Chapter 120: Tactics (20/136)

Real Madrid are being targeted by mad dogs. In this attack, although Valencia was unable to score, the following corner did not pose a threat.

But when Real Madrid finished another attack and it was Valencia's turn to attack, the mad dog tactics came again.

Facing Real Madrid's tight frontcourt, Valencia used a quick pass to cut and run, and it was broken.

For Valencia's seemingly disorganized tactics of constantly passing and running, Real Madrid really don't have a good solution.

In fact, it's no wonder that Real Madrid doesn't know anything.

It's really because the tactical thinking of winning is a little bit advanced, and not many people know it in this era, let alone understand it.

His tactical thinking comes from and the future, and it is a new thing that has been developed and changed for more than ten years, although most of it is the foundation of his predecessors, but the change in details determines the final form.

And the core of the tactical thinking of Chang Sheng, to put it bluntly, is the retreat of the organization master.

His approach is out of step with the current trend in football, and it's unique.

That's why he's been able to restrain big teams like Real Madrid – tactics, epoch-making new tactics.

As a traveler, he can connect the past and the present, learn from China and the West, and learn from other people's useful things, and it has been proven by practice.

But Real Madrid coach Bosque, no matter how famous and powerful, must also have some historical limitations, they are not time-travelers, and they will inevitably fall into the situation of "the authorities are obsessed".

Let's talk about the development of football tactics, although it may not have much to do with the game itself, and no one likes to hear it, but it is indeed the foundation of his winning career, and it is also the key to his victory over Real Madrid in this game.

It's just that fans tend to like to watch great goals and individual performances, and there is a lack of interest in tactics. If Chang Sheng is just such a fan, then no matter how hardcore he is, he can't be the head coach when he crosses back, even if he has the help of the golden finger. Because he himself lacks the ability to think at a tactical level.

Thanks to the fact that he has been an idol of coaches since he was a child, and thanks to his passion for playing football managers somewhat, he likes to collect and study various tactics. While other fans talk about the outstanding performance of a certain star, he can talk about whether the "this penalty area to that penalty area" type of player is outdated, from the relationship between free man tactics and chain defense.

The development of modern football is always changing and flowing, from one trend to another, and from one trend to the next.

In the late 90s and early 21st century, the trend in world football was that the midfield was used defensively, and the attacking team was a matter of the front midfield. At that time, the classic midfield pairing was a tackle of the fierce beast waist and the classic No. 10 playmaker, and the vast majority of the big clubs were loyal believers in this "black and white pairing", such as Juventus' Davies and Zinedine Zidane, or Manchester United's Keane and Scholes. The knock-on effect of this trend is to make Guardiola, a playmaker in the midfield position, lose his own living space.

Yes, Guardiola, even Guardiola, who lost his place in Barcelona and was picked up by Chang Sheng, is already planning to transform into a coach.

Why do you have to poach Pep Guardiola from Barcelona to win perennially? Because he knows that his tactics are inseparable from such a playmaker in the midfield position, whether it is a mad dog or a tiki-taka.

In 2004, at the age of 33, Pep Guardiola should have continued to shine on the pitch, achieve his career, and even reach the top of the game. The player, who is not very physical in front of the defence, is on a mission to control the whole picture, benefiting his teammates who are more star-studded with his incisive passes.

But the reality is indeed cruel, at this time he has fallen to the point where no one cares. At that time, he went to the Middle East, and he was completely waiting to retire. A year later, he quietly retired from the Dorados team in Mexico......

If not a constant victory, this is his ultimate fate.

And because of his constant wins, he was able to compete with Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey final and show his superb passing and possession ability.

Without a winning slate, his midfield skills would have been a dusty antiquity, and modern football has abandoned players like Pep Guardiola, who, despite maintaining the best physical condition of his career, has not been able to find his place on the pitch. In a sense, not being able to appreciate Pep Guardiola's brilliant and subtle passing is a sad feeling for the younger generation of fans.

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Pep Guardiola's tragedy is an episote of the evolving modern football.

Because the speed of modern football has increased, the physical confrontation has also been greatly enhanced, which is too demanding for players who control the ball in the midfield position and then pass the ball. Because any coach is going to be defensive-oriented, they will ask the players in the middle of the midfield to defend first and defend second, and if you can make a good tackle, that's the player the manager needs the most, and of course, if you pass the ball well, it's good, but that's just the icing on the cake.

Perhaps the most famous example is Argentine defender Gago.

At River Plate, he was considered Redondo's second, and his excellent movement and passing ability quickly made him Argentina's most striking star. Then he was joined with Higuain to the giants Real Madrid.

But in the big clubs, there is no need for his passing playmaker at all, but for him to contribute more to the team's defense in the midfield position. So in order to get a chance to play, Gago had to work his defense, constantly running on the court, tackling, running and tackling. In this way, Redondo, who was full of aura when he debuted, disappeared for the second time, and was replaced by a beast waist that is not like a beast waist, and the organizer is not like the organizer and the four players are not like the organizer.

If you lose your own characteristics, you will naturally have no place at Real Madrid. In the end, he could only walk away.

When the black and hard defensive midfielders are starting to pop around the world, it's only natural that coaches will have to figure out how to crack it.

Because the defensive backs are aimed at the front of the organization, in order to avoid the core of the organization being targeted by the opponent's back, what should I do?

It's easy, move the position back......

As a result, the organizational back came into being, or it reappeared.

Moving the playmaker back to avoid playing against the defensive midfielder, the playmaker can calmly control and pass the ball, and even dribble forward on his own.

The advent of Pirlo started a whole new trend.

More and more of the organization's core is starting to emerge in the midfield position.

Perhaps the most famous are the likes of Xavi, Marcos Alonso and Cesc Fabregas.

Tactical trends in international football are slowly shifting their focus backwards.

The original forward has become a second striker. For example, a modern striker like Kaka is actually a two-striker, and his best skill is definitely not the passing organization, in terms of passing ability, he is better than the other three AC Milan No. 10 players at the time - Rui. Costa, Seedorf and Rivaldo were far behind, but his quick dribbling ability on the counter-attack and his ability to shoot from distance earned him Carlo Ancelotti an integral part of the Christmas tree formation.

Later, he transferred to Real Madrid, his speed was no longer due to frequent injuries, and his explosiveness gradually faded, and he began to transform into an organizational core, but at the age of thirty, his road was destined to be very difficult, because the real organizational core of Real Madrid at that time was Alonso, a passing master who dragged in the back midfield, and the attacking core was Cristiano. Such an assaulter as Ronaldo.

Features of Kaka and Cristiano. Ronald multiple

stacked, but the state is not as good as the other party, so naturally it can only gradually be reduced to a substitute, and a substitute for the substitute.

Some people think that Mesut Ozil's excellent performance is the culprit that Kaka can only play as a substitute, but in fact, the characteristics of the two people are fundamentally different, and there is no competition at all, they can coexist completely. But who called Real Madrid has a Cristiano. What about Ronaldo?

When a striker like Kaka is in a state of pride, Rui. A classical midfielder like Costa is gradually losing his room.

The traditional classic number ten began to die out. Because these classical midfielders with elegant footwork and accurate passing are often not very physical, they are often at a disadvantage in the competition with the "Makelele midfield", and they cannot get rid of the suffocating defence.

Riquelme's experience in international football may illustrate the problem.

However, this trend has in turn weakened the position of the Makeleles themselves - are you very good at guarding against them? I'll leave you defenseless!

As a result, the later creators mostly lay in ambush in a more backward position, leading the team with more structured passes, and that is Sesk. Fabregas and Andre. Iniesta's role in their respective teams.

And the midfielders also got rid of the notoriety of "tackle machines" in one fell swoop, and took on the task of delivering them. Carrick is the beneficiary of this tactic. Without this tactic, Butzkes might not have reached the heights he would have had.

Suddenly, the game in midfield escaped the trap of 'body' and 'scramble' and elevated to a new level – passing became the essence of everything, as the likes of Barcelona and Arsenal showed.

But the problem soon came again - the organizational core was retreating, they could organize at will and become the engine of the team, so who could stop them? After all, no one wants to be helpless in the face of them, so they can only raise their hands and surrender.

Football tactics are always a contest of countermeasures and countermeasures, just like war.

At the beginning, in order to crack the black and hard backs, the core of the organization retreated one after another.

Now, in order to be able to counteract the core of the organization that operates in the midfield position, a new profession has begun to emerge - the black and hard forward midfield.

These players are characterized by muscularity, excellent defence and good running ability. The prime example is AC Milan's Boateng, who is actually a central midfielder, but Allegri pushed him into the midfield position, and it didn't work wonders.

In addition to the back midfield, there is also such an evolution of exhaustion in other positions. For example, the definition and use of the center forward in world football is also such a changing process.

In the 90s, when everyone mentioned the center, it was labeled as "shooting machine", "goal scorer" and "number nine".

But what about ten or twenty years later? The center has become more focused on the ability to play the ball, defend and run the position, and the shooting score is not so important, think of Kuyt, think of the hacked Hesky, they are actually the representative of this tactical concept of the center. This kind of center forward is not there to score goals for himself, but to make his teammates score more goals.

This is how the tactics of world football are constantly evolving, transforming and reincarnating, and maybe one day, the dead free man tactics will also be resurrected?

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Historically, it was Pep Guardiola who led his Barcelona to complete the restoration of this tactic. It was only under Pep Guardiola that the world-renowned midfield greats Xavi and Andres Iniesta really became indispensable figures in the team. Neither of them was as secure as they thought they would have been during Rijkaard's Dream II era – for example, in 2006, when Barcelona won the Champions League, the future golden midfield duo sat on the bench and were replaced by two defensive midfielders, Edmilson and Van Bommel.

At that time, the strength of the Premier League made power the mainstream of world football.

Later, the rise of the Barcelona Dream III brought passing and skill back into the mainstream.

However, this is already destined to become a history that will not appear.

Because in the summer of 1999, world football quietly ushered in an uninvited guest, a reborn guest with the memories and experience of later generations - Chang Sheng.

He promoted his mad dog tactics in Valencia, which is actually the kind of football that Barcelona relies on passing and ball control.

He made Pep Guardiola the heart of the team's brain, in fact, in common sense he is accustomed to - returning the playmaking core from the midfield position to the back midfield.

Pep Guardiola may not be in charge of Barcelona again, and Barcelona's dream three team may not appear. The fate of Iniesta and Xavi? Hey, who's going to care about them!

Perhaps in the future, experts in world football will write articles describing the changes in international football tactics, and attribute the emergence and maturity of this kind of first-class tactics to the name of Chang Sheng.

But no one would know that he was once an ordinary football fan, he just saw the longer term than the people now, because he lived through those times firsthand.

That's the advantage of a time-traveler as a manager, rather than just knowing which players are going to be famous in the future and running around and digging them around, which is likely to end up dying miserably......

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ps, it took 4,000 words to introduce tactics, as well as the changes in tactics, and it was really not to make up the number of words. It's because I think as a manager, tactics are the most basic and the most important. If a manager only talks and knows nothing about tactics, it is hard to believe that such a manager will become a winning general.

That's why I've written a chapter to introduce you to the tactics of winning and the changes in tactics in world football in the last decade.

After reading this, I think it will help you understand why you choose Barcelona's pass-and-possession tactics instead of Real Madrid's counter-attacking tactics - my novels used to be all about counter-attacking.

But if from the point of view of the protagonist of the football coach, Barcelona's tactics are indeed the best for winning.

Therefore, Chang Sheng shamelessly plagiarized Barcelona's tactics and made himself the ancestor of the founding sect. accepted Guardiola as his younger brother, and asked Guardiola to help him build this set of tactics together. Scouring the transfer market for players who are suitable for this tactic.

A reader once asked me to dig Kaka, and I thought about it at first, but then I gave up. Why? Because Kaka is not suitable for the protagonist's set of tactics, he is suitable for defensive counterattacks.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the protagonist just copied Barcelona's set, and that is not good, because the players can't all be the same after all. Pep Guardiola's set of changing a group of players definitely didn't work so well. This tactic requires a perfect combination of tactics and players.

Therefore, the tactical concept of winning will continue to develop and mature in the novel, and eventually form its own style.

Playing defensive counter-attacks at Getafe was just a matter of desperation, and at Valencia he was just getting started, so please look forward to his maturity.

Finally, again, it's really not a word count, otherwise, I could have written 20,000 words, or even more. Because more things can be deduced from a tactic, all kinds of classic cases, all kinds of classics......

But this is still a novel after all, and everyone wants to read the story of people, not a rigid and boring tactical explanation.

So that's all for this chapter.

In fact, there is another idea, or ambition, that is, I hope that my novel can be used as a promoter of football, so that more friends who are not interested in football can be interested. I can learn a little bit about my novels while being entertained, even if I take them out to brag with my friends during the European Cup and World Cup in the future.

I hope you enjoy it. (To be continued)