The next day, the photo of Hamburg players throwing head coach Pan Yi into the air made the front page headlines of major European newspapers.

- Of course, there are also photos of Pan Yi falling to the ground and getting up in embarrassment, but that's not the point.

As a civilian team that was able to win the Bundesliga two rounds earlier, Hamburg has attracted a lot of attention.

"Hats off to the burger!"

This is a front-page opinion piece in Bild.

In the article, the Bild reporter spoke highly of Hamburg's performance this season, believing that they deserved to win the title.

"A lot of people say that Hamburg is a team without superstars, just a group of talented youngsters. But this team adhered to the fighting spirit of the old Hamburg team in the 80s of the last century, and snatched the league championship from Bayern Munich, which is full of superstars and has excellent strength! ”

The Bild newspaper also praised the Hamburg players, saying that the team with the lowest average age in the Bundesliga will be a force to be reckoned with in the Bundesliga for years to come.

Of course, they didn't forget to praise Pan Yi, the head coach who brought these young players to Hamburg and allowed them to develop to the fullest.

"Almost every player in Hamburg was brought in by Pan Yili, and they have also made great contributions to Hamburg's championship in the past season. Pan Yi is the first Dragon to stand at the top of the Bundesliga! ”

"Nearly two years ago, when Pan Yi took over as the head coach of Hamburg's first team, the team was still in the relegation zone of the Bundesliga, and Pan Yi at that time had no experience as an independent coach and was not trusted by anyone."

"But in the past two years, he has impressed everyone with his impressive results! And with his amazing performance in these two seasons, he has successfully become one of the first-line coaches in Europe, which has attracted the attention and affirmation of fans all over the world. ”

"Especially in the past year, the Bundesliga has completely bid farewell to the traditional pattern of Bayern Munich and Dortmund competing for hegemony in the past! Hamburg's unbeaten early championship story is undoubtedly another miracle in German football after the Kaiserslautern miracle! ”

"But the Kaiserslautern miracle was short-lived, and they are now in the Bundesliga. And we have every reason to believe that in the next few years, Hamburg will be able to compete with the two traditional giants of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund! ”

"In the past, we always thought that experience was the most important thing in the role of head coach, but the appearance of Pan Yi told us an ironclad truth, that is, talent is just as important. And Pan Yi, he is such a genius! ……”

In addition to "Bild", it has always been not too good with Hamburg, and the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", which supports Bayern Munich, also put the news of Hamburg's victory on the front page this time, giving full affirmation to their victory.

After that, the Süddeutsche Zeitung also slammed Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola's line-up.

They believe that head coach Pan Yi's strategy is the key to Hamburg's championship, while Guardiola's stubbornness and stubbornness are the main culprits for Bayern to give up the championship.

"Under the leadership of Pep Guardiola, Bayern have lost the courageous style they are proud of and dare to fight, and they are not afraid of difficulties, and they play pass control with their heads covered, and they don't know how to be flexible."

"And once the opponent is familiar with Bayern's style of play and targets it, it will be difficult for Guardiola to find a way to deal with it."

On the other hand, Pan Yi, although his team also focuses on passing and controlling, is flexible in the implementation of specific tactics. He can press the opponent in his own half and can't get out, he can also take it back to play the opponent's defensive counterattack, and he can also go up to the high forward to bomb at 45 degrees......"

"Compared to Pan Yi, Guardiola's tactics are simply useless. It is said that the two will often discuss tactics together in private, so why can't Guardiola learn the essence of Pan Yi's tactics? Still too stubborn! ”

"Bayern's results this season prove it. They were eliminated in the German Cup by Bundesliga side Kaiserslautern and the Bundesliga title was also taken away by Hamburg. The funny thing is that Guardiola may still want to turn the tables in the next round of direct confrontation with Hamburg, but Pan Yi didn't give him this opportunity at all and won the championship two rounds in advance! ”

"Including the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, Bayern also lost. And he lost a 0:4, and he didn't even want to lose his face. ”

"Pep Guardiola even lost his last chance, from the treble to nothing, he only took one season! Unless Bayern immediately replaces Pep Guardiola with Pan Yi to play in the second leg of the Champions League, there may be a glimmer of life......"

Of course, in addition to the various reports on Kwapan Yi and Hamburg, there are also some newspaper opinion articles that point out the hidden dangers of Hamburg.

For example, the newspaper "Milan Sport" pointed out that Hamburg is also likely to repeat the mistakes of AC Milan.

"As we all know, Milan's rapid decline after winning the treble season is directly related to Pan Yi's departure. Allegri's command ability is completely incomparable to Pan Yi! ”

"But the underlying reason behind this is also closely related to the sharp decline in the economic situation of the Milan club."

"In the 2012-2013 season, relying on the team left by Pan Yi, Milan lost the Serie A title under the leadership of Allegri, but it can still enter the top four and reach the Champions League."

"But this season, Milan have lost Thiago Silva, Ibrahimovic, Gattuso, but also Salah, N'Golo Kante, Van Dijk, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ......"

"Such a break has made Milan completely lose the capital to compete for the top four or even the top seven, and now it has been reduced to a middle and lower team."

"Hamburg's current situation is actually a bit similar to Milan's. After winning the league championship, the team's morale is like a rainbow, but at the same time, it is also in danger and faces poaching from many giant teams. ”

"The 50+1 policy of the Bundesliga makes Hamburg's economic situation not much better than Milan! And even an old powerhouse like AC Milan, a giant team with a golden signboard, can't keep people when they have no money, let alone Hamburg? ”

"And if Hamburg can't keep many stars in the team and retain the meritorious young coach Pan Yi, it will inevitably follow the old path of Milan in the end and eventually sink......"

For such concerns, the "Sun", which has always been "well-informed", also gave its own continuous report:

"Shocked! Pan Yi has reached a secret agreement with Bayern Munich! ”

"Just now! Pan Yi secretly met with Manchester United CEO Woodward, and the two sides reached a preliminary consensus on matters related to cooperation next season. ”

"The spicy man is coming! Levy released cruel words, claiming that Pan Yi would definitely belong to Tottenham! ”

"Dragon Kingdom Shuangyi Meeting! Fan Zhiyi and Pan Yi had a secret meeting at a ramen shop in Hamburg, and Fan Zhiyi urged Pan Yi to join Crystal Palace. It is reported that the owner of Crystal Palace is not satisfied with the team's relegation, but has a more ambitious goal, so he did not hesitate to fire Tony Pulis, the hero who led the team to relegation. ”

"According to Manchester City chairman Hosni Mubarak, his backstage boss Sheikh Mansour has said that if Pan Yi can lead Manchester City to success, he will reward an oil well!"

And in addition to these teams that have de facto contact with Pan Yi, The Sun has even added some rumours about the London duo:

"Arsene Wenger OUT! After failing to win the Premier League title for a decade in a row, Arsenal fans have shouted such slogans. DT, a well-known Arsenal fan, believes that it is time for Arsene Wenger to go, and Pan Yi's style of play is obviously very suitable for Arsenal! ”

"Mourinho is in danger! With Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season, owner Roman Abramovich has already moved the idea of sacking Jose Mourinho, and Pan Yi, who is currently performing well in the Champions League, is his first target. When Pan Yi helped Milan beat Chelsea in the Champions League final, he made a deep impression on Abou at that time. Let Pan Yi help Chelsea win the Champions League, which is obviously what Abu wants most! ”

……

On their return to the city of Hamburg, the entire Hamburg team was of course warmly welcomed by the fans.

Because considering that there is a very important second leg of the Champions League semi-final in two days, the season is not really over yet, and this time Hamburg is not really going to have a big extravaganza.

They just had a brief championship celebration inside the People's Park Stadium to show the fans a championship salad plate.

Even so, it attracted tens of thousands of fans to gather on and off the pitch to celebrate with the team.

This is only the second season of Hamburg led by Pan Yi, and it won the Bundesliga championship!

In the thanksgiving session, Pan Yi also mentioned that the Bundesliga title is just one of his goals this season.

His ultimate goal is to achieve the Triple Crown!

And the reason why this goal is called "great cause" is, of course, because it is very difficult to achieve.

Even if you look at all the leagues and clubs in European football, there are not many teams that have completed the big treble of the domestic league, FA Cup and Champions League.

They are Celtic in 1967, Ajax in 1972, PSV Eindhoven in 1988, Manchester United in 1999, Barcelona in 2009, Inter Milan in 2010, Milan in 2012 and Bayern Munich in 2013, a total of eight teams.

Pan Yi was involved in Milan's treble in 2012 and now wants to lead Hamburg to another time as head coach!

Today, Hamburg has won the Bundesliga, and is still short of the Champions League and the German Cup.

The German Cup has reached the final, and the Champions League is only one semi-final away from reaching the final!

As for the media rumors that he may leave Hamburg, Pan Yi did not make a direct response.

He knows that everything has to wait until the end of the season.

Wait until you really get the triple crown!

……

After a brief celebration, the Hamburg squad soon headed to Madrid for the crucial second leg against Atletico Madrid.

The first leg was won by just one goal at home, and everyone knows it's not safe, especially as Hamburg are heading to the Calderón Stadium to face a team like Atletico Madrid.

Therefore, Pan Yi and the coaching staff are still observing and studying Atletico Madrid, analyzing their recent changes.

'In the last round of La Liga against Valencia, Atletico used a back three formation, which is noteworthy.

Speaking at the tactical meeting, Nagelsmann said.

"Huh?" Hearing this news, Pan Yi still felt a little surprised.

After all, he has the impression that Simeone basically implemented his 442 formation for ten years when he was at Atletico, and it was not until around 2021 that he tried to use a back three system in some games.

Could it be because of the changes caused by Pan Yi's crossing?

Maybe it is.

After watching some clips of Atletico's 1-0 win over Valencia, as well as Nagelsmann's analysis report, Pan Yi confirmed this.

There is a tendency in world football today to move towards a more aggressive back three, with more attacking attributes being developed.

As a representative team with high-intensity and high-system defense, Atletico Madrid is obviously not enough to support the team's continued competitiveness by relying only on the individual ability of the striker at the offensive level.

This was also revealed in the first round against Hamburg.

Although there is Pan Yi's "calculating" factor, when Simeone wants to eat hamburgers away, he has no way to qualitatively improve the team's overall output ability through substitutions, and he still relies too much on the "Shenfeng inheritance" at the offensive level.

And once Villa and Costa up front are seen dead or out of form, it will be difficult for Atletico to play a truly dangerous attack.

Now Atletico are the side behind again, and if they can't activate the whole team's attack, they will win.

Including his four-back system, the gap in the ribs is still too large, and it is easy to be used by Hamburg, and with the ability of the current Atletico Madrid players, it is difficult to perfectly fill this hole for a while.

At this time, Simeone will think about change.

Otherwise, he still used his 442 to face Pan Yi's 433 at home, and there was a high probability that he would still die.

Perhaps he was also inspired by Tuchel's 343 formation, so he made a subversive change to Atletico at the tactical level of the formation, with a back three with more attacking wing-backs, while the "single back + double central midfielder" combination replaced the traditional "double midfield" configuration.

In this way, their formation has also become a 352, on the one hand, to further increase the team's investment in the offensive end, and on the other hand, the defensive back five system has made up for the shortcomings of the players' individual abilities to a certain extent.

As a result, a change that Simeone would have made many years later has appeared in advance today.

"His change still worked well against Valencia." Of course, Nalgersman didn't know what Pan Yi was thinking, and he continued his analysis.

"Under the framework of the traditional 442 formation, whether it is a parallel standing mode with two backs or a diamond position mode with a single back, it is easy to form a disadvantage in the number of attacking participants in a specific area in the middle of the midfield when the middle attack advances."

"In this way, the defender will be surrounded by the superior number of defenders, cutting off the passing line between the two midfielders and the left and right wing-backs and the two strikers in the front line, so that the threat of attacking on the wing will be reduced, and the role of the two strikers in the front line will be weakened and consumed."

"On the other hand, the two midfielders lack protection after losing possession of the ball in the middle of the midfield, and the opposing counter-attacking players face their own backline directly, and the risk of conceding the ball is too great."

"But under the framework of the 352 formation used by Simeone this time, in the midfield advancement stage, the single back and the left and right central midfielders form an inverted triangle position similar to the 433 formation midfield."

"At the same time, a player on the front line retreats to the middle to participate in the offensive transmission in the middle of the midfield, forming a 4-on-3 attacking number advantage in this area, attracting the opponent's formation to shrink to the middle to increase the defensive intensity, while the contraction of the opponent's formation provides vertical attacking space for the left and right wingbacks on the wing."

"When the ball moves to a wing-back position and a 1-on-1 situation is created on the wing, a 2-on-2 situation is formed in the opponent's penalty area. At the same time, the forward insertion of the two central midfielders also forms a secondary attack point in the middle. ”

'In this game against Valencia, it was right wing-back Raul Garcia's forward insertion that caused chaos in the box, and it was he who delivered the fatal blow that gave Atletico a narrow win away from home.

"As an aside, this victory keeps them four points ahead of Barcelona and Real Madrid, with only three rounds left in La Liga, and they are not far from winning the title......"

In the process of Nagelsmann's analysis, Pan Yi did not interject the whole process, but cast an admiring gaze at him.

Now Nagelsmann's understanding of tactics is really very high, and the way he speaks has a tendency to move closer to Pan Yi.

He was originally a tactical talent, but in the past two years, he has been by Pan Yi's side, and his improvement is really fast.

If he really put the hamburger in his hand, Pan Yi believes that it will definitely not be bad.

After all, in Pan Yi's previous life, a small team like Hoffenheim played amazing results under the leadership of Nagelsmann!

And when Nagelsmann finished speaking, Pan Yi spoke: "Obviously, Simeone knew where he lost in the first round, so he immediately made a change. Therefore, we also need to be adaptable. ”

The conference room immediately fell silent, and everyone looked at Pan Yi and listened to him.

As we all know, when it comes to tactical analysis and research, Nagelsmann's level is actually quite high, and basically through one or two games, you can say that the formation and tactical intentions of both sides of the game are inseparable.

But this is still a bit of a "paper talk" feeling, after all, there is only analysis, no countermeasures.

And when it comes to the real moves, it still depends on Pan Yi to propose the most effective tactical play for the opponent's formation tactics.

"Simeone is experimenting with 352, presumably to achieve the strategic goal of switching from offense to defense, or from defense to offense without substitution."

Pan Yi continued:

"After all, his gamble-like three-man swap in the last game has proven to be a failure, and Simeone shouldn't want to make another mistake like that."

'Now they're a goal behind us and they're definitely going to want to attack first when they get back at home, score one or two goals and then think about dropping back.'

"Simeone's vision is that we have recovered more at home, so going to Calderón will definitely strengthen our defence. But we don't do it! ”

Speaking of the last sentence, Pan Yi raised his voice, and everyone was also in high spirits.

"Of course, if you draw, you can advance, but if you win, you can also win. Playing bus defense has never been something we are used to, nor is it something we are good at. ”

"So I still hope to play a good attack at the Calderón Stadium and beat Atletico with goals!"

"Of course, if you want to attack, you have to think about whether our defence can hold off Atletico's counter-attack. Whether it's Villa or Costa, their counterattack is really sharp, once they press up and attack, and they don't hold on to the back, it will be very fatal. ”

"So the tactics I chose were attacking, but it was also a balanced attack and I didn't let our players press all the way."

"Compared with 343, the 352 formation has strengthened the defense in the middle of the midfield, after all, there is also a back and two central midfielders, which is the same as our 433."

'However, they also have the same problem with a back three, which is the problem of defending on the wings. They also rely heavily on wing-backs to insert attacks, and once they do, there are holes. ”

'Then we can focus on attacking Atletico's two wings and scoring goals by breaking down the wings.

'Thank you to Mainz, praise to Tuchel, they have given us a rehearsal of how to crack the back three in advance......

At this point, everyone laughed.

Although it is true that 343 and 352 are different in some details, the basic structure of the three central defenders and two wing-backs is stable and unchanged.

So Pan Yi is right, many of the practices he did against Mainz can also come in handy against Atletico Madrid.

That's not to say that Simeone can't come up with a better tactical change.

Because tactics are all about doing multiple-choice questions non-stop.

There are just such people, how to arrange the troops, how to make trade-offs, this is learning.

If the offense is strong, the defense will definitely be weak; If you focus on the left side, the right side will definitely be prone to mistakes.

Simeone wanted to fill the hole in his ribs, and the rear of the two wings could have problems.

Therefore, in this world, there is never a perfect tactic, only a good tactic that can deal with the opponent in front of you.

And now, Pan Yi has come up with tactics that can crack Atletico Madrid.

Because Hamburg's two wing attacks have always been the team's sharpest breaking weapons!

Of course, in terms of team strength, there is still an obvious gap between Mainz and Atletico Madrid, and some cooperation that can penetrate Mainz may not be able to beat Atletico Madrid.

No team can afford to be perfect against an opponent like Atletico Madrid.

So the burger needs to be better.

So Pan Yi put forward the problems that may arise in this game for everyone to discuss.

For example, how to play the opening attack?

How do you play if you get a goal?

Do you continue to attack, or do you retreat and let Atletico press out and then fight their counter-attack?

But if the start doesn't go well, or even Atletico equalises the aggregate score with a goal, how will the team respond? ……

The situation on the pitch is changing so quickly that it's impossible to go exactly as you imagined, so be prepared as much as you can to deal with a variety of situations.

Pintus was quick to raise his concerns:

"Atletico are fast-paced, impactful, and playing against them is a lot of physical exertion. Truth be told, if we're going to maintain a high-intensity, fast-paced output, we can only maintain our physical strength for about 70 minutes at most. ”

Now that the season has come to an end, even with a physical coach like Pintus, even if Hamburg's physical reserves have been done well, they will inevitably have some fatigue in the third line.

The high-intensity confrontation will exacerbate this physical exertion, making the exhaustion come faster and more suddenly.

And if they don't survive at the last minute, they are in danger of collapsing – just like Atletico Madrid in this season's Champions League final in the normal timeline.

"I'll take notice." Pan Yi nodded to indicate that he had received Pintus' opinion.

"I will let the players control the pace of the game, distribute their energy reasonably and use the ball to consume the opponent's energy while distributing their energy properly!"

'Of course, if we can score first, I'm not hesitant to take the line back and then play them on the counter-attack.

"Maybe let Simeone and their Atletico know who is the real king of the counterattack!"

(End of chapter)