Chapter 35: Attacking the Crowd (2.7 Guarantee 2)
Chapter 35 Attack on it en masse
Simon? Grayson and his team left London with three points from Stamford Bridge, but the shock it caused in English football was only the beginning.
In the eyes of the media, there is no suspense about this season's English Premier League title, Manchester United has once again become the "Red Devils" who swept English football, with 19 wins in 19 games and 57 points making all competitors despair, second-placed Chelsea are 14 points behind them, and then Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are only 39 or 38 points, how can these teams catch up?
Manchester United's huge advantage has all but sealed them in the title early, and no one is interested in that anymore.
Now everyone is really interested in seeing how many goals Shaq can score this season, a violent striker who sees goals as a mustard, has scored 58 goals in 28 games, an average of more than two goals per game, this kid has brought people a lot of shock last season, he has performed even better this season, how many goals he can score next, how many trophies he can help Manchester United lift, this is what the media is really interested in.
Of course, Mourinho's comments on the game after the game also had a big impact: "The fact that we have found a way to beat Manchester United, but we have fallen short because our backline is not flexible enough, and against a team like Manchester United, the flexibility of the defenders is very important! Other than that...... We took an early lead in the first half, but Shaq was the best player on the planet, with his back-to-back goals turning the scores around and his hat-trick in the game did make the difference. I believe that any team that can have a player like Shaq is qualified to compete for the title! ”
Mourinho's words. It still gave his peers some inspiration, and they also found that when facing Manchester United, if they play with traditional central defenders with outstanding header ability and a somewhat rigid position, the effect is still relatively poor, Manchester United's attacking players Shaq, Rooney, and Ganso. They are all very flexible attacking players, so it is a good way out to play against Manchester United with a flexible centre-back.
When the outside world is still struggling to find out how to curb Manchester United's attack, and what kind of reinforcements should be made to have a glimmer of hope in the face of the "Red Devils", Simon? Grayson has already won another game with his disciples.
In the third round of the FA Cup on January 3, Manchester United relied on two goals from Shaq and a goal from Ganso to play in a semi-main line-up and beat Oldham 3-2 away. The thrill on the scoreline was nothing more than a late goal from Oldham.
Then the Young Guards suddenly announced that their manager Louis van Gaal had resigned as Leeds United manager due to poor results, and that his replacement was a well-known figure...... Michelle? Laudrup.
Van Gaal's dismissal was caused by a disturbance by Leeds United fans, and the reason for the disturbance by the fans was the desperate and frantic purge of the team's "quadruple winners" in the Netherlands. After Vogt was ousted on loan from the Dutchman, Leeds United fans were outraged.
If you can lead the team to good results, it will be okay, obviously the club has invested a whopping 90 million pounds in the transfer market. Who can stand it if you can even take the defending champion to sixth place!?
New coach Laudrup was a well-deserved superstar in his playing days. He once won the Serie A championship for Juventus, and only won the La Liga championship five times for Barcelona and Real Madrid.
After becoming a football coach, Laudrup served as an assistant coach of the Danish national team, and then coached Brondby and Swansea City successively. THOUGHT THAT HE HAD PLAYED FOR BARCELONA, WHICH HAD A TACTICAL STYLE OF PLAY VERY SIMILAR TO THE "YOUTH GUARD", FOR MANY YEARS, AND ALSO HAD A DEEP STUDY OF THE "TIKI-TAKA" TACTICS, SO HE DIRECTLY REPLACED THE DUTCH COACH VAN GAAL, MAYBE ANOTHER GUARDIOLA WAS BORN!
Laudrup has not yet been able to prove himself in the Young Guards, who have already claimed their 20th Premier League win of the season. They relied on Wayne Rooney's brilliant strike from three in the 71st minute to beat Swansea 1-0.
Winning two games in a row is so thrilling, Simon? Grayson immediately realised that something was wrong, and after a meeting of the coaching staff, where everyone took a closer look at the two games against Manchester United and Oldham and Swansea, the coaching staff came up with a striking result...... Manchester United are facing unprecedented difficulties.
Since Manchester United's away game against Chelsea a few days ago, a new wave of tactical research has been blown against Manchester United, and English football professionals have begun to ponder what tactics can contain the United and have a chance to beat the unbeatable "Red Devils".
In the past, when these people pondered Manchester United's tactics, it was just a lot of people shouting at each other, and the method said a lot but none of them were effective, but this time it was a little different, because Mourinho's bricks and stones, and "leading by example" taught everyone a lesson, so they saw how their team played against Manchester United, so a group of stragglers had the backbone, and then there was a general direction when discussing the tactics of defeating Manchester United. That is to expand on the tactical style of play that Mourinho played against Manchester United.
Every team now knows that when playing against Manchester United, they must not defend the opponent's high balls, but use flexible and not very tall central defenders to compress the space of Manchester United's attacking players.
As a result, a semi-professional team like Oldham in the fourth tier of England was able to draw 2:3 at home with Manchester United, and Swansea only lost 0:1, and the results of these two games really gave people hope of beating the "Red Devils".
Under the media rendering, Manchester United is now in a situation where the world is embattled, and with everyone arguing to beat Manchester United, the players are starting to carry a lot of pressure.
After a series of meetings with the coaching staff, Simon? Grayson has figured out a way to not know the outcome, starting with encouraging his players to keep setting records, and if a team that has won 30 games and 30 games in all competitions this season is not yet confident, then these players really don't deserve to stay at Manchester United.
And then, Simon? Grayson discussed with his coaching staff a new plan for adjusting tactics in the help department of Lerotari and Zanetti, and the "Red Devils" now play "solar system tactics" have been formed, and the team's tactical style has been fixed, and it is impossible to pursue any major changes, but local fine-tuning can still be done.
For example, when the two full-backs are inserted to assist, make more passes to Shaq in the middle, and then strengthen the small cooperation between Shaq and the left and right wingers, add some new changes, etc., in addition to these, Simon? Grayson also expanded the range of movement of "Chubby" Rooney, with Ganso on the left being a playmaker who had far more crosses than he could shoot, so when Shaq got caught in the cross, United's scoring point shifted to Wayne Rooney.
Simon? Grayson didn't think about replenishing his team, after all, the team is running quite well, winning all games, not to mention, and no players have major injuries, he finally got rid of the two brothers Rafael and Fabio, and it is not time to replenish the team's lineup.
Manchester United has made no moves in the transfer market, but other teams have not been idle at all, and one transfer transaction after another has been announced, including many blockbuster transfer transactions, as if all Premier League teams are burning money, especially Thiem? Sherwood's Tottenham Hotspur are the craziest at all.
As soon as the winter transfer window opened, Tottenham Hotspur announced that they had bought Jack from Everton for £16.25 million. Rodwell, and then bought Ukrainian midfielder Talas from PSV Eindhoven? Stepanko, the 25-year-old Ukrainian midfielder, spent £13.5 million on Tottenham Hotspur, and the two deals alone amounted to £30 million, and Tottenham Hotspur are determined to strengthen their squad.
In fact, it's no wonder that Tottenham Hotspur's chairman Levy is in a hurry to burn money, they only finished fifth in the Premier League last season, and this season they can only play in the Europa League, and sold Bale to Real Madrid in the summer, although they recovered 75 million pounds, but the strength of the team has also declined, and they spent 40 million pounds to buy Brian? Luis, Madias? Johansen, Giannis and other powerful players, but with Thiem? Sherwood has led the team to a turnaround and the team is currently fourth in the table, and Levy is keen to return to the Champions League next season.
That's why there is another £30 million to buy Jack in the winter transfer period? Rodwell, Taras? The move of Stepanko's two stars, exchanging one Bale for five good stars, can still ensure that Tottenham Hotspur's overall strength is further improved, and if the team can enter the Champions League next season, the money will be well spent.
In addition to Tottenham Hotspur, a little crazy is the third place in the "Reds" Liverpool, after finding that Torres Jr. can not form a good forward partner with Suarez, Rodgers this time spent 13.25 million pounds from Eindhoven to buy South Korean killer Son Heung-min, this typical killer should be able to combine well with the technical Suarez.
While other teams continue to make up for it, Manchester United also welcomed Southampton at home on January 11, and Southampton is now in the bottom of the table. What Grayson really wants to see is whether the attacking power of the team can recover after adjustments, which is important for United in the current world of rivalry. (To be continued......)