Milanello training base.

The players are doing lap-grabbing training, which is the kind of training in which several people pass the ball to each other in a circle, and one or two people in the middle go to grab the ball. This kind of training can also be regarded as a game, but don't underestimate this kind of game, which requires players to touch the ball once in the passing and receiving of the ball, whether it is a great test for the passer, receiver or player who grabs the ball.

Yan Tao and Romagnoli stood in the middle, Zhang Shujie, Chen Zihua, Bonaventura and other seven or eight players formed a circle and passed the ball to each other, and Yan Tao and Romagnoli were responsible for snatching it.

The first dozen rounds were fine, until Yan Tao was forced to get a little higher when he went to grab Bonaventura's ball, and Bonaventura passed the ball to Zhang Shujie a little bit bigger, and it passed behind Zhang Shujie, so that Zhang Shujie had to turn his back to catch the ball, at this time Romagnoli rushed up quickly and kicked the ball out of Zhang Shujie's feet.

"Oh!!"

The team members cheered. In the previous training, everyone also played the circle grabbing, but no one has ever been able to grab Zhang Shujie's ball, not even Yan Tao, who has the strongest stealing ability, and today Romagnoli is the first to do it.

Young Rome was also very happy, jumping a few steps and raising his arms. Yan Tao looked at Zhang Shujie and asked, "Hey, have you regressed in the past few days?"

Zhang Shujie smiled and said, "I just made a mistake." ”

Chen Zihua hooked the ball on his foot, tossed it a few times, and said, "In my impression, I rarely see you make mistakes." ”

"If a person is not a sage, he can do no wrong. Zhang Shujie calmly picked up another ball, and did not feel distressed by his mistake.

Bonaventura said, "I'm sorry, I didn't pass it well just now. ”

"It's okay, I didn't stop either. Zhang Shujie smiled and said, "Okay, now it's time for me to grab the ball, let's start." ”

Zhang Shujie and Bonaventura switched positions and were about to start the second round, but Inzaghi suddenly stopped training and called all the players to his side.

"I called you here to train you on set-piece coordination. We've played five games in the league and the Champions League and we've won a lot of set-pieces, but only one has been from set-pieces. We all know that set-piece tactics are very important in the dialogue between the strong and the strong, especially the free-kicks up front. There are two things I want to say here, one is to shoot directly at goal, and the other is to pass the ball to a teammate. ”

Inzaghi asked someone to set the ball on the training ground, looked at the players, and said: "You may be strange, what kind of cooperation is needed for a free kick to be able to shoot directly at the goal? You are right, usually this kind of free kick goes straight to the goal, there is no coordination. ”

Inzaghi placed the ball about 24 meters away from the goal and asked Zhang Shujie: "You should be very good at this kind of ball." ”

Zhang Shujie nodded: "As far as free kicks are concerned, the distance between 20 meters and 26 meters in front of the goal is the most suitable, and some free kick masters such as Juninho, Beckham, and Mihajnovic can kick this kind of free kick as a penalty. ”

Inzaghi smiled and pointed at him and said, "I think you can too." ”

Zhang Shujie laughed and said very modestly: "I don't dare to compare with the above three masters." ”

Inzaghi turned around, kicked the ball forward gently, the ball rolled forward about seven or eight meters away, and asked Zhang Shujie: "What if it's a free kick of this kind? If you are asked to kick it, which one do you think is more difficult than just now?"

Zhang Shujie said: "Now this is much more difficult, because the ball is too close to the goal, and after the ball goes around the human wall, its arc may not have time to go around the goal, and it will go out of the bottom line." ”

Inzaghi nodded and said, "That's right. So what do you think is the best way to shoot this kind of ball?"

"Hit the low ball. Because the wall usually jumps off when a free kick is taken, the ball can roll over the wall from the ground, and the goalkeeper is not very easy to save. ”

"A lot of talking. But what I'm saying is that if the penalty players want that, then the defenders want that too. Now for this kind of free kick, many teams also have precautions, the human wall will pay more attention when jumping, the starting height of the human wall will be relatively low, sometimes the players standing at both ends of the human wall will not even jump, just to prevent being hit at the feet. ”

Zhang Shujie said: "It's true, so there are other ways. ”

Inzaghi looked at him with interest and said, "Tell me about it." ”

"Sometimes, there will be a player of his own standing in the opposing wall, and this player is a disguise, and the moment the penalty player shoots, he will suddenly lie down on the court, and there will be a gap in the human wall, and the ball will fly in through this gap. ”

"That's it. This method is used a lot by Real Madrid, and when Ronaldo takes a free-kick, we sometimes see Pepe standing in the opposition wall, and Ronaldo's free-kick is from the gap where Pepe lies down and hits the goal. This kind of free kick does not require much curvature, the main thing is power! In the shortest time, the goalkeeper is unable to react!"

Inzaghi looked at the players and said: "I have observed, I think this kind of free kick in our team, Yan Tao and Chen Zihua are the most suitable for this kind of short-range free kick 17 or 8 meters away from the goal." ”

Then Inzaghi made a brief explanation and asked the players to take the penalty. Although he thinks that Chen Zihua and Yan Tao are the most suitable for this kind of free kick, it does not mean that other players can not practice, if they are injured or suspended and are not on the field one day, and they get a free kick in such a position, other players will have to be on top.

There was a row of six-man wooden walls in front of it, and the second one on the right had been removed, so there were actually only five pieces, and the ball was placed ten yards away, corresponding to the small penalty line on the left side of the goal, about seventeen meters away from the goal, less than eighteen meters, and Donnarumma stood in front of the goal.

The gap in the wall is not huge, but it is easy for a professional player to hit the ball through this gap to the goal, and of course, it is normal to miss it once or twice once in a while.

Each player took turns shooting ten times, and after the kick, Inzaghi swung the ball in the middle and finally to the right, so that the kick was almost over for the afternoon.

It's a very monotonous training, but it's tactically indispensable, and many players spend a lot of time practising their free-kick tactics, and now Inzaghi is starting to do the same.

Inzaghi and Tasotti (Note (1)) made a statistic, Yan Tao, who scored the most goals, followed by Chen Zihua, with only one goal difference, and then Zhang Shujie, who scored three fewer than Chen Zihua, followed by Bonaventura. All four players scored in double figures, with the others scoring the most in Baca with just seven.

Although this day's training does not fully show everyone's true level, to some extent, it can also show the basic skills of some players. Zhang Shujie is good at free kicks between 20 meters and 26 meters from the goal, 17 meters to 19 meters This kind of more extreme free kick is indeed not his forte, his free kick wins in the arc rather than power, it needs a certain distance as support, too short is not good, on the whole, this kind of ultra-short distance free kick, Yan Tao and Chen Zihua are the best candidates.

Inzaghi has a rough idea in mind.

Note (1): In fact, AC Milan's assistant coach Tasotti announced his departure from Milan as early as July 2016, and the decision in the story to keep him for a year should be regarded as a sign of respect for the old man of the red and black. There is also Inzaghi, in reality, he only coached AC Milan for one year and then left the class, in the story he will continue to coach, I will shape him as a Ferguson-style coach in this story, after all, there are very few existing legends in this AC Milan team, in reality, Inzaghi is very successful as a player in Milan, but very successful as a coach, here, I want to make his Milan career a successful end, not a dismal ending.

(End of chapter)