Now that I have the team I want, the next step is to start training.

And the first step in training, what Li Bin did, was to let Frey master better ball skills, after all, goalkeeper playing is a very important job.

"From today onwards, don't open your feet. It can be used occasionally in games, but in training, it is not necessary to play like this. Your kick-off, it's to Barzaretti or Zabaleta, nothing else. ”

The backcourt players blindly open their feet, which is the biggest problem of the weak team, since Li Bin wants to carry out tactical reform, then the first step is to change this problem. However, Frei is not a very good scavenger goalkeeper, and he can't do the work of passing the ball at his feet, so he thinks about using the skills of the defenders to make Frey's ball easier.

It is easier for a wide player to receive the ball than for a central player.

And how to connect the backfield and the midfield, he also considered to be as simple as possible.

"Remember, Paul, your passing task is to give the ball to Agg, one of Zabaleta, and if it doesn't work, return it. Don't pass forward, try to drive as little as possible, and don't spoil a high-performance kick out of the sideline, you know? ”

In fact, on the technical backline, there is only one little Cannavaro, who is relatively poor. Therefore, the work arranged by Li Bin for him is simple work such as returning the ball and clearing the ball. After all, Frei is not a person with good skills at his feet, he may not be able to hold the ball when he is given the ball, and Cannavaro Jr.'s passing is not reliable, so let him do the middle passing point, and pass to the players on both sides is enough, and the matter of passing forward is still forgotten.

'You should have given him more passes, not just being in a safe position and just letting him cross.

In this regard, Tacinadi is a little unaccustomed.

"Well, I'll think about it. Let's talk about your mission, the main thing is to pass the ball to Yaya Toure, Melo, Barzaretti, Zabaleta......"

"To put it simply, it's midfield adjustments and splitting. Do you think I'm a rough guy too? ”

"No, but it's better to be on the safe side."

Tacinadi stopped talking, Li Bin said it nicely, but didn't he let him pass it forward? He also knew that if he even thought he was a rough brother, then little Cannavaro's skills were really far behind.

In addition to them, among the frontcourt players, Li Bin has slightly different requirements.

"The small combination of three or four people is our main attack, so I need each of you to cheer me up when you play, to show your spirituality, and to run more aggressively. For example, Zabaleta comes in from the right, at this time, Yaya's task is to sweep to the left, and Rossi, your task is to run to the right - use your swimming to completely tear apart the opponent's backline, and then, Rui, you can receive the ball from Melo or Toure behind you, you can pass back, you can split the side, you can go straight, whatever you want, but the biggest purpose of your pass is naturally to support the goal, in this regard, I don't have much ability to talk to you......"

For the players in the front court, Li Bin's requirements were slightly relaxed. After all, as he himself said, teach Rui Costa to pass? There are not many people who have this ability.

Last season, Li Bin's frontcourt still relied on simple passing and personal ability, but this season, he wants the players to increase the number of cooperation. The players in the front court still have to rely on coordinated operations to complete the pushing, tearing, interspersing various links, to be considered a good ball - this job is difficult, but fortunately, he has Rui Costa to help.

Li Bin gave everyone a detailed explanation of how to pass the ball, but in his tactical explanation, everyone's passing task was just to pass the ball to people not far away. Some people still have some forward passes, but others are all backhauls, horizontal passes, and transitional short passes.

Fairly simple arrangement – this was Esposito's original idea. But looking at Li Bin's tireless explanation, he didn't understand what it was for.

Li Bin's training finally made Esposito unbearable, he found Li Bin, and began to ask Li Bin questions, "You are always asking them to practice specific passes to people, but the problem is, your passes are too streamlined, right?" ”

"Simplifying a complex problem is one of the easiest steps in football training. We scored, you can see that I gave Rui a bad pass, because he was able to pass a good ball. And I let Merlot watch it, and the devil knows what he does. ”

"Nonsense, if you can teach Rui how to pass the ball, you can just go and take Lippi's place. I want to ask, what do you want to do with this kind of training? Esposito asked, "I know your idea is to build a chain of passes with a simple pass, but is it okay to pass the ball like this?" ”

"You still don't understand?"

"You can at least tell me the schematic diagram of your offensive line, how can you know the road if you don't connect it!"

This is simple, Li Bin gestured

"Frei gave the ball to Zabaletta, Zabaleta to Agger, Ag to Barzareti, Barzaretti to Tacinadi, at this time, Zabaleta pressed over the halfway, Tacinadi to Zabaleta, Zabaleta took the ball forward, chose to pass to the middle to Milito, Toure, Rui Costa, at this time Rossi pulled to the left wing, no matter who in the midfielder took the ball, the first time to Rui, Rui to the left to Rossi, Rossi broke through from the left, Milito covered to the left at the same time, Rui to the right, Pulling away from the opposition's midfield, Toure moved forward and waited for an opportunity at the top of the arc of the penalty area...... The passing route is not difficult to understand, right? ”

"7-8 passes to complete an attack, if there is a bad return pass in the middle, it is possible to reach more than 10 passes, don't you think it is difficult?" Esposito asked rhetorically, "Still, I can see something interesting, you go on, is there any other passing routine?" ”

"Yes, Frei to Barzareti, Barzaretti to Cannavaro Jr., then to Agger, forward to a midfielder, any of the three can do, and then, go directly over the top and make a long pass to Milito, Milito is responsible for knocking back, Rui or Rossi passes the ball to the right side of Lu, Zabaleta did not pass the task in the early stage, at this time, he is responsible for pressing the ...... of receiving the ball"

"I understand what you mean, I thought you were full of support for the pursuit of good looks, but now it seems that you mean that you want to rely on short passes, enhance the positional connection between the players, so that the players are closer to each other, when advancing, to be able to maintain the overall pressure, will not let the formation scattered, and because the passing is mostly carried out in the backfield, our players have a physical advantage, and are not very afraid of the opponent's frontcourt pressing, so that we will not lose the ball, but let us control the ball ourselves, forming an integral press. And choosing to use a long pass or a wing to complete the process of pressing is for speed, to achieve a high-speed counterattack, right? ”

Thinking about this, Esposito immediately understood it all - relying on the high safety of short balls and the proximity of the players, this tactic allows the players to stand closely together, so that there will be no tactical disconnection. And the players who insert are generally done by the wingback on the right side without the ball, which is also to better accelerate the speed - Li Bin is looking for a balance to keep the team pressing, and at the same time has a good speed attack. When the players are close, they naturally have a high sense of pressure, leaving the opponent without a chance, and the fast side is the way to increase the team's speed.

This idea is really good, how to maintain the overall sense of oppression while maintaining speed, this is a big problem, Li Bin's ideas, it is indeed a lot.

"That's the way of thinking, you always know what I'm thinking, and overall football has always been my pursuit."

"But the players you buy are very important for individual ability." Esposito was also blunt, "I have always believed that when you buy these people, you take one-on-one ability as the first reference point. ”

"It's true." Li Bin nodded, "But, it's not wrong for me to do this, right?" If you don't have one-to-one ability, then how to connect it in tandem is all in vain, right? ”

Esposito frowned and didn't say anything more.

In the final analysis, tactics are meant to be implemented on a person-by-person basis. No matter how bullish Sachi's chain defense is, he feels that it is difficult to resist when he encounters Marado, just because that guy is too perverted. And Li Bin's tactical arrangement, although it ensures the team's overall closeness and pressing ability, but if the players do not have strong individual ability, it is also in vain. His tactics are based on strong one-on-one, using simple passes to link each other's positions, and through the playmaking talents of individual players to achieve victory.

"My idea is to rely on the one-on-one strength of each of the players, first of all, so that they do not suffer losses in the face of opponents, which is the most basic, otherwise, no matter how much the whole is pulled, if there are some points that explode in a hit, then what should I do? Does defense rely on fake falls? You are not the football I want, what I want is a pass-and-control football based on excellent physical conditions and excellent one-on-one ability, and what I want is a football that is highly unified with body and technique, not some kind of football that goes to extremes. ”

Looking at this tactic, Esposito also spoke, "In 1998, the French team was the best football that was combined like this - of course, without considering the forward line - but since then, people have said that traditional football has come to an end, there should be a new style of football, whether it should be more defensive or more on possession, is a point of contention, and what we are doing is just simulating the process of the peak of traditional football." ”

"I don't think so, at least, the new style of football should be a step up at the end of traditional football, not behind closed doors, I don't think that with a second-rate team, you can build a first-class football out of thin air. If you want to play better football, you have reached the pinnacle of traditional football first. Li Bin said, "Now, what I want to do is to make this team achieve the perfect combination of skill and body." ”

"What does your ideal perfect union look like?" Esposito asked.

"Let me use the data to make it clear: the average possession per game, about 65%, can not be more, not less. Passing per game, 85% success rate, this can be higher, I have no objection, but I don't think it's realistic. Shots per game, around 15, interceptions per game, around 25 – that's the amount of data I would expect football to have. ”

Esposito muttered the stats for a moment before looking up, "So, what about goals per game and points per game?" ”

"In the early days, I didn't dare to ask too much. With an average of 1.8 goals and 2.2 points per game, there must be something, right? ”

"That is, 70 goals and 85 points in a season?" Esposito laughed, "Isn't that high? ”

"It's idealistic, it may take us a while to get to the bottom of it, and we can't get there that early." Li Bin paused, "However, even so, it is not my highest goal. Don't you see that there is any other meaning to my arrangement of the team? ”

Esposito thought for a moment and spoke again, "You mean, the possibility of progress?" ”