Since the birth of football, the most widely debated debate in the sport has been whether there is a real and effective relationship of mutual restraint between formations. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

No one can come up with a "perfect" answer, and history has seen the ups and downs of formation after formation, while coaches try to conquer or modify popular formations that are all the rage.

In the face of fresh knowledge and innovation, this indomitable spirit of competition is one of the reasons why football continues to grow. There is no doubt that if a coach is able to use tactics that are unfamiliar to his peers, he will have a huge advantage in this contest.

Football tactics refers to the comprehensive performance of individual and collective cooperation means used in order to defeat the opponent in the game, according to the subjective and objective reality.

The practice of the game proved that skillful and skillful use of the whole team is an important factor in winning the victory.

The football game is composed of the contradiction between attack and defense, and the attack and defense are constantly changing to form the whole process of the game.

Therefore, football tactics can be divided into two systems: offensive and defensive tactics, which include individual and collective tactics respectively.

The practice of the game has proved that the successful organization of tactics and the skillful use of tactics are the only factors that win the game, and only by making use of the strong points and avoiding the weak points can we defeat the enemy.

In the ancient times of football history, football was not complicated, except for the goalkeeper, 10 players chased the ball on the field like hunting animals, without scientific research and rigorous tactics as a guide, everyone had only one purpose, that is, to kick the ball into the net.

Subsequent players gradually discovered the breadth and profundity of football, and the study of football scholarship penetrated into the stadium, and many football players at that time realized that the chaotic rolling and speeding speed of football was faster than human running, and that without an organized and structured management, the players on the playing field would consume a lot of unnecessary physical strength for this.

Thus, the contradiction of offense and defense emerged.

The original tactic seems incredible now, and when the "0-0-10" tactic came along, many players at the time thought that attacking was the best defense, and goals were scored very often on the pitch.

The "0-0-10" style of play was the mainstream of players in the 19th century in the early days, but later it was found that when the 10 forwards were in the front, the opponent only needed a big foot to clear the ball to the own half, and none of the players on the side could retreat in time, and had to watch the opponent face the empty goalkeeper and kick the ball into the net.

This phenomenon led to the later proposal of a "0-1-9" tactic, the biggest feature of which was the withdrawal of a defender from the original forward line, which to a certain extent stopped the opponent's one-shot chances, but the goals were still scored frequently, and the goalkeeper was almost ineffective.

Football emerged in England in the mid-19th century, but it wasn't until the 20th century that football was really seen as a discipline. With the increase of experience, many people have discovered that in addition to the front and back of the football game, there is also a midfield, so a new tactical system has occurred.

At that time, someone divided the 9 forwards in the front court into a detailed division, just like the chess pieces in chess, some arranged in the front, some arranged in the back, this is the real sense of football formation, he and 10 players lined up in parallel and then rushed forward together The difference in the reckless play style is that there is organization, tactics and formation in the sport of football.

In order to meet the needs of offensive and defensive tactics, the position arrangement and division of responsibilities of the whole team members on the field are called game formations.

Since the mid-19th century, when the world's first football game formation was established, the "433" and "352" that are still today, as well as the "cement type" and "chain type" adopted by some countries, have all evolved and developed along this objective law.

When every player in the Arsenal first team got their hands on the new playbook, a similar thought popped up in everyone's mind (except for Zhang Zhetian): Am I going back in time to the beginning of the 20th century?

On the first page of the manual, there are two figures, marked A and B.

On the diagram, the triangle represents the goalkeeper, and the ball represents the player in other positions except the goalkeeper.

Both graphs are divided into five regions, with the same number of spheres in the rest of the regions, except for the third and fourth regions from top to bottom, which have the same number of spheres.

According to the instructions in the playbook, the first zone is the forward line with a round ball, representing the forward, and the second zone is the front line, with two balls standing side by side in the middle, representing the forward midfield.

The fifth area is the backline, which also has two balls tied in the middle to represent the central defenders.

The third area is the midfield line, with two balls in picture A and one ball in picture B, both standing in the middle and representing the central midfielders.

The fourth area is the backcourt line, and the A diagram has three balls, one in the middle and two on each side; Figure B has four balls, two tied in the middle and the other two on either side, with the middle representing the midfielders and the two wing-backs, according to the playbook.

If you don't look at the triangle representing the goalkeeper, the formation of the A map is 2-3-2-2-1, and the formation of the B plan is 2-4-1-2-1, and the difference between the two is the number of midfielders and midfielders.

If you divide it into the regular front, middle and back three areas, both formations can be seen as 2-5-3.

2-5-3？

Not a back three or a back four, but a 2-5-3 with a double back?

Right!

Although during the game, people are alive and the formation is dead, when attacking and defending, they will not strictly follow this formation.

When defending, the wing-backs will drop back to the back line and become a back four; When attacking, the wing-backs move forward and form a 2-3-5 formation.

When you see 2-3-5, do you feel familiar?

At the beginning of the 20th century, tactics were still chaotic, with some people still believing in the style of play of nine strikers, while another group of new forces continued to reduce the number of nine strikers in the front court through exploration and practice.

In 1900, England's Bouly team pioneered the "2-3-5" style of play, which was a great success after a lot of controversy and debate at the time, because the Boulee team, which was all amateur players, won the FA Cup that year.

Since then, many clubs have looked at the advantages of this style of play and have come to the conclusion that Bouly have made every corner of the pitch have their own figure, and they are divided into their zone early on, so that by the time the opponent enters the area, they are well prepared to disrupt the opposition's attack.

In the past, 10 strikers chased the ball together, and many players meaninglessly saw the chase as the only means of scoring points in the game, and the end result was that they consumed their energy by a lot of unnecessary runs, which was fundamentally different from the Bly's leisurely work.

The 2-3-5 style of play gave a huge boost to the development of football, and many clubs began to follow suit because of the superior offensive and defensive theories that were used in attack and defense at the time, and it became popular in world football for 30 years.