Seven Hundred and Thirteenth, You Are so Abused that You Break Your Defenses!

On the afternoon of April 3rd, in the thirty-first round of the Premier League, Manchester City played against Sunderland at home.

Meeting his ex again, Gao Shen actually didn't feel much.

He never saw Mark Hughes as a rival.

Sunderland is a typical English team, with mediocre technical and tactical abilities, but excellent physical fitness and a tough playing style.

But today's Manchester City has a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of English team.

Despite being affected by the national team's game, next Wednesday they will play in the Champions League. The team has undergone a substantial rotation, but Manchester City has skillfully controlled the ball and rhythm from the beginning, using its own strong technical and tactical advantages to suppress the opponent. .

Just seven minutes into the game, Manchester City tore through Sunderland's defense in an attack from the front of the penalty area. Yaya Toure dribbled the ball into the penalty area and returned. Manchester City opened the scoring.

Then, in less than ten minutes, Manchester City launched another offensive. Sturridge received a pass from Hazard, entered the penalty area from the left rib, and shot low, hitting the inside of the right post, and rebounded into the goal.

Two to zero!

In the 18th minute, Leighton Bynes made a pass from the left, allowing the unguarded Van Persie to volley and score again, 3-0!

In the next half an hour or so, Manchester City continued to launch a fierce attack on Sunderland.

In the second half, Fernandinho made a direct pass, and Sturridge made a pass. After Van Persie shot in front of the goal and was saved by the goalkeeper, Hazard followed up and shot an empty goal, expanding the score again, 4-0 .

Four minutes later, Leighton Bynes made another cross from the left, and Yaya Toure then scored with a header, 5-0!

Gao Shen quickly made substitutions and adjustments to the team, but Manchester City's offensive continued.

In the 73rd minute, after Yaya Toure intercepted the opponent's ball in the middle, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area and scored a single-handed goal, rewriting the score to 6-0!

In the third minute of stoppage time, Sunderland central defender Turner fouled at the front of the penalty area. Van Persie took a free kick and went straight to the dead corner of the goal.

Seven to zero!

Manchester City completely ravaged Sunderland!

Throughout the game, from beginning to end, Sunderland only took two shots, and they didn't even threaten Neuer's goal.

Most of the rest of the time, they were beaten by Manchester City.

At the post-match press conference, Mark Hughes directly broke the defense and out of control denounced that a team like Manchester City would lead to an imbalance in the Premier League and seriously damage the ecological balance of the Premier League.

"I agree with some views, I think a team like Manchester City should be restricted, especially financially."

Mark Hughes says Manchester City's rise is unhealthy.

"We are ranked ninth in the Premier League, but we lost 0-7 in the face of Manchester City, which is still playing..."

Mark Hughes nearly broke down.

If it is said that he originally wanted to attack the European theater, then now, this idea has completely failed.

Gao Shen did not explain Mark Hughes' "blood and tears" after the game, because he thought it was unnecessary.

"I don't think there is any problem with this. Perhaps the biggest problem is that some people spent nearly 200 million yuan, and the team can still only rank tenth, which is lower than the current Sunderland."

Gao Shen changed the topic and said that European football is a professional field with a very clear division of labor.

“Different people are suitable for doing different things, but you can’t stand up and say that it’s not fair after you can’t do it and screw up and see others have done it and done it well.

This and that, that's pretty boring, right? "

The high-spirited response was gracious, without even being named publicly.

But media reporters will not be so polite.

The strength of Manchester City today is indeed arrogant, but Sunderland performed so badly throughout the game, what else can Mark Hughes say?

As for Manchester City destroying the ecology of the Premier League...

Come on, why didn't you say that when you were in charge of Manchester City?

Now come out and pretend to be righteous? Do you want face?

To put it bluntly, isn't it because Gao Shen fucked 0 to 7 and his mentality collapsed?

Not to mention, this time, most of the media really supported Manchester City and accused Mark Hughes.

It's not because they agree with Manchester City's way of doing business, but because they feel that Mark Hughes' words are too sour and unmannered.

As the Manchester Evening News put it, "The entire Premier League, the other 18 teams can say the same, but only Mark Hughes has no such qualifications!"

However, this big victory also brought some troubles to Gao Shen.

That's how good Van Persie and Yaya Toure are.

The Ivorian himself said that in Manchester City, the tactics Gao Shen created for him perfectly displayed his strength and characteristics, allowing him to play in a state and performance that he could not play in Barcelona.

So is Van Persie.

But in this way, when it comes to the Champions League, who is used and who is not, this is very troublesome.

Saki, the No. 1 player in Tianzi, revealed in a column in The Times, "The most troublesome thing for Gao Shen every day is to arrange the starting lineup, because he found that every player is too good."

"This is a happy trouble that all the coaches in the world yearn for!"

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After playing the Premier League on the afternoon of the 3rd, the quarter-finals of the Champions League will be ushered in on the evening of the 6th.

This time Manchester City's opponent is Bayern Munich from the Bundesliga, and the first round will be a guest at the Allianz Arena.

On the morning of the 4th, after the team finished its recovery training, the coaching staff gave all the players time to shower and prepare, and then held a meeting in the conference room to prepare for the match against Bayern.

Fernando Lucas and the analysis team not only prepared a personal report for the players, Gao Shen also got an analysis report about Bayern Munich, especially about the current situation of Van Gaal.

After experiencing the double crown last season, Van Gaal has experienced a trough this season.

A very important reason is that the Bundesliga teams began to figure out his tactical thinking, and at the same time discovered Bayern's weakness.

That is Bayern's defensive ability to play the ball.

In the past few years, European football has increasingly seen that the ability of central defenders to play the ball is becoming a very scarce quality.

And this trend started from Gao Shen's side.

For example, during his time in Naples, he reused central defenders with strong ball ability such as Bonucci, David Luiz and Benatia. Even Cannavaro Jr. was trained by Gao Shen to become a passer among central defenders.

Even more so in Manchester.

David Luiz, Kompany, Gary Cahill and Jerome Boateng, all players with great play ability, not to mention he even occasionally puts Javi Martinez and Yaya · Toure is pulled back to centre-back.

This has become a unique landscape in advanced tactics.

As the head coach with the keenest tactical sense, Van Gaal is naturally aware of this.

From the perspective of the head coach, especially as an avid offensive football fan, it is actually easy to find the benefits and advantages of the central defender playing the ball, but there will also be some problems that follow.

For example, due to the logic of possession, every player moves to make it easier to get and pass the ball.

If you want to get and pass the ball better, you need to move more, and the players' positions must be more dispersed.

This is no problem in the midfield, but it will bring a very serious problem in the midfield, that is, how to maintain the defensive formation?

Van Gaal actually has his own set of logic in it. For example, he will require the three players in the midfield not to be higher than the winger, and the full back cannot overwhelm the winger. This is to create more attacking space for the winger. , But at the same time, it is also to ensure your own defense and avoid being directly faced by the opponent after losing the ball.

But in the midfield, this problem is difficult to solve.

To put it simply, while ensuring possession of the ball, you also want to ensure an orderly defensive formation. The requirements for defensive players, especially central defenders, are very high. They must not only have excellent passing ability, but also be flexible and fast. , can quickly return to the position when the ball is lost.

Just like Manchester City, when Neuer gets the ball, the positions of the two central defenders have to be opened quickly and run to the open position to respond, but at this time, if the ball is lost, what should we do?

Did you find out?

The goalkeeper and the two central defenders are very, very crucial.

It is easy to make mistakes if you are not careful.

This season, Bayern has such a problem.

Many people say that Bayern's defense is very loose. This is because when they turn from offense to defense and lose the ball, the defensive players cannot quickly return to their positions.

This is actually not difficult to understand, because high center defenders like Van Buyten, Budstuber and Breno are not their strong point in speed and flexibility, and sometimes even under strong pressure, the pass success rate is worrying. .

Therefore, the strategy adopted by Van Gaal is to pull back the midfielder, such as Gustavo or Timoshchuk.

But the problem remains.

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"At the Allianz Arena, we started with a focus on pressing."

In the tactical meeting, Gao Shen explained the tactical details of the game to the players according to the PPT, emphasizing the oppression of Bayern.

"I found that when we press Bayern's ball to the defense, even to the goalkeeper, their two central defenders tend to spread out to the sides, and the midfielders will drop back."

Speaking of this, Gao Shen smiled, "Do you feel familiar?"

The players also smiled.

That's how Manchester City play.

"But their central defenders and goalkeepers are lacking in terms of passing and delivery, stability and success rate, so the focus will be passed to Schweinsteiger."

The high-level key points put the little pigs in circles.

"That's what we're going to focus on to press oppression."

"When the two central defenders of Bayern are separated, there is a huge vacuum in the middle of the penalty area. At this time, the distance between the two central defenders will be far away, and there is basically no contact with each other, but Schweinsteiger is not traditional. He is still a little immature in dealing with many details. At this time, we only need to press the ball-taking central defender and force him to pass to Schweinsteiger..."

There is no need to talk about the next thing in depth, the players are clear in their hearts.

This kind of routine has been carried out several times in Manchester City in the past two years, and the players have long been familiar with it.

Even, many times when they are on the court, they can draw inferences from one instance.

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