Suyun's comprehension

The next day, the team practice session.

A new set of tactics and formations, after an overnight discussion and study by Pepe Meier and the coaching staff, are laid out in front of the players.

3-3-3-1!

Three center backs, two attacking wing backs plus a back, three midfielders concentrated in the middle and one striker.

When this new formation appeared, the faces of all the players all showed expressions of doubt and incomprehension.

Changing formations halfway through the league?

Sure it wasn't just a brainstorm?

Or is this the head coach's plan to break the bank?

At the beginning of the season, Real Betis practiced three formations, all of which had one thing in common: they were all four defenders, i.e. two wing-backs and two center-backs.

But now this lineup, but directly placed on the five defenders! This is like saying that all the preparations made at the beginning of the season are null and void!

Everything starts from scratch!

The change from four backs to five backs may seem like an increase in the number of backs by just one, but in terms of tactical system, it can be said that there has been a drastic change.

A professional team usually doesn't make this kind of change easily.

It even requires the cooperation of the team's personnel to achieve it.

Therefore, all the players of Real Betis felt very uncomfortable.

After Pepe Meier explained the tactics, the players then came onto the pitch and started practicing the formation.

As the training progressed, sure enough problems were quickly exposed.

Real Betis was divided into a starting team and a substitute team, with the substitute team running the offense.

In terms of strength, the attacking power of the substitutes is not even close to that of the teams in the La Liga, but when they face the three center back combinations formed by the main players, they seem to be able to take what they want with ease.

With just two strikers, the substitutes messed up the three center backs' defense, and the three center backs frequently missed or bumped together, losing all sense of position!

Instead of being an advantage in numbers, the three center backs have become a disadvantage.

If it wasn't for Su Yun who had been desperately trying to defend the goal, the main team would have conceded who knows how many goals. "This doesn't seem to be working!"

"You two, don't keep dragging yourselves behind."

"Co-defense! Help me with the co-defense!"

The voices of the three center backs complained, one after the other, and the others gradually began to doubt whether playing like this would work or not.

In addition to the problems in the back line, the problems in the forward line were also not small.

Pepe Mel tried to put Santa Cruz in a single striker position and then supported it by moving forward through the midfield.

But Santa Cruz has a hard time playing pivot against even a replacement team's defense, and has no speed advantage of his own, struggling to play on the front line and being very ineffective.

Playing like this, not only was Santa Cruz unsatisfied with his play, the coaching staff shook their heads just as often.

Pepe Meier looked at the effect of such training, and gradually began to shake his own ideas.

Is it better to just give up on the playbook?

After all, the time is too short, and there is no warm-up game to help the lineup, the players also understand too slowly, the idea of chain defense simply can not play out, but also let the team's overall strength further decline.

And at this point, the members of the coaching staff were thinking the same thing, that there was still a gap between the results of the actual battle and the theory.

While everyone was at a loss, they failed to notice that there was one person who, unlike usual, seemed to have become very quiet today.

And that person is Su Yun.

Ever since he started training the new tactics, he silently began to observe the team's drills for the new tactics.

After his observation, he saw all the problems that Pepe Mel and the coaching staff found.

On top of that, with the help of the attribute Goalkeeper Awareness: 99, his comprehension of the new tactics became exceptional.

Some problems that Pepe Meier and the coaching staff hadn't realized, he also saw them.

The first thing Su Yun noticed is the problem of the offense, Santa Cruz is not playing well, not because of the individual ability of the problem, the midfield forward insertion is not a problem, the problem is that there is no speed player on the front line to carry out a raid, to support Santa Cruz.

In other words, all a team has to do to solve its offensive problems is to pose a couple of speedsters up front. It's just a matter of how to do it, and that's very tricky.

After practice, Su Yun took the initiative to find Pepe Meier and the coaching staff to communicate with them with his ideas and suggestions.

At first, members of the coaching team didn't pay much attention to Su Yun's words, because when Su Yun said that he needed to put speedy players in the front, everyone thought, "Who doesn't know that? What do you need to say?

But the next thing Su Yun said made the group of guys light up.

Su Yun snatched the assistant coach's tactical board in one hand and then said with a raised eyebrow.

"Look, our current formation is 3-3-3-1, with three midfielders without a single protruding forward, and then there's one back, plus five defenders, isn't this just setting up a bus? Are you worried about our backline, or are you worried about me? If you do this, it'll be weird if the offense doesn't have problems!"

"Easy for you to say, but what do you say?" A coach asked dismissively.

"Put on two wingers! Raise the back to the center of the field for area sweeping defense, and then replace the two midfielders with two wingers to carry out raids, plus two attacking wingbacks for support, it's definitely enough for counterattacks!"

Su Yun spoke eloquently as he adjusted the players' positions on the tactical board.

"Ah... That... It seems right to say that?" The coach who had just mocked Su Yun was instantly speechless.

Pepe Mel looked at the tactical board for a while before saying faintly, "Sue, you go back first." "Me? Go?"

Before Su Yun could finish his sentence, the tactical board in his hand was then snatched back by Pepe Mel.

After driving Su Yun away, the assistant coach hurriedly asked, ''Coach, is Su wrong? I think it makes sense! Why did you kick him out?"

"Because he was right! I had to kick him out."

"What?" Pepe Mel's words immediately stunned all the members of the coaching staff.

Pepe Meier nodded and continued, "What Sue just said, I thought about it for a while, and it is indeed feasible! However, according to past experience, in order to make such an improvement, it needs the data from several games to back it up!"

He paused for a moment and looked at everyone's expressions as he continued, "But Su actually found a solution through just one training session, skipping the warm-ups. If we don't get rid of him, I'm afraid we'll look too ignorant."

"Ah... This..." Speaking of which, the eyes of the members of the coaching staff were as wide as brass bells. Was this sure it wasn't a joke?

Isn't this too much for Su Yun?

A bunch of coaches that don't know tactics as well as a goalie?

Despite that statement, Pepe Meier did some validation with members of the coaching staff. The next day of practice.

Pepe Mel announced straight away in the training session that the formation would be changed to 5-2-3. Another weird formation! The players were utterly speechless.

Three center backs plus two attacking wing backs, an all-around midfielder plus a defensive midfielder, left and right wingers plus a winger.

Seeing these changes, Su Yun secretly slandered, this old fox, didn't you drive me away yesterday? How come he took my thoughts for himself today?

That's shameless!

Although Su Yun had a bellyful of complaints, the change in tactics did achieve the desired effect.

Santa Cruz got the ball on his back with the help of two wingers, and the counterattacking pivot was immediately effective. And soon after, in training, by working with the wingers, the breakthrough was accomplished by grabbing the ball.

But while the offense's problems have been solved for the time being, the defense's problems remain.

The three center backs still did not work well together, and were repeatedly penetrated by the attacking players of the substitutes, and the numerical advantage of the defense was still not reflected.

Watching Pepe Mel shake his head and already have plans to drop the three center backs.

However, just as he was still hesitating, Su Yun once again found him after training.

"Hey... Coach, was I right yesterday? Today, I have some more thoughts about the defense, would you like to hear them?"