585 Non-Nuclear Tactics
.All of a sudden, there are always many fans. It was the midfielder who completely collapsed the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship. Because it was Marklele's departure that caused the collapse of Real Madrid's overall offensive and defensive system. { }
But in Yang Cheng's opinion, this is somewhat incomplete. Marklele is an outstanding defensive midfielder, but it certainly has not reached that level. Many fans left Real Madrid, causing the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship to collapse, join Chelsea, and directly led to the Blues winning the championship. So in their subconscious mind, they felt that Marklele is too magical and great.
He is a midfielder superstar, but he hasn't reached that height yet!
In fact, Real Madrid has a position problem that is more serious than the midfielder, that is, the central defender!
In Real Madrid, which has always been famous for its offense, the central defender has always been thankless. Losing is the responsibility, winning is the credit of the attacker. Moreover, the characteristics of the team's style tend to attack have made defenders always bear huge tactical pressure in Real Madrid.
If Real Madrid has been tight in the midfield since 2003 because of Marklele's departure, then Real Madrid's personnel change in the centre-back can definitely be traced back ten years ago, or even longer.
As the old captain Sanchis grew old and his condition was no longer there, Jero alone supported the banner of Real Madrid's central defender, but Jero was not a full-time defender. In fact, he was a midfielder who was famous for his offense in the early stage. However, as he got older, his position began to gradually move backwards, and Bardano transformed him into a central defender.
But Yero's partners have never been fixed. Caranca, Campo, Julio Cesar, Elgra...
The most beautiful tactical change in Boske's career was in the 199/00 season, when he asked Elgra to play in the central central defender, responsible for coordinating the defense line, playing 532 three central defenders tactics. This move made Real Madrid's defense line firm, not only got out of the quagmire of almost relegation in the league, but also passed the Champions League and won the 2000 Champions League championship.
However, after Florentino came on stage, he tended to attack more sharply. Superstars such as Figo and Zidane came to the team one after another, and Zidane + Pavin's policy pushed the team's tactics to a deformity. After that, Pavin, Ruvan, Messia, Woodgate, Samuel and other players all became tragic roles at Real Madrid's central defender.
In fact, sometimes we have to look at it this way. When Campo was in Mallorca, he was favored by countless professionals, but he fell in Real Madrid; Elgra once performed steadily after playing center back, but later he was criticized a lot; Samuel was almost a world-class performance in Serie A, but when he went to Real Madrid, he became a negative textbook.
In the final analysis, Real Madrid's problem is still the team style problem.
Spanish teams have always advocated offense, and Real Madrid is one of the best. Especially after frequently introducing superstars, crazy attack has become Real Madrid's label, but the price is that the team's offense and defense polarization is polarized without buffering.
As early as when Yang Cheng decided to take over Real Madrid, he had already said something to Heathfield and Beckenbauer. "This will be the biggest challenge in my career so far!"
Why is this so?
Because Real Madrid is almost full of holes at present, except for the goal line, the defender, midfielder and forward line, all three lines are extremely incomplete. Although there are Raul, Xavi Alonso, Guti and others, can they rely solely on them?
Therefore, when Yang Cheng took over Real Madrid, he had already made the idea of overturning the entire Real Madrid system and rebuilding the organization. The first thing he had to do was to establish an offensive and defensive system for Real Madrid.
This is also why he has to lead Real Madrid to rise again in Europe in at least two or three years!
Ramos and Thiago Silva are the future of the team, but they cannot be used at the moment, so Yang Cheng must find a central defender combination for Real Madrid, so he set his sights on Juventus, who is about to be relegated.
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Although it is just a showcase for the new jersey, Real Madrid is after all, and it still attracts many journalists and media.
Club Chairman Florentino and Honorary Chairman Di Stefano also came to Valdebebas in person to participate in the jersey show. The first and the first and the next generation Adidas also attached great importance to this. They specially arranged some male and female models to come to the scene and wore Real Madrid jersey show.
But it is obvious that the real goal of the reporter's attention is not to the new jersey, for them. Adidas designs a new jersey for Real Madrid every year, which is no longer new. They are more concerned about the news that comes from Italy.
"Mr. Yang Cheng, Mr. Yang Cheng!!"
“Can you answer a few of our questions?”
After the jersey show, the reporters immediately surrounded Florentino, Distefano, Yang Cheng and others, blocked them in front of the display stand, and almost all the microphones were stuffed into their mouths, hoping that they could say a few words or confirm some rumors.
After feeling Florentino's eyes, Yang Cheng looked at the watch on his left wrist and nodded, "I can give us 10 minutes!"
The group of reporters below cheered and all gathered around.
Florentino accompanied Distiffano to leave first, but he turned around to look at Yang Cheng from time to time and sighed in his heart that the biggest superstar Real Madrid has introduced this season is Yang Cheng. Even if it introduces Zidane, Beckham and others cannot be compared with him.
"Mr. Yang Cheng, there is news that Real Madrid has reached a tacit understanding with Juventus. They plan to introduce World Cup Silver Ball winner Cannavaro and French defensive core Toulam. Is that true?"
Yang Cheng nodded, "Yes, I am indeed very interested in them."
"Juventus currently has a price of 10 million + 5 million euros. Do you think these two players may switch to Real Madrid?"
Yang Cheng nodded again, "I can be sure. They belong to Real Madrid!"
All the reporters were in an uproar. Could it be that the transfer has the latest progress?
Before they could react, Yang Cheng continued: "We have reached a tacit understanding with Juventus and signed an agreement with the player's agent. I believe that in a few days, we can see Cannavaro and Tulam in the large team that we are heading to Austria for training!"
Many reporters at the scene were quite surprised. After all, Tulam and Cannavaro are the two best central defenders in the World Cup. Although they are not old, they are definitely still in strength. Tulam is also chased by Barcelona, but the French defensive core has turned to Real Madrid, which has to be a major enhancement of Real Madrid's defense.
"I let go of stars such as Carlos, Baptista, and introduced defensive players like Cannavaro and Toulam. Does this mean that Real Madrid coached by Mr. Yang Cheng will become more balanced?"
Yang Cheng smiled. "It's OK, but I have to remind you that balance does not mean we are not attacking!"
"I know the ideas of Real Madrid fans. Because I am a Real Madrid fan myself, I can understand their mood, but I am also very clear that it is not realistic for Real Madrid to play beautiful and sexy football all at once, and it takes time."
"Observation and defense are two indispensable ideas in football tactics. Blindly chasing offense and blindly chasing defense may lead to the team's failure, so we must be inclusive of the two, but I will never change my pursuit of offensive football."
"I think what will be the biggest change for Real Madrid under my coach?"
"Team!" Yang Cheng replied without thinking, "I believe that fans around the world will see Real Madrid, where both offense and defense are team-based battles. This is the trend of football. We must say goodbye to the past era when relied on the personal abilities of superstars. Regain our team spirit of Real Madrid!"
Another reporter squeezed his head out of the cracks and shouted: "Mr. Yang Cheng, Cruyff is in his column. Real Madrid is different from any team he has coached in the past. Will he encounter the Battle of Waterloo here. Do you have any words to think about?"
"Uh...I don't think I need anything, because every team I coach is different. Chemnitz, Kaiserslautern, Inter Milan and Liverpool are all different, but I have all succeeded, so I believe that I will succeed in Real Madrid too!"
After a pause, Yang Cheng laughed, "I remember that Cruyff, Barcelona is his pride and the best interpreter of his football philosophy. So when I come to La Liga, my biggest goal and wish is to kick Barcelona off the championship throne and end Barcelona's domination over La Liga. At the same time, I will return all the humiliation they brought to us at the Bernabeu Stadium, and we will avenge the revenge of last season at the Camp Nou Stadium!"
Last season's Bernabeu Century Derby, Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-0 away. Real Madrid fans witnessed Ronaldinho's arrival like a god. They were conquered by Ronaldinho, and Real Madrid completely lost the competition for the league championship.
If Yang Cheng's goal this season is to focus on La Liga, then the century derby against Barcelona and the La Liga championship are two major battles he must work for, and his goal in the Champions League is to make a breakthrough.
He doesn't want his Real Madrid to continue to defend the top 16, he hopes to make a breakthrough in his performance.
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After getting rid of the journalist's entanglement, Yang Cheng ran into Piri as soon as he walked out, and the latter handed him the phone numbers of Cannavaro and Toulam. Yang Cheng planned to have a good chat with them first and confirm their time to return to the team.
But these things must be until noon, and at least the second training class will begin soon.
Like Yang Cheng’s previous training classes, each training session is still 90 minutes, and there are still a lot of ball training, and the training intensity is still very high, which can always torture the players torture.
In the two or three days that followed, Real Madrid mainly adopted recovery and physical reserve training due to the inconsolidated player lineup, but the team's transfer was still in progress. Siscinho joined AC Milan for 16 million euros as he wished, but Ancelotti still refused to let Kaka go.
Therefore, after seeing that Yang Cheng could not take down Kaka and Luo, he began to introduce another player.
However, he left the transfer more to Butragno and Piri, who was responsible for remote control and command, and all his energy was devoted to a more important task, that is, the construction of the team's overall tactical framework.
This is not just Yang Cheng’s business, Redondo, Benitez, Paul Bayer and others are all involved.
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"According to the traditional offensive tactical thinking, a set of tactical frameworks consists of two elements, core and advancement!"
After lunch break, Benitez seemed to be a little unaware of Yang Cheng's thoughts in the coach's office. At least he couldn't see how Yang Cheng would implement his tactical reforms in Real Madrid.
"Pushing, I saw that David Silva and Mata's dribbling propulsion, and Beckham and Xavi Alonso's long pass transfers can all complete the task of propulsion. If not, we can take the forward retracement route, as long as we revolve around these points. The team's offense is no problem, but where is the core?"
This is not only Benitez's doubt, but also Paul Bayer, Redondo and others.
From Kaiserslautern to Inter Milan to Liverpool, Yang Cheng's tactics adopt a very traditional assembly model, that is, to form around the core and the propulsion. The most obvious one is Liverpool's Drogba, who is a very important core for Liverpool's promotion.
But Real Madrid can't see such a core at the moment. Villa and Raul are not the kind of powerful forwards who charge forward in front. Negredo and Soldado are indeed centers, especially the former, but the problem is that they are both young and it is too dangerous to play attacks around them.
When everyone was looking at him, Yang Cheng smiled slightly and nodded, which was considered to admit Benitez's suspicion. After thinking about it, he said: "In fact, from Inter Milan to Liverpool, I have always been thinking about one problem, that is, if a team's midfield and frontcourt offense has no core, how should they play?"
After hearing this, Benitez and Paul Bayer couldn't help but frown. Because who doesn't play the core football team today?
Liverpool's core is changing, most of the time it is Drogba, but Robben and Ronaldo also act as the responsibility. Even Gerald, who is plugged in the back row, can be regarded as the core, so they have rich offensive methods. There are many changes and they cannot be defended.
Barcelona also has also seen many changes. For example, Ronaldinho and Etoo, Giulli and Messi on the right also occasionally act as this responsibility.
The so-called core is actually not necessarily a bridgehead like Drogba. If you want to understand it simply, it is to be the center, that is, a player who can catch and pass the ball in the frontcourt, because such players generally have excellent personal abilities. After getting the ball, they usually hit the goal or pass the last pass. The range they can radiate directly to the player's ability, consciousness and vision.
Yang Cheng's previous life's AC Milan was very obvious. Pirlo retreated to the organization and Kaka was the core of the offensive in the front. His dribbling and propelling, passing after a high-speed breakthrough, and his own back-shot score ensured AC Milan's attack.
The reason why Yang Cheng asked to buy Kaka was actually because his breakthrough in the middle lane could tear open the opponent's defense line, create chaos, and create gaps for his teammates around him. Of course, Kaka would not be the core even if he came, because what Yang Cheng really wanted was a nuclear-free tactic.
There is now a team in La Liga that is a typical team that plays the core of offense, which is Villarrel.
Of course, different teams have different changes, and the core is not single. For example, Liverpool, at most, they can spread four or five points in the frontcourt at once, so their offense is so terrible.
But this is definitely not the most terrifying thing, because with a core, the opponent can limit the attack through the restricted core. So theoretically, the core is a double-edged sword. Once it is operated well, the attack will become smooth, but once it is frozen, sorry, the attack will completely collapse.
Everyone who beat Villarrell knew that they would restrict Riquelme, that's the reason!
What if there is no core?
Theoretically, an offense without a core will be more difficult to defend than an offense with a core, because I don’t know who to defend, so without a core can also be regarded as everyone is the core.
Strictly speaking, Liverpool is already close to this level, because at that time, their offensive core was as high as 5 points, which almost made the entire midfield and frontcourt become the core, but more often, Liverpool still relies heavily on individual players such as Drogba.
What Yang Cheng wants to do now is not to tailor a set of tactics around these current players, but to build a set of offensive routines without core, and then arrange tasks according to the players' technical characteristics, so that the players can play in this set of tactics.
"No core?" Benitez's eyes lit up, and Paul Bayer was thinking with a bitter face. Obviously, they were all stabbed by Yang Cheng's words.
"Is this possible?" Redondo asked with a wry smile.
Yang Cheng nodded and smiled, "Maybe, absolutely possible!"
Benitez also nodded, "Theoretically, the core role is to oppress and tear open the opponent's defense line, but if this responsibility can be allocated to every player, then the core will no longer exist, or if it is possible, everyone is the core."
After a pause, Espanyol shook his head, "But this is impossible, because without a core, the team's offense will easily lose its direction, and the players will become at a loss with each other, which will lead to a complete collapse of the entire offensive tactics."
The reason why the core is necessary is that everyone will revolve around the core. For example, when Liverpool and Drogba are on the court, they basically choose to attack around Drogba as soon as they get the ball. Drogba is also the kind of player who can stand at the forefront by one person and can accomplish things that only two or three players can accomplish.
But just as Benitez finished, a thought flashed through his mind, that is, if every player in the midfield and frontcourt has outstanding ball players, can find loopholes in the opponent's defense line during running and transfer, once someone finds it, everyone else can unite and cooperate and immediately launch an attack around the player, then Yang Cheng's idea may become a reality.
Chapter completed!