Six Hundred and Seventy First Meat Grinder Version of the Christmas Tree

Manchester ushered in a rainy season in September.

The weather was still cloudy in the morning, and at noon, the sky began to drizzle.

Ancelotti stood on the ceiling of the coaching bench of the visiting team, looking at the thin strands of rain and the wet field, he couldn't help but cursed inwardly: "This damn weather!"

As an Italian, he is really not used to the British climate.

What makes him even more uncomfortable is the tactics adopted by Manchester City today.

Gao Shen even arranged for the team to play in a four-three-two formation.

Yes, that is Ancelotti's famous tactic, the Christmas tree!

Speaking of it, it is really surprising, because no one thought that Gao Shen would adopt such a style of play.

Ancelotti was also surprised at first glance.

But when it came to the competition, he found that the Christmas trees planted by the Chinese were different from those planted by the Italians.

Goalkeeper: Neuer.

Defender: Leighton Baines, David Luiz, Kompany and Zabaleta.

Midfield: Henderson, Fernandinho and Yaya Toure trail behind, Hazard and De Bruyne come forward.

Forward: Van Persie.

Contrary to Manchester City, Ancelotti adopted a four-three-three formation.

Goalkeeper: Cech.

Defender: Ashley Cole, Alex, Terry and Ivanovic.

Midfield: Ramires, Mikel and Essien.

Forwards: Malouda, Drogba and Anelka.

The tactics of the two turned out to be reversed.

Ancelotti used the four-three-three that Gao Shen is best at, but Gao Shen used Ancelotti's famous Christmas tree.

This is fresh.

Ancelotti knew that the reason why he chose four-three-three was because of Lampard's absence.

But why did Gao Shen use a Christmas tree?

Ancelotti guessed it, it should be for the midweek Champions League.

Therefore, the core players such as Gareth Bale, Suarez, Robben, David Silva and Rakitic have all been hidden.

With the current lineup configuration of Manchester City, Gao Shen has such confidence.

But the question is, can you win against Chelsea with this style of play?

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Speaking of today's world football, no one is more familiar with the four-three-two formation than Ancelotti.

There are three main advantages of this formation: First, it seizes the key position in front of the penalty area and oppresses the opponent who enters the 30-meter area, so that the opponent can only shoot from a position far away from the goal.

Second, there are three offensive players in the frontcourt. When counterattacking, they can use structured running positions to take advantage of the opponent's defensive space.

Third, because of the counterattack characteristics of three players on one's own side, the opponent's backcourt must always maintain a four-back configuration.

why?

If the number is not enough, it is difficult to block the omissions as much as possible when defending the Christmas tree counterattack.

Maybe many people will ask again, is this lineup perfect?

No, it has many flaws too, even more than its strengths.

The first is the overall retraction, which is essentially a set of defensive counterattack tactics. Ancelotti used it at the time because AC Milan's defensive players were seriously aging, and the result of the retraction was that when switching from defense to offense, the distance The goal is far away.

Understand?

This is why Kaka can shine in this tactic and the advantage is maximized.

Also, 4321 looks like four lines, but in fact, if the player's position is unreasonable, they may be cut into two different formations of 43 and 21 at any time, and the offense and defense will be torn apart.

But most importantly, it lacks sides, so games are always played in the middle.

Take a closer look at these points, do they perfectly match the AC Milan lineup that year?

On the one hand, it is aging, on the other hand, it lacks sideways, and at the same time, there are high-speed assaulters like Kaka.

Then the question arises, why does Gao Shen use a Christmas tree?

He obviously has a strong winger and a central defender with strong mobility. There is no reason for him to adopt a Christmas tree.

The answer will be revealed soon.

The tall Christmas tree did not retract as Ancelotti used it at AC Milan, but continued high.

One of the very important reasons why he did this is to confine Chelsea's midfield and frontcourt and compress the passing space of Chelsea players.

Needless to say the defense line, Henderson, Fernandinho and Yaya Toure are the three big men in the midfield. Leverage drop.

The point is, there are Hazard and De Bruyne ahead.

These two Belgian teenagers are more on the defensive end, but when they switch from defense to offense, they will all separate to the two wings and make way for the center. Yaya Toure will actively use this area.

It is not difficult to break the Christmas tree at a high position, and it can be done with a fast side assaulter.

But the problem is that Ancelotti is now in the hands of Anelka and Malouda, both lack speed and one-on-one assault ability.

There is another way, and that is to play Drogba at this point and use the advantage of the high center forward to create opportunities in the frontcourt.

But Gao Shen even arranged for Kompany to watch Drogba specifically.

Drogba is undoubtedly a monster, but he is already 32 years old, his body has already started to decline, and he has been constantly transforming in the past two years, while Kompany is in the prime of life, only 24 years old, and his physical strength has reached its peak period.

So, in the game, everyone found out that Kompany didn't do anything, just pinched Drogba to play.

This posture is a bit like when Drogba stared at Arsenal's center back Centeros playing.

The point is, after a few contests at the beginning of the game, Drogba found that he couldn't take advantage of Kompany.

When playing with body, he does not have an advantage; when playing with speed, Kompany is not slow; when running actively, Kompany can keep up, and even Drogba consumes more than Kompany...

In the end, Ancelotti found out to his sorrow that he had nothing to do with Gao Shen's meat grinder-like Christmas tree!

On the contrary, the advanced midfielder, especially the three midfielders, is so terribly cruel. From the beginning of the game, Chelsea was overwhelmed. When facing other teams, they played very slippery pass and control. The ball was cut into pieces.

Essien, who has been praised by many fans this season, said that he has developed the ability to organize the pass, but in this game, he was completely misfired.

Ancelotti knew very well that when there is space, let alone Essien, the last goalkeeper can play the core of the playmaker.

The key is to see how much space there is.

But whether it is really this vegetable or not depends on the ball being taken and released under high pressure.

Essien really cannot compare with the technically delicate organizers in this respect.

Not only is Essien not, but neither is Ramirez.

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When the game progressed to the 27th minute of the first half, when Chelsea were advancing in the attack, they encountered a high pressure from Manchester City and forced the ball to Ramirez.

As a result, as soon as Ramirez stopped the ball, Yaya Toure suddenly rushed up from behind, forcibly squeezed Ramirez away with his body, and snatched his unstoppable football halfway.

After snatching the ball from Ramirez, Yaya Toure took the ball forward and launched a counterattack.

The two players in front, Hazard and De Bruyne, took advantage of the trend and pulled away to both sides, especially De Bruyne who was the closest.

After Yaya Toure dribbled the ball across the center line, without waiting for Mikel to come over, he took advantage of the situation and passed the ball straight to the feet of Van Persie in front.

Manchester City's players are rushing forward to counterattack, while Chelsea's players are retreating.

During the running between each other, Van Persie happened to be cruising between Terry and Alex, and Yaya Toure's pass was just at the feet of Van Persie, allowing the Dutch center to stop the ball and turn around, directly facing the top of the arc. To the goal, he hit a furious shot with his left foot.

The ball flew into the left side of Chelsea's goal at a very fast speed, almost brushing the post into the net.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"Van Persie! Van Persie!!!"

Manchester City fans all over the Etihad Stadium cheered wildly.

"It was a fantastic stop!"

"Van Persie opened the scoring for Manchester City!"

"Yaya Toure's steal and subsequent counterattack were also very good."

"It can be seen that these two players have played very well in Manchester City under the advanced tactical system."

Van Persie was even more excited and rushed to the sidelines, ran all the way to celebrate the goal, and finally slipped and knelt under the fans' stands.

On the sidelines of the coach of the visiting team, Ancelotti looked disappointed.

He really didn't expect that Gao Shen would welcome Chelsea in such a way in this game.

It turned out to be an improved version of the Christmas tree!

In this world, there has never been the best tactic, only the most suitable tactic.

It is undoubtedly the most suitable for Gao Shen to use this set of tactics to deal with Chelsea.

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After changing sides to fight again in the second half, Ancelotti made a substitution adjustment in the 60th minute.

Zhirkov replaced Mikel.

This is a signal to strengthen the flank attack.

Gao Shen made decisive adjustments to bring Hazard and De Bruyne closer to the side.

Manchester City suddenly turned into a four-three-three, with Hazard and De Bruyne suppressing Chelsea's full-backs.

Henderson and Yaya Toure still protect the two half-spaces and help defend the full-backs.

Gao Shen saw through Ancelotti's plan and knew that the Italian wanted to play on the wing.

Manchester City's adjustment came in a timely manner.

Although Chelsea made two threatening attacks, only one threatened Manchester City's goal.

Neuer played bravely, and with a stretched side throw, Anelka's push from the far corner was saved.

Instead of throwing it out, he directly controlled the ball with a side throw.

This wonderful save also earned warm applause for the German goalkeeper.

Gao Shen made his first substitution in the 70th minute, replacing Henderson with David Silva.

The substitution quickly created a threat.

After Hazard got the ball on the left, when facing Ivanovic one-on-one, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area and tried to pass the ball to the center, but Alex blocked the ball first, and then Ya Ya Toure's long shot went straight high.

But this also allowed Gao Shen to see the loopholes in the front of Chelsea's penalty area.

After Mikel left the field, neither Essien nor Ramirez could provide strong protection for Chelsea's frontier of the penalty area.

And this also brought opportunities to Manchester City.

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