bayedsolid Chapter 871 Master Huan's Invitation
Chapter 871 Master Huan's Invitation
Chapter 871 Master Huan's Invitation
According to Bielsa, in the past few years, the tactical evolution of European professional football has been improved around two levels, one is running ability, and the other is offensive and defensive conversion efficiency.
A player, in a football game, spends most of his time running without the ball.
Therefore, the improvement of running ability can greatly enrich the team's tactical means.
During the one or two years when Guardiola was at the peak of Barcelona, the running ability of the players was quite amazing.
And to match it, under the amazing running, Barcelona's frontcourt pressure and on-the-spot counter-attack were also done quite well, and the conversion efficiency of offense and defense was extremely high. Therefore, Barcelona at that time was almost invincible and invincible.
But everyone knows that this kind of large-scale running consumes a lot of players and is difficult to maintain for a long time. Therefore, Guardiola later hoped to reduce the consumption of players by increasing the ball possession rate and increasing his own ball possession time.
But in this way, the possession time is longer, but the efficiency is lowered.
So it gradually evolved into another situation, which is what many fans say, brushing the ball possession rate.
Moreover, the excessive pursuit of safe possession of the ball caused the team to dare not easily try vertical passes and long-distance passes at the moment of offensive and defensive transitions. Because of the high risk, Barcelona can only use short passes.
In such fiercely competitive European football, with the overall improvement in running ability in recent years, a style of restraint against Barcelona has quickly emerged.
First Mourinho's Inter Milan, then Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid...
These teams have one thing in common, that is, while their running ability is not lost to Barcelona, their offensive and defensive conversion efficiency is quite high, and their counterattacks are quite sharp.
Especially Real Madrid.
Whether it is Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Benzema, or later Gareth Bale, almost all of them were introduced and formed around the purpose of how to break through Barcelona with a quick counterattack.
From Pellegrini to Mourinho, and then to Ancelotti, no matter how Real Madrid's head coach changes, where the player lineup is, no matter how good the head coach is, there is no way to change Real Madrid's style, which is defensive counterattack.
But the difference between Real Madrid and other teams is that they are Real Madrid, so they can attract a group of top players who can run, defend, have excellent skills, and have high tactical execution.
It seems that Benzema, Modric, Di Maria, etc. are all players of this type.
When this group of players with excellent technical strength is actively running in a wide range on the court and kicking defensive counterattacks, the role of such fast side counterattack weapons such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale can be maximized.
It can be said that if the current Real Madrid team under the coaching of Ancelotti meets Barcelona during the coaching period of Guardiola, assuming that both teams play their due level, Barcelona will undoubtedly lose.
But apart from Real Madrid, including Barcelona, the technical and tactical level of European professional football is also developing at a high speed with each passing day.
While Real Madrid racked their brains to figure out how to inspire the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, European football has seen some very unique teams emerge.
That is Heynckes' Bayern Munich, Klopp's Dortmund, Simeone's Atletico Madrid and Bielsa's Southampton.
Both Klopp's Dortmund and Simeone's Atlético Madrid have a very typical feature, that is, they can create maximum oppression and press for opponents in the largest range of the audience through active wide-range running and excellent tactical execution.
If it is said that during the Guardiola period, Barcelona was oppressing the frontcourt, and Real Madrid was oppressing the midfield and the backcourt, then Dortmund and Atletico Madrid were full-court oppression.
What's interesting is that these two teams are hanging wires, and they don't have the ability to build a lineup of outstanding players like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Therefore, they can only adopt this relatively civilian style of play.
If I use an idiom to sum it up, hard work can make up for one's weakness!
But it is precisely this kind of tactical thinking produced by the two teams when they are poor and want to change, but it has produced very good results in the domestic league and even the European arena.
Therefore, it can be seen that under the coaching of Heynckes, Bayern Munich decisively learned Dortmund's style of play after repeated unsuccessful attempts to change tactics and suffered successive defeats to Dortmund under the coaching of Heynckes.
It must be said that during Heynckes coaching Bayern Munich, his achievements at the tactical level were actually not high. It can even be said that many attempts failed, but during that period of time, the players were in good condition and performed well on the spot, so Heynckes' team also succeeded.
What really determined the gap between Bayern Munich and Dortmund in that season were Ribery and Arjen Robben, the two wing superstars.
After Barcelona experienced Xiao Guicao's Vilanova era, Enrique also began to follow the path of Heynckes.
Bielsa's Southampton can be said to be a step further on the basis of Guardiola's Grand Slam Barcelona.
Using Ibrahimovic's amazing intimidation in the frontcourt greatly enriched the team's offensive routines.
The midfielder consists of Modric and Toni Kroos as a double midfielder, resolutely adopting frontcourt oppression tactics.
But Southampton is not obsessed with possession of the ball, but plays more directly and penetratingly in the offense.
Coupled with the players' excellent running ability and skilled skills, the Saints' overall control has become quite strong.
But since last season, Bielsa has been thinking about making changes.
The first is that the line of defense is no longer pressed.
With the transformation of football tactics in the past few years, almost all teams, especially the giants, have matured their zone defense system. Especially in the Champions League, their defensive capabilities are far from what they were three or four years ago.
Before, Southampton still had Ibrahimovic in the front, and he was able to play high pressure again.
But now that the Swedish center has left the team, the pillar of high-position pressing is gone. If we continue to adopt high-position pressing, in the end it will only allow the opponent to attack and counterattack successfully.
Signs of this have already been revealed during the International Champions Cup.
Therefore, Bielsa's strategy does not adopt high defense, but adopts full-court oppression similar to Dortmund and Atletico Madrid.
More importantly, Southampton's players' running ability has been significantly improved this season.
It is the culmination of years of generous investment by the club over the past few years.
What the improvement in running has brought about is that although the team's defense line has moved back, the overall control has not declined. On the contrary, the frontcourt players have gained more space, and they can use their active running and cooperate with each other to enrich the team's offensive methods.
Also because of the improved running ability, Bielsa dared to sell Modric, weakened the possession of the midfielder, adopted a faster and more direct way, quickly passed the midfielder, and comprehensively improved the team's offensive and defensive conversion efficiency.
So, Di Maria and Fabregas were brought in.
Anyone who is familiar with the characteristics of the two players knows that although they are both excellent in technique, one is a point-blank assaulter, and the other is a final pass and a late-going scorer, neither of which is Modric's type of ball handler.
To put it simply, what Southampton is pursuing now is an overall full-court oppression that is faster and more efficient than Dortmund and Atletico Madrid, with more accurate pass and catch coordination, richer offensive methods, and stronger personal abilities of players.
Judging from the current team's performance, Bielsa's transformation is very successful.
However, if the Argentine lunatic wants to leave the Saints after this season, who should take over?
Who can lead this Southampton team and move on?
This question hardly troubled Yang Huan, because from the beginning to the end, he only identified one person.
That is, at this moment, Guardiola standing in front of him!
To put it bluntly, he is the person closest to Bielsa's football philosophy and the most suitable person to take over the Saints.
Moreover, unlike the strong Southamptonians, Bayern Munich's lineup has obvious problems.
Harvey Alonso, Lahm, Ribery and Robben, the pillars of the team's tactics, are all old.
But Bayern Munich's metabolism is slow.
Therefore, to a certain extent, Guardiola's tactics are difficult to be perfectly executed in Bayern Munich.
Even in the past period of time, his work at Bayern Munich is indeed quite good.
Therefore, when Yang Huan heard Guardiola's sigh, he immediately smiled and asked lightly, "Have you considered leaving Munich?"
This simple sentence surprised Guardiola and looked at Yang Huan in disbelief.
Master Huan nodded lightly, "Marcelo decided to move behind the scenes, specializing in tactical research."
Guardiola could understand that what Master Huan meant was that Bielsa decided to move behind the scenes, so Southampton needed to find a new head coach to take over the team.
And it was very obvious that Master Cong Huan came to him on his own initiative and told him about this.
This is Master Huan's invitation!
Ask yourself, Guardiola is indeed thrilled to face Southampton and Master Huan's invitation.
Don't look at Southampton's rise in just a few years, but everything they have done is shocking.
More importantly, Master Conghuan's trust and unconditional support for Bielsa in the past few years are things that any head coach can only dream of.
Southampton's current lineup is definitely more in line with Guardiola's requirements than Bayern Munich, and it is easier to achieve results. Coupled with the relaxed coaching environment that the Saints management has always given to the head coach, it is hard to resist.
What's more, in recent years, the Premier League has introduced famous European coaches on a large scale. The tactics of each team are very different, the overall strength is strong, and the competition is so fierce.
As a head coach, being able to compete against opponents with different styles of play is definitely an excellent opportunity to stimulate your own progress, confirm and improve your tactical concepts.
Don't you see, in the past few years in the Premier League, Bielsa's tactical philosophy has made rapid progress.
So, Guardiola is really tempted, it's just...
Seeing Guardiola's hesitation, Yang Huan knew what he was doing, and smiled slightly: "Pep, I hope you understand that this is not a temporary idea, but the result of deliberation and negotiation with the team. You are the goal we have identified."
Speaking of this, Young Master Huan laughed, "This is how I do things. As long as it is the goal I have identified, I will definitely try my best to achieve it."
"And, today, I can also promise you here that as long as you and the team need it, I will try my best to get you any player, even if he is Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi."
"So..." Yang Huan looked at Guardiola deeply again, "How about you think about it carefully?"
(End of this chapter)