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Brescia's tactical change was unlike any other team he had encountered before, or rather, it was beyond the scope of a tactical change, but a completely new paradigm change in football.

Since the invention of modern football by the British, there was no formation in the original flood era, and the football score in the 18th century was like basketball today. After a game, there are often dozens to dozens of big scores, and it is not uncommon for the score to break 100.

At that time, 22 people were standing on the pitch, and wherever the football flew, the other 20 people ran except for the goalkeepers of both sides. Just like schoolchildren play football now, a group of people chase and run after the football. In the days when there were no offside rules, all teams played football with 10 strikers and one goalkeeper.

Until one day, a great Englishman suddenly developed a sense of defense, and when his attacking teammates rushed into the opposing half, he stayed in his own half and took on the task of intercepting after the attack failed. At this moment, the first formation of football finally appeared - the 109 formation.

This is not a joke, this is the first time in the history of football that it has moved from the flood to the scientific system. Just as primitive apes made tools for the first time, cavemen who lived in caves made fire for the first time.

Chapman in England was the first person in history to systematically study the formation of formations, and the first in history to use a tactical board. During his tenure at Arsenal, he developed the first more scientific formation in the history of football - the WM formation. With this invention that was ahead of his time, he brought Arsenal the first two titles in history, and after his unfortunate death from a cold and unexpected, Arsenal won three more league titles with his legacy.

In the 30s of the 20th century, Arsenal relied on the WM formation to create the first real dynasty in the history of English football and probably the first real dynasty in the history of world football - the Arsenal dynasty.

Chapman officially injected the concept of defense into the sport, and the three forwards and two inside forwards gave footballers a distinction in position and division of labor.

The popularity of WM tactics and the establishment of the Arsenal dynasty have made many people who once only regarded football as a goalscoring sport rethink the division of labor and cooperation on the football field, and football has changed from a sport where 10 people are piled up in the penalty area and waiting for opportunities to a sport where everyone needs to take on their own responsibilities on a field.

At that time, all teams began to play in the WM formation, and the singleness of the lineup greatly reduced the excitement of the football game, your "W" dragged down my "M", and my "M" could also defend your "W", and whoever has the ability to do so can gain an advantage on the field. At this time, a change in football formation, tactics, and playing style is needed.

Under the influence of the Second World War, the development of football tactics was also affected, until the late 40s, when the Hungarians, who did not have a good time after the Second World War, stood up like a giant on the football field.

The Hungarian team is star-studded and lacks only a strong centre-forward. Coach Sibes came up with the idea of dropping the forward centre-forward position back into midfield, turning the player into a playmaker. Thus, a new formation "3214" was born. This formation maintains the "M" shape of the "WM" formation, except that the five players in the "W" in the front court change positions, one player drags the back organization, and the other four players press to form a quadruple forward.

This is the first tactical system in history to emphasize small-scale many-to-one confrontation. Unlike WM's emphasis on individual player ability, the Hungarian used 3214 to tell the world that the combination of multiple players in the attack is far better than the individual ability of the player.

The invention of Sibes was a milestone in the history of football formations, as it was the first formation that could be varied. Attacking can be transformed into a 3-1-2-2-2 position, with the two inside forwards dropping back allowing the team to make a big splash on the flanks while the team has more layers of attack, while the 3-2-1-3 position when defending is enough to counter the "WM" four-forward combination. And what makes 3-3-4 enough to conquer the world is the emphasis on small-scale multi-point confrontation. The Hungarians pioneered running without the ball and made players realise that their positions on the pitch were not fixed, and for the first time in the history of world football, there was a direct confrontation of many pairs of ones through movement.

And for football, Hungary brings not just a new formation, but a world of possibilities.

They have shown the world that there are more possibilities than just WMs.

Since then, more and more new formations have been created.

Ten years later, Brazil coach Vicente Foola tried for the first time to drop four defenders at the back, and from this back there was a distinction between central defenders and full-backs, which had very different requirements for players. Formations have always emphasized goals and numbers up front from the very beginning, but Ferola has turned the sport on its head. Defend and attack, steady and steady.

The birth of the back four has ushered in an era of pluralistic thinking in the change of football formation, and the impact of this change is no less than the previous tactical change in Hungary. People began to think rationally, how to use the varied off-ball movement and passing coordination to create more space for the offense when the direct confrontation is not dominant, and how to use solid defense to add success to the offense.

At this point, more coaches began to think about the same question.

What is actually the most important thing in a game? Is it a victory? Is it a goal? Undefeated? Or maybe something else.

A new genetic element has been planted on the football field like a seed, and it is unpredictable what kind of exotic flowers they will bloom, but everyone feels that this new genetic element will create a larger era of football, or a completely different era of football from the previous ones.

Eight years later, Sir Ramsey of Great Britain created a classic formation that continues to this day - 442.

To this day, whether the midfielder is in a diamond position or a disc position, whether it is a 4231 with a striker or a 4132 with a forward midfielder, or even a 433 with a striker, all changes are based on the minor fixes of Sir Ramsey's great invention.

The great thing about the 442 is that it is the first formation that can bring out most of the potential and strength of the players. If a player has good sprint start, then he doesn't have to compete for space with his own strikers in a 4-2-4 lineup; If a player has a good passing skill, then he can take on more playmaking tasks with the depth of the squad and ignore the dirty work like scavengers.

Chapman's WM gave football the concept of formation, Hungary's 3214 gave football the concept of running without the ball, Brazil's 424 let the world know that the essence of formation is to win, so the reason why 442 can continue to this day is that 442 is perhaps the most balanced formation at present.

No matter in any situation, 442 is at the point of attacking and retreating, and the team that pursues a solid defense 1:0 can play 442, and the team that pursues a gorgeous attack can play 442, and through the control of the midfield, the whole field is completely controlled, and finally the goal of the game is achieved - whether the goal is to win or draw the opponent or concede fewer goals.

In the increasingly long season of modern football, a team needs to face giants who are far superior to themselves in a season, they will also face a fish belly that is fighting for relegation, or opponents who are on a par with themselves.

In today's increasingly dense competition, it is unrealistic to practice targeted tactics for each opponent before the game, which is why more and more teams are choosing a balanced 442 or other 442 variants. This choice guarantees a team's stability in a long league. And the tactical balance brought about by 442 has also unwittingly affected the thinking of almost all coaches.

Now, Capello feels that he sees a different way of thinking -- one that pursues an imbalance.

Is Brescia's formation balanced? From the perspective of the offensive and defensive balance of the front and back courts of the 442 tactical thinking, it is balanced. Although it seems that Brescia's attacking players only have 3 strikers, the rest are defensive players from a positional point of view. But through the movement of the players, Brescia has no fewer players involved in the attack than they do when they defend.

This line of thinking is somewhat like the early all-offense and all-defense, which achieves a balance between offense and defense by speeding up the team's offensive and defensive transition time.

From this point of view, compared to Zhang Shu's offensive ability, his defensive ability in the front court is the key to ensuring that Brescia's offensive and defensive conversion can be successfully completed.

In attack, the imbalance that Capello felt was not a vertical imbalance in the front and back courts, but a horizontal imbalance in the width of the field.

One thing that hasn't changed in the 100 years since the football formation was invented is symmetry.

If there is a left winger, there will be a right winger, if there is a left midfielder, there will always be a right forward, and the back line will either be three backs, one in the middle and two in the left, or the left and right full-backs will perform their duties.

Only by ensuring symmetry between the left and right sides of the team will the team not have the possibility of being seized by the opponent from the weak side when defending. And the gap left by the full-backs coming forward to assist is also the first choice for many teams when counterattacking.

But in the offensive, is symmetry still so important?

What happens when the ball is on one side of the pitch and the attacking player on the other side is there to support the player in charge? And how much significance does a defender at the far end have to be in his own zone when the ball is not at all?

Just as the best way to deal with a heavy cavalry charge in the Cold Weapon era was to use the heavy cavalry to countercharge, the best way to tilt the whole team to the left or right in the face of Brescia's attack is to tilt the defensive center of gravity to the side in the same way.

However, it takes time to tilt the formation, and the defender can only know the opponent's key attack after the attacker has launched an attack, and it is often too late to rush the defense at that time.

The same is true for the attackers, the opportunity to counterattack is fleeting, and there is no room for delay, but how did Brescia manage to attack in one direction so tacitly when counterattacking?

Capello's mind kept searching for answers.

First of all, he must know how Brescia did it.

Over time, countless tactics have been conceived, many of which are better than today's tactics, but many of which have not really been applied to the pitch.

Is it because these tactics don't work? Of course not. If it is found that the tactical system is not as good as the current tactical system, such tactics will not be conceived at all.

The only reason is that good tactics need the right players to execute.

In the 30s, the WM formation was replaced by the Hungarian 3213 because of the increased physical fitness of the players who were able to run without the ball for 90 minutes. Brazil's back four can be seen because of the presence of players who are not tall but have defensive ability and quick sprint ability to play at full-back.

So who did Brescia's new tactics come about because of them? The answer to this question is all too obvious.

Brescia has only one more person in the past two years, Zhang Shu.

If you want to maintain a threat in all directions of the front court despite the lack of numbers, you must have a player like Zhang Shu who can play all positions in the front court, and if you want to complete the transition from attack to defense as soon as possible after conceding the goal, you need to have one or more frontcourt players with defensive ability - in Brescia, this person is also Zhang Shu.

As for the rest of Brescia's players, they need to be fitted with plenty of movement and fast-paced transitions across the pitch. But there are a lot of players like that, and they're not the key players.

There is only one person at the heart of Brescia.

Thinking about this, Capello also had a general direction, and he carefully reflected on the first half of the game, and it was true that Brescia used Zhang Shu as an arrow to run when counterattacking.

Then the next defensive strategy can be determined.

He took a deep breath and pushed open the door to the Roma dressing room.

There was silence in the dressing room, and the Roma players looked up at their manager with hopeful eyes, hoping that the manager would show them the way to victory, as he had done countless times before.

"Gentlemen, we need to make adjustments." Capello didn't have any extra nonsense, he walked quickly to the tactical board, picked up a marker and quickly drew on it.

'In the second half, our defensive focus will change with him.

Capello made heavy circles on the board with his pen and framed a magnetic peg representing a Brescia player.

The magnetic nail has a large number 6 written on it. (To be continued.) )