Chapter 137: Professor Wenger
Fiorentina's speed of advancement, and Arsenal's ability to disrupt the middle is not comparable to that of a team like Chelsea who use the midfield as a gun mount.
Speaking of which, Arsenal really doesn't look like an English team, under the tutelage of Arsene Wenger, they pay more attention to ground coordination, around the point of Fabregas, advancing layer by layer, while actively using two wings, more points of attack, the same is true when defending, different from Barcelona's inverted triangle defensive formation, their defense pays attention to layering, just like AC Milan, often the first line of defense has not been broken by the opponent, the second line of defense has been organized, and the integrity of the squad is maintained at all times.
This is Arsene Wenger, who has been in charge of Arsenal for more than a decade, and this team has already made his mark from top to bottom.
Of course, Wenger's tactics have often attracted criticism from others, Ferguson once ridiculed Wenger for turning all his players into robots, which leg to step first, must be entered in advance, but I have to admit that Wenger's strict tactical arrangement is very effective, and with this tactic, it has brought a glorious period to Arsenal.
If it weren't for the construction of the Emirates Stadium, if it weren't for the club's business philosophy, with Arsene Wenger's coaching ability and Arsenal's deep heritage, it would not have been possible to establish an Arsenal dynasty in the Premier League.
"The two sides didn't mean to test it at all from the beginning, Fiorentina invested a lot of troops in the attack, Arsenal's defense was also very resolute, and the two sides fought fiercely in the midfield!"
Arsene Wenger stood on the sidelines with his shoulders on his shoulders, and although the ball was at Fiorentina's feet after the opening, he was not in a hurry at all, and he was very confident in the team's defence.
Fiorentina tried twice to move the ball into the box, but the two centre-backs judged their position well in advance and pushed it out.
What worries him is the team's attack, Adebayo and Eduardo are not the kind of players who can attack with the ball, and in this regard, they have a big gap with Van Persie, but unfortunately Van Persie is injured.
But it doesn't matter, in this game, Wenger's tactical arrangement is to fight with Fiorentina in the first half, release space for the opponent to attack, and wait until the second half, Fiorentina's players will not be able to attack for a long time, and they will definitely be impetuous, in that case, their opportunity will come, don't forget, on the bench, Arsenal also has a little tiger Walcott.
Arsene Wenger's heart was silently thinking: Don't worry! Don't worry!
His contract is only until the end of this season, and he has not made up his mind on whether to renew his contract until now, and the departure of his old friend has made him a little disappointed in the club, but even so, even if he does leave one day, he hopes to leave something for this team.
Twelve years have passed since I arrived in North London.
Despite the passage of time, Arsene Wenger can still remember his time at Arsenal and remember that when he first arrived, people were not convinced.
Especially the captain of the team, Tony. Adams was arrogant when he said of Arsene Wenger's arrival: "What does this Frenchman know about football? He wears a pair of glasses and looks like a teacher, and he certainly won't be any better than Graham. By the way, does he speak English slippery? ”
Indeed, Arsene Wenger was the first foreigner to take charge of Arsenal, and before that the arrogant Englishman had never heard of his name, many felt that the board was thoroughly S.B.
"Evening Standard" took the lead in using the sentence pattern that will be enjoyed by major sports circles in the future, including the NBA, as the headline "Wenger, who is that?" to "welcome" him.
It was Arsene Wenger who came to Arsenal with such a nerdy look and then started to change Arsenal in all aspects.
The first thing to do was to plant Arsene Wenger's flag on the hill of the Arsenal dressing room. At that time, Arsenal's dressing room was a typical Anglo-Saxon clan, and the patriarch was Adams.
The big guys in the team are addicted to drinking and taking training seriously, and almost half of the team walks into the stadium from the tavern on the weekend.
But Arsene Wenger changed all that, he first persuaded captain Adams, took the lead in banning alcohol, and let the dressing room gradually follow the path he designed, and on the training ground, he subdivided the subjects, refining each event down to the minute and second and the energy value consumed by the athletes, quantifying and scientifically, so that the training efficiency was greatly improved.
Outside of training, he completely changed the team's diet, abolishing a series of British recipes and turning former dishes such as fish and chips into pasta and vegetable salad.
Especially on match days, five or six hours before the start of the game, he asked the whole team to eat together, which changed the team's lack of physical fitness in the second half.
Of course, the biggest change was on the pitch.
Before Arsene Wenger took over, Arsenal were a notoriously ugly team in England, especially during the Graham era, where the Gunners were the laughing stock of England.
Arsene Wenger admits he'd heard about it before, but he didn't take it to heart. Since then, he has led Arsenal to the opposite path. Offensive, fluid, and exciting, it has become his target style for the next ten years.
Wenger carried forward the unique talent of the ice prince Bergkamp, who joined in the same year, and let the strong striker with a height of 185CM go against the "barrel theory", not making up for his height, but not good at heading the weakness, but instead making him can respond to his teammates in front and back, especially the talent of completing Zuihou's pass inside and outside the big penalty area line, which not only makes the central defender who defends Bergkamp worry about every touch after receiving the ball, but also revitalizes the previous monolithic attack line. Then he successively summoned Vieira, Petit, Pire, Anelka, including Henry, Wiltord, etc., and built a strong French gang at Arsenal for several years.
In the process of establishing the team's tactical DNA, Wenger achieved Arsenal's French and flamboyant. Unlike young coaches who tend to overhaul their team's attack and defence to make their mark, Arsene Wenger has shown patience and gentleness at the back.
The back five of the Granham era are all retained, respecting them and reaping the respect they reciprocate for their coaches. So at the same time as the jishu transformation, the results did not regress in the slightest, on the contrary, after only less than two years in charge, an undisputed double made Wenger famous.
Then came Arsene Wenger's glory days, unbeaten in 49 games, Thierry Henry's terrifying 39 goals, and the Premier League princes were helpless in the face of Arsene Wenger's Arsenal.
In terms of tactical secrets, it can now be evaluated as follows: there were two kinds of 4-4-2 points in the traditional sense, one was the Manchester United-style diamond 4-4-2, with the front and back in charge of attack and defense; The second is Arsenal's disc 4-4-2, with two backs defending and no forward midfielders.
These two types of 4-4-2, especially the former, are widely accepted and used. Before the start of the unbeaten season, Arsene Wenger, playing the 4-4-2 banner, began the first 4-2-3-1 revolution in the history of human football.
Due to the double back to ensure the side defense, the left midfielder Pire began to cut frequently and even crazy, inside passes, inside long shots, inside single knife, Bergkamp in the middle at any time, using super high ball quotient and jishu to respond, and should be at the forefront of the forward, the left forward Henry, who is considered a waste wood by Serie A, began to rush forward in the endless left corridor like the Horqin grassland, meeting God to kill God, meet Buddha to kill Buddha.
From the perspective of Arsenal's opponents, the desperation caused by this change was more truly felt, and when attacking, the right midfielder and the forward midfielder were met by the insurmountable Arsenal double midfielders. On the left side, there are two tough guys who basically don't attack and wait for the defense to break the ball.
And the defense is even more painful, from the side cut inside Pire can pass, shoot, can cut, and is not at all like the traditional forward midfield from the midfield to receive the ball and advance head-on, so that the opponent's back is extremely unaccustomed, the central defender must have a person close to Bergkamp at any time, and the other has to follow Henry to the midfield, so that Henry repeatedly starts to dribble from behind the opponent's right midfield, first slaughtering the right back and then punishing the center back.
What's more painful is that if the defense line is too right-leaning to assist in defending Henry, the gap left for the left rib will be inserted diagonally by Ljungberg to raid, in the two strikers retreat to different areas, and under the tactical arrangement of the double back arch defense, the whole team is the sharpest blade as the left wing of 4231, the two jishu team players who are the most able to pass and cooperate with and have the same strong attacking power, take turns to impact, and perfectly realize the tactical revolution of adding up the abilities of 11 people and multiplying the variable N.
Left-back Pire, who has scored 23 goals in more than 40 appearances, can only be described as terrifying among all midfielders today.
Admittedly, in today's view, this kind of relentless running is not for their own personal assault, but to draw away the opponent's defensive strength, create space for the three-man attacking group inserted behind, and attack the area between the opponent's midfield and the back line with a wide midfielder, but at that time, it was like a fresh wind blowing across the British Isles, and the fast and smooth multi-arm coordination under Wenger, as well as a variety of dazzling breakthroughs and passing combinations, made Arsenal form a mercury-like attacking style. It also shocked Premier League fans who are accustomed to the mode of midfielders organizing and attacking outside the box and bombing in the box, which is the stage of Wenger's fame.
Of course, after 49 games of unbeaten matches, it was followed by years without a title, but this was not Wenger's fault, first of all, the biggest impact on Arsenal, the completion of the Emirates Stadium.
In 1999, Arsene Wenger was instrumental in a joint letter to the board of directors for the construction of a new stadium: "This project will be decisive for the club to survive at the highest level of competition in Shijie, either we will take the risk of building such a stadium or we will die competing with other big clubs." ”
Indeed, if we look at the operating income before and after the stadium was built, we can see that Wenger was right.
However, since the beginning of the 06/07 season, Arsenal's total liabilities have been as high as about 600 million pounds, and the amount of mandatory current liabilities that need to be repaid in a short period of time is huge, resulting in a lot of money must be taken out every year to repay the current debt, cash determines purchasing power, although Arsenal has not a lot of cash after the end of each financial year, after the end of last season, it is as high as 90 million pounds, but the transfer budget that is really allocated to Wenger is not much, because most of it is used to pay off short-term debts, as well as pay various expenses, This eventually led to a huge increase in player transfer funds, which has been the root cause of Arsenal's sluggish transfer market since '06.
2006 became a milestone and watershed for Arsenal, after selling Vieira, Thierry Henry and others at a high price, Wenger bought Adebayor, Rosicky, Walket and other young talents who shone at a young age to complete the rebuilding of the gorgeous team.
When these seeds of hope come to fruition, a brand new Arsenal, no less than the double champions and undefeated divisions of the year, will stand majestically at the pinnacle of the top giants.
In such a grand plan, in the next few years, there is no need for strong reinforcements, such a manager, which club owner does not love?
Especially since the start of this season, Wenger has no superstar in his hand, and he is not counting on buying any superstar in the next few years.
Now the key point of Arsenal's attack is no longer Henry the Great in the front line, nor is it Bergkamp, the ice prince, or even the pseudo-left midfielder Pire, but the Jishu advantage of the entire midfield.
At this time, the midfield composition is mainly four people on the pitch now, Cesc Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb and Flamini, and the forward line is Adebayor and Eduardo.
Discovered by Arsene Wenger at the age of 15, entering the first team at the age of 16 and setting a new record for the youngest goal at the age of 17, Wenger said of him: "Mozart can play the piano very well at the age of six, and I can never play that well, and some players are at a level of 17 that I never achieved when I played, weishenme? Because they are all special geniuses. ”
This is Sesk. Cesc Fabregas.
Accurate judgment, calm ball control, good overall view and super high ball quotient when seeking cooperation, as well as good shooting footwork, no stage fright since childhood, the bigger the scene, the better the performance, all these talents are combined, Wenger's love and expectations for him can be imagined.
Therefore, since the age of 16, Wenger has been cultivating Fabregas as hard as his own son, and the future of the entire Arsenal gorgeous football lies in the midfield, and the core of the midfield is Cesc Fabregas.
Cesc Fabregas has also lived up to expectations, and his overall performance this season has been absolutely superstar-level.
The attack core has landed, the fighter group has a long plane, and it is time to equip the wingman. Arsene Wenger first signed Rosicky, the "green Mozart" who shines in the national team, and with his superb jishu and fast thinking speed, Rosicky looks elegant and light when combing the midfield. In addition, he has a talent that cannot be learned, and he can pass the right ball forward at the right time.
Next is Hleb that many people don't know, "White Russian Lightning" can often use amazing speed to get rid of opponents, and create goals and assists, his biggest feature is that the opponent can't know what he wants to do next, he is especially good at scoring goals from the midfield to start straight into the penalty area, before Wenger successfully signed him, Hleb often staged a "thousand miles alone" goal in the Bundesliga, can be called the "long-distance running king" of the Bundesliga.
Based on the above three, even if it is a new gun fan who has not watched Arsenal games in those years, it is not difficult to find what the three of them have in common, super high ball intelligence.
Arsene Wenger's aim is clear, to create the soul of the Young Guard with three extremely intelligent and talented young midfielders.
Perhaps after the routine of the undefeated division was thoroughly figured out by the Premier League teams, the professor understood again and again that no matter how sharp the tactics and staffing, as long as the other party understands your principle, sooner or later there will be a day when the end of the road will come, and the professor is determined to attack it unprepared and surprised.
In every game, the opposing defense has no way of knowing who will attack Arsenal, how to tear it apart, which area to focus on, and when to launch the general attack. But one thing is for sure, Arsenal will create unexpected situations with skillful and precise passes between the three no.10s and passes or breakthroughs that can be pierced to the heart at any time.
In this 442 formation similar to 4132, Fabregas's position is not fixed, he and full-time midfielders are tied to protect the back line when defending, and when attacking, he covers the vast area of the center circle arc to the arc of the penalty area, and the responsibilities when changing from defense to attack are the back midfielder, the center midfielder, the front midfielder, and the shadow striker, with his tandem with Rosicky and Hleb, and the two strikers actively run to find gaps, once the attack group formed by the three 10s will advance the ball to the area between the opponent's midfield and the back line, Depending on how much the opponent's defense is being pulled up, choose to shoot or continue to cooperate until the ball is "passed" into the goal.
In his previous life, Deegan watched Arsenal's games, and the two things he did the most were to marvel at Arsenal's smooth flow, and regret that he had to cooperate so much in the penalty area, otherwise he could score with a direct shot.
This season, although Arsenal's record is not impressive, their magnificence has been completely sublimated, like a death wheel to make the opponent dormant in Arsenal's wonderful ball control, and suddenly wake up to find that the cold sword has been pierced into the chest.
And these improvements, or after the rebuilding of Arsenal, 07 summer release of Ljungberg, Reyes such as key players, 06 summer Henry, Akol, Campbell and Pire, 05 let go of Vieira, the corresponding new personnel in addition to Galla and Rosicky, the others are not much professional league playing experience of the hairy guys, Wenger commanded this group of energetic young guards to play a piece of the world, the gun fans are full of good hopes for the future, return to the top of Europe, It seems that making up for the regrets of '06 is just around the corner.
Arsenal have Arsene Wenger, so they have Thierry Henry, they have Cesc Fabregas, they have a new stadium, they have today and tomorrow. But for Arsene Wenger, Arsenal is not a reasonable club, a good platform to showcase his talents.
It is believed that there will be no Arsenal fans who oppose it, and Arsene Wenger is the greatest coach in Arsenal's history since the war.
For more than a decade, Arsene Wenger's achievements for Arsenal are obvious to all, however, in addition to the results, Wenger's contribution to Arsenal and the Premier League as a whole is also very outstanding.
Graham have won eight trophies for Arsenal and Arsene Wenger has only seven so far, but no one has long been able to compare them. In addition to the difference in style of play and the scene, two doubles and one unbeaten Premier League can be described as great.
Arsene Wenger, widely known as a professor, is a football coach in his job, but in the eyes of the majority of fans, he is far from it!
Arsene Wenger is a mentor, an elder, an idol, he is wise, self-denial, kind, believes in fairness and justice, principle, dedication, of course, maybe there is no perfect person on Shijie, but if there is, then is it only Wenger?
First of all, he is known to be a coach. He brought magnificence to Arsenal, as for how he transformed Arsenal from the "stuffy" of the Graham era into a shijie top gorgeous division, and how he brought stunning fluidity and ornamentation to the rough, liliang Premier League. It is no exaggeration to say that it was Arsene Wenger who created the exciting new Arsenal!
As a coach, Arsene Wenger is an absolute success!
Don't say that there have been no championships for many years, and the champion can't measure everything. You can look at the results of those who invest financial resources like Arsenal, and then look at Arsenal's results, and you can get a relatively fair conclusion.
Of course, Arsene Wenger is not no longer chasing titles, but he has higher expectations for himself, and if he treats football as a game, Wenger plays at a "particularly difficult" or "maddening" level.
He is insisting on following the traditional way, maximizing his ability to achieve success and win the championship without taking advantage of external favorable factors.
Other coaches can use a joking tone, those who are richer and have a relatively large investment in the transfer market play ordinary difficulty, while those who are crazy about loans and crazy investment, such as Real Madrid, such as Manchester City, they are cheating.
There is no doubt that Arsene Wenger is successful as a coach, and in the eyes of ordinary fans, what shines more brightly is the brilliance of his own humanity.
Looking at Shijie football, there are countless coaches who have achieved success in terms of results, and it is undeniable that many coaches have achieved better results than their professors, but Professor Weishenme can enjoy so much praise and respect?
In the FA Cup that year, Arsenal scored to win the game when the opponent had a player injured and fell to the ground, which caused controversy after the game, Wenger took the initiative to propose a replay to the FA, just imagine how many coaches can have such courage, Bergkamp scored in the replay and won. Although the opponents lost the game, they were convinced, and Arsenal not only won the game but also won praise from all sides.
Arsene Wenger keeps his promise and treats all players fairly. He has said that as long as there is a haode performance on the training ground, there will be a chance.
Almunia, who is now the goalkeeper for Arsenal on the pitch, should know this best, when Lehmann was not in good form, Almunia got his chance, and he took it, although the fans were always uncomfortable with him, of course, it had a psychological effect.
But Wenger has no psychological scruples, he gives everyone an equal chance and as long as he performs well, he always gets his chances. There are only eleven positions on the pitch and Arsene Wenger is responsible for the team and then fair to everyone.
Many young players across Shijie see Arsenal as a temple of dreams, and in addition to the fair chance to play, they are attracted to the coach who values and is good at training young players.
For 12 years, Arsene Wenger's life has been filled with football almost every day. Over the years, Arsene Wenger has built his youth army, and he has been persistent, even called stubborn.
In fact, it is not difficult for anyone to figure it out, just like everyone has a dream, people pay for it and persevere, Wenger is also like an ordinary person, he is pursuing his dream, the difference is that his dream is greater than ordinary people, and he is more persistent.
Arsene Wenger deserves the title of greatness.
Because not every coach can succeed in three very different leagues, but Arsene Wenger has done it, from Ligue 1 to Japan's J-League to the Premier League, maybe someone will mention Mourinho, but look at the money Mourinho spends, he can build a stadium.
Not every coach can get his hands on the old fritters of the club after entering a new club, make them obedient, look at Adams, the five old defenders, absolutely short-tempered, absolutely difficult to serve, but Wenger made them quit drinking.
Not every coach can take care of every aspect of the players so well, and provide the players with scientific recipes, which may not be the case now, but it was different back then, when even the NBA, the most mature sports league, was just beginning to implement scientific diets.
Not every coach can bring good profits to the club, and looking at the magic bird, perhaps it is even more profound.
Not every coach can have such a charisma on the board of directors of a club? Ferguson? Yes, he has, and then what? Jose Mourinho? He can speak, but he won't be respected. Arsene Wenger was the King's speech on the board, while the rest of the coaches were often the complaining of Asan.
Not every league coach can keep a strong contender for the league and a Champions League spot every year, and in the past 12 years, there have been only four clubs in Europe that have been the most consistent: Bayern, Manchester United, Arsenal and Real Madrid.
Not every coach can bring a pitch to a team, and not every club coach can be involved in the design of a new pitch for his team.
Not every team's coach can put himself in the shoes of the club's future, Wenger's greatest contribution is not the Emirates Stadium, but more importantly, the first Kearney training base in the United Kingdom, the most scientific, advanced and comfortable training ground.
Not every coach is as familiar with the players around the globe as Arsene Wenger is with more than most FM players.
Not every coach is able to be so unique and infuse his beliefs into the team.
Not every coach has loved him so deeply even if he has not won a championship for many years.
Not every coach can have the courage to challenge the authority of the entire shijie Jinyuan, look at the present, even if the transfer cost of some small teams in the Premier League is higher than that of Arsenal, Wenger is using the most essential football investment to compete with the entire impetuous shijie.
Time flies, and the stars change!
More than 12 years have passed, and many people have said that Wenger may really be leaving this time, but even at the crossroads of life choices, Wenger still wants to do his best to bring Arsenal this trophy that has never been touched.
On the field, the battle was fierce, Fiorentina kicked a shot from outside the penalty area, which was directly grasped by Almunia, and after getting up, he threw the ball with one hand and launched an attack directly.
Arsenal are also moving forward at a fast pace and are even more efficient on the pitch than Fiorentina, let alone Barcelona with a constant flow of short balls in the middle.
Cesc Fabregas's role was constantly changing, defending as a midfielder, and when Almunia threw the ball out, he immediately moved into the central midfield position, flanking Rosicky and Hleb and behind him Flamini.
Cesc Fabregas received the ball, Fiorentina attacked wildly, and the formation looked a little messy, especially the space between the midfielders and the central defenders was a little too big.
Cesc Fabregas immediately analysed the form on the pitch and, after receiving the ball, did not let the ball linger too much at his feet, and passed it to Hleb, who rushed towards the left side of the pitch with the ball.
For a while, Fiorentina's formation began to tilt in the direction of Hleb, Fabregas and Rosicky pounced towards the front of Fiorentina's penalty area, and Eduardo and Adebayor, who were originally forwards, were stuck on the penalty line to attract Fiorentina's defenders.
Hleb's possession of the ball is indeed Shijie's top-notch, especially in the process of telling the advancement, the frequency of his feet is not slow at all, so that Ma Qiao, who is responsible for defending him, does not dare to put his feet easily.
Arsene Wenger's tactics were originally very important on the wings, but after Ljungberg, Piret and Thierry Henry left, he abandoned the two wings, hoarded heavy troops in the middle, and when attacking, pulled to both sides and played behind the opposing full-backs.
Although Maggio returned to the defense in time, Hleb's speed had already risen, and he wanted to jam the position, but it was impossible at all, so he could only keep retreating and give up a large defensive position.
Suddenly, Hleb turned the arch of his foot and pulled the ball horizontally to the right side of his body, and Maggio was shocked to see this, assisting Thiago on the sidelines. Silva also rushed to the top to prevent Hleb from cutting in the air.
But at this moment, Hleb passed the ball.
Wenger's eyes suddenly lit up, chance!