Chapter 101 Strange Array

After the start of the game, Ricard has been standing on the sidelines and has not returned to the coach's seat. Even if five minutes have passed, he has not moved his pace and watched so attentively, which is rare in Barcelona's previous games.

"Frank! What are you looking at?" Assistant coach Hiranova came over.

Rijcard still stared at the field: "Florence's formation!"

Florence's formation?

Biranova is a little strange. I don't know what's good about this. Didn't they have discussed it countless times before the game started?

In fact, Barcelona has regarded Florence as its number one enemy before the group stage is over, and its research on Florence has never stopped.

But haven't Florence's tactics been discussed for a long time?

The four defenders stand in the second position and the three-back configuration, like Barcelona, emphasize the propulsion speed when attacking, and are used to short passes, but this tactic, compared with Barcelona's orthodox TiKi-TaKa, is at most a fake.

Barcelona is very familiar with dealing with this kind of team. Why does Ricard's expression look so solemn?

Biranova did not disturb Rijekald. He knows this partner very well. Rijkald is a very smart person. Everyone who knows him knows that when he was a player, he was familiar with the Dutch concept of full attack and full defense football, especially when Michels, the founder of this concept, was edified with the concept of all attack and defense. The understanding is very profound.

In the middle and backcourt, the reading ability of the game is much better than the other two members of the Three Musketeers. At that time, when he was in AC Milan, it was said that Ricard on the court was equivalent to half of the team's coach.

After Ajax retired, he immediately became the assistant coach of Hiddink of the Dutch team. He won the fourth place in the 1998 World Cup in France. In the same year, he replaced Hiddink as the head coach of the Dutch team, preparing for the European Championship in the Netherlands in 2000. When he led the Dutch national team in the 2000 European Cup He completely implanted his insights into the team, and the Dutch team reached the semi-finals with an unstoppable momentum. In the previous game, they swept the former Yugoslavia 6:1, as if the championship was close at hand.

But maybe God played a joke with the Netherlands in the semi-finals with Italy in order to test the young coach. In the end, the Netherlands was defeated by Italy's defense and stopped in the semi-finals. Ricard also left the coach position and led the Dutch team to 22 games during the coaching, with a record of 8 wins. 12ping2 negative.

In the 2001/2002 season, he served as the coach of Rotterdam in the Dutch League. After leading the team to 34 games, 4 wins, 12 draws and 18 losses, he was relegated and resigned after the season.

Although the coaching did not have a brilliant record, he was favored by Barcelona club owner La Porta and officially replaced Antich as Barcelona's head coach on June 24, 2003.

After coming to Barcelona, the Black Swan continued to adhere to his philosophy. At first, he encountered a lot of trouble. The team's record was poor, and he was under great pressure.

In the 2004/2005 season, after introducing a number of urgently needed players, Ricard's Catalan Legion began to show off. Although the Champions League 1/4 knockout defeat the Blues and bid farewell to Europe prematurely, Barcelona finally won back the league championship trophy that season.

In the 2005/2006 season, Barcelona continued to advance and won the league championship trophy again. For a while, Barcelona's advantage in the league could not be shaken.

However, last season, due to the internal turmoil of the team, Barcelona lost the league championship. Barcelona's record in the league this season is also poor, and Ricard is also under great pressure.

The huge pressure also made Ricard's courage become smaller and smaller. In order to ensure the stability of the locker room, he kept compromising with many stars. In order not to affect the overall direction of the team, he learned to stay the same.

Rijkard has been in Barcelona for nearly five years. In the first three seasons,ijkard did a good job and successfully injected his football concept into Barcelona's nerves. When people talk about Barcelona, they always say that Barcelona has a fast and smooth attack.

But as Ronaldinho becomes more and more indulgent, his state is getting worse and worse. Today, the speed is gone and the fluency is gone. The only thing that people like to talk about is Barcelona's stars.

These stars play the role of super killers in football managers or live football. But on the real stage, they are more than eight points behind the leader Real Madrid in the league.

There are many reasons for all this, first of all, Barcelona's unclear tactical thinking and Ricard's dependence on stars.

First of all, there is no doubt that a team should have its own technical and tactical characteristics.

What are the characteristics of technology and tactics?

First of all, look at the technical style of the players in the team. The head coach needs to know what kind of technical characteristics his players have. For example, the German team has the impression that it is strong, strong-willed, and has excellent forward header skills, so the German team's tactical ideas have come out. They play the ball on the sidelines and use their height and header advantages to bomb at high altitude. Such simple tactics have been tried and even left fans with the impression of "German head team". .

In other words, if the German team must penetrate the ground like Spain, it is estimated that no coach will want to sit as the head coach of the national team.

Similarly, Chelsea gives people the impression that it is a perfect defensive system with a sharp and efficient counterattack, and Valencia is an excellent two-winged flight, coupled with a tough middle defense.

And what are the tactical characteristics of Barcelona?

Some people will say that Barcelona is characterized by their excellent skills and often play beautifully against the wall.

But this is only a local routine, not an overall tactical system.

Just like playing live football, the advantages and disadvantages of a player are not that he can play one-two cooperation with key combinations, not that he can play the superior action of Marseille, but that he can use the technical characteristics of 11 players on the field to formulate overall offensive and defensive tactics.

Back to Barcelona's tactical thinking, Barcelona's frontcourt is excellent, but it is only limited to personal breakthroughs or small-scale cooperative attacks, but there is no focus on attack.

The focus of the attack is not to often hand over the ball to a star to attack, but to the direction of the ball and the player's running position.

For example, Barcelona's 4-3-3 attack, the attack of the two wings should be very threatening, so first of all, it should attract the opponent's defense in the middle, and after the side is empty, the ball will be stuffed into the air in time, and the winger or the assist wing guard will launch the most threatening. The attack.

In this offensive routine, players like Harvey or Deco in the middle are the starting point of the team's attack, which can also be said to be the team's command tower. He controls the direction of the ball. Messi or Henry on the side is the threat point of attack. They are responsible for launching an attack in the most threatening area near the penalty area, or cross from the bottom. Or an internal shot, and the full-back with an assist is the protector of the attack. When Messi or Henry is stared or has no chance, their space ensures control of the ball. Messi has no chance to pass it to the backside guard. The full-back can pass the bottom and control the ball to cooperate with Messi. Of course, it can also Back Harvey or Deco launched a new attack.

In the past few seasons, Barcelona did play such football, but Ronaldinho appeared in Henry's position at that time, but what about now? What people see is more personal breakthroughs and improvisation.

An excellent coach can take advantage of the loopholes in the opponent's defense line to carry out targeted offensive deployment. For example, the opponent's left-back is in a poor state, so there is no doubt that he should play more at this point. The team's main attack point is here, so as to make a series of targeted arrangements, such as the right defender should often assist and cooperate. The right winger and the right centre-back should make up for the gap left by the right-back in time, so the left-back should reduce assists and keep the team's defense relatively safe for the three defenders. But it goes without saying that Ricard's tactics have remained unchanged, and even the tactical characteristics of his team have not been brought into play, which should be worth reflecting on.

Of course, all this is also caused by many reasons, such as the introduction policy of the club's board of directors. At the beginning, the introduction of Henry was not linked to Ricard's tactical ideas at all. Of course, he used a Henry for more than a season and hasn't let him play his due level. As the head coach, Ricard should also say that it is difficult to escape the blame. If he doesn't use it well, he simply don't use it, or adapt to Henry, or let him sit on the bench. Henry, who is in a bad state, should not be allowed to appear frequently. It can only be said that Ricard is not tough enough.

Of course, this involves Ricard's dependence on stars. Why does Barcelona's current tactical play have no focus and the team has no main direction to attack?

Because everyone on the court is a star, everyone is a wrist, and everyone has to attack the opponent's defense in their own way.

A simple example, Messi always breaks through with the ball after taking the ball. Even if the defender around him inserts an assist, Messi is basically regarded as nothing. It is said that Messi wants to improve his passing skills. In fact, Messi's passing is not bad. Many of the balls are brought to by himself and are sandwiched by the opponent's two or three defenders. Pass it out again.

Either the body is carried by the opponent's technical action and the pass is not in place, or the opponent is basically unable to face the goal, and the probability of passing the ball is reduced.

One is active passing, the other is passive passing, which one is more threatening?

Of course, it's good for a team to have stars, but stars also need unified tactical ideas to play at the best level. And Ricard basically puts on a 4-3-3 formation, let everyone stand in their own position, and then expects that Henry can shine today and Messi can clone Maradona tomorrow, at least on the surface.

You can't expect Super Harvey to be a savior in every game, and you can't expect Messina to have two inspirations in every game. In the end, the leader of the team is still the head coach. The head coach should convey his understanding of the game to the players. Players are just pawns in tactics and can't be turned into Heroes, save the chess players.

The unclear tactical thinking is closely related to Ricard's dependence on stars. Because Ricard's tactical thinking is not clear, the players have no attack focus and can only use cooperation to tear open the opponent's defense line on a small scale, and the personal performance of the star has contributed to Ricard's dependence on the stars. The dependence on the stars makes Ricard question his tactical ideas. Every change of formation ends in failure. The result is the star's personal performance to save the team. Well, unchanged, 4-3-3 is good, which seems to have entered a dead end and a dead cycle.

It's good. 4-3-3 is good, and the ability of the stars is also good. What Rijkcard has to do is to add some key points on the basis of the current tactics and add some detailed deployments that give full play to the characteristics of the team.

Whether it is flying with two wings or front-court oppression, Barcelona's characteristics cannot disappear. Even if they can't win the championship in the end, they can't let the players play for a season and can't summarize the team's strongest tactical routine.

The team needs a killer mace. The killer mace should not be the personal ability of a player, but the collective wisdom of the whole team. Behind a person's eye-catching, it should be a group of people to pave the way for him, not to take the lead from beginning to end.

In addition to these problems, Barcelona's other problem is that the scoring is too concentrated. Eto'o is not the core of Barcelona, but the distribution of Barcelona's goals this season has always given people such a feeling.

The current Barcelona feels like a person's Barcelona - Eto'ao's Barcelona.

Barcelona has always been a team that relies on the overall attack to win, but now it can only rely on Eto'ao to score goals. Head coach Rijkcard is to blame for tactical adjustment.

Before the winter break, Eto'ao was injured, and Ricard did not make any personnel adjustments to the team's overall match, except simply letting the Icelanders take the center position.

If Eto'o and Icelanders have the same style, such an operation is acceptable, but in fact, the two have very different styles, one by technology and speed, and the other by height and header.

After a period of experiment, it was found that the Icelanders could not receive the support of shells, and the assist on the sidelines was strengthened, and the effect improved significantly.

Now the Icelanders are also injured, and Ricard simply put Etoo, who recovered from the injury, to the center position and returned to the previous tactics. Harvey injured the top of Inuelsta. Pujol lost his father with Turam, replaced it with a yellow card, and Oleg replaced it. The Spanish media sarcasticly said: such a simple addition and subtraction. I'm afraid it's not what Ricard should do.

The goal is too concentrated, which is a microcosm of Barcelona's season. Barcelona lacks the second person who can complete the last shot.

In this game, Eto'ao still played with injuries. Originally, Rije Calder planned to use the gap between the central defender and the midfielder of Florence to destroy the Fioren's defensive system through the rotational impact of Messi, Henry and Eto'o, pull the gap and strive for goals.

However, through these few minutes of the game, Fiorentina does not seem to be what he thought at all. There seems to be no clear division of labor between the midfield and backfields. Modric, who has excellent offensive ability, even retreated to the penalty area and is behind the central defender when defending.

What is this?

Rige Cald frowned, I don't know why!

It's not only that Ricard didn't understand, but also the commentators sitting in the studio were also very surprised. Modric retreated to the penalty area to make up for the position. Ledesma was competing with Etoo for the header. Machena rushed through the half and formed a close look at Harvey. Even Digan and Mutu frequently went to the sidelines to participate in the defense. Guard.

Is Florence going to admit his cowardice in this game and plan to make a draw at Barcelona's home court?

Unlike Ricard is Prandelli. From the beginning of the game, he sat firmly on the coach's bench, crossed his legs, and leisurely watched the development of the game.

Gradually, Ricard also found some problems. The frequent substitution of Florence's midfield players makes Florence's defense thickness very tight. Although Barcelona's small-range cooperation in Florence is very smooth, it can't pass in and can't find the space to complete a fatal pass.

In addition, Harvey, the core of the midfield, was entangled by Macena, and Hamsik interfered from time to time and wanted to participate in the attack. The route to connect the ball and the route of passing the ball were cut off.

And Fiorentina is not blindly defending. After grabbing the ball, they fight back very resolutely, often with a long pass from the backcourt to the dangerous area of Barcelona.

There is such a strong center as Degan in front of Florence. Whether it is Pujol or Edelson, if he wants to head with Degan, it is simply humiliating. Maybe Tulam can still fight if he is not injured.

Florence's attack does not pass through the middle road at all. In this way, Barcelona's proud triangular formation has no meaning at all.

After playing for ten minutes in the game, Barcelona didn't even shoot. Fiorentina created a kill in the eighth minute, or started the ball in the backcourt. Degan headed the ball to Antonini, who made a cross and Mutu shoveled at the back point and was blocked by Valdes.

The pressure of defense is not very high. Now Barcelona's biggest problem is how to break Fiorentina's defense. In the end, the winner of the game depends on the goal, but now Fiorentina doesn't even have a shot.

Messy!

Rijkard involuntarily thought of relying on the star's personal play.

"Messi took the ball and was killed by the opponent's Thiago. Silva broke, Florence's counterattack!"