Fifty Two Lore

When four two three one meets four two three one, what should we do?

This was the problem facing Gao Shen at the Mestagna Stadium on the night of March 11th.

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

And the whole world knows that this is a tiankeng.

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

Valencia under Benitez's coaching is unshakable 4231. Tinker tried to inject more factors into this team that just won the championship, such as inheriting the characteristics of the Italians, making this team Tactics become richer and more varied.

He brought a lot of Italian players, which caused the Valencia champions to be very dissatisfied, and tragedy was born.

After Ranieri got out of class, Flores, who led the newly promoted Getafe to relegation, became his successor.

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

From 1997 to 2004, he coached Real Madrid's U17 age group for seven years and accumulated a wealth of coaching experience. After that, he became the head coach of the newly promoted Getafe, leading the team to relegation. Coached Valencia in 2005.

This is another classic case of accumulation.

When Gao Shen saw Flores' resume, on the one hand, he sighed that Real Madrid really deserves to be the Whampoa Military Academy of Spanish football. On the other hand, he also thought that this is what Carlo, Lucas and others persuaded him to do step by step. upgrade mode.

After Flores took over Valencia, Ranieri had already left Spain with his Italian army, so he set things right and reactivated 4231, reusing the double midfielders of Albelda and Baraja, He reused Aimar as a midfielder, and spent 10 million euros to introduce David Villa from Zaragoza.

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

But it is a pity that neither the former Ranieri nor the current Flores have figured out how to understand Benitez's 4231, or in other words, they only understand part of it.

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

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

However, after experiencing the "ravages" of Ranieri, Mista could no longer regain the state he had when he was under Benitez. Even if Flores repeatedly adjusted and changed this season, he failed to inspire Out of Mista's vitality.

Valencia's offense is like a pool of stagnant water. Relying on Villa's goals, relying on Aimar's flashes of inspiration from time to time to continue his life, relying on the team's tenacious defense, he just scored 15 undefeated rounds this season. defeat.

What is even more commendable is that in the three games against Real Madrid and Barcelona this season, Valencia has achieved an impressive record of two wins and one tie, including beating Barcelona 1-0 at home, beating Real Madrid 2-1 away, and beating Real Madrid 2-1 at home. Camp Nou drew with Barcelona two to two.

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

Facing such a team, what can Gao Shen do?

There is no good way, but to fight.

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Goalkeeper Iker Casillas, the defense is Felipe, Woodgate, Ramos and Arbeloa, the midfielder is Pablo Garcia and Borja, and the frontcourt is Raul and Guti and Cassano,

Up ahead is Soldado.

This is Gao Shen's starting lineup at the Mestagna Stadium. Except for the defense and Raul, all other players are in rotation.

The game was very dull.

Valencia has the best defense in La Liga, but their offense is not good. It is an extravagant hope to expect Valencia to take the initiative to attack. However, after Real Madrid has undergone a large rotation, the main lineup is missing. Rencia, of course, can't be greedy for merit.

Both teams have a conservative style, which led to the mestagna battle being lackluster.

Real Madrid, who are in control of the ball, are more pulling, pulling back and forth non-stop, but it is difficult to attack the hinterland of Valencia to pose a threat, and Valencia also lacks ambition. It just seeks stability and counterattacks when it seizes the opportunity.

With Woodgate in the back line, Ramos got more freedom. Gao Shen asked him to mark Villa, and Valencia's offense fell silent.

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

After Gao Shen took office, Soldado, who started for the first time, worked very hard on the court, ran quite aggressively, and executed tactics well, but it was really difficult for him to take advantage of Albiol and Marchena.

In the first half, the two sides shook hands and made a 0-0 draw, but Real Madrid got 65% of the possession rate.

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

But there was no breakthrough on the scene.

But Gao Shen was not in a hurry.

He is still waiting.

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How to break the dense defense?

As a senior fan, Gao Shen can immediately say the three moves that break the density, set the ball, long shot and high center forward.

But in fact, these three tricks are all based on the fact that the team can gain space, that is, they can only play a role when the dense 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 bottom line after a breakthrough, and the latter is to cause the opponent to foul, and the defensive player will foul. , who will easily foul?

Let’s talk about long shots. Valencia has two world-class midfielders. The tight defensive system created by Ranieri, Cooper and Benitez will easily give you a chance to shoot long?

Finally, the high center.

Everyone knows that high balls from the side are the most inefficient, with an extremely low success rate, and the key point is that if you want to pass the ball well from the side, you still need to gain space, just like Beckham needs to be able to swing his legs.

So, the problem went around and around, and it returned to the most fundamental problem.

space!

The key to breaking through dense defenses is to create space.

How to create?

The opponent has put up a tight defensive position and will not allow you to easily create space.

How to do?

pull!

There is a saying that goes well, as long as the hoe dances well, how can there be a city wall that cannot be dug down?

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

To a certain extent, the so-called pass and control of Barcelona coached by Guardiola is essentially constantly pulling and trying to create space. Pass and control of the ball and high-position pressing are just their means.

So in the battle against Valencia, Gao Shen's starting lineup was never for scoring goals, but for fighting against the opponent, running, pulling, and consuming the opponent.

Time is passing by bit by bit, but Gao Shen remains unmoved at all.

On the contrary, Flores replaced Angulo with Rufete in the 63rd minute.

Three minutes later, Mista replaced Regero.

The two substitutions were to adjust the team's frontcourt attack. After Mista stepped up, Valencia basically returned to the double striker tactic, with Mista and Villa partnering.

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

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 confirm that it was José Callejon, the elder brother of the twin brothers, who later performed well in Naples.

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

The intention of this substitution is very obvious, which is to quickly counterattack Valencia.

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

Real Madrid still controlled the ball, but they also retracted appropriately as a whole, allowing Valencia to take the initiative to press out.

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

As the attacking midfielder, Guti was not even assigned a defensive task in this game, so he could unleash his offensive ability to his heart's content, but unfortunately, when he met Albelda and Baraja, the world's top double defensive midfielder combination, it was hard for him. let him fail to perform.

But this time, he seized the opportunity. After stopping the ball, without waiting for the double midfielders to press up, he sent a diagonal long pass with one foot on the ground, directly behind Valencia's left defender Moretti.

Callejon sprinted at the fastest speed on the right side, came from behind, took a step ahead of Moretti, stabbed the ball to the bottom line, and after catching up, he made a low pass.

Soldado, who was chasing the front point, was interfered by Albiol and Marchena, but deliberately missed it, allowing the ball to fly past him and go straight to the back point.

Raul, who was unguarded, chased to the outside of the small penalty area. Facing the pass that spanned more than half of the pitch, he directly pushed the ball and sent the ball into the goal of Valencia, which was almost unguarded.

Canizares stood on the right side of the goal and was powerless to face Raul's left shot.

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

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

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

One to zero!

What a difficult goal this is!

Gao Shen also clenched his fists excitedly in front of the coaching bench of the visiting team, and kept waving them up and down, expressing his inner excitement.

Behind him, Maqueda, Lucas and others were also huddled together, celebrating the goal.

They had already arranged their tactics before the game, but they were always uneasy.

Until this moment, seeing Raul scored a goal, they hung a heart and finally let go.

If Valencia does not make a mistake, then this game can only be zero to zero.

However, Gao Shen still made adjustments quickly.

Diogo replaced Arbeloa, who was physically exhausted, and Javi Garcia replaced Borja.

Both substitutions were made to strengthen the defense.

Anyone can see that Gao Shen's goal is very clear, that is to defend the goal.