After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

Chapter 221 Tactical Ball Idiots and Tactical Wizards

July 7, Hamburg.

The 2013 German Super Cup will be held at the People's Park Stadium.

This is an unwritten rule of the Super Bowl, that is, this game that determines the outcome will usually be played at the home court of the "weaker" side.

If it is the league champion against the cup champion, then the home team is the cup champion.And if it's the league champion against the runner-up, it will naturally be played at the runner-up's home court.

This is also a positive for the Hamburg team.

After all, playing at home will boost the morale of the players, and Hamburg's home results have always been very good.

Last season they even remained unbeaten at home throughout the season!

Judging from the situation of the last two Super Cups, Schalke 2011 in 04 and Bayern in 2012 both won by the home team.

Of course, based on the vastly different performances of the two sides in the preseason this year, most of the media and fans still believe that the suspense of the Super Bowl does not exist.

The super strong team Bayern led by super coach Guagua will easily crush Pan Yi's burger and defend the Super Cup!
……

The game is about to start.

The players of both sides are still making final preparations in the locker room, and the coaches of both sides have already got the starting lineup list of the other side.

Guardiola really discharged the set of 4231 that he had been practicing in the preseason.

Center forward: Mandzukic.

Frontcourt: Robben, Muller, Shaqiri.

Defenders: Kroos, Thiago.

Defenders: Alaba, Van Buyten, Boateng, Lahm.

Goalkeeper: Stark.

This is almost the strongest lineup he can form now.

The only thing that makes people feel a little surprised is that he used the Belgian international and veteran Van Buyten to partner Boateng Jr. in the central defender position, instead of using the absolute main player of last season, the Brazilian Dante.

In fact, it also includes Bayern's double midfielder combination, Hama + Piggy replaced by Cross + Thiago.

It's just that this new combination was often used by Guardiola in the preseason, and it is also a proof that Guardiola intends to create a new offensive routine this season. Everyone has already seen it.

This starting lineup was basically within Pan Yi's expectations.

The only thing that makes him feel slightly worried is that Van Buyten, a Belgian defender, is 196 tall and has an outstanding physical advantage.

Although he is not so reassuring in terms of defense, Guardiola sent him to start today. Could it be that he guessed Pan Yi's high center forward fulcrum tactics?
Want to use the high center back to restrain the high center forward here?Is Gua Shuai really that amazing?
……

Meanwhile, in the visitors' dressing room, Guardiola was taken aback when he saw Hamburg's starting XI.

"Hey, what the hell is Pan Yi trying to do today?"

This is a standard 433.

Forwards: Sun Xingmin, Mitrovic, Salah.

Midfield: Kante, Casemiro, De Bruyne.

Defenders: Robertson, Rudiger, Van Dijk, Carvajal.

Goalkeeper: Keylor Navas.

Regarding Pan Yi's formation, Guardiola actually guessed most of it.

For example, he will use the offensive tactic of 433, for example, he will use the combination of Kanter + Casemiro + De Bruyne in the midfield.

But what Guardiola didn't expect was that Pan Yi would arrange for Mitrovic to replace Vardy as the main center forward.

This surprised him, but also gave him some bad premonitions.

Mitrovic was just a young man playing in Serbia before, and Guardiola didn't know much about him.

And now that he is actually starting, Guardiola subconsciously felt that Pan Yi must be planning something.

Wouldn't it be preparing to engage in traditional British punching and using a big center to hit our penalty area?
That can't be such a 433 formation, no matter how you want to have a formation with two full-backs.

Guardiola is really not sure what Pan Yi wants to do.

The only thing Guardiola feels a little lucky about is that he started this game with Van Buyten instead of Dante.

In fact, the reason why he chose Van Buyten is because this tall defender also has a strong attacking ability!

Van Buyten can score several goals every season, and even scored 8 goals in a season.

So Guardiola wanted to use all his firepower in this Super Cup to let Pan Yi know what a real offense is.

Unexpectedly, when the high school defender faced the high school forward, Van Buyten could play his role as a high-altitude barrier and limit the young center forward on the opposite side.

……

When Pan Yi walked out of the player tunnel, two completely different voices sounded throughout the People's Park Stadium.

There were deafening cheers on one side and harsh boos on the other.

Obviously, some of these voices were made by Hamburg fans, while others were sent by Bayern fans.

Events like the Super Cup are different from the usual leagues. Although the "weak teams" have home court advantages, the distribution of tickets is roughly based on the proportion of neutral stadiums.

Therefore, the number of Bayern fans present will not be small.

Nagelsmann, who was walking behind Pan Yi, followed two steps closely, came up and smiled at Pan Yi: "It seems that not only the Hamburg fans love you, but even the Bayern fans' love for you is so deep what."

Pan Yi pouted.

As the only head coach of the Bundesliga team that defeated Bayern last season, and as the head coach who declared that he would overthrow Bayern to win the Bundesliga championship this season, it is of course normal for him to be hostile by Bayern fans.

But this also proves that the current Pan Yi is no longer the kind of person who has no sense of existence in the eyes of Bayern fans.

On the contrary, Pan Yi is full of threats to them!

And only when dealing with a threatening person, the other party will hate you and hate you.

Just imagine, if you were the head coach of a team like Brunswick or Fürth, Bayern fans wouldn't bother you.

This phenomenon also applies to players.

When the competition between Messi and Ronaldo is the fiercest, the extreme fans of both sides will try their best to dig up the other side's black material to attack. Compare.

But, who would compare Messi with Zaha?
No one will compare Kisling's scoring data with Ronaldo.

So, spraying you and scolding you proves that you have a high status in the other party's mind.

Black fans are also fans, and the attention paid to black targets is sometimes even higher than normal fans, which is also the reason.

So, Pan Yi smiled at Nagelsmann: "I accept the love of the Hamburg fans. I don't want the love of the Bayern fans. You can take this love away when you have a chance in the future."

This is actually connoted in another timeline, the reality that Nagelsmann eventually became the head coach of Bayern.

Bayern fans also love and hate Nashuai, and there has been no shortage of controversy.

But now Nagelsman is of course ignorant. He scratched his head and could only follow Pan Yi into the field.

……

"See you again, Pan Yi!"

As soon as Pan Yi turned his head, he found a sun in front of him.

That's Guashuai's bald head.

Under the brilliance of the sun, Guardiola's hand stretched out towards him.

"Hello, Mr. Guardiola." Pan Yi also smiled and shook hands with him.

Since the 2011-2012 UEFA Champions League group stage, the two have not met again.

But obviously, Guardiola, who admired Pan Yi very much at the time, has been thinking about discussing tactical issues with him.

"I feel that your 433 today is different from the 433 in Milan. Can you tell me why you like 433? Or, why did you abandon the 4231 of last season?"

Pan Yi was slightly taken aback.

Guashuai, this is before the match between the two teams. Is it appropriate to ask tactical questions so directly?

But Pan Yi also knew that it wasn't that Gua Shuai wanted to spy on some information, he just had a problem in his heart and couldn't help it!

Sure enough, there were "wu idiots" in ancient times, but there are "ball idiots" today.

"Don't you also like to use 433 in Barcelona?" Pan Yi smiled. "We use it for similar reasons. Thanks to its overall good layout, there are more passing points, which is conducive to passing cooperation."

Pan Yi was right.

If we connect every player in the 433 formation with a line, we can find that in the 433 formation, any player can form a triangle position with the two adjacent players.

So what is the use of forming a triangle position in a real game?
Players are in the triangular network. After getting the ball, there are many optional passing points, including from the plane formation diagram, there are at least two passing points for each player.

The route of the ball is enriched, and the passing cooperation between players is more flexible.

Therefore, for some teams that are strong or like to dominate the game, the 433 formation is perfect.

This is also the reason why Pan Yi decided to focus on 433 this season.

Last season, Hamburg's lineup was weak, and the players' running-in was not enough. There were a lot of defensive counterattacks, and a jack-of-all-trades formation like 4231 was more suitable.

And this season, the overall strength of the team is stronger, and the thickness of the bench is also deeper, so they can play a good offense!

"As for the difference between my current set of 433 and Milan's," Pan Yi smiled slyly, "you will find out in the game later."

Guardiola also laughed and said: "Then you don't wonder why I use 4231 in Bayern instead?"

"Maybe it's because you prefer to work hard." Pan Yi said half-seriously and half-jokingly.

Indeed it is.

Guardiola is famously obsessed with tactics and will study all kinds of strange ways of playing.

However, although many revolutionary tactical improvements have been produced from this, it sometimes backfires.

In Pan Yi's previous life, Guardiola's most famous rectification event was the 2021 Champions League final.

In the matchup between Manchester City and Chelsea, Guardiola actually formed a rare waistless + forwardless lineup!

Neither Rodri nor Fernandinho started the game, while Gundogan, Seat B, Foden, De Bruyne, Sterling and Mahrez were put into the starting list at the same time.

This starting lineup directly led to Manchester City's huge disadvantage in the first half. Havertz's goal was because Manchester City's midfielder was wide open, and the shortcomings of not having a positive midfielder were exposed at a glance.

Throughout the first half, Chelsea's counterattacks were accurate. If Werner was in better condition, Chelsea might be able to end the battle in the first half.

The waistless formation made Manchester City stretched on the defensive end, and it also made Gundogan, Seat B and others play very uncomfortable. Manchester City is tantamount to messing up their own positions.

After 60 minutes in the second half, the real midfielder Fernandinho finally made his debut. Manchester City also returned to a familiar rhythm in the second half of the game and took control of the game.

It's a pity that De Bruyne was already injured and left the game for Manchester City, and there was not enough time left for Manchester City. In the end, they failed to equalize the score.

If Guardiola can adjust earlier, perhaps there will be a greater turnaround in the game.

In short, he once again chose to "reorganize" in the key battle, but unfortunately this time the reorganization still ended in failure.

Guardiola is undoubtedly the coach with the deepest tactical knowledge in today's football, but he has not regained the Champions League in the 10 years after leaving Barcelona. He definitely has his own reasons.

In fact, going back to the current game, the midfielder combination of Thiago + Kroos, isn't it a "waistless formation"?

Neither of them is actually a midfielder in the true sense.

They are all good at offensive combination scheduling, but they are lacking in the hardness of midfield interception. To be precise, there is no defensive midfielder among them.

But now Bayern's overall strength is far stronger than many opponents, including of course the opponents in the warm-up match. This combination has contributed more goals to Bayern.

So this problem has been covered up for the time being, Gua Shuai also believes that this style of play can still blow up the Bundesliga!

But if they encounter a stronger opponent, or a stronger midfield opponent, the current Bayern is likely to be beaten dizzily like Manchester City in the 2021 Champions League final.

Perhaps, this is the beginning of Gua Shuai's whole life after he left Barcelona?
Of course, such a "secret", Pan Yi must not be able to tell Guardiola now.

Now they are the most direct competitors, and Pan Yi is still counting on using this trick to win Gua Shuai!
So Pan Yi laughed again and chatted with Guardiola about the advantages and disadvantages of 433 and 4231 for a while, especially when the two of them talked about 433, the favorite of both parties, they couldn't stop at all.

For example, the two also mentioned that one of the characteristics of 433 is that they have an advantage in numbers on the side lanes and can form an encirclement trend on the side lanes;

Then through the relentless running and changing positions between several players, tear through the opponent's defense line, and wait for an opportunity to find an opening to complete the breakthrough and hit the goal.

In addition, the 433 formation can also reasonably use the width of the court to control the pace of the game.

The wing is the key to break through the opponent's defense in the 433 formation, but when the opponent's defense is so tight that the team cannot find a breakthrough for a long time, the team cannot hug one side for a long time.

It is also a good flexible choice to transfer and dispatch the long pass from the midfielder to the other side appropriately...

In fact, the reason why the two coaches talked so speculatively is because Pan Yi's formation this season is largely based on the 433 play style used by Guardiola when he coached Manchester City and also coached Bayern in the later period.

In particular, the Manchester City team under Gua Shuai is a team that focuses on 433 pass control.

At that time, Manchester City used this style of play to control the speed-up and speed-down in their own hands.

When the midfielder catches the opponent's defensive weak side, he speeds up the passing speed and signals his teammates to increase the frequency of running and pulling;
When the overall physical fitness of the team shows a downward trend, midfielders need to slow down the speed and frequency of passing the ball, mainly to control the rhythm of the game.

Doing so can not only leave room for one's teammates to breathe, but also consume the opponent's physical energy.

Therefore, in many cases, Gua's Manchester City can always play with their opponents in the palm of their hands, and slowly "play" their opponents to death.

Many people think that if it wasn't for Gua Shuai's hard work in key games... forget it.

Having said that, now Guardiola is equivalent to chatting with a person who is proficient in his own tactics and is still an enhanced version of deep cultivation. Can you stop chatting?
And this scene made Nagelsman, Inzaghi and others on the side look dumbfounded.

Brother, are you two going to play a game or visit relatives?
How come we shook hands and still chatted?

And everyone can see that these two coaches are definitely not the kind of hypocritical and perfunctory politeness, but the kind of chatting that is very happy and speculative.

Pan Yi shouted every day in front of reporters and players that he wanted to beat Bayern and win the championship, and everyone could see it.

Conversely, Gua Shuai must have been studying Pan Yi as well, determined to overthrow Hamburg and defend the dignity of King Nan.

And looking at this scene, no one would have imagined that this would be the appearance of a pair of the most fiercely competitive opponents in the Bundesliga before the game...

What about the agreed tit-for-tat, agreed fire?

It seemed like two long-lost old friends were shaking hands and chatting for a long time.

Brother, let's stop chatting, the game is about to start!

……

When the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Mandzukic in the middle circle immediately kicked the ball to Muller and rushed forward quickly.

Thunderous cheers erupted from the entire People's Park stadium.

This much-anticipated first focus match, which represents the opening of the new German football season, has officially kicked off!
After Muller stopped the ball, he passed it back to Kroos, and he turned around and rushed to the front right, which is the left side of Hamburg.

This action also shows that although Muller's position in this game is behind Mandzukic, playing a shadow forward or midfielder position he is most accustomed to, he may spend more time on the right side.

This is actually the direction Müller is used to when he plays as a winger.

This also means that Bayern's main attack direction in this game is likely to be on the right.

Muller will join Robben, plus the captain Lahm who is assisting on the side, to attack the wing guarded by the teenager Robertson.

Pan Yi was already prepared for this.

Among the three midfielders in Hamburg, except for De Bruyne who will be slightly to the right, the two giants Kanter and Casemiro will move closer to Robertson's side to assist the full-back defense.

In this way, Bayern's right-leaning tactics cannot gain an advantage in numbers, and it is difficult to quickly make a gap on this side.

On the court at this time, after Cross stopped the ball, he did not return the pass, but waited for Ram to come up, and then quickly passed the ball to the right.

Rahm went forward to catch the ball, and as soon as he came to a stop, Kanter ran over.

The two smallest players on the field from both sides had a direct confrontation.

But Ram did not choose to fight with it, but took two steps back and passed it back to Cross.

At this time, Hamburg's center Mitrovic turned around and pressed the Bayern midfielder, and the latter quickly passed back to Boateng Jr. in the central defender position.

Jr. Boateng and Van Buyten dragged at the end of the team, and the ball was back and forth between the two players.

Bayern played very patiently today.

After a wave of attack from the right was blocked, the two central defenders tried to pull Hamburg's defense over with their feet.

But Burger is just as patient.

Their overall formation is constantly running with Bayern's pass, but they are not in a hurry to press up, which makes Bayern unable to find the opportunity to play the ball in the backcourt for a while.

Finally, after about half a minute, Jr. Boateng saw a chance and passed the ball to the left.

Alaba stopped the ball and moved forward. Before De Bruyne ran over to intercept, he quickly sent a direct pass.

Mandzukic dropped back from the front to receive a pass from a teammate near the halfway line.

But Casemiro, who was sitting in the midfielder position of Hamburg, quickly went around and grabbed the ball, and then took the ball!

However, since there were no Hamburg players in front at this time, there was no good opportunity for a quick counterattack. Casemiro passed the ball back to central defender Van Dijk and started to organize the attack again.

And Casemiro's beautiful steal this time also aroused cheers and applause from the Hamburg players on the field.

Now it is the turn of Hamburg to attack.

Almost following the same example, Hamburg began to pass the ball on the defensive line, and then advanced to the midfield step by step.

But Bayern's defense is also very tight.

When Kanter got the ball and wanted to pass it to De Bruyne to organize the offense, Shaqiri stretched his legs first and broke the ball.

But this time, both Muller and Mandzukic in front began to rush forward quickly, and Bayern had a chance to counterattack!
But after Kante lost the ball, he stuck to Shaqiri tightly, making it difficult for the Swiss winger to pass the fatal ball immediately.

And "Swiss Messi" is by no means in vain. He tricked Kanter with a fake turn to the right, and then dribbled the ball to the left, trying to get rid of Kanter completely, and then passed the ball.

Although Kanter had lost his center of gravity a little, he reached out and pulled Shaqiri to the ground.

The referee whistles, foul.

Since the game has just started and the ball is only developing in the midfield area, it is not an absolute scoring opportunity in a broad sense, so the referee did not give the card, but only verbally warned Kanter.

The Bayern players who missed a counterattack had no choice but to set the ball up, pass it back, and the game restarted.

Guardiola, who was on the sidelines, watched this scene thoughtfully.

He likes 433, knows its advantages, and naturally understands its disadvantages.

And the team that adopts the 433 formation usually faces the following problems:

When the team conducts a positional attack, the players will make full use of the depth and width of the court, and try their best to expand the formation.

This is not only conducive to tapping the space between the opponent's full back and the central defender, but also conducive to the passing cooperation between teammates.

But if in the process of passing the ball, it is intercepted by the opponent and quickly counterattacked by the opponent, then the side will be in great trouble.

Because at this time our defensive players are scattered in every corner of the court, it is difficult to return to the defense quickly.

And now the practice of the Hamburg players on the field seems to be able to effectively solve this problem.

That is, it is to counterattack quickly within 5 seconds. If the ball is not grabbed within 5 seconds to regain the ball, the team will not hesitate to end the opponent's counterattack at the cost of fouling or receiving a yellow card.

This price is definitely worth it, because if this counterattack can be carried out smoothly, the blow to Hamburg will be catastrophic.

Guardiola had really considered this method before to avoid 433's weakness in offense, but he was a little hesitant about whether it would be too easy to get a card. It was really not as firm as Hamburg's implementation.

Gua Shuai couldn't help but glanced at Pan Yi on the other side, thinking:

"This guy is really a tactical genius. It seems that I can learn a lot of new things by playing a few more games with him..."

(End of this chapter)