"Allegri, is this crazy?"

Pan Yi on the side tilted his head to look at Allegri and couldn't help but think.

Pan Yi really didn't expect it.

The goal of Hamburg just now was obviously to seize the Milan line press, especially the loophole after the two full-backs pressed it, and it was a success.

In this case, shouldn't we first stabilize and let our players get their feet first to avoid the same thing happening again?

And now, Allegri has ignored all of this, and still let everyone press?

Crazy!

There are only three possibilities for this kind of thing to happen.

Either Allegri is crazy, or Allegri is crazy, or Allegri is crazy.

Of course, there is another possibility.

That's Allegri too stupid to see the problem with the goal just now.

But as a professional coach, how could he not see it?

Forget it, it's more reasonable to explain that he's already crazy.

So, under Allegri's crazy command, after conceding the goal, Milan launched a wave of attacks on Hamburg again, and the wingbacks on both sides also pressed again and again.

Only this time, they're going even further with Allegri's traditional art: crossing!

Dead to the Dead!

Since Milan's 433 formation does not have traditional full-backs, and the two wingers also have to go to the middle to help grab points, the responsibility of crosses is handed over to the two full-backs of Desiglio and Abate.

But......

There are no high strikers in Milan now!

Niang and Sadio Mane are both more adept at playing on the flanks, while Balotelli is tall, strong and has good header skills, but he doesn't like physical confrontation.

So, it was all taken care of by Hamburg's defenders.

Both Virgil van Dijk and Toni Rudiger were able to control the high post with ease and push the ball out of the danger zone.

And sometimes Milan will also find players in the midfield through the long passes of the central defenders, but on the midfield side, Casemiro and Paulinho, the Brazilian duo, also firmly control the air dominance.

Neither De Jong nor Muntari are actually too tall, which makes them have little advantage in the battle with the two Brazilians.

This is especially true of Montolivo, who is not good at fighting in the first place, so where can he please him if he goes to hand-to-hand combat with Casemiro?

And when Milan won a set-piece, it was even more exaggerated, and Hamburg's heavy tank Mitrovic drove directly into the penalty area!

Don't look at his headers when he attacks, he is also unambiguous and very active when defending.

So, the 80,000 fans in the stadium watched as the ball flew to the back of Hamburg's backfield again and again, and then flew out again and again.

Bursts of boos began to erupt in the sky above San Siro.

It is clear that they are not happy with Milan's attack, they are not happy with Allegri's strategy!

Take this set of English football from decades ago, and say that it is holding high the banner of offensive football, right?

And it doesn't taste right.

People's orthodox English football, but also seriously equipped with high school forwards and wing-backs, you kick 433 and play high crosses, it is simply ridiculous and generous!

What's more, it didn't work at all, and Hamburg's goal was not threatened at all.

Conversely, when Milan's cross is headed out by a Hamburg player, and then lands at the feet of another Hamburg player, a quick counter-attack is ready to be launched.

This is when Hamburg poses a greater attacking threat!

As a result, Milan's midfielders will have to make more frantic tackles on the spot, or even fouls, otherwise there will be more serious consequences.

This can be regarded as the "true scripture" that Allegri obtained from Pan Yi after the German Super Cup Hamburg and Bayern battle, right?

But fouls also come at a price.

In the 40th minute, Hamburg once again took advantage of the Milan full-back's pressure to take the ball and launch a long pass to the back of Milan.

This time it was Rudiger who played the ball to the other side and Son Heung-min cut in at high speed.

But Milan's reaction was also quick, and De Jong, who is a defensive midfielder, rushed towards Son Xingmin, which was directly a sliding tackle.

Son Heung-min gently picked up the ball and wanted to move past De Jong's body.

But De Jong lifted his calf and tripped directly on the tip of Son Heung-min's toe, and the South Korean also fell to the ground and rolled on the ground several times before stopping.

This is a kind of self-protection for the player, which can cushion the potential energy in the event of a fall.

But it's also a kind of pressure on the referee, along with "I fell so hard, it's time to blow for a foul, right?" "Such complaints, and more effective than words.

Sure enough, the referee blew the whistle and awarded Hamburg a free-kick on the left side of the box and showed De Jong a yellow card.

"North De Jong" didn't say anything this time, and turned around and left.

Perhaps he also knew that this action was not only big, but also hindered a threatening attack by Hamburg, and it was inevitable to eat cards.

And Allegri on the sidelines was also shouting loudly and encouraging the players.

Although this position made Son Xingmin go in a little too suddenly, and the timing of the foul was still a little late, after all, it was still on the side of the penalty area, not as dangerous as facing the goal.

However, when De Bruyne set the ball and a number of Hamburg players stood in the Milan penalty area one by one, Allegri couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

How is Hamburg so strong?

Van Dijk, Rudiger, Casemiro, Paulinho, Mitrovic......

Compared to them, Zapata and Mex, who are both 187cm tall, why do they seem a little petite?

The point, of course, is in tonnage.

With the likes of Virgil van Dijk and Alitar Mitrovic both weighing more than 90kg, is it like a wall in front of the two Milan centre-backs at 82kg?

And now these "walls" are blocked in front of the Milan door one by one, you say Allegri is not panicking.

On top of that, these tall men in Hamburg aren't just getting their heads on the go.

They are tactically designed!

By the time De Bruyne stretched out his right hand, all the players in the Hamburg penalty area were already aware of it.

And the moment De Bruyne drove the ball, Van Dijk, Rudiger and Casemiro all ran forward, which also took away several Milan defenders.

But they were all false shots.

The real landing point of this free kick was Mitrovic who was ambushed in the middle of the penalty area!

He took advantage of the chaos to run out of space, leap high and head home.

Although Mexes was clinging to Mitrovic's side, he could not stop the opponent's jump, and could only watch as the ball smashed on the Serbian striker's head and then changed direction.

It's too close, and there's nothing Edson can do about it.

The ball hangs in the top right corner of the goal!

"Hamburg has scored again!"

'They took advantage of a free-kick in front and 'Vieri Junior' Mitrovic scored a header!

"Oh my God, it's still the first half and Hamburg is already two goals ahead! But this is the San Siro, Milan's home stadium! ”

"Let's take a look at the replay of that goal. De Bruyne's penalty was very precise and found the top of Mitrovic's head. ”

"And Hamburg's movement of a few tall men was also very good, taking the Milan defence away. Obviously, this is the set-piece tactic that Coach Pan Yi asked the players to practice in training. ”

"And if we look at the foul that led to the free-kick, it's the same development as the first goal."

"Hamburg saw the weakness of Milan's defensive defense when they attacked aggressively, and then the centre-back directly launched a long pass to find the winger, and De Jong had no choice but to foul to stop Son Heung-min's advance."

"How to put it, Hamburg stabbed Milan twice in a row with the same trick, but Milan didn't really prevent ...... once"

……

"Allegri, is this crazy?"

In Munich, at Bayern's training ground, Pep Guardiola raised the same question.

He and his assistants were watching the game live.

Their game had come to an end the evening the day earlier, with Bayern Munich beating CSKA Moscow 3-0 at home.

Now Pep Guardiola has regarded Pan Yi's Hamburg as the most dangerous title rival this season, and will watch Hamburg play when he has time.

In addition to studying Hamburg's tactical routines and seeking ways to restrain them, Guardiola also wants to "steal" from Pan Yi, a coach with endless tactical ideas, to enrich his tactical concepts.

In addition, as Bayern's main rival, Pep Guardiola is certainly willing to see Hamburg suffer a defeat in Milan.

In this case, Pan Yi's team will definitely have a big morale drop, and then make mistakes in the league.

It's not about "sportsmanship".

In a long league, everyone compares who makes fewer mistakes.

If you make a mistake and I don't, then I might be the champion.

There is no such thing as a team that doesn't make mistakes at all, it just depends on when you make mistakes and how serious the mistakes are.

But what Guardiola didn't expect was that AC Milan would play such rubbish when playing at home, falling behind 0-2 in the first half.

It looks like it was Milan who made the mistake today, it was Allegri.

"Hamburg's starting line-up today was clearly targeted to Allegri's style of play, sending out a lot of big and tall guys to control the high points." Guardiola shook his head, "But Allegri is not alert to this, and he still plays according to his established style of play, can he not suffer?" ”

The assistant Grande on the side also said: "You have been telling me before, you can see that in the treble season in Milan, most of the game tactics were formulated by the assistant coach at the time, Pan Yi, I still don't believe it, but now I believe it." With the kind of obsession that Allegri showed today, it is really impossible to bring out such a strong team. ”

"Pan Yi's on-the-spot adjustment is also very powerful." At this time, it was Ten Hag, the head coach of Bayern Munich's youth team.

In order to ensure the tactical consistency of the first team and the entire academy system, Ten Hag will also regularly attend tactical meetings hosted by Pep Guardiola.

This Dutch manager, who will become the manager of Ajax and Manchester United in the future, has the same beautiful hairstyle as Pep Guardiola.

When the two of them appeared in the conference room together, the whole room seemed to light up.

"In the first half, when Milan seemed to be dominant, Pan Yi deliberately asked his players to control the ball more at the back to lure the enemy deep before scoring that long ball." Ten Hag continued.

"In fact, Hamburg's midfield is stronger than Milan's, but it is deliberately slowing down the tempo to seduce Milan players to press forward and create space to attack."

But Allegri didn't notice this, and continued to fall into the trap woven by Pan Yi.

Ten Hag seemed a little annoyed when he said it.

After all, he is only a coach of a youth team, but he can see the problems on the field, and Allegri, as the head coach of a European giant, is so desperate to play high pressure with Hamburg, I really don't know what kind of high pressure, I don't know the other.

This gave Ten Hag a feeling of "I can do it too", and he really wanted to rush to Milan right now, drag Allegri off the dugout, roll up his sleeves and take charge himself.

"You're right." Guardiola nodded appreciatively.

He still admires Ten Hag as a youth team manager, and when it comes to tactics, the Dutchman is always able to get to the heart of the problem and put his own point of view.

Guardiola believes it won't be long before Ten Hag is on his own feet and coaching a first-team team on his own.

"At the beginning, Hamburg really didn't play well, their players were still too young and a little bit not adapted to the atmosphere and rhythm of the Champions League. Pep Guardiola said.

But Pan Yi's command from the sidelines quickly stabilized the situation. He asked the players to shrink a little bit towards the middle and at the back, and let the Milan wing-backs come in. ”

'At the same time, Paulinho and Casemiro also formed a double midfield, sweeping at the edge of the penalty area to protect the defence so that the players at the back could feel at ease.

"Doing so also gave the back two more points of the ball, and it was difficult for Milan's forward group to grab the ball, so the full-backs pressed even more, thinking of grabbing the ball and directly threatening the Hamburg goal."

"It's a pity that these are all calculated by Pan Yi. When Milan's formation pressed and leaked out of the backfield, Hamburg launched a long ball attack directly from the central defenders, and these two goals were basically created in this way. ”

It can be said that without Pan Yi's on-the-spot adjustment, there would be no these two goals. Allegri did lose a lot in this regard. When he was one goal behind, he hadn't even come to his senses, and he was still pressing the attack in the old way...... It's self-inflicted. ”

Ten Hag also nodded and said: "It also shows that the Hamburg players are extremely tactically literate and have a high level of training. Otherwise, even if Pan Yi commanded like a god, in just a few minutes, it would be difficult for them to immediately understand the head coach's intentions and implement them without any discount. ”

Bayern's coaches also nodded yes.

The situation in the first half actually showed that there was a huge gap in tactical level between Hamburg and Milan.

Hamburg's players are in tight positions between two or three players, and each ball carrier has multiple exit points.

As soon as the ball carrier (whether their own or the opponent's) moves to one side, Hamburg moves as a whole, keeping the formation tight, making it difficult for the opponent to find a breakthrough in the first place.

The same is true when Pan Yi moves the Hamburg line back, the defenders retreat, the midfielders will also retreat, including the encounter line in front of them, so that the gap in the middle will not suddenly become larger.

All the players in Hamburg are like every part of a precision instrument, closely intertwined with each other, you have me, I have you, and each player can play a different role in different positions.

Milan is different.

In order to implement Allegri's cross strategy, they spread the formation wide and at the same time the distance between the players was widened.

While it may seem like this takes up more space on the pitch, there is also a lot of space between Milan players.

Hamburg only needed to hammer a nail between the opposing players, and the Milan machine immediately jammed and did not work well.

And in the absence of a dedicated crosser (like Beckham's former Beckham), Milan's style of play feels like Hanzo archery.

I passed the cross, whether it can hit the head of my teammate, whether it can go in, it all depends on my fate.

Not to mention these teammates who are waiting to receive the ball, they are actually not so good at grabbing headers.

All this is the reason why Milan fell behind in the first half and played extremely ugly.

"Allegri, old stubborn." Guardiola finally sighed, "He has been holding on to his previous set, and he has not kept pace with the times at all." ”

"He didn't know that since Pan Yi appeared, the tactical development of European football has changed a lot, and even I have learned a lot from Pan Yi."

"And he's good, Pan Yi can still listen to two sentences when he is in the team, and as soon as Pan Yi leaves, he will return to the old road immediately, and the essence of Pan Yi's tactics is that he hasn't learned it at all."

"That's it for this game, Milan don't have any chances. Let's look at the next round against Schalke 04......"

……

In the second half, Hamburg entered the pitch with a two-goal advantage.

At half-time, Pan Yi praised the performance of the players, after all, this is the first Champions League trip for many people, and it can be said that it is very satisfying to play such a score at the San Siro.

Then Pan Yi just asked the players to continue to stick to the style of play in the first half, and did not make any adjustments.

After all, Allegri is a bit on top now, he likes crosses, so he continues to let him pass, and Pan Yi can respond to all changes without change.

Even if Allegri really opened his mind and made any changes, Pan Yi would have time to change and change for him.

After all, two balls in hand!

Sure enough, soon after the start of the second half, Pan Yi found that Milan still had the same recipe and the same taste.

Allegri did not make any changes to the lineup, and tactically only asked the midfielder De Jong to recycle a little more to protect the gaps in his own ribs.

Milan's two wing-backs continued to press aggressively, working with the midfield to press on the Hamburg players.

Obviously, Allegri still wants to use a fierce attack to quickly grab a second-half start, and if he can pull one back, there is hope of a comeback.

But after the first-half battle, the Hamburg players were already used to this rhythm.

They fought with each other in midfield without a hurry.

Although the Milan players have increased their scrambling intensity and can indeed get the ball at the feet of the Hamburg players, their attacking style is too one-dimensional.

When you finally get the ball, you quickly split the sides and then go down to the bottom and cross, or a sideline cross, or a halfway cross.

Bashen, who is in the middle of the penalty area, is always surrounded by Hamburg players, and it is difficult to get the ball comfortably, so he doesn't mention any threatening shots.

The same can be said for Niang and Sadio Mane on the wings.

It was difficult for them to receive the ball from their team-mates down the wing, so they had to go inside the box to get involved in the aerial duel or recycle to the flanks to get a second penalty.

But it is clear that both the first and second points are basically controlled by the Hamburg players!

So Mane could only return to the midfield to get the ball on his own, and then use his personal ability to break through.

Instead, he has become Milan's most dangerous player in recent times, and Pan Yi also asked Salah to recycle appropriately to keep an eye on him, a good African brother.

And as time went on, Milan's crosses became more and more difficult to play.

Later, even the two Milan wing-backs were restricted by Hamburg.

Whether it's Desiglio or Abate, Paulinho or De Bruyne will be the first to intervene when they get the ball, making it harder for them to get on their feet.

This is because after attacking fiercely for about 20 minutes, the main players of Milan, who have played two games in three days, are a little overwhelmed.

The Milan players, who were starting to drop in fitness, also had to slow down a bit.

But at this time, Hamburg picked up speed.

This is the basic combat policy put forward by Pan Yi at halftime: the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase!

The pressure on Milan's ball-handlers from Hamburg's players increased dramatically.

Not to mention their two full-backs, even if the Milan central defenders and midfielders want to share the ball on the wings, the difficulty suddenly increases.

Salah, Son Heung-min, including Aleksandar Mitrovic, instantly pounced on Milan's backfield as if they had been doped, making Milan's passing stumble.

The game immediately entered the rhythm of Hamburg, and Hamburg's offensive began to become more and more fierce.

Gradually, Milan began to retreat, while Hamburg had almost pushed their line past the halfway point!

For a while, Milan's goal began to be dangerous.

"We've got to make adjustments." On the home team's bench, Milan assistant coach Tasotti said to Allegri, "If we still want to stick to the current style of play, we might as well remove a striker, replace a midfielder and change the formation to 442." This will allow you to solidify your defence and give you more options on your crosses. ”

Allegri turned his head, glanced at his assistant, then turned back and continued to look inside the stadium, without replying.

I've been playing for so long, and now I'm changing formations, isn't it a slap in the face?

"Allegri......" Tasotti was a little excited.

But Allegri waved his hand and motioned for Tassotti to say nothing.

'Hold on a little longer and their flaws will show and then we can score!' Allegri stood by his opinion.

However, he still agrees with one of the opinions that Tasotti just said, that is, there must be a substitution!

He felt that there must be no problem with his tactics now, but why he didn't achieve the desired result must be something wrong with the person who executed the tactics.

So, we have to deal with the people who are causing the current predicament in Milan first!

So he summoned his hand and called the striker Matri over.

Once he warms up, Allegri can bring Matri on and Mane on the pitch!

(End of chapter)