The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 346 Deadly Trap

Strictly speaking, this was the third time Ye Qiu sat in the stands to watch his team's game.

The first time was when he was sent off in the middle of the game, the second time was the previous away game in Porto, and now this is the third time, but obviously, the three experiences gave Ye Qiu completely different feelings.

In the previous two times, he indirectly commanded the team through mobile phones and notes. He still had a sense of participation, nervousness and concentration, but this time he felt that he was completely isolated from the game, acting as a complete spectator. This made him feel very unaccustomed and very uncomfortable.

Because he discovered for the first time that when he was sitting in the stands, watching his team being bombarded by the opponent, watching his team being beaten by the opponent, but he himself was powerless, that This feeling is too aggrieved, too depressed.

Benitez is definitely in today's football. It's hard to say whether he is number one, but at least he is among the top tactical masters. He not only has a very good sense of targeted tactics, but he is also very good at learning and learning from .

Many people say that Liverpool is very similar to Chelsea last season, because Benitez often uses Gerrard, Harvey Alonso and Harman to form a three-back midfielder, which is very similar to Chelsea's last season. 4321 tactics.

Of course, the frontcourt is different. At that time, Chelsea had Ronaldinho and Lampard in the frontcourt, Drogba in the center, while Liverpool had Riise and Luis Garcia in the frontcourt. Baros, Chelsea pay more attention to the two ribs and the center, while Liverpool pay more attention to the wing.

This also has something to do with the general lack of offensive ability of Liverpool's full-backs. If the full-backs lack offensive ability, if two players with certain wing capabilities cannot be placed in the winger position, the entire team's wings will be completely destroyed. Disabled, and Harvey Alonso's excellent long pass scheduling will also lose its effect.

Therefore, Ye Qiu feels that whether Benitez admits it or not, his Liverpool tactics are definitely cloning Chelsea's tactics, and then he improves and adjusts it according to his own characteristics, and finally comes up with Liverpool's tactics for this season.

But this does not mean that Liverpool's tactics are worse than Chelsea's last season. From the perspective of personnel quality, Liverpool is undoubtedly at an absolute disadvantage. After all, Chelsea's team is full of big names and the overall strength of the team is strong, but Liverpool is more practical. There is definitely a gap in the overall quality of the players.

Benitez's set of tactics has his superiority, that is, wing defense.

At the beginning, Chelsea used full-backs to advance to participate in the attack, relying on the team's domineering midfielder. Although doing so allowed Chelsea to maintain an overall balance, and performed very well, and the defense was also very solid, it was always a weakness and a deficiency. Liverpool On the other hand, adopt a wing attack and defense combination of defensive full-back and offensive winger to ensure the maximum protection of the wing.

Theoretically speaking, Liverpool's defensive full-back style of play can liberate the midfield to a certain extent, such as Xavi? More opportunities to invest in offense.

There are two sides to everything, there are advantages and disadvantages.

Adopting a combination of defensive fullbacks and offensive wingers, if the distance between the two is not properly grasped, it is likely to repeat the weakness of the previous Ajax period, that is, the sideways are out of touch. Regarding this, Bennett Si adopts a forward pressure tactic, defends in a high position, and presses the defense line forward, but in this way, the flexibility of defensive pursuit and turning is a problem.

The other one is that both Riise and Luis Garcia were assigned to the wing, and the distance between the striker Baros and the three defensive midfielders was too long, which directly led to the lack of strong attack in the center of Liverpool, and even directly caused Liverpool's offensive ability. missing.

Therefore, in many cases, Benitez gave Gerrard the greatest degree of freedom, allowing Gerrard to step forward and participate in the attack at any time according to his own observations, but Gerrard's characteristics are not the kind of series striker and striker. The type of players in the midfield, so Liverpool's attack relies too much on the wings, which is another problem.

Another equally serious problem is Baros. As a striker, the Czech is obviously not suitable for single forward tactics, especially this kind of single center forward tactics at the top. Not only Baros is not suitable, Cisse , Pangler is also not suitable, Morientes is very suitable in theory, but his playing rhythm cannot adapt to the Premier League, and his performance is relatively average.

In this game, Ye Qiu's defense obviously adopts the strategy of playing sideways and locking the center.

The three lines maintain a compact formation, and the defensive center is concentrated in the middle. Once Liverpool advances to the side of the 30-meter area, Chelsea's two full-backs immediately maintain a close connection with the central defender, blocking the inside channel of Liverpool's side, forcing you to pass middle.

After all, Baros is not a sturdy center forward. Under the restraint of Cannavaro and Gallas, Liverpool's headers can only return in vain again and again, but it is difficult for the Czech to get out of Chelsea's defense. Take advantage of even a little bit.

In this game, Ye Qiu's midfield formation has also changed. Deco has become an important member of the team's late defense. He is always the last of the three midfielders, while Davis And Parker is to take a large area of ​​running and pressing interception.

Here it is necessary to mention a very important consideration about the configuration of midfield defensive players.

In the eyes of many people, the defensive midfielder is divided into a defensive midfielder with an excellent position and awareness like Makelele, and a large-area running cover like Gattuso. I believe many people think that this is just a difference in defensive style, but I don't know if anyone has considered it, but this is actually the difference in the tactical system they adapt to.

The stance-type midfielder covers a relatively small area. If it is in some teams with poor pressing and oppression, his weakness will be exposed. That is, if Makelele goes to AC Milan to replace Gattuso, then It is definitely a great tragedy, because the other three midfielders of AC Milan don’t have much running and pressing. There is a lot of space exposed in the midfield, and the defender needs to run non-stop to complete the coverage and fill the loopholes, but this is not Makeley. Lai is good at.

Therefore, in Real Madrid, when the superstars in front are no longer pressing, Makelele needs a partner with a wide range of movement, such as Elguera. Ye Qiu even thought, if Makelele and Beckham The combination, maybe the effect will be very ideal, at least there will be no rapid fall of the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship.

Gattuso, Essien, and Davis are all covering midfielders who run in a wide range. Their biggest role is to fill the gaps, so the premise is that there must be gaps for them to run to fill. That kind of defense is very meticulous, and the team that presses very tightly from front to back will be less effective.

For example, in the previous life of Chelsea, many fans said that Essien likes to run around without wisdom. In fact, this is indeed due to the players, but there is also a very important part of the team's very careful tactics. When Essien finds a loophole, he must When he ran to fill up, his teammates had already blocked him in advance. Then he would find that he didn't need to run again halfway through the run.

Why did Ye Qiu use Davis last season but not this season?
Because last season's Chelsea was relatively loose overall, Ronaldinho basically did not invest in defense, and other players also needed to adapt to the team's tactical system, which gave Davis room to play, and the existence of the Dutch wild boar It can also fill Chelsea's midfield holes to the greatest extent and play a key role.

But this season, Chelsea's tactical system took shape, everyone cooperated tacitly, and the whole system was very tight from front to back. Davis had little room to play. On the contrary, Makelele played an increasingly important role. That's the reason.

Ye Qiu has always felt that every professional player has his own fixed characteristics, and the most important thing for a head coach is to dig out the characteristics of the players, and according to the characteristics of the players, combine a stable tactical system.

In the same way, the head coach needs to arrange different players and form different tactics according to different opponents in each game. This is the biggest role of the head coach.

Ye Qiu arranged for Davis, Deco and Parker to start this game, which was really helpless, because Makelele was absent, and in Ye Qiu's view, Deco was the most trustworthy member of the team, so he decided to Arranging Deco to delay, Davis and Parker both adopted a wide range of coverage and fighting, and Cannavaro and Gallas both gave proper support to the midfield, blocking the lack of Chelsea's midfield position and weakness, and at the same time It also blocked the offensive threat from Liverpool's middle lane.

From reaching the finals, Ye Qiu spent ten days constantly instilling his tactical ideas for the finals to the coaching staff such as Ten Cate and Roland, focusing on defense, counterattacks if he can counterattack, and counterattacks if he can't. Just stick to the end and drag the game into a penalty shootout without conceding the ball.

Moreover, Ye Qiu spent two full days rehearsing the penalty shootout. He collected the characteristics of all Liverpool players' penalty kicks, and handed over the penalty kick habits of all Liverpool players to Cudicini, and even specially Let people imitate the penalty kick habits of Liverpool players to help Cudicini train until Cudicini knows it well.

For Ye Qiu, he couldn't direct the game directly, and he was facing a tactician like Benitez. All he could do was to ensure that the team could survive to the end as far as possible, and strive to win the championship. Defensive counterattack was undoubtedly It is the safest way, and all the coaching staff has to do is to adjust the team's defensive structure.

For those who have followed Ye Qiu for many years, such as Ten Carter and Roland, this is not difficult!

This is the only limit Ye Qiu can do!

The offensive and defensive transitions of the game went fast, very fast.

Although Ye Qiu was sitting in the chairman's stand and failed to get first-hand data from the coaching staff, he could feel it because the possession of the ball was changing rapidly almost every minute. How fierce the competition is, but it also reflects that both teams have made great efforts in targeting.

The game process and enjoyment are still there, and it can even be said to be good, because the fast-paced game often makes the fans fascinated and forget the time, but in Ye Qiu's view, the offense of the two teams has not played Its own characteristics, Liverpool's offense is not strong, needless to say, but Chelsea's head coach was sent off the field due to the absence of many main players, and they did not play offense. Both sides have done a lot on defense.

The first half ended 0:0, and there was still no change after the start of the second half, and the same tactics were still adopted.

Normally, Ye Qiu would be worried about the continuous passage of game time, but this time he wished that the game time would go faster. It would be better to skip 120 minutes and go directly to the penalty shootout, because he felt that , Chelsea will definitely win in a penalty shootout than in a normal game.

As the game progressed at a fast pace, the physical exertion of the players on both sides became more and more serious. Ye Qiu saw Parker cramp after a defense in the stands. When he raised his head and looked at the time, he realized that It has been more than 80 minutes, and the game is about to enter overtime, but neither side has made any substitutions.

This is because both sides are very clear that this game is obviously no longer a duel of tactics and player strength. The tactics of the head coaches of both sides have restrained each other very well and offset each other. It's not big, what's more important now is the contest of players' willpower.

If you make a substitution now, you have to bear the risk after the substitution, especially for Liverpool.

Ten Carter replaced Parker with Essien immediately after Parker's leg cramps, and continued to adopt the same tactics, because both players belong to the kind of midfielders who run and press in a wide range, and the impact after the substitution is not very big, and Essien is physically fit and can maximize the vitality of Chelsea's midfield after playing.

Benitez also seemed to be aware of the problem. In the 86th minute, Luis Garcia was replaced by Kewell. The Spaniard also had cramps. Right, a bit like a right midfielder, Riise's position is a proper retreat, and he also plays a wide midfielder.

Ten Carter followed Ye Qiu's pre-match arrangement. After Essien played, he appropriately expanded the team's defensive range. On the one hand, he prevented the threat of Liverpool, and on the other hand, he also waited for the opponent to make mistakes.

I have to admit that Liverpool is indeed a team with very high tactical execution. Under the coaching of Benitez, the team's tactical quality is ridiculously high. Threatened mistakes, which made Chelsea's counterattack always difficult to play threats.

And with Ye Qiu not around, Ten Cate and the players did not dare to invest too much force in the counterattack. After all, if more troops are invested in the counterattack, the defense will definitely be weakened. As long as the timing is not good enough, Liverpool may catch them anytime and anywhere Live the opportunity.

As the time passed, the players on both sides gradually appeared physical problems, especially after the end of the 90-minute official game, and began to enter the half-hour overtime game, the physical fitness of the players appeared frequently. The problem is that players keep cramping.

Liverpool took the lead in making adjustments. After entering extra time, Benitez immediately replaced Finnan with Smicer, and let Traore, Hyypia and Carragher form a back three, obviously to further strengthen the team. Smicer's passing and organizational skills are very good. He went up to improve his ability to pass and threaten the ball.

At the same time, Benitez replaced the underperforming Baros with Cisse. The Czech striker was suppressed by Chelsea's defense throughout the game. His performance was terrible and he was replaced as a matter of course.

Before the game, Ye Qiu had planned a series of changes for Liverpool. He asked his assistants to make adjustments and choices according to the situation. Among them, after Liverpool switched to playing at the back three, the team should actively adopt a sideways counterattack strategy.

So, as soon as Liverpool moved on this side, Chelsea also started to make substitutions. Deco came down, Evra came on, Gudjohnsen was pulled back to the midfield, Rooney played in the center, Ribery went to the right, and Evra La occupied the left, making full use of Evra's abundant physical strength to attack Liverpool's defense.

After playing, Evra, who is more physically fit, has obviously become an important counterattack point for Chelsea. Ribery is on the right and Evra is on the left. The speed of the two players is a great threat to Liverpool's defense. It's hard to put all your energy into the offense.

In the 100th minute, Chelsea counterattacked with a long pass. Evra quickly rushed in from the left. He responded, but because the ball was interfered by Hyypia, he turned the direction, and there was a misjudgment. In a hurry, France's Scarface directly threw a golden hook upside down, but he didn't use his strength and was confiscated by Dudek.

Although they failed to score a goal, Chelsea seemed to have tasted the sweetness and quickly launched another attack, this time from the right. Quick kick volley, the ball is slightly higher.

Two successive waves of offensives created threats, and immediately after, Gudjohnsen also fell to the ground and had cramps. Chelsea immediately made a substitution. In the 103rd minute, Joe Cole replaced Gudjohnsen. Step up the offense.

In the second half of overtime, Chelsea seemed to consciously strengthen the team's offensive, especially after Liverpool switched to a three-back tactic, the weakness of the wing was exposed. Evra and Ribery played on both sides. The road kept hitting back and forth, Rooney also created a great threat in the middle, coupled with Joe Cole passing the ball behind, Chelsea's offensive began to improve.

But in the stands, Ye Qiu couldn't sit still. He stood up from his seat and shook his head constantly. He didn't know if his players could see his movements. If so, then They should know that this is a trap.

A most deadly trap!
On the one hand, playing three backs is to strengthen the offense, but at the same time it also exposes the weakness of the wing defense; the problem is that Chelsea uses Liverpool's weakness on the wing to create opportunities, but at the same time it also bears the risk of being counterattacked by the opponent.

There are advantages and disadvantages, everything has two sides, and now Chelsea has obviously been consciously seduced by Liverpool to fight.

This is the advantage of the head coach standing on the sidelines to direct, and if Ye Qiu was there, he would definitely stop the players' actions immediately, but the person standing on the sidelines to direct is not him!

If you continue to play like this, the goal will be in danger!

(End of this chapter)