Chapter 189: Strangulation (Three More Requests for Subscriptions and Monthly Passes~)
Alex Ferguson is a manager who is always trying to improve - there is no doubt about it, although he is a typical English coach, but he is a manager who has the courage to reform and never stops, in England, the first manager to introduce a regular doctor in the club is Ferguson, which makes Manchester United ahead of other clubs in terms of player recuperation, Wenger's reform of Arsenal is important, such as not letting players drink during games, using regular doctors, but Ferguson does all this, ten years before Arsene Wenger!
After Manchester United got on the right track, they began to dominate the Premier League, which was not achieved by luck, but there were obvious changes and improvements in various aspects, which made Manchester United ahead of other English clubs in everything, and the corresponding example is Liverpool, they can be called the most traditional and conservative club in England, Redknapp went to a regular doctor to treat his legs because he didn't trust the club's unlicensed doctors, which led to being sold by Liverpool FC, This is an example of Liverpool's traditional stubbornness, it is precisely because of this anachronistic tradition and conservatism that Liverpool has not won a single title since the establishment of the Premier League, and the top players they have cultivated are often ruined by injuries, such as Redknapp, such as Fowler, such as Owen, and Gerrard, who has been injured often since he was a little older.
Originally, relying on these top players of the academy, Liverpool was able to usher in a new prosperous era, but it is far from enough for a club to have youth training and use youth training, plus their management has never been rational, which directly led to the continuous sinking of Liverpool.
The introduction of Veron this summer is also a method that Ferguson is trying to change, from a technical point of view, Manchester United can go sideways in the Premier League, but when it is zoomed into the whole of Europe, the skills of Manchester United players are not very good, which can be seen from their midfield organization core is the tough guy Keane, the traditional skills of their players are not particularly good, which is also related to the atmosphere of English football, and most importantly, the kind of organizational players who can control the rhythm of the midfield are quite rare in the Premier League, Britain's so-called technically brilliant mutant geniuses are often distinguished by their breakthrough ability rather than their organizational ability, whether it is the early Best, the mid-term Hoddle, Gascoigne, or later known as the best technical Joe Cole in England, their organizational skills are not particularly good.
So Ferguson wants to introduce Veron to enhance the team's technical content and midfield control, so he did not hesitate to dismantle the original famous golden midfield, because although Manchester United has won three consecutive league championships in the past three years, but in the Champions Cup, they began to feel more and more flaws caused by the lack of technology and control - the year of the treble, they were dangerous several times, and when they were eliminated by Real Madrid the next year, they were completely at a disadvantage in the midfield, and they were eliminated by Bayern last season and also fell behind in overall control. If this is not changed, Manchester United may still have an advantage in the domestic league, but in Europe, they will only be pulled further and further away.
Alex Ferguson is a long-sighted manager, he doesn't care about falling behind for the time being, he cares about the sustainability of the team.
In the long run, this is certainly quite beneficial to Manchester United, from this season, Manchester United began to gradually go beyond the scope of English football, more technical, more ground, and more competitive in the European arena, but in the short term, Ferguson's approach is somewhat self-defeating......
Veron is undoubtedly a top-class midfielder, and during his two years at Lazio he became one of the best midfield maestro in the world, alongside the likes of Zidane and Effenberg. But he is different from these two people, Veron is also a midfielder who needs to have an environment to be able to play better, after Lazio's top performance he arrived at Manchester United, his performance began to decline, this is not only a problem of Manchester United's tactics are not right, because he went to Chelsea and did not perform well, until he returned to Italy, he gradually recovered some of his former style, and has been performing well since returning to Argentina.
It's not a question of his ability, it's that he's in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
What Dick has to grasp, apart from the problems at the back, is Veron, which is an advantage that he will remember for later generations, and he will not give up such an advantage.
Veron is a midfield master, but his breakthrough and forward ability is not very good, his best thing is his scheduling, his passing and his powerful long-range shot, but passing and scheduling need team-mate cooperation, Dick's approach is to cut off the connection between him and others, so that Manchester United's midfield can not be connected - although Veron is cut from Manchester United's midfield, the other four Manchester United midfielders will not have any problems cooperating, but Veron is the midfielder in the middle after all, He has been cut off from the rest of the world, and it will be much more difficult than usual for United's midfield to get up and running!
From the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid used this approach to press Manchester United in the midfield, Baraja's position went up, constantly following Veron's side, so that he could not easily cooperate with his teammates, and Atletico Madrid attacked through Belleron's continuous scheduling, Belleron's scheduling has a characteristic, he rarely carries out too much possession at his feet, and often attacks through non-stop passing, which is a tacit understanding cultivated through more than a year of games, He knows how his team-mates are going to move, and his team-mates know when he's going to make passes.
Ferguson's eyesight was certainly poisonous, and five minutes into the game, he glanced at the home team's dugout in annoyance, and Dick felt Ferguson's gaze from afar, and he smirked.
To be honest, Ferguson really doesn't care much about the outcome of this game, with the strength of Manchester United, there will not be much problem with the appearance of the group, but in this game, Atletico Madrid pressed Veron at the beginning, and then cut off the connection between him and his teammates, this approach obviously makes Veron more isolated in the midfield, originally Veron's integration into the team is not particularly smooth, Ferguson wants to use the Champions Cup to let him better integrate into the team, Dick's move is directly equivalent to making trouble with Ferguson!
Winning or losing a game won't be too much of a problem, but if Veron doesn't fit into the team, it's not just three points to lose – $39.5 million! Worth the total amount of Atletico's transfer funds all summer!
That's what Veron is worth moving to Manchester United this summer.
Dick is quite depressed about this, there are still so many people who blame me for spending too much money, damn I only spent less than 80 million transfer fees in two years, which is a drop in the bucket compared to those real giants, besides, Lao Tzu spent money on the blade, which club's transfer manager has been able to do better than me in transfer in recent years?
After Veron was controlled by Atletico Madrid's midfield, Manchester United's attack began to become a little chaotic, and Atletico Madrid's attack began to become quite smooth, Belleron continued to create opportunities for Atletico Madrid through passing, Vicente and Camoranesi on both wings also continued to suppress the opponent's two fullbacks and then create opportunities for Jardel in the middle, although Jardel was only one person at the front, but the opponent's two central defenders were not worse than them in height, but Blanco was about to turn thirty-six years old, Johansen is also 32 years old and has been riddled with injuries, and in the confrontation, Jardel is trying to bully two central defenders who are older than him, which feels quite good......
Seeing his two central defenders suffering under the impact of Jardel, Ferguson shook his head, no way, although Manchester United has a lot of central defenders, in fact, the performance has been very strong, nothing more than Stam one, Johansen is a very good air defense center, but since joining Manchester United in the summer of 96, in addition to his high attendance in the first three seasons, since the 99-00 season, he has been constantly injured, and this season is not easy to return from injury, Two consecutive seasons of non-stop injuries, even if it is an iron man, Blanco is not young, among the other substitute central defenders, Brown and O'Shea are inexperienced, David May is mediocre, Silvestre's performance is okay but he always can't concentrate on the field, when Stam is there, no matter which central defender he cooperates with, Manchester United's defense will not look too bad, but Stam goes, the flaws of Manchester United's back line begin to be completely exposed!
In the league before, Manchester United used their excellent attack to cover up the flaws in the defensive line, but what Ferguson didn't expect was that Dick actually saw the weakness of Manchester United's back line under the cover of a strong attack at a glance, and decisively used Jardel's power to constantly impact Manchester United's backline!
If it weren't for this, Jardel would not have used his body to fight against Manchester United's two central defenders so unskillfully from the beginning of the game, it was nothing more than wanting to make Manchester United's two central defenders consume too much from the beginning, and have a greater impact on Manchester United's defense in the following time!
Ferguson could even imagine that after the start of the second half, if Atletico could gradually gain the upper hand in the midfield, then Dick would send Cruise to continue to attack Manchester United's central defensive line with two central strikers! Dick is aware of this, and will use this tactic against Manchester United!
"This little bastard is really not an easy guy to deal with......" Ferguson sighed in his heart, but what he didn't know was that he was not the first to make such an exclamation, and he would not be the last.
Ferguson knew that if he continued to play like this, Manchester United's situation would not be too good, but he did not immediately choose to make substitutions, because he knew that even if such a game was lost, it would not have any effect, but it could expose Manchester United's various shortcomings - as for this account, when he returned to his home stadium, there would always be a time to settle with Atletico Madrid!
"Not to mention, it won't be easy for us to win this way...... Our backline is not so easy to break down and if we can score first, you will be even more dangerous! ”
Ferguson kept chewing the gum in his mouth and watched the situation on the pitch without changing his face.
"That's the bearing, Ferguson is really calm." Dick glanced at Ferguson and then turned his attention to the pitch, where the two sides were still strangled and looked inseparable in midfield.