i am gun king

Chapter 374 Carved Defense
Li Yuxin didn't know what agreement the two old coaches reached next, because he walked away knowingly, and this season Arsenal led the way. At the Kearney base, Ji Dong and Boulder were arranging training, while Wenger was thinking in the office. After all, Arsenal now has the possibility of hitting the Premier League title after several years of blood loss. Arsenal need their own leadership to win championships that are more important than the League Cup and the FA Cup! ! !

Wenger belongs to the academic school and pays great attention to the integrity of the team's tactical system, so even if he makes substitutions during the game, he is cautious, for fear of affecting the team's tactical system, so his substitutions rarely change. Generally, substitutions are made for positions where the state is not good and the performance is not good enough.

As Wenger's right-hand man, Ji Dong is very aware of Wenger's shortcomings. The professor's tactical literacy is absolutely no worse than anyone else. He has outstanding tactical knowledge. At the same time, he is very good at building the team's passing and receiving system and offensive routines. Therefore, once Arsenal play smoothly, they are often destructive.

Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, the professor's ability to make local adjustments is not as good as his own in the case of Arsenal's success.

If you use a more professional vocabulary to describe it, Wenger hopes to promote overall changes through partial substitutions.

But there is another kind of head coach whose substitutions are more structural. For example, Ferguson is a genius in this area. He is weak in the construction of the tactical system, but he has a very keen sense of tactics. So after the Triple Crown, he directly introduced Veron to carry out continental reforms.And completely broke and rebuilt Manchester United's formation, but he did not follow the direction of the mainland completely, but groped forward by himself to create Manchester United's own tactics.

In the past few years, you can say that Ferguson has gone a lot of wrong ways, but you have to admit that Manchester United has indeed found a football path of its own, and has created tactics that best suit Manchester United's temperament and spirit.

Relatively speaking, Chelsea's former coach Mourinho also has a keen sense of tactics, but he is too risky and speculative, so his substitutions and adjustments may not be as sophisticated as Ferguson's in many cases, and sometimes it may even be counterproductive.

If Wenger is an academic school with a little idealism and emphasizing the tactical system, then Ferguson and Mourinho seem to be relatively realistic factions. It is still for practical purposes, and even the tactical system is of no importance to them. As long as they can win, they don't care what tactics they use.

Or it can be said that Wenger insists on me as the main player, while Ferguson and Mourinho tend to adapt to the enemy's conditions.

But there is also another kind of head coach. They are very special and happen to be mixed between the academic school and the realistic school. They will make appropriate changes and adjustments according to their opponents, and they all have excellent tactical sense.

Benitez belongs to the middle school.

Looking at Benitez's coaching style, he and Mourinho can be said to be the two head coaches in the Premier League who emphasize the most coordinated operations. Back then, Benitez's Liverpool and Mourinho's Chelsea were regarded as the most integrated team in the Premier League, and now Benitez has followed this feature in Chelsea.

But the two are a little different. Benitez emphasizes meticulousness. His tactics are known for being very, very demanding. Many people even think that his requirements for players are almost mechanical, allowing players to play on the court Execute his tactical requirements mechanically, and he also meticulously arranges each game to the point of cumbersome.

But whether it is Mourinho or Benitez, they all stick to their core concepts, and at the same time have a strong tactical sense, and even take risks for this.

For example, in the original game against Manchester United:
Ferguson's starting tactic in this game was very passive. He was indeed suppressed by Wenger, but soon he grasped the biggest weakness in Wenger's tactic, that is, the consumption of physical energy would be very high, especially considering that Arsenal's team is not a player with outstanding physical fitness, adopting such a tactic will be very passive in the second half.

If it is a normal head coach, he should take the blocking method, which is to contain Arsenal, but Ferguson does the opposite, let you control the ball and let you attack. I have only one purpose, which is to wear you down and further consume your physical energy. It doesn't even matter how many goals you concede in the first half, the most important thing is to wear you down.

This is a very risky approach, because Manchester United may not be able to defend at all in the first half, but De Gea's outstanding performance saved Manchester United at least twice in the first half, so Ferguson won the bet

In the second half, Arsenal's physical energy was almost exhausted, and Ferguson made two consecutive substitutions in the 55th minute, which made Wenger hesitant.

For Ferguson at the time, as long as the offense was effective, the pressure on the defense was negligible.

Relatively speaking, Wenger's substitutions were a bit cautious, even conservative. The replacement of Alexander Song was to strengthen the defense, but the Cameroon international faced Manchester United's offense and did not show his level. The replacement of Bendtner also did not put pressure on Manchester United on the offensive end.

But at the same time, it must be seen that the thickness of Arsenal's bench is indeed too weak, which has become the biggest bottleneck of Wenger's team, because there is not enough thickness of the bench, and you can perform well when the main lineup is complete. That's great, but once you get to the winter break, then you will face the biggest test.

Benitez was a little bit the opposite when he was in Liverpool. The Spaniard always liked to play rotation from the beginning. The lineup changed every day, and the players also changed, which made people unpredictable.

What Arsenal need more now is how to build a better defensive system. The arrival of Buffon in the 1112 season gave Arsenal a world-class goalkeeper, but they still conceded a lot of goals. .

Today's central defenders are very scarce. A very important reason for this situation is that the tactical system of European football has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years. Everyone knows very well that integration is the future trend. All head coaches with a little foresight They are all overhauling the team.

Perhaps in the eyes of many fans, integration is a good thing for the middle and lower teams, because the fans do not know the situation.

The so-called integration is to pursue a stable one plus one greater than or equal to two, and one is the player's strength, so for the team, the overall strength has an advantage, that is, the overall strength of the team will no longer be the same as in the past, and the core players will be injured. , the team's performance fluctuates too much, but this is a nightmare for the middle and lower teams, because they will find that it is getting harder and harder to be upset, because the strength of their players cannot be compared with the strong teams. The overall result is , the gap between the two sides is even greater.

For some players in the integrated strong team, especially the scorer, it becomes easier to score goals, because the integration makes the strong team easily crush the weak team, and it is naturally easy to score.

So this season, Arsenal have scored 42 goals so far. Li Yuxin scored 14 goals alone, which is three goals more than the second-ranked Manchester City God according to the law. Bell also scored 11 goals, Walcott scored 6 goals, and the trident scored a total of 42 goals out of Arsenal's 31 goals.

But this is on the offensive level, but what about defense?more and more difficult
To some extent, the overall transformation of the current football offense is relatively fast, but the overall defense is a bit behind. A defensive player is easier, and for a defensive player, switching styles is not an easy thing to do.

Even Ji Dong can say that even 13 years ago in his previous life, the transformation of central defenders is still in a very embarrassing stage, so if you look at the top central defenders in 2013, you will find that you can’t pick out a few top central defenders, even in wealthy teams.

Ji Dong dare to say that looking at today's football, no one has more tactical foresight than him, because he has experienced all this personally, and he knows exactly what changes will happen in the future, so he can always walk ahead of others. This time, he will still be ahead in the cultivation of central defenders.

But facing the coaching staff, he can put forward his opinions to Wenger, but he feels that he should talk to the players.

Coming down from the second floor of the training building, Ji Dong intends to go to the pitching machine training room, which has become the favorite place for Arsenal players. The other place is the indoor football stadium, where there will be group matches every day, and the players will also draw up some interesting rewards and punishments, such as cleaning the toilet.

But when Ji Dong was about to leave the training building, he found that the people he was looking for were all in the gym, which made him want to laugh, because he felt that the last thing the team's central defenders needed to practice was strength and confrontation.

"Are you in a meeting?" Ji Dong walked in directly.

Bennetia and Koscielny and Vermaelen are all there, and the Belgian is still sitting on the chest clamp.

The two central defenders of "Mr. Dong" were obviously discussing something. As soon as they saw Ji Dong walk in, Vermaelen Koscielny immediately stood up, and Benedia immediately got off the chest clamp.

"Don't we have a rule that it is not necessary not to use gym equipment for training without permission?" Ji Dong's tone was a bit harsh.

Every piece of equipment in the gym has its fixed function. As a professional player, it does not mean that the more you practice here, the better. The most important thing is to be reasonable, and Arsenal has very high requirements and management measures for these.

"We have consulted Professor Peter Brandt." Vermaelen quickly explained.

After hearing this, Ji Dong didn't say anything more. He looked at Vermaelen and then at Benedia. This French boy is really distinctive with his bald head. His head is very big and round. He really looks a bit like the melon in Plants vs. Zombies.

"If you have time, I think you should watch more game videos, and at the same time practice passing and receiving more, especially the fast diagonal long pass to the two wings." Ji Dong gave his opinion to the three central defenders.

Vermaelen Koscielny and Bennetia looked at each other and nodded. Then Bennetia thought for a while and asked, "What about our strength confrontation? Do you think it should be strengthened?"

After hearing this, Ji Dong smiled, shook his head and said, "I can't say whether to strengthen or not, because for a central defender, strength is definitely needed, but I think enough is enough. On the contrary, you have played many other positions. Vermaelen, you have played forward and midfielder, and your ability to hold and pass the ball is very good. Vincent, you have also played as a midfielder, and your ability to hold the ball is good."

"You know? The reason why the boss reuses you is because he likes you."

Vermaelen, Koscielny, and Bennetia were all a little surprised. Ji Dong never told them why they were considering bringing them in, but he has always strengthened their ability to hold and play the ball.

Ji Dong thought about it, he had enough time today, so he decided to take a center back class, so he brought a pen and paper from the gym, and introduced to two center backs he was very optimistic about.

"What do you think is the most important thing for all teams to insist on integration now? Also, if you think about it carefully, what will you find when you watch the game tapes from around the beginning of the century?"

Both of them were a bit unexpected about Ji Dong's problem, which was either too deep or too cold.

"Let me tell you, when more and more teams become more and more proficient in overall control, running off the ball will become more and more important, because the offense of football always uses its own advantages to attack the opponent. Weakness, but in the past? The overall tactics were not strong enough, not rigorous enough, and the coordination was not high, so it relied on the individual strength of the stars, using one-on-one to create local advantages, so with Pele, with Maradona, there is The magical performance of Ronaldo and others."

"Because one's most advantageous force is concentrated at one point, breaking through a certain point of the opponent's defense line, and then disintegrating the entire defensive surface, creating gaps, and scoring opportunities will naturally come. Therefore, in that era, the personal abilities of stars were very high. The personal abilities of offensive players and defensive players were very important, because at that time all offensive tactics were doing everything possible to create one-on-one opportunities.

(End of this chapter)