Many fans like to say that Italians turn defense on the football field into an art.

The art of offensive players on the football field is largely achieved by the on-the-spot performance of the players' personal strength, or by the team's passing and receiving, passing and penetration, which is clear at a glance, but defense and offense are completely different. I believe few people can tell how Italians transform defense into art.

As Viali once said, Latin people and Anglo-Saxon people have different personalities and thinking. The former is more rational and likes to follow the root of everything, while the latter is more blind and likes to do things according to their own feelings.

This rationality of Italians is obviously continued on the football field, so what they advocate is a rational football tactic. For example, they will cut everything that may happen on the football field, and then put it in a laboratory under a microscope for analysis.

Ye Qiu can even say that modern defensive tactics are almost all established on the basis of Italian defense, including chain defense in those days to Saki's high-pressure hybrid defense later. As for parallel positions, shallow disc positions, or the rare direct triangle position where three people dragged in parallel in front of one person, etc., they are just different applications.

The Italians' rationality makes them take into account all the possible changes on the football field, how to defend what happens, what changes the other party makes, and what countermeasures we should take, all of which are included in them.

Therefore, discussing Italian defense is actually like discussing a huge and extremely complex structure that is also full of changes. If you have not been immersed in it for many years, it will be difficult to fully grasp the mystery.

The art of Italian defense is like Leonardo da Vinci's paintings or Michelangelo's sculptures. It is described with strokes and strokes, without any fancyness, and you cannot afford to cut corners at all.

So some people say that the head coaches from the Netherlands will definitely not be bad in tactics, and at least they can stand alone. However, the head coaches from the Italy ones don’t need to worry about their defensive achievements, because this is their specialty.

When Ye Qiu met Mauro Tassoti, the two immediately sparked a spark in tactical thinking. They had an in-depth discussion on the defensive formation, and they analyzed all the common and uncommon defensive formations.

The advantage of parallel positions is that they are easy to create offside, and the defense line is closely connected. It is suitable for teams with poor activity, but excellent prediction ability and strong sense of position. The disadvantage is that they do not have a defensive depth and are easily missed and are passed behind them. Moreover, they are very disadvantaged when encountering the current incisive wingers, almost one cut and the other is accurate.

The advantage of shallow disc position is that the wing defense is better, especially when encountering an in-cut winger, which is more beneficial to the rib defense, but the problem is not small. The shallow disc position requires high requirements for wing players, and the full-back and midfielder drag defense covers a large area, and the players' physical fitness requirements are relatively high, and they require strong tactical execution.

These two most typical defensive positions actually represent two different ideas. One is Italian tactics, which emphasizes a rigorous sense of position and tactical order; the other represents Dutch football, with a large-scale regional coverage and blurred position.

Therefore, the defenders trained by Italian football are often those with a strong sense of position, excellent tactical awareness, but weaker activity ability, even players like Cannavaro, are difficult to make him move and press on a large scale like Thiago Silva of Tottenham Hotspur now.

Most of the Dutch football players are top-scoring defenders, with a weak sense of position, but strong mobility and large area coverage.

Of course, this is just a theoretical statement. Specifically, Italy has also produced many defenders with excellent activity but poor sense of position, while the Netherlands has also produced defenders with excellent positional sense, without absolute certainty.

The central defender combination that many teams are now adopting is undoubtedly a replacement, such as Manchester United's Vidic and Ferdinand, Chelsea's former Triga Cannavaro or Carvalho, Tottenham's Thiago Silva Garni, Kompani, all of which are two types of combinations.

The purpose of this is to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses to the greatest extent, taking into account two different defensive concepts, that is, fusion.

Ye Qiu has always emphasized integration, integrating different tactical ideas and different tactical concepts together

Many people think at first glance, wow, it’s so awesome, but it’s easy to say, but it’s very difficult to do.

It seems that many people say that offense and defense must be balanced, how to balance? Can you say it with your mouth?

Obviously impossible

Offense and defense balance means that you can reasonably allocate your personnel configuration in every attack and defense.

So Ye Qiu often said that the best head coach is actually a master of human resources allocation. He is now watching some human resources books all day long, which is why.

For example, in an offense and defense balance, you have to arrange it well. Several players attack with all their strength, several players coordinate the front and back courts, several players defend with all their strength, what methods, running routes, and cooperation routines to attack, and what position should the defensive players take to ensure that no matter which angle the opponent launches a quick counterattack, we can deal with it in time.

This is a very cumbersome but also very detailed layout.

By the same token, if you want to integrate different tactical ideas and concepts, then put aside the overall situation, personal performance, teamwork, position and other things, and go directly to the lowest level and dig out the most original and basic things inside.

It can be said that Ye Qiu and Mauro Tassoti adopt a method similar to the Italians' method of elevating defense into an artistic one, and use a way to cut a cow to analyze the team's offense and defense system into a set of offense and defense coordination routines.

Many people say that Tottenham's offense represents freedom of play, art and gorgeousness, and imagination, but they may not know that Tottenham's simplest wing attack, the simplest left winger can cooperate with different players, and play at least twelve different cooperation routines in the left side of the penalty area.

If you count the transfer of the ball to the middle, the change in the coordination route will be twice as high. If you count the right player and finally complete the scoring, there are dozens of different coordination routines in total.

So, do you think these routines are useless and rigid?

Wrong, because the design of these routines is not designed according to the cross from the left winger and the forward point of the center.

All the designs of routines are based on the responses made by the defensive players, and then targeted designs are carried out.

Perhaps no matter how much you say it, it is difficult to explain clearly. Take Tottenham's attack at Emirates Stadium for example.

When the opponent's three midfielders put pressure on Fabregas and David Silva, the two central defenders retreated and pulled back, passing the ball to Thiago Silva, and the Brazilian central defender passed the ball to Kompani, who made a diagonal pass to find Ribery on the left.

Because David Silva and Fabregas have just been pulled back, the gap between Ribery and Messi and Messi has come out, whether to pass it to Messi or Ribery, it depends on the backcourt players based on the situation on the court.

Ribery took the ball and faced Sarnia. He acted as a stance to force a breakthrough between Sarnia and Squillac. After attracting the attention of the two players, he was assigned to the left and saw Marcelo rushing forward quickly. There was no one in front of the Brazilian fullback. He easily received the ball and made a cross.

In the middle of the penalty area, Cavani used his body to block Koscheerny behind him, but at this time Koscheerny was blocking between him and the goal, and he had no chance to score. What should I do?

The ball was headed, so Cavani rubbed his scalp against the ball net and rubbed the back point.

Messi faced the left, and his chest stopped facing Cavani's ferry. Krish went up as soon as possible, blocking between Messi and the goal.

In this case, Messi was caught on the right side of the penalty area with his left foot. The most likely time was to cut inward and hit the goal with his left foot. Krish could not stop it at all, so Koscheerny chose to leave Cavani's area slightly and assist in defending Krish.

Cavani also made a decision in an instant, retreated to the top of the penalty area, turned around and faced the goal.

It was very interesting at this time. Alexander O Song and other midfielders who were supposed to protect the penalty area were pulled back by Fabregas, David O Silva and others just now. On the way back to the penalty area, Cavani pulled out, there was no obstacle with the goal, because Alexander O Song was blocked by him.

Squillac and Sarnia are both on Ribery's side, and Koscheerney and Krish go to watch Messi.

In terms of words, the whole process is long and complicated, but in fact, on the court, the unguarded state that appears on Cavani may only take less than a second.

Messi chose to pass the ball and returned to Cavani, but it was not passed to the top of the penalty area, but to the middle of Cavani and the goal, near the penalty point, and then Cavani blocked Alexander Osong who was returning to defense, rushed forward, and shot directly near the penalty point, and the ball drilled into the lower right corner. Fabianski couldn't defend it at all.

The entire offensive cooperation is the result of the iconic Tottenham Hotspur's pass and receiving cooperation, which seems complicated, but if Arsenal's defensive ability is better, Tottenham Hotspur's cooperation can be even more complicated.

For example, when Cavani retreated, Squeragis realized the threat and followed it to block it. Messi would choose to pass the left foot and look for Ribery behind Squeragis. If Sarnia is better, even Ribery would be blocked. Messi would pass the pass and insert it into the Fabregas, because Fabregas also followed Alexander or Song and others into the 30-meter area of ​​Arsenal. Then Fabregas would look for Cavani who had rushed to the goal according to the situation, or Ribery.

Of course, there are many assumptions, but all the strains are targeting Arsenal's defense weaknesses and loopholes.

You can have no weaknesses and no loopholes. I pull and keep pulling to help you pull out loopholes, because as long as your players move, there will definitely be loopholes.

Tottenham Hotspur’s entire offensive and defensive system is actually composed of fine tactical coordination routes. The players master and familiarize themselves with these coordination routines, and then use them according to the changes on the court, and even change them according to the changes that occur on the court.

This is true on the offensive end and the defensive end.

When the game started again, Arsenal wanted to counterattack after conceding the ball, but soon the ball fell into Tottenham Hotspur's hands because they found that after they worked hard to get rid of the entanglement of the frontcourt players, the ball entered Tottenham Hotspur's half, or was lost in the 30-meter area.

Tottenham Hotspur's midfield and frontcourt players have a clear division of labor and cooperation. Many people realize that Messi and Ribery rarely engage in defense. This is to save their physical fitness and ensure their investment on the offensive end. In addition, their main responsibility is to delay and cut off the opponent's offensive pass route.

Even Cavani, Fabregas and David Silva, all of them played a role in delaying disturbance.

Suppose that when Arsenal gets the ball, they have many offensive routes. When he passes it to Arteta, the left-center forward, the offensive route is reduced by a large part. At this time, Fabregas chooses to block the ball head-on, so Arteta basically has two options, two wings or back passes.

But if Messi and David Silva follow Arteta at this time, then he will have only a safer choice, passing to his left, which is Tottenham Hotspur's right.

It depends on his choice at this time. When he chose to pass it to Rosici on the left, Marcelo and Yaya Toure, who had already been ambushing, immediately forced themselves up in horns and blocked Rosici on the side.

Although the Czechs relied on their own ability to pass the ball, Thiago Silva intercepted the ball passed to Chamak in the middle of the journey, not only completing a defense, but also getting a chance to counterattack quickly.

Such defense does not consume much physical energy, but it has a very obvious effect.

Of course, there is a prerequisite, that is, players must have enough tacit understanding in cooperation with each other and be familiar with the team's routines. Otherwise, it will be difficult to take unified actions.

Wenger sat in front of the home team's coaching seat. He looked calm in a Nike down jacket, but it can also be interpreted as helpless because he found that his team had just started the first half and was the first to be knocked open by Tottenham Hotspurs.

He looked up again and found that the Arsenal fans had no reaction at all, and even the dissatisfaction booed were sparse, which showed that they did not have much energy to focus on football, or in other words, they were probably even appreciating Tottenham Hotspur’s wonderful goals and forgot that they were Arsenal fans.

How many of the fans who came to Emirates Stadium are Arsenal's hardcore?

This is a doubt that Wenger has been having in recent years.

"Let Chamak be careful, don't move too much, restrain your emotions, Philip Dodd will not be polite," Wenger said to his assistant coach Pat Les, who nodded and immediately walked to the sidelines to convey Wenger's meaning.

When Chamak was retreating to defend, he was too big and tripped Yaya or Toure, and was shown a yellow card by the referee. In addition, the offensive pressure brought by Tottenham Hotspur was too great. In addition, the goal was first lost at home, Arsenal players are obviously not calm enough now.

Wenger knew it well that with the current Arsenal lineup, it was very difficult to challenge Tottenham Hotspur, which was in full swing, but he never thought that his team would play so badly at home. In the first ten minutes, it was almost a one-sided situation.

"We should make some adjustments. If we continue like this, I'm afraid we can't stop it." Pat O'Les walked back with a little worried.

Wenger raised his head, glanced at his right-hand man, and then glanced at the bench not far away. On the bench in this game were Walcott, Lancebre and other substitutes, but no matter from any perspective, they would not be better than the starting lineup on the court, whether it was offense or defense.

It can be said that Wenger has limited resources now. Arsenal's bench thickness is even the weakest among several strong teams in the Premier League, which also leads to Arsenal's lack of combat effectiveness.

In the past few seasons, everyone has said that Arsenal's performance in the first half of the league does not count, and the real start of the league is after the winter break. This is about Arsenal's bench thickness, because for a period of time before and after the winter break, players' physical fitness and injuries are at the most dangerous time, and Arsenal often begins to decline from this period.

For example, in the past, there was a typical February phobia, which means that Arsenal always performed very badly in February.

"Let them retreat to halftime and stabilize the situation first." Wenger made the adjustments he could make.

With little change in the existing player structure, the changes he can make are actually very few, because the problem with Arsenal is now midfield and defense, not offense.

As Arsenal retreated, Tottenham began to actively press forward, but they played more patiently, and Arsenal's morale was affected. After all, they were beaten by their mortal enemies from the beginning, but you didn't dare to come back and you had to hide when you saw him. This kind of cowardly spirit is indeed enough to dampen morale.

But Wenger's approach is understandable. He is at an absolute disadvantage in strength. Coupled with the gap in player status and morale, he must ensure that the situation is stabilized. Otherwise, if Tottenham Hotspur plays a big score in one go, he will be really finished.

Wenger thinks this way because he has enough understanding and familiarity with his team's strength and the strength of his opponents, but Ye Qiu is also very familiar with the strength of both sides, and it can even be said that in Arsenal's team, he only values ​​three players, Alexander O'Song, who defends, but he can't stop Tottenham Hotspur's ten thousand troops alone.

Arteta is an organizational player and is difficult to support the overall situation. Nasri has good personal abilities, but he is not a sharp knife that can create threats. As for the Moroccan striker Chamak who was praised for his free franchise at the beginning of this season, Ye Qiu thinks that he may be okay to play against weak teams, but he met a strong team like Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United...
Chapter completed!