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Chapter 456 Tactical Change
Then Wenger started the tactical meeting. He mainly analyzed and commented on the performance of the training in the past few days, including the performance of each player in the three lines of the team.

The central defender combination of Koscielny and Bennetia works well together. They have worked together for many years and know each other well. It is just that Bennetia used to play as a substitute. Now he is playing the main force. It is somewhat uncomfortable, but Wenger believes that with time and experience, he will perform better and better.

For the time being, Bellerin and Paulista are not yet capable of being the main players on the wing. Riise and Finnan will be the team's main players, but Wenger will also give the two teenagers more opportunities to create enough pressure for the main players to make them progress.

The midfielders must be Bale, Walcott, Ozil, Cazorla, and Wanyama. Ramsey, Essien Wilshere, Rosicky, and Pogba can only play as substitutes for the time being. Among them, Pogba is a variable for Wenger. He is also pondering when it is most appropriate to use him.

On the front line, Li Yuxin is the core of the tactics, in the center, and Bale plays on the left. During the absence of Walcott, Wenger tried Murphy, Dirk, and others to play on the right.

In this way, Wenger's offensive focus in the new season will be concentrated on Li Yuxin.

Flying on both wings, using Li Yuxin as the fulcrum, shifting from left to right, and attacking in the back row of the midfield!

In order to shorten the distance between the players, Wenger is also trying to move the defense forward by 5 meters, not too much, because there is too much, and Arsenal's defense may be difficult to support.

To put it bluntly, Arsenal does not have Lucio, and the players are not Nesta, so they cannot do what AC Milan and Inter Milan did back then.

The advantage of advancing the defense line is that it can shorten the distance between players, and Liverpool's tactic is that the full-backs go forward and the back line presses forward, which can also shorten the running distance of the full-backs and save energy consumption.

And if according to Ji Dong's idea, it's best to move forward as much as possible, but if you encounter a speed forward, pair it with a passer with excellent passing ability.

Sometimes when a head coach makes any decision, he has to consider the overall situation, and even think about it from the perspective of a season's strategic deployment.

For example, it is okay to let the defense line not go forward, but I am afraid that the full-backs will consume too much energy, especially since there is no winter break in the Premier League, injuries will inevitably follow, and the results will be affected.

Of course, Wenger is an offensive coach and he will not give up the tactic of full-backs advancing forward. Therefore, he feels that moving forward 5-10 meters depends on the opponent's situation.
Anyway, with Li Yuxin as a top center, he can do whatever he wants!

As a head coach, Wenger firmly believes that thinking determines the way out, height determines depth, and layout determines the ending!

He believes that Arsenal will have a good ending!

And when facing players,

"All of you must keep in mind one thing, deeply in your mind, that offense is never a one-shot deal, because if you waste an opportunity, it is tantamount to creating an opportunity for your opponent. This is tantamount to hurting yourself and taking advantage of our opponent."

"So I still hope that everyone can be more patient when attacking, and observe the teammates around them more, especially you, Li, you are the captain. Remember, when you play football, you have to look up and observe. We play for a team. It is you who have to integrate into the team as a whole, not the team that revolves around you. Do you know what I mean?"

Li Yuxin nodded to express his understanding.

"Passing back does not mean that the offense has failed, but it means that we are adjusting, and proper passing back can also pull the opponent's defense line and help us better find the loopholes in the opponent's defense line."

"But once you find the opponent's loopholes, hit them, hit them hard, hit them without hesitation, don't have the slightest worries, because if you fail, you will still have teammates by your side."

"All of you have to understand one thing. Football is a team sport. If you lose the ball, everyone has to fight back immediately. Because of what you are doing now, when you lose the ball, your teammates will do the same for you. This can guarantee our defensive quality, understand?"

The players kept nodding their heads one by one.

In the tactical meeting before, Wenger repeatedly mentioned the importance of delay to the defensive system, and actively investing in counterattacks is the best delay method, which can create more time for the team to organize defense.

Wenger firmly believes that tactical details should be instilled in daily life, bit by bit, so that they can remember them slowly, and even strict requirements and checks must be made in training, so that they can gradually adapt to these details, and then become habits.

Those cramming guys are destined to end in tragedy!
And the development of football in these years has made Wenger feel a lot of emotion. Looking at his tactical assistant Ji Dong, he is also very fortunate.

In the 90s and 442s, in the world football where the 352 and [-] formations complement each other, the classical midfielder also produced a large number of talents.At that time, many of the dirty work on the court could be handed over to the defensive midfielders and defenders. The classical midfielder only needs to swim around, waiting for the pass of his teammates to organize the attack, looking for opportunities to make a fatal blow.From Zico, Platini, later Zidane, Rui Costa, Valderrama, to Riquelme who announced his retirement a few days ago, the classic midfielders all interpret the beauty of artistic football for us with their superb skills and elegant style of play, and outline a pleasing picture.I believe that for most fans, the existence of the classical attacking midfielder opens up another possibility of football, which is the elegance and magnificence relative to strength and speed, and that is the initial love for football hidden in many people's hearts.

The so-called "classical midfielder" is the most classic No. 10 player in football tactics. They are the organizers of the team, grasp the rhythm of the entire game, and are the most stable ball-holding point for the entire team in offensive and defensive transitions.The classic attacking midfielders may not have the speed of the wind and the super running ability, but they can rely on their outstanding overall situation, exquisite dribbling skills and keen observation skills to find gaps in the opponent's defense line in the blink of an eye, and send a deadly pass with graceful footwork.What is more convincing about the classical midfielders is their unconstrained organization and elegant and flexible style of play.Unlike players who rely too much on physical confrontation, they rely more on subtle dribbling, wide vision and precise passing to get rid of opponents and complete fatal blows. They always have a kind of calmness, calmness and innate elegance.

Nowadays, with the development of modern football, the pace of the game is getting faster and faster, the reliance on physical confrontation has increased, and the defense of the team has become stricter. However, the elegant position of the classical midfielder seems to have gradually entered a dead end and has fallen behind the trend of the times.There are multiple reasons for the decline of classical attacking midfielders, but in the final analysis, they all stem from the development and changes of modern football tactics.

The pace of modern football is getting faster and faster, and the competition between the two sides for time and space determines the situation of the game. In this increasingly fierce competition, the classical midfielder who needs to hold the ball, think and pay attention to rhythm organization is becoming more and more out of date. In 2002, Bielsa, who was the Argentine coach at the time, chose to abandon Riquelme. The reason he gave was that Romy's pace was too slow, and Barcelona only gave Romy half a season before losing patience.Even in Villarreal, although Romy led the team to the Champions League semi-finals, the Yellow Submarine finally chose to succumb to reality. After three seasons, Riquelme chose to return to Argentina. This is also considered to be an important node in the decline of the classical midfielder.

In modern football games, higher requirements are put forward for the attacking midfielder's performance on both offensive and defensive ends.Players active in the middle often need to run actively, but the classic midfielder is somewhat lazy on the field, with average running ability, insufficient defensive positioning, and even the ability to counter-attack on the spot is difficult to meet the team's requirements, and it is difficult to provide effective protection for the team's defense.For example, the former Colombian star Valderrama, such as Riquelme who has just retired, the classical attacking midfielder's almost "standing and directing the game" style of play is destined to be difficult to find a foothold in today's tactical system that pays more and more attention to the running of midfielders.

The changes in the technical and tactical styles of modern football have further compressed the living space of the classical midfielders. The midfielder group represented by Makelele and Vieira can be called the nightmare of the classical midfielders. The tactical disadvantages of relying on a single core to dominate the team's offense have been exposed. Once the team's brain is stared to death by opposing players or in poor condition, the whole team will easily fall into a passive position.In modern football where the defense is increasingly tight and even cruel, the relatively single-function classical midfielder began to gradually transform into an all-around midfielder and organizational midfielder, and the practical value of the classical midfielder was further weakened.

While the classical attacking midfielder is gradually declining, the all-round midfielder represented by Fabregas and others and the organizational midfielder represented by Pirlo and Harvey have become the trend of world football, and these two styles are also considered to be the mutation and transformation of the classical midfielder.

It can be said that Wenger has personally experienced this kind of change, and has also made many changes and transformations in the midfield, and now it is another transformation, that is, the transformation of the center forward.
In the 90s and 20s, a group of typical centers emerged in the international football world. No matter Van Basten, Klinsmann or Shearer, they all had the primary goal of finding scoring opportunities in the opponent's penalty area, and they also had excellent header ability, so they constantly used their height advantage to send the ball into the opponent's goal. Vieri, Batistuta, Crespo, Kluivert and others who emerged at the end of the [-]th century also left an indelible impression on the fans.Looking at football back then, in Serie A, in order to break the chain defense, the team was equipped with strikers with one high and one small as standard; in the Premier League, in order to play high and pass from the side, there must be a strong high center forward to grab points.They rely on their natural body and strength, or a little flexibility, in order to break the door.

But in the current technical football and team football system, standing high center forwards have become unpopular. From Ronaldo to Henry to Messi today, the protagonists who take on the task of destroying cities for the team have been replaced by a group of speed players with excellent dribbling ability.Compared with the era when high center forwards were born in large numbers more than ten years ago, even if there are still many tall centers in today's football, their responsibilities have become different.For example, Ibrahimovic, who is 1 meters tall, is not good at headers, but is keen to show off his dribbling skills on the court and become the team's offensive fulcrum in the midfield.As for Crouch or Zikic, who are 92 meters tall, they are not regarded as the top shooters of this era.Can be called a typical representative of the high center, only Drogba, Gomez and a few people left.And among the younger group of players, apart from Li Yuxin, it seems difficult to find their successors.

And Li Yuxin is not a traditional center, but an all-round center. Although many people think that the center is not important, Wenger thinks that the center is still indispensable, just like Barcelona immediately spent 6700 million euros to acquire Ibrahimovic after Eto'o left Barcelona.But just one year later, Ibrahimovic was sold off because he could not adapt to the team system, and the jumping price was only 2400 million euros.In this year, Ibrahimovic scored 43 goals in 21 appearances, and he was thrown on the bench during the sprint period of the season.

After Ibrahimovic left, Barcelona immediately acquired Villa, and the purchase price reached 4000 million euros.But because Messi has switched to playing center forward, Villa was forced to appear on the left winger.Villa performed well in the first season, but his physical function declined sharply after the fracture, and his running ability declined, making him unable to cut inside to approach the opponent's goal, nor to immediately put pressure on the opponent in the counterattack.Villa lost his main position last season and only scored 16 goals in total. Barcelona sold it off at a price of 510 million euros.

In the summer of 2011, Barcelona bought Alexis Sanchez for a fixed transfer fee of 2600 million euros.Guardiola originally wanted him to play as a winger, but found that the most suitable for the Chilean is the center instead, and his sense of grabbing points is very prominent.In his first season at Barcelona, ​​Alexis Sanchez scored 41 goals in 15 appearances.Last season, the Chilean scored just 46 goals in 11 appearances, most of which came in the final stages of the season.For most of last season, Alexis Sanchez was not Ronaldo, but Torres.

Even Bojan, Barcelona's own youth training product, is also trapped by the curse of the center.Bojan is not suitable to appear on the wing, but he can't compete with Messi in the middle.After being rented to Serie A by Barcelona for two years, Bojan will be rented to Ajax again in the new season.A once-future star has fallen before taking off.

Speaking of Barcelona's center forward curse, Messi has to be mentioned.It is precisely because of Messi's existence that the orthodox centers either serve as his substitute or are pushed to the side.Considering Messi's scoring efficiency against the sky, it is impossible for any coach to let the fleas return to the right for other centers.Coupled with the fact that both Guardiola and Vilanova like to let Fabregas play as a false center when Messi is absent, the living space of traditional centers will naturally be compressed.

Villa, the top scorer in Spanish history this season, ended his three-year trip to Camp Nou.From the point of view of personal honor, Villa has won 3 championships in 8 years and has gained a lot.But judging from personal data, Villa only scored 48 goals in three years. He also lost his main position last season, so his performance can hardly be called perfect.In the eyes of the outside world, Villa has become another victim of the curse of the Barcelona center.After Eto'o left, Barcelona spent 1.33 million euros to buy a center forward, but they still couldn't buy an ideal candidate.

So a good center is still very important!

(End of this chapter)