Starting from Manchester United, starting with Maguire

Chapter 17 A Deficiency That Urgently Needs to Be Made Up

Although Gao Changfeng proved himself in the game against Brighton, Rangnick does not intend to include him in the league starting lineup, on the grounds that his defense is strong but his offensive ability is insufficient, and he cannot perfectly implement the concept of "offensive football".

B Fee and Pogba, who are full of offensive attributes in the midfield position, and McTominay and Fred, who have insufficient offensive and defensive balance, are still Rangnick's favorites.

Gao Changfeng was naturally dissatisfied with this: "Why do I lose my offensive ability? Wasn't it me who assisted Maguire in the lore?"

"You just participated in an attack at the last moment relying on your physical strength," Rangnick said in a somewhat dissatisfied tone, "What are you doing at other times? I admit that your defensive contribution is great, but your contribution on the offensive end is too little .”

"Eight out of eleven people on the field go to attack. How can the team win without my dedicated defense?"

"Gao Changfeng, are you questioning my tactics? Who do you think you are?"

Seeing Rangnick's displeasure, Gao Changfeng didn't dare to confront the coach, and hurriedly lowered his request: "Then I can be a substitute for the next league game, but please let me play in the Champions League game? The reason why I hope to return to Manchester United in February is because It's because of the Champions League knockout rounds."

"Going to Atletico Madrid's home game should indeed play conservatively. I originally planned to let you start in the Champions League knockout round."

After confirming that he had a starting seat in the game against Atletico Madrid, Gao Changfeng left the coach's office with confidence. Helping Manchester United to keep Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League was his first goal after coming to this world. The middle way died young.

Through the game against Brighton, Gao Changfeng also understood his shortcomings. His midfield interception ability comes from active running. Unfortunately, due to his lack of game reading ability, he contributed a lot in the highly technical and tactical Premier League. Ineffective running, that is, "blind running".

So, since he was once known as "Kanter in the British Championship", Gao Changfeng simply watched Kanter's own game video to study why he has the strongest midfield interception ability in the world.

In addition to his amazing physical fitness and control over the timing of steals, Kanter's most powerful and most overlooked point is his ability to run and intercept. He can always appear on the passing line between enemy players in time, giving everyone A "everywhere" feeling.

When you want to pass the ball to your teammate, you will find that Kanter is already on the best passing route between the two of you. In this case, it is the best choice to ensure a clean ball;

Kanter's position is farther away from the passer and closer to the receiver, which ensures that when the opponent wants to stop the ball, he can always rush up to put pressure on the first time and grab the ball;

As for the amazing stealing ability, Gao Changfeng can't learn this kind of skill that practice makes perfect for the time being. Maybe he needs to have the opportunity to add a football skill.

Every night Gao Changfeng has to study Kanter carefully, draw a heat map of his running positions in a small notebook, and return to the locker room to study carefully after finishing training every day.

"Notes," Gao Changfeng was flipping through the notes carefully, and Ronaldo appeared behind him at some point. "These lines are quite similar to Kanter's running position."

"It's Kanter."

Ronaldo cheerfully patted Gao Changfeng on the shoulder: "I told you how your kid has become more and more clever in defense in recent training games. It turns out that you stole from Kanter!"

"What is stealing? Can football people be called stealing? Stealing, stealing his skills."

Ronaldo was amused by Gao Changfeng, and the locker room was filled with jubilant atmosphere.

After the laughter, Ronaldo said seriously: "The most important problem you need to solve now is not these running positions, and you may not make much progress with this research alone. You can train with Lingard and me tomorrow."

One is one of the peerless twins in football, and the other is the infinitely rampant Lin Huang. If he can train with these two, he will benefit a lot. Gao Changfeng nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, so positive.

In the next day's training, Ronaldo asked Lingard to send him a long pass, while Gao Changfeng's task was to try his best to prevent himself from stopping the ball.

"Target, Ronaldo." Gao Changfeng's lips were trembling with excitement.

[The target has been locked, Ronaldo. 】

Ronaldo asked expectantly: "Can we start?"

"That's it!"

As soon as Gao Changfeng finished speaking, Ronaldo began to run without the ball on the football field, while Gao Changfeng tried his best to mark him.

Even though he is no longer one of the strongest players in the world, this does not affect Ronaldo's rich combat experience. Gao Changfeng's running skills such as reverse running, changing speed, and interspersing dazzled Gao Changfeng. No number beside him exceeded 40. %.

Previously, Gao Changfeng thought that as long as he "marked people" to lock the target, the opponent would not be able to escape from his palm no matter what. Ronaldo proved his arrogance with his strength.

It was too late to admire Ronaldo's agility in running without the ball. Lingard had already found Ronaldo who was stuck in front of Gao Changfeng with a precise long pass.

At this moment, it is impossible to run in front of Ronaldo to stop the pass. Gao Changfeng had to exert physical confrontation on Ronaldo, hoping to affect the quality of the opponent's stop and achieve a steal.

Cristiano Ronaldo deftly passed the ball between his legs, and when the ball rolled behind Gao Changfeng, he quickly turned around and sprinted to stop the ball.

Textbook level slips and turns!
"Midfield running interception is only one of your problems. In fact, your biggest weakness is the ability to block and steal."

Gao Changfeng did not fully agree with this statement. The method of stopping the ball like Ronaldo just now may be very effective in singles, but in team battles, there is a high probability that he will be cut off by defensive players who come up to defend.

Seeing that Gao Changfeng was a little dissatisfied, Ronaldo immediately decided to change the way of stopping the ball to convince him.

I saw Ronaldo leaning against Gao Changfeng with his back tightly, his tall body and strong body confrontation firmly stuck the opponent behind him, and Lingard's pass was easily stopped by him.

Simple back to the ball.

Gao Changfeng had nothing to say, he didn't expect that he would be forced to do nothing in the face of such a routine stopping action. If his opponent found out this weakness on the field, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Actually, my ability to hold the ball with my back." Ronaldo hesitated to speak, and then changed the subject, "Do you know why I can easily hold the ball with my back to you?"

Gao Changfeng shook his head stiffly.

"Because your physical confrontation is too weak, I can guarantee that all centers and even many wingers in the Premier League can easily get the ball with their backs to you."

Thinking that no matter how much physical confrontation he put on Ronaldo just now, the other party remained motionless, Gao Changfeng finally understood the inadequacy that he urgently needed to fill.

It's not difficult. Putting all the accumulated 18 talent points on "Physical Confrontation", Gao Changfeng has 75 physical confrontation. Although he is not considered strong, it is enough to prevent the opponent from stopping the ball easily in front of him.

I wanted to try again with Ronaldo, but I am afraid that no one in the world can accept that a guy who was weak one second will become strong in the next second, so Gao Changfeng had to give up.

Without Gao Changfeng, the game between Manchester United and Leeds United on February 2 became a goal shootout.

Different from the wonderful confrontation between other teams in the goal battle, Manchester United's striker invested a lot of firepower to press high, which caused Leeds United's defense to make frequent mistakes and conceded four goals in a row, while Manchester United was also scored two goals by the opponent's defensive counterattack.

This is not so much a confrontational battle as it is a turnover contest. Although Manchester United won the game, they did not play well, and the hidden dangers of the defense could no longer be hidden.

After Manchester United defeated Leeds United 4:2, the soldiers immediately got on the plane and rushed to Spain non-stop. On February 2, the first round of the Champions League knockout match with Atletico Madrid was approaching.

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