Chapter 52： lore

When 4231 meets 4231, what should I do?

This was the problem faced by Gao Shen on the night of March 11 at the Mestagna.

As early as 2004, when Benitez left Valencia and went to Liverpool in the Premier League, the honest tinker Ranieri took over a hot potato, and he took charge of the championship team.

And the whole world knows that this is a Tiankeng.

Sure enough, Ranieri encountered another painful lesson in his coaching career at Valencia.

Benitez's Valencia is an unstoppable four-two-three-one. The tinker tries to inject more factors into this team that has just won the championship, such as inheriting the characteristics of the Italians, making this team Tactics have become more varied and varied.

He brought a lot of Italian players, which made Valencia's champion players very dissatisfied, and the tragedy was born.

After Ranieri was dismissed, Flores, who led the newly promoted Mahtafe to avoid relegation, became his successor.

Many people may not know that the current Valencia coach, Quique Sanchez Flores, not only played for Real Madrid in his career, but also started coaching in the Real Madrid youth team after his retirement.

From 1997 to 2004, he coached Real Madrid in the U17 age group for seven years, accumulating incomparably rich coaching experience, and then became the head coach of the newly-promoted Mahtafe, leading the team to avoid relegation. In 2005, he coached Valencia.

This is another classic case of accumulation.

When Gao Shen saw Flores' resume, on the one hand, he sighed that Real Madrid really deserved to be the Whampoa Military Academy of Spanish football, and on the other hand, he also thought that this was what Carlo and Lucas and others advised him to follow step by step. Upgrade mode.

After Flores took over Valencia, Ranieri had left Spain with his Italian Legion, so he set things right, reactivated 4231, and reused the double midfielders of Albelda and Baraja, Reuse Aimar to play the attacking midfielder, and spend 10 million euros to introduce David Villa from Zaragoza.

Valencia has performed very vigorously this season, and even overwhelmed Real Madrid for a long time, ranking second in La Liga.

But it's a pity that neither the former Ranieri nor the current Flores have figured out Benitez's four-two-three-one, or in other words, they have only understood part of it.

Valencia's defense under Flores was very good, but the offense was a mess, especially after Vicente was injured, and almost all the offensive burden was placed on Villa.

Villa's personal ability and scoring ability are very strong, but in the four-two-three-one formation, the most forward center position needs a player like Mista, not Villa. .

But Mista, after experiencing Ranieri's "devastation", has been unable to regain the state he was in when he was under Benitez. Even if Flores has repeatedly adjusted and changed this season, he has not been able to inspire Out of Mista's vitality.

Valencia's offense is like a backwater, relying on Villa's goals, relying on Aimar's flashes of inspiration from time to time, and relying on the team's tenacious defense, he just scored fifteen rounds this season. defeat.

What is even more commendable is that Valencia has an impressive record of two wins and one draw in three games against Real Madrid and Barcelona this season, including a 1-0 home win against Barcelona, ​​a 2-1 away win against Real Madrid, and a Camp Nou draws Barcelona 2-2.

From Valencia's data this season and the performance in the strong dialogue, it is not difficult to see how tyrannical Benitez's 4231 is.

Facing such a team, what can Gao Shen do?

There's no good way, you can only fight.

……

Goalkeeper Casillas, Felipe, Woodgate, Ramos and Abeloa in the back, Pablo Garcia and Borja in the midfield, Raul and Guti in the front And Cassano, and Soldado in front.

This is Gao Shen's starting lineup at the Mestanja Stadium. Except for the back line and Raul, all other players are rotated.

The game was very dull.

Valencia has the best defense in La Liga, but their offense is not good. It is also an extravagant expectation to expect Valencia to take the initiative to attack, and Real Madrid is missing the main lineup after a large rotation, facing Valencia with super defensive ability. Rencia, naturally, it is impossible to be greedy for success.

The conservative style of both teams resulted in a lackluster game in Mestagna.

Real Madrid, which controls the ball, is more of pulling, constantly pulling back and forth, but it is difficult to penetrate the hinterland of Valencia to form a threat, and Valencia also lacks ambition. It is to seek stability and seize the opportunity to counterattack.

With Woodgate at the back line, Ramos got more freedom, and Gao Shen let him mark Villa, and Valencia's offense was misfired.

Real Madrid's attack also failed to take advantage of Valencia's defense, leaving the game at a stalemate.

After Gao Shen took office, Soldado, who started for the first time, worked very **** the court, ran quite aggressively, and executed tactics well. However, in front of Albiol and Marchena, it was indeed difficult for him to take advantage.

In the first half, the two sides shook hands 0-0, but Real Madrid got 65% of the ball.

After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, Real Madrid still chose to fight with Valencia, constantly pulling the ball left and right by passing and controlling the ball.

But there was never a breakthrough in the scene.

But Gao Shen was not in a hurry at all.

He is still waiting.

……

How to break through dense defenses?

As a veteran fan, Gao Shen can immediately say three tricks to break through the crowd, set-pieces, long-range shots and high center forwards.

But in fact, these three tricks can only be effective when the team can gain space, that is, when the intensive defense has basically been broken.

For example, set kicks are nothing more than corner kicks and free kicks. The former is caused by the ball going out of the baseline after a breakthrough, the latter is caused by the opponent's foul, and the defender will commit a foul. , who would easily foul?

Speaking of long-range shots, Valencia has two world-class midfielders in the midfield. The tight defensive system built by Ranieri to Cooper to Benitez will easily give you long-range shots?

Finally, the high center.

Everyone knows that playing high **** from the side is the most inefficient, and the success rate is extremely low, and the key is that if you want to pass a good ball from the side, you still need to gain space, just like Beckham needs to be able to swing his legs.

So, the problem went round and round, and it came back to the most fundamental problem.

space!

The key to breaking a dense defense is to create space.

How to create?

The opponent has a tight defensive formation, so you won't be able to easily create space.

How to do?

Pull!

There is a saying that goes well, as long as the **** dances well, how can the city wall be dug down?

In the same way, as long as you keep pulling and consuming the physical fitness of the opponent's players, to a certain extent, you can create offensive space.

To a certain extent, the so-called pass and control of Barcelona coached by Guardiola is essentially constant pulling and trying to create space. Passing control and pressing from high positions are just their means.

Therefore, in the battle against Valencia, the high-level starting lineup was never for scoring goals, but for exhausting the opponent, running, pulling, and exhausting the opponent.

Time is passing bit by bit, but Gao Shen is not moved at all.

Instead, Flores replaced Angulo with Ruffit in the 63rd minute.

Three minutes later, Mista replaced Regello.

The two substitutions were all to adjust the team's frontcourt offense. After Mista went up, Valencia basically returned to the two-forward tactic, with Mista and Villa partnering.

Obviously, Flores still wants to win, after all, it is the home court.

After seeing Valencia change two people in a row, Gao Shen arranged for Callejon to warm up in the 68th minute.

After ten days of contact, he can now finally be sure that it is Jose Callejon, the older of the twin brothers, who will perform well in Naples.

Callejon, nicknamed Little Moto, was fast and hard-working. Gao Shen replaced Cassano with him in the 70th minute.

The intention of this substitution is very obvious, that is, to quickly hit Valencia's counterattack.

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As Valencia began to exert force on the offensive end, the overall formation no longer tightened, but frequently pressed out to attack.

Real Madrid still controlled the ball, but they also retracted properly, allowing Valencia to take the initiative to press out.

In the 78th minute, Ramos suddenly went around to defend, and after stealing the ball passed to Villa in advance, he dribbled the ball forward and quickly passed the midfield to Guti's feet.

Guti, who served as the attacking midfielder, was not even assigned a defensive task in this game, so he could unleash his offensive talents to his heart's content, but unfortunately, he met the world's top double midfielder, Albelda and Baraja. Let him not perform.

But this time, he seized the opportunity. After stopping the ball, he didn't wait for his double midfielders to press up, and he slanted a long, oblique pass that went directly behind Valencia's left defender Moretti.

Callejon sprinted at the fastest speed on the right flank came up later, took a step ahead of Moretti, stabbed the ball to the bottom line, caught up and made a low pass.

Soldado, who was chasing at the front point, was interfered by Albiol and Marchena, but he missed it on purpose, letting the ball fly past him and go straight to the back point.

The unguarded Raul chased the outside of the small penalty area. Facing the cross that spanned most of the court, he pushed the ball directly and sent the ball into the almost unguarded Valencia goal.

Canizares stood on the right side of the goal and could not do anything in the face of Raul's left shot.

In the 78th minute, Raul opened the scoring for Real Madrid!

After the Real Madrid captain scored a goal, he rushed out of the field again excitedly, celebrating the team's key lore.

The Real Madrid players on the field also rushed to catch up and celebrated the goal for the captain.

One to zero!

What a tough goal!

In front of the visiting team's coach, Gao Shen also clenched his fists excitedly, waving them up and down, venting his inner excitement.

Behind him, Maqueda, Lucas and others were also hugging each other, celebrating the goal.

They had already laid out their tactics before the game, but they were always uneasy in their hearts.

Until this moment, when they saw Raul scoring a goal, they only put their hearts down.

If Valencia doesn't make a mistake, then this game can only be zero to zero.

However, Gao Shen quickly made adjustments.

Diogo replaced Abeloa, who was consuming a lot of physical energy, and Borja was replaced by Xavi Garcia.

Both substitutions were made to strengthen the defense.

Anyone can see that the purpose of the high-level is very clear, that is to defend this goal.