Chapter 415 Offensive football and utilitarian football
Manchester Stadium.
In the 20th round of the Premier League, Manchester City's match against Chelsea is about to begin.
Ellano Brummer stood on the court, thinking about what the coach and himself said before the game.
"Barak is the captain of the German team and the core player of Chelsea. I think there is no need to say much about his ability. Irano, you should know him."
"In this game, you are the most important player on the team. I don't need you to play any offense, but you must limit Barack. As long as you limit him, our defense will be very easy and the offense can be relaxed."
"Ilano, I know you've always wanted to do more important match missions, like... like Silva, Morris? But people are different, and what you're good at is different from them."
"You are Barack, Lampard of the team, not Morris, Silva, do you understand what I mean?"
"I won't ask Silva to defend because I know he can't do well, and only you, Irano, your defensive ability, personal skills and understanding of the game are all very good, so I hope you can use your strengths."
Erano Brummer never expected the coach to say this to him. In fact, after transferring to Manchester City, he always felt that the coach did not value him.
Manchester City has many outstanding players. In the midfield, even Ozil, the youngest, is a top genius. He, Erano Brummer, is just a Brazilian midfielder with stronger defensive ability and cannot catch up with Ferreira, Dunn and others. His offensive ability is incomparable to frontcourt players. His only advantage may be... comprehensive?
Brumor feels that he is an unvalued player and will not receive any reuse in the game. He will only get a chance to play during rotation.
In this game, he didn't feel that he had a chance to play, because Ozil and Silva were enough. Even if there were any players on the court, he should be the experienced Lungberg, right?
Thinking of this, Brummer felt very excited.
After talking to Wansheng, he learned the reason why he could join Manchester City - his strong defensive ability and comprehensive skills.
This is what the coach values himself.
As the coach said, "You have strong defensive ability, good physical fitness, and also share pressure for the frontcourt on offense. These seem to be nothing, but it is rare for players who are not bad at all."
In addition, what Brummer was excited about was that the coach compared himself to Barack and Lampard.
"You are Barack, Lampard of the team."
This sentence was remembered in Brummer's mind, and even the tone of his speech at that time was deeply impressed. He felt that he might not have forgotten it for several years, right?
In Brummer's view, nothing is more important than the recognition of the head coach, especially the current head coach - Wan Sheng, who is recognized as a football coach in the world football world, and with the recognition of the head coach, Brummer's self-confidence suddenly increased.
Previously, Brummer felt that he was just a player in the team to supplement the lineup, and at most he was a half substitute and half main player. Now he felt that he would definitely become more and more important in the team in the future.
Thinking of this, Brummer couldn't help but feel excited!
The game is about to begin now, and he can't help but start the game and complete the task assigned to him by winning thousands of wins - limit Barack and don't let him play at will!
Brumer looked at Barack tightly, his eyes as if he was looking at his father-killing enemy.
Barack, who was standing in Chelsea's formation, also looked back immediately. He was startled by Brummer's eyes and then thought in confusion, "When did I offend him?"
Manchester City has always given fans the impression of beautiful offensive football. Even Chelsea, who has played against Manchester City many times, still remembers the match with Manchester City two months ago.
3:5, in that match, they scored three goals and Manchester City scored five goals. There are many things that can be seen in the score, so they think that Manchester City will definitely strengthen their offense when they return to home.
However, after the game began, Chelsea found that Manchester City was not in a hurry to attack, but was constantly controlling the ball. Many times, they were constantly passing the ball.
Chelsea is not unfamiliar with Manchester City's control and play, so they actively ran forward and fought, but they soon discovered that Manchester City played surprisingly 'stable'.
Manchester City's "stability" is no longer in normal circumstances.
Ten minutes into the game, Manchester City only played two balls in front of the penalty area, and soon the ball was passed again. Then they began to cooperate with each other, as if they were not in a hurry to score the goal and strive for the lead.
This style of playing is a headache.
Before the game, Gratt specifically analyzed Manchester City's tactics, and after more than two seasons of understanding, Chelsea players all knew what Manchester City wanted to do - they wanted to control the football, control the rhythm and control the game in close range.
They are using ball control to slowly eliminate Chelsea's physical fitness and patience!
Faced with this style of play, Chelsea also knows what to do, that is, to keep fighting and constantly attacking Manchester City's defense. As long as the fight is fierce enough, Manchester City will be much more careful when passing the ball, and then they will not be able to control the ball with peace of mind.
But when Chelsea did this, they found that Manchester City's defense was very stable.
When the football reached Chelsea's feet, Chelsea launched an attack, and Manchester City's formation quickly retracted. Before Chelsea could pass the ball to a dangerous point, Manchester City had already set up tight defense near the penalty area.
After fifteen minutes of competition, Chelsea found that Manchester City's style of play was not only their "os-f", but even more focused on...the defensive counterattack with ball control!?
The concept of defensive counterattack is too big. Manchester City does not have an absolute passive defense. The way they choose is to control the ball and find opportunities tentatively, but their formation is not advanced, so when the ball is suddenly lost, their formation can easily shrink back.
It is obvious that Manchester City's main energy is on defense.
Logically speaking, this style of play will be very passive, but Manchester City took the initiative by using ball control, which made Chelsea dare not go too far. Even when there is a ball, Chelsea feels a little awkward whether it is defense or offense.
Chelsea players on the court cannot analyze Manchester City's tactics as soon as possible. They just feel that the game is a bit wrong. As for why it is wrong, no one can tell it directly.
Chelsea coach Afran Grant stood up in shock. He never expected Manchester City to make such a big adjustment to the tactics.
At the same time, he was very confused.
In Grant's opinion, Wan Sheng is definitely a very capable head coach, otherwise Manchester City's performance would not be so good. But for such a head coach, aren't you worried that the team will be a little uncomfortable after a lot of adjustments to the tactics?
He doesn't understand.
This is what Grant doesn't understand Wan Sheng or Manchester City.
After all, Grant has just left the Israeli League. After coaching Chelsea, he led the team to play against Manchester City only once. He didn't know that Manchester City is a team that is very good at adjusting tactics, which is also a headache for many Manchester City opponents. Last season, Manchester City's lineup was not as strong as Manchester United. When Chelsea was Chelsea, Wan Sheng won many games with this. However, the team is much stronger now and the tactics are mature. There is no need to rely on changing tactics at risk to gain the advantage in the game, so the number of times of adjustment of tactics has become less.
It is worth mentioning that this makes Wansheng's work much easier.
Manchester City does not use the tactics of the ‘os-f’ system completely. They also train other tactical routines on weekdays. Most of the content is the expansion of the ‘os-f’ system. Now playing this set on the court has just slightly changed the formation and strengthened some defenses, and has not made any major adjustments at all.
This was enough to surprise Grant.
He couldn't imagine that Manchester City would suddenly turn from 'beautiful offensive football' to 'utilitarian defensive football'.
Wansheng, no matter how surprised Grant is.
Facing this Chelsea team, you must play steadily, strengthen your defense, take risks at home to compete for goals, and even say that it is unnecessary to compete for offensive character. It is easier to win if you play steadily.
As for the ugly game? He never thought about it.
Obviously, Wan Sheng has many supporters, at least Manchester City fans who came to watch the game, did not express any dissatisfaction with Manchester City's style of play.
Although the game is ugly, they prefer to believe in the victory.
Just like the stadium broadcast Berbart's words, "The game is a bit dull, Manchester City seems to play a bit conservative, but Wan Sheng's arrangement must make some sense. We can look forward to Manchester City's performance in the future..." In summary, "As long as Wan Sheng's arrangement is a game, it always makes sense."
If this blind support is funny to the eyes of bystanders, Wan Sheng has never disappointed Manchester City fans in more than two seasons. He led the team to surprise fans again and again.
Now Manchester City fans support Wan Sheng unconditionally, which is equivalent to a reward.
In addition, Manchester City is not completely conservative!
The competition was still very exciting!
For example, this time, Chelsea's offense was quickly passed to Mikel. When Mikel saw that there was no chance in front, he immediately handed the ball to Barack.
After Lampard was injured, Barack became the core of Chelsea's midfield. He was the decisive needle of Chelsea's midfield. Many teammates subconsciously handed the ball to Barack when they saw that they had no chance.
But this time, Barack made a mistake.
The German captain stopped the ball a little bit bigger. He thought it didn't matter, but a figure rushed out from behind and immediately broke the ball.
The football was kicked at Lescott's feet.
Last season, Lescott was a full-back. This season, his position moved to the middle, sometimes playing fullback, sometimes playing center back, but the awareness of counterattacking when he got the ball was almost in my mind.
Before the ball was received, Lescott had already looked forward, and then he kicked the ball directly, and the football flew directly into the middle circle.
Lescott's pass was a little hasty and the position was inaccurate, but Silva still grabbed the ball first.
He kicked the ball to Ozil and ran forward, and Ozil kicked the ball forward again.
David Silva rushed past Alex and received the pass.
"Strike back!"
The fans' calls suddenly sounded at Manchester City's Stewart Stadium.
Silva dribbled the ball and rushed forward. He forced Ben Haim to lead the way forward, and then entered the penalty area. Facing the attacking goalkeeper Hilario, he made a lob shot, but unfortunately the football hit the crossbar and bounced out of bounds.
"call……"
Berbart breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This ball almost went in, Silva just lacked some luck..."
This counterattack lets everyone know that Manchester City is not completely conservative. When Chelsea is careless, Manchester City may only need one chance to rewrite the score. (~^~)
Chapter completed!