"We're acting too eager!" Cardiff did a good job of limiting City's shots, while City could only be assessed as not doing enough in attack, and Wen Sheng criticized the players in the first sentence of his post-match interview.

'I have to give credit to Cardiff, they did really well! And we lacked organization in this game in the middle of the game, and we played too directly! We need to be patient against such an opponent. Wen Sheng commented on the midfield performance in the second sentence.

Although De Bruyne provided an assist, Wen Sheng still has enough reasons to be dissatisfied with him, De Bruyne's sense of rhythm does not seem to be too strong, and I don't know if it is the reason for his long-term activities on the wing, the midfield he led today is empty of control but lacks a sense of rhythm.

"Daniel, do you hate the way Cardiff plays?!" A Sky Sports reporter suddenly asked.

"It's not annoying! I've just said it, and I appreciate them! In terms of my style, I think they took the right tactical approach! This is certainly bad for us! Wen Sheng smiled.

"In the future, we will face this kind of normalcy! Every team will carefully study us, our tactics, our positioning, each of our roles, including all our players, and they will develop detailed tactics to limit our attack, prevent us from scoring goals, and prevent us from winning! So the new season will be a bigger challenge and we will have to pay more than last season if we want to win the championship! ”

"Can you tell us about your coping strategy?!" The reporter asked again.

"There are no secrets, if we are in good physical and mental condition, we are enough to defeat any opponent!"

"That's it?!"

"It's easy! The thing itself is not complicated! ”

The question itself is of little significance, and Wen Sheng's answer is not nutritious.

Want to defend your enemies more thoroughly? Of course, it's a hard attack!

……

Back in the dressing room, the Manchester City players were in a very good mood, Dzeko finally had a smile on his face, and in the second half he showed his attitude with practical actions, and he was willing to listen to the manager's arrangement.

Wen Sheng has been in charge of the team for more than a year, and there are many words of praise and encouragement in the locker room, but from now on, there will be no less criticism.

The players have donkey attributes, and sometimes they don't move without a whip.

The next day, De Bruyne also went to Wensheng's office to talk about yesterday's game.

Wensheng himself also wants to talk to De Bruyne, because De Bruyne should not just look like a winger, even if he is now a winger, he should understand Wensheng's tactical spirit.

"You're looking more and more like a winger now! A world-class winger! He can pass the ball, cut inside, and even do a very good job on the defensive end, and be able to think about his teammates behind him! But the last game was definitely not the kind of game I wanted! You know what I need! ”

"Control?" De Bruyne blurted out.

"Yes, control! Is the Barcelona game good?! Wen Sheng asked rhetorically.

De Bruyne's answer did not surprise Wen Sheng at all, "It's not good-looking!" ”

If he had grown up under Guardiola, he might have accepted Guardiola's set of football tactics, but he was not brought up by Guardiola, he was cultivated by Wensheng, and the core of Wensheng is the utilization of the ball.

If you don't use the ball well, no matter how much you use it, it's all for nothing.

Wen Sheng nodded, "I don't think their transmission control is beautiful either, sometimes it looks really lethargic!" ”

"The core of our new season is to make good use of the ball in your hands, sometimes you play too direct, using the ball well does not mean not having the necessary possession, you still have to take a detour when you need to take a detour! The way of attacking is not static, we can slow down or speed up the pace at different moments against different enemies, we can give up the ball or hold on to the ball! In short, it takes your understanding on the pitch! ”

'You do play as a winger here, but you can't be a winger in your head! You have the ability to take on more responsibility, so you need to interpret the game, your midfielder is the brain, the baton of the whole team's rhythm! ”

"Let's just say that in the last game, everyone blindly attacked and sent the ball to their penalty area, what was the result?! Not good, really bad! Our shot was even lower than I expected! On the one hand, everyone's bad state is one thing, and on the other hand, you are not a good commander! ”

"You'll have to think about it next! I'm going to let Kroos play in midfield, David will be a midfielder, but they can sometimes swap places, and you can swap places with them sometimes, I hope the three of you can form a good understanding as soon as possible, and the team's performance this season will largely depend on your performance! Do you understand?! ”

De Bruyne nodded, and asked some more questions about himself, and Wen Sheng answered them very seriously.

Some managers are reluctant to talk too much about tactical problems to the players, because many players don't like to listen to it too much, they prefer the manager to say what your role is like, but Wensheng is different from those coaches, he always puts the team first everywhere, he always emphasizes that everyone's role positioning is not isolated, but based on the team, which means that he hopes that the players can look at the problem from the perspective of the overall situation.

In the last game he criticized Dzeko, why?! Because Dzeko didn't think about it from the high ground of the team, he cared too much about his competition with Aguero, he was too concerned about whether he could get a chance to score.

Wensheng can't make sure that everyone in the team will figure out what the manager is thinking, but as a figure of De Bruyne's type, they really need to think about it and listen to Wensheng, and Wensheng also relies on them to promote their own tactics to the team.

"Fuck, they always say I'm a conservative head coach! But I'm really not not, I do want to put defense first, but that doesn't mean I don't think about offense! Wen Sheng told De Bruyne his tactical ideas every season since the Crystal Palace era.

De Bruyne listened attentively, and at the end of his life, Wen Sheng asked him with a smile: "Tintin, what do you mean by me telling you these expressions?!" ”

"Tactics aren't set in stone?!"

"Yes, I don't have any fixed ideas, my tactical ideas are all from a utilitarian point of view! Specific to each game, in fact, it is the same, the tactics are not static, I remember I said that you have autonomy, you have only one goal on the field, that is, to win, for what to change the tactics and change the position you can try! ”