Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 368 Tactics
Although the Champions League and the FA Cup have not yet ended, Chelsea is under a lot of pressure, but they have just won the league championship, and the team is still full of joy.

Without the pressure of the league, there was more laughter in the locker room, and the players were greatly relieved. At least from now on, they don't have to worry about an average of 4 league games a month.

And when the upsurge of Chelsea becoming the new Premier League champions passed, the media focused their attention on the Champions League. For the English media, the honors won by their own clubs in the European war are the most worthy of reporting, because they Think it's for the glory of the country.

Therefore, whether it is Liverpool or Chelsea, they have become "brave fighters" in the media.

However, for the 'old aristocrat' Liverpool, the media are not optimistic. This team is now only ranked 5th in the league. In the eyes of various professionals, their skills are rough, and Gerrard is the only star in the team. It is unrealistic to expect such a team to win the Champions League.And many foreign media even claimed that 'if Liverpool wins the championship, it will tarnish the championship trophy'.

It's not all sarcasm.

At this stage, each team has played a lot of games. It can be said that the strength of the team is in front of the public. As the most traditional Premier League team, Liverpool has followed the style of the Premier League's rough technology , Long pass and punching style of play, the technical ability of this team's style is far lower than the physical confrontation. For the fans, the team's game is not any enjoyable to speak of.

In terms of strength, they still have to work hard to qualify for the Champions Cup next season, so how can they devote all their energy to the Champions Cup! ! ?
Therefore, even the English media are not optimistic about Liverpool's situation in the Champions League, even though they have come to this point.

Chelsea is the complete opposite! !

Although at the beginning of the season, many, many English media called it a 'sterling team', and more 'football professionals' were not optimistic about its prospects, but now, Chelsea won the League Cup, and 7 rounds ahead of schedule Strongly won the league championship, just this kind of performance made a group of people shatter their glasses.

Without the pressure of the league, Chelsea can put all their energy on the Champions League.

In terms of strength, Chelsea also has many big-name players.

According to the analysis of the game this season, Chelsea still has some English style. The arrival of Mourinho has not changed this style much. It still relies more on the body, and the offensive options are not changeable.

Perhaps the only thing that has changed is Wang Li. His personal skills have brought Chelsea a bright spot in terms of creativity, which is why he can easily win many games.

But this is enough! !

As long as you can win, no matter how rough your skills and tactics are, victory is everything! !

For the confrontation between Chelsea and AC Milan, the media of course paid a lot of attention. Based on the reporter's understanding of Mourinho, before the game, this "magic bird" will definitely make a big "win theory" and then be arrogant Arrogantly accusing AC Milan of its weaknesses and insufficiencies, and then jumped Ancelotti's anger, triggering a language PK between the two clubs.

However, what is surprising is that this time the situation is completely opposite. Chelsea is very silent, while AC Milan is full of confidence.

On April 4th, AC Milan coach Ancelotti said in an interview: "We will definitely break through Chelsea's steel defense!! My players will score within 4 minutes!!"

This affirmative attitude caused an uproar in all the media! !
Although Chelsea showed more of their outstanding scoring ability in the UEFA Champions League, the team's defense is definitely the top in the Premier League. It is not easy to score a goal within 5 minutes! ?

'Why did Ancelotti boast so much! ? '

On this issue, the English reporters have all become special agents. They sent reporters into the city of Milan to get close contact with this Serie A giant team, and carefully study the AC Milan game video this season, and deeply dissect AC from all aspects. The Milan team came to a conclusion——
The Italians are extremely confident in Milan's attacking ability! !
The overall defensive level of Serie A is recognized as "No. [-] in the world", and the strength gap between teams is not as wide as that of the Premier League.

Therefore, if you want to chase the championship in Serie A, you not only need a solid defense, but also need to have multiple "one-hit fatal" weapons. So far, AC Milan has scored 62 goals in the league, ranking fourth. Compared with the first Inter Milan and the tied second Juventus and Lecce, there are 3 and one less respectively.
In an interview with the media, Ancelotti said: "Chelsea will adopt a shrinking defense, so that the space for attacking becomes very small, but the game will not become a half-time offensive and defensive drill, because we will play after the opening 5 minutes. In this way, we have the initiative. Chelsea will be very passive if they want to play defensive and counterattack tactics. Having studied their game film, they have very few offensive methods, and it is basically impossible to break through our defense."

"Some people say that maybe the players are tired, no! My players are full of energy whether it is training or practice games. Of course, we must be fully mentally prepared. The opponent is strong and is the best team in the world. one."
These words of the Italian caused an uproar in the media. Whether this is a strong self-confidence or a smoke bomb, it is not known if it is not a real game. However, Ancelotti's subsequent words have been unanimously affirmed by the media.

"We have a wealth of experience in knockout matches in European competitions." On this issue, Ancelotti continued to talk: "Experience is an important factor in determining the outcome of a game, but it doesn't happen overnight. Experienced players know how to Self-regulation and self-relaxation are crucial to the player's mentality and performance."

As a traditional top giant in the world, AC Milan can enter the Champions League finals almost every year. Their knockout experience and even final experience are unmatched by Chelsea. Their defensive soul Maldini has participated in the Champions League final 6 times In the battle for hegemony, midfielder Seedorf has followed Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan to win the championship trophy.

Chelsea, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. Even the team's two main players, Lampard and Terry, don't have much experience in European competitions, let alone other young players. Players with one Champions League knockout experience in the team, It can already be called an 'old man'.

Although what Ancelotti said made sense, the English media dismissed it. They directly asked which Chelsea player was more threatening! ?Who will be the focus of defense! ? Can AC Milan keep the goal! ?And so on.

"Alan Wang is indeed very strong. This player is even better than Kaka. In terms of offensive ability, Sheva also had to retreat three points. When I transferred in winter, I wanted to get him, but... …They don’t sell it.” Speaking of this, Ancelotti sincerely praised Wang Li, “However, a football game is a sport for 11 people, and it is impossible for one person to break through the blockade of our backcourt. of."

The words of the Italian made all the English media indignant, and also made all the media look forward to Chelsea's counterattack. Therefore, this afternoon, Chelsea ushered in a large group of media.

However, they failed to get any meaningful news. Even Wang Li, who was blocked by the media, only symbolically complimented the big-name AC Milan stars, and went directly to the team's training instead.

This abnormal situation made reporters and fans feel like a cat's paw, but their expectations for the game grew stronger.

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Chelsea's coaches and players are not in the mood to accept interviews at all. They have been strengthening the training of passing the ball and the rehearsal of zone defense in recent days.

Although there are only 2 days left before the game, but it’s not easy to grind the guns before the battle. After the pressure of the league, Chelsea put all their energy on the Champions League. of increased.In fact, not only the players, even Jose Mourinho, who has always been confident, was nervous when facing AC Milan. Standing on the sidelines, he silently watched the training on the court, but he kept cursing Europe. Football Federation ---
After playing Barcelona, ​​​​you have to face AC Milan. This kind of bloody game really makes people feel unlucky! !
If there is nothing tricky in it, no one will believe it! !

But the curse is the curse, this can't change anything at all, Mourinho still has to think hard about how to win.

In fact, for Chelsea, AC Milan is really more difficult than Barcelona, ​​which is mainly a matter of the styles of the two teams.

Barcelona is good at attacking, Chelsea is good at playing defensive counterattacks, and there are excellent players such as Wang Li and Robben in the offensive. It is really not a problem to break through Barcelona's goal with a counterattack posture, so as long as the defense is solid, no matter the probability of home and away wins Both are big.

But AC Milan is the exact opposite. Even Mourinho, who has always been arrogant, has to admit that their defensive ability is much stronger than Chelsea.

Italian-style defense pays more attention to coordination, and the concept of zone defense is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Italian defenders have been instilled with this concept from the day they came into contact with football.If you only talk about personal ability, Chelsea's defenders are not worse than AC Milan, but overall, they are at least one grade behind.This is like a impromptu star team, just like a well-coordinated club team. The latter is obviously stronger, and this is the role of coordination.

This is also the reason why Italy's defense dares to be called 'No. [-] in the world'.

Just like Ancelotti's words, it is really unrealistic for Chelsea to rely on a simple and process-like style of play to break through AC Milan's balls. The Premier League teams all have a common weakness-the extreme lack of creation in offense Power, even Chelsea.

And AC Milan's offense is by no means worse than Chelsea's. They have Pirlo, Shevchenko, Crespo, Inzaghi and many other big-name stars, and the last one is extremely brilliant in Serie A, almost comparable to Wang Li. Card, to say that this kind of formation can't break through Chelsea's goal, even Mourinho himself thinks it is unrealistic.

At this stage of the season, the strength of each team is really clear at a glance. Ancelotti dared to disclose the comparison and play of the two teams in front of the media. This is not a smoke bomb, what he said is the truth.

This, at least Mourinho is well aware.

Facing such a team, it is understandable that Mourinho is a little nervous, so in the past few days, the team's offensive players have been training seriously.

"It would be great if there was more time." Mourinho watched the training confrontation on the field, frowning silently.

The battle with Manchester United has just ended. Although he has already prepared for this game, Mourinho still feels that the time is too tight.Seeing the black-haired kid on the field who kept dribbling the ball and making dangerous passes when he had the opportunity, Mourinho's frown eased slightly, and he turned to look at the assistant coach Clark next to him, muttering to himself. asked: "What will happen if Allen is used as a striker!?"

"Forward? Isn't Allen always a forward?"

"No, you know what I mean." Mourinho thought for a moment, then continued: "His position has always been a midfielder, closer to a midfielder."

Clark nodded after hearing his words, and said, "But in that case, will the team's ability to connect the front and back courts be reduced?"

"Perhaps, but Frank isn't too bad, is he?"

"Well, I hope you're right!" Clark nodded. He didn't take these words to heart. After turning his head to look at the court, he remembered something and asked, "Jose, are you ready?" Is there a game tomorrow?"

Mourinho laughed 'puchi' when he heard this, shook his head unconsciously, and did not answer Clark's question, but said: "Let everyone gather in my office..."

Clark stared blankly at the back of the Portuguese, and went to tell the news to the training players on the field in doubt.

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In Mourinho's office, all the players gathered together, listening carefully to Mourinho explaining tactics.

"In the previous games, we averaged 379 passes per game, with a success rate of 76.53%, of which there were 197 long passes, with a turnover rate of 54.6%, of which the crosses accounted for [-]%..."

At this time, the Portuguese was standing in front of the desk, with a tactical version hanging on the wall behind him, holding a statistical data in his hand, reading word by word.While Chelsea have won comfortably in most of their games, the stats don't reflect that at all, and some stats make the players shudder.

"From here, can you see something?" Mourinho put down the information in his hand, raised his head and stared carefully at each player from left to right.

After a while, seeing that no one was talking, Wang Licai asked tentatively: "Should we reduce the number of long passes and increase the coordination of short passes?"

"This is definitely more efficient offensively, but it can't be achieved in a short period of time. Will the sudden and conscious increase in short passes increase mistakes?" After Wang Li finished speaking, Lampard frowned and thought about it. In the current Chelsea team, when it comes to tactical quality, I am afraid that no one is better than Lampard, who has always been the core of the team, even Wang Li is not good in this regard.

"Hmm..." After listening to Lampard's words, Mourinho nodded in satisfaction, "We don't need to increase the coordination of short passes at all."

"Why?"

"Is it necessary to reduce long passes and increase defensive strength?"

"But how can you attack like that..."

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After hearing Mourinho's words, the players immediately went into a commotion. Many people think that what the head coach said just now is to prove that the team's long pass turnover rate is high. , but at present, long passes are a very important means of the team's offense. If we use an image, Chelsea's main offense is to launch long passes from the two wings, or direct long passes from the backcourt To create opportunities, without this method, the team's offensive ability will inevitably be greatly reduced.

Mourinho waved his hand indifferently and said: "Okay. In the game the day after tomorrow, we need to increase the number of crosses. We can initiate crosses from the far corner of the penalty area, the bottom line, and the middle circle, and reduce the number of crosses. Short passes from the backcourt..."

Listening to the Portuguese's tactical arrangement, the players below were stunned, which was completely opposite to what they had in mind! !
In many people's opinion, if the long pass turnover rate is high, then the long pass must be reduced. This is inevitable. Every team does not like its high pass turnover rate, because it will give the opponent more opportunities. , but now Mourinho is doing the opposite, making everyone incomprehensible.

The same is true for Wang Li. He looked at the head coach who had been explaining the tactics in doubt, and kept recalling the bits and pieces of the game in his mind. After Mourinho finished speaking, he raised his head in doubt and asked: "Where are you going?" A successful cross, are we attacking very efficiently!?"

After listening to Wang Li's words, all the players reacted and turned to look at Mourinho. The latter nodded to Wang Li with satisfaction, and said: "Yes, in the successful crosses, our offensive efficiency is very high. !"

"Here is a statistic that proves it. Of the successful passes, 43.6 percent are successfully shot, 53.1 percent hit the goal frame, and [-] percent of goals..."

Listening to the same set of data, the players nodded in understanding. Although the success rate of passing the ball is very low, the team's scoring efficiency is surprisingly high. This result is not unexpected. They all agreed He turned his head and looked at Wang Li, who was sitting in the middle. In the eyes of everyone, this is probably inseparable from Wang Li's terrifying scoring efficiency. If he is allowed to get the ball in the penalty area, that kind of danger is inevitable imagination.

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