Chapter 77 The Trouble With Huang Chu
I forgot who said that there are no two identical leaves in this world.
By the same token, there are no two sets of identical tactics in this world.
Suppose, if all Barcelona's lineup and tactics were transplanted to the Premier League team, would they still be Barcelona? Will they still be the Dream Three team that fans are familiar with?
Absolutely not!
Perhaps this team that has been transplanted to the Premier League will succeed, but they will definitely not be exactly the same as Barcelona in La Liga.
The Premier League environment prompts this team to make changes at the tactical level. The full set of copying Barcelona to the Premier League is almost zero, because they tailor-made play styles based on the characteristics of La Liga and are not suitable for the Premier League.
Ye Qiu has been reflecting on himself recently. He feels that he has made a serious mistake, which is that he is too convinced of the tactical understanding of the famous coaches, and forgets a very important point. Those things belong to the famous coaches, to the team they coach, not to him Ye Qiu and Ajax.
Both left wingers, Ovemas and Robben have very different characteristics. Ovemas is very good at both left and right feet, while Robben only has his left foot. Similarly, Van der Fate and Van der Mede are completely different in the right winger position.
There are no players with exactly the same characteristics, which leads to the lack of completely the same tactics.
Therefore, there is a saying in the field of tactics that there is no strongest tactic, only the most appropriate tactics.
In the past few days, Ye Qiu has sorted out his tactical system of Ajax's 433 high defense, excavated every detail, sorted it out, and then found a targeted way to overcome the problem.
"I think that the series of problems that the team has encountered in the past two or three months, ultimately, are caused by these reasons. First of all, we are the characteristic of our excessive tendency to attack in a straight line, which has caused them to pass the ball directly from defense to offense."
If Ye Qiu wants to improve the team's tactics, he must first let the coaching team figure out what to improve, so he specially held a coaching team member meeting to instill his own ideas for improvement in them.
"We pursue speed too much, which has Ajax's usual characteristics and my personal reasons!" Ye Qiu was not afraid of admitting his mistakes at all, "but this speed can sometimes catch our opponents off guard, but sometimes it can easily lead to our mistakes."
Ye Qiu smiled, "I remember there is an old saying about defensive players: If you can cut the ball, you must protect the ball. That is a qualified defender. Because once you cut the ball, everyone in the team will immediately turn into the offensive state. At this time, you will lose the ball and want everyone to return to the defensive state. This is very difficult, so it is very dangerous."
"By the same reason, when we cut the ball, because of excessive pursuit, we pass too much straight line. This type of pass itself makes a high mistake and it is easy to lose the ball again. The team will either be exhausted or be beaten behind."
Bobby Hams listened carefully to Ye Qiu's analysis, and he had to admit that there was indeed a reason at this level.
From the past to the present, Ajax has basically pursued fast-paced offensive football. Sometimes, this concept is inherited subtly, and it cannot be changed in the bodies of Van der Fat, Sneider and others.
"For this, I think it is necessary for us to remind and ask our players to have opportunities in the offense, of course, be fast, but once we do not have enough confidence and opportunity, we should not pass the ball blindly, especially straight-line passes. We should pass more crosses and return passes, control the ball, and patiently look for opportunities."
After hearing Ye Qiu's words, the coaches all recorded this article carefully in their notes. They will start analyzing them and improve the team's training methods based on Ye Qiu's requirements and instill it into the players.
"One other problem we encountered is that our midfield coverage area is too large. The three midfielders, Gilberto Silva, are basically in the back, protecting the defense line and establishing a midfield interception area. It is difficult to completely cover such a wide area with Keita and Sneider alone in the front."
"Our high-level defense is based on the rapid formation of the local area's number of people. Once the control is insufficient, we will easily be torn apart by our opponents, cut into pieces, and finally be beaten behind us. The solution to this problem is to continue to ensure the local area's number of people!"
All the coaching staff members looked at Ye Qiu, didn't say anything, and listened carefully because he was the team's head coach.
"I have been reflecting on some of my actions recently. In today's football world, the allocation of tactical responsibilities can be said to be very obvious. Just like Eindhoven, the front line is responsible for goals and offense, the midfield is responsible for interception and organization, and the defender is responsible for defense and operation, each has its own division of labor, well organized, but too mechanical."
"What we have implemented before, Ibrahimovic retreat, Robben and Van der Fate's attack routines behind us are actually using their machinery to create articles. But I found that we are not doing thoroughly enough to break the division of labor of this machinery. We should make the three lines a seamless whole while keeping the three lines tight and compact and orderly!"
If it is seamless, the opponent will not be able to take advantage of the situation and cut the Ajax whole. Then they will always fight against the whole with one person and have no advantage at all.
"That is to say, we need to actively advocate players to switch positions while ensuring the overall smooth operation of the team during training. For example, Ibrahimovic can retreat. Why can't Lucio go forward? With the Brazilian's speed, personal defense ability, and mobility ability, once he goes forward, the help to the midfield will be immeasurable, and he also likes to go forward."
"Of course, I don't advocate blindly letting the central defender forward, but I advocate that as long as you see a gap between the midfield and the defense line, the central defender will decisively and boldly move forward to fill this gap and avoid being used by the opponent. Isn't this a way to consolidate defense? And this kind of shifting and running should completely spread to the entire team."
"There is no need for the two wingers to always occupy two wingers. In order to avoid the problem of too large a midfield coverage area and causing a decline in control, we should compress the control area, but this is not to give up the wing attack."
"For example, when the ball comes to the right, the opponent's overall defense must be tilted to the right, Van der Fate is the main attack point, Ibrahimovic and Sneider must pull him closer to the support. At this time, Robben and Keita should take the initiative to move towards the middle, so that we have enough strength to ensure the advantage of the number of people in the local area."
"So, what about the offense on the left? Abidal can go forward. Once the right side cannot get out of the situation, divert it to Abidal on a large scale, because at this time, the opponent's defensive attention is attracted by Robben and Keita, and the defenders are usually weak points in defense, so the full-back will definitely have an unexpected effect when he puts on the offense in this situation."
Speaking of this, Ye Qiu drew the tactical position map of Ajax that he had readjusted on the tactical board behind him.
Goalkeeper Grim remains unchanged. In the defensive state, the defense line is in parallel. Keita, Gilberto Silva and Sneider are also in parallel. The defense line is protected. Robben, Ibrahimovic and Van der Fate are also in parallel. They are typical 433 three-line parallel positions, because doing so can ensure the compactness of the defense line and effectively cover the 30-meter area.
But this is in a defensive situation. Generally speaking, unless Ajax is pressed or hit, or the opponent's free kick opportunity in the frontcourt, it is usually difficult to use.
In the mobile warfare state, Ye Qiu felt that Ajax's 433 should be more stretchy.
On the front line, Ibrahimovic occupied the middle lane, while Robben and Van der Fate were on the two sides. Their positions were determined based on the positions of the opponent's central defenders and full-backs, but behind them, in order to better support the winger, Keita and Sneider were like a pair of horns, forming a triangle with Gilberto Silva who was in the rear.
Keita and Sneider are both players who can run and pass, especially Sneider. They have a great role in counterattack and are very covert. Especially Keita, whose running ability is excellent. After some positioning requirements, they can not only push forward during offense, but also increase the intensity of counterattack on the spot when defending.
In order to echo Gilberto Silva's sides, the positions of two full-backs, Abidal and Macon, must move forward, Lucio and Gifu are in the position of the central defender, and the entire defense line becomes a shallow disc position.
This is just a general arrangement. The specific details must be changed according to the opponent's position, but the players' tactical tasks are basically fixed. Even in the game, they will only be some small-scale adjustments.
Ye Qiu is now completely reflecting on the mistakes he made before, such as excessive demands on touching the ball with one foot. This does not mean that touching the ball with one foot is not good, but that if the team's passing mistakes increase in order to ensure that one foot touching the ball with one foot increases, it will be more cost-effective.
So now Ye Qiu proposed to improve, cooperate more, transfer more, and respond more.
If you want to play high-level defense, you must have strong control. Without Barcelona's perverted ball control ability, the best way is to rely on cooperation, transfer, and running to fill in the shortcomings in ball control ability.
How was Manchester United's unball running established?
It was Eric Harrison who saw the lack of ball control ability of England teams. In order to fill the gap between Manchester United and other teams in mainland China, he used no-ball running to achieve the goal of controlling space and thus filled in the lack of ball control.
After all, whether it is running without the ball, pursuing ball control, or pursuing control space, it is all to ensure the team's game control.
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The advantage of having a coaching staff is that there is no need for Ye Qiu to do everything himself.
He instilled his own ideas into the coaching team, and then the coaching team formulated a series of training details that implemented Ye Qiu's ideas, such as adding some requirements appropriately to the new training method, allowing players to execute during training, etc.
Also, during the team's confrontation training, some practical requirements were put forward to make players familiar with, understand and master Ye Qiu's ideas through confrontation.
But despite this, Ye Qiu still has to supervise and guide himself and put forward some of his own opinions and ideas at any time, so as to ensure that the team can move forward in the direction they think.
For a head coach, training is far more important than competition!
If you cannot ensure that the players implement and master your requirements during training, then don’t expect the players to execute your tactics well during the game. Ye Qiu has made obvious progress from the tactical level, training level, and even from the spiritual level of a head coach in the past year.
This can be seen from the data in the Godfather's Training System. Ye Qiu reached 78 points in his personal attribute tactics. I believe this is very high among the coaches of the Eredivisie. His attention to tactics in the past period has not been in vain.
The tactics have improved, but he has not fallen behind in other aspects, such as training players.
Because both physical fitness and goalkeepers have corresponding training personnel, Ye Qiu did not add too many reward points in these two aspects, and he only dabbled in a little bit on weekdays. After all, human energy is limited.
However, Ye Qiu attaches great importance to the training in offense, defense, technology, tactics, psychology, etc. He also carefully observes the team's training on weekdays, so he has made obvious progress. Now it has basically exceeded 50 points, of which the tactics have reached 67 points, the technology has reached 63 points, and the offense has reached 61 points, which is considered very good.
If we follow the comprehensive evaluation, Ye Qiu feels that he should be considered a second-rate coach in Europe.
It all depends on the shops and learning houses of the Godfather’s cultivation system.
Relatively speaking, he does not attach much importance to personal attributes and tasks. He pursues it naturally and does not deliberately pursue it. However, he almost uses most of the reward points in stores and study rooms. After all, studying at night when he goes to bed, which undoubtedly makes Ye Qiu more likely to make more progress than others.
But because Ye Qiu devoted all his time to the training of the first team, he ignored many things.
For example, Huang Chu, who has been worried recently, has asked for leave.
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Amsterdam is a city worth visiting. Every day, many tourists from all over the world arrive at this city and enjoy the unique scenery of this city.
But at this moment, Huang Chu, who was sitting in the coffee house on the Amster River in the city, was not in a slight mood because of the person in front of her.
Zhang Zijian is two years older than Huang Chu and is a man born with a golden key in his hand. The Zhang family is in Shanghai, and he is also a well-known figure. He has a wide range of industries and has close business dealings with the Huang Tian Group of the Huang family. Moreover, the Zhang family and the Huang family are family friends, and Huang Jinsong and his father are even more brothers and have extraordinary relationships.
Growing up together since childhood, they were all classmates in the same school, from elementary school to junior high school to high school. However, when they were studying in college, Zhang Zijian went to the United States to study business administration, and two years later, Huang Chu came to the Netherlands. Her interest was to study medicine.
As the only son in the family, Zhang Zijian is always accompanied by various halos, which has cultivated his pride in feeling good about himself.
Huang Chu knew about this, so she didn't like this person, but her father liked Zhang Zijian very much. He even told Huang Chu on the phone that the person in front of him was the only son-in-law he liked. As for Ye Qiu, she should not think about it anymore.
This made her feel sad and even a little painful.
"Chuchu...Chuchu?" Zhang Zijian sat opposite him and shouted softly.
Seeing Huang Chu seemingly immersed in his thoughts and without responding, he couldn't help but look at Chen Zhong sitting aside with some embarrassment.
Chen Zhong is Huang Chu's cousin. After graduation, he joined Huang Tian Group and became Huang Jinsong's right-hand man. He has been like Huang Chu's brother since he was a child. He was a classmate with Zhang Zijian when he was studying business administration in the United States. This time he was arranged by Huang Jinsong. During the National Day, they came to Amsterdam to find Huang Chu. Behind it, Chen Zhong's task was to match Huang Chu and Zhang Zijian.
"Chuchu!" Chen Zhong pulled Huang Chu's hand. He has treated Huang Chu as his own sister since he was a child.
"Ah!" Huang Chu woke up. She was a little used to Ye Qiu calling her Achu. Suddenly someone called her Chuchu, and she was a little uncomfortable. "Sorry, I'm a little busy with work and I'm distracted."
Huang Chu's apologetically smile made Zhang Zijian a little fascinated and unable to extricate himself. Even the apology was so beautiful and so charming.
"I heard that you work in a football club?" Chen Zhong asked with a smile, he was a football fan.
"Ajax!" Huang Chu smiled.
"Oh, European wealthy families!" Chen Zhong said with a smile.
Huang Chu nodded, "Now their head coach is our Chinese, named Ye Qiu!"
When she recited the name Ye Qiu, she felt indescribable tenderness.
Chen Zhong knows his cousin very well, and he is willing to accept his own deeds. He will never change his mind even if he falls in love with someone. Moreover, he also opposes his uncle's domineering behavior. What era is this? Is it still the orders of the older generation of parents to matchmakers?
But he himself worked in Huangtian Group, so he had to obey his uncle's arrangements.
"If you have the chance, you have to meet him. Chinese football is not good, but there is such an amazing person. You must get to know him!" Chen Zhong said with a smile. He was a heartfelt praise.
Huang Chu knew that his cousin liked football, so he smiled sweetly, "Look for an opportunity to introduce you to me!"
"OK!"
Zhang Zijian was aside, and he felt a little depressed when he heard the two of them talking about football.
"In the United States, no one likes football. They all think that football is too boring and not exciting enough, so they all like football and basketball. I have visited all the NBA home courts and watched games. The atmosphere is so fanatic. I remember that authoritative media commented that basketball is the most popular number one sport in the world!"
He talked about it on the side, talking about his process of watching basketball games in the United States, and he looked intoxicated, as if he wanted to share his experience of fanaticism with the two of them.
Little did they know that Chen Zhong and Huang Chu looked at each other and smiled bitterly because they lacked a sense of substitution.
"Uh..." After Zhang Zijian was so speechless, Huang Chu smiled shyly and reminded: "The world's number one sport is football!"
"Is that true?" Zhang Zijian was stunned, but soon said with a shy face: "No, I remember, it seems that it was commented by the New York Times or an editor of any newspaper. Basketball is the world's number one sport!"
But it was obvious that his tone was no longer as confident and affirmative as before, and it still had a bit of tremolo.
Both Huang Chu and Chen Zhong knew what kind of virtue he had, so they didn't expose him and let him stubbornly speak.
Chapter completed!