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Chapter 347 Comprehension and Another Strong Enemy

In the end, Arsenal 5-0 Manchester City. At the post-match press conference, the good-tempered Mancini was almost pissed off by these bastards on Fleet Street. Even Wenger had to say: "This score is indeed unexpected, but Mr. Mancini is an excellent coach. Manchester City's current results benefit from his work!"

In the interview, Li Yuxin, the captain of Arsenal, also believed that a game cannot deny Mancini's work!
This world is really sad, because sometimes it is the opponent who understands you the most. It is true that in the previous life as a fan, there was no lack of Mancini, but after seeing the changes in Manchester City in the past few years, Li Yuxin also understands that Mancini is not that kind of champion coach, but he is also a hardworking and good coach.
Not only people, but a team is also a team. You can hate a team, but if you deliberately lose to the team's competitors just to hate a team, then this team is far from worthy of the status of a wealthy family!In the future, Inter Milan still defeated AC Milan and let Juventus win the championship in advance when there was no hope for the Champions League.

"A team can hate an opponent, but if that hate takes precedence over the desire to win, then the team is not going anywhere."

In the next Champions League semi-finals after a few rounds, Arsenal will face the powerful Bayern Munich. This is the runner-up in history, the Triple Crown next season, and many Arsenal players were injured before the game!
Before the game, the coaching staff began to analyze Bayern. Tactical consultant Ji Dong first said: "Heynckes' Bayern has two outstanding features. One is comprehensive. This Bayern's attack methods are very rich, including high crosses, ground penetration, rib breakthroughs, and long shots in front of the penalty area. Deadly killing intent; you can use blitz to quickly defeat the opponent and take a walk in the second half, or you can use hard work to consume energy and finally kill Dortmund. How Bayern plays depends entirely on the characteristics of the opponent and their own needs.

The second is balance.The biggest problem that Van Gaal left for Bayern is that it is top-heavy, the offense is extremely gorgeous, and the defense is a mess.Under the transformation of Heynckes, Bayern regained the offensive and defensive balance, especially the control of the opponent's offensive space has reached an unprecedented level. According to the statistics of many games, the opponent has very few threatening shots. Neuer has been reduced to a spectator in many games, and even had to interact with ball boys.

Therefore, Heynckes' Bayern relied on comprehensive offensive methods, a balanced offensive and defensive system, and changeable rhythm tactics. At its peak, it realized its own characteristics and strengths on the basis of restraining the opponent's strengths.The most obvious change of Guardiola's current transformation this season is -to fight the weak team to create a tragedy, fight the strong team's own tragedy, and simply speaking, winning the game is basically forcibly crushed with hard strength. Once you encounter an opponent of the same magnitude, or a strong opponent, Bayern's offense is very difficult. There is basically no good way except for personal breakthroughs. In the face of oppression and counterattacks, the lines were constantly making mistakes. The ball lost the Bayern Champions League knockout. Half of the passing errors in the face of oppression was steal or countered.

When Heynckes took over Bayern, he said that Bayern's current formation is fine, 4231 is suitable for Bayern, and the offense is not a big problem. After all, 81 goals in the league are enough to win the championship. The key is the reconstruction of the defensive system and the balance between offense and defense.And his transformation steps are also based on this idea.The striker only introduced Peterson, the Bundesliga Golden Boot, from Cottbus to enrich the bench, while the goalkeeper paid a lot of money to introduce Neuer to replace the old Bout and the unstable Kraft, to introduce Rafinha to liberate Ram, and to introduce Boateng to make up for the lack of speed of Bayern's central defender.

In addition, the double midfielder combination of Piggy and Kroos that Van Gaal had always imagined was corrected. Gustavo was used as a defensive midfielder as a barrier, and Piggy was used as the offensive and defensive hub. Kroos mentioned that the midfielder was responsible for sorting out attack routes and distributing the ball.The effect of this change is that Bayern conceded only 11 goals in the 12-21 season, tying the record for the fewest goals conceded in the Bundesliga in the 07-08 season.

The rare thing here is that Bayern was always criticized for their lack of defensive strength, and Neuer was not as busy as he is now. I was joking when I wrote ball reviews, and Neuer had to get a camera at his own expense.Bud and Van Buyten are not top-notch defenders, and Boateng is still a frizzy kid.

After Bayern had three runner-ups that year, Heynckes continued to strengthen the lineup.Gustavo's ball and coverage area was insufficient, and Martinez and Piggy were bought to straighten up the double midfielders; Gomez's support and header were flawed, and Mandzukic was bought to have rich attack methods; Dante was introduced from Borussia to strengthen the header defense and strengthen the competition of central defenders.These three moves are all targeted, effectively alleviating the weak links of the team.

Therefore, we can have a relatively clear understanding of Heynckes' transformation logic, and this is also very consistent with normal logic.

And what are the characteristics of Alaba on the wing?Fast and comprehensive, full of physical strength, strong round-trip ability.What is the weakness?The sense of defensive position is not good, and the defensive skills are not very stable.So Heynckes used Alaba to focus on assisting on the side, especially forming a tacit cooperation with Ribery!
What is Heynckes football?Simply put, it is a machine, and each player is a part, each performing its own duties. In the 11-12 season, the division of labor between Bayern’s midfielders and frontcourts was relatively clear: Gustavo or Tymoshchuk were responsible for sweeping and protecting the back line; Piggy was the offensive and defensive hub, leading the rhythm of offensive and defensive transitions; Kroos was the steering wheel of the offense, responsible for sorting out the ball, finding the attack direction, and completing the delivery to the frontcourt; Ribery was the accelerator, mainly completing straight breakthroughs and passes from the left; Points, and pull side crosses.After Robben recovered from injury, he enhanced a breakthrough point on the right and cut inside the shot.Some Bayern fans summed up Bayern's six major attackers at the time as: Lituluo shot to grab points, and Ke Chuanmu swung around.

In addition, among the attack methods of Heynckes, it is of course good to be able to fight alone, but it is more of a cooperative advance of a small commando.Alaba-Franck Ribery's corridor on the left, Ram Robben's bottom-cut cooperation on the right, supplemented by Kroos' long pass and Muller's cover, achieving a tactical value of 1+1 greater than 2.

To make a digression: Heynckes was 64 years old when he entered the palace for the second time to fight the fire, and he was 66 years old when he entered the palace for the third time. He has been in the Bundesliga for decades, and he has stayed in the Iberian Peninsula for almost 10 years, and he is already retired.But this situation gave him some conveniences, that is, to retire.The first retreat is that the old man does not need to prove himself through his coaching performance at Bayern.His football life has been exciting enough, so his mentality is very detached, and he can even be said to be doing his best to help Hoeness, an old friend.So he didn't rush to put his own brand on Bayern, and he didn't bother to refute the traces of Van Gaal football on the team. During the 11-12 season, many people said that Heynckes just picked up Van Gaal's off-the-shelf, made minor repairs, relied on building a good relationship with the top management, and building solidarity with the big names, and it was over if he got the old one.But Heynckes has never refuted, you can say whatever you like if you have good results and unity within the team.In fact, this is a very good thing for Bayern. The attack line that Van Gaal has been kneading for nearly two years is actually painstaking. If Heynckes forcibly proves that he chooses to overthrow and start over, it may not be worth the loss for Bayern. So I say that Heynckes’ mission to Bayern is to set things right.The most obvious counterexample at the time was Inter Milan, which beat Bayern.It also took Mourinho two years to finally give up the persistent 433, tailor-made 4312 for Barcelona, ​​and brought out the power of the Sneijder-Eto'o- Milito combination to win the Champions League.After Benitez came to power, he overthrew and started again. As a result, Inter Milan's 10-11 season was extremely difficult, Benitez also dismissed get out of class early, and Leonardo became popular when he came on stage.Even though there are mostly Inter Milan veterans among them, the lack of fighting spirit after success and fame, and the impact of declining physical strength, it may be much better if Benitez plays steadily and makes changes while playing.Look at Ancelotti in Real Madrid, and he is not in a hurry to change Mourinho's defensive counterattack strategy, but adjusts while playing, bringing his own ideas into it.Allegri entered Juventus this season, and he did not change Conte's 352 rashly. Instead, he gradually integrated into the four-back style of play after having a certain performance foundation, and then switched freely.But Guardiola doesn’t seem to be like this. He was the core of the team when he was a player, and he took the coach to the sky.He wants to prove that Barcelona's Tiki-Taka can be successful outside of La Masia, and there are tactics that have not been successfully tested in Barcelona, ​​​​including 343.None of this can say that Guardiola is wrong. As a young coach in his 40s, he has ideas, abilities and the support of the team. He can make a big difference to create his own world.But the problem is that it has been five years since Bayern’s reform started from Klinsmann to Heynckes’ success. The reason why Fan Hai’s two experienced and outstanding coaches chose 5 by different routes and the current staffing is naturally the reason for his success.Guardiola can develop on the basis of inheritance, experiment in leading games, and gradually see which ideas are feasible and which need to be reconsidered.However, when Guardiola took office, he drastically changed his tactics, excluding unnecessary players, and planned player injuries. His road to change was not smooth at the beginning.And then he himself denied Xiaozhu's tactical plan of playing a single midfielder, Lahm switched to playing a midfielder, and Rafinha mentioned a right back.This lineup has been relatively difficult in the Champions League, and was even cornered by Manchester United.Therefore, there was a joke circulating last season that when Guardiola was not working well, he moved out of Heynckes' way, and then let nature take its course.Of course, it is definitely a joke to say that the cross from the two wings is Heynckes' tactic.But an undeniable fact is that when Bayern returned to the original routine, they felt that the scene was very smooth and the effect was good, not once or twice, and this really shows the traces of the Heynckes era.This is very tormenting for Guardiola, because going back may mean that future changes will be more difficult, but insisting on changes may have to sacrifice the current achievements.In fact, it is also very simple. Bayern was able to squander some points in the Bundesliga at the time, but Guardiola can also play according to the original tactics. If it is easy to take the lead at halftime, there will be enough time to test the new team in the second half.And the more you cling to win at the last moment, the more dependent the players are, and the lower the degree of cooperation may be.The second retreat is Heynckes' football philosophy of retreating to advance.If you look at traditional German and Italian football, you will find that the reason why the performance of these two national teams has been stable and leads Europe is first of all restrictions.Football is also a game of restriction and anti-restriction. I want to limit your advantages, and then break through your restrictions on me and play my advantages.After Heynckes took charge of Bayern, Bayern conceded only 4231 goals in two seasons, equivalent to the level of about one season during Van Gaal's period.His philosophy can be summed up as advancing by retreating. First, retreat 40 meters from Van Gaal's formation. The central defender is no more than half the field, and the midfielder sweeps the middle circle. The frontcourt leaves room for Ribery to sprint. Not only the defensive pressure is reduced, but the offense is not so tiring.In the first two rounds of the season, Bayern lost to Borussia 10:0 and beat Wolfsburg 1:1. Heynckes said after the game not to worry too much. We mainly practiced defense in the summer. The defense has improved a lot in these two games, and the offense will improve soon.Sure enough, they began to slaughter Hamburg and Freiburg, and completed ten consecutive victories, without conceding a goal for more than 0 minutes.In the knockout stage of the Champions League, Heynckes played restricted football more clearly. Against Real Madrid, he used Kroos and Ozil as a pair, and Gustavo swept away, so that Bayern did not lose the wind in the two rounds, and had more chances to score than Real Madrid. In the 1000-12 season, Mandzukic used Mandzukic to pinch Pirlo against Juventus, causing Juventus to lose control of the midfield. Playing Barcelona's space blockade prevented the opponent from finding a good scoring opportunity in the two rounds. In the final against Dortmund, that is, Cuba's opening shot and Dante's penalty kick threatened Neuer.This is the limitation. If you have obvious advantages in any aspect, I would rather sacrifice my own advantages and limit your advantages, and then consider giving full play to my advantages.So Bayern ranked second in many statistics in the 13-12 season. When encountering a good offense and poor defense, I will defend first, and then catch your defensive loopholes;The core idea is to limit your strengths first, and then use my strengths to attack your weaknesses.This kind of thinking based on undefeated first is the most suitable to play in the Champions League knockout rounds, so it is by no means unreasonable for Heynckes to play in the Champions League three times after the restructuring of the Champions League and win two championships and one Asian championship.And it has a lot to do with Heynckes' Thousand Moves!

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