"You stand a little further, yes, don't get too excited, see the opportunity before moving."

Standing at the corner, Raul shouted loudly to Manuel Neuer on the pitch, and inside the box, Tottenham players were standing in two groups wearing different coloured vests, and they were training from set-pieces.

In attack, Thiago Silva, Palmeri and Edinson Cavani were in the attacking group, while in the defensive group, Jerome Boateng, Hoddlestone, Jagielka and Piszczek were in the defensive group. Raul is a serving player, he stands on the corner kick point to pass the ball to the players in the box, and at the same time, when the players in the box have problems, he also has to make some corrections, such as just now, he shouted at Jerome Boateng, who is in the wrong position, to make him pay more attention to his position.

It stands to reason that this should be the goalkeeper's task, but Neuer's words to the players are a bit unreliable. Fortunately, Tottenham still have a Raul. Although he is not a defender, let alone a goalkeeper, he is very amateurish in commanding the defensive position, but he is willing to listen to what he says, and he can command the players, which allows him to put forward a lot of good suggestions for the players to refer to and accept.

The experience of the older players is what the younger players need when they grow up – just like Raul at Real Madrid, he doesn't take many corners, but at Tottenham, it is also his job to teach Bale how to take corners well in training.

"Okay, let's practice here first, let's take a break, and we'll get in touch later."

Seeing that the players were a little tired, Jerome Boateng was even a little irritable, and Raul also clapped his hands to interrupt the training. It stands to reason that this should be the coach's job, but Li Bin, who is on the other side, is letting the frontcourt players train for running strategies, and Raul can fully take on the task of half a coach in this training.

"If you were in a position in today's training and moved a little further, maybe we would have been able to run out of a gap......"

Behind him came the conversation between Palmeri and Thiago Silva, and Raul listened to their conversation, watching the other players of Tottenham not far away have finished training and the players have also begun to rest, and he also showed a slight smile.

It's been half a year since I came to Tottenham, and Tottenham has had a good time in the past six months.

That's good, not to say it's a good result – while second place in the league is a good result, Raul never thinks it's unusual for his team to be a title contender. This is good, not that I played well, after half a season, I have played about ten games with substitutes in total, and I have scored five or six goals, which is very good, but Raul knows that this is only a good substitute player. What really pleased Raul was that he hadn't felt such an atmosphere as Tottenham in a long time. It's the atmosphere in which the players play hard, without thinking too much about other factors, and the atmosphere of football as the source of all the fun, is what Raul really likes.

Maybe I'm really old, when I was young, I didn't particularly appreciate pure football. At that time, I was not particularly reluctant to locker room politics, and even I was a part of it many times, but when I became an old man, in retrospect, not all things when I was young were so happy.

"Your water."

Beside him, Palmeri handed over the water, Raul thanked him, watched the young guy sit down beside him, and patted him enthusiastically, "Good kick, improvement." Your consciousness is quite sufficient, but you are still not fierce enough to grab points. You try harder and you can score more. ”

"I hope so." Palmery nodded, this season, Tottenham defenders have scored four headers, but only one of them is his, he is also a little dissatisfied with this, Raul can see his dissatisfaction, and specially arranged for him to undergo practice during training, which he also knows, "Thank you." There's one thing I'd love to ask you, what do you mean by that, the head is now doing attack drills all the time, not defensive drills? ”

Since the game against Liverpool, Tottenham have had a rare break: their next league game will not be played until 16 January, and during this time, Tottenham have only played in the FA Cup, and the task is very light, and they do not care. Therefore, Tottenham has been training since the end of the game with Liverpool, but Li Bin has been training offensively, which has also made the players in the back line a little dissatisfied.

The current Bayern, no matter how you look at it, is an offensive powerhouse, Robben, Ribery, Lahm, Piggy, these four people can activate Bayern's attack very well. For such a team, not thinking about how to defend them, thinking about how to attack first, this makes Palmeri very puzzled.

"It's too difficult to grasp the attack, and not to make mistakes in the defense." Raul responded, "Why don't you ask the coach?" ”

Looking at Palmeri in front of him, Raul also asked with some interest.

He knew that Bayern was selected in the draw, and the Tottenham players were still a little timid. Although Bayern's European results in the past two years are quite average, they are a giant team in Europe after all. In the summer, Real Madrid's big purchase, Serie A, Premier League, and Ligue 1 top players have joined Real Madrid without any resistance, and only Bayern has left Ribery, which is enough to show that they are not just trying to be a supplier under Real Madrid. They did not lose their backbone, on the contrary, they also brought in Arjen Robben from Real Madrid and brought in Louis van Gaal to prepare to strengthen the team. As soon as Van Gaal arrived, he promoted players such as Bad Stuber and Muller, and at the same time let Demichelis change to play defender, let Piggy change to play in the back, while Bayern underwent major surgery, it also improved Bayern's strength a lot, this rebuilding team, invincible in the Bundesliga, although it encountered a small setback in the Champions League, but also played well.

Bayern is a strong team now - this is Li Bin's exact words.

When encountering a strong team, they don't think about defense, they only think about attack, which makes it really difficult for the players in the back line to accept.

"The head seems to want to kick the ground."

"That's because the ground coordination works better." Behind them, Li Bin's voice sounded, Palmeri turned his head, Li Bin got used to them not having to stand up, he himself sat on the grass and talked with the players, "We have less than a month to play, we have to play Bayern, and now you are all confused why I don't let you practice defense, but let you practice header coordination, right?" ”

"Yes." Palmeri spoke, "Bayern's attacks are rampant, shouldn't we practice defending and prevent Robben and Lahm from cooperating on the edge?" Why do you practice heading? Could it be that you have a way to prevent Robben from being killed? ”

Palmeri still didn't say half a sentence: he suspected that Li Bin simply looked down on their defense, thinking that they were not enough to defend Robben, and wanted to replace defense with offense, ignoring Robben's rampantness, and relying entirely on attacks to defeat the enemy. In that case, even though Li Bin has a good relationship with him, it will be difficult for him to accept this idea.

'It's not hard to defend Robben, we'll talk about that later. First of all, you want us to practice defending, how do you think we should defend? ”

Palmeri was stunned for a moment before he spoke, "Strengthen the midfield press, increase the pressing of the players, and at the same time place heavy troops on the flanks to form a triangle to cut the defensive ......"

"Louis van Gaal is the most unafraid coach in the world. You go and look at the game he commanded, in his game, the midfielder got the ball, the two central defenders, they all need to run to participate in the response, this kind of play, he is unique, you can't press him so closely. Moreover, it is not good to cut the defense on the wing, he attaches great importance to the division of functions when advancing, there are a lot of combinations in the side, and it is difficult to block his advance in the middle, which is not a solution. ”

Palmeri frowned, and at the same time, several players around him were also thinking, and Raul watched the tactical lesson with great interest and did not interrupt.

He knew that Li Bin was inspiring the thinking of several defenders. If they have a clear idea, then in the next game, against Bayern, they can play better.

"What about pressing their full-backs and cutting off their central link-up and leaving their wingers alone?" Piszczek asked.

'Their full-back is Lahm, the central link is a piggy who used to play on the wing, do you think we have enough quality to cut them off? Even if it is cut off, whether it is Robben or Ribery, is the threat of singles very small? ”

Piszczek stopped talking, and Thiago Silva spoke at this time, "They don't seem to have a fill-in midfielder in the middle, and the counter-robbery after conceding the goal in the front court is more inclined to point-to-point counter-robbery, lacking hierarchical coordination." If the intensity of our scramble increases, and we rely on large-scale scrambling to get the ball in the rear, their counter-scrambling is not enough to support the secondary attack, and it is easy to be disintegrated. Moreover, they have no one to fill in the midfield, the wingbacks are too forward, and the two defenders, Bad Stuber and Demichelis, are both people who are not physically fit and slow to chase back, and they are easy to be beaten behind. If our defence is built on the forward line, it will be very much of a deterrent to them, and it may even force them to shrink as a whole. ”

Thiago Silva's words made Li Bin nod. Of these defenders, Palmeri is too young, he still sees the problem and is still dogmatic, Piszczek is not talented, and there is no good advice, but if you want to say that you have a flexible brain, experience and strength at the same time, you have to be Thiago Silva. If he can say this kind of advice, he deserves to be a top defender.

Playing football is not an easy job, you can't just come as you want. It's very important to develop a defensive strategy and how the players execute it. It is all about playing with blood, not being a good player, using more brains, coaching more with teammates, and thinking more tactically, so that players can become stronger. Thiago Silva was able to see so much because of his thinking, which was more rare than his talent, and his hard work.

"But what if the referee's whistle is tight?" Li Bin raised another question, "What if the referee's whistle does not support our tactics?" ”

"I know the way!" Neuer spoke.

"Say."

"Guarding the door." Ignoring the ridicule of the people around him, Neuer stood up as he spoke, "Hold the door, and you will have everything." I watched Bayern's game, their attacking point was not in the box, but outside the box, Robben was their main scorer, and the shot from the outside of the box was their most terrible attacking tool - I believe I was able to hold on to their attacks from outside the box. This is the best way to use all tactics: as long as I hold the door, their attacks will be scum! ”