Beast King Costa

Chapter 330

On the day of the game, because of Benfica's reputation and their performance in the UEFA Champions League last season, and most importantly, the star-studded Benfica lineup, the Alkmaar City Stadium was full of seats.

Even, the Alkmaar club let the young talents of the youth team come to the stadium to watch the first team's first Europa League game of the new season.

In the new season, in order to vigorously develop youth training, the Alkmaar club organized an Alkmaar youth team to participate in the Netherlands C-League B, and strive to enter the Dutch second league in the new season. Like other Dutch clubs, there is a The second-tier team can train in the Dutch second league.

Since the player rosters of the Eredivisie clubs generally have as many as 35 players, this also means that many players make very few appearances in a season. After all, it is impossible to expand the number of league rounds. A strong team like Marr can often win a qualification for the Europa League, but there are still many young players with potential who have not been able to get the opportunity to play and exercise.

Although the Dutch second stage is still a little smaller, for young players, it is still enough to accumulate experience and strive for the first-team coaches to pay attention to them, so as to gain a chance to be in the top position.

this game!

The first team of Alkmaar has played against a team with the strength of the Champions League. It is definitely a good opportunity for the young players of the Alkmaar youth team to accumulate experience to watch such a high-level match. .

Of course, in such an important game, even if Louis van Gaal likes to promote young people, it is impossible for him to arrange a large number of young players against a team whose strength and reputation are above Alkmaar Play-Alkmaar's starting lineup is mainly based on the absolute main force of the league.

Exactly as Fernando Santos expected.

Louis van Gaal, a famous coach who has led world-class clubs and is extremely confident in his dealings with others, will certainly not change his technical and tactical style of play just because of who his opponent is.

Louis van Gaal continues to stick to the 4-3-1-2 formation!

Goalkeeper position, Didoley.

An Australian who is naturalized in the Netherlands.

Didoli is a very traditional Australian Maori. He is quite tall and strong. He even looks like a rugby player. Not to mention, Didoli really played Australian football, which is a bit like American rugby, when he was young. Well, it's just that the prospect of Australian football is limited to Australia, so I switched to football.

Defenders: Gretal Ravenstansson, Opdan, Lürink, Jaruk.

Midfielder: Shalls, Joey Gujongsen, Medink.

Attacking midfielder: Joe Mo.

Forwards: Koffman, Averazze.

In this 4-3-1-2 formation, there are still two wingers on the front line, used as pseudo-forwards, and the real offensive terminator is hidden between the midfielder and the front line, and can stand at any time and anywhere. Come out and use the opportunity of the two false forwards to pull a cross to give the opponent a fatal blow!
In this lineup, the most famous right forward is the former international Averazze. However, Averazze has not even played 20 times on behalf of the Dutch national team. Under the Dutch football environment, the Dutch fans have already forgotten this former wing genius.

Koffman was born in the youth training of Alkmaar. He is considered one of the treasures of the youth training. This season, he has been reused under Louis van Gaal. It can be regarded as quite satisfactory, the ball that should be passed can basically be passed in place, and if there is a chance in front of the goal, it can be finished calmly, but it needs two or three more years of training to be the leader in the frontcourt.

With the defensive support of Joey Gujongsen, a defensive midfielder who sits in the middle and has the ability to sweep across a large area, the double midfielders of Schals and Medink can boldly push in and kill directly when attacking. The front field is used for the current field.

What is rare and valuable is that when the offense turns to defense, Schals and Medink will spare no effort to chase back and make up for the team's defensive loopholes.

This kind of midfield staffing, which is not too extreme in the Dutch football environment, can be regarded as one of the characteristics of Louis van Gaal's tactical system in coaching Alkmaar.

As for Fernando Santos' formation, it was completely beyond Louis Van Gaal's expectations.

When training on the field at the Alkmaar City Stadium yesterday evening, Fernando Santos' three midfielder tactics did not appear in the starting lineup.

Fernando Santos still sent a 4-2-3-1 Portuguese Super League main tactical lineup, the most important thing is that the personnel arrangement is also quite aggressive on the offensive end.

Goalkeeper: Quim.

Defenders: Leonardo Bastos, Luizon, David Luiz, Nelson.

Back midfielder: Pettit, Carter Solanis.

Frontcourt: Calagonis, Nuno Gomez, Simão.

Center forward: Diego Costa.

There is no so-called three-back defensive formation, and there is no defense emphasized by Fernando Santos during training!Defense!Defense!

Some are the offensive left-back Leonardo Bastos, and there are three swords in the frontcourt, and the offensive firepower can be called an explosive frontcourt four!

This means that Fernando Santos was completely setting off smoke bombs when he stepped on the field for training yesterday.

How can there be any defense!Defense!Defense!
Some are offensive!attack!attack!
Looking at the starting lineup and tactical formation arranged by Fernando Santos, Louis van Gaal was silent for a while in the locker room, and then slowly said: "Fernando Santos, this guy is quite cunning! Obviously He was planning to fight us, and he kept setting off smoke bombs during training. Defend? Defend! He just wants to fight us to the end!"

Louis van Gaal's assistant coach tentatively said: "Actually, it doesn't matter. We didn't fall into Coach Fernando Santos' trick yesterday. We still stick to our tactics and we haven't been led by the opponent. The impact should not be big. ?”

"The impact is really not big, but..."

Louis van Gaal showed a sad look: "I'm worried that our defense can't withstand the impact of Benfica's striker! Last night I watched the game video of Benfica's new season league debut. Their No. 9 player, a supernova from Brazil Diego Costa is terrible! It is difficult for Opdan and Lurink to withstand Diego's impact with the ball due to their confrontational abilities."

"Then... what shall we do?"

"What else can I do!"

Louis van Gaal sighed helplessly: "We also don't have a tall central defender with traditional English football style to use. Our Dutch football defenders have become more and more particular about their feet over the years, which has caused the defenders to fight more and more. It's getting softer. Sometimes it takes the lead, and it needs to stabilize the defense. It turns out that even a central defender who can carry people is stretched! Hey..."

Speaking of this, Louis van Gaal couldn't help showing an envious expression: "Like Benfica's back line, there are tall central defenders who can use it. Louison! What a tall and tall defender! The main central defender of the Brazilian national team, defending from the front Ability can be said to be among the top five in the world! It would be great if we in Alkmaar also had a central defender like Luisson who is tough on frontal defense and able to hold a big center forward!"

Of course, these are just what Louis van Gaal thinks about.

In order to change the environment and verify the tactical ideas he designed over the years, Louis van Gaal resigned from the position of technical director of Ajax and came to Alkmaar, a small town team where he played for the end of his career. pointer.

Before coming to Alkmaar, Louis van Gaal was also very clear, very clear, coaching at a small club like Alkmaar, the recruiting aspect is definitely not as happy as when he was coaching in Barcelona. It needs to be negotiated with the club's top management, and the opinions are unanimous, and then soon, the immediate combat power in my heart that meets the requirements of the tactical system will be airborne to my team.

Of course, the main problem here is not that the top management of the Alkmaar club does not support Louis van Gaal's work.

On the contrary, Louis van Gaal's coaching in Alkmaar can be said to have obtained the most relaxed coaching environment in his coaching career. No matter how incredible the tactics and personnel are, the senior management of the Alkmaar club will unconditionally support Louis van Gaal.

The key issue is - money!
For a small-town team like Alkmaar, the transfer expenditure for a season is less than 10/1 of Ajax.

Due to the introduction of the Bosman Act, Ajax can no longer cause any bloodshed in the transfer market, let alone a small town team like Alkmaar with a very average local economy.

The reason why there are many players from small countries in Alkmaar's lineup is not only the two Icelandic players and a player from Australia in the starting lineup, but also players from Georgia and players from small East African countries...these reasons are not because How good these players are, it's just that their transfer fees are cheap.

If there were enough transfer expenses, Louis van Gaal would not consider Icelandic players. He would directly choose to introduce two tall English defenders to make up for the team's lack of hardness in the backcourt, and then introduce a Serie A ironclad player. The waist solves the problem of "waist weakness" and makes your team's waist stronger, and then introduces a Brazilian striker to make your team have a higher success rate in frontcourt and more creativity...

Ok!

These are just the thoughts of Louis van Gaal.

At least, these things were impossible to achieve during the time when Alkmaar was coaching.

However, Louis van Gaal did not think about tying his future to the small town of Alkmaar in the long run. In the future, the Dutch football star and world famous coach will still accept the invitation of world-class clubs and go to a higher level. stage to coach.

It's just that Louis van Gaal hopes to achieve his goal before leaving Alkmaar-Louis van Gaal hopes to take this small town team to create a dark horse miracle in Dutch football!He wants to lead this team without star players and without any capital predators to break the dominance of the four giants of the Eredivisie over the championship for so many years.

Although Alkmaar is now far from the top four Eredivisie giants Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord and Twente, Louis van Gaal is still working hard towards his goal. Training the young people of the team.

Before the players left the dressing room and returned to the pitch, Louis van Gaal did not forget to give the players a shot in the arm.

"Don't underestimate the Benfica team! Although they unexpectedly lost the league title and Champions League qualification under the leadership of coach Ronald Koeman last season, they are still a strong team in the knockout stage of the Champions League. The team! It is one of the strong teams in this Europa League championship!"

Seeing the shivering looks of the young players, Louis van Gaal continued to tell the players in an unquestionable tone: "What the club chairman said in front of the media before was just to motivate you, but you! You have to know exactly what your strength is. Where to go - our goal this season is just to get out of the group stage of the Europa League! Our ultimate goal is still to challenge the dominance of the four giants of the Eredivisie for the championship!"

Seeing that the players didn't seem to understand what he wanted to express, Louis van Gaal continued to add helplessly: "In short, you don't have to worry about winning or losing in this game! Just play with your hands and feet free...don't worry about it. Worry about conceding goals! Even if you concede four goals, five goals, six goals in this game... I won’t blame you. We just need to kick out our tactics and we’ll be fine.”

Ok……

Louis van Gaal couldn't get his words too clear either.

If you just say "I think we will lose a lot of goals in this game with a high probability", then the boys will probably be discouraged before they play, and they will even play offensively without morale and powerlessness.

At that time, it will really become the second team to be beaten by Benfica after Boavista this season.

Whether it's for his own coaching experience, for Alkmaar, or even the reputation of the Eredivisie League in Europe, Louis van Gaal can't make his team unable to play offense-well, the ball can be lost; the defense can also I can't bear it, but the goal difference must not be too exaggerated.

however……

In the locker room of the away team at the Alkmaar City Stadium, Diego unexpectedly received a cup task from the Real Ball King system at this time.

If Louis van Gaal knew about Diego's cup mission, he would definitely be desperate and want to lead his players to stop playing...

(End of this chapter)