Chapter 949： 1 small step for saints, 1 big step for the world!

Many people say that Michels' full attack and defense completely changed the football world.

However, apart from professionals, few people can tell what has changed.

In the world of football tactics, there has always been a set of experience and theoretical systems that ordinary people cannot understand. From the past to the present, they are in the same line and evolve continuously. Although there are branches, they never change.

If you simply explain it literally, all offense and defense means that everyone is engaged in offense and defense.

But think about it carefully, if everyone is on the offense at the same time, who will defend?

The reverse is also true.

Thinking about it again, the football field is so big and so many people are involved in the offense. How to form an effective offensive threat?

In other words, full offense and full defense is not just a matter of putting in numbers.

It has a complete set of tactical ideas of its own.

Moreover, it does not simply require players to invest in offense, or to invest in defense, which is too superficial.

To put it simply, full attack and defense is to completely obscure the position on the field. Players adapt to the enemy's conditions, guide the situation, and use fluid running and passing and receiving to pull the opponent's defense line, create loopholes, and then target The loopholes are attacked.

In other words, in an all-defense team, there is no difference between a forward midfielder and a defender. Whoever appears on the front line is the forward; whoever appears on the back line is the defender.

The players do not have a clear division of labor and functional arrangements. They are completely connected based on the situation on the field, as well as the players' own understanding and creativity on the field. The team is completely integrated from front to back, including the goalkeeper, regardless of each other.

Is it incredible?

Yes, in an ideal state of full attack and defense, that's it.

Moreover, it looks so invincible and unmatched.

But everyone knows that in reality, this is impossible to achieve, but all footballers are frantically working hard in this direction, to research, to explore, and step by step toward it.

Take a closer look at the past few years, the changes in football tactics are changing with each passing day, but they are always changing.

The traditional scoring center is gradually eliminated, replaced by players like Drogba Ibrahimovic who can take on more midfield functions, known as the comprehensive center.

The traditional wingers gradually disappeared, replaced by the so-called inscribed wingers, or controlling wingers, or Cristiano Ronaldo scoring wingers.

Even like Messi, almost a superstar with top striker, top winger and top midfielder.

Yes, Messi’s greatness lies in his perfect interpretation of the exploration and understanding of countless football players in the past years.

In the past few years, the tactics of professional football have been constantly changing. After groping, after eliminating one type of player after another, it is also creating a new type of player type after another.

Some have succeeded, some have failed, and some are unclear for the time being, who knows?

But everyone is clearly moving forward with the idea of ​​full offense and defense.

Barcelona successfully created a denuclearized midfield system. Although Guardiola's exploration was interrupted for various reasons, Barcelona's success shocked the entire professional football scene.

Immediately afterwards, Bielsa led the strong rise of Southampton.

If the Saints did not show signs of denuclearization during Ibrahimovic’s time, then last season, they sold Ibrahimovic Modric and Ha After Metz Rodriguez and other superstars, Bielsa's team completely played denuclearized football in the front field.

Suarez Azar Sanchez, Fabregas, Di Maria, Danilo, David Alaba, Southampton's entire midfield and the left and right wing, are completely connected.

Through their smooth running and astoundingly frequent crossovers, coupled with their skillful passing and receiving cooperation, everyone was surprised to see that this is the future of football.

It can be said that Southampton has taken a big step forward on the basis of Barcelona.

Yes, a small step for the Saints is equivalent to a big step for world football.

This is why the world football is so shocked by the achievements of the Saints, and almost all the coaches around the world respect the Saints so much.

However, Bielsa's transformation of the saints is difficult to go further.

The development of football tactics has its regularity and its objectivity.

Now, the key to hindering the further development of football tactics is defense.

Yes, offensive denuclearization is not difficult to achieve, and even with the exception of Southampton, I am afraid that in the next few years, other teams will be able to realize this set of concepts, including Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

However, how to integrate defense into the denuclearization system has become the biggest obstacle.

This is a difficult problem that even Bielsa can't solve, and because of this, Bielsa decided to temporarily retreat from the front line of coaching and devote himself to research again, hoping to find an effective way to overcome this problem.

No one knows how long this will take and how much manpower, material and financial resources will be invested.

Looking at professional football, there are not many people willing to invest resources in this area of ​​research.

More often than not, organizations such as UEFA and FIFA are motivated in this way out of public welfare.

However, Yang Huan was invested, and also invested a lot.

After Bielsa decided to retreat, Yang Huan always believed that Guardiola was the ideal successor.

why?

Because Guardiola is the same as Bielsa, their pursuit is the same.

More importantly, apart from Bielsa, Yang Huan really can't think of any coach in today's European football that can inherit Bielsa's philosophy and continue to explore.

Conversely, Guardiola also knows very well that the team in European football most in line with his philosophy is Southampton.

Barcelona can no longer meet Guardiola's requirements.

After the players such as Xavi and Iniesta got old, Barcelona did not introduce suitable players, nor did they have the motivation to continue the exploration of Guardiola's concept. They began to live on their past merits.

Only Southampton, they still persisted.

Fabregas Di Maria and Toni Kroos are still very young, but there have been rookies such as Pogba Kovacic, which makes Southampton more shapeable.

To a certain extent, Southampton has completed a corner overtaking in just two or three years, surpassing Barcelona, ​​becoming the strongest team in European football, and at the same time the closest team to a full defense.

Between Southampton and Guardiola, there is still a year away.

Therefore, Yang Huan needs Ancelotti to make a transition for the saints in the coming year.

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After listening to Yang Huan's words, Ancelotti was really excited.

As a football coach, although his coaching philosophy is different from Guardiola and Bielsa, he is equally excited about their pursuit and their achievements.

He used to play for Milan during the Three Musketeers period. At that time, Sacchi was also pursuing full offense and full defense. He effectively combined the Dutch concept of full offense and full defense with the local chain defense of Italy to create the pinnacle of Milan. Dynasty, and the glory of the Italian national team.

Ancelotti is the witness and executor of all of Sacchi, so he also has his own understanding of all offense and defense.

And he was born in Italy, where defense is the soul, and defense can even be said to have completely integrated into his blood.

Therefore, he is very excited because he believes that he can bring his own things to Southampton on this road.

It is estimated that the reason why the Saints chose him also had this consideration.

"Master Huan, I have some questions." Ancelotti said.

"Oh?" Yang Huan smiled slightly and nodded, "Excuse me."

“I’m very surprised. From the perspective of meeting the needs of the team, Monaco’s midfielder Verratti should be more in line with the needs of the Saints than Fabregas, but why did the Saints decide to bring in Fabregas last summer? ?"

Yang Huan nodded, "Yes, you are right. Verrati fits the team's needs very well, but at the time the coaching staff thought that he was not suitable to come to Southampton for the time being. He was not mature enough, and Monaco was Verati is needed more than the saints, so..."

Although they belong to the same group, they can also take into account the interests of all parties.

This year many teams are trying to introduce Verrati, especially Barcelona.

Luis Enrique even said that Verratti is not like Pirlo, but like Harvey, asking the management to do their best to win Verratti, but Barcelona may not count on it, because this player has been booked by Southampton in advance. .

The Saints meant that Verratti would continue to play in Monaco for another season and join the team next summer.

Verratti has agreed to this, so he renewed his contract with Monaco very readily.

"What about Pogba? What is the positioning of Pogba within the Saints?" Ancelotti asked concerned.

Many people say that Pogba is the prince of the saint. He is young, but he has received great attention.

What's interesting is that the saints seem to have no intention of supporting Pogba as the core force. Why?

After Yang Huan listened, he hehe smiled, "Pogba is a genius, no doubt, but we don't want him to set his shape prematurely, nor do we want him to be fixed in a certain position prematurely."

Ancelotti shook his head, "I don't quite understand."

"His future position is in the middle of the frontcourt."

Ancelotti's eyes suddenly lit up, didn't they?

The Saint’s idea is to further improve the overall denuclearization system, so it is not worth all the fuss to let Pogba play the frontcourt.

No wonder Bielsa would let Pogba try to play multiple positions.

"I see." Ancelotti nodded.

Understand the team's positioning of Pogba, then he also knows how to cultivate and carve this gem.

There are also Kovacic, Martial, Ravel Morrison, and other players.

After seeing Ancelotti's expression, Yang Huan smiled slightly and asked, "How about it, Carol, are you confident?"

"That depends on what the management asks of me." Ancelotti also smiled slightly and replied.

"In the new season, you will not have any pressure on your results The focus is to cultivate these players and help us bring them out."

With the strength of the Saints today, coupled with the introduction of Messi, Southampton continues to defend the Premier League. There is hardly any suspense. As for the Champions League, it is a very occasional event. As long as the results are still satisfactory, St. The apprentice management will not have much opinion.

Therefore, in the new season, the Saints do not have much requirements in terms of performance.

The most important thing is to further improve the team's tactical system and whether these young players can play out.

"Ok" Ancelotti readily agreed.

Stretching again, the fat Italian man looked at the water of the Persian Gulf in the distance, "I can't wait to hear Master Huan draw such an exciting blueprint."

After Yang Huan listened, he laughed.

For Ancelotti, both he and the management of the Saints are very confident.

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