Chapter 7 No-Front Tactics

In mid-July, Hoffenheim issued a call-up order, all players must rush back to the club before the 17th.

They will conduct a unified physical examination on the 18th, and then enter the intense pre-season training.

The originally empty training ground was once again filled by the players who came one after another. Although the Hoffenheim players were considered very conscious, there were still many people who had an indulgent attitude during the holiday.

For example, Fan Chenggong gained a full five catties, and his figure showed signs of gaining weight.

Of course, this is not an isolated case. In the physical examination before training, a total of ten players failed the physical examination.

For this reason, the head coach Steven was furious and doubled all the training. He wanted to physically bring all the players back to their original state.

Today's Hoffenheim training ground is no longer open to the public, and it is not even receiving any tourists.

Once the holiday is over, the entire small village will enter a closed state, especially the training base.

During the week-long training, under the continuous training of the coaching staff, the players gradually began to regain their status.

However, the running-in situation is still not ideal.

This season's Hoffenheim has changed a lot of ways of playing.

Jamie's departure left Hoffenheim without an outstanding center forward, and goals became the club's biggest problem.

Today's Hoffenheim has a Russian center forward, and this is also a player that the coaching staff has given some attention to, but Ovi Doliv is somewhat inconsistent with Hoffenheim. This is not a player with good skills at his feet, although he has good personal progress. Ball ability, but still unable to rub sparks with the team.

In this case, Steven directly moved out of a classic formation.

'4-6-0' without front tactics!

This is a classic tactic. As the name suggests, there is no so-called center forward in the traditional sense.

Without the center forward retreating to catch the ball, without the linkage of the front center and long, the six midfielders are both organizers and breakthroughs, and they also undertake the task of scoring goals.

Once this tactic is opened, then there will be a situation of multi-point blooming.

Of course, this tactic also relies heavily on personal ability.

Every midfielder needs to have strong personal dribbling ability and breakthrough ability.

It is not an easy task to find 6 such players, but Hoffenheim is exactly that.

Leo, Ranier, Huber, Ravens, Alfred and Ludimod.

These six players are all players who are good at technique, speed and dribbling.

If the spark of tacit understanding can be wiped out between them, this tactic will become a nightmare for the opponent.

However, judging from the current situation, the situation is not optimistic.

Steven stood on the sidelines frowning. He watched the six players in the starting lineup constantly move the ball back and forth in the form of cross passes.

This kind of cross pass is actually somewhat unnecessary.

Last season, in order to stabilize the midfield, Hoffenheim chose to transfer crosses to slow down the rhythm.

But things are different now.

They need to break through and pass the ball forward.

However, Ludimod seems to be a little resistant to this way of playing football. Although Steven has reminded him several times, the opponent still has not changed anything.

"Ludimod's mentality is old!" The assistant coach Wagner shook his head and sighed: "He can no longer play like he did when he was young! We need more offensive core organization candidates."

Steven didn't speak, he looked at the court quietly.

In fact, Steven didn't know about this problem. Ludimod had problems such as lack of energy in the second half of last season, and even needed Habr to share the organizational pressure for him in the second half.

Steven thought about transferring the organizational power from Rudy Mode to Huber.

Judging from the current situation, Habr, who is more aggressive and youthful, is more suitable for this "Youth Guards" offensive method.

But the problem is, they just picked up Ludi Mod's No. 10 jersey, and now they are going to take off his command.

What does this make the latter think?

You can't do that even if you kill the donkey!

Steven is extremely troubled!

Training has been going on, but everyone is playing very unhappy.

The old teammates are better, but the newly joined Alfred and Ravens are not so easy to talk to.

In the previous training, Alfred saw the gap and went forward, and the others also cooperated with him to respond.

This was a wonderful anti-offside forward, but Rudimod made a hard pass back.

The angry Alfred roared immediately, and the two almost quarreled over it.

Ravens was more direct, he went directly to Rudi Moder and asked, 'Why didn't you pass it to yourself? Why not choose to attack? ’ This made Rudimode extremely ugly and at the same time angry.

The two newly joined little guys dared to teach him a lesson, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

In the end, the conflict between the three was alleviated by Tidal, and then it calmed down.

However, after the seeds of distrust were planted, their cooperation became even worse, to the point where they were even reluctant to pass the ball to each other.

This made Steven feel a little annoyed.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the training ended, and Steven kept Ravens, Alfred, and Ludimod with a dark face.

One by one called to the office.

Others don't know what the head coach said to them, but from the expressions of the returning Ravens and Alfred, it can be seen that they were scolded.

Ludimod was the last to go, and with him was Hubbard.

The two walked side by side, without any communication along the way, they were both thinking about their own things.

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

Hubbard was looking down at the floor and walking straight, while Rudimod was sullen and serious.

Finally, the two came to the office and knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

Steven's voice came.

The two walked in directly.

When they walked into the office, they saw a tactical board with densely packed paper strips in the middle and paper balls all over the floor.

Steven's office has always been like this, and they shouldn't be surprised.

The two went directly to the reception sofa and sat down. Steven sat on the desk, staring at the computer screen without looking at them, and asked, "Do you know why you were called here?"

The two looked at each other and said one after another:

"Know!" Rudimod.

"I don't know!" Hubbard said.

Steven still didn't look at them, and asked; "Oh? Know? So what do you know?"

Ludimod blushed for a while, took a deep breath, and said with a hint of mourning in his tone: "You think I can't be competent for the core work of the organization."

Only then did Steven turn his head to look at the other party, and said, "Then what did you think? Is my judgment correct?"

Rudimode opened his mouth, wanting to say 'no'.

But inside he told himself that his performance was really bad.

In terms of sorting out the midfield, he no longer has the experience of his youth, he is indeed a bit exhausted!