Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Free Man Liu Han
After the north London derby with Tottenham, Arsenal got a rare chance to rest, they will have 12 days of rest, the next game will not be played until November 20, although there is a national team break during the period, but it has little impact on the Arsenal team, except for a limited number of players will go to some warm-up matches and European Championship qualifiers, nothing else will leave, the most important thing is that Liu Han will not leave, and now Wenger's reliance on Liu Han in the front field can be seen from the last game. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Since the Charity Shield played at the back, Liu Han was placed in the center forward position by Wenger, at the beginning he quickly became the first choice of Arsenal strikers with his excellent physical fitness and good competitive condition, and Davosuk and Kanu were put on the bench, and Liu Han's goal rate is very high, after 14 rounds of Premier League games, he ranked first in the scorer list with 15 goals, and Liu Han really participated in the league game is 8, which means that he scored two goals almost every game.
In the Champions League, Arsenal also relied on Liu Han's outstanding performance to advance to the next stage of the competition, and the seven goals in four games also made the whole of Europe tremble.
However, after the last game against Tottenham, Wenger has a new idea, he has been regretting that the team does not have a suitable metronome, Petit and Grimindy have their own flaws, the veteran Parlour is more stable and less aggressive, the team is still playing the popular tactics of the Premier League, which does not match Wenger's thinking.
In Wenger's thinking, his team should be a whole, the tactics of the midfield should be unified with the tactics of the backfield, and the whole team should be an idea, but now the backfield does not say, more transformation is needed, and the midfield is more based on concise coordination, which is not what Wenger wants, he hopes to build the Arsenal team into a unique technical flow team in the Premier League, and the midfield should be more fluid and dominant, but Wenger has not found the right person.
Arsene Wenger's scouts have been looking for suitable seedlings at major youth bases across Europe, with Ribery making only a side find.
But now Wenger's search can be slowed down a little, he has found the most suitable metronome for the team at the moment, no, not only the metronome, but even the engine and gearbox, no, it should be said that it is a universal machine with a large-caliber artillery, Liu Han's attributes are very consistent with this characteristic.
Since Liu Han joined the Arsenal team, Wenger has attached great importance to Liu Han's training, because the opponent has not received professional player training since he was a child, so most of the training arranged for Liu Han at the beginning was mainly basic training.
Later, the team's coaching staff found that Liu Han's learning ability and training attitude were perfect, and he quickly practiced most of the basic movements of football to perfection, and he could also use them well in the game, so the training of Liu Han was more about cultivating his technical and tactical level and watching more game videos, hoping to cultivate his sense of the ball as soon as possible. What's more exaggerated is that his current technical level is not weaker than some top players.
At this level, Liu Han began to show his adaptability on the field, Wenger found the video of Liu Han returning to Asia to participate in the game after the game with Tottenham, although on the whole, the tactical level of the game at that time was not high, and the players were also third-rate, but the Chinese team coach used Liu Han very boldly, and the retro frontcourt free man tactics allowed Liu Han to play 100% of his ability, he can control the entire game process from his own penalty area to the opponent's penalty area, from defense to attack, This made Wenger very inspired, and even said that Liu Han only needs to play his ability in the midfield in the Arsenal lineup.
So before the start of the 15th round of the Premier League match with Middlesbrough, Wenger arranged for Liu Han to implement the frontcourt free man tactics, although the players were a little uncomfortable at the beginning, but gradually the Arsenal team's midfield tactics became more abundant, because their formation will change at any time, it can be the aggressive front 433, or the 442 that controls the midfield, and can even let Bergkamp retreat to play 451, and at the critical moment, it can also form a double back to strengthen the defense, in short, under Wenger's arrangement, The central axis of the entire midfield is Liu Han's range of activities.
Although there are several players in the midfield who are not happy with this arrangement, such as Arsene Wenger's Frenchman Petit, Wenger is still very tough on the players to implement such tactics, as for Petit, he is now gradually no longer a player in Wenger's plan.
Liu Han himself is also satisfied with Wenger's arrangement, because although he is the most threatening in the frontcourt, it also means that the defensive pressure is also the greatest, and it is difficult for Liu Han to get the ball in the frontcourt, which is acceptable to Liu Han, who was not superb in the past, but now, Liu Han is thinking about how to control the football under his feet all the time.
On November 20, the fifteenth round of the Premier League began, and Arsenal hosted Middlesbrough.
In this game, Wenger put on a consistent 433 formation, Liu Han seemed to be at the front, but in fact, only Arsenal players knew that this was just a cover for Wenger, the midfield did not set up a front midfield, the two wings were Overmars and Grimandi, Ljungberg was suspended for one game last time because he was sent off with a red card. Up front, it's still a combination of Thierry Henry and Bergkamp.
The game entered the rhythm of Arsenal from the start, and Liu Han retreated directly to the midfield to receive the ball, making all the set-up of Middlesbrough useless.
Liu Han, who has the ball at his feet, shows his overall view, Middlesbrough has set up a double back because of the importance of Liu Han, but there are indeed three back formations on the back line, which makes their side defense porous, Liu Han keenly grasped this point, and played a wonderful combination with Overmars, who cut inside to score the first goal, at this time the game started less than 15 minutes.
Then the whole game became a tactical training session for the Arsenal team, under the organization of Liu Han, Arsenal played wonderful matches in the front court, and Middlesbrough's defense was full of holes.
Liu Han scored a long-range shot five minutes after Overmars' goal and then set up Bergkamp's low shot from inside the box to give Arsenal a three-goal advantage in the first half.
The second half of the game was still under the control of the Arsenal team, and Henry scored again after a goal drought of more than ten games, which was not a direct assist from Liu Han, but it was indeed Liu Han's attack in the midfield.
Liu Han was substituted on 68 minutes, but Arsenal's goal was still on, and less than three minutes after Middlesbrough scored a goal in the scuffle, Overmars broke through again to give Arsenal a 5-1 win over Middlesbrough.
After the game, Arsene Wenger's "new tactics" and Liu Han's "new position" became the focus of media attention, and many professionals were surprised that there were still retro free man tactics in today's modern football, which is increasingly emphasizing position. (To be continued.) )