Chapter 5: Blockbuster machete tactics

Reading team actually has a very long history, he was founded in 1871, earlier than Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, not to mention Chelsea, which was established in 1905, in the first decades of the twentieth century, Reading also set off a storm in England, and its Madeniski Stadium also witnessed the glory of the Reading team very early, but in recent decades, Reading has slowly sunk, most of the time in League Two and League One, the main competitor has become Oxford, Swinton and other clubs in the middle and lower reaches of England.

Since the 90s Mo in the Crystal Palace team of the old coach Kerber came to Reading a few years ago, only to slowly re-stay this last century strong team in the Premier League, however, years of weakness, so that Reading has been on the verge of relegation in recent years, however, they are often able to play a beautiful attack, in their home stadium even often can win against teams including Manchester United, Arsenal and so on.

Arsene Wenger's original plan was to play an effective counter-attack through the player's ability and speed under tight defence, which was the most effective, and there was no loss of face at Reading at home, in Wenger's plan, it was intended that Helder would play on the right flank, and two defenders would be placed in the middle of the midfield, while the two forwards would also take turns to withdraw to the midfield to help get the ball.

"I've led Arsenal to play five or six games on this field, as long as you withstand their first few attacks, there will be a lot of opportunities in the middle and back, Henry and Hleb have a lot of space to get the ball, break through, shoot, and if you blindly attack and press them back into their own half, the space is small, we have fewer opportunities, you know, Kerber is a defensive player, Reading didn't concede a lot of goals last season, it says the problem, okay, you say to strengthen the attack, come up with reason." Wenger waved his hand, he did not rule out the players from questioning their tactical arrangements, but the statements of these two people today were so unbelievable that the professor was a little unhappy.

Lao Liu blinked, "Holder, you say it first, I'll make a supplement for you." "Cunning and cunning.

Now Helde had to speak, "Actually, the professor taught me that today's training let me know your tactical arrangement, I may not have a high vision, and my ideas are relatively one-sided, but the reason why I made this suggestion came from a piece of advice from a friend of mine and a compatriot.

"Reading won 1-0 at home to West Ham United in the first round, when West Ham United's centre-back Matt was my best friend in the national team, he told me that on the surface they wanted to attack too much, and did not catch the opportunity, but let Reading play a counterattack, but in fact, he felt that the problem was that their attack was not resolute enough, often recycled, hoping to wait for the opportunity to counterattack, but Reading's midfield did not give them this opportunity, if there are three or four excellent strikers on the field, maintain the fierce offensive momentum, Reading is probably in a mess of their own for a long time, and I think it makes sense, so ......"

"Superficial," Wenger said to himself, in fact, he wanted to hear Lao Liu's opinion even more.

"Held's statement is not very clear, but I agree with him, this season's Reading front line strength has indeed strengthened, but the departure of the main defender Stehr, so that their backfield strength has weakened, their attacking quartet Ritter, Hunt, Jeffers and Harper all have fast speed and skill, while South Korea's Xue Qixuan has quite good free kick skills, in the first round their victory over West Ham United was a goal by Ritter in the penalty area melee, in the second round although they lost 2:5 away to Manchester City, However, City's goals all came after Reading Senegal defender Sonck was sent off, and the score was 2-2 in the first half. ”

Lao Liu hopes that the professor understands what he means, and there is another layer that he did not say thoroughly, Willingham needs a kind of domineering, a domineering spirit that despises the enemy, of course, this kind of domineering cannot be established at the cost of losing, and if you lose, you can't establish domineering, this game with Reading is actually the best opportunity to establish domineering, these words Lao Liu will never say, now Wenger is in charge, Lao Liu does not want to be accused of interfering too much in tactical arrangements.

Arsene Wenger was clearly thinking, Helder had already left, and Wenger was still thinking...... Arsene Wenger finally looked up, "You have a point, and ...... This game is indeed an opportunity. ”

Lao Liu smiled happily, he felt the kind of pleasure brought by tacit understanding......

Reading coach Kerber was completely stunned for a few minutes after getting the lineup of Wellingham, and the assistant coach he poached from Newcastle also looked incredulous, "They actually put out four strikers, what kind of tactic is this, what does Wenger want to do?" ”

Many fans of Willingham have been thinking about a question, the players introduced by the team this year, especially the striker players, are fantastic, but they can only start two games a game, which is a bit unenjoyable, and I don't know when Wenger will be able to go crazy and send three at a time. Today, it's crazy that they were sent all at once.

Nicolas Anelka and Sergio Aguero were on the left and right, with Huntelaar and Kicic in the middle, Helder and Siwalker behind them, and the four defenders would be firmly in front of goalkeeper Johnson.

It seems that Wenger wants to let Anelka and Aguero replace Capo and Jim Bullard to play left and right midfield and strengthen the attack, but at the beginning of the game, Reading's defenders were a little desperate to find that the four forwards in the front of Willingsmu were making a wide range of flexible changes, and the man-to-man marking was definitely unable to keep up with their rhythm, and the joint defense was pulled by the four forwards to be ineffective, so that Dio and Harper had to often return to the penalty area to help defend.

Hunt was firmly entangled by Richards, and Arsene Wenger's task to the former Manchester City youngster was to trap Hunt, and it was relatively easy for Richards, who had no attacking pressure, to complete this task. Another midfielder, Gadlan, is not a playmaker himself, and Willingsmu's ball is usually split by Held, and Gadlan does not play as well as he should.

Forwards Jeffers and Ritter also struggled to create chances without the support of central midfield.

The thinness of the midfield in exchange for an advantage at both ends.

"The blockbuster machete tactics are about to work." Lao Liu looked at the development on the field with a smile, and sure enough, as soon as the words fell, Anelka assisted Aguero to score his first goal after joining Willingham.

The grim-faced Kerber waved his hand, and a relatively thin player got up from the bench to warm up, just fifteen minutes into the game.

Will Xue Qixuan play immediately, and even if he does, what role can he play?

(To be continued)