Chapter 267： Punch the old master to death

On the evening of August 29, the San Paolo Stadium in Naples.

In the third round of the Coppa Italia, Naples faced Reggina at home.

Gao Shen stood in front of the home team's coach's bench, looking at the stadium with a puzzled expression.

The game has already started.

The players on both sides started a battle of comings and goings, but Naples still took advantage of the home field advantage and the high-level pressing and pressing that they are better at, forming a clear suppression of Regina.

This is a very normal thing, and Gao Shen is not surprised at all.

What really surprised him was Ulivieri's formation in this game.

The grandfather-level coach, who is highly respected in Italian football, used a very strange tactic in the game, and his position was somewhat similar to three-four-two-one.

The combination of three central defenders in the back line is nothing new in Italian football, even in 2007.

In the midfield, there are four players in a shallow position. The two flanks are more like full-backs, but with double back midfielders. In front of them are two forward midfielders. Further forward, they are nearly 1.9 meters tall. Danish high center Toulberg.

Gao Shen really didn't understand the purpose of this tactic.

Let’s say it wants to attack. The three and four behind the three-four-two formation actually retreat to participate in defense, and even seem to focus on defense; but let’s say he is defensive, both sides are Standing in the wing avant-garde position, the ability does not seem to be particularly outstanding, at least not like Carlos or Cafu's one-stop player on the wing.

This is very strange.

Why did Ulivieri put up such a tactical style of play?

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"To be honest, I didn't understand either."

After hearing the deep question, Carlo shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Is there something here, the persistence of the Italians?"

"Persistence?" Gao Shen shook his head, "I think this is more like stubbornness."

Gao Shen felt that persistence should be insisting on some good things, but if it is insisting on some bad things, it should be called stubbornness, and this situation is really common in Italian football.

That is to say, after coming to Italy, Gao Shen was able to fully understand why Sacchi said that the genes of this country's deep-rooted marrow were preserved.

If it is to stick to some scarce good things, Gao Shen will think that this is a respectable behavior, but if it is to stand still and stubbornly stick to some things that are obviously outdated, then this is very inappropriate.

Seeking truth from facts and advancing with the times is the right way!

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Napoli still adopts a four-three-three formation tonight, with Thiago Motta behind in midfield, Biglia and Vidal partnering ahead, and Di Maria, Pellet and Callejon in front.

In the current set of midfielders, Biglia is actually the most stable and the most important player.

Rakitic is relatively young and still young. Vidal is not very comfortable with the double-back tactics. Parejo, Nainggolan and Pastore are all newcomers, and they are not yet able to take the lead for the time being. This led to Biglia's performance in Naples being very striking.

To this end, the Argentine midfielder has been selected for the warm-up match of the Argentina national team against Australia in September this year.

Also selected for the national team for the first time is the Italian central defender, Paolo Cannavaro.

The Naples central defender performed very well last season. This season, he also performed very well in the cup and league games at the beginning of the season, which attracted the attention of the Italian national team coach Donadoni, just as Materazzi has muscles. Strained out, so Cannavaro Jr. was recruited.

If he can play smoothly, he will fight side by side with his brother Cannavaro, which is a good story.

After more than ten minutes of the game, Gao Shen basically figured out the opponent's way, and immediately signaled the team to press heavily, especially Di Maria and Callejon on the two sides, pay attention to attacking the opponent behind the line of defense.

The two central defenders, David Luiz and Bonucci, should pay attention to launching long ball strikes.

In the advanced tactical positioning, the long pass is like a long-range missile, which can hit any target on the court anytime, anywhere, which is very useful.

More importantly, Napoli's long passers are still two central defenders.

Unless they encounter a high-level pressing and pressing team like Barcelona in the future, otherwise, the two central defenders basically don't have to worry about finding long balls.

So, the key is to see the movement in front.

When the game reached the 31st minute, Bonucci stopped the ball and moved forward after receiving a return pass from the midfielder. The pass was accurately given to Regina behind the left line of defense.

I saw Di Maria sprinting at the fastest speed, grabbing the opponent's right midfielder to return to defense, and before the right midfielder rushed out, he took the lead to stop the ball, and took advantage of the situation to enter the penalty area, and directly made a fake move and threw it. Opened the opponent's central defender and made a front pass from the bottom line.

Pellet plugged in quickly, forcibly pushed the defender away with his body, and stabbed the ball forward, sending the ball into the goal of Reggina who was close at hand, opening the scoring for Naples!

After scoring the goal, the Italian center was so excited that he was dancing with joy on the sidelines.

In this tactical system in Naples, he did perform better and better and became more and more like a duck to water.

He is not like Cavani, his connection and tactical role will be more obvious, but he will also score goals.

Don't forget, he is also an Italian center!

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After scoring a goal, Naples still adopted a high-level pressing and pressing tactics against Reggina steadily.

So far, Italian football has not found a very effective way to resolve this style of play in the face of Naples.

No one knows that this is actually a topic that Ulivieri has focused on researching in the past year, and he even plans to focus on his experience in the past year at the Professional Coaching Summit in a few days.

But tonight's preview was obviously not as good as he expected, which made him a little embarrassed.

Do you still want to talk?

If the game is lost, it will be of little weight to speak out.

Pressing and pressing from a high position is actually not new. Needless to say, Benitez has played this way a long time ago, but at that time, it was more carried out in local areas or in groups.

For example, focus on pressing and oppressing the opponent's middle lane, forcing the opponent to shift the ball to the wing, or letting the front several attacking players press, so as to gain more time for the midfield and backcourt.

There is also a mad dog-style pressing, which is of course a full-court pressing, but it should be noted that his purpose is to grab the ball.

But Gao Shen's style of play is not for grabbing the ball at all.

Ulivieri has studied many Naples games, and he can be very sure that Napoli's high pressing and pressing are not for the ball at all, but for pressing.

Therefore, the media said that this was pressing and pressing from a high position. In fact, it was wrong. This should be called pressing from a high position.

More importantly, he was executed by all the players from the front to the back of the team, and the overall carpet-like integrity of the entire court did not give you any respite pressure at all.

It's like a totally unreasonable guy rushing towards you with his hands flailing incessantly.

The worst thing is that he is also very strong and powerful, and his fists are very heavy, and you can't stop him.

How to do?

In the past, in the face of local or group pressing pressure, there were good solutions, such as returning the ball to control the ball, or shifting to the weak side, and if you were able, you could even get rid of the advance directly.

But these methods are basically useless in the face of Napoli's tactics.

Pass back to the back line?

Don't make trouble, they force the goalkeeper directly!

Move to the weak side?

Short pass is useless, long pass has low accuracy, and people's transfer is also very fast.

As for, relying on personal ability to get rid of advancement...

Well, so far, few teams have been successful.

Last season, the reason why Inter Milan restrained Naples was mainly because the dead spot on the right side was strangled by Inter Milan. The Nerazzurri were almost grabbing the right side and relying on the overall strength to suppress their opponents. .

Other than that, no solution!

In other words, Ulivieri and his Italian colleagues couldn't think of a solution for the time being.

There has been a lot of discussion that Naples will be overwhelmed by physical fitness because there are too many running distances.

But who would have thought that they persisted throughout the season.

Note that there are 22 teams in the Serie B, and a total of 42 rounds have been played. In addition to the Coppa Italia, Naples did not have any obvious physical problems.

Ulivieri is really a kind of experienced teacher now, facing the young and strong chaotic fist, there is no way to feel depressed.

In his memory and theoretical system, there is really no way to find an effective way to deal with it.

Not only him, but all the friends around him are basically the same as him.

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While Ulivieri was helpless on the sidelines, the game continued on the pitch.

Napoli pressed Reggina until the end of the first half.

Just when Reggina wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, David Luiz suddenly sent another diagonal pass, which accurately crossed the top of Reggina's defense line and fell to the right side of the frontcourt.

The little motorcycle Calejon moved forward quickly, moved forward along the right wing, rushed to the bottom line and stopped the ball, shook off the defender, broke into the penalty area from the bottom line, and passed back to the front of the small penalty area.

Pellet didn't grab a spot at the front, but Di Maria, who was at the back, quickly followed.

But just when the Argentine winger didn't know if he would be able to arrive in time, Reggina's late midfielder Cascione desperately returned to the defense. Regina's goal.

Two to zero!

Everyone was stunned!

Own goals!

Cascione himself was gripping his hair in pain.

The player, who was still in Rimini last season and performed well, was brought in by Reggina, and tonight is his debut at Reggina.

The Italian midfielder, who is 1.87 meters tall, knelt down in pain in his own penalty area.

The first show was an own goal, which is really sad!

Even Gao Shen on the sidelines was quite sympathetic.

In his memory, the last person to do this was Woodgate.