with a sharp counterattack.

However, the other party didn't play their cards according to the routine!

Without any warning, a long string of punches started!

I studied Maritimo's game video before the game and found that the opponent was a team with flexible tactics.However, I didn't expect the other party to change so completely!
This is very troublesome.No matter how many defensive players you have, or how tough and flexible the ground defense is, the opponent never walks on the ground and flies the ball around in the sky.

No matter how many defensive players you have, no matter how strong your stealing ability is, you can only watch the ball fly over your head, and become a few people competing for high jumps and grabbing headers.

The high-altitude ball avoids the defender's help defense to the greatest extent.Although the defensive side can also use forms such as double-teaming to restrict the offensive side from grabbing headers.

However, after all, the air is different from the feet. As long as the body is strong, you can get stuck in the position; as long as you are good at judging where the ball falls, you have a chance to grab the header;

The air defense capability has always been Tottenham's shortcoming. They are an extremely fast counter-attacking team.The average height is not dominant; they are not afraid of fighting with their feet, but if the ball goes three ways, it is not their strong point.

The high-altitude ball attack has a lot of luck.The movement of the ball in the air will be affected by many factors.Maritimo's header success rate is not too high.

However, this is enough for Tottenham to have a headache.

Their solid ground defense system is like the French Maginot Line during World War II. No matter how strong it is, people will not go here at all, but choose to bypass it!
This has turned Tottenham's Maginot Line into a joke.

Moreover, the advantage of directly opening the long pass with big feet is that it can greatly speed up the rhythm and frequency of the attack.

If you hit the ground normally, the ball will go upside down, with a dozen or even dozens of kicks, but it will not be a shot.But the high-altitude ball is different. Two or three kicks may hoist the ball into the penalty area, forming a good chance for a header.

Although the success rate is low, there will always be one or two threats in ten times. From the perspective of unit time, it seems to be more cost-effective than ground transmission.

Maritimo's long pass is so strong that the more he plays, the more he has experience, and the more he plays, the easier it is.

But Mourinho was so worried that he sucked his teeth. The progress of this game was completely beyond his expectations.

No one bullies his team!If it was back then, when Terry was at Chelsea, Varane and Ramos at Real Madrid, even the "world-class above **" Fellaini at Manchester United, Gao Yuan, would you dare to play long strings so unscrupulously?

However, Gao Yuan knows how to judge the situation, make the best use of the situation, does not stick to a football concept, and can put down his body to play some ugly and primitive high-altitude balls, which is enough to show the coaching skills of this young man.

Doesn't this coincide with my own football philosophy?
People in the world say that they are outdated and that their practical football concepts should be thrown into the dustbin of history.

And the several encounters in recent years have also made the once invincible madman have self-doubt for a while.

However, in this young man today, I vaguely saw the shadow of when I led the team to sweep the Premier League and dominate Europe.

The same emphasis on discipline and iron blood, the same disregard for gossip, the same disregard for worldly vision, with only victory in their eyes, full of passion, and unscrupulous.

He is the same kind of person as himself!Maybe he can carry forward his idea of ​​practical football!
Thinking of this, Mourinho looked at Gao Yuan standing on the coaching bench of the visiting team, his eyes full of appreciation and expectation.

In the past, he was a little bit conflicted about Gao Yuan being called a "new madman" when he was compared with himself, but looking at it now, he is worthy of this title!
This young man has a bright future!

(End of this chapter)