Two Hundred and Sixty-Seventh, the Master Was Beaten to Death with Fists

On the evening of August 29th, at the San Paolo Stadium in Naples.

In the third round of the Coppa Italia, Naples played at home against Reggina.

Gao Shen stood in front of the coach's bench of the home team, looking at the stadium with a puzzled expression.

The game has begun.

Players from both sides fought back and forth, but Naples still took advantage of their home court advantage and their better high-position pressing to form a clear suppression of Reggina.

This is a very normal thing, Gao Shen is not surprised at all.

What really surprised him was Ulivieri's formation in this game.

This grandfather-level coach who is highly respected in Italian football adopted a very strange tactic in the game, and his position was a bit similar to three four two one.

The defense has a combination of three central defenders, which is nothing new in Italian football, even in 2007.

The midfielder is a shallow dish with four players. The two wingers are more like full-backs, but with double midfielders, and the front is two forward midfielders. The height of the front is close to 1.9 meters. Danish high center Tulberg.

Gao Shen really didn't understand the purpose of this tactical play.

Let's say it wants to attack. The three and four behind the three-four-two formation actually retreat to participate in defense, and even seem to focus on defense; but it can be said that he is defending, and both sides are Standing in the position of full-back, his ability does not seem to be particularly outstanding, at least not like Carlos or Cafu's one-stop wing players.

This is very strange.

Why did Ulivieri adopt such a set of tactics?

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"To be honest, I didn't understand either."

Carlo shook his head and smiled wryly after hearing the profound question.

"Is there something in it, the persistence of the Italians?"

"Perseverance?" Gao Shen shook his head, "I think it's more like a kind of stubbornness."

Gao Shen thinks that persistence should be to insist on some good things, but if it is to insist on some bad things, it should be called stubbornness, and this kind of situation is really very common in Italian football.

That is, after coming to Italy,

Only Gao Shen can fully understand why Saki said that the country's deep-rooted genes are preserved.

If you stick to some rare and good things, Gao Shen will feel that this is a respectable behavior, but if you are self-sufficient and clinging to some things that are obviously outdated, then this should not be done.

Seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, this is the right way!

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Naples still adopts a four-three-three formation tonight, with Thiago Mota behind in the midfield, Biglia and Vidal partnering forward, and Di Maria, Pellet and Callejon in front.

In the current set of midfielders, Biglia is actually the most stable and the most important player.

Rakitic is relatively young and still immature. Vidal is not very used to the double midfielder strategy. Parejo, Nainggolan and Pastore are all newcomers, and they are not yet able to play the leading role alone. As a result, Biglia's performance in Naples is very eye-catching.

For this reason, the Argentine midfielder has been selected for the warm-up match of the Argentine national team against Australia in September this year.

Also selected for the national team for the first time is the Italian centre-back, Paolo Cannavaro.

The Naples central defender performed very well last season. This season, he also performed very well in the cup and league at the beginning of the season, which attracted the attention of the Italian national team coach Donadoni. Materazzi is also muscular. The injury was absent, so Cannavaro Jr. was recruited.

If he can play smoothly, he will fight side by side with his brother Cannavaro, which is a good story.

After more than ten minutes of the game, Gao Shen basically figured out the opponent's strategy, and immediately signaled the team to make a big push, especially Di Maria and Callejon on the two sides, and pay attention to hitting the opponent behind the line of defense.

The two central defenders, David Luiz and Bonucci, must pay attention to launching long ball strikes.

In the advanced tactical positioning, the long pass is like a long-range missile, which can hit any target on the field anytime and anywhere, which is simply too easy to use.

More importantly, Naples' long passers are still two central defenders.

Unless they encounter a high-position pressing team like Barcelona in the future, otherwise, the two central defenders basically don't have to worry about not being able to find a long pass.

Therefore, the key depends on the running position in front.

When the game progressed to the 31st minute, after receiving a return pass from the midfielder, Bonucci stopped the ball and moved forward. The pass was accurately passed behind Regina's left line of defense.

I saw Di Maria sprinting at the fastest speed, grabbing the opponent's right midfielder to return to the defense, and before the right center back rushed out, he stopped the ball first, and took advantage of the opportunity to enter the penalty area, and directly made a fake move. He opened the opponent's central defender and made a pass before going down to the bottom line.

Pellet quickly jumped in, and after forcing the defender away with his body, he tapped his foot forward and sent the ball into Reggina's goal, which was close at hand, opening the scoring for Naples!

After the Italian center scored the goal, he was so excited that he danced happily on the sidelines.

In this tactical system in Naples, he has indeed performed better and better, and has become more and more comfortable.

He is not like Cavani, his series and tactical role will be more obvious, but he will also score goals.

Don't forget, he is also an Italian center forward!

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After scoring a goal, Naples still adopted a high-position pressing tactic against Reggina steadily.

So far, Italian football has not found a very effective solution to Naples' style of play.

No one knows that this is actually the topic that Ulivieri has focused on in the past year. He even plans to give a keynote speech on his experience in the past year at the professional coaching summit in a few days.

But tonight's preview was obviously not as good as he expected, which made him a little embarrassed.

Do you want to talk about it?

If you lose the game, if you speak out, it will have no weight.

High-position pressing is actually not new. Needless to say, Benitez had this style of play a long time ago, but at that time it was played more in local areas or in groups.

For example, focus on pressing and oppressing the opponent's center, forcing the opponent to transfer the ball to the side, or let the front attacking players press to gain more positioning time for the midfield.

There is also a mad dog-style siege. This is of course a full-court siege, but it should be noted that his purpose is to grab the ball.

But Gao Shen's style of play is not for grabbing the ball at all.

Ulivieri has studied many Naples games, and he can be very sure that Naples' high-position press is not for the ball, but for oppression.

Therefore, the media said that this is high-position pressing and oppression, but it is actually wrong. This should be called high-position oppression.

More importantly, he is executed by all the players from the front to the back of the team. The carpet-like integrity of the whole court completely oppresses you without giving you any chance to breathe.

It's like a totally unreasonable guy rushing at you, flailing his fists with both hands.

What's terrible is that he is also very powerful and his fists are so heavy that you can't stop them.

How to do?

In the past, in the face of localized or group presses, there were good solutions, such as returning the ball to control the ball, or transferring to the weak side, and if you have the ability, you can even get rid of the push directly.

But these methods are basically useless in the face of Naples' tactics.

Pass back to the defense?

Don't make a fuss, they will directly force the goalkeeper!

Move to the weak side?

The short pass is useless, not to mention the low accuracy of the long pass, and the transfer is also very fast.

As for relying on personal ability to get rid of propulsion...

Well, so far, few teams have really succeeded.

The reason why Inter Milan restrained Naples last season was mainly because the Achilles heel on the right was strangled to death by Inter Milan. The Nerazzurri almost fought on the right and relied on their overall tyrannical strength to suppress their opponents .

Other than that, no solution!

In other words, neither Ulivieri nor his Italian colleagues can think of a solution for the time being.

Many people have discussed that Naples' physical fitness will be too much because they run too much distance.

But who would have thought that they persisted for the entire season.

Note that there are 22 teams in Serie B, and a total of 42 rounds have been played. In addition to the Coppa Italia, Naples did not have any obvious physical problems.

Ulivieri really has a sense of depression now that an experienced teacher has no choice but to face the young and strong punches.

In his memory and theoretical system, there is really no way to find an effective way to deal with it.

Not only him, but all the friends around him are basically the same as him.

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While Ulivieri was helpless on the sidelines, the game continued on the pitch.

Napoli pressed Reggina until the end of the first half.

Just when Reggina wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, David Luiz suddenly sent another diagonal pass, which accurately crossed the top of Reggina's defense and landed on the right side of the frontcourt.

Moto Callejon quickly advanced, moved forward along the right side, rushed to the bottom line and stopped the ball, threw off the defender, broke into the penalty area from the bottom line, and passed back to the front of the small penalty area.

Pellet did not grab the position at the front point, but Di Maria at the back point quickly followed.

But when the Argentine winger didn't know if he would be able to arrive in time, Reggina's delayed midfielder Cassione tried his best to return to the defense. In the midst of panic, he made a mistake in the clearance and directly blocked the ball. Regina's goal.

Two to zero!

Everyone was stunned!

Own goals!

Cacione himself was in pain and grabbed his hair vigorously.

This player still played for Rimini last season, performed well, was introduced by Reggina, and tonight is his debut in Reggina.

The Italian midfielder, who is 1.87 meters tall, knelt down in pain in his penalty area.

An own goal was staged in the first show, which is really a great tragedy!

Even Gao Shen on the sidelines felt sympathetic.

In his memory, the last person who did this was Woodgate.