After the start of the game, Rijkaard stood on the sidelines, did not return to the dugout, and even after five minutes, he did not move his feet, just watched intently, which is rare in Barcelona's previous games.

"Frank! What are you looking at? "Assistant coach Villanova came over.

Rijkaard still stared intently at the field: "Fiorentina's formation!" ”

Fiorentina's formation?

Bilanova was a little weird, I don't know what to see about it, didn't they have discussed it countless times before the game started?

In fact, before the group stage was over, Barcelona had already regarded Fiorentina as their number one enemy, and the study of Fiorentina never stopped.

But wasn't Florence's tactics already discussed?

The four defenders stand in echelon positions, and the three-back waist configuration is the same as Barcelona, emphasizing the speed of advance when attacking, and is used to short passes, but this tactic, compared with Barcelona's orthodox TiKi-TaKa, is at most a copycat.

Barcelona has a lot of experience in dealing with teams with this style of play, how can you see Rijkaard's expression look so solemn?

Vilanova didn't bother Rijkaard, he knew the partner very well, Rijkaard is a very smart man, those who know him well know that when he was a player, he was well versed in the Dutch concept of all-attacking and all-defensive football, especially when the founder of this concept, Michels, was trained for a long time, and he had a very deep understanding of the all-attack and all-defense concept.

In the middle of the field, the ability to read the game is much better than the other two members of the Three Musketeers, and when he was at AC Milan, it was said that Rijkaard on the field was equivalent to half the coach of the team.

After Ajax retired, he immediately became the assistant coach of the Dutch team Hiddink, finished fourth in the Shijie Cup in France in 1998, replaced Hiddink as the head coach of the Dutch team in the same year, prepared for the 2000 European Championship in the Netherlands, and when he led the Dutch national team in the 2000 European Championship, he fully implanted his insights into the team, and the Dutch team reached the semi-finals with an unstoppable momentum, and they swept the former Yugoslavia 6:1 in the previous game, and it seems that the championship is close at hand.

But perhaps in order to test the young coach, God made a joke with the Dutch team in the semi-final with Italy, and in the end the Netherlands was defeated by the Italian defense and stopped in the semi-finals, Rijkaard also left the position of coach in a huff, leading the Dutch team to 22 games during his tenure, with a record of 8 wins, 12 draws and 2 losses.

In the 2001/2002 season, he became the coach of the Eredivisie Rotterdam team, but he was relegated after the season because he led the team to only 34 games, 4 wins, 12 draws and 18 losses, accumulating only 24 points and ranking second-to-last.

Although he did not have a brilliant record in coaching, he was still favored by Barcelona club owner Joan Laporta, and on June 24, 2003, he officially replaced Antic as the head coach of Barcelona.

After arriving at Barcelona, the Black Swan continued to stick to his philosophy, and at first he had a lot of trouble, the team had a poor record, and he was under a lot of pressure.

In the 2004/2005 season, Rijkaard's Catalan Legion began to flourish after bringing in a number of much-needed players, and although the Blues were defeated in the Champions League quarter-finals, Barca eventually won the league trophy that season.

In the 2005/2006 season, Barcelona continued to win the league trophy again, and for a time Barcelona's advantage in the league could not be shaken.

However, last season, Barcelona lost the league title due to internal turmoil in the team, and this season Barcelona's record in the league is also poor, and Rijkaard is also under great pressure.

The pressure has also made Rijkaard's courage less and less, and in order to ensure the stability of the dressing room, he has constantly compromised with many stars, and he has learned to stay the same in order not to affect the overall direction of the team.

Rijkaard has been at Barcelona for almost five years and in the first three seasons, Rijkaard has really done a great job and managed to inject his football philosophy into Barcelona's nerves, and when people talk about Barcelona, they always say that Barcelona have a fast and fluid attack.

But as Ronaldinho indulges himself more and more, his form is getting worse and worse, and today, the speed is gone, the fluidity is gone, and the only thing that makes people talk about it is the stars of Barcelona.

These stars play the role of superkillers in soccer manager or Pro Evolution Soccer and are unstoppable. But in reality, they are eight points behind league leaders Real Madrid.

There are a number of reasons for this, the first of which is Barcelona's lack of tactical clarity and Rijkaard's reliance on his stars.

First of all, there is no doubt that a team must have its own technical and tactical characteristics.

What are technical and tactical characteristics?

First of all, look at the jishu style of the players in the team, and the head coach needs to understand what jishu characteristics his players have. For example, the German team has the impression that it is strong, strong-willed, and excellent in the forward line, so the tactical thinking of the German team comes out, and the ball is played on the side, using the height and header advantage to bomb in the air, which is such a simple tactic that has been tried and tested repeatedly, and even left the impression of "German head team" on the fans.

In other words, if the German team must play ground penetration like Spain, then it is estimated that no coach will intend to sit in the position of national team manager.

Similarly, Chelsea have the impression of a perfect defensive system combined with sharp and efficient counter-attacks, and Valencia are excellent on both wings and a tough central defence.

And what are the tactical characteristics of Barcelona?

Some people will say that Barcelona is characterized by the excellent players Jishu who often play beautiful wall matches.

But this is only a local small routine, not an overall tactical system.

Just like playing Pro Evolution Soccer, a player's strength lies not in his ability to play one-two with key combinations, not in his ability to play Marseille slalom moves, but in his ability to use the jishu characteristics of the eleven players on the field to develop an overall offensive and defensive strategy.

Returning to Barcelona's tactical thinking, Barcelona's frontcourt is full of people, but it is only limited to individual breakthroughs or small-scale coordinated attacks, and there is no focus on attacking.

The point of attack is not to always give the ball to a certain star to attack, but to go where the ball is going and how the players are running.

For example, Barcelona's 4-3-3 attack, the attack of the two wings should be very threatening, so the first thing should be to attract the opponent's defense in the middle, and after the side is empty, the ball is stuffed into the space in time, and the winger or the full-back who assists the full-back launches the most threatening attack.

And in this offensive routine, players like Xavi or Deco in the middle are the team's offensive starting point, which can also be said to be the team's command tower, and he controls the direction of the ball, Messi or Henry on the side is the threat point of the attack, they are responsible for launching an attack in the most threatening area near the penalty area, or a cross from the bottom, or a cut shot, and then the fullback who inserts the assist is the protector of the attack, when Messi or Henry is targeted or has no chance, their space ensures control of the ball, Messi has no chance, Pass to the full-back who can cross the ball, control the ball and play with Messi, and of course pass back to Xavi or Deco to relaunch the attack.

In previous seasons, Barcelona was indeed playing this kind of football, but at that time Henry's position appeared Ronaldinho, but now? What people see is more of a personal breakthrough and improvisation.

An excellent coach can take advantage of the loopholes in the opponent's defense line to carry out targeted offensive deployment, such as the opponent's left back is in poor condition, then there is no doubt that this point should be played more, the team's main attack point is here, so as to carry out a series of targeted arrangements, such as the right fullback to often assist with the right winger, the right central defender to make up for the gap left by the right wingback in time, then the left fullback to reduce the assist and let the team's back line maintain a relatively safe situation of three defenders. However, it goes without saying that Rijkaard's tactics have remained the same, and even the tactical characteristics of his own team have not been brought into play, which should be worth reflecting on.

Of course, there are many reasons for all this, such as the club's board of directors' recruitment policy. The introduction of Henry was not linked to Rijkaard's tactical ideas at all, of course, using a Henry for more than a season, has not let him play at the level he should have, as the head coach Rijkaard should also be said to be unable to escape the blame, if it is not used well, simply do not use it, or change the formation to adapt to Henry, or let him sit on the bench, instead of letting the state not Haode Henry also play frequently, which can only say that Rijkaard is not tough enough.

Of course, Rijkaard's dependence on stars is involved, Weishenme Barcelona's current tactical play is not focused, and the team has no main attacking direction?

Because everyone on the pitch is a star, everyone is a wrist, and everyone has to attack the opponent's defense in their own way.

A simple example, Messi always breaks through with the ball after taking the ball, even if the fullbacks around him insert assists, Messi is basically regarded as nothing, and it is said that Messi wants to improve his passing skills, in fact, Messi's passing is not bad, many balls are brought by themselves and are sandwiched by two or three defenders on the other side, and there is really no way to pass it out.

Either the body is carried by the opponent jishu action is out of shape and the pass is not in place, or it is surrounded by the opponent and basically cannot face the goal, and the probability of passing the threat ball is reduced.

One is an active pass, the other is a passive pass, which one is more threatening?

Of course, it's good for a team to have stars, but stars also need a unified tactical approach to play at their best level. Rijkaard, on the other hand, is basically a 4-3-3 formation, putting everyone in their own position, and then hoping that Henry can shine today and Messi can clone Maradona tomorrow, at least on the surface.

You can't expect Super Xavi to be a savior in every game, nor can you expect Messi Dona to have two flashes of inspiration every game, in the end the leader of the team is still the head coach, and the head coach should convey his understanding of the game to the players, the players are just pawns in tactics, and every chess piece can't be turned into a hero to save the chess player.

The unclear tactical thinking is closely related to Rijkaard's dependence on the star, precisely because Rijkaard's tactical thinking is not clear, the players have no attack focus, and can only use the cooperation in a small area to tear apart the opponent's defense, and the individual play of the star has contributed to Rijkaard's dependence on the star, and the dependence on the star makes Rijkaard have doubts about his tactical thinking, every change of formation ends in failure, and the result is the individual play of the star to save the team, well, unchanged, 4-3-3 is good, it seems to be a dead end, a dead loop.

Yes, 4-3-3 is good, the quality of the stars is good, all Rijkaard has to do is add some focus to the current tactics and add some detailed deployment to bring out the characteristics of the team.

Whether it is flying on both wings or pressing in the front, Barcelona's characteristics cannot disappear, even if it cannot win the championship in the end, it cannot let the players play for a season and cannot summarize the team's strongest tactical routine.

The team needs a killer feature, and the killer feature should not be the individual ability of a certain player, but the collective wisdom of the whole team.

In addition to these problems, Barcelona also have a problem of scoring too much, Eto'o is not the core of Barcelona, but the distribution of Barcelona's goals this season has always given people such a feeling.

The current Barcelona feels like a one-man Barcelona - Samuel Eto'o's Barca.

Barcelona have always relied on an attacking team to win, but now they have to rely on Samuel Eto'o to score goals, and manager Rijkaard is to blame for his tactical adjustments.

When Samuel Eto'o was injured before the winter break, Rijkaard did not make any changes to the team, other than simply putting the Icelander in the middle of the pitch.

If Eto'o and the Icelander share the same style, this would be acceptable, but in fact the two have very different styles, one by jishu and speed, and the other by height and head.

After a period of time when Shiyan found that the Icelanders were not supported by shells, Rijkaard strengthened his assists on the flanks, and the effect improved significantly.

Now that the Icelander is also injured, Rijkaard simply put Eto'o, who had returned from injury, in the center forward position and played back to his previous tactics, Xavi injured Iniersta on top, Puyol lost his father and replaced it with Thuram, Thuram was yellow carded, Oleg was replaced, and the Spanish media sarcastically said: Such a simple addition and subtraction may not be what Rijkaard should do.

The over-concentration of goals is a microcosm of Barca's season, with Barcelona lacking a second man who can take on the task of completing Zuihou's goal.

In this game, Eto'o is still playing with an injury, and Rijkaard originally planned very well, which is to use the gap between Fiorentina's central defender and the midfielder, through Messi, Henry and Eto'o's alternating impact to destroy Fiorentina's defensive system, open the gap, and strive for goals.

But judging from these few minutes of play, Fiorentina seems to be completely different from what he imagined, there seems to be no clear division of labor between the midfield and the backfield, and Modric, who has excellent offensive ability, even retreated to the penalty area and was behind the central defender when defending.

What kind of play is this?

Rijkaard frowned, I don't know why!

Not only did Rijkaard not understand, but the commentators sitting in the studio were also surprised, Modric retreated to the box to fill in, Ledesma was fighting Eto'o for a header, Marchena rushed through the half, formed a close mark on Xavi, and even Digan and Mutu frequently went to the wing to participate in the defense.

Could it be that Fiorentina are planning to admit intimidation in this game, and Jihua will fight for a draw at the home of Barcelona?

Unlike Rijkaard, Prandley sat firmly in the coach's seat from the beginning of the game, crossed his legs, and watched the game develop with a leisurely expression.

Gradually, Rijkaard also found some problems, the frequent changes of Fiorentina midfielders made Fiorentina's defensive thickness appear very tight, and Barcelona's small range of cooperation in the Florentina half played very smoothly, but it couldn't pass in, and it couldn't find the space to complete the fatal pass.

In addition, Xavi, the core of the midfield, was stubbornly entangled by Marchena, and Hamsik stepped forward from time to time to interfere, wanting to step forward to participate in the attack, and the route of connecting the ball and passing the ball were cut off.

And Fiorentina is not blindly defending, after grabbing the ball, the counterattack is very resolute, often a long pass from the back to the dangerous area of Barcelona.

Fiorentina has such a strong center forward as Deegan in front of him, whether it is Puyol or Edmilson, if he wants to head with Degambi, it is simply self-inflicted, maybe Thuram can fight if he is not injured.

Fiorentina's attack did not go through the middle at all, so the triangle formation that Barcelona is proud of has no meaning at all.

Ten minutes into the game, Barcelona didn't even have a shot on goal, Fiorentina did create a killing chance in the eighth minute, or the ball was played from the back, Digan headed to Antonini, who crossed and Mutu shoveled at the back post, which was blocked by Valdés.

The pressure on the defense is not very great, and the biggest problem for Barcelona now is how to break the defense of Fiorentina, Zuihou judges the game by winning or losing the goal, but now Fiorentina does not even have a shot on goal.

Messi!

Rijkaard couldn't help but think about relying on the individual performance of the stars.

"Messi dribbled the ball and was beaten by the opponent's Thiago. Silva is broken, Fiorentina counterattack! ”