Manchester West, Manchester United Carrington Training Base.

In the head coach's office, Ferguson, who had just returned from London's away game and the coaching staff were paying attention to Manchester City's home game against Chelsea. During the live TV broadcast, referee Weber blew the whistle to the end of the first half.

In the upper left corner of the live broadcast screen, there is a score that shocks everyone.

Three to zero!

International practice: the home team is in front and the away team is in the back.

Kaka scored his first goal in the Premier League, Cristiano Ronaldo made a pass and a shot, Sanchez made two assists, Benzema contributed a goal, and Manchester City performed very well.

Needless to say, the offensive players in the frontcourt can be felt from the data, and the combination of David Silva, Modric and Xavi Alonso in the midfield also showed strong organizational strength.

The defense line Mascherano completely frozen Robinho. Xavi Martinez and Kompani performed well against Chelsea's offensive players. On the contrary, goalkeeper Cech felt a little idle in the whole first half.

The biggest highlight of this game is Kaka, who was in the Premier League for the first time.

As early as the summer training camp, everyone was saying that Gao Han relied on heavy kaka, but the Brazilian midfielder had surgery just after joining and was absent for a few months, which was a huge blow to Manchester City.

But in fact, no one knows how big it is.

Many people even have doubts about Kaka because it is obvious that whether a player who has undergone major surgery can still recover to his best condition is.

In fact, Kaka has not returned to his best condition, and it is difficult for him to maintain the kind of rapid progress he was in his peak period, but now he seems to be more restrained, smarter, and more threatening.

I believe that after this game, no one will doubt Gao Han, Manchester City, or Kaka.

At least from the forty-five minutes of the first half, Gao Han Manchester City made an unprecedented smooth offensive and created powerful attack firepower. Even Chelsea, known as the number one iron army in the Premier League, could not stand it and conceded three goals in a row.

Although every game on the football field is different and cannot be compared, Ferguson has to ask himself, if it were Manchester City in this game, Manchester United would probably lose more miserably than Chelsea in the first half.

Thinking of this, Ferguson sighed softly.

He once told Gao Han that he would teach Chelsea a lesson, to avenge Rijcard's previous shame and defend the dignity of the head coach, but he did not expect that Gao Han would teach so thoroughly that even he was afraid.

"From the first half, Chelsea's midfield has completely lost its power. Not to mention counterattacking, even the defense that blocks Manchester City's pass-in penetration cannot be grasped well. If Scolari does not adjust in time, he may have to lose again in the second half."

Assistant coach Mike Perlan also sighed deeply and said helplessly.

Anyone who encounters such a Manchester City who is in a state that is extremely good will have to seek blessings.

"Adjustment? How to adjust? Fight against Manchester City to control the ball? Don't be stupid. If you can't grab it at all, you will lose your position."

"Isn't that true? Didn't Chelsea not defend the dead in the first half? Did they hold on?"

"Manchester City's strength is indeed based on the midfield. Their pass-and-control style makes Essin, Lampard and Barack like flies hitting blindly, and they cannot organize effective defense at all. This is a very serious problem."

"Kaka's comeback is crucial, releasing David Silva and Modric. They have a wider range of running and a wider range of activity. This greatly activates their ball-handling ability and makes it more difficult for Manchester City to penetrate the entire midfield and frontcourt."

"Can we do the opposite and strengthen the attack?"

"attack?"

"Yes, strengthen the offense in the midfield, such as substituting Arshavin to strengthen the offense in the midfield."

"This is feasible. Mascherano retreated to the defense line, and the defense thickness of Manchester City's midfielder is probably..."

Just as everyone was discussing each other, Ferguson, who had been closing his eyes and resting without saying anything, suddenly shook his head and said, "This is impossible!"

impossible?

Everyone looked at Ferguson in surprise, only seeing the old Scottish man slowly opening his eyes.

"Your thinking logic is very similar to Scolari, but you still stay in your past experience and have not seen through Gao Han's tactics at all. If Al Shavin is replaced, with the Russians' defensive end, Chelsea may die even worse, at least it will not be better than the first half."

Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what Ferguson meant.

When Ferguson saw this, he sighed softly again, a little helpless because he knew very well how advanced Gao Han’s philosophy was.

"Over the years, any strong European football team has been eager to have a full-time defensive player in the midfield like Essin or Mascherano, in order to consolidate the defensive hardness of the midfield and play a role in protecting the midfield and defense."

Everyone nodded together, almost all teams are like this, especially in the Premier League.

"But have you ever thought about it? Gao Han has been trying to cut off a full-time midfielder who is defending for the past few years."

After Ferguson said this, everyone thought about it and couldn't help but feel a little enlightened.

When Gao Han coached Atletico Madrid, the back was Xavi Alonso, but there were also midfielders like Marcos Senna in the midfield. When Chelsea, there were also top midfielders like Marc Lele.

However, whether it is Marcos Senna or Marc Lele, they have excellent ability to get and take balls.

But after Chelsea, Gao Han took a year off. It is said that during that year he calmly thought about the future football trend. After his comeback, when coaching Inter Milan, the three midfielders were Cambiaso, Peron and Figo, and Cambiaso dragged it alone.

I still remember that back then, many people doubted whether Gao Han's three-midfield combination could work, and were worried that it would be destroyed every minute. But as a result, the facts proved that this combination not only did not explode, but instead won everything for Inter Milan.

If there was a black and hard Yaya Toure in Inter Milan, then when Bayern Munich, he seemed to be taking a step further, transforming the original wing player Schweinsteiger, introducing Modric, and promoting Vidal.

Among these three people, Vidal's range of movement is quite high. He was introduced as a versatile player in the backcourt, but Gao Han used it as an offensive player in the frontcourt, making the Chilean midfielder famous in one fell swoop.

There is news that the reason why Sanchez chose to join Manchester City without hesitation after receiving a call from Gao Han was because Vidal praised Gao Han in front of him more than once, which made Sanchez feel excited.

But now, at Manchester City, Gao Han has pushed all this to a higher point.

Xavi Alonso, David Silva, Modric and Kaka do not have a full-time defensive player. It can even be said that they are all offensive players with strong offense and weak defense.

But in this way, how can Manchester City ensure the midfield defense?

Looking back on the previous few rounds of the league this season, Manchester City's defense has always been very stable. Some people even criticized Gao Han for being conservative one-to-zero, referring to Manchester City's offense rather than defense.

Ferguson noticed the expressions of his assistants, and after seeing that they all had gained something, he sighed deeply.

"Compared with the mainstream style of playing in the top European leagues, Gao Han's defensive philosophy has been significantly improved. What he pursues is the position rate. Whether it is offense or defense, he requires every player to run to the most important position in time."

"To put it bluntly, it is not complicated at all. No matter how many offense and defense are played, I am essentially emphasizing one thing, that is, how to create a numerical advantage in local areas, use the local numerical advantage to compress the opponent's offensive space when defending, and use the local numerical advantage to broaden the offensive space of one's own team when attacking."

"And we all know that only if there is space on the court can you have choices. If you lose space, even if you have the right to the ball, you will not have to choose."

"The position rate that Gao Han pursues is to ensure that all players in the team can appear in time where he should appear, thereby creating a local number advantage."

"When defending, with the advantage of local numerical players, the cooperation of players is in place, it doesn't matter whether the team's defense is solid, and whether the team's defense is solid depends on the overall situation; but on the offensive end, this group of offensive players with outstanding skills and creativity can play a huge role, especially when they create local numerical advantages."

Ferguson's words were like enlightenment, which shocked the Manchester United coaching staff.

Isn't it?

Now mainstream playing styles have begun to pursue running distance, and many data analysis companies have begun to include running distance in the most important data ranks, but unexpectedly, Gao Han has exceeded this category.

Or it should be said that running distance is the basis of his tactical philosophy, not his pursuit. His real pursuit is the rate of intact.

And if it is true as Ferguson said, then this Manchester City team would be too terrible, right?

"Scolari has no experience in coaching the front line of club events. He has coached the national team for many years, which makes his philosophy far from keeping up with the pace of the times, let alone catching up with Gao Han."

Ferguson looked like he was not interested in Scolari at all.

"He thought that if he played Barack, Essin and Lampard, the midfield of the team could be as stable as Mount Tai. This may be useful to other teams, but it is not possible to face Gao Han. It doesn't even need to be Gao Han. Chelsea will have to finish playing against Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid."

The tactical development of the national team is far behind that of the club league, which is a fact recognized by everyone.

The UEFA Champions League represents the most advanced technical and tactical level in the world football world at present, and even far exceeds the World Cup and European Cup.

Scolari has coached the national team for a long time. If he wants to coach Chelsea in the Premier League with the technical and tactical concepts of the national team, he is undoubtedly causing trouble. He can't play at all and is out of date!

Ferguson asked himself that he could not catch up with Gao Han's footsteps, and that his Manchester United could not do the same as Manchester City, but he had been competing with Gao Han for a long time and had been coaching in the top European leagues, so he could see clearly the trend.

"You can wait and see. If Scolari is more conservative and holds the half in the second half, maybe Chelsea can still save his face in this game, but if he is really as you said, and Al Shawen is fighting for life, he will die even worse."

"After all, this is a contest that is no longer in the same dimension."

As Ferguson's voice fell, the live game footage returned to the city court.

After fifteen minutes of rest, the two teams walked back to the court under the leadership of referee Weber, and after exchanging the court, they each set up their own formations.

This time it was Manchester City's first kick-off.

But everyone noticed that Scolari had been replaced.

Substituted for the sluggish performance in the first half and was mediocre, and replaced by Russian international Arshavin.

Having guessed the front half correctly, Ferguson sneered.
Chapter completed!