Football coach

"Javier, welcome to the team."

Entering September, Mascherano was long overdue.

Mascherano has been busy this summer.First, he played in the America's Cup with the Argentine national team. Under the excellent situation, he was defeated by the Brazil team and only won a runner-up in the America's Cup.

Then followed the Olympic team non-stop to participate in the Athens Olympic Games.

Good grades.

won the Olympic champion.

Only ten days after the end of the Olympic Games, Mascherano also immediately came to the team to report.Mascherano can be said to have not rested at all this summer.Mascherano is a player that Chen Ping spent 1000 million pounds to introduce this summer, and he is also the player with the highest transfer fee in Chen Ping's coaching career.His arrival has greatly increased West Ham's midfield strength.

West Ham's midfield is very strong.

In the defensive midfielder position alone, there is Lomas, as well as the young Leo Cork, and now Mascherano.It can be said that in terms of defensive midfielder reserves, West Ham can enter the top four in the entire Premier League.

West Ham will play the UEFA Cup soon, and they will also play the UEFA Cup in October, but Chen Ping is not worried at all.Because West Ham's personnel reserves are still sufficient.

The spring breeze is proud.

They won all four games in August, and Javier Mascherano, a strong supporter, came to the team in September, and everything is going in a good direction.It's a pity that extreme joy begets sorrow.

On September 2004, 9, nearly half a month later, the Premier League reignited the flames of war.

In the fifth round of the Premier League, West Ham challenged England's No. [-] giant Liverpool away.Liverpool have also changed a lot this season.Liverpool's top star and one of England's top superstar players Owen left Real Madrid, and Liverpool also ushered in a Spanish coach.

Benitez is also one of the top young coaches emerging in European football in recent years.

Among the current well-known young coaches in European football, the first to take the lead is the current Milan coach Ancelotti.Ancelotti started coaching Juventus as early as four or five years ago, and later coached Milan. He led Milan to the Champions League last season.He was the young marshal who first became famous and had a high status.

And now the most popular young coach is of course Mourinho.

Mourinho is four years younger than Ancelotti and is only 41 years old this year.After coaching Porto, he won the UEFA Cup and the Champions League in a row, and his current performance at Chelsea is also very good.

In comparison, Benitez is not as popular as the previous two.

But Benitez's results are not inferior at all.Won two La Liga titles in Valencia and another UEFA Cup title.Entering Liverpool this time has brought many Spanish players.Including Real Sociedad's captain, midfielder Harvey Alonso.And Morientes, Luis Garcia, and the striker Cisse.

Benitez is a master tactician.

West Ham's weakness was fully grasped by Benitez.

During the Liverpool game, they slammed West Ham's two full-back positions.Martin Daniel and Glenn Johnson, the two full-backs of West Ham, are actually not bad in one-on-one defense.Because both of them are in good physical condition.

The physical confrontation ability is not bad, the explosive power is strong, the speed is fast, and the agility is also very good.

One-on-one is an excellent full-back, and he can rank first in the entire English football.Relying on the excellent physical fitness of the two, as long as they stick together, it will not be so easy for those wingers to get rid of them.

But both have a problem.That is, both of them are full-backs who are strong offensively and weak defensively. Neither of them has a good sense of position, and they also have many problems in cooperating with the central defenders.Once the formation moves forward, the gap between them and the central defenders will be large.

Four consecutive victories made West Ham players very inflated.

Liverpool are fearless in front of the away game.

But when West Ham dared to attack, West Ham's wing problems were very obvious.After being caught by Liverpool, he was beaten hard.Liverpool's two wingers, Luis Garcia on the right and Kewell on the left, ran during the game to find a space for West Ham's wing.

In addition, Pepe is still inexperienced, and he also likes to step forward and assist.Although the physical condition is very good, but on the defense, the experience is very important.The problem of the two full-backs, plus Pepe is also seriously out of position, West Ham's defense is really not very good.

And Liverpool needless to say.

Their midfield passing ability is excellent.Whether it is Harvey Alonso introduced by Benitez from Real Sociedad, or Gerrard, Liverpool's own youth training player, they all have excellent passing ability.

Especially the long pass ability.

Both have the ability to deliver deadly medium and long passes, just right for a team like West Ham.

Therefore, West Ham played very embarrassingly.

West Ham's offense is good, but there are many defensive problems.Playing against Benitez, Liverpool easily tore through West Ham's defense.In the 1th minute of the first half, Luis Garcia, who played Liverpool on the right, inserted through the gap between Pepe and Martin Anthony.Luis Garcia doesn't tangle with Martin Anthony at all, because one-on-one Luis Garcia simply doesn't have the ability to get past.But there is a lot of space behind Martin Anthony and between the central defenders to exploit.

So Luis Garcia just ran, ran a chance, and Gerrard also took advantage of the opportunity to pass a fatal pass to Luis Garcia.After getting rid of Martin Anthony, a low pass, followed by Morientes in the middle, scored the first goal.

After falling behind, West Ham pressed hard.

Give Liverpool more chances.In the 9th and 8th minutes of the first half, only [-] minutes after the last goal, Gerrard made another long pass and hit the ball behind West Ham.

Baros scored a counter-offside and scored the second goal.

The ball hit Pepe's back.Peipei didn't come back in time after taking the ball forward.Leo Cork, despite filling in for Pepe, was kicked behind him.

On the wing and in the middle, no one thought that West Ham, which was so strong in August, would have so many defensive loopholes.The defensive line is full of loopholes, which were directly found out by Benitez.

Chen Ping really wanted to calm down.

But falling behind by two goals can only strengthen the offense.Offense and defense are not absolute.But as long as the offense is increased, there will be more chances of being intercepted.

Benitez is definitely an alternative Spanish coach, completely different from traditional Spanish coaches.

Very calm.

As the head coach of Liverpool, England's number one club, and facing newly promoted West Ham at home, Benitez adopts a very safe style of play

.West Ham is not in a hurry, so Liverpool is even less in a hurry.As long as West Ham attack, Liverpool will recover.Then hit your counterattack.

At the end of the first half, Liverpool once again seized the hole in West Ham's wing and turned the score into [-]-[-].

Chen Ping had no temper at all.

Liverpool made persistent efforts in the second half and scored two more goals.Although West Ham made adjustments in the second half and scored two goals, they still lost by a big score of [-] to [-] in the away game.

This is West Ham's first defeat in the Premier League after promotion.It was also Chen Ping's first defeat in the Premier League.

"Losing? It's normal. There is no team that doesn't lose. We are a newly promoted team, and Liverpool is a giant. Playing Liverpool at Anfield, which team dares to say that they can retreat unscathed. Win or lose It's a very common thing. The failure of this game is due to my pre-match arrangement, and it has nothing to do with my players."

Although disappointed, Chen Ping did not show his disappointment at all.I don't know how many reporters want to see Chen Ping's jokes and gloat.Chen Ping would not give them this chance.

So Chen Ping was very calm, as if this game was not a West Ham game.

"And losing at this time is also a good thing, it can make my players calm down."

It really is.

With four consecutive victories, Chen Ping is full of confidence, especially for West Ham players.Originally, it was a very difficult game against Liverpool.At Anfield, even Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea dare not say that they can beat Liverpool.But no matter whether it is Chen Ping or the players, there are some overachievers.He actually wanted to use goals to attack Liverpool at Anfield.

Being beaten by Liverpool with a score of [-] to [-] is really a timely rain and a slap in the face.

Chen Ping himself has to summarize.

"Julian, Liu Yu, tell me how to solve the defensive problem?"

After the game, Chen Ping immediately called two assistant coaches, Julian Dix and Liu Yu, to discuss.Glenn Johnson and Martin Anthony's problems won't be resolved overnight.

Both of them are too young and too inexperienced.

And now it will take time for this back line to complete the tacit understanding.Either wait for Chen Ping to have enough potential points and strength points to help them, or they can only wait for them to accumulate enough experience themselves.But the game does not wait for anyone, and it will not wait for West Ham's defense to improve before playing against West Ham.

Just got beaten [-]-[-] by Liverpool, and in the next round, West Ham will face the mighty Chelsea at home in the sixth round of the Premier League.

Benitez has seen West Ham's loopholes, how can Mourinho not be clear.In other words, when Benitez beats West Ham like this, almost all coaches in the Premier League will be inspired.

What's more, the opponent Mourinho's current winger tactics in the next game are most suitable for playing against a team with problematic wing defense like West Ham.

Therefore, Chen Ping also had a headache.

This problem must be solved.Otherwise, those opponents in the Premier League will learn from Benitez.

"There are only a few ways to strengthen the defense. If you want to improve the defense in a short period of time, then there is only one way."

Julian Dix thought for a moment before speaking.

"Julian, tell me."

One person's wisdom is short, but everyone's wisdom is long.

What is the coaching staff keeping for, just to assist the head coach.So Chen Ping wanted to hear the opinion of his assistant coach.

"People, use numbers to defend. It is impossible to make players understand each other in a short period of time, and it is impossible to build a defensive system in a short period of time. Our players are too young and need a lot of experience in games, so in a short period of time we The defense will have a lot of problems. So I think the best way is to increase the number of defenders to strengthen the defense."

"kindness."

Chen Ping nodded slowly.

Although Julian Dix's method is stupid, it is actually the simplest and most effective method, and it is the defensive method used by almost every weak team.In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to put a bus in front of the door.

Pile people in the 30-meter area in front of the goal, and use the number of people to cover up the loopholes in defense.

A stupid way, but also the most effective way.

"Teacher, I think so too."

Liu Yu was at West Ham and learned a lot from Chen Ping.From Chen Ping's training plan, Liu Yu himself has summed up many secrets.Moreover, after this training plan is used for West Ham players, the growth of West Ham players in terms of physical fitness, physical confrontation, and basic skills is very obvious.Therefore, Liu Yu knew that Chen Ping's training plan was indeed a big treasure.

After learning so much from Chen Ping, Liu Yu slowly began to call Mr. Chen Ping, and Chen Ping did not object.

"Teacher, the current situation of the team is that the offense is very good and there are many ways. But there are many problems in defense. Playing against some weak teams, even if they see the loopholes in our defense, they are also because of our offense. So we can't take advantage of these weak teams. But once the team encounters a strong team like Liverpool, our defense is like paper. This is difficult to change in a short period of time. So I think we will encounter some strong teams , we should properly recycle it.”

"Defensive counterattack?"

"Yes. Playing against a strong team, our defense is at a disadvantage."

Chen Ping fell into deep thought.

West Ham has many offensive routines, and their offensive strength is also very strong.Chen Ping originally hoped to use offense to cover up the loopholes in defense.But the game against Liverpool completely woke up Chen Ping.

Unless you can control the ball at your feet like the peak Barcelona, ​​and you can achieve a perfect press in the frontcourt, otherwise it is not easy to use offense to cover up defensive loopholes.Moreover, Chen Ping's team plays differently from Barcelona, ​​and the philosophy is also different.

Barcelona's philosophy is that if there is no chance, I will control the ball at my feet and reduce mistakes.This is the philosophy handed down by Cruyff.But Chen Ping's idea is to pass the ball into the opponent's penalty area as much as possible.This is because Chen Ping was influenced by England's style of play.The more you pass the ball into dangerous areas, the more threats you create.

Therefore, when Chen Ping's West Ham attack vigorously, but there will also be many pass errors.If you don't pay attention, you may be hit back.

It's okay to meet a weak team, but once you meet a strong team, the defensive loopholes will be obvious, just like playing against Liverpool.

Shrink the line of defense?

Maybe this is a good idea.After all, West Ham is a newly promoted team. Even if the current situation is a defensive counterattack, others can't say anything.

"Go back first, let me think about it."