Chapter 759

In the head coach's office of Carrington training base, Gao Han and four core coach team members sit around the tea table.

The door of the office is closed, and the air conditioner is on inside. With the wisps of smoke from the tea table, the fragrance of tea overflows.

"The management has agreed to my recommendation and is now arranging for someone to go to Blackburn to talk to David fefrey about his personal treatment. They are also willing to pay a penalty for him so that he can come to Manchester City as soon as possible."

David fefrey, 47, an Englishman, began to work in Manchester United in the early 1990s as a team doctor. He made a lot of contributions to the excellent performance of Manchester United in the 1990s. He won the third crown in the Red Devils. He chose to leave Manchester United and went to Blackburn. He has been working ever since.

Alpine was not familiar with the local team doctors in England, but after firing two team doctors from Manchester City, he urgently needed to hire a high-level physiotherapy team. Brian Kidd, who also worked for Manchester United for many years, mentioned David fefrey to alpine and highly affirmed the strength of the team doctor.

Even in the original words of Brian Kidd, if there was David fefrey, Ferguson would not have made a mistake on Stam, because at that time, Ferguson thought Stam's long-term injury was difficult to recover.

Out of caution, alpine also used his eyes, and found that David fefrey's medical level is really high, reaching the full value, not to mention the two before Manchester City, even compared with Manchester United and other top teams, the level is higher, and he is really a team doctor worthy of trust.

After the investigation, alpine immediately informed the management to recommend David fefrey.

But what Alpine wants to talk about today is not about David fefrey. What he wants to talk about is the team.

After announcing the story of David fefrey, Gao Han winked at Sergio Garcia, who immediately took out a document, turned it over, took out a piece of A4 paper and put it in the dry place of the coffee table for everyone to see.

Only on the paper is the contrast chart of city's possession rate in various areas of the stadium in the past few warm-up games.

From this chart of Sergio Garcia, everyone can clearly see that Manchester City's possession rate is higher than the opponent's, especially in the area from the midfield line to our own half court.

However, in the 30 meter area, especially in the front of the restricted area, the ball control rate dropped obviously.

Although Brian Kidd has just worked with Gao Han, he has been working with Gao Han for a month. He has begun to understand Gao Han's work style and the difference between Gao Han and his team in data analysis and many other Premier League teams.

It should be said that the alpine team is more advanced and pays more attention to data comparison.

"Look at the next one." Gao Han waved again.

Sergio Garcia immediately took out the second chart, which is the route map of Manchester City's passing in various areas of the stadium in a certain game. The success is black, and the failure becomes red, which is particularly conspicuous.

What makes many people feel strange is that the red line with the most mistakes appears more in the area from the other side's 30 meter area to the front of the restricted area.

If it's just a game, it can be said that it's accidental, but with Sergio Garcia's charts down, everyone can clearly see that almost every game is in this area where the most mistakes are made.

Of course, from a practical point of view, the opponents lay heavy troops in their own half, and Manchester City will definitely be subject to tenacious defensive resistance when they attack this area. It's very normal that both the possession rate and the number of errors in passing and receiving the ball increase.

That is to say, these charts show that Manchester City have attacked this area and been attacked by tenacious defensive snipers.

"What do you think?" Gao Han asked faintly.

Brian Kidd, the chief assistant coach, looked up, glanced at the others and thought, "I think the main thing is that we don't have enough means to deal with intensive defense."

"Go on." High cold nods a way.

Brian Kidd also understood the cold temperament, boldly continued: "I think it has a lot to do with our lack of wingers. Our opponents are very clear that we can't grab the ball, so they give up the ball, but bury heavy troops in the front of their own restricted area, first protect their own goal, and then concentrate on our counterattack."

Gao Han nodded. It should be said that Brian Kidd's judgment was right.

Or it should be said that his understanding of the opponent is right.

Four warm-up games, Manchester City lost four goals, each game lost a ball, which makes Alpine very dissatisfied.

But what makes Gao Han even more unsatisfied is that he was hit back by his opponent many times in the game and only lost four goals, thanks to the excellent performance of kompani and Peter Cech, otherwise, he would have lost more.

Brian Kidd is a veteran of the Premier League. He knows his opponent's mind very well. They all adopt such tactics. When Manchester City control the ball in the half court, they organize defense in a slow way to save physical strength. Once they get into the half court, they immediately increase the force.

"If at ordinary times, we have two full backs, then we should transfer the ball to the flank when we meet the opponent's stubborn sniper in the middle. The full back and the winger will form a breakthrough in the wider area of the flank, and then pass the ball back to the restricted area to form a threat."

Positional attack is very difficult. Many teams with full backs are difficult to break. What's more, Manchester City have no full backs at all. The opponent's flank only needs to focus on Cristiano Ronaldo who cuts inside on the left and Sanchez who is a right Ranger to contain Manchester City's flank attack.

Not to mention the Premier League, even a few professional teams in the second and third level League met in Manchester City's warm-up match can do it. That's why Manchester City's warm-up match is so subdued.

"So, my opinion is that we should think about going back to four full backs

Brian Kidd's opinion made Gao Han smile, nodded in appreciation, and indicated that he heard it.

Buena Ventura and Pedro harrow are physical coaches and goalkeeper coaches. They don't give too much advice on the team's arrangement. Gao Han looks at Sergio Garcia, who turns his lip.

"I think there's something in what he said."

Gao Han wanted to slap him with a smile, but he shook his head. "My idea is different from that of Brian."

"Oh?" Brian Kidd was surprised.

As the chief assistant coach of the team, he is also responsible for the warm-up match. Therefore, in the past, he has been under great pressure and has been studying this issue. He also hopes to take this opportunity to prove his strength to the alpine cold. After all, he is a newcomer and has just joined the alpine cold team.

In order to make this summary, he has repeatedly watched the video of the competition for many times in the past. He has made great efforts to reach this conclusion, especially in combination with Sergio Garcia's data analysis. It can be said that it is reasonable and convincing. How can he say that he has different opinions from himself?

"Of course, I'm not saying there's something wrong with your analysis, Brian. It's just that we look at it from different perspectives." Gao Han first stabilized his mind as the chief assistant coach to avoid misunderstanding.

"Then your idea is..."

"I think our problems have nothing to do with how our opponents defend. The main reason is that we don't do well in many aspects, which leads our opponents to look good at defending."

If it's cold, everyone here knows.

What happens on the football field is relative.

Just like Manchester City can't break the defense line of the other side, it may be that the other side's defense is quite good, but it may also be that Manchester City's attack organization is particularly bad. What's the reason?

This has to be seen from the perspective of analysis.

After hearing this, Brian Kidd became interested and said he was all ears.

"Take a look at this chart of possession rate, and then look at the passing route map. Have you found a very interesting phenomenon, that is, after entering the opponent's half court, our possession rate dropped a lot, and the passing success rate suddenly dropped a lot."

Sergio Garcia's data chart is very intuitive, very clear, at a glance.

"I think a very important reason is that once our ball enters the opponent's half, it becomes impatient to pass and receive the ball, especially in the position in front of the diamond in midfield. Neither Elano nor Stephen Ireland can hold the ball under the opponent's pressure."

"I've said a long time ago that if we can't form a good, patient control in the other side's 30 meter area, our high pass and pressure play will collapse and have no effect

"But you can recall the process of the game. As soon as our ball enters this area and the other side strengthens the pressing, our passing and control will become impatient, which directly leads to our passing and receiving mistakes, especially when the opponent has already stood in a good defensive position and organized the defense line."

"It's very difficult for us to create a threat in the front of the other side's penalty area and then get the chance to cut in and assist in the case of impatient passing and controlling the ball. This is the most serious problem we are facing now."

If you want to talk about the side, alpine really does not have a special side attack players, but there are many side attack means.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Sanchez are good wingers, Benzema can also pull to the side at any time, David Silva and Modric can also pull to the side according to the situation on the field, these are not problems.

Manchester City definitely has the means and strength to open the offensive width, but the problem is that when the other side organizes the defense well and stands in a good position, the efficiency of the side attack is very low.

At this time, the most effective means of attack is to pass and pull patiently, transfer in a large range, create a gap in the movement of the opponent's defensive formation, then cut in to create a threat, or even score goals.

Elano and Stephen Ireland have been determined by the high cold that they are not competent for the position of the front waist. They can't replace Kaka in this position. At least they can't do it just to keep the team calm and patient.

After listening to this analysis of the cold, combined with the data chart, combined with the situation in the game, we have to admit that the analysis of the cold is really reasonable.

In pass and control play, the purpose of attacking on the side is not to break through, but to attract the other side's defensive players to the side by taking the ball on the side, so as to open the width of the other side's defensive formation, so as to facilitate their own offensive players to better complete penetration and promotion in the middle.

Therefore, in theory, if you can appear on the flank to achieve this tactical goal in the ball control play, you can have a full back, a winger, a centre half or even a centre back.

But now the problem for Manchester City is how to pass the ball patiently to the front of the penalty area and make a killing.

That's what the high cold has decided. The biggest problem for Manchester City is now.