I Want to Play Offensive Football!

Since reaching the Champions League final, Gao Shen has been studying Barcelona in the tactical library every day.

Although he has repeatedly studied some of the tactical ideas of Rijkaard and Ten Cate, and has a certain understanding of Cruyff's dream team tactical ideas, it is still far from enough.

Later, Gao Shen read Mourinho's book again, especially the part in which he played against Barcelona for two consecutive seasons.

Don't look at Mourinho shouting aggressively outside, as if Barcelona couldn't win if it wasn't for the red card, but in fact, in his book, he still recognized the strength of Barcelona.

This season, for example, he has been amazed by Messi's performance but disappointed by Del Horno's poor performance.

He believes that Del Horno obviously did not prepare for Messi before the game, so that such mistakes will occur in the game, resulting in one less person in the team to fight.

Many times, what the coach says in front of the media is not necessarily what he really thinks in his heart.

The Barcelona coached by Rijkaard is indeed quite good.

Under the formation of 4-3-3, this Barcelona team has a very strong attack power. The players run actively and press in place. Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Messi and Giuly have strong personal abilities. Being able to retreat and move forward flexibly makes Barcelona more dynamic in attacking and pressing in the frontcourt.

The excellent personal ability in the frontcourt, coupled with the presence of technical players such as Deco, Xavi and Iniesta in the midfield, allows Barcelona to have very delicate ball control and strong ability to pass and cut, especially the continuous kick.

When he was still a fan, Gao Shen always felt that Guardiola was a genius. The dream team that he trained completely overturned the pattern of European football and led the trend and trend of technology and tactics, which is called great.

But after becoming the head coach of Real Madrid, he gradually discovered that, in fact, all of these are signs.

As Sacchi said, in his era, there were already many head coaches who were reflecting and summarizing on marking and free agents, and many people were also discussing zone defense. He was just standing on the shoulders of giants. make it happen.

It's not really Sacchi being modest, it's the truth.

But it's the question of why Sacchi made it, and not anyone else involved in the discussion.

Back to Barcelona.

In fact, if you compare the Dream II and Dream III, Rijkaard's team and Guardiola's team, to a certain extent, are in the same line, and they have too many similar genes.

The biggest difference is that Guardiola has learned the lessons of the Dream Second Team.

What?

Superstar and Defense!

The subsequent fall of Ronaldinho and Deco led to the collapse of the Dream Second Team dynasty.

After Guardiola coached the team, the biggest change he made was actually to set up a very detailed and meticulous tactical system, restricting all players, including superstars, to his own system.

Remember Henry said that Guardiola even strictly controlled his running lines.

Is this, as Benitez said, using players as robots?

If you analyze it carefully, it is not difficult to find that in the third dream team, although Messi performed better, received the support of the whole team, and scored more goals, but from the perspective of tactical authority, he is not as good as Ronaldinho.

In fact, this is what Gao Shen is advocating, to control the play of genius within the team's overall tactical framework.

While solving the superstar problem, there is a strong Bielsa element in Guardiola's tactical concept.

And everyone knows that Bielsa's football philosophy is actually influenced by Van Gaal. Interestingly, Van Gaal also coached Barcelona and coached Guardiola.

Whether it is Bielsa or Van Gaal, they all emphasize one point, that is, the pressure of the midfield.

But it is not set in stone.

For example, when Van Gaal was in charge of Ajax, he strictly demanded that the full-backs should not be inserted in front of the wingers. There are three reasons for this: one is to ensure that the defense is stable after the attack is frustrated; Leave enough space for the winger to attack; third, the ball can be moved quickly from one side to the other if necessary.

Whether it is Bielsa or later Guardiola, they are actually adjusting Van Gaal's tactical philosophy according to the circumstances.

But one thing remains constant, and that is tactical discipline.

Emphasis on tactical discipline and emphasis on pressing and pressing in the midfield and frontcourt are all to ensure defense.

Passing and controlling the ball itself is Barcelona's traditional advantage. If you can get the ball back in the shortest time after losing the ball, and then let the game return to the rhythm of passing and controlling the ball that you are best at, this forms a closed loop.

Rijkaard's dream second team actually exists. He was also born out of Dutch football and was also influenced by Cruyff and Van Gaal. He also attached great importance to the pressure of the midfield and frontcourt, but he did not do it like Guardiola who took over later. So extreme.

Perhaps, this is because Rijkaard believes in Cruyff's philosophy.

Honor the genius!

Cruyff's football is actually the football of geniuses.

Therefore, Rijkaard admires talents like Ronaldinho. He believes that the individual ability of the players, supplemented by the team's tactics, can solve all problems.

Genius is disorder and instability, so Rijkaard succeeds because of genius and fails because of genius.

Sophisticated Real Madrid is also full of talents, but they are all old.

This season's Real Madrid has been able to get to where it is today, by no means relying on the genius of Zidane and Ronaldo.

It is the unity, order and tactical discipline of the team.

So some people say that this season's Champions League final is a battle of spears and shields.

Barcelona is the sharpest spear in European football, while Real Madrid is the strongest shield since the knockout round.

This is actually the confrontation between genius and order!

...

On the morning of the finals day, after Gao Shen got up, he read a lot of newspapers in the hotel.

After Real Madrid reversed Barcelona and won the La Liga championship, the outside world's impression of Real Madrid has changed a lot, and the odds of winning the championship have also begun to rise. Although Barcelona is still a favorite, Real Madrid is no longer an underdog.

Rijkaard said in an interview with the media at a pre-match press conference yesterday that he does not think that Barcelona's loss of the La Liga title is a failure, on the contrary, he believes that the team has performed well throughout the season.

"From March we had a very thoughtful manager who did everything in his power to cause us problems."

This is also Rijkaard's disguised recognition of his advanced coaching ability, as well as a secret admission of his previous mistakes in formation, especially against Athletic Bilbao.

For the final, Rijkaard still promised that the team would adopt more aggressive tactics.

"Barça football has always been aggressive and tomorrow night will be no exception, but we will also make some targeted adjustments because our opponent's manager is very smart and very cunning."

Rijkaard believes that Real Madrid's counterattack is deadly and the transition between offense and defense is fast.

"It's a very big change for them, the pace of their entire game has obviously picked up a lot since March, but a lot of people have overlooked this change."

The Barcelona coach also does not think that Barcelona will win the final, because Real Madrid is not as fragile as reported outside, and Barcelona needs to show the best performance and state in order to beat Real Madrid at the Stade de France.

"I will arrange our strongest attacking lineup to defeat our opponents with the most Barcelona-style football in the final!"

...

After comparing the reports of several media and receiving the interview video sent by Lucas, Gao Shen basically confirmed Rijkaard's answer and the clues revealed in it.

Combined with the results analyzed by Real Madrid scouts and Lucas in the past period of time, after confirming each other, they basically have a more intuitive impression of Barcelona's final tactics.

As expected, Rijkaard was going to attack!

Messi is likely to start.

A set of Barcelona's lineup was quickly outlined in Gao's mind.

Goalkeeper Valdes, Van Bronckhorst, Marcos, Puyol and Oleguer in the back line, Edmilson in the back, Deco in front, Xavi or Iniesta as the partner, Trident is Ronaldinho, Eto'o and Messi.

There is also Belletti at the right-back, but the front trident and the midfield are so aggressive, especially on the left with the combination of Van Bronckhorst and Ronaldinho, and with Oleguer on the right. Be safe, especially against Raul.

As for the delay, Edmilson is better defensively. Van Bommel is average in Barcelona's No. 4 position. Compared with Edmilson, the attack is stronger, but the defense is not stable enough. Thiago Motta is in the century. After the derby, the performance is not very stable.

Gao Shen quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote down his guessed starting lineup.

I have to say, Barcelona's lineup is really strong.

Just put out this set of midfield and frontcourt, combined with the current strength and state of this group of stars, how many teams can compare through the ages?

Faced with such an attacking lineup, I should be conservative, right?

Gao Shen thought to himself.

The most important thing is that in the past period, the media has always scolded him for being one-to-zero. He really wanted to push him out and fight to the death, but the problem is, his strength is not allowed!

Needless to say, Real Madrid's stars are all at their peak. If Ronaldo can show the form he had at the World Cup in Korea and Japan, and Zidane can return to his 2002 form, Gao Shen would definitely dare to play an attacking game against Barcelona.

But the problem is, it's 2006 now, bro!

Thinking of this, Gao Shen felt a bit sorry for himself.

Born with the heart of offensive football, he was forced by circumstances to defend, and was wrongly labeled as conservative.

Do I look like Capello?

How do I look like Capello?

Is that old Italian man as young and handsome as me?

When did he ever play high pressing football?

When did you see him dare to risk everything against his opponent?

Even in the battle at the Stadio delle Alpi, Capello was confident that Real Madrid wouldn't be able to handle him, so he dared to fight to the end—there wasn't an ounce of daring in his bones!

Thinking of this, Gao Shen couldn't help but want to look up to the sky and feel sad.

I want to play offensive football!