Chapter 478: Almighty, Full Attack, Full Defense

The Chinese media were the most excited to see Sun Jihai appear.

The Central TV Sports Channel is broadcasting the Champions League final live. Liu Jianhong, who has co-hosted the Asian Cup with Wansheng, is in charge of explaining the game. He is still talking about Chelsea's wonderful goal. "Chelsea has scored a goal. Manchester City are in danger, Chelsea have been attacking very hard these few minutes, they are a threat outside the box..."

Just then, Carlos kicked the ball out of bounds.

Manchester City began to make substitutions.

"Sun Jihai is going to play?"

The camera immediately pointed to the sidelines, and I saw Wan Sheng confronting Sun Jihai. The substitution card held up by the fourth official clearly showed that Sun Jihai would play and that David Silva would be replaced.

Liu Jianhong said with certainty, "That's right! It's Sun Jihai! He replaced David Silva!"

"The Champions League final is the top game in Europe and even in the entire world football. It is the highest level of the club level. Wansheng is also the first time that Wansheng has led a team to this level. For any player, to be able to play in the Champions League final, It's an incredible honor."

"Many people have analyzed this season that Sun Jihai is unlikely to have a chance, but now, when the situation at Manchester City is somewhat unfavorable, Wansheng chose to believe in Sun Jihai. We don't know what this adjustment means for the time being, but with Sun Jihai, Manchester City have **** players in the final and we have countless reasons to cheer for them!"

Liu Jianhong has always been a very calm commentator, but when he saw Sun Jihai on stage, his tone of speech was still a little excited.

This is two - Chinese players!

Before this decisive battle, no Chinese player had appeared in the Champions League final, but now there are two, and the game can be said to be a 'Chinese final'!

Obviously, many domestic fans think so too.

The results of the Chinese national team are disappointing. It is difficult for Chinese fans to find football that they hope for, so they turn to support foreign teams. In China, they find AC Milan fans, Inter fans, Manchester United fans and fans of other teams. , Because of Wan Sheng, Wang Xiaolei, Sun Jihai and others, they turned to support Manchester City fans.

Of course, there are also some fans who support Chelsea.

For the domestic fans who support Chelsea, they are very conflicted when they watch Chelsea and Manchester City because they do not know exactly who to support.

Chelsea does not have Chinese players, but Manchester City has two - Chinese players. Manchester City is still the team led by the Chinese coach. So should we support the team with Chinese players or continue to support Chelsea?

Now is the Champions League final, they are even more embarrassed.

At the beginning, they continued to support Chelsea, but when Manchester City played very well, many people's mentality changed. They felt that Wansheng won the first Champions League trophy is not bad, Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei will also follow.

After that, and now, seeing Sun Jihai play, more domestic Chelsea fans have turned to support Manchester City!

With one Chinese coach and two Chinese players, this Manchester City team can be said to be half a 'Chinese team'. The 'Chinese team' will play in the Champions League final. Who else can they support if they don't support the Chinese team!

Chelsea fans in China are like this, not to mention other fans.

At this moment, all domestic fans support Manchester City.

At the same time, they hope that Sun Jihai's appearance can really have some effect, hope that their players will perform well, and hope that Manchester City can beat Chelsea and win the Champions League trophy.

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Sun Jihai appeared.

The substitution that made the Chinese fans very excited was actually not grand. Sun Jihai just walked to the field, and not many fans applauded and cheered.

Manchester City fans are a little confused about why Sun Jihai can replace Silva, they haven't reacted for a while, and for Russian fans, this Chinese player is really unfamiliar.

Morris walked to Sun Jihai and asked Wan Sheng what he had explained to him.

He must know this.

Only by understanding Wansheng's intentions can he be more aware of what to do to help the team win.

"I play the midfielder, we have to defend well."

"Wan Sheng said, your position is higher, pay more attention to the organization of the offense, Ilano and I are responsible for the defense, we must strive for the initiative of the midfield, and cooperate more..."

Morris nodded in understanding.

In fact, 'I hit the lower back', this sentence is enough. Morris is the best of any Manchester City player in terms of his understanding of the game and his team's tactical analysis.

If Sun Jihai played as a midfielder, then the team was equivalent to a double midfielder, and the formation became 4231, obviously to strengthen the midfield's defense and fight.

Morris couldn't help recalling the two concepts that Wansheng once put forward - "ambiguous position" and "all-round, full-attack, full-defense".

'Position is ambiguous', which literally means that the players on the field must play with the basic structure of the team's tactical system. The position is not so important. It doesn't matter what position the player is in.

"All-round, full-attack, full-defense" refers to the player's ability.

Wan Sheng mentioned to him, "Every player tries to be able to attack and defend as much as possible, so as to allow the team to truly 'full attack and full defense'."

'Full attack and full defense' is actually a very common concept. Players such as Barcelona and Arsenal all use the 'full attack and full defense' style of play. Even so, 'full attack and full defense' is still just a concept , Because the team that plays full attack and full defense football, at most, emphasizes that the forwards must defend and the defenders participate in the offense, which is not a real 'full attack and full defense'.

Even Manchester City, the players have a clear sense of position, the defenders are defending most of the time, and the forwards don't have much time to drop back to defend.

Therefore, "'Position ambiguity' and 'all-round, full-attack, full-defense' are just the future development direction of football."

Morris recalled Wan Sheng's words.

Now that Sun Jihai is playing, Morris understands this level.

Sun Jihai is the 'magic oil' on the pitch, and he can play in any position, but look at the five midfielders, Blumer, Ljungberg, Ivan Crewe and himself, they are actually 'magic oil', they all belong to ability All-round, non-fixed-position players can perform well even in other positions.

The five people are like this, and they must be allowed to strengthen their cooperation and achieve 'all-in-one'.

This is the key.

Sure enough, when there was a chance of a dead ball in the game, Maurice was called by Wansheng to face him.

Wansheng basically told him to increase the cooperation of the midfield, and strive to suppress Chelsea in both defense and offense.

To put it simply, it is to fight Chelsea in midfield.

Whether it's defense or offense, the team has five midfielders, plus a Torres who can retreat at any time, so he is definitely not afraid of Chelsea. As long as he takes the initiative in the midfield competition, no matter how good Chelsea is, The team can also play an advantage.

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No media can really interpret the meaning of Wansheng's substitution. In their opinion, replacing David Silva with Sun Jihai is a failure.

"Because Sun is Chinese, Wansheng only let him play..."

This statement is very popular among the media.

When many media said this, even Manchester City fans believed it a little, because they couldn't think of the reason why Sun Jihai replaced Silva.

The same goes for Chelsea manager Grant.

Since Manchester City made a substitution, he has been pondering the reason for the substitution. Silva's state and performance must be no problem. If such a player is placed under him, he will definitely not replace it. Instead, he will rely on Silva. play to win.

But Wansheng chose to replace Silva.

Grant will definitely not think like the media like 'Wan Sheng is a Chinese, Sun Jihai is also a Chinese' or something like that, this is the final of the Champions League, not a child's play game, it is impossible to take special care just because they are from the same country. ... Even with special care, you can replace players like Ljungberg in general?

Why Silva?

That's what Grant doesn't understand.

After the game restarted, he didn't see much effect of Manchester City's substitutions. The two teams were still fighting in the midfield. The competition was very fierce. The game didn't seem to be much different from just now...

Many media commentators are criticizing Wansheng's substitution, "Sun's appearance is of no use at all, his ability is far worse than Silva!"

"Wan Sheng is probably too nervous. He participated in the Champions League final for the first time, and he was immediately carried away by the excitement..."

No one found that Chelsea had lost the edge.

In just a few minutes, Chelsea played an advantage in midfield, often passing the ball forward, strikers or midfielders, it was easy to shoot a shot and threaten Manchester City's goal.

But since Sun Jihai came on stage, Chelsea have yet to shoot.

The two teams spent more time fighting in the midfield, and Manchester City played more steadily in both offense and defense.

In Manchester City's 4231 formation, the two midfielders, the three central midfielders, and the five players seem to have become a whole. They don't have to divide their responsibilities every time they defend.

In a word, it means that Manchester City has played well even defensively.

It's easy to play offense with rules, but it's very difficult to play with rules. Generally, when a team retreats to defend, they will choose to set up a formation. From the perspective of the audience, whether it is 433 or 442, it is obvious. Only in this way can two or three lines of defense be formed, and the defense will not happen in a rush. The embarrassing situation of grabbing ', when the defense line is easy to appear empty.

But when the opponent performs well, or passes the ball into a dangerous position, it is easy for several players to grab one.

This is the positional repetition of the defensive player.

The purpose of a fixed formation is to avoid duplication of defensive positions.

There is rarely such a situation in Manchester City now. When defending, the five midfielders did not go back to form any formation at all. They all went to defend on the spot. Seeing this kind of defense, most people It will feel a bit chaotic, but Manchester City did not have the embarrassment of duplicating defensive positions. Each player performed his own duties and played very well-organized.

Chelsea players have the deepest experience.

Whenever they got the ball, it was as if from the first moment, City defended.

Especially when football crosses the center line, there is usually a certain space, but Manchester City players come to defend directly. They subconsciously feel that the position behind the opponent will be empty, but when the ball is passed, they find that there is no.

It felt strange and depressing.

Chelsea players couldn't understand it at all, and even the team's generals Makelele and Lampard didn't understand, so they were at a disadvantage in the midfield fight.

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Watching the team's performance on the field, Wan Sheng's mouth twitched.

Replacing Sun Jihai was an adventure. In fact, the team had not practiced relevant tactics before.

As for the 'ambiguous position' and 'all-round, full-attack, full-defense', he also 'guessed'.

This will be the development direction of football in the future, but at the root of it, it is still in the "platoon formation" system of the football training master.

Wansheng often uses the 'platoon formation' system to compare the defensive and offensive evaluation values ​​of each player. He discovered some time ago that in the 451 formation, replacing Silva or Ozil with Sun Jihai, the The team's offensive ability evaluation will not drop, and the defensive ability evaluation will increase a lot.

At the time he didn't understand it at all.

After checking Sun Jihai's personal ability, I only found that Sun Jihai's defensive ability is slightly higher than that of Silva, but there are too many personal attributes data, and there is no way to really compare it. Some, but there is a big gap in the offensive capabilities of the two.

Why change to a player whose defensive ability is not so strong, and his offensive ability is much poorer? Will there be such a change in the evaluation of the offensive and defensive capabilities of the "Arrangement" system?

Wansheng researched for a long time and could not come to a conclusion.

In the end, he could only attribute the reason to the level of 'tactics and cooperation'. After making substitutions and comparing and analyzing time and time again, Wansheng finally figured out a little idea, so he came up with the theory of 'all-round, all-offensive, all-defense'. .

This kind of uncertain football theory, Wansheng has only talked to a few assistant coaches such as Diamares, several people can't figure it out, they don't understand what it does.

Among the players, Wansheng only talked to Morris.

Morris has a high respect for Wansheng. In other words, he believes very much in every word that Wansheng said, and he will understand it from his own perspective. Some of Wansheng's theories are not even thought of by him. Instead, Morris helped to think of it.

Thinking of this, Wan Sheng shook his head with a wry smile.

After several years of getting along, he believed that Morris would no longer have any problems as a football coach after retiring.

Just when Wan Sheng sighed, Manchester City got better and better on the field.

Chelsea don't understand Manchester City's style of play, they are at a disadvantage in the fight in midfield.

Manchester City took the opportunity to keep changing positions and running, constantly interspersing and cooperating. The five midfielders formed a whole, and the more they played, the more tacit understanding they became. )