The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 648
A trainee in a coach training class once asked Ye Qiu an interesting question. He said, in modern football tactics, what elements are the most important to ensure the team wins.

Ye Qiu thinks this is a very complicated and huge problem, so he promises that if he has the opportunity to teach in the coach training class next time, he will consider using this as a topic. In this class, I have been thinking about this issue very carefully.

What is the most important thing?Or is it a quality that a team must have?

A player's ability is undoubtedly very important. Just like Ye Qiu's evaluation of Bielsa's Chile before, whether it was Chile during the World Cup in South Africa or Chile during the Copa America, a problem has been exposed. The tactical level has reached a high level. , but personal strength limits their performance.

In the game against Spain, Chile obviously had no way to break through Spain's goal because of the limited personal ability of the players. If the strength of their players is on the same level as Spain, or even if the gap is not that big, Chile will take the lead Break the Spanish goal and rewrite the game instead of letting Villa pick up an empty goal.

It can also be seen from that game that the ability of players is very important to a team. When the strength gap reaches a certain level, the tactics cannot be changed much at all, or as Beckenbauer Having said that, good tactics can only help you improve your chances of winning.

Suppose, in terms of strength, the probability of winning between Chile and Spain is 30% to 70%, then Bielsa helped Chile increase the probability to 45% to 55% through excellent tactics. Some time ago, you will find that Chile is more threatening and creates more scoring opportunities, but they just didn't grasp it.

And when you watch the Chilean team play, it is not difficult to find that they are a little bit worse in many cases. If they pass a little bit better, or run a little bit more, the situation may be completely different. It is the embodiment of the player's strength.

Does that mean that the personal strength of a player is an essential element for a team to succeed?
Ye Qiu can answer with certainty, yes, but not the most important thing!
So what is the most important thing?
Ye Qiu couldn't answer, because he felt that tactics were also very important.

This has to mention another game, that is, Ye Qiu's previous life, the two games between Mourinho's Inter Milan and Barcelona, ​​Ye Qiu thinks that these are the two most representative games of Mourinho's life Contest.

It can be said that the role of tactics played a vital role in these two games. Without excellent and reasonable tactics, it would be impossible to create the victory of Mourinho's Inter Milan.

Is the player's personal ability important, or the team's overall tactics important?

Ye Qiu felt that his ancestors were right. The golden mean, a set of overall tactics that can bring out the best of each player's individual abilities, is the most crucial way for a team to win.

Whether it is attacking or defending, it is undoubtedly the most important responsibility of a head coach to create an efficient and orderly tactical system based on the technical characteristics of existing players, and it is also the football creed that Ye Qiu has always advocated the most. He has been adjusting and exploring his football tactics almost all the time, even if the exploration is not successful in many cases.

For example, in the past two seasons, Tottenham Hotspur's progress has not been so obvious.

Why did Mauro Tassotti say that it was easy for him to write the wave defense system, but when he decided to write the wave offense and explain the team's offensive and defensive transition, he fell into a dilemma?
This is actually not surprising, if he can easily write the offense and the transition between offense and defense, it is undoubtedly impossible to be the wave attack that Ye Qiu wants, it is more of a routine.

How to maintain the most stable and orderly tactical order when defending, and how to give full play to the abilities of offensive players when attacking, instead of restricting players to the system and letting them move and run without scruples, this is Ye Qiu. The desired attack is also an important feature of Tottenham Hotspur's attack.

Therefore, it is easy to talk about defense, but it is very difficult to talk about offense!

Of course, this is not to say that defense is easier than offense, or that defense is belittled. You must know that in the modern football tactical system, offense and defense are actually inseparable. You can’t tell what is offense and what is defense. All in one.

Ye Qiu is currently studying some tactical thinking of the Hungarian international footballer Kushner, who rewrote the history of South American football and laid a solid foundation for Brazil's later status as a football kingdom. He can be said to be based on Jimmy Hogan's ball control philosophy , Further promotion, joined the concept of diagonal attack, which created the glory of Brazilian football later.

In Kushner's tactical theory, he believes that Jimmy Hogan's concept is perfect, but it is also very serious. Everything is full of planning, and even the running routes of the players are the same, but this is for the offense. It is a big limitation.

So, in Kushner's mind, what is the most important offense?

He thinks it should be facing the defense to lead the offense!
How to explain it?
That is, when your players have their backs to the defense line and the goal, you have no way to see everything behind you, neither your teammates nor the opponent's defensive changes. This is your worst offensive vision , but also when you are least creative.

It is not difficult to understand that the first element of many people's defense now is to prevent the opponent's ball holder from turning around.

This principle applies not only to the defensive center, but even to the opponent's midfielders and defenders.

Kushner believes that the most important thing about offense is to create enough opportunities to get the ball against the defense. When you have enough of these opportunities, then you can play the best and most threatening offense.

At that time, the middle road seemed very crowded, so Kushner proposed a diagonal offensive tactic, which was actually a diagonal pass to split the side.

One advantage of passing the ball diagonally is that the person receiving the ball is very comfortable, and the passer is equally comfortable, because he only needs to pass in front of the receiver, and the latter rushes forward directly to receive the ball. Although the straight pass is more penetrating, it is more likely to be intercepted by the defensive player, because the defensive player can see your passing line very clearly.

This is why a direct pass is more difficult and less successful than a cross or diagonal pass.

Football has developed to the present, and the entire tactical system is much more rigorous and complex than Kushner's back then.

Diagonal attack is now not only oblique pass, but also diagonal running, diagonal advancement, etc. It has long been a very effective and practical tactical routine, and many head coaches are using it.

A very important factor why Ye Qiu is obsessed with the forward penetration of the two full-backs is that from the overall point of view, the forward penetration of the full-back is an important part of the diagonal attack. After the corner attack, it has created the heyday of Brazil's wide players in the past century.

Another important factor is that the full-back is always facing the attacking direction, the pass to him by his teammates is an oblique pass, and the pass to his teammates is also an oblique pass, that is to say, this kind of diagonal The offense can maximize the chances of attacking the defense and is very threatening.

Many people say triangle tactics, triangle tactics is the root and foundation of modern football tactics, it consists of two diagonal lines and a horizontal line.But you must know that the current tactics, especially the tactics of the top teams, basically do not adopt triangle tactics, but evolve on the basis of triangle tactics, such as adding No.4 players, becoming a diamond, and joining No.5 Players even No.6 players, composed of polygons.

When four players form two triangles, the effect of the middle horizontal line is weakened, but the four diagonal lines are very important.

The same reason is also in those polygonal tactics, all in order to increase the penetration and the chance of taking the ball to face the offense, and the slash is undoubtedly becoming more and more important.

Why did Ye Qiu bring in Pirlo?

The reason is very simple. Pirlo is the best organization midfielder in today's football who is good at passing diagonally. This is not even as good as Harvey, Harvey Alonso and others. Beckham used to be on the right diagonal The top player in offense, after moving to the center, he is also very good at crossing the ball from the center to the two wings, but now he is too old to cope with the requirements of the main lineup.

So, is it appropriate to use Pirlo as a single midfielder?Especially in the Premier League where the competition is so fierce and the pace is so fast?

Ye Qiu thinks that another situation must be taken into account, which is another trend in modern football tactics, frontcourt pressing.

When it comes to frontcourt pressing tactics, Ye Qiu can be regarded as an expert. When he was in Ajax, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, he highly praised high-intensity frontcourt pressing. In the past few years, it is no longer high-end and high-grade, and has become the standard configuration of almost all strong teams.

It is a strong team that plays frontcourt pressing, how can you still reflect your own advantages and value?
Mancini wants to get Yaya Toure, not for him to play as a defensive midfielder, but for a role similar to that of a midfielder.

Ye Qiu felt that Mancini's ideas were not advanced, or he should take a step forward and put the defensive midfielder forward!

This requires a concept. Many people think that the so-called front midfielder is to pull a front midfielder to the back midfielder to play. If this is the case, then it is really underestimating Pirlo. worth it.

The definition of a forward midfielder is a defensive midfielder with exquisite technique and organizational ability. First of all, he must be a defensive midfielder. Positional requirements, and at the same time have the delicate technique and organizational ability of a No. [-] midfielder.

Or someone will say, you blow it up, Pirlo has the defensive skills of the midfielder?
Yes, Pirlo is not a midfielder in the traditional sense of Gattuso, Essien, Makelele, etc., and he is not even a defensive midfielder like Keane, Vieira, Redondo and Guardiola. , but the most valuable thing about him is that he has been immersed in Serie A and the Italian national team with the best defensive system for more than ten years. His defense is more based on positioning and prediction.

For example, Gattuso used to act as a shit stick in the front, and Pirlo took the ball down by blocking and standing in the back, and what was reflected in the live broadcast screen was that Pirlo happened to appear there, as if Many people say that Inzaghi happened to be in the position where he could score.

It turns out that once and a half you'll be just a coincidence, but if you're always there, it's a deliberate act.

Of course, we must also pay attention to see that the current Pirlo is no longer the Pirlo who can run [-] kilometers in a game, so if he plays the single midfielder, he needs the strong support of his teammates. Tottenham Hotspur's wave defense ensures that there is always a central defender near Pirlo.

At least Pirlo's weakness is still obvious when facing the opponent's large-scale pull and using his personal ability and speed to conduct one-on-one assaults, but this can be made up for by the team defense system.

Therefore, no matter whether it was Ye Qiu or Mauro Tassotti, they both felt that Pirlo would have no problem playing as a single midfielder.

So, what about the front waist?

It is the same as the front midfielder and the rear midfielder. The midfielder must first be a midfielder with the ability to penetrate from the back and the skills to hold the ball at the front of the penalty area where the defense is most dense in the game. At the same time , He must also be able to complete the task of defending the midfielder, for example, when he loses possession of the ball, he will immediately invest in counter-grabbing and oppression.

What are the benefits of doing this?

That is, when the strong teams all over the world play organizational midfielders, my defensive midfielder and front midfielder just restrain your organizational midfielder, and it’s not good if you don’t pay attention to it, because my front and rear midfielder The waist can be inserted into your penalty area anytime and anywhere to complete scoring and threatening offenses, and has the ability to take and distribute the ball.

But if you want to deploy defense in this area, it will force you to weaken the troops you invest on the offensive end.

This is a typical strategy of replacing defense with offense!
Therefore, Ye Qiu's midfield trio this season is Ramsey, Vidal advancing forward, and Pirlo lagging behind, but the distance between the three players should be about ten meters, and the overall formation of Tottenham Hotspur They will also continue to maintain a compact and flat shape of about 50 to [-] meters in front and back.

Ye Qiu has always been very convinced that players with high golf quotient will become another mainstream change in football trends in the future, because they are better at attacking and defending by relying on positioning, running and cooperating with teammates. Physically, but they played smarter.

An important reason why he thinks there will be many golfers in the future is that Ye Qiu has always believed that with the improvement of training level and the advent of the information age, people will become smarter and smarter.

Of course, this kind of intelligence is not one-on-one, because it is difficult for anyone to be smarter than Einstein. The intelligence Ye Qiu said is the average intelligence level of all human beings, and with this trend, players with high golf quotient will become more and more intelligent. There are more and more, and even wholesale mass production can be carried out directly.

Therefore, if you take a closer look at Tottenham Hotspur's team lineup, it is not difficult to find that the players Ye Qiu introduced are generally not stupid, and they all belong to the type of players with strong plasticity.

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Tottenham Hotspur spent a week in Theobald for their pre-season training, and then went to Qatar to play a warm-up match with the Qatar national team. Requirements, a game that will be played every summer, but unfortunately, Messi, Cavani, Thiago Silva, and the team's new aid Vidal are still playing in the Copa America, So the quality of this warm-up match is not very high.

But Tottenham Hotspur still showed their strength very well. They defeated the Qatar national team 3:0. Pirlo played half of the game and performed relatively averagely. He performed well, showing his strength with one pass and one shot, and Pogba, who played in the second half, was also impressive.

Phil Jones, the starting midfielder, was as brave as ever, and he performed well on the defensive end, but his passing was a little poor. This has something to do with Phil Jones' personality, after all, he is still very young.

I stayed in Qatar for four days. Fortunately, Qatar this year is not too hot, and Tottenham Hotspur deliberately arranges training in the morning and evening, so there will be no problems.

Flying from Qatar to Singapore, Tottenham Hotspur played a warm-up match with a professional team in Singapore. At this time, the Chilean, Argentina and Brazil internationals who were eliminated from the Copa America also returned to the team one after another. They didn't rest for two weeks after the game, but directly returned to the team and devoted themselves to the team's preparations for the new season. This was also appreciated by Ye Qiu and the fans.

But all the players participating in the America's Cup did not participate in the warm-up match, at least Ye Qiu did not plan to arrange for them to play for the time being, because they still need to adjust, especially in terms of physical fitness, after all, they have just finished a major competition.

Although there are no big-name players participating, the overall performance of Tottenham Hotspur is still as stable as ever. They defeated their opponents in the warm-up match 2-0 and won two consecutive victories in the warm-up match. Ramsey scored in two consecutive games , and Raul also scored a goal.

It's not that Ramsey's current performance is so good, but because the team's current offensive players do have some problems. Ribery is a little injured, and he didn't even play in the second warm-up match, and Haza Germany's state is still being adjusted, and Coutinho, who switched to playing on the wing, also focuses on passing the ball.

This led to Ramsey's consecutive goals, and Wales' wide-ranging running coverage as always, and more opportunities.

But Ye Qiu saw a gratifying change. When the team organization relied on the midfielder Pirlo, Ramsey also showed a certain organizational ability and vision in the frontcourt. Ye Qiu also consciously cultivated him. On the one hand, the ability, after all, if a midfielder with a wide range of running has excellent ability to organize the ball, it is almost a big killer.

After the game, the team went to Hong Kong. After two days of rest, they played a warm-up match with the Hong Kong Zhijie team. Hazard, Ramsey, and Raul scored consecutive goals, and Tottenham Hotspur's offense was as fierce as ever.

Alba and Kyle Walker, who replaced the Brazilian wings in the starting lineup, both showed strong assisting abilities.

Alba mainly wins with technique and speed, while Kyle Walker has solid defense, very fast speed, strong sprint ability, and excellent running ability back and forth, but more importantly, his crosses are more and more like Beckham shadow.

The three consecutive victories in the warm-up match did not satisfy Tottenham Hotspur. The opponents with three clean sheets, regardless of whether Kompany's partner is Nastasic or Varane, have shown a convincing performance. Stability and defensive strength, Tottenham Hotspur's defensive lineup in the new season is not a big problem.

The fans also more or less let go of their hearts.

After finishing the warm-up match for the second Asian Tour, Tottenham Hotspur also ushered in the opponent of the third Asian Tour, Guangzhou Hengda!
(End of this chapter)