When Manchester City, which has glory and Champions League champions, is planning to switch? When the market is full of firepower, few teams can withstand their offensives. Money and honor are their two weapons. When these two weapons are swung at the same time, they are simply invincible.

Players who are looking for money have money, and players who are coming for honor also have honors to look forward to.

So although Manchester City's recruitment efforts this season are not very strong, it still attracts many players. Benitez receives calls from several agents almost every day, and the content of the call is naturally recommended to their players.

If there happens to be a player that Benitez has been paying attention to, then we can talk about it. If it is a player that Manchester City does not need for the time being, Benitez politely declines.

Transfer signings suddenly became so easy.

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While Manchester City was transferring, the team's training did not relax. In late July, the team ended the physical training stage and began to enter technical and tactical training.

Manchester City's main tactic is defensive counterattack, which everyone knows.

They have glory, speed players like David Silva, and fighting back is what they are good at.

What made Benitez happy was that Kaka performed well throughout the physical training phase, and it seemed that he had really recovered from the image of a groin injury.

Now that there is another Kaka, we must insist on defending and counterattacking.

The only thing Benitez has to consider is how to make Kaka and Manchester City's original offensive lineup coexist. If you just use Kaka as a substitute, it would be a waste. His speed, technology and experience can help the team.

If Kaka in Real Madrid is a substitute, he will be a substitute. Benitez will not be unwilling to accept it.

It's different now.

How to make the two front-middle kaka and Sneider coexist?

Logically speaking, Manchester City won the league championship and the Champions League last season, which shows that the existing lineup and style of play are fine. If there is no accident, it should not be replaced.

But Benitez believes that if Manchester City does not make any changes, it will not be so easy to win the game in the new season. The opponents are not idiots. They will continue to study Manchester City's tactics and make targeted countermeasures. At that time, Manchester City cannot always rely on glory explosions to win games, right?

Now Kaka's joining is an opportunity for Manchester City, an opportunity for change.

As long as you do well, Manchester City will upgrade and become even more powerful.

But if it is not done well, the system may collapse and return to the pre-liberation overnight...

In this regard, Benitez wants to make a choice, should he choose a more conservative approach and continue to use the tactical system and personnel configuration of last season to play in the new season; or should he make changes and take some risks?

Benitez chose to take the risk.

Next is how to do it.

How can I put Kaka into this tactical system?

Benitez began to consider this issue during the team's physical training stage.

Thinking about it, he set his sight on Gareth Barry.

As the team's main midfielder, Barry is diligent in both defensive and offensive. He is a comprehensive midfielder, conscientious in defense, and he can also organize and dispatch during offense.

In Manchester City's tactics, his main responsibility is to connect the midfield and backcourt. If the ball from the backcourt is handed over to him, he will then transfer it to the midfield and frontcourt. His long pass is also a way for the team to launch a counterattack.

Barry is not one of the most famous players in Manchester City, but it is very practical.

However, Barry is not without weaknesses. He can attack and defend well, which can be said to be comprehensive, but it can also be said to be mediocre. In terms of defensive ability alone, he is not as good as his partner Matuidi in the midfield. Matuidi has very good physical fitness and excellent running ability. As a black man, his physical fitness is his forcing him. He can run all over the field, killing from his own penalty area to the opponent's penalty area, and you can see him in any corner of the court.

On defense, Matuidi is a very difficult opponent.

Moreover, starting from the second half of last season, Matuidi increased his participation in offense. His outstanding physical fitness and courage to move forward have often become an attack point that disrupts the opponent's defense in the final stage of the game.

So in fact, the roles of Matuidi and Barry have begun to overlap.

In this case, Matuidi, who is younger than Barry, naturally has an advantage.

In terms of offense, although Barry can assist and score goals, he is like Sneijder.

In addition, Barry, who is already thirty years old, will get older and his injuries will increase accordingly. It is reasonable to ask him to rotate.

Barry's ability makes him a rotation player not let the team's strength drop too much.

Benitez doesn't even have to explain to Barry why he was allowed to rotate, not others. As the head coach, it would be ridiculous if he didn't even have such a little power.

After Barry left the main lineup, Benitez did not intend to change the formation, it was still 4231.

So who will replace Barry?

Of course it was Sneider.

Sneider, who was originally playing for the front midfielder, planned to let him retreat from a front midfielder to a central midfielder, roughly the same position as Barry.

It is not a back midfielder, but it is not far from the back midfielder. This position allows Sneider to dispatch and organize the offense in the play. Organizing the offense even further back can allow Sneider to avoid most of the opponent's defensive players and control the ball calmly.

The core organizational delay has long been one of the trends in the world football world today, and Benitez is not an original creation.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand the adjustment of this tactic, and it is also not difficult to implement. The main thing is to see whether Sneder is willing to delay.

After all, he has been playing the front midfielder before, so he must be more used to the front position.

Benitez is not very worried about this.

Tell Sneider that if you don’t accept this arrangement, then go to play as a substitute, and see if Sneider accepts it…

After Sneijder retreated, the position of the front midfielder could be vacated for Kaka.

Although Kaka plays as a front midfielder, he is not responsible for organizing the offense. His mission is the same as Glory, and he is mainly responsible for scoring. He relies on his long-range shooting ability and breakthroughs in the back to help the team score.

He and Rongguang were ambushed in Ibrahimovi? Afterwards, they suddenly inserted the attack, which was more concealed and made it more difficult for the opponent to guard against.

At the same time, Kaka and Glory can also assist Ibrahimovic to score.

Ibrahimovic, Glory and Kaka, this is Manchester City's real offensive trident.

Coupled with Sneider and David Silva, this offensive combination is simply terrifying and trembling.

Of course, so far this has only stayed on Benitez's tactical board and has not become a reality.

To realize this idea, it will take a lot of training.

This is what Benitez has to do during his technical and tactical training.

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The new season's Premier League kicked off on August 13th. Manchester City's first round of league opponent is Swansea, not a strong team, and Manchester City is playing at home, so it's not a big problem to win this opponent.

But before that, they have to play a Community Shield.

As league champions, they challenged Stoke City, the FA Cup champion last season.

Last season, Stoke City defeated Bolton 1-0 in the final and won the FA Cup.

This is enough for Stoke City team to be happy for a summer of honor.

However, this has lost the suspense of the Community Shield Cup this season.

Many people think that Stoke City cannot defeat Manchester City in the Community Shield.

For Benitez, the opponent in the Community Shield Cup is not strong, which just gives him a chance to test his tactics.

After more than half a month of hard training, what are the results?

The Community Shield is a great test opportunity.

So in this game, Benitez did not send a rotation lineup, but made all the main players!

When he announced the starting list in advance the day before the game, everyone found that Manchester City was really determined to win this game.

Although the Community Shield Cup is not as valuable as the League and the FA Cup, it is still a champion at least.

The most important thing is that everyone found that Kaka appeared in the starting lineup!

Since Kaka joined Manchester City, people's speculation about his prospects at Manchester City has never ended. Many people think that Kaka should still be a substitute when he went to Manchester City. This is not much different from when he was in Real Madrid.

Because it is really hard to imagine how Kaka can squeeze into the already perfect Manchester City main lineup.

This summer, Manchester City has not sold a single main player from last season, and they are all substitutes or marginal figures.

They retained all the main players who won the Champions League championship, so what reason does Benitez treat Kaka specially?

Let Kaka replace anyone with bad luck.

So when Kaka comes to Manchester City, he still has to start from a substitute. Whether he can play as the main player next depends on his performance in the game and training.

Of course, based on his performance in Real Madrid, it is almost impossible for Kaka to play as the main player at Manchester City...

Unexpectedly, Kaka started in the Community Shield Cup match.

If Manchester City all sends substitutes, then Kaka's starting lineup cannot explain anything.

But, except Kaka, the others were basically the main players of last season, and they were only different in two positions. In the centre-back, Godin replaced Lucio, and left-back Alba replaced Barnes.

However, everyone can guess the changes in these two positions.

Lucio's form has declined, and Godin's performance was stable in the first two seasons, whether he came on as a substitute or replaced the injured Kompani to start, and there were many outstanding works. It is normal for him to win the main position this season.

Alba performed well in Valencia, and Benitez once coached in Valencia. He specially dug up Alba, so naturally he didn't let the new Spanish left-back play as a substitute.
Chapter completed!