Super Coach

Mr. Yang Cheng, who will win tonight's game?

At the corner from the hotel lobby to the elevator, Yang Cheng and the beautiful reporter from France stood by the corner aisle, with a slender hand and a recording pen between them.

It seems that your equipment has improved this time! Yang Cheng said with a smile.

Melissa Trio blushed, apparently thinking of the previous interview with Yang Cheng, especially the one in the World Cup final, where she brought a camera and was extremely embarrassed.

Can you answer my question first? Melissa asked softly.

Yang Cheng looked serious, nodded and said, It must be our Kaiserslautern!

But Van Gaal said that Barcelona has made the best and most complete preparations for this final! Melissa also hoped that Yang Cheng would win, but she was still somewhat worried that this is Barcelona's home court.

What he says is his business, the key is to get 3 points! Yang Cheng smiled confidently.

Melissa nodded approvingly. In her impression, Yang Cheng was always so confident.

Okay, the matter is done, you go first! Yang Cheng issued the order to evict the guest.

Huh? Melissa didn't expect Yang Cheng to drive her away.

This is where our team is based, you can't stay longer! Yang Cheng was very principled.

Melissa was a little disappointed, I originally planned to treat you to dinner, thank you!

Although the scandal at the World Cup made Melissa a little embarrassed, it really boosted her career. Now she is an official reporter of the French regional news station. If she is not currently studying in school, she can become a news anchor.

Let's save it for next time! Yang Cheng smiled and patted Melissa's shoulder, turned around and walked towards the elevator.

Melissa watched Yang Cheng leave, somewhat disappointed.

This time, she did everything possible to get into the hotel and waited in the lobby for a whole morning. The purpose was to see Yang Cheng, and she finally got her wish, and interviewed him in the name of business, but she didn't expect that they Not even a chance to sit down and eat.

Maybe, he is busy preparing for the competition! Melissa comforted herself.

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As expected!

In front of the visiting coach's bench in the crowded Camp Nou stadium,

Yang Cheng looked at the players coming out of the two teams one after another, and he counted Barcelona's starting lineup, which was exactly as he expected.

In fact, there are not many candidates for Barcelona's first-team players this season, that is, to choose between a 3-back and a 4-back, but judging from the current situation, Van Gaal still decided to use last season. 3331 tactics.

It's not difficult to guess, because Barcelona's defense is so weak that you can hardly believe it.

Sergi, Abelardo and Reziger, this is the most commonly used three-back combination by Van Gaal this season, but apart from Abelardo, Sergi and Reziger are both full-backs. It is self-evident that the defensive ability of the defense formed by the players is self-evident. This season, Barcelona can draw 2 3:3 draws with Manchester United, relying more on their offense.

Before the three backs, Cocu, Guardiola and Celades formed a defensive line in front of the defense line. The first two players need not be introduced. They are all famous players. Celades is currently taking turns with Xavi , but Van Gaal was not satisfied with their performance.

In Yang Cheng's previous life, Celades switched to Celta Vigo after the end of this season, and together with Makelele formed Celta's solid midfielder, and then joined the Galacticos Real Madrid in 2000 and was favored by Barcelona fans. considered a traitor.

Before the three defensive midfielders, there were three avant-garde players. Rivaldo played on the left, Luis Enrique was in the center, Figo played on the right, and the single forward in front was Kluivert.

After Van Gaal took over Barcelona, ​​he vigorously promoted Dutchization. Cocu, Kluivert, Zenden and others have joined Barcelona one after another, and there will be De Boer brothers and others, but now, Van Gaal's midfielder The severe shortage of manpower made it impossible for him to copy Ajax's 433 tactics.

Thinking of this, Yang Cheng suddenly smiled confidently.

He had expected Barcelona's starting line-up, but Van Gaal hadn't guessed Kaiserslautern's.

In this game, Yang Cheng changed to 451 tactics, or it should be called 4321, but these are just numbers.

Reinke still serves as the starting goalkeeper. The defense line from left to right is Dede, Link, Lucio and Fritz. The five midfielders are Nedved, Veron, Gattuso, Baba Luck and Denilson, the striker is Ruud van Nistelrooy.

In this match, I'm sure of him! Yang Cheng was very confident that his plot would succeed.

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Dede took the ball on the left and pushed it forward very quickly. The Brazilian dribbled the ball very quickly and crossed the half-court and entered the half-court area of ​​​​Barcelona.

Celades was about to step forward to block and help Reziger, but Dede chose to pass the ball to Denilson, who was responding, and then rushed to the baseline. Denilson faced Reziger directly. Don't stick the ball, just pass it behind you!

A beautiful two-for-one, Dede took the ball on the left side of the penalty area, unmarked, kicked the ball and made a pass!

The ball went in!

A very good goal, Ballack, Michael Ballack!

It was a very good header. Kaiserslautern had just started the game less than 4 minutes. The team's third attack took the lead in breaking Barcelona's goal. Michael Ballack's goal made Kaiser Zeslautern sees the dawn of victory!

After Ballack made a diving jump from the back row and scored a goal, Yang Cheng hugged with his assistants in front of the coach's bench, and all the Kaiserslautern substitutes embraced tightly on the bench.

Yang Cheng supported Paul Bayer's head excitedly, and shouted excitedly: Do you know why?

Barcelona's defense line is too low, so I have to practice the two flank attacks constantly! Yang Cheng smiled proudly.

Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ballack are both tall, close to 1.9 meters tall, and their physical resistance is very good, but looking at Barcelona's defense line, Sergi is 1.69 meters, Rezig is 1.78 meters, Abella It is much higher, but it is only 1.83 meters, but Kaiserslautern has two points for every attack, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ballack, and even Nedved and others will ambush outside the penalty area.

Long-range shooting is also an advantageous weapon for Yang Cheng to deal with Barcelona. After all, it is more difficult to defend against long-range shooting on rainy days!

Barcelona's defense this season is notoriously bad. There are currently 13 rounds of La Liga, but Barcelona has conceded 18 goals, and even lost 1:3 at home to Villarreal and 2:4. For a game like Valencia, you must know that today’s Villarreal is not a submarine after being coached by an engineer. Now Villarreal is a newly promoted team, the first time in history to participate in La Liga, and the number one relegated popular.

But the reason why Barcelona can perform well is because of their offense. They scored 21 goals in 13 league rounds, second only to Real Madrid's 24 goals, and their attack power should not be underestimated.

Therefore, when Yang Cheng saw Barcelona re-kick-off, he immediately signaled the players to calm down and follow the pre-match plan.

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Although the rain has stopped, the grass on the stadium is still a bit slippery. Guardiola received a knock back from Rivaldo on the right and opened a little bit when the ball stopped, which made him curse inwardly.

Damn stagnant water!

Although the drainage system of the Nou Camp is very good, there is still a lot of water in the turf, making the whole football very slippery. Even if the player has excellent skills, it is easy to stop the ball if he is not careful. error.

But as soon as Guardiola stopped the ball, he immediately blocked a player in front of him.

Gattuso!

The Italian entangled Guardiola, even bumped him from time to time, and even ran against him. Obviously his real purpose was to focus on the ball, ready to look for opportunities to play at any time.

Guardiola raised his head, coping with Gattuso's entanglement, and wanted to pass the ball.

When the ball was passed from Guardiola to Cocu, Guardiola obviously felt the pressure and as soon as he let go, he saw that Gattuso had rushed towards Cocu quickly, but this does not mean that Guardiola's side is completely free up.

When Cocu was disturbed by Ballack, and when he saw Gattuso jumping over, he immediately chose to knock back to Guardiola, Veron suddenly jumped up, stretched out his foot, and intercepted the ball.

After Veron successfully steals the ball, he immediately sends the ball forward.

Denilson took the ball in the middle and immediately handed it to Van Nistelrooy, who took the ball with his back to Abelardo, but immediately knocked it back to Denilson, and saw the Brazilian quickly dribble the ball forward from the middle.

Reziger stared at him closely, and Denilson was advancing near the front of the penalty area. Seeing that there was no chance, and his teammates didn't keep up, he hurriedly took a long shot.

Taller!

Denilson kept shaking his head and walked back with a wry smile.

Obviously, he saw Yang Cheng yelling at him, and knew that he was too impatient and went against the head coach's intention.

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In this game, Yang Cheng specially arranged 4 tough midfielders for Barcelona, ​​just to limit Barcelona's organization.

He guessed before the game that Van Gaal would use a single forward, so it would be a waste to use a three-back, so he switched to Link and Lucio as central defenders, and then let Dede and Fritz play full-backs.

5 The position of the midfielder is actually very unstable. Denilson can swim around and behind Ruud van Nistelrooy, looking for opportunities to find loopholes. He can choose to fight alone, or he can choose to lean up and cooperate with his teammates.

The first goal was scored after Denilson and Dede made a cross from the left.

It can be said that Yang Cheng gave Denilson a lot of freedom in this game.

Another free is Gattuso.

Kaiserslautern's midfield has always been oppressive and aggressive. Ballack, Gattuso and Nedved are all very strong and tough guys. Although Veron is relatively weak, he has outstanding running ability and good awareness .

Gattuso's task is to harass and delay. He can even be said to be a ball grabber. Just run after the ball. Ballack, Nedved and Veron form a triangular defense zone next to Gattuso , Their task is to cut off the connection between Gattuso's goal and the outside world.

Just like the steal just now, when Gattuso pounced on Guardiola, Nedved and Ballack immediately responded, and when Guardiola got rid of Gattuso's entanglement, he passed the ball to Cocu , Ballack directly pressed the opponent, forcing Cocu to be unable to take the ball calmly, and Gattuso immediately pushed up, Cocu passed back to Guardiola in a hurry.

Veron was in ambush all around, and immediately intercepted the ball after seeing it clearly.

Yang Cheng's midfield defense has been brewing for a long time and has been practiced many times. It was designed after Gattuso became a qualified shit-stirring stick. After more than two years of cooperation, it has been used now. The fire is perfect.

The advantage of this set of zone defense is that the midfield maintains aggressiveness and oppression, which makes it difficult for Barcelona to pass the ball smoothly in the midfield and is restricted everywhere, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it cannot invest enough troops when attacking.

Denilson's counterattack just now is an example. Ballack, Nedved and others were unable to participate in the counterattack. There was only one Denilson and Van Nistelrooin in front, which was difficult to work.

However, Yang Cheng didn't let Denilson take a long shot with his big foot at will, but let him hold the ball in the frontcourt, and if he couldn't make a counterattack, he stabilized it and bought enough time for the team's overall pressure.

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Ever since conceding the ball, Van Gaal has followed Yang Cheng and walked out of the coaching bench.

He knows Barcelona's strengths and weaknesses in his heart, so he always hopes to use offense instead of defense, and it is best to use offense to suppress the opponent, but what he did not expect is that Yang Cheng directly cut off Barcelona's seven inches.

Without the midfielder, Barcelona's goal seemed to be bombarded at will in front of Kaiserslautern's muzzle.

If I had enough players in my hands now, I wouldn't play 3331!

Van Gaal sighed bitterly in his heart. He wanted a central defender, a midfielder with both offensive and defensive capabilities, similar to Cocu, but unfortunately, the current Barcelona failed to give him enough resources.

After the first 30 minutes of the game, Van Gaal only felt helpless, because after the midfielder was suppressed, Barcelona's offense could not be organized at all. Except for Figo who could make a difference on the right, Rivaldo was more on the left. It was restlessness, frequently leaning towards the middle, and not to mention overwhelming, it also affected Kluivert and Enrique.

And Kaiserslautern's frighteningly strong central defender actually froze Kluivert firmly, and coupled with Link, who has an outstanding awareness of leak prevention and defense, Barcelona's offense seems to have hit a wall. , Kaiserslautern's midfield and defense are very closely integrated. Once Barcelona's offense enters this area, it will be resolved no matter how fast and fierce it is.

Who would have thought that Kaiserslautern would also play a defensive counterattack!

But together with Van Gaal's idea, Kaiserslautern overturned his idea again.

In an attack by Barcelona in the 32nd minute, the ball was passed to the left, and Fritz, with the help of Gattuso, defended Rivaldo together.

The Brazilian star obviously wanted to fight his way out on his own, but Fritz was in the front and Gattuso was on the side. The two forced him to the sideline together, and the closest player to him was Luis Enrique , and Sergi who followed from behind, but it was too late to meet him.

Fritz stared at the ball at Rivaldo's feet. At this time, the ball was wet and became heavy and slippery. It was easy to make mistakes, especially when Rivaldo was worried about the teammates around him. A mistake , After a long trip, he stepped down without hesitation.

This time, he directly dribbled the ball and fell on the grass!

Fritz stood up as soon as he fell, regardless of his soaked jersey, he directly took the ball and passed it to the center. After seeing the referee signaled that there was no foul, he immediately rushed along the right.

The Barcelona fans in the stands suddenly booed overwhelmingly. They thought it was a foul and the referee should award Barcelona a free kick.

But the Barcelona players on the field did not dare to be careless, because Kaiserslautern's counterattack came very quickly.

After taking the ball, Lucio suddenly went forward. Facing the interference of Cocu, he immediately gave it to Veron, who passed it directly to Denilson's feet.

The Brazilian took the ball with his back, Guardiola behind him, stabilized, and after seeing Fritz advancing from the right, he transferred the ball to the right.

Fritz and Sergi were speeding up. The German got up earlier and passed Sergi directly.

Like a gust of wind, Fritz came directly to the right side of Barcelona's penalty area, and directly passed the ball low and flat to the front point.

Ruud van Nistelrooy had already figured out that he was in the most crucial position. He firmly supported Abelardo behind him with his body. The armpit got into the goal.

ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

The ball went in!!

Netherlands center Ruud van Nistelrooy's shot in front of the goal broke through Barcelona's goal again. This is a very sharp and fast counterattack. Kaiserslautern made another victory, 0:2!

Barcelona's defensive loopholes are really too big, especially in the middle. Although Abelardo has worked hard, he can't stand alone!

Although Barcelona won the league title last season, 56 goals conceded made them not like a league champion at all. Their number of goals conceded even ranked 16th in the league. Aspire to the league championship!

Barcelona did not improve their defense this season, but they introduced offensive players like Kluivert and Zenden. Although they further strengthened the team's offense, they also made the team's defense even more unbearable. This time Barcelona has finally tasted the bitter fruit, and I believe that all Barcelona fans will not be satisfied with Barcelona in this game.

I believe that if Van Gaal heard these words, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood, because he had already reached the limit of what he could do.

Before the season, Nunez was ambitious and said that he would win the Champions League this season. He took advantage of the limelight of last season and the host of the Champions League final this season to win the championship. At that time, Van Gaal first thought of strengthening the defense. Rezig and Bogarde, whom he had handpicked, also came to the team smoothly, but the De Boer brothers failed to do so.

Not only that, Nunes let Cotto go before he got the De Boer brothers, and Nadal is getting older and his condition has declined sharply. In addition, Bogarde was seriously injured, making Barcelona's entire back The defensive line became unavailable.

Although Pellegrino was loaned from Argentina at the last moment, the team's defense has become a mess.

Do I have to bear all this? Van Gaal smiled wryly, but felt very uncomfortable.