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This tactic was perfectly demonstrated by Barcelona and Guardiola's Manchester City at their peak, but it failed to succeed in Real Madrid. Not only did the team fail to show a sharp passing and control tactic, but it also lost its former glory. Excellent counterattack ability

During Lopetegui's period, Real Madrid's counterattacks accounted for only 5.01%, ranking second from the bottom in La Liga.

The reason is very simple. This tactic has extremely strict requirements on the players' sense of position, passing rate and passing accuracy. Real Madrid players need a long adaptation period.

At the beginning of the La Liga season, Real Madrid's passing and control tactics were able to show extremely high ball control when facing weak teams, but they often lost their effect when facing some mid-to-upper-tier teams.

Lopetegui greatly increased Modric's position, thus placing the organization and dispatching task in the midfield area on Kroos alone.

We all know that, generally speaking, Real Madrid's midfield trio is backed by Casemiro, and Cross and Modric are relatively close. The two of them can use their delicate ball-handling skills and tacit small-scale cooperation to maintain the balance. Live in the midfield front.

After Modric's position was raised, the distance between Cross and Cross increased, and there was no way to form a small-scale pass similar to the past.

In desperation, Cross could only dribble forward with the ball which was too risky during the game.

This tactical strategy will give the opponent's midfield a huge space to press. Many teams facing Real Madrid will choose to give up marking Modric in a short period of time, and pile up the crowd to double-team Kroos with the ball. limit.

Under such a background environment, Kroos's shortcomings of slow speed are infinitely exposed. Once he reaches a deadlock with the ball in the midfield area, not only will the forward line and even the two full-backs who are inserted cannot get the ball, but also It will give the opponent many counterattack opportunities from the side.

When the opponent steals the ball from Kroos' feet, he will launch a counterattack along the wide space. Los Blancos' single defensive midfielder Casemiro can only leave his defensive position to cover the side, and the team's central space will be exposed again. come out.

On October 2018, 10, Real Madrid suffered a 28:1 defeat in the El Clásico with their arch-rival Barcelona. Their position in the standings dropped to 5th place. Not only were they far away from the top spot, they had even begun to emerge. Risk of relegation.

Against this background, Real Madrid club executives made a prompt decision to fire Lopetegui on October 10 and hire Santiago Solari instead.

Before becoming the head coach of Real Madrid's first team, Solari already had rich coaching experience in Real Madrid's youth training camp and even the youth team. The club believed that he could have a more thorough understanding of the current needs of Los Blancos, so he was promoted to Real Madrid's first team. Team coach. In addition to his familiarity with the team, Solari's ability to discover young players is also one of the important reasons why Real Madrid's top brass is willing to promote him.

While working in Real Madrid's youth training camp, Solari discovered outstanding young players like Achraf, Valverde, and Reguilon. As Real Madrid gradually entered a new era, he hired someone who could discern the potential of young players. The head coach does seem very necessary.

After coming to the first team, Solari first fine-tuned the team's main lineup.

During Lopetegui's time, he preferred to use No. 20 Asensio as the left winger. The famous Spanish coach believed that Asensio's dribbling ability and organizational skills can keep the ball in the frontcourt for a long time and increase the number of balls. The team's conductive space.

Solari's obsession with passing control is far less profound than that of Lopetegui. After taking office, he denied Asensio's main position on the left wing and instead regarded Vinicius, the young player the club spent a lot of money to introduce, as his first choice. .

In addition, Solari also realized the impact of Modric's positional conditions on the interception hardness of Real Madrid's midfield. He retreated the Croatian international to a parallel position with Kroos, Real Madrid's classic midfielder. The three-man stance returns.

In terms of tactics, although Solari denied the slow passing and control during the Lopetegui period, he only made some minor repairs on the basis of his predecessor, and did not completely innovate the tactics of Los Blancos.

The Argentine head coach asked the team to increase the passing rate while advancing from back to front, and instead deliver the ball to Vinicius and Bale, who have the advantage of speed, in a short time.

Solari's tactics have increased Real Madrid's offensive threat to a certain extent and also allowed the team to improve its position in the standings.

Solari led Real Madrid to a 4-game winning streak at the beginning of his tenure, which was the best start for any Real Madrid head coach.

But what people didn't expect was that not long after, the Argentine head coach also fell into a similar "high start and low start" as Lopetegui: Solari led Real Madrid to play a total of 32 games. The Legion lost 8 of those games.

More importantly, Real Madrid suffered a defeat when facing Ajax in the Champions League 1/8 finals. They lost 1:4 in the second round at the Bernabeu Stadium. Such a dismal record directly led to Solari's dismissal. fuse.

After sending away Solari, Real Madrid's senior management, who had experienced continuous failures in selecting head coaches, learned from the pain and realized Zidane's importance to the team.

In March 2019, Zidane officially returned to Real Madrid, and he will also shoulder the important task of leading the Galaxy giant to win the La Liga and Champions League championships.

Considering that the season was nearing the end when Zidane returned to Real Madrid, the team was already relatively far away from Barcelona at the top of the standings.

Therefore, Zidane, who entered the palace for the second time, has been given a longer period of tactical adjustment period, and he can deduce his ideal tactics and personnel combination in the league in a more relaxed manner.

The Argentine head coach asked the team to increase the passing rate while advancing from back to front, and instead deliver the ball to Vinicius and Bale, who have the advantage of speed, in a short time.

Zidane's tactical transformation of the ball can be seen from the average points he scored twice in charge of Real Madrid. The French coach averaged 1 points per game during his first time coaching Real Madrid; after entering the palace for the second time, this The data dropped to 2.28 points.

After entering the new season, Zidane adopted a combination of new and old personnel selection. However, with Hazard's injury and Jovic's decline, the French coach gave Vinicius and Rodrigo two More playing time for young players.

Unlike his predecessor, Zidane, who is very familiar with Ronaldo's technical characteristics, knows that neither Hazard nor Vinicius can replace the Portuguese's scoring ability. He does not give these wide players overly complicated responsibilities of moving in and outflanking. , but established Benzema as the tactical core of the frontcourt.

If you think about it carefully, Benzema is indeed a very underrated center in today's football. During Ronaldo's time at Real Madrid, he has always played the role of a green leaf, and even set an embarrassing record of only 5 goals in the league in a single season.

After Ronaldo left, people discussed Vinicius, Rodrigo, Hazard, and even Mariano, who performed mediocrely, but Benzema was excluded.

Benzema really doesn’t have the ability to take the lead on his own?

The answer is of course no. In the past two seasons, he has helped Real Madrid score 57 goals in all competitions, and the total number of goals scored is the highest among the Real Madrid team.