Vol 5 Chapter 415: Offensive football and utilitarian football

Manchester Stadium.
In the 20th round of the Premier League, Manchester City's game against Chelsea is about to start.
Elano Bloomer stood on the court, thinking about what the coach and himself said before the game.
"Barack is the captain of the German team and the core player of Chelsea. I think his ability is needless to say, Elano, you should know him."
"In this game, you are the team's most important player. I don't need you to play on offense, but you must limit Barak. As long as you limit him, our defense will be very easy and the offense Can let go. "
"Elano, I know you have always wanted to take on more important game tasks, like ... like Silva, Morris? But people are different, what you are good at is different from them. . "
"You are the team's Barack and Lampard, not Morris and Silva, do you understand what I mean?"
"I will not ask Silva to defend, because I know he ca n’t do well, and only you, Elano, your defensive ability, personal skills and understanding of the game are very good, so I hope you To be able to use his own strengths. "
Elano Bloomer did not expect the coach to say so to himself. In fact, after the transfer to Manchester City, he always felt that the coach did not pay attention to himself.
Manchester City have many excellent players. Even the youngest Ozil in the midfield is a top genius, and he, Elano Bloomer, is only a Brazilian midfielder with a stronger defensive ability and can not catch up with Ferre Pull, Dunn and others, the offensive ability is incomparable with the frontcourt players, his only advantage may be ... comprehensive?
Bloomer feels that he is an undervalued player. He won't get much reuse in the game, and he will only get a chance to play when he rotates.
This game. He didn't think he had a chance to play because Ozil and Silva were enough. Even if there are players on the field, should it be experienced Yong Baili?
Thinking of these, Blumer felt very excited.
After talking with Wansheng, he knew the reason why he could join Manchester City-strong defensive ability and comprehensive technology.
This is where the coach looks at himself.
As the coach said, "You have a strong defensive ability, good physical ability, and also share the pressure on the offensive front. These seem to be nothing, but every player whose ability is not bad is rare."
In addition, Bloomer is excited that the coach compares himself to Barack and Lampard.
"You are Barack and Lampard of the team."
This sentence was remembered in Brumer's mind, and even the tone of the speech was impressed. He felt that he might not forget it for a few years?
In Blumer's view, there is no more important than the recognition of the head coach, especially the current head coach-Wan Sheng, he is recognized by the world football as a football coach who is good at training players, and has the head coach's recognition. Bloomer's self-confidence suddenly increased.
Before, Blumer felt that he was only a player who supplemented the lineup, and at most he was only a half-substitute and half-main player. Now he feels that he will definitely become more and more important in the team in the future.
Think of these. Bloomer couldn't help boiling blood!
Now the game is about to start. He ca n’t help but start the game and complete the task that Wan Sheng has assigned to him-limit Barak, do n’t let him play at will!
Bloomer looked at Barak sternly, as if looking at his father's enemies.
Barack, who was standing in the Chelsea formation, looked back immediately. He was startled by Brumer's eyes, and immediately wondered, "When did I offend him?"

Manchester City has always impressed fans with beautiful offensive football. Even though Chelsea have played against Manchester City many times, they still remember playing against Manchester City two months ago.
3: 5. In that match, they scored three goals. Manchester City scored five goals, and the score already shows a lot of things, so they think Manchester City will return to their home court and will definitely step up their offense.
However, after the game started, Chelsea found that Manchester City did not rush to attack, but kept controlling the ball. Many times, they were constantly passing the ball.
Chelsea are no strangers to Manchester City's control play, so they ran forward and rushed forward to grab, but they soon found out that Manchester City played surprisingly ‘stable’.
Manchester City's 'stability' is no longer the case.
In the first ten minutes of the opening, Manchester City only kicked the ball twice before the penalty area, and the ball was quickly passed again, and then they began to constantly fall back to cooperate, seemingly not in a hurry to score goals to fight for the leading score.
This style of play is a headache.
Before the game, Glatt specially analyzed Manchester City's tactics. Coupled with the understanding of more than two seasons, Chelsea players know what Manchester City is going to do-they want to control football, control the rhythm and control the game.
They are using the ball to slowly kill Chelsea's physical fitness and patience!
Faced with this style of play, Chelsea also knows what to do, that is to keep fighting and continually attacking the Manchester City defense. As long as the fighting is intense enough, Manchester City's passing will be much more careful, and they will not be able to control the ball at that time .
But when Chelsea did this, they found Manchester City's defense very solid.
When the football reached Chelsea's feet, Chelsea launched an offensive, Manchester City's formation quickly shrank back, Chelsea had not yet passed the ball to a dangerous point, Manchester City had already put up a tight defense near the penalty area.
After fifteen minutes of battle, Chelsea found that Manchester City's play was not just their ‘os-f’, but even more emphasis on ... the ball's defensive counterattack! ?
The concept of defensive counterattack is too big. Manchester City does not have an absolute passive defense. The method they choose is to control the ball and try to find opportunities. However, their formation is not advanced, so when the ball is suddenly lost, their formation It's easy to shrink back.
Obviously, Manchester City's main focus is on defense.
It stands to reason that this style of play will be very passive, but Manchester City has used the ball to achieve the initiative, but instead made Chelsea dare not too forward, even when there is a ball, whether it is defense or offense. Chelsea felt awkward.
Chelsea players can't analyze Manchester City's tactics for the first time, they just feel that the game is a bit wrong. As for how wrong, no one can say it directly.
Chelsea coach Avran Grant stood up in shock. He did not expect that Manchester City would make such a big adjustment to the tactics.
At the same time he was puzzled.
In Grant ’s view, Wan Sheng is definitely a very capable head coach, otherwise Manchester City ’s performance will not be so good, but such a head coach, do n’t you worry that after a big adjustment to the tactics, the team will have some discomfort ?
He didn't understand.
This is what Grant did not know about Wansheng, or Manchester City.
Grant has just left the Israeli league after all, after coaching Chelsea. He only played once with Manchester City. He did n’t know that Manchester City is a team that is very good at adjusting tactics. This is also a headache for many Manchester City opponents. Last season, Manchester City ’s lineup and strength were not as good as Manchester United and Chelsea At that time, Wansheng won many games, but now the team is much stronger and the tactics are mature. There is no need to rely on risk-changing tactics to gain the first chance in the game, so the number of times to adjust the tactics becomes less.
It is worth mentioning that. This makes Wansheng's job a lot easier.
Manchester City does not fully use the 'os-f' system of tactics. They also train other tactical routines on weekdays. Most of their content is an extension of the 'os-f' system. Now this set is played on the field, but it is slightly changed. The formation position has been strengthened, some defenses have been strengthened, and no major adjustments have been made at all.
This was enough to surprise Grant.
He could not imagine that Manchester City would change from 'pretty offensive football' to 'utilitarian defensive football'.
Wan Sheng doesn't matter how surprised Grant is.
Faced with this Chelsea, we must fight steady. It is necessary to strengthen defense and take risks at home to score goals. Even saying that it is not necessary to fight offense, it is easier to win if you play harder.
As for the game is ugly? He never considered it.

Obviously. Wansheng has many supporters, at least the Manchester City fans who came to watch the game, did not express any dissatisfaction with Manchester City's play.
Although the game is ugly, they are more willing to believe in Wansheng.
It ’s like the stadium broadcasting Berbat ’s words,
The game is a bit dull, Manchester City seems to play a little conservatively, but Wansheng ’s arrangement is definitely reasonable. We can expect Manchester City ’s next play ...
It ’s a match arranged by Wansheng, it always makes sense. "
In the eyes of onlookers, this kind of blind support makes people laugh, but for more than two seasons, Wan Sheng has never disappointed Manchester City fans. He only led the team to surprise fans again and again.
Now Manchester City fans unconditionally support Wansheng, which is also equivalent to a return.
In addition, Manchester City is not completely conservative!
The game is still very exciting!
For example, this time, Chelsea was attacking, and football was quickly passed to Mikel. Mikel saw that there was no chance ahead and immediately handed the ball to Barack.
After Lampard was injured, Barak became the core of Chelsea's midfield. He was the pin of the Chelsea midfielder. Many teammates subconsciously handed the ball to Barak when they saw no chance.
But this time, Barak made a mistake.
The German captain stopped the ball a little bit bigger, he thought it was okay, but he immediately rushed out of the figure and immediately broke the ball.
The football was kicked under Lescott's feet.
Last season, Lescott was a full-back. This season, his position moved to the middle. Sometimes he played as a full-back and sometimes as a mid-back, but the consciousness of counterattack when he got the ball almost reached his mind.
Before receiving the ball, Lescott had already glanced forward, and then he would kick the ball directly, and the football flew directly to the middle circle.
Lescott's pass was a bit hasty ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The position was a bit inaccurate, but Silva still grabbed the ball first.
He kicked the ball to Ozil and ran forward. Ozil faced the ball and kicked forward.
David Silva rushed past Ales and received the pass.
"Fight back!"
The Manchester City Stadium suddenly sounded the fans' cries.
Silva drove the ball straight forward, he squeezed Ben Hayim forward and then entered the penalty area, facing the goalkeeper Hilario, he made a kick shot, but the football hit the crossbar Pop up out of bounds.
"call……"
Berbat breathed a sigh of relief and said with some regret, "This ball almost came in, Silva just lacked a bit of luck ..."
This counterattack let everyone know that Manchester City is not completely conservative. When Chelsea is negligent, Manchester City may only need one chance to rewrite the score. (To be continued.)