Chapter 83 When We Let Ronaldo Shoot Enough, We Win

Any team that rises will face the target of comprehensive tactical analysis by the opponent.

Barcelona from 2008 to 2012 had a deep understanding of this.

After they set off the trend of passing and controlling the ball and swept through the entire football world, many teams studied and learned their tactical play.

Similarly, there are also many teams that study and want to defeat them.

Now, after Real Madrid defeated Lyon 5-0, a big discussion about the fast counterattack attack mode was set off in the French football world.

Many clubs and professional coaches picked up magnifying glasses and began to look for the flaws in Real Madrid's tactical play.

But after a lot of research, many coaches have dark circles under their eyes.

But no one dared to boast to the media that they knew how to target Real Madrid's play.

"Strange!"

This is the most intuitive feeling of these professional coaches who have studied Real Madrid's current systematic play.

You say Real Madrid is playing the traditional defense and counterattack?

Not necessarily.

Because Real Madrid doesn't have to hook the opponent and press forward, then set up a bus, steal the ball and then attack the opponent from behind.

Real Madrid now steals the ball directly in the midfield, and then launches a fast advance that may reach your doorstep in no more than six or seven seconds!

So Real Madrid is still playing offensive football?

Not necessarily.

Let's not talk about whether Mourinho is an advocate of offensive football.

Just look at how Real Madrid is almost the same as their opponents in every game, and often even have a lower ball possession rate, so they are not playing offensive football.

So these coaches feel that Real Madrid's tactics are "weird" from top to bottom!

They don't touch the conservative tactics, nor the offensive football tactics, and in the end they can only sigh in their hearts.

"Mourinho is playing a new thing!"

This is a new tactic that made Guardiola and Barcelona players feel uncomfortable and awkward in the Spanish Super Cup before the start of the season.

Spatial pressure, defensive counterattack, seize the opportunity of attack and defense conversion, and efficient finishing.

If future fans see these descriptions, he will definitely think of the "433 high pressure" system that Klopp built in Liverpool.

Yes, the style of play designed by Mourinho now actually looks very similar to Klopp's high pressure system.

In many tactical concepts and construction ideas, Mourinho today and Klopp when he went to Liverpool in the future can be regarded as a match.

But there is still a big difference in the tactics of the two in essence.

That is, Mourinho has a persistence in "stable victory" in his bones.

And Klopp, he has more "passion" in his bones to bet everything in advance for victory!

Reflected in tactics, Mourinho does not like to over-press the opponent's organization in his half.

He prefers to put tactical traps and main battlefields near the center circle.

Even if Leon was put forward before, and he and other Real Madrid offensive players occasionally played the ultimate high pressure, Real Madrid also achieved very good tactical results.

But Mourinho only makes such attempts occasionally.

Because he will consider the overall situation more, considering whether his players will have enough physical strength to deal with the opponent and complete the final lore victory after the 70th minute of the game.

And what Klopp wants is the "now" after betting everything.

His tactics can easily make his players' running ability decline rapidly after more than 70 minutes.

But for him, considering this time node does not make much sense.

Because his tactical decisive moment has come in the first 70 minutes, or even in the first half of the game.

As long as his team is fierce and fierce enough, and the forward's ability to seize opportunities is reliable enough.

Then he can use this high-position pressure mode to complete the victory over strong and weak opponents.

And he did succeed in the Premier League.

Liverpool became the Champions League champion and the Premier League champion successively.

Klopp successfully completed the revival of that Liverpool.

It was in the two Champions League duels against Real Madrid that Klopp suffered two big losses.

This also prompted him to design a new set of tactical play, namely the backcourt pass control and long pass guidance system to restrain the high-pressure system.

However, Klopp has not even completed the high-pressure mad dog flow system, and there is no sign of new tactical research and development.

Let's go back to Mourinho's tactical play during this period, which is similar to Klopp's but very different.

That is, the half-court pressure plus fast advancement play in pursuit of "stable victory".

Originally, if Li Ang had not appeared, Mourinho would have basically played this set of play to the end this season.

Because Khedira was not trained, he had to put more responsibility for the ball possession on Alonso.

The alternative Las Diarra wanted to be Zidane II, which made him helpless.

In the end, he could only stop further improvement and potential development of the tactics because his waist was not reliable enough.

Now with the joy and flutter of Li Ang, the "butterfly", Mourinho's tactics have been advanced to a more perfect and advanced level than at this time on the original timeline.

Li Ang's technical characteristics and abilities make Mourinho's half-court pressing style both stable and tough.

With his reliable "kidney", Alonso no longer has to be distracted by doing dirty work.

Brother Long, who has invested a lot of energy in organizing the team, is playing better and better.

Real Madrid's backcourt possession is extremely smooth, and the long pass support to the frontcourt is accurate and fierce.

After Real Madrid basically skipped the link of advancing in the midfield and backcourt, playing "running and gunning in football" means that the faster the attack, the greater the threat.

Moreover, the personal abilities of the core players on the central axis of Real Madrid during this period are beyond reproach.

Casillas, Pepe, Xabi Alonso, Ronaldo.

From defense to organization and dispatch, to the final finishing blow.

Real Madrid is definitely the top two in today's football.

It can be said that without such a central axis with strong personal abilities, Mourinho's new playing system would not be able to exert such great power.

So it is normal that those professional coaches cannot figure out Real Madrid's new playing style at this stage.

Maybe they have roughly touched some outlines of Mourinho's tactical structure.

But they dare not imagine how much tactical freedom and trust Mourinho gave Alonso and Ronaldo.

I dare not even think that these two stars dared to accept this trust and played almost the best personal performance.

It can be said that as long as Li Ang's thoughts are not deviated and his performance is not bad, Alonso's performance will be guaranteed.

And Long Ge's organization of long passes is guaranteed, and Ronaldo has enough offensive ball rights and firing rights, so Real Madrid's offensive firepower on the counterattack end is also guaranteed.

It is true that the more opportunities Ronaldo gives you, the more goals he dares to pile up.

Li Ang still remembers clearly that in this season of his previous life, Messi finally scored 50 league goals in La Liga, and Ronaldo also scored 46 league goals.

These two guys can only be described as perverted, there is no other word.

Tactics + superstar explosion, neither of them can be missing. The combination of the two, plus the right stars who are willing to make sacrifices to be supporting roles, Real Madrid has played the terrifying performance it has today.

This set of tactics is almost impossible to copy, because there is no second Alonso and Ronaldo who is in full form now in football, and it is difficult to find a similar style.

It is even more difficult to target.

After all, even if you don't give Real Madrid a chance to switch between offense and defense, you will just defend and not come out once.

Real Madrid also has a set-piece method to deal with you.

Barcelona, ​​which played in the Spanish Super Cup before, was already stunned by Real Madrid once.

From the front court to the back court, the three lines of Real Madrid are not short of header players.

If the other teams want to try, they will basically die.

At this time when the football world has just set off a wave of tactical research on Real Madrid, many teams in the La Liga league can hardly figure out the weakness of Real Madrid's tactics.

They have never thought about trying to suppress the number of Real Madrid's offensive rounds.

At least Pellegrini, who coached Real Madrid in the 2009-10 season, did not think through this level.

Now Pellegrini, who is preparing for the game in Malaga, is still thinking about trying to get a head start at home.

Use the home advantage to see if you can take some preemptive tactical advantages first.

After all, the lineup of "Mourinho's Real Madrid" was left by Pellegrini, and he was familiar with these Real Madrid's main players.

But on the evening of October 22, when the game officially started at the Rose Garden Stadium, Pellegrini quickly felt a hint of danger.

Real Madrid's opening was not as active as Malaga's, and Leon and Alonso's performance was also normal.

Both of them retreated to their own midline and waited for Malaga to press forward.

Callejon, who got the chance to start again, interfered with Malaga's organization and conduction in the frontcourt, and Di Maria did the same.

It looked like a step-by-step tactical play. Real Madrid was waiting to cut off Malaga's offensive ball and waiting for their own counterattack opportunities.

After watching the situation on the field develop "peacefully" for a minute or two, Pellegrini couldn't help but wonder if he was a little too sensitive.

Isco was controlling the ball and looking for his teammates' forward routes.

As the core midfielder of the current Malaga team, Isco has a strong confidence in his skills.

He can do all the midfield work well, including dribbling, protecting the ball, passing and advancing.

Even though he is about to face Li Ang, who has become more and more famous in Spain recently, his strong confidence has not diminished at all.

However, he felt okay when he participated in controlling the ball and passing in his own half before, and the pressure movement of Real Madrid's offensive players played more of a defensive interference role.

But now, as soon as he passed the center line with the ball, Li Ang rushed towards him actively.

Behind him on the left, Callejon also accelerated his speed and rushed towards him, as if he was about to double-team him with Li Ang!

Isco felt that his breathing seemed to tighten, and subconsciously he quickly knocked the ball to his midfield partner Aponio who came up to meet him.

Aponio is still very experienced in the game.

Seeing Real Madrid's defensive posture just now, he didn't dribble the ball much, and the next second after receiving the ball, he knocked the ball back to the defensive midfielder Turan.

Malaga's first offensive attempt in the middle of the midfield ended in vain.

But it is not their team style to hide in their own half.

In the first seven rounds, they scored 11 goals, and their offensive firepower was second only to Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​but they also conceded 10 goals.

This number of goals conceded is the last among the top six teams.

This shows that Malaga's defense protection is not in place when the offensive firepower is sufficient.

In other words, their midfield offensive attributes and offensive intentions are too strong.

So strong that even if it feels difficult to enter Real Madrid's half, Malaga's midfielders and forwards will take the risk to try!

So just six minutes later, Pellegrini and Malaga's players regretted it.

When Alonso received the pass from Leon for the first time and launched a long pass, Higuain headed the ball and helped Ronaldo to make the first shot attempt of Real Madrid in the whole game.

The ball was about 28 meters away from the goal. Ronaldo did not adjust his pace and shot it, and was finally saved by goalkeeper Ruben Martinez.

This was the fourth minute after Malaga launched a risky attack.

And just two minutes later.

When Alonso cooperated with Leon for the second time to grab the ball from Isco's feet, he still sent another accurate long pass without hesitation.

This time, Ronaldo first got rid of the old midfielder Turan, and then dribbled past Malaga's right back Gamez!

And under the gaze of more than 50,000 Malaga fans, Ronaldo used an unreasonable small-angle long-angle shot to directly penetrate Martinez's ten fingers!

It's so rough, and it's so simple!

Li Ang is no longer surprised by Ronaldo's current scoring methods in the backcourt.

He has also jokingly summarized Real Madrid's current offensive mode on the training ground before.

"When we let Ronaldo shoot enough, we win."