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Chapter 356 The Debate About the Wing

For this reason, Sky Sports even published a long article in the latest column to analyze this situation.

This commentator believes that in today's tactical system, the once-common attacking midfielder configuration is no longer enough to explain the trend of today's football tactical changes. The attacking midfielder is relatively awkward in defense because the attacking midfielder cannot be formed like a forward. The first defensive interception cannot constitute the second defensive interception like a midfielder. Therefore, under the premise that the division of defense is difficult to be clear, as a midfielder who is relatively insufficient in personal defense and assisting the team's defense, The attacking midfielder in defense is undoubtedly tasteless.

In the past, although the team's attacking winger's wing pull can widen the width of the field as much as possible, making the front midfielder play an obvious role in organizing the attack, but its role in defense is not as good as that of midfield and offense. It is not as good as a striker who can maintain the number of consecutive goals. Compared with the front midfielder, the role of the midfielder is relatively small. The direction of modern football is to advance, attack, retreat and defend on all three lines. The trend of forwards recovering further back naturally leads to the reduction of midfield space, and the disappearance of the midfielder position due to being squeezed should be an inevitable development of international football.

At first glance, Kenny's sudden rise seems to be due to personal ability, but the fact should be that there is another part of the reason, that is, the responsibilities of the wide players in front of the full-backs in Leeds United have become more clear than in the past.The protection of the full-back by the full-time defensive single midfielder or double midfielder in the tactics allows the wide players in front of the full-back to get more relief, which leads to the position of the traditional full-back on the field relatively more forward without having to be too much Concerned about defense.

In addition, the fusion of the characteristics of the winger and midfielder is the outstanding feature of Kenny's success. Observing his past games, it can be seen that Kenny not only has the ability of a traditional winger with high speed, but also has the ability to cut inside, The ability of a traditional winger who crosses positions frequently.

So in the end, the commentator believes that wingers like Kenny will be popular, and if the traditional attacking midfielder does not make changes in time, it will disappear in the long river of history.But what he didn't expect was that when this article was published in the newspaper, it aroused people's enthusiastic response, and this response was extremely negative abuse and disdain.

We must know that most of the wingers in today's world football are mainly dribbling. Such wingers are extremely capable of running wild from the wing and making low passes, but it is rare to cut in from the wing.They usually have mediocre scoring ability, but they seem to have unique insights that other types of wingers lack in the world in terms of passing from the bottom to the bottom. Not very fast but very accurate high-arc over-the-top ball.

It is precisely because of this that in England, which values ​​individual dribbling and has high technical content in passing and cutting, traditional centers still occupy a very important position in the Spanish league, while short centers have little room to play.

Teams around this type of winger tactics often need good midfielders, because the connection between the midfielder as a winger and the striker must appear as the team's metronome, and the midfielder can also cooperate with the winger, just like today's Real Madrid, Arsenal, and Leverkusen are typical teams with relatively traditional tactics of this type.

Their success in recent years also shows the practicality of this tactic. Looking at several teams, they have extremely powerful wingers. Fullbacks like Carlos and Lucio are enough to make up for the offensive firepower on the wing.And Figo, Zidane, Pires, Ballack and others in the middle are enough to defeat the opposing players.

When attacking, the team's overall pressure is that they often have at least two attacking midfielders in the midfield. Although there are relatively high requirements for the personal abilities of the attacking midfielders, they need to be able to assist the full-backs and protect the wingers from running wild. The ability to play the space left behind also requires the ability to pass accurate long balls for wingers when they are fast counter-attacks and accurate short balls when attacking the position.

But this is enough to refute the Sky Sports commentator's point of view. The high midfielders of these successful teams mean that most of the top teams need excellent midfielders. Therefore, if there is a need, there is no supply. ?

In people's eyes, the so-called modern wingers are actually the Dutch wingers that are common today. They are extremely capable of breaking out from the side and cutting inside, but their crossing ability is relatively weaker than the former.Just like a player like Peter Pan Overmars, he is characterized by extremely fast speed, strong explosive power, excellent dribbling ability, and a good sense of scoring.

As we all know, the Dutch winger tactics are unique in the world in a sense. From the era of the Dutch Three Musketeers to the present, the single center Van Basten and Van Nistelrooy, who have the same tactical thinking, have a wide range of activities. They often seem to be at the forefront alone, but in fact they all have the characteristics of often retreating to the front of the midfield.

The tactical retreat of the center forward takes away at least one marking center back, and leaves the blank space in front of the center forward for the wingers who switch positions on both sides to make a fuss. In this way, the disadvantages of the winger's lack of height and strength are immediately reduced to the minimum. The advantages of flexibility and speed are easily reflected.It is also beneficial to the team to know that the center forward takes away a marking central defender and the central midfielder cooperates with the cutting winger to create a local situation where more players play less.

From this point of view, both the 98 World Cup and the 00 European Cup not long ago were even reflected, and this is why Dutch football is called offensive football. The insertion of the central midfielder in the back row has led to a diversification of offensive levels.

When people's argument came out, the former Sky Sports commentator was immediately suppressed. In this era of advocating results to speak, there is no doubt that the recent failures of the Netherlands and Manchester United are the same as the recent failures of Real Madrid and Arsenal. Success is enough to explain everything. As for Kenny, it is completely regarded as a special example. After all, like him, he has a wide explosive point, cuts inside, free kicks, balances left and right feet, and can make front-of-the-door shots from time to time. Point players are really rare!

Who said that the Italian national team, which is already a dynasty, can't find a second person like him?
Kenny, who has a limited vision under such debates, doesn't know which one is the reason for his success, so he can only blame the latter, after all, he has a system.

(End of this chapter)