Super Marshal

In the head coach's office at the Carrington Training Base, Gao Han sat around the coffee table with four members of the core coaching staff. x update fastest

The door of the office is closed, the air conditioner is turned on, and the fragrance of tea is overflowing with the light smoke from the coffee table.

"The management has agreed to my recommendation and is currently arranging for someone to go to Blackburn to discuss personal treatment with David Fafrey, and is willing to pay him a liquidated damages so that he can come to Manchester City to work as soon as possible."

David Faffery, 47 years old, an Englishman, started working at Manchester United in the early 1990s as a team doctor, and made a lot of credit for Manchester United’s outstanding record in the 1990s. After the Red Devils won the triple crown, he He chose to leave Manchester United and moved to Blackburn, where he has been working ever since.

Gao Han was originally unfamiliar with the native England team doctors, but after dismissing the two Manchester City team doctors, he urgently needed to hire a high-level physiotherapy team, and Bryan Kidd, who also worked at Manchester United for many years, mentioned the big problem to Gao Han. Wei Feifei, very sure of the strength of this team doctor.

Even to use the original words of Brian Kidd, if David Fafrey were there, Ferguson would not have made mistakes that have been hard to let go of on Stam’s body, because at the time Ferguson thought Stam had been injured for a long time. It is difficult to recover.

Out of caution, Gao Han also used his eye-catching eyes and found that David Feffery's medical level is indeed very high, reaching full value, not to be better than Manchester City's previous two, even if it is compared with the team doctors of other giants such as Manchester United. , The level is also a bit higher, is indeed a trustworthy team doctor.

After the inspection was completed, Gao Han immediately notified the management and recommended David Fefrey.

But what Gao Han wants to talk about today is not about David Fafrey, what he wants to talk about is the team.

After announcing the matter of David Faffery, Gao Han gave Sergio Garcia a wink. The latter immediately took out a document, opened it, and took out a piece of A4 paper and placed it on the coffee table. The dry place for everyone to see.

I saw on the paper is a comparison chart of Manchester City's ball possession rate in various areas of the stadium in the past few warm-up games.

Through this chart of Sergio Garcia, everyone on the field can clearly see that Manchester City's possession rate is indeed higher than that of the opponent, especially from the midfield line to the area from the half. The ball possession rate is much ahead of the opponent.

But in the 30-meter area, especially in the front of the penalty area, the ball possession rate dropped significantly.

Although Brian Kidd has just worked with Gao Han for a month, he has begun to understand Gao Han's style of work, and he can also understand the difference between Gao Han and his team in data analysis from many other Premier League teams.

Yes, the Gaohan team is more advanced and pays more attention to data comparison.

"Look at the next one." Gao Han waved his hand again.

Sergio Garcia immediately took out the second chart. It was a map of the Manchester City team's passing route in various areas of the stadium in a certain game. The success is black, and the failure is red, which is particularly conspicuous.

What makes many people feel strange is that the red line with the most errors appears more often from the opponent's 30-meter area to the front of the penalty area.

If it’s just one game, it can be accidental, but as Sergio Garcia’s charts are laid down, everyone can clearly see that almost every game is played in this area. The most missed catches.

Of course, from a practical point of view, the opponents have placed heavy troops in their own half. Manchester City will definitely receive tough defensive resistance when attacking this area. Whether it is the increase in possession rate or passing and receiving errors, this is normal. Things.

That is, these pictures show that Manchester City has attacked this area and received a tenacious defensive attack.

"What do you think?" Gao Han asked lightly.

Brian Kidd is the chief assistant coach. He raised his head, glanced at the others, and thought for a while, "I think the main reason is that we are not rich enough to deal with the opponent's intensive defense."

"Continue." Gao Han said.

Brian Kidd also understands Gao Han’s temperament and boldly continued: "I think this has a lot to do with our lack of offensive players from the wing. Our opponents know very well that possession of the ball cannot be grabbed by us, so they Give up possession of the ball, instead plant a heavy soldier in the front of your penalty area, protect your goal first, and then concentrate on hitting our counterattack."

Gao Han turned his head, yes, Brian Kidd's judgment is correct.

Or should, his understanding of the opponent is correct.

In the four warm-up games, Manchester City conceded four goals and one goal in each game, which made Gao Han very dissatisfied.

But what makes Gao Han even more dissatisfied is that in the game he was counterattacked many times by his opponents and only conceded four goals. It was also due to the outstanding performance of Kompany and Peter Cech, otherwise, he would lose more.

Brian Kidd is an old English Premier League churros, and he has a thorough understanding of the opponent's mind. They do adopt this tactical play. When Manchester City has possession of the ball in their own half, they organize the defense slowly and save energy. Scored into their half and immediately increased their strength.

"If in normal times, we have two full-backs, we should transfer the ball to the side when we encounter the opponent's tenacious sniper in the middle, and the full-back and winger will make a breakthrough in the wider area of ​​the side. , And then pass the ball back into the penalty area, thereby posing a threat."

The offensive difficulty of a positional battle is inherently very difficult. It is difficult for many teams with full-backs to break. What's more, Manchester City has no full-backs at all. The opponent's wing only needs to focus on a left-handed Cristia. Noronaldo, a right-wing striker Sanchez, can contain City's wing attack.

Don't be the Premier League. Even the professional teams in the second and third tiers that Manchester City met in the warm-up match can do it. That's why Manchester City's warm-up match was so embarrassing.

"So, my opinion is that we should consider going back to the four guards."

Brian Kidd's opinion made Gao Han smile slightly, and he bowed his head appreciatively, indicating that he had heard it.

Buenaventura and Pedro Haro are fitness coaches and goalkeeper coaches, and they don’t give much advice on the team’s formation. Gao Han looked at Sergio Garcia, the latter He curled his lips.

"I think he makes sense."

Gao Han smiled and wanted to slap him, but shook his head, "My thoughts are a little different from Brian."

"Oh?" Brian Kidd was surprised.

As the team’s chief assistant coach, he is also to blame for the warm-up match. Therefore, he has not been under pressure for some time in the past. He has been studying this issue, and he also hopes to take this opportunity to prove to Gao Han. Own strength, after all, he is also a newcomer and just joined the team of Gao Han.

In order to make this summary, he has watched the game video many times over the past period of time. Asking himself to come to this conclusion, he has worked hard, especially in combination with Sergio Garcia's one. The data analysis can be said to be well-founded and convincing. How come the cold is still different from your own opinions?

"Of course, I'm not Brian. There is a problem with your analysis. It's just that we look at the problem from a different perspective." Gao Han first stabilized his mind as the chief assistant coach to avoid misunderstandings.

"Then your idea is..."

"I think our problem has nothing to do with how our opponents defended. The main reason is that we are not doing well in many aspects. This makes our opponents seem to be defensively well."

As for Gao Han, everyone present understands it.

Everything that happens on the football field is relative.

It's like Manchester City can't break through the opponent's defense. It may be that the opponent's defense is quite good, but it may also be that Manchester City's offensive organization is particularly bad. What is the reason?

This has to be viewed from the perspective of analyzing the problem.

After hearing these words, Brian Kidd also became interested, expressing that he listened thoroughly.

"Look at this map of the ball possession rate, and then look at the pass route map. Did you find an interesting phenomenon? After entering the opponent's half, our ball possession rate dropped by a big margin. The success rate has suddenly dropped a lot."

Sergio Garcia's data chart is very intuitive, very clear and clear at a glance.

"I think a very important reason is that once our ball enters the opponent's half, the passing and receiving of the ball become impatient, especially in this position in the midfield, whether it is Elano or Steven Ireland. , Can’t calmly hold the ball under the opponent’s pressure."

"I've done it a long time ago. If we can't form a good and patient control of the ball within the opponent's 30-meter area, our high pass and control play will fall apart and it will be useless."

"But you can recall the course of the game. As soon as our ball enters this area and the opponent strengthens the press a little bit, our pass and control will become impatient, which directly leads to our passing and receiving errors, especially when When the opponent has taken a defensive position and organized the line of defense."

"In the absence of patience to pass and control the ball, it is difficult for us to create a threat at the front of the opponent's penalty area, and then get the opportunity to cut into the assist. This is the most serious problem we are facing now~www.readwn.com ~ If you want a wide side, Gao Han does not have a dedicated side attacking player, but there are many ways to attack the side.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Sanchez are wing players, Benzema can also be pulled to the wing at any time, David Silva and Modric can also be pulled to the wing according to the situation on the court, these are not problems.

Manchester City definitely does not lack the means and strength to open up the width of the attack, but the problem is that when the opponent organizes the defense and stands in a good position, the efficiency of the side attack is very low.

At this time, the most effective offensive method is to pass and pull patiently, move in a wide range, create a neutral position in the opponent's defensive position, then cut into the threat, and even score a goal.

Both Elano and Steven Ireland have been identified by Alpine as incapable of playing the position of forward midfielder. They simply cannot replace the role that Kaka can play in this position. At the very least, they can maintain the team's calm and patient transfer control. One, it is very difficult for them to do it.

After listening to Gao Han's analysis, combined with the data charts and the situation in the game, everyone has to admit that Gao Han's analysis is indeed very reasonable.

In the pass-and-control play, the purpose of the side attack is not to make a breakthrough, but to get the ball from the side to attract the opposing defensive player to the side, widen the width of the opposing defensive formation, and facilitate the attacking players of the opponent. In the middle road can better complete the penetration and advancement.

Therefore, in theory, in the ball-handling style, the tactical goal can be achieved by appearing on the wing. Full-backs can be used, as well as wing-forwards. Central midfielders or even central defenders will have no problem.

But now the problem for Manchester City is how to pass the ball patiently to the front of the opponent's penalty area and create a murderous opportunity.

This is what Gao Han believes, and Manchester City is now the biggest sticking point.

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