Chapter 38: Frowning
It's still a familiar position, or four-two-three-one.
"It's a real surprise, Lin made a change in this important game that no one expected, replacing the player who was injured in the national team game, Bale, not Robinho, not Petrov, but David Silva, we thought Lin changed formation in this game and killed the back three, but now it seems that Vidal is clearly more forward......"
Sky TV commentator Andy Gray, who was in charge of broadcasting the game, was just as confused as Arsene Wenger when he got the starting line-up, and he was a little surprised when he saw the Manchester City team standing after the game, and it was the famous Alan Smith sitting next to him.
This Alan Smith is not the fierce player who once broke blood on the field for Manchester United, but the former Arsenal legend and now serves as a sports commentator for Sky TV, Alan Martin Smith, Martin has won the league title twice at Arsenal, but he has no intersection with Arsenal's current manager Arsene Wenger, because he announced his retirement in the summer of 95, while Wenger only joined Arsenal in 96, perhaps because of this, Martin basically rarely cares about Wenger's face when evaluating Arsenal.
'Vidal's position should be more delicate, although he is in a high position at the moment, but his role in the game is not necessarily that of the playmaker, and I don't think Lin will risk changing the playmaker in this kind of game, which is mostly to curb Fabregas's activities in midfield. After all, he is a professional, and as soon as Martin opened his mouth, he pointed out Lin Sen's intentions.
"The organizer...... Or David Silva? Andy Gray looked at David Silva, who was on the screen at the camera, "Playing as a winger? ”
In recent years, the strong rise of wingers and the fading of the classical forward midfielder, many teams often do not set up the role of the front midfielder in the arrangement, but more of the organizational task is given to a role called "metronome", AC Milan Ancelotti is one of the promoters, Pirlo's storage zài. AC Milan has benefited so far, and now Barcelona has strengthened that confidence for all teams. However, not every team has a metronome, so there is a role called playmaking winger, as the name suggests, that is, playing the position of winger, but doing the work of organizing the attack. At present, the most typical representative is Bayern's Franck Franck Franchi.
'If I'm not mistaken, David Silva when he was in Valencia. I often play this role. Martin nodded.
Martin is right, this is also where Linsen's confidence lies in daring to pull David Silva to the side in this game, and this move is also Linsen's first problem to Wenger.
Whether it is Manchester City or Arsenal, they all know where the opponent's seven inches are, and everyone wants to take the first step to choke the other party's seven inches. But Linson has now moved from seven inches to six inches, and Arsenal will inevitably need to make changes if they still want to pinch, for the organisers. The line of sight and space may not be as wide as the middle lane, but it is not without its benefits, that is, you can avoid the opponent's often heavily guarded middle lane, and you can stop the attack more calmly.
Just like now. Fabregas, on the other side, will not only have to face Vidal, who has been specially arranged by Linson, but he will also have to find a way to break through the encirclement of City's other two midfielders, while David Silva, if Wenger does not make a change. So theoretically, there is only one main opponent, and that is the opponent's right-back Agner.
However, the reason why the paper talk is criticized has been criticized. It's because reality is always going to have deviations that you can't control.
From the start, the pace of the game was fast, as many people think of the Premier League, but there were not many shots on goal from either side. Originally, according to Linsen's idea, Manchester City, which should have taken advantage of at least some cheapness in the opening, did not have too many advantages, there were no problems in defense, and the attack was blocked, mainly because David Silva did not seem to be in the game yet, after the opening, his breakthrough success rate was really not high, and the opponent's Sagna did a very successful job in his defense with the help of his teammate Song.
It stands to reason that since Song's defense is tilted to the left, then Arsenal's central defense should be weakened, after all, David Silva single-handedly pinned down two people. But in fact, Arsenal, who play 442 in the formation, can actually be understood as 451, because Van Persie will often retreat to the midfield to receive the ball, so the number of people in the midfield on both sides is actually equal.
At this time, Cesc Fabregas, as the commander of the midfield, showed his role, and after finding that it was difficult for him to shake off Vidal, the Spaniard immediately changed his role according to the shape of the field, combing the entire midfield more than obsessing with passing the ball forward, leaving the work of attacking organization more to Nasri.
Linson on the sidelines frowned a little, whether Fabregas's change was Wenger's arrangement, Linsen didn't know, but Fabregas, who was full of light, was indeed in excellent shape, and was able to quickly adjust the situation so quickly in the opening stage, and this kind of game reading ability is obviously not comparable to Xavi Martinez, who has a similar role on Manchester City's side. Improvisation in football is often referred to as a ball quotient. It's not that this kind of thing can't be improved, but it's more innate, and Lin Sen can't help it.
However, Linson only frowned, because Arsenal's situation is not much better, although Xavi Martinez's reading ability is not as good as Fabregas, but his tackles and interceptions are enough to ensure that he does his job well, in addition to assisting Vidal to restrain Fabregas, Nasri, who is his age and takes over Arsenal's attacking organization, basically takes no advantage of him.
The left side is not ideal, the middle is almost a mess, and on the right side of Manchester City, Robben and the opponent's Arshavin have formed a mutual explosion situation, and almost all the shots of the two teams since the beginning of the game have come from this way.
The game lasted almost half an hour, with five to four shots on goal, two to one shots from the frame of the goal, and even corner kicks, free kicks and fouls, the number of times both teams were very similar, and the field looked evenly matched, but the two head coaches on the sidelines were very different.
Lin Sen always stood on the sidelines, except for some subtle changes in expression that were difficult for cameras to capture, he did not point out to the field, nor did he secretly advise a certain player, basically quietly examining the situation in the stadium. Compared with Linson, Wenger on the side is much more diligent, although the professor's behavior is as reserved as ever, and most of the time he stands on the sidelines with his chin in his hand as if thinking about something, but from time to time he will stop an Arsenal player passing by to say something, or walk back to the dugout to discuss something with his deputy Pat Rice.
The only thing the two have in common is that they are both frowning.
It's just a matter of depth -
The MCFC bar was as lively as ever, with shouts and curses coming and going.
Old Miller was still on the other side of the counter, his eyes wandering between the TV screen and the "customers", and there were many new customers and fewer old customers in the bar today. The extra new guests are Manchester City fans who don't usually come here often, and the missing old guests are Manchester City fans who are already sitting in the stands of the City Stadium at this time.
In short, all Manchester City fans.
If it had been a few years ago, Old Miller would have closed the bar for a day and gone to the stadium with those old guys and little guys to join in the fun, but in the past two years, his health has deteriorated a lot, and he really can't stand the toss. Unless there is a very heavy dà game, the old Miller intends to "play with his life", what kind of game is considered a heavy dà game? For example, the finals.
Any final.
Seeing that the first half is coming to an end, the most depressed person on the field is David Silva.
It was the most depressing half he has played since coming to England. Sagna on the opposite side and Song, who always stabbed out obliquely, the two black and hard really annoyed him, especially Song, who always made some small moves to disturb him from time to time. Of course, he didn't intend to make excuses for himself and switched from the middle to the left, which the manager Linsen had spoken to and he himself thought was fine, because the left was the position he was best at.
But now, he knows that the number of games in this half is absolutely miserable.
Of course, he could have opted for an easier task, which was to hand over the playmaking and pass the ball back to Xavi Martinez to deal with, just need to do a good job of containment, like Cesc Fabregas did on the other side. It's just that he doesn't want to do that, because he knows that his manager expects more from him, and there is no comparison between him and Cesc Fabregas, because the position is not the same at all.
Once again, the ball was at the feet of David Silva and he hesitated and decided to try again.
He stepped the ball forward and faced the opposition goal, with Sagna standing in front of him to the left and not rushing up to intercept, David Silva knew he was waiting for support from Song.
Sure enough, Song immediately followed.
Then, at the same pace as before, Song Hui stepped forward to press closely, while Sagna waited for an opportunity to break the ball next to him.
Usually at this time, Bridge will be inserted from behind, and Robinho will also retreat from the front to respond, creating space for him to pass, but this routine is not very effective in the half, because Robinho will always follow a person in front of him, and because the opponent's Van Persie is always dangling in Bridge's defensive area, Bridge's assists always seem to be a mouse, and often miss the opportunity to plug in.
This makes David Silva always feel a little alone, but this time, Silva didn't intend to wait for his team-mates to pick up, he just took the ball to Agner.
This time, he's going to be a winger of the purest ever! (To be continued......)