658 What to save you, my Barcelona!

During the two-week national team competition, Yang Cheng became very idle, but this does not mean that he does not need to do anything.

In the first week, he was on vacation. He first stayed in Lake Como for a few days, and then went to a luxurious villa in Lake Windermere in England to stay for a while. Now this season is just right. With Sienna's company, he stayed there for a few days. This time he really took a beautiful tour of the scenery of Lake Windermere.

After returning to Madrid, some players who did not have national team competition tasks began training, and some players who participated in U-level national team competitions also returned one after another. Yang Cheng drew the four young players Parejo, Bueno, Callejo and Jurado to the first team to participate in the joint training.

According to Yang Cheng's previous idea, the match against Almeria will definitely be on the bench, but he also wants to try to use a different tactic to play this game, and he hopes to try the effect.

Therefore, after returning to Valdebebas, Yang Cheng took this group of substitutes to start drilling on new tactics.

There is a saying in the current football world that those who win the midfield will win the world. Many people just think that this sentence is about a game, but it is not, because the configuration of the midfield is very important in the current football tactical system, and it even surpasses the striker and defender. What kind of football a team can play depends on the midfield.

Therefore, Yang Cheng formed a team, which usually revolves around the midfield. For example, Real Madrid revolves around the double midfielder of Xavi Alonso and Mascherano, and this time it is the same.

It’s just that Yang Cheng wanted to try some changes in midfield configuration, so he practiced and investigated repeatedly during training.

When a person raises his tactical understanding to a certain level, in his impression, a team's tactics is equivalent to a set of game props pieced together by the technical characteristics of different players. He can adjust and change the tactics anytime, anywhere based on his tactical understanding.

To give an example, if a team cannot score goals, some head coaches will think that it is a striker, which is a relatively low-level head coach, and some head coaches will think that it is a midfielder, which is a medium-level head coach. The truly top head coach will find through video and training that there is a problem in the team's offensive promotion.

It is also because of the midfield problem that the team cannot score the goal. Some people will choose to introduce midfield players to fill in the shortcomings in the offensive promotion process, while others will choose to go to the forward to retreat to the midfield, or defenders will forward to reinforce the midfield, changing the team's overall tactics and turning shortcomings into advantages.

Tactics, after all, whether it is a defensive counterattack or a large-scale attack, whether it is Barcelona's ball control or Chelsea's belief in control space, they are consistent in the most fundamental things and have the same end.

The main reason for so many differences is that the head coach has different understandings of tactics and different technical characteristics and configurations of players. When the head coach with different tactics understands, the tactics formulated according to the technical characteristics and personnel configurations are naturally impossible to be the same. This has led to a grand occasion where tactics in football are blooming today.

As the most premier head coach in football today, Yang Cheng, who is praised by countless tactical enthusiasts as the first person to innovate tacticals, has been coaching for so many years and has been the best in football today, so he can always know what kind of players his team lacks.

Every time you want to reorganize a set of tactics, Yang Cheng will first determine a concept, that is, what effect this set of tactics should achieve and what purpose it will achieve, and use this as a preview to set the technical characteristics and requirements of players in each position. However, this is only an ideal stage, and the next step is to adjust the tactics based on the existing personnel configuration. The latest chapter of the Temple.

It seems like this time, what he wants is a tactic with enough ball possession rate that can give substitutes such as Guti and Raul his own unique opportunities, so he began to convert these players into technical characteristics in his mind, and then repetitive combinations of various positions similar to DIY based on these technical characteristics.

For example, the organizer, in Real Madrid's 4231 tactics, the organizer is Xavi Alonso, but in the current lineup, Guti and Granero are not the kind of full-time organizers, so Yang Cheng separates the organizational responsibilities of Xavi Alonso and divides them into two parts: one, pass the ball forward and the other, pass the ball to two sides.

Yang Cheng handed over the responsibility of passing the ball forward to Guti, and handed over the responsibility of passing the ball to Thiago Silva behind him. The Brazilian has good ball-handling ability and can also be competent for passing the ball. For this reason, he made the Brazilian defender stand higher, and Elgra dragged it back, and Espanyol was also very adaptable to this position.

Secondly, Mascherano's responsibilities were also separated, and the responsibility for protecting the defense was handed over to Thiago Silva, and the counter-grabbing was transferred to Granero at the first time, and even Raul was assigned a little.

In this way, the responsibilities of the double midfielder will be separated, and Real Madrid can continue to move forward and push forward.

In order to ensure that Thiago Silva's position moves forward and backward and the stability of the defense line, Yang Cheng asked Aveloa and Miguel Torres to avoid forwarding at the same time, and the position is slightly closer to the middle, ready to support the defense in the middle at any time.

In order to ensure the offensive ability of the wing, Yang Cheng asked Mata and Ozil to act as wing assaulters. At the same time, he also placed a Negrado in front of the defense line, and the Spanish center even shared the task of counter-robbing on the spot.

In other words, when a head coach has sufficient tactical qualities, he can break up all the technical characteristics and requirements of all positions on the court and reassign them to players in different positions, because in the midfield configuration, those factors are always at play. As long as these factors are achieved, the team's offense and defense will not have any problems.

For example, open the horizontal pass schedule with the width of the court, open the dribbling propulsion of the offense depth, insert the attack with more concealed rear attack, protect the defense line and the 32-meter area... etc. As long as you can do these, no matter how you toss, the team's offense and defense will not have too much problem.

Maybe someone is surprised, are the forwards and defenders not good?

In fact, when it comes to shaping and change, forwards and defenders are much worse than midfielders, so as the importance of tactics continues to increase, the midfield will play an increasingly important role.

For example, Drogba actually allocated a large part of the defensive tasks in the midfield. After Yang Cheng imposed these tasks on Drogba, he reduced the defensive tasks and added offensive tasks to Gerald, which caused Gerald to score desperately later, and this was the reason.

Tactics can often be regarded as playing with building blocks. You can stack them into the shape you want at will. If you fall down, it proves that you fail, it will not fall down, it will prove that you succeed. It’s that simple!

However, simplicity is ideally speaking. When it really works, you will definitely encounter a lot of trouble, such as how to ensure that the players can handle the tacitly running, and how to keep the players at a suitable distance from each other on the court to facilitate the team to effectively pass, this requires a lot of training and training of tacitly understanding.

Yang Cheng's sudden large rotation seems to be a whim, but in fact he has been brewing this set of tactics since the summer training camp, so his starting lineup was not decided suddenly, but a combination he has been trying.

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September 15, evening, Bernabeu Stadium

After 45 minutes of the first half, the two sides returned to the game field.

The scoreboard of the Bernabeu big red shows the scores of the two teams, 0:1, international practice, the home team is in front and the away team is in back.

Yes, no one read it wrong, Real Madrid was scored at their home court!

Almeria is very honored to take away Real Madrid's virginity conceded this season. I believe Real Madrid fans will remember this because this team that has not been in a 16-year battle has given Real Madrid a wake-up call.

Real Madrid played strangely in this game!

This is what the live commentator said, not only him, but all Real Madrid fans saw it because they found that Real Madrid was actually playing ball control, and they also played very well.

In the 45-minute game in the first half, Real Madrid's possession rate was as high as 67.8%, which was rare in the previous Real Madrid tactics, but Real Madrid's shots were very few, less than Almeria's seven counterattacks, only 6 times, of which only 1 shot was directed, and the others were anti-aircraft guns.

What does this data reflect?

It reflects that Real Madrid's offensive advancement has a very big problem, and players are unable to effectively send the ball into the dangerous area, thus forming an effective shot opportunity, so it can only be transformed into personal ability performance and long-range shots.

In response to this point, Yang Cheng made adjustments during the intermission.

"Your new tactics are not a problem, and we have achieved our goal. In terms of ball possession, we are ahead of our opponents, and we can also press our opponents in the half. Now we are the last step away from, which is how to convert the ball possession rate into an effective threat." Benitez stood beside Yang Cheng, watching the referee whistle and started the second half of the game.

Yang Cheng smiled and turned his head to look at his partner, "If we lose this game, everyone will laugh at me tomorrow, thinking that I am Dongshi Xiaopin and want to learn from Barcelona to play and control the ball!"

"We have different tactics from Barcelona!" Redondo defended.

Benitez shook his head, "No one cares about you. If you lose, you will be redundant to even distinguish!"

"But we need a spare tire, and we can never fight the whole world with a set of tactics, right?" said Redondo.

This is something everyone knows, but some people will habitually ignore it, such as journalists.

After the adjustment of the intermission, Yang Cheng asked Aveloa and Miguel Torresdo to give Mata and Ozil some assistance. The wing passage was opened as much as possible to play the role of Negredo in the penalty area. Guti's position was also higher, and Granero was slightly behind, responsible for connecting the connection between Thiago Silva and Guti. He was Yang Cheng's tactics midfield support. He could pass the ball and assist, or invest in counter-grabbing as soon as possible. He could pass the ball and divide the side in the future, and even help retreat to the defense.

After more than a year, Real Madrid is familiar with Yang Cheng's running without the ball. They are very clear about how to keep a distance and how to support their teammates. This is not necessary to emphasize too much. The problem now is that they do not cooperate well enough and advance slowly.

But Yang Cheng has a feeling that this problem will be greatly improved as the players adapt to Almeria's defensive pressure and the opponent's physical energy consumption will be severely consumed.

So even when the team was behind for a long time, he still did not make substitution adjustments, which made everyone feel unbelievable. Even the on-site commentator felt that Yang Cheng was stubbornly sticking to his mistakes.

"We have to admit that he is very amazing, but in the first 60 minutes of this game, Real Madrid played very chaotic and could not organize an effective threatening offensive. He must make adjustments as soon as possible, otherwise, Real Madrid's winning streak may end in 16 games!"

The Real Madrid fans at Bernabeu did not boo, but encouraged the team.

When the game reached the 67th minute, Thiago Silva faced Brazilian compatriot Felipe Melo who dribbled the ball and stuck it in a steady position. After breaking the ball from Melo's feet, he quickly handed it to Miguel Torres on the right.

As soon as Castia got the ball, he led the ball forward and passed it straight to Ozil on the right.

The German young player took the ball with his back. Facing Bruno, who had excellent positioning and defense abilities, Ozil did not choose to continue a one-on-one breakthrough, but instead used his left foot advantage to dribble the ball sideways into the middle. After attracting the attention of the defenders, he passed the ball to Guti at the front of the penalty area.

After Guti got the ball, he did not hesitate at all because he was surrounded by defensive players. The ball seemed to hit his foot, bounced up, and landed on the right side of the penalty area.

Negredo was in the left area, while Raul inserted from outside the penalty area, turned his back to the goal, and stopped Guti's pass with his chest to his right, turned around, kicked his feet, and volleyed!

The whole action was completed in one go, like flowing clouds and water, very elegant and calm.

The ball passed through goalkeeper Covinho and rolled into the goal!

"1:1! Real Madrid scored a goal!!!"

Raul rushed out of the penalty area, waved his arms excitedly, and shouted at Real Madrid fans in the stands, allowing them to make their cheers even more intense.

The entire Bernabeu stadium was in full swing, and all Real Madrid fans were shouting Raul's name.

"A very, very beautiful goal, Guti's pass tore through Almeria's entire defense line, Raul's stop and volley were also very exciting. This is a reflection of the star's personal ability!"

But it is really just a reflection of the stars' personal abilities? It really has no tactical effect?

Soon, Real Madrid overturned the remark with a second goal 5 minutes later.

The first wave of attack was when Ozil made a breakthrough on the right and pulled the ball into the penalty area. Negredo's shot was blocked by the opponent's central defender Vanito, and Guti's shot that followed was destroyed by Bruno. Carlos Garcia cleared the ball out of the penalty area with big feet, but the ball fell at the feet of Thiago Silva in the back.

The Brazilian central defender stood very far in this game. After getting the ball, he transferred the ball to the left. Aveloa dribbled the ball forward and handed it to Mata. After the latter forcibly broke through on the left, he made a cross from the bottom.

Negredo competed for the header with Vanito at the back point, but the shooting angle was limited. He jumped up and flew the ball to the front point. He always looked like a cunning fox. After Raul, who was ambushing in the penalty area, headed the ball to knock Negredo's ferry into Almeria's goal again.

"goallllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!"

"In 5 minutes, Real Madrid won two consecutive games in 5 minutes!!!"

"Scoring twice, this is an excellent report card for us after Raul returned to the starting lineup!"

"A very beautiful encirclement. After Real Madrid equalized the score, they almost blocked Almeria in the half and bombed in a round of bombardment. The offensive wave after wave, and continued. Almeria was unable to even form effective ball control."

After completing the reversal, Yang Cheng made his first substitution in the whole game. He replaced Elgra with Xavi Garcia, let Thiago Silva go back to play the back center back, and let Xavi Garcia play Thiago Silva's position.

As a result, in the 78th minute, Xavi Garcia's pass was made, helping Ozil on the right to break into Almeria's penalty area. The German shot with a clever shot, but the strength failed and was saved by the goalkeeper. Negredo scored a follow-up shot, 3:1!

As the scene gradually opened, as Almeria was scored by Real Madrid one after another, his morale was depressed and his defensive intensity decreased. Yang Cheng replaced Guti with Callehon, let Ozil play in the middle, Callehon play in the right, and then replaced the outstanding captain Raul with young player Bueno. When the two captains of the team came out, they were cheered and applauded by all Real Madrid fans.

In the 88th minute, Granero was in a quick counterattack, and on the right side, he kicked the ball with imagination and made the penalty area. Negredo raised his foot and volleyed the ball, sending the ball into Almeria's goal again, 4:1!

Real Madrid, who scored 4 goals in one go, showed a momentum of dissatisfaction. These substitutes and youth team players who finally played in the league are now holding their anger to play and show themselves in front of Yang Cheng. Even at the last moment of the game, they are still threatening Almeria's goal, which scared Almeria's head coach so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.

But in the end, Real Madrid reversed Almeria 4-1 at the Bernabeu Stadium and ushered in its 17th consecutive victory in La Liga!

Even better news is that after the game, there was a wonderful good news from the El Sadal Stadium in Osasuna. After 90 minutes of the game, the two sides tied a 0:0 draw.

The most pitiful thing is that Barcelona has a ball possession rate of 69.5%, but it has never been able to break through Osasuna's goal. In contrast, the ball possession rate in this game is also high, reaching 70.5%, Real Madrid reversed Almeria 4:1 with the explosion in the last half hour.

These two games have become a topic that everyone talks about for a while, and everyone hopes to find out what happened to Barcelona and what is Real Madrid's transformation.

The Daily Sports News even sent a tragedy in the newspaper the next day, and published an article titled "What to save you, my Barcelona!", believing that Barcelona had just begun the league and lost the chance to win the championship.

This has also made Real Madrid, who has performed strongly recently, attract the attention of fans all over the world!
Chapter completed!