"" Chapter 592: Front court ball control

In today's football world, Arsenal and Barcelona play football that pursue ball control. From the scene, the football styles of the two teams are very similar.

Actually, it is not the case.

Barcelona has much more possession rate than Arsenal.

Does this mean that Barcelona's offense is more gorgeous, or the team pays more attention to offense?

That's not necessarily true.

Barcelona's football style is to "replace" defense with ball control, use ball control to consume opponents' physical fitness and take the initiative in the game.

Essentially, they are taking the ball not to be lost as part of their defensive system.

Therefore, they have a lot of backcourts, sometimes, even so much that they make the audience drowsy.

When the opponent is impatient because he has not taken the ball for a long time or is not focused, they either use Xavi's precise straight pass, or use Iniesta and Messi's rapid assault to quickly open the gap in the opponent's defense line and then complete a fatal blow.

When taking the ball, Barcelona's offense seemed very cumbersome and procrastinating, and the scene was not good-looking.

However, in the actual passing of the goal, they only had a few passes, and the offense was very fast and the game would become much more exciting.

Therefore, in a sense, Barcelona is not a real attack and defense, but a variant of defensive counterattack.

Or, it can be called "ball control counterattack".

Compared with the traditional full attack and defense, Barcelona's ball-controlled counterattack style has obvious advantages, that is, the offense and defense are more balanced and the advantage in the scene is greater.

With the same ball-control style, Arsenal's football style is different from Barcelona. They use the style of playing with all attacks and defenses.

In the past, when their defense was solid, they could play beautiful football and even unbeaten in the season.

However, when their defense is no longer so stable, their performance becomes very unstable due to the openness of the team's playing style. Sometimes, their opponents will even play big scores.

Therefore, it can be said that compared with traditional Italian-style defensive counterattacks, full attack and all defense are not a very mature tactical system.

The reason is very simple, because its offense and defense are not balanced, and while paying attention to offense, it sacrifices the quality of defense.

Barcelona's method is to combine all attacks and defenses with defensive counterattacks and transform them into ball-handling counterattacks.

So, what about Arsenal?

In the past few years, Wenger has been trying to transform the full offense and defense tactics, so that Arsenal can also be more balanced while being gorgeous.

The professor who advocates offense is not unaware of the way of playing with the ball, but he is not willing to imitate Barcelona's style of playing.

He believes that the style of play is not a real offensive style of play.

What should be a real offensive football?

That's going to the frontcourt to control the ball!

As a result, Wenger's team is often beaten into sieve...

This is very simple after all.

In frontcourt ball control, you must invest a lot of troops in the offense, and even form a local advantage in numbers. There are more offensive players than opponents' defensive players.

With more players in the frontcourt, there will definitely be fewer players in the backcourt, unless you can send 14 people in one game like some teams...

If there are few players in the backcourt and the opponent strikes back, it will be an open space.

Then, there are often scenes where Arsenal players chase behind the opponent's forward, and Arsenal goalkeeper directly deals with the opponent's forward.

In this way, it is strange that the defense quality can be good.

Lack of protection from the defensive system, being a goalkeeper at Arsenal has become a common thing to concede goals.

In many cases, the Gunners' goalkeepers become scapegoats for teams' poor record.

It can even be said that after Heeman and Lehman got old, the Gunners' goalkeeper position became the black hole for goalkeepers. There are few goalkeepers who can hold the main force in the Gunners' goalkeeper position, and at the same time they can receive unanimous praise.

Is it said that Wenger's tactical thinking is wrong?

In fact, it may not be possible, but Wenger's tactics require a strong enough world-class goalkeeper to support it.

Between 2000 and 2008, Edelman has been the general manager of the Arsenal club and was one of the main creators of the construction of the Emirates Stadium. He worked with Wenger for 8 years and can be said to be one of the last people to know about the professor.

Not long ago, Edelman mentioned this when talking about the shortcomings of Arsenal's management.

“When I used to sit in the conference room, I often heard Arsenal say, ‘If you want to win the Premier League, you have to have a world-class goalkeeper’.”

"Well, if that's what he believes, but has he actually put it into practice? Dunn's importance may be underestimated, and having him may ensure we have a world-class goalkeeper now."

David Dunn was once the Gunners' vice chairman, and Edelman said this to explain the importance of Dunn to the Gunners.

The grievances and grievances of the Gunners' management are hard to explain clearly.

But Edelman's words at least mean that Wenger has been wanting a world-class goalkeeper for a long time.

In Wenger's tactical system, the role of a world-class goalkeeper is very, very important. It can even be said to be the core of his frontcourt ball-controlled style.

In his tactical style, the goalkeeper is the defensive core of the entire team. He not only undertakes the task of protecting the goal, but also promptly mobilizes limited defensive players to organize the team's last line of defense.

When the defender cannot return to defense, the goalkeeper must also attack in time and act as a scavenger on the defense line.

Great control range, excellent defensive command ability, clear mind, smart judgment and position selection, excellent one-on-one defense ability, excellent psychological quality...

Not all goalkeepers can possess such goalkeepers.

Wenger has been studying this tactical style for many years. The Gunner's tactics over the years all come from the formation he ideally.

It’s a pity that he never found the goalkeeper he ideally has.

Until, he signed Chu Jiang this summer.

When Chu Jiang was still in Turin, when he saw the video brought back by the scout, Wenger's eyes lit up, thinking that he might be the all-round goalkeeper he wanted.

So he wanted to bring Chu Jiang to Arsenal at that time.

It’s a pity that the evil labor certificate system stopped him.

In two years, Chu Jiang went from Turin to Sampdoria step by step from obscurity to worldly fame, and his skills were becoming more and more perfect.

After two years of observation, Wenger has become increasingly convinced that Chu Jiang will be the goalkeeper he wants.

Therefore, the professor who is rare in the transfer market has always been regarded as Grandet Wenger. This time he opened his position and robbed Chu Jiang from Manchester United with a lot of money.

And Chu Jiang's arrival did not disappoint the professor.

With Chu Jiang joining, the Gunners immediately became the team with the least number of goals conceded in the Premier League.

However, in terms of offense, Wenger is still hesitating whether to completely transform the team into a frontcourt ball-controlled offensive football, and still rely on Van Persie to play football according to the style of play last season.

Van Persie's injury gave Wenger a chance to experiment with a new style of play.

It should be said that the effect is quite good.

However, after Van Persie returned to the team due to his injury, Wenger changed the team's tactics back due to his trust in Van Persie and his inheritance of the team's tactics last season.

However, such changes are not effective.

Because the game is dense and Wenger does not have much time to adjust tactical skills, the team's record has been affected.

Now that the league has entered a quit period, Wenger is naturally thinking about some team tactical issues and helping the team unify tactical thinking.

In fact, the playing style that focuses on Van Persie is not much different from the ball-controlled frontcourt.

However, in terms of tactical details, the distribution of ball rights of the ball players, the running positions of the players in the backcourt, the offensive routines at the front of the penalty area, etc., the team still needs to make some subtle adjustments.

General Fan is a very comprehensive player. He can not only score goals by himself, but also has the skills of making goals, assists, outs and possessing balls.

Therefore, it is not very difficult to integrate the general into the new offensive system.

It just takes a little time, though.

During this rare league recession, Wenger began to seize the time to practice new tactics.

If the old tactics can maximize Van Persie's personal abilities, then the new tactics can activate the Gunners' offensive ability in the frontcourt, and make Van Persie and Chu Jiang feel as if they are in water.

Wenger is confident that as long as the new offensive system is built and the team completes the running-in, Arsenal's performance in the second half of the season will definitely be better than the first half of the season.

Therefore, the professor is focused on practicing the team's new tactics.

As for the winter transfer period, Wenger has no idea.

For the Gunners, if they want to be more in line with the team's tactics, it is best to introduce a winger who is good at breaking through during the winter transfer period, such as Lucas Jr.; and then sign in a fast, good-standing and clear-headed central defender, such as Thiago Silva.

Whether it is Lucas Jr. or Thiago Silva, they are all dream-level players.

The so-called dream level means dreaming and thinking about it.

If you really want to buy these two players, the Gunners really can't afford it. During the summer transfer period, Arsenal has basically overdrawn their transfer fees for three years in order to buy the dream-level player Chu Jiang...

Arsenal have no idea about the winter transfer period because they lack sufficient transfer funds now.

However, other teams are not.

In this winter, many teams with sufficient financial resources are ready to make a difference and even make a big move.

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ps: Actually, I like to write tactical analysis very much. Am I more suitable to write about coaches? Hehe... Uh, there are many tactical things in this chapter, which may be a bit boring, and there will be no such tactical things in the future.

PS: It’s the end of the month. I’m waiting for the monthly ticket to be put into the pot. I look forward to the big players opening a porridge restaurant to share the food!

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