Chapter 553 The Profound Truth of Top Power Teams
Many fans will definitely feel very accustomed to a certain phenomenon and feel very strange.
Why do big scores often appear in the five major European leagues now, even in some strong dialogues?
It's like Manchester United's 8-2 against Arsenal, Manchester City's 6-1 against Manchester United, Barcelona's 5-0 against Real Madrid, and even in the Champions League, there were also Barcelona's slaughter of Leverkusen, and Bayern Munich's complete victory over Barcelona.
Logically speaking, the gap in strength between strong teams should not be so huge.
How is this possible?
Who would think that the gap between Manchester United and Arsenal is 8-2?
Who would believe that Manchester United was even more miserable by Manchester City than a lower-level team?
Also, why are these two superstars able to score such an amazing number of goals so easily?
Could it be that it's really just because the team is surrounding them to attack?
The reason is that modern football tactics are increasingly inclined to attack and defend, that is, to integrate.
The benefits of holism are obvious, but the disadvantages cannot be missing.
There are two sentences that can be summarized very well, such as the fireworks of the crowd, and the miscellaneous people.
The former talks about the benefits of holism, while the latter talks about the issue of holism.
It is the same as an offense, and if two people participate, the efficiency will definitely be higher than that of three people participate.
If four people and five people participate, the efficiency will be even lower.
This is true for offense and defense.
This is one of the problems brought about by integration.
Another point is that it is difficult to turn around the ship.
If individual combat is a small boat, then overall combat is a giant warship.
In terms of stability and security, giant warships must have advantages. But when it comes to emergencies and want to temporarily adjust the direction and turn around, it must be that the boat is more agile and takes advantage of it.
In other words, integration will inevitably lead to a lack of tactical flexibility and adaptability.
Therefore, the first thing that modern football tactics should emphasize is efficiency and tactical flexibility.
If all teams want to become a top-level team, they must solve these two problems.
Going back to the question just now, why did Arsenal lose to Manchester United 2-8?
Because Manchester United's tactics are more accurate and fatal and more targeted, while Arsenal's adjustment ability and adaptability are too poor, they are directly crippled.
In this case, Manchester United is like a flexible hunter, while Arsenal is a clumsy elephant with targets everywhere, very fragile.
Similarly, when it comes to Manchester United and Manchester City, the situation is reversed.
It is Manchester City that is more targeted and more accurate and fatal, while Manchester United has become fragile.
Yes, by this time the answer is very clear.
The winner and loss of these big-scoring matches was basically decided the moment both sides walked into the stadium.
The players' on-the-spot performance and the head coach's on-the-spot command can only change the size of the score.
Even if your team is filled with a group of superstars who can kill the game by relying solely on their personal abilities, it will be difficult to change the outcome.
In this case, pre-game preparation is the real decisive factor!
In Yang Huan's understanding, the overall strength of the team is the basis of a strong team, but how much it can be played and whether it can defeat the opponent depends on tactics.
Now and in the future, tactics will rely more and more on big data.
Relying on analyzing massive big data, the system can help the coaching team optimize the configuration of the team's lineup, minimize the impact of injuries and rotation on the team, and maximize the game's strength.
At the same time, relying on massive data to make pre-match predictions, sand table deductions are carried out for the opponent's lineup and tactics, and finally a set of accurate and fatal targeted tactics are formulated.
In other words, the purpose of big data analysis is to ensure that no matter what kind of opponent the team encounters during the long season, no matter what kind of opponent it encounters, it can play its own strength stably and controllably, suppress its opponent's tactics, and then steadily win and get points.
Because of this, it is crucial for players like Tony Cross and Matic who can perform steadily for a long time and provide the team with stable data.
Of course, big data analysis systems are not omnipotent. Whenever people are involved, there will definitely be variables.
But with this analysis system, Southampton can be easily faced with any opponent and any complex schedule.
It can be said that after nearly three years of research and development and preparation, the analysis system has finally achieved fruitful results and has also brought great help to the team.
Therefore, at this time, the questions Yang Huan was thinking about had to go further.
"Old Bei, I have always had a problem!"
The two were still walking shoulder to shoulder on the pebbly path. After hearing Master Huan's words, Bielsa just nodded slightly and said nothing, but the meaning was already very obvious.
"How do you think Southampton is a peak team like Manchester United, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, which is very strong?" Yang Huan asked with great importance.
He has talked with Peter Kenyon, Ron Gurley and Sun Yue that with Southampton's current operating ability, as long as they can reach the peak on the football field, they will be able to operate Southampton and go further to the top giants.
Bielsa also realized the importance of the issue of Young Master Huan.
Indeed, Southampton is no longer the League One team that was two years ago.
The Saints are now ranked second in the Premier League standings, and they even have hopes to compete for the league championship. They also have the most powerful lineup configuration in the Premier League, so the questions they think about can naturally be limited to domestic competitions.
It should be... Champions League!
With Yang Huan's ambitious personality, he must want to make some achievements in the Champions League.
Then, you have to figure out how to build a top-notch team!
After several minutes of silence, Bielsa spoke lightly.
"Many people think that the integration of football tactics began with Greece winning the European Cup in 2004, but it was not actually."
"No?" Yang Huan was a little surprised.
Bielsa shook her head, "That's an illusion for ordinary people. In the industry, many people's research and discussion on holistic football has already begun. Manchester United's 1999 Triple Champions League seems to be very dangerous and has a very large part of luck, but the outstanding performance in the following years has aroused the deep thoughts of many people."
"Also, Real Madrid won the Champions League twice in 1998 and 2,000 years, and the subsequent decline of the Galaxy Warships period also made many industry insiders seriously think about integrated football. As for Real Madrid's Champions League again in 2002, it seems to many people more like a product in a special situation."
Yang Huan also let Bielsa's words pull his thoughts and nodded lightly.
Manchester United sent Cantona away and immediately ushered in the peak of 1999. However, after sending off Stam away and introducing superstar Perron, the Red Devils Dynasty suddenly collapsed. Is this just a coincidence?
If Manchester United is a coincidence, then Guardiola sent away superstar Ronaldinho and Deco, but welcomed the most outstanding Grand Slam dynasty in history; Inter Milan sent away Ibrahimovic, but welcomed Mourinho's triple-championship. Is this a coincidence?
"Many people admire Manchester United's 92nd Class, especially the Golden Fourth Midfielder."
The so-called Golden Four midfielders are Giggs, Scholes, Keane and Beckham, which is considered by many football industry insiders to be the most perfect midfield combination in football history.
"Theoretically speaking, Bayern Munich was the most powerful in 1999 and 2000 years, which was the peak of the Bayern team at Heathfield, but they won the Champions League in 2001, and lost to Manchester United in the finals, and lost to Bosque's Real Madrid in the semi-finals."
"Many people feel sorry for Bayern Munich losing to luck, but from a certain perspective, luck is only part of it. More importantly, Bayern Munich solved a problem that had not been solved in the previous two seasons in 200."
When Yang Huan heard this, she couldn't help but look at Bielsa.
"That's breaking the dense defense!"/p>
Suddenly, Yang Huan seemed to have understood something, but she couldn't grasp the key.
"It is precisely because of the problem of breaking intensive defense that Bayern Munich arrived in the 2001 Champions League knockout stage, winning the Champions League finals in a row, and finally won the championship!"
"The reason why the European Cup in 2004 created Greece's championship miracle was also because all European teams could not find an effective way to break through the intensive defense brought by integrated football!"
"By the same, in the early two years of the century, Valencia, the La Liga Bat Legion, led by Argentina coach Cooper, entered the Champions League finals in a row, relying on integrated intensive defense. In the 02-03 season, Juventus and AC Milan gathered in the Champions League finals, relying on intensive defense. In the 03-04 season, Porto and Monaco entered the finals, which was the same."
"In those years, there was a very interesting situation in the entire European football world."
"Those quasi-first-class teams, even second-class teams, have risen strongly and swept across the entire Europa with excellent overall tactics and unbreakable intensive defense. However, those traditional powerful teams are generally looking for an effective way to break through intensive defense."
"From AC Milan to Barcelona Dream Team 2, and then to Manchester United's running and fighting trident, we are all looking for it. Although we have occasionally succeeded, we have never found a long-term and effective way to break intensive defense."
"Although I was in South America during that time, European professional football has always led tactical changes, so I have been thinking about and paying attention to this issue, and even made attempts again and again, either successful or failed."
"Before Guardiola coached Barcelona, I told him that if you want to break the overall intensive defense, you must grasp the two major disadvantages of integration, efficiency and tactical flexibility. If you want to make good use of these two loopholes, you must be faster and more efficient than the defensive party!"
"If high-level pressing naturally solves the problem of full offense and defense, ensuring that the team can get the ball back in the shortest time, then the problem facing all teams is how to complete offense and defense conversions in the shortest time, play the time difference, catch the defense off guard, and expose the drawbacks of the overall defense!"
When Yang Huan heard this, he couldn't help but feel that his eyes lit up and all the problems suddenly became clear.
This is the mystery of the top team!
"Guardiola is a very smart and good at thinking. Based on what I said and combined with the traditional characteristics of Barcelona, he created a unique ball control system, which solved the problem of breaking intensive defense well. This provided excellent examples for many latecomers, including Van Gaal of Bayern Munich."
"But Mourinho is equally smart. The Portuguese may not be good at innovation, but he is very good at targeting, so his Inter Milan defeated opponents and won the triple crown with more intensive overall defense and more efficient counterattack efficiency!"
"But Mourinho's tactical style is unsustainable. Even if Inter Milan's overall strength remains at its peak, give Mourinho another year. By 2011, the Portuguese Inter Milan will not be able to succeed."
"After all strong teams must have the ability to break intensive defense, and the stronger this ability, the better the team's strength and the stronger the competitiveness!"
"A team that does not have the ability to break the intensive defense, even if it succeeds occasionally, it will be a flash in the pan and is unsustainable. Because today you have acted as a weak team, so you can succeed by relying on defensive counterattacks, but once you succeed, it will be someone else's turn to play your defensive counterattack."
Chapter completed!