Chapter 21 Speed ​​up

When Leeds United began to turmoil, Simon Grayson had already begun to further improve his team's tactics.

When coaching Leeds United began to create "Solar System Tactics", Simon Grayson once discussed with his assistant Eric Black that after the "Solar System Tactics" is trained, the team will rely too much on Shaq's personal abilities, and this tactic will become a bit single. Once the opponent finds a solution, or Shaq is injured and in poor condition, Leeds United will be in trouble.

Try to avoid putting the team in trouble. This is the initial idea of ​​Simon Grayson and Eric Black. Although Shaq's condition has always been so steady that it is unbelievable that the "Young Guards" have also moved forward and become the "Four Crown Kings", this idea has been studied by the two of them and came up with a solution, that is...speed up!

Based on the "Solar System Tactics", the entire team accelerated!

There are two aspects to the so-called speed-up. On the one hand, it is the speed at which the team advances forward when attacking and defending, and on the other hand, it is the team pushing the pace of the game to speed up.

Speeding up during offense is something Simon Grayson used quietly when he was at Leeds United. The "Young Guards" rely on the sharp advancement of the offense and became the European overlord last season, but this is not suitable for Manchester United.

Leeds United's midfield and frontcourt have three fast horses, Shaq, Tevez, and Jonny Hausen. The speed of these three people is amazingly fast. Even left-back Ben Parker often rushes forward to assist when the team attacks, which increases the overall speed of Leeds United's midfield and frontcourt by a factor.

But Manchester United can't play like this now. Rooney, Nani and Gansu are not slow, but they are still a little worse than Jonny Hausen and Tevez. Moreover, the "Little Fatty"'s skills are a bit rough. Nani is much worse in terms of stability. Gansu is a typical technical player with excellent consciousness, but his physical fitness is a shortcoming. Di Maria's dribbling ability is also excellent, but his speed is slightly insufficient.

But the matter is human. Simon Grayson has been able to understand the characteristics and abilities of each player through three months of understanding of his players. After several meetings with Lerotale and Zanetti, they found a way to speed up the "Red Devils", and the key to this way is... rhythm!

Manchester United's players are indeed inferior to Leeds United in absolute speed, but these stars have far better ability to interpret the game than those of the "Young Guards". Most of the time, the length of their careers can determine a player's game experience, and these Manchester United's stars obviously beat Leeds United in this regard.

The improvement method Simon Grayson now has brought out is to achieve the goal of speeding up the pace of the game by increasing the passing frequency, increasing the player's transfer frequency, and increasing the horizontal transfer frequency of the ball.

It is naturally impossible to make Manchester United meet Simon Grayson's requirements in one go, but Simon Grayson, Lerotale and Zanetti decompose this set of improvement methods. After researching, they assigned specific tasks to each player in the team.

Players like Rooney, Ganso, Van Persie, etc. who play wingers are asked to take the ball and observe whether Shaq in the middle has a chance. If he doesn't have the chance, he will control the ball and lead it back, and send the ball out when his teammates come up to receive it.

Di Maria, Nani, Valencia, Ashley Young and other players who play two full-back players, the instructions they get are to make them move more horizontally, and when they take the ball on the side to attack, they should actively insert it, and also pay attention to whether there is any time on the other side. Once the time appears, they should quickly pass the ball. If nothing is left, then pass the ball back to the back midfielder.

For midfielders, Simon Grayson also has new requirements. After transformation, Gansu can already play as a midfielder. Now that Gansu is placed in the left winger position, Flani has become the first choice for this position. Simon Grayson has only one requirement... control!

After the tactics are improved, Manchester United's midfielder will no longer be the first defense line that is only responsible for intercepting the opponent's attack, but will take on the task of controlling the ball. Once there is no chance in the left, center and right direction of the frontcourt, the ball will be passed to this point, and the midfielder and the defenders will control it, waiting for the forward to find an opportunity to pass the ball.

The two full-backs on the left and right were asked by Simon Grayson to increase the assist frequency as much as possible so that the pace of the game could be made faster. When Simon Grayson bought Van Deville and Jose Angel, they were interested in their assist ability. There was no problem in this regard. As for the responsibilities of the two central defenders and goalkeepers, there was no change.

Once the game is deadlocked, Simon Grayson naturally doesn't mind using his nuclear weapons... Shaq!

This improved version of the "Solar System Tactics" was actually suspended for two days at the Carrington base because of the seventh round of the Premier League. However, Simon Grayson boldly activated the new "Solar System Tactics" in Manchester United's home game against Fulham. After all, Fulham is just a mid- and lower-level team, and Manchester United can defeat them even if they take 60% of their strength.

And most importantly, after playing this game, the European Cup qualifiers will start again, and all national leagues in mainland Europe will usher in a rest period of almost two weeks. Manchester United stars can fully benefit from the gains and losses of this game and through the national team's gains and losses.

Simon Grayson took great pains to promote the new version of "Solar System Tactics", but he never expected that he would underestimate Manchester United's stars who spent countless money to buy. The actual value of the "Red Devils"'s current first-team lineup is more than 300 million pounds.

Shaq, Rooney, Ganso, Frani, Di Maria, Van der Wel, Nani, Jose Angel, Papadopolos, Subotic, Valencia, Van Persie, Ashley Young and other stars have extremely rich game experience. They have even been asked by their head coaches to do this and do that countless times in their careers. This step by step has reached the standard of joining the "Red Devils" Manchester United. They naturally have strong personal abilities and rich experience.

When Simon Grayson, Lerotale, and Zanetti explained the instructions on what each player needs to do, although these players did not know what changes they would bring to the team, they still tried their best to execute them. Moreover, the football instincts of these stars were also very amazing. They naturally chose to cross and transfer on the court and then insert assists. This is also the best time for the players to perform personal abilities.

So... Fulham's fate became very sad!

At the beginning of the game, after the kick-off, the "Red Devils" who played at home took the ball, took a round of twenty passes. The ball circled from the middle to the backcourt and then went to the left. After passing the middle and right tests, Van der Weill gave Shaq a cross pass. As a result, Shaq's long shot, which was 35 meters away from the goal, was saved by the Fulham goalkeeper.

Even though the ball failed, there was still a warm applause from Old Trafford Stadium!

The commentator highly praised Simon Grayson's coaching ability: "This round of offense is really wonderful! I have only seen such a smooth offense from Barcelona, ​​who was the six-championed champion in the Guardiola era, but now we Manchester United can also propose such an offense. This is really amazing for us who were still flying in the air last season! I think this is completely a reflection of Simon Grayson's excellent coaching ability and his "Solar System Tactics"! The changes in our team this season are so great! Fortunately, this time it has improved!"

Manchester United has indeed become "good", and it's amazing!

In the next ten minutes, Manchester United organized attacks continuously. Through large-scale transfers, players' interludes and running, and fast-paced passes, they completed four shots in just ten minutes. What's even more terrifying is that in the ten minutes after the start of the game, Manchester United's possession rate once reached 98. Fulham had almost no passing possession except when he could touch the ball when resolving danger, and their morale... was also beaten out in these ten minutes.

After discovering that the pressure was too harsh, Manchester United's stars consciously shrank back, but even so, Manchester United's goal was late until 37 minutes, and Shaq relied on his personal ability.

Retreat to fifteen meters away from the Fulham penalty area line, Shaq took Van derville's pass on the right, and then dribbled the ball from the diagonally toward the area he was most familiar with... Near the top of the arc of the penalty area!

Along the way, Shaq faced Fulham's defensive players and kept using his oxtail to get rid of his opponents, but Fulham's defensive players gathered three people, which made Shaq unable to get rid of them completely.

But Shaq's personal ability is really too strong. It can be said that he has surpassed all the players in football history with all the attributes. Even though the opponent is three people defending, Shaq still brought the ball to the right side of the arc. After flashing a gap, he shot with a "bang" on his left foot, and the ball flew into the dead corner of the lower left corner of the Fulham goal... 1:0!

At the 44th minute, Manchester United took advantage of Fulham's chance to counterattack in the last moment. After intercepting the ball in the first half, "Little Fatty" ran 60 meters all the way, passed Fulham goalkeeper Reeves and pushed the ball into the empty goal... 2:0!

In the 62nd minute of the second half, Nani's quick follow-up shot made "Little Fat"'s shot into Fulham's goal...3:0!

In the 79th minute, Shaq received Rooney's pass from the top of the right arc. He swung his left leg and shot low and flat. The ball flew into the dead corner of the lower left corner of the Fulham goal again...4:0!

Fulham goalkeeper Reeves was so angry that he lay in front of the goal and kept hitting the ground with his fists. It was fine if Shaq scored two "Shaq goals", but the two goals were so similar that they were almost no different. This feeling was really frustrating.

After the game, the performance of the "Red Devils" was highly recognized, with the average score of 7.94 points, which is the highest record for average scores by a single player in Manchester United history.

But those media involved in the ratings really had no choice. 423 passes gave Manchester United a ball possession rate of 64, and they also got 39 shots because of the pace of the game that was pushed too fast by them. Fulham only completed three shots in the whole game, and all shots missed.

Although Manchester United does not have many passes for 423 times, it would be really amazing if we consider that Manchester United did not make pass data in the game at all.
Chapter completed!