With the war approaching, Pan Yi and the Chelsea coaching staff are naturally not idle.

Regarding the next opponent in the Premier League, Manchester City, Pan Yi certainly knows the significance of this game to him and Chelsea.

Therefore, he also conducted detailed research on Manchester City's recent games.

The highlights are naturally the home game between Arsenal and Manchester City in the fourth round of the Premier League, and the home game between Bayern and Manchester City in the first round of the Champions League.

One is that the time is close. These are actually the last two games played by Manchester City, and they can best show their lineup and state;

One is that they happen to face teams that are good at offensive play. You can see the thinking of Manchester City coach Pellegrini in the way of response;

In addition, doesn’t it happen that Arsenal will be played in the seventh round?

Arsenal's match against Manchester City can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone, and they can study two opponents at the same time.

After the start of the Premier League this season, the two teams are actually not in good shape.

Manchester City's opening two consecutive victories showed the strength of the defending champion, but in the third round, they were knocked unconscious by "Sky City" Stoke City with a high-altitude ball, causing an upset.

Although Arsenal remains undefeated so far, they actually defeated Crystal Palace in the first round and then continued to draw, so their points are not high and they can only be ranked seventh.

After the two teams met in the fourth round, both Pellegrini and Wenger obviously wanted to get rid of the decline, and they made no reservations in the lineup.

Arsenal's side is a 4141 formation:

Forward: Welbeck.

Frontcourt: Sanchez, Ramsey, Wilshere, Rosicky.

Midfielder: Flamini.

Defenders: Debich, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Monreal.

Goalkeeper: Szczesny.

(Note: A certain evil person does not exist in the new world of this book, whether it is Real Madrid or Arsenal.)

On Manchester City's side, Pellegrini's most commonly used 4231:

Forward: Aguero.

Frontcourt: Navas, Silva, Milner.

Midfielder: Fernandinho, Lampard.

Defenders: Zabaleta, Kompany, Demichelis, Clichy.

Goalkeeper: Joe Hart.

It is worth noting that Lampard replaced Yaya Toure in the Manchester City lineup.

This is also Lampard's first appearance after leaving Chelsea, switching to Major League Soccer, and then loaning back to Manchester City.

After the game started, they, who are both good at playing offensive football, actually played a beautiful game.

In the 28th minute, Aguero blocked the clearance ball and Navas made a low pass from the right. Aguero broke away from Flamini's small penalty area and pushed the ball into the near corner. 0-1, Manchester City led the away game. At the same time,

This is also the 800th time Arsenal has conceded a goal in the Premier League.

In the 63rd minute, Arsenal succeeded in the frontcourt. Ramsey scored the ball in front of the penalty area. Wilshere pulled the ball away from Clichy and then shot from a small angle and scored. 1-1, Arsenal tied the score.

In the 74th minute, Rosicky scored the ball. Ramsey's cross was headed away by Kompany. Wilshere headed the ball back to the left side of the penalty area. Sanchez scored with a volley from the far corner. Joe Hart stepped forward and scored.

Even from the beginning, Arsenal could not save. 2-1, Arsenal quickly took the lead.

In the 83rd minute, Kolarov, who came on as a substitute, passed a corner kick from the left. Demichelis headed the ball over the top. After Szczesny pounced, the ball still bounced into the net. 2-2, Manchester City tied the score.

The two teams ended up tied 2-2.

"So after watching this game, do you have any ideas on how to deal with Manchester City this season?"

In the conference room, Pan Yi looked at everyone with his hands on his hips.

Scaloni cleared his throat and prepared to speak.

Pan Yi had previously asked him to prepare and analyze various statistics of Manchester City last season, and he knew Manchester City's tactics well!

As a rookie coach, now is the time for him to show off in front of everyone.

But at this time Pan Yi smiled and said: "Look at Arsenal's second goal, Sanchez's volley was so beautiful. So when you see Manchester City with Joe Hart as the goalkeeper, let the players just let the players throw it.

What tactics do you want?"

Scaloni: "..."

Everyone: "..."

If God has love, God is also old. When he saw Hart kicking, it was just a joke by the fans, but Pan Yi said it directly in the coaching meeting. It was really unserious.

Of course, what he said is correct. After all, when Hamburg played Manchester City last season, it did make a few world waves, right?

Pan Yi quickly waved his hand: "Okay, just kidding, relax. Last year I brought Hamburg to double-kill Manchester City. Who else are we Chelsea afraid of now?"

Everyone laughed again.

Pan Yi is like this, it is easy to give people confidence in victory.

Moreover, even though he has the capital to speak up and the qualification to act cool, no one can find fault with him!

"Now, please come up and talk about the data analysis of Manchester City last season."

Then Pan Yi pointed his finger at Scaloni.

Although Nagelsmann, the "technology expert", is no longer around, his scientific statistical methods and analysis methods are still used by Pan Yi at Chelsea.

Good things must be used to death!

And now the main person doing this job is Scaloni. This can be regarded as one of the means to train a new coach to grow quickly.

After all, in the process of collecting and analyzing data, you can also gain a better understanding of a team and a head coach’s usual tactics, and you can’t help but think about what I would do or how to crack this situation.

play style.

If you do this kind of thing more, your own progress will slowly show up.

Hearing Pan Yi call his name, Scaloni quickly stepped forward, started to play the ppt he carefully made, and then explained:

"I am mainly analyzing Manchester City's scoring methods here for your reference."

"Last season Manchester City scored 102 goals in the Premier League, averaging 2.68 goals per game. This offensive power is still amazing. After all, even a team like Barcelona only scored 100 goals in a season in La Liga.

Ball."

"Of these 102 goals, 23 were scored through set pieces, accounting for 22.5% of the total goals. This shows that even a strong team like Manchester City attaches great importance to the attack method of set pieces.

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"These 23 set kicks include 9 free kicks. Seven of them were direct goals. Yaya Toure completed 5 by himself, and Kolarov and Negredo each had 1. The most common ones are

One hit the upper left corner of the goal; the other two were scored through coordination, and both were taken by David Silva."

"Then there were 8 corner kicks to score a goal. 4 of them came from the left corner kick, David Silva and Navas each contributed 2 times; the other 4 came from the right corner kick, all contributed by Nasri. Among the 8 goals,

Three of them were direct headers after corner kicks were passed, and the remaining five were either headers to grab points, look for the second point, or create chaos in front of the goal and score."

"There were 6 penalty kicks, Aguero took half of them, Yaya Toure scored 2, and Kolarov scored 1."

Then Scaloni got to the point, which is Manchester City's goals in sports games.

After all, set kicks are only static. After understanding the opponent's main kickers and goal scoring methods, it is relatively not that complicated to arrange special training to target them.

In other words, with this static offensive method, even weak teams can do well, and may even do better than strong teams!

After all, the ability of weak team players determines that their ability to advance in sports battles is relatively weak, so many coaches will focus more on set pieces.

When it comes to offensive and defensive tactics in mobile warfare, there are many ways to do it!

A team like Manchester City has a variety of scoring methods in sports battles, making it difficult for opponents to guard against them.

The first is to score goals directly through the center without involving the wing, using delicate, clever, fast and smooth cooperation. They scored more than 20 goals in this way last season!

Specifically, there are long-distance direct passes after intercepting the ball near the center circle, directly, or through one or two extremely concise passes to completely penetrate the opponent's entire defense line;

A pass is suddenly sent out from the middle, directly behind the opponent's defense, and the player inserted from the back row enters the penalty area, either passing or shooting;

There are exquisite short passes near the top of the penalty area, and the ball is unexpectedly inserted into the penalty area;

There is also the tacit communication between two or three people during the long-distance attack.

The second way to score goals is through small-scale cooperation between the wing and the center.

This coordination is usually initiated from the wing, and then the battlefield is advanced to the middle through coordination to complete the goal.

Manchester City scored 6 goals in this way. The reason why there are so few goals is because the defense in the middle is dense, the shooting space and opportunities are small, and the shooting success rate is low.

The third method is a traditional cross from the wing and outflanking the goal in the middle.

Here it can be divided into three categories.

First, there is basically no cumbersome coordination. Direct crosses are made from the wing, and teammates in the center either shoot directly, or pass the ball and then score. 22 goals were scored in this way.

Second, the players cooperate with each other by passing the ball on the wing to complete the cross.

The form of cooperation is usually one person holding the ball, and the other putting it on. The former sends a short or long through ball to the latter, while the latter either pulls to the sideline, or goes straight behind the opponent's defense to complete the cross. 12 goals were passed through this method.
To be continued...