song of the saints

Chapter 18 Chain Defense
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After Chen Zhun arrived in London, he was still thinking about Griezmann and Stones.He has already signed two former football stars this week.Coupled with the young talents in their own team, the future Southampton team can blow up a youthful storm in the Premier League, which is exciting to think about.

Chen Zhun led the team to the Stamford Bridge Stadium for field training.There they met many reporters in London, and these reporters asked Chen Zhun a question about how confident he was in beating the leader Chelsea.Chen Zhun smiled and did not answer, turned around and got on the team bus, leaving the reporters with a cool back.

This game was not originally a focus battle, but because Southampton's record of two wins and one tie in the first three rounds was matched with Chelsea's three-game winning streak, the game suddenly became interesting.The head coaches of both sides are new this season, and the media are also looking forward to what kind of sparks the two head coaches will have in the game.

The press conference for this game became a warm-up for the game.First of all, the head coach of the visiting team, Chen Zhun, took Pajas to the press conference.

The reporter's questioning session at the press conference was extremely lively, and the reporters' hands were raised all the time.

"Hello, Mr. David Winston, head coach of Southampton. I'm a reporter from the Guardian. My question is that now Chelsea are the only team in the Premier League to keep a clean sheet. Can you break through their impenetrable defense? what?"

Chen Zhun thought for a while and said calmly: "I watched Chelsea's first three games. They played very well, but I also found their loopholes. I also made relevant tactical arrangements. As for the results on the field See."

"Hello, I'm a reporter from BBC Sport. I have a question for Pajas. You scored your first goal in the Premier League in the first game of this season. How do you feel? You will face the best defense tomorrow. Do you have the confidence to score again?"

Without thinking, Pajas said: "Scoring the first goal, I was very excited. But this is entirely due to the head coach. He told me to play freely on the field and don't worry about any opinions. The words of the head coach let me I have no restraints and it gives me more confidence on the pitch. The team wins is the most important thing."

The reporters bid farewell to Chen Zhun and Pajas after asking a few more innocuous questions, and ushered in the biggest focus of the game, Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho.Mourinho and Chen Zhun met for the first time in the aisle. Both of them ignored each other and walked towards each other.Mourinho has never dealt with the media. Mourinho hates the media's flashy reports, and the media also hates Mourinho's arrogance and arrogance.Since coming to the Premier League, he, Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have sparred with each other, as if they were the new kings of the Premier League.

Mourinho said what he should say as usual and did not accept any questions from reporters.walk away.The true colors of the madman are revealed.Leaving behind a bunch of accustomed reporters.

It is worth noting that the coaches of both sides did not release the starting lineup in advance.The media have more reason to believe that Chen Zhun and Mourinho have secret weapons.

August 8th.At noon, the sports reporters in London had already known the starting lists of both sides in advance.Shocked when they looked at the starting roster.Southampton coach David Winston formed a 28 formation.This was unexpected to everyone. They didn't see the clues when they were training in Southampton. The sports reporters in London also experienced the cunning of this rookie coach for the first time.

Chen Zhun has been studying the game against Chelsea after the Blackburn game in the second round. He has been thinking about how to limit the connection between Chelsea's central axis and the two forwards.Reed told him that the way to do it is to man-to-man defense. Chen Zhun denied this tactic. Chen Zhun knew the strength of the players in the Chelsea team. Joe Cole, Didier Drogba, and Gudjohnsen were all players with outstanding personal strength.If a single practical man-to-man defense would only die worse, Chelsea's players would break down one by one.Chen Zhun needs an overall defense, so that Chelsea's offense will be as weak as hitting cotton.

When Chen Zhun thought about the overall defense, he finally thought of a defensive tactic. Since its inception, this tactic has been notorious and criticized by others.That is "chain defense".The last time Chen Zhun saw chain defense in a game was in the 2016 Euro Cup in France against Spain.In that game, Italy used its best chain defense to successfully defeat the once mighty Spanish team and avenge it for the rest of its life.

Since then, Chen Zhun has added chain defense training to his training.Chen Zhun handed over the training content to the assistant coach Reed, asking him to explain and instill the most professional chain defensive tactical routines for the players.When Reid was the technical director of the FA, he also analyzed the chain defense in depth.

When Chen Zhun played FM Football Manager, he also studied chain defense, but it was only superficial.

Chain defense originated in Switzerland, the pioneer is the Austrian Karl Lapan.He pioneered the tactic of placing two central defenders back and forth to strengthen the marking of the striker, which is known as the "Swiss door stopper" in history. In the 20s, AC Milan's head coach Nereo Rocco used this style of play to often beat his opponents 60-1 in the league, which also made the chain defense tactic famous.Nereo Rocco is also known as the father of "defense in chain".In the same era, the Argentine coach Helenio Herrera of Inter Milan, the rival in the same city, also created Inter Milan's "chain defense". Herrera relied on this tactic to make Inter Milan truly a world champion wealthy.The subsequent classic battle of the famous chain defense and tactical master Sacchi in the Milan period in the 0s made the Italian-style chain defense completely famous in world football.

Chain defense, as the name suggests, is a chain-like defense, with one chain at the midfield line and one chain at the back line. The two chains are closely integrated and the defense is tight.When the chain in the midfield is broken, the chain in the back line is made up, and the lost midfielder fills the position of the back line.The real essence of chain defense is that when the attacker breaks through a defensive player, another defensive player immediately follows up, giving you the illusion that it is always difficult to break through, so you have to pass back or split the side. When playing on the side, the defensive formation can return to the five-back defense of the 541 formation.This kind of chain defense is to freely switch between the parallel midfielder and the diamond midfielder.Chain defense is the perfect combination of man-to-man and zone-to-man defense.

In fact, speaking of chain defense, his opponent Mourinho is also an admirer of chain defense.The bus tactic is developed from the chain defense.When he was at Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter Milan, he absorbed the essence of the chain defense and transferred it to his own tactics. The 2010 Champions League semi-final between Inter Milan and Barcelona.As the referee was tricked by Busquets' diving and Motta was sent off with a red card, Inter Milan had to give up their offense and use chain defense to defend their victory.In the end, Barcelona was eliminated and advanced to the final.As a result, they defeated Bayern Munich in the final and won the Big Ears Cup.

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