How to break down dense defenses? It's an old topic.

Last season until this season, Millwall has repeatedly faced dense defense, and Zhang Yang has repeatedly considered ways to break dense defense, in fact, it is still very simple to say, and there are only a few ways to summarize -

Long shots, set-pieces, long balls, star plays, etc.

All of the above are good ways to do it.

Needless to say, long-range shots and set-pieces solve the problem with a single kick on the perimeter, and it is useless for the opponent to defend tightly.

The concept of long pass rushing is more extensive, the periphery of the direct pass, long-distance hanging, and even corner kicks can be counted in the range of 'long pass rushing', the focus is still on players with good footwork, constantly making the ball in the penalty area, and the players in the penalty area are fighting for points to find opportunities.

Milwall is not very good at long passes, and the main teams do not have a standard high school striker.

Darren Bent and Vardy are all technical forwards, and their physical condition is good, but they don't have much advantage in terms of high ball, and the whole team wants to say that they are suitable candidates, and Livermore is one, but it is too big for him to play as a striker, and it is unlikely that the position of the back waist will run a few times in the penalty area to fix the point.

Stars play ...... That's a bit of a range.

If you want to say that kicking a free kick and shooting from a distance can also be regarded as a star play, the public impression is like Maradona, using consecutive breakthroughs to threaten the opponent's goal.

Only the latter will be discussed here.

There is a superstar such as Totti, Kaka or Cristiano Ronaldo in the team, but the reality is that such a star is hard to come by, and Chelsea have been waving cheques for several years without buying a midfield superstar, and Millwall is not there for the time being.

Most of Millwall's players are still relatively poor in technology, Morris, Simpson, Braniff and other players have limited breakthrough ability, but Quaresma's skills are good, but unfortunately he is on the side, and he has not fully adapted to the Premier League, even if he grows and wants to reach the level of threatening the opponent with a breakthrough, it is not possible to do it this season.

Some Millwall can do well and some are not very good at the above points.

This is only theoretical.

In fact, Millwall seem to have a good ability to break through dense defense, but the past two games have proved that in the face of the opponent's iron-hearted approach to the goal, the team still has few options, mainly too few chances.

The opposition's dense defence was not disorganized either, and the targeting of Millwall was also very targeted.

For example, the opponent knows that Simpson's free kick is excellent and will reduce fouls in dangerous places on the edge of the box, and for example, the opponent will limit Livermore who is inserted behind to prevent him from coming in with a long-range shot.

While defending intensively, the opposition will also send defenders who defend against high balls to limit the play of Millwall forwards.

All three of the above, combined with all the other things, will make it a matter of luck for Millwall to score.

Just like Liverpool's style of play, they play targeted defensive counterattacks, Millwall attacks too far forward, they will be threatened by rapid counterattacks, on the contrary, it is difficult to threaten the Liverpool goal if they do not attack forward.

It's a real headache.

Millwall can't just go to the same 'draw and win' as Liverpool, right?

When facing a league game, the bottom line of pursuit will be lowered, and the mentality will have an advantage, but Millwall wants to compete for the league title, and the goal of every game will be to win, so it is necessary to study a certain strategy to strive for a greater chance of winning.

Zhang Yang was bored in the office all day, not to study how to break through the dense defense.

That doesn't need to be researched.

Zhang Yang specializes in how to increase the means of breaking dense defense in the 'dual core' tactic, or in other words, the purpose is to make the tactical play decide to use the 'breaking dense defense' method to seek more opportunities to score.

This will certainly increase the chances of scoring in the face of a dense defence.

If it's a simple tactic from other teams, just remind the players how to play.

Not at Millwall.

Giving each player more room to play is the basis of Millwall's tactics, tactics can not limit the choice of players, can only use the player's running area adjustment, to appropriately increase the number of attacks and space of 'capable of breaking dense defenders'.

Zhang Yang immediately thought of what to do.

In the dual-core formation of 4141, the two wings and the back four must not be changed; The adjustment of a single striker can only increase the number of strikers, and there is no place for other positions.

So the only thing that can be adjusted is in the middle of the midfield.

The three players in the middle of the midfield, one back and two cores, are the top priority of the tactics, and they can be said to be the 'most important players', and referring to the style of play that broke the dense defense last season, Zhang Yang also immediately thought of what to do - the back midfield.

Livermore is a midfielder, and the forward midfielder is the premise for his position.

Livermore can shoot from a distance and grab headers, if he can have more chances, it is definitely the biggest deterrent to the opponent, and it can also directly increase the ability to break through dense defense.

In order to limit Livermore, fouls may increase even on the edge of the box.

These are all benefits of the Livermore location premise.

But Livermore's position is not just for him, he will duplicate the two core areas when he gets to the front, which may also cause a series of problems.

Zhang Yang is thinking about this question.

In the office, Zhang Yang constantly uses the 'speech and spirit calculation' to constantly change the positions of other players, eliminate the influence of the premise of Livermore's position, and constantly make minor adjustments to the dual-core style of play to increase the smoothness of tactical deduction, that is, to increase the upper limit of the team's strength value.

The whole process is like solving a mathematical problem, for example, from 1 to 100, find two numbers and put them in the space of the column, so that the result obtained by the column is the largest, the best way is of course to calculate, but Zhang Yang does not know the principle of 'speech and spirit measurement', and the substitution example is the calculation formula and the like, the only thing he knows is how to calculate, and the most stupid way he can use is to choose two numbers to put in, and then to calculate the answer to the column, and then choose two numbers to put in, and then to calculate the answer.

And so on.

Constant calculations are not only very energy-consuming, but also very time-consuming.

For two days in a row, Zhang Yang only slept for six hours halfway, and the rest of the time was doing repeated calculations, working for such a long time, making others more or less worried.

Halfway through, several members of the coaching staff came to see if they could help, and Zhang Yang only had one sentence, "You just need to do a good job of training." ”

No one else can help.

When they saw that Zhang Yang was still in good spirits, the others were relieved, and by the evening of the next day, Wise and Aldous came over to take a look, and found that Zhang Yang was staring at two dark circles under his eyes, still stuck in a pile of documents and records, and they were really a little worried.

Zhang Yang raised his head and said, "I'm going to do it soon." But the tone of the words was clear.

Wise and Aldous glanced at each other, could only leave with a wry smile, and after going to the coach's office and entering some training information, the two walked downstairs, looking at the lights on in the head coach's office, they still couldn't relax.

At this time, a beautifully dressed woman walked over, and Wise's eyes lit up when he looked over, "Catherine! You're here to find Zhang Yang, right? ”

Most people don't know about Zhang Yang's personal relationship problems, but Wise and Zhang Yang have worked together a lot, and they have met Catherine twice, and Catherine occasionally comes to the club, but usually late, and no one else has seen her.

Catherine's cheeks flushed, "Yes, I suddenly rested today, I went to his house, he wasn't there, so I came to the club to have a look." ”

"Get up there! Zhang Yang has been working, we are still worried, it's great that you can come. Wise greeted Catherine with a smile.

Aldous was a little strange, "She's ...... Zhang's girlfriend? ”

Wise hesitated, "I guess so." ”

"Sort of? What do you mean? ”

Wise looked around, and when he saw that no one was bothering, he whispered, "You can't tell anyone. After getting Aldous's affirmative look, Wise began to gossip about his flamboyant private life, "I've seen two women, one is named Denise, and the other is Catherine. I've met Catherine twice, but Denise and Zhang Yang also seem to be close, and I can't understand the relationship between them...... Perhaps...... Maybe Zhang Yang has two girlfriends? ”

"Two ......?" Aldous's mouth opened wide, his mind a little cloudy, "Really? ”

Wise nodded, also a little uncertain, "You can't tell anyone else, otherwise Zhang Yang will definitely know that I said it." ”

"Don't worry."

Aldous had a 'I can be trusted' expression, but the fire of gossip in his eyes could not be extinguished.

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Catherine went upstairs and knocked on the door, and after finding that no one responded, she pushed open the door and walked in, only to notice that Zhang Yang was sleeping on her stomach on the table, she was a little distressed, and patted her shoulder twice, "Zhang, Zhang?" Wake up. ”

Zhang Yang was so tired that he responded in a daze, and then fell asleep.

Catherine looked left and right, straightened her body, pushed the chair under her, and went to the small bedroom, and then carried him to the bed, while she lay on her back, looking at the handsome face on one side, and didn't know when she fell asleep.

When Catherine woke up again, it was six o'clock in the morning, she straightened her clothes and hair, walked out of the room, and then left the club.

After Catherine left, Zhang Yang woke up in a daze.

The faint light of the living room shone on his face, the brightness of his eyes became clearer, and at a certain time his thinking returned to rationality, and Zhang Yang sat up from the bed violently.

"Am I not lying in a chair?"

"When did you get to bed?"

Zhang Yang carefully recalled the situation last night, and couldn't think of how he got to bed, that memory seemed to be completely gone, but he really slept on the bed.

"What's going on?"

Zhang Yang went out and found that the chair had changed its position, and the tactical documents on the desk were still there, but the desk lamp and computer screen seemed to have moved a little.

Has anyone been here?

Is it Wise, Aldous? Or Frederick, or Ebenezer or Wilkinson?

Zhang Yang could only think of these people, but he quickly ruled them out one by one, and other ordinary staff members definitely didn't have the courage to enter the office and move anything, if it was the above people, they would almost certainly wake themselves up, in addition, how did they get from the desk to the bed?

Zhang Yang thought about it deeply, and felt that he had encountered a supernatural event, or that he had contracted the problem of sleepwalking...... It's kind of scary!