"Pan Yi, you say, is our team's bench depth too insufficient? Is the winter window going to consider reinforcements? ”

Unexpectedly, Allegri called Pan Yi to the office to discuss it first.

It seems that he is even more anxious than Pan Yi.

Pan Yi glanced up at Allegri.

Truly.

It's not just that he's in a hurry, but now Allegri's eyes are bloodshot, and his face is not very good, obviously he hasn't slept well for several nights.

There's still a lot of pressure on the manager.

Even if the previous record is good, as long as you can't play well for a while, you will immediately be criticized by the media and fans.

Pan Yi shook his head slightly: "The bench depth is indeed average, and we may indeed need reinforcements, but this is not the key to the problem. ”

In fact, what Pan Yi wants to say is that the problem is still with Allegri himself.

He is too rigid in the use of tactics, once he recognizes which tactics are good, or even which lineup is good, he hates to use it to death.

And once the key screws are missing from this tactical lineup, Allegri is a bit unscrewed.

In other words, Allegri does not know how to teach according to his aptitude, and does not change tactics according to the characteristics of the players themselves, but often leaves the players to passively and helplessly adapt to the inappropriate tactical play he arranges.

The most typical is Inzaghi, a dexterous striker like him, but he is used by Allegri as a stumbling center, can it be effective?

Pan Yi doubts that if young players such as Salah and Mane had been used independently by Allegri, they would have grown into pure cross-wing wingers, who would only use their speed to sweep in front of goal.

Of course, now Pan Yi will consider Allegri's feelings when he speaks, and he will not say it too directly.

Hearing Pan Yi say this, Allegri also sighed: "I know, what you are talking about my refusal to change the 442 formation. It's that I'm not thinking it through. So your suggestion is still to change our formation to 442 for some time to come? ”

Allegri doesn't have much to worry about now.

He had expected a swerp of wins at the start of the season, and the team's morale was good, and even if a few players were missing, he should be able to cope with it.

And at this time, relying on himself to make adjustments, wouldn't it be more indicative that his level as a head coach is higher than others?

But the record of 2 draws and 2 losses woke Allegri hard.

Facts have proved that in the case of personnel shortages, he still can't play this set of 433.

In other words, he may not have really understood the usage of Pan Yi's set of 433, and he can't flexibly make adjustments and changes.

So Allegri decided to lower his profile and ask Pan Yi for advice.

In fact, he had relied on Pan Yi a lot before, and the team's main tactics and main lineup were basically formulated by Pan Yi for him.

It's just that now as soon as he breaks away from Pan Yi, he can't win the ball, which makes Allegri have to admit it, and he feels that he still has to trust this young assistant more.

And Allegri's attitude, Pan Yi saw and heard.

Pan Yi is also confident that he can solve the current predicament.

He had just recently watched a section of the system tutorial on Klopp's solution to a similar dilemma.

With a number of key players in the squad being African, Jurgen Klopp will often be absent when his players go to the Africa Cup of Nations, so he will have to have options to get through this difficult time.

Strikers Salah, Sadio Mane, and midfielder Keita, who have been absent for more than a month, how similar is the situation to Milan now?

Pan Yi said: "In fact, you don't have to change the formation, there is no problem to still play 433, but some playing styles need to be changed." ”

Allegri frowned: "Don't change the formation? Well...... Like the first time you played Barcelona, let the players change some tactical instructions? ”

Pan Yi nodded: "The reason is almost the same." Of course, the opponents we will face in the future are not too strong, so tactically we still have to focus on breaking the defense, unlike playing against Barcelona to defend and counterattack. ”

"Tell me more about it." Allegri is now like a well-behaved student, ready to listen to Teacher Pan Yi's lectures.

This is also the reason why Allegri only consulted with Pan Yi alone this time.

Although Pan Yi, a young man, would never regard the team tactics he designed as his own credit, if Allegri had to pose like a student in front of others, he still couldn't pull this face.

Pan Yi didn't hesitate for a minute, and immediately walked to the tactical board and said:

"When I played Lecce, I mentioned the concept of defending the center and putting it on the side, which is to use the pressing ability of our strikers and the interception ability of the midfielder to force the opponent to play on the wing, and then form a strong side of pressing, and then play attack.

'But now we're missing Ibrahimovic and Mohamed Salah up front, and Kante is missing in midfield, so it's hard to execute that tactic perfectly.

"So, I suggest that the opposite is now done, which is called locking the edge and putting it in the middle, and there is a trap oppression."

Allegri opened his mouth wide: "Lock the edge and put it in the middle? Trap oppression? ”

He found that Pan Yi, a kid, had a set of various professional terms, all of which he, the so-called champion coach, had never heard much.

Pan Yi nodded: "The so-called locking the edge is to let our three forwards cut off the opponent's passing line to the side, ignore the opponent's hand-held players, and guide the opponent's central defender to advance with the ball by himself, or pass to the back midfielder." ”

"And when the opponent does that, he goes into our pocket. Our central midfielders will be quick to press and disrupt, while the three strikers will quickly approach the ball carrier while cutting off the return lane to complete the encirclement of the ball carrier. ”

"Because we need a central midfielder to cover the front field more, we can do without the original drag back and just three central midfielders can stand in parallel, which also avoids the weakness of the lack of Kante."

Allegri pondered for a moment and asked: "However, if we play like this and don't steal the opponent's ball carrier, won't our midfield be very empty?" ”

Pan Yi smiled and nodded, agreeing with Allegri's opinion.

Allegri is also a famous coach after all, and he can still see the hidden dangers of this style of play.

But Pan Yi immediately explained: "Yes, this mode will not work when facing the opponent's talented midfielders, so it will be used more cautiously. For example, when I played Barcelona or Juventus, I wouldn't have proposed to play like that. ”

'And even against a weak team, I would ask the backline to keep a close distance from the midfield line and cooperate with the overall pressing.

"This style of play also requires a lot of movement from the defenders. Luckily, we have top-class centre-backs like Virgil van Dijk and Silva and the two full-backs are good at cutting forward to meet that need. ”

Allegri felt empowered.

"So......" he thought for a moment and said, "you mean, we still need to change the style of play with this lineup, and we don't need reinforcements in the winter window, right?" ”

Pan Yi shook his head and pointed to a chess piece on the tactical board:

"Nope. Still have to bring in reinforcements. Because of this style of play, the weakness of this position is exposed......"