bestfiction Chapter 169 Koppel's Tactical Ideas
Chapter 169 Koppel's Tactical Ideas
Chapter 169 Koppel's Tactical Ideas
In the second half of the game, Prandelli replaced Mutu at the beginning of the game.
Another striker, Osvaldo, was also replaced in the 60th minute.
The Fiorentina team turned to a defensive counterattack, relying only on the personal abilities of a few speed players.
The meaning of Florence giving up this game is already obvious.
Then in the 75th minute, Vassell, who came off the bench, scored again and Manchester City took a 3:0 lead.
This score was finally maintained until the end.
Manchester City has an advantage of three away goals in the away game.
And judging from what Prandelli meant, they didn't seem to have any intention of making a comeback in the second round.
With an away goal and good news, Duncan returned to England with the Manchester City team.
In the next round of the league, their opponent is the underdog Reading.
That's good news in a tight schedule.
At least the strength of the opponent is still very weak.
Although through the Spirit Gathering Formation, the physical recovery speed of the team members has been greatly enhanced, but the mental exhaustion also needs to be repaired.
Vassell, Pedro, Fellaini, Mido, and Sun Jihai entered the starting lineup in rotation.
The first few people were in rotation, and Sun Jihai needed to recuperate because Heinze was stepped on his calf in the game against Fiorentina.
Heinze's game investment is very high, with a kind of desperate spirit, brave style, fierce defense, and merciless.
Kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.
Heinze's desperate defense can easily get himself injured.
For such a player, the head coach loves and hates it.
Of course, love is the majority. Duncan bought an injury treatment card from the system store and used it for Heinze.
It was originally estimated that it would take half a month to recuperate, but now it has been shortened to one week.
Recently, they defeated Arsenal in the league and repeatedly defeated strong opponents in the UEFA Cup. Duncan's achievement points reached 54 points, but he can buy a random formation card.
But the current array is enough, so Duncan has no idea of adding arrays for the time being.
And in the later stages of the league, injuries will definitely increase, and injuries and unnecessary red and yellow cards must be prevented at that time.
The league has reached 29 rounds, and every game is crucial.Now that Manchester City has won consecutive games, Manchester United's record has fluctuated, but even so, the difference between the two sides is only 5 points.
Just two wins.
This is not an insurmountable gap.
Ferguson's team has always been known for its tenacity.
At the end of the league, besides the championship team, there is also the relegation team.
Unfortunately, Manchester City's opponent in this game is the relegation team, Reading.
Reading is now ranked 18th, only 17 points away from Bolton, who is 2th.It seems that they can get out of the relegation zone as long as they win one game, so their desire to win every game is very strong.
The strength of Reading's team is very balanced, there are no outstanding players, and what they play is overall and cohesive.Coach Koppel is still a very thoughtful person, but the budget given by the board of directors is too small, and he is also a clever woman who can't cook without rice.
Of course, there is no rice without rice. As a head coach with a dream, Koppel began to study Manchester City.
To be a head coach, you may be incapable, but you must work hard.
As the coach of a weak team on the brink of the relegation zone, the burden on Koper's shoulders can be described as Alexander.
The team's performance is not good, and he is under a lot of pressure.Especially in the face of doubts from the media and fans, he couldn't hold his head up.
If your grades are poor, people will naturally doubt you.Doubt your coaching ability, doubt your formation, doubt your position adjustment...
Doubt everything about you.
On the football field, it is always the strength that has the most say.
The factor that determines strength is victory or defeat.When Duncan's team leads with unprecedented victories, everyone will naturally feel that he is very capable.
And because of Reading's poor record, Koppel's right to speak has been questioned a lot.
There are many people who criticize him from the keyboard committee, players who know the ball, news reports, fans, and even from within the coaching staff.
They will always find out a lot of problems for Koppel, and then list the plans they think are safe, and demonstrate the feasibility one by one.In the view of the keyboard committee, if he coaches Reading himself, then Reading must at least be a strong challenger for the European seat.
This is the tragedy of Koppel, as an underdog coach.
Most head coaches will choose to persist when faced with doubts.After all, they have their own coaching ideas and military habits, and they are used to treating the game in the way they are good at.
Therefore, famous head coaches are, to some extent, a kind of "paranoia". They stick to their own opinions and rarely change.They know the way they want to go and the goals they want to achieve, and they will not be shaken by anyone.
But a hundred rice breeds a hundred kinds of people.
Not every head coach is used to being stubborn.
In this game, Koppel is obviously not such a person.
In fact, when he first coached the team, Koppel also had his own ideas.But with the seven-game losing streak and ten winless games at the beginning of the season, he also questioned himself.
He no longer insisted on his existing thinking, but began to accept other people's "suggestions" and began to change.
To be honest, in view of the principle that "the authorities are confused, the bystanders are clear", so the methods proposed by others are sometimes not completely useless.
When he first decided to take someone else's advice, the Koppel got a taste of it.The Reading team reversed the decline during that period, achieved a wave of five unbeaten games, and broke out of the relegation zone in one fell swoop.
And such a brilliant record has also brought Koppel the reputation of "following the good". Everyone thinks that the head coach still has some coaching ability.
On the surface, Reading's short-term performance has improved.But within the team, the crisis gradually began to emerge.
The first is the confusion of tactical thinking.After half a season, although Reading's record is not good, their understanding of the head coach's tactical thinking has gradually deepened.Although Reading's record is not good, at least they can play something of their own.The players are also very confident.But with each change, Koppel deviated from his own thinking.This made the players feel confused. After practicing the core tactics for a season, they suddenly became the ones who move around the gap. Anyone who changed would feel a little uncomfortable.
The second is the blow to the team's confidence.When the players discovered that their head coach was completely relying on outsiders to set up troops, the prestige of the head coach in the hearts of the players had actually begun to decline.
Therefore, the Reading team, which lost both confidence and perseverance, fell into the abyss again after a period of bottoming out.
This time, it was not only the head coach's command at both ends, but even the players themselves had their own plans.
When the army has ideas, it is the beginning of national subjugation.
If Reading was defeated but not defeated in the previous losses; then the recent series of losses are losses and losses.
When "listening carefully to other people's opinions" again didn't work, Koppel didn't know where to learn the trick of "concrete analysis of specific issues", and he had to decide his own tactical thinking according to the opponent's tactics in each game.
Normally, there is nothing wrong with this method.After all, studying the opponent's tactical characteristics and then proposing solutions is what most teams will do.
But their team only regards studying the opponent's tactics as a reference, and the most fundamental thing is to stick to their existing tactical thinking.
What Kopel did was to reverse the importance. He regarded formulating his own tactics based on the opponent's tactics as the most decisive factor.
This makes Reading's style of play present a "hodgepodge" state: the previous game was still a long pass, this game was short pass penetration, the previous game was still flying with both wings, and this game focused on the center.
Reading's record is also gradually declining.
(End of this chapter)