green knight

Chapter 5 Sixty: If you are sick, you have to take medicine, and you can't give up treatment!

Leaving aside the matter of Eibar, Wenger and his Arsenal started their own emergency training program in Spain.It's just that at this time, the members of the German national team who have reached the final all the way and won the World Cup are still on vacation. According to regulations, their vacation should be extended.

Therefore, in the training camp, Wenger directly replaced the absent Hewedes and Modesat with Cameroon's talented central defender Nicholas Nkuru.Considering that the styles of several people are slightly similar, Wenger temporarily replaced Ozil on vacation with Wilshere and Cazorla.

Lars Bender is also a member of this German national team, so he is still on vacation, and his position is temporarily replaced by veteran Flamini.

Looking at the players on the court, Wenger almost wanted to cry, because he introduced two German players in this summer transfer period, and these two plus Modesat and Ozil made his main lineup Missed nearly half, especially in the two key positions of central defender and midfielder
Perhaps the only usefulness of this kind of training is to see if Sanchez and the team can cooperate together, but it is unrealistic to expect the team to completely follow the previous tactical thinking, because in Wenger's tactics in the new season, Lars • The four German players of Bender, Höwedes, Modesat and Ozil are also key.

"Sandy (Cazorla)!! You have to pass more, don't dribble too much, this is not your job. Look at the position of Lee and Alexis (Sanchez), you have to use your pass The ball to connect the two of them, thinking about when to pass the ball and who to pass it to.”

"Alexis, you need to run more, strengthen the frequency of your feet, drill more into the penalty area, and pay more attention to the position of your teammates when dribbling the ball, especially Lee, Sandy and Jack (Wilshere)"

"Olivier (Giroud), you have to withstand the opponent's penalty area more, suppress the space of the opponent's central defender, create opportunities for the two wingers Lee and Alexis, and don't waste your header ability, you can Shooting, but if the opportunity is better, you can return to Aaron (Ramsey) who inserted in the back. At this time, Lee and Alexis should be more active and let the opponent's attention focus on you."

"Aaron, you have to be more proactive in advancing forward, decisively inserting when attacking, go directly to the penalty area and wait for Olivier to make the ball, or look for opportunities to shoot long shots outside the penalty area. This is what you are good at. Yes. But if there is no chance, you have to run more actively and aggressively in the frontcourt, stretch the opponent's midfielder, give up the gap in the center and cut in to the two sides. If the opponent steals the ball and counterattacks , you have to retreat decisively to defend. After Aaron stepped forward, Mathieu (Flamini) must stay in the backcourt to defend.”

"Keelan (Gibbs) and Kareem (Chambers) you need to press forward more, go to the edge to help Lee and Alexis in front of you. If your teammates in front of you are caught by the noise Next, you can rush into the penalty area to respond by yourself. Then the person being watched finds a way to pass the ball to the full back who acts as an inside forward. After the confrontation and tactical drills, Kieran and Karim, you The two have to practice more shooting and crossing."

"If the opponent intercepts the ball, the two of you must return to the defense quickly, don't think too much, just run back to help the defense. Youth is your greatest capital, so you have physical strength, speed and endurance. Complete a 'Green Marathon', just press the fast-forward button of the marathon."

"Lee, don't act recklessly on your own, and cooperate more with your teammates. Olivier's high point, Sandy and Jack's support and response, Aaron's deep drive, Alexis' far post outflank and even Kieran These are issues that you should pay more attention to, learn to think more, think more about what kind of situation you are in, and what kind of choices you should make reasonably.”

Wenger stood on the sidelines and kept correcting the mistakes of the players on the field. Under the scorching sun, the 65-year-old man looked particularly energetic.Although he still frowns, this kind of frown is more about thinking, not the headache and bad mood like before.

If Wenger's opponent Mourinho or Pellegniri or the tactician Van Gaal is here at this time, Arsenal's tactics for next season can be understood through Wenger's few words.

Arsenal still insisted on their pass-cut coordination and overall tactics, but they focused more on scoring on Li Zihan and Sanchez, who joined the new team. At the same time, Ramsey was also a sniper.Ozil, Cazorla, and Wilshere play more roles in connecting the three lines of the team, while Giroud plays a traditional center forward.Use his height advantage and impact to suppress the movement space of the opposing central defender, and at the same time make the ball for other offensive players.Of course, he can also head the goal by himself or rush forward in front of the goal for no reason, so as to prevent Li Zihan, Sanchez and Ramsey from missing shots, so as to find a chance to make a supplementary shot.

At the same time, the more tasks of Flamini and Lars Bender in the midfield are defense. If there are no special circumstances, the number of times they have pressed the center line may be counted on one hand.

As for the full-backs, Wenger still continued the style of "guard with a knife". The two wingers Gibbs and Chambers must be able to advance, attack, retreat and defend.Gibbs is okay, as Arsenal's youth training system, he has already memorized Arsenal's tactics.But the life of the newly joined Chambers is not easy, he must work hard to keep up with the pace of the team.Arsenal's offense is faster and more threatening than Southampton's, especially in the transition between offense and defense. Wenger's requirements are particularly strict and careful, which makes him sweat after only 10 minutes of the game. It's like being picked out of water.

Although the central midfielders Diaby and Walcott were injured, they also followed the team to Spain.They did not participate in the tactics, but stood on the sidelines for recovery training and listened to the assistant coaches explain the tactics to them.

Although the two are physically unable to participate in tactical training, Wenger still hopes that they can keep their system in mind, so that they can quickly integrate into the team's lineup after recovering from injuries in the early stages of the league. Come.

In addition to this lineup, Wenger also promoted several young players from the youth team. Among them, full-back Bellerin and midfielder Coquelin left a deep impression on Wenger. Costa Rican teenager Joel Campbell, so these three eventually came from the youth team to the first team and participated in the team's training camp in Spain.

Arsenal's training camp is closed. In order to allow the players to integrate into the team system more quickly, and to allow them to quickly recover from the sloppy mentality of the wonderful vacation, Wenger sacrificed a lot of energy as soon as he came up. Killer.

Closed training is not much in today's football, especially in the giant teams with many superstars, because those superstars can't be so patient and not so good-natured.So the closer you look at them, the easier it is for them to have conflicts with the head coach, except for some heavyweights and pre-match competitions.

Arsenal is an exception. Arsenal's team is built on a bunch of young players.Wenger has absolute authority here, but he also takes great care of young players.

The young players also have the ambition and passion to hit those honors, so for Arsenal, closed training is not a big problem.

The only big problem is how to prevent injuries, which Arsenal suffer every year.Arsenal's extensive injuries every season are not only related to the opponent's targeting, but also have an inseparable relationship with their tactics and training.

So Wenger brought the entire medical team to Spain this time, and also invited many old Chinese medicine practitioners from China to relieve the players' joint and muscle injuries.

When Arsenal was conducting closed training, a lot of things happened outside.

Whoever has moved to a wealthy team, which club is considering changing the head coach.During the transfer period, there were new transfer transactions almost every minute, and the media reporters were the busiest during this time period.

And a lot of things happened in Chinese football. The retired Beckham became the image ambassador of the Chinese Super League. The song written by Li Zihan’s fellow singer Zhang Liangying for Li Zihan became one of the official songs of the Chinese Super League. .

Zhang Liangying, who grew up as a Quanxing fan and grew up watching Quanxing games, also served as the club image ambassador of Li Zihan's new Quanxing team.
Xi Jinping began to rectify football, a large number of campus leagues began to promote, and CCTV began to do a long-term event called "I am the king of the ball".

At the new general meeting of the General Administration of Sports of China, the proposal of the Football Association to separate from the General Administration of Sports and follow the example of England to establish a football head office was rejected.

Various places have begun to attach importance to the cultivation of football youth training, especially in schools.The Education Bureau has listed football as one of the indispensable items in the physical education class. Parents are also willing to let their children play more football in their spare time and professional classes. Parents also want their children to exercise more.

All in all, following the East of this World Cup, coupled with the love and concern of national leaders for football, Chinese football is flapping its wings like a butterfly.

The end result will be like this?We don't know, and it may take ten, 20, 30, 50 or even 100 years before someone can give a definite answer.Football is a long-term training project. The reason why European football is developed is that they have spent hundreds of years perfecting their football system, so people may not see the results until at least 50 years later.

But everyone is happy to see such a change, and everyone is not worried about it.To sum it up in what Li Zihan said on his social network: "It's already worse than it is now. I think no matter how bad it is, it won't be much worse, right? If you find the germs and start to heal gradually, let alone recover, At least it won’t continue to rot, right? And if we don’t care about it, maybe in ten years, well, maybe in 20 years. About the sport of football, our children can only see it in textbooks and TV? How should I put it, I still feel that I have to take medicine when I’m sick, and I can’t give up the treatment. I think it’s still possible to save it. Dreams are still necessary, what if they come true when they’re not young?”