boyutpedia Chapter 264
Chapter 264
The first time, the second time.
Chapter 264 How to become the world’s number one defensive midfielder [Subscribe!]
August 5.
There are still three days before the opening game of the 2015-16 Premier League.
The Blue Fox coaching staff, led by Ranieri, came to the conference room again to formulate game tactics and targeted arrangements for the upcoming Premier League opening game.
In the past month, the team has experienced scandals, coaching changes, and the arrival of several new players. It will definitely take time to run in and then blend the new and old players together.
Although in the pre-season warm-up games, the team’s offensive firepower is still fierce and has achieved a record of all wins.
However, the opponents are all teams from the English League One and the English Championship, so there is not much reference value.
Fortunately, the main lineup structure and tactical formation of the Blue Foxes are basically the same as last season.
In the first month of Ranieri’s tenure, in addition to trying to understand every player, what he did most was to improve and transform the team’s defense in training and games.
The most important change is the defensive position!
He asked to give up high-position pressing and choose formation recovery when the opponent has the ball.
Except for Vardy at the front, the other front players retreated to the vicinity of the center circle, reducing the distance between each other and compressing the space.
The entire formation changed from 4231 to 451!
Then when the opponent’s attack came to the area near the center circle, Ling Feng in the middle acted as the commander and called on teammates on both sides to form a group of two and quickly pinch and press the ball-holding player.
The purpose of this is to press the opponent to the relatively narrow sideways in space to achieve the effect of stealing the ball.
Even if it fails to steal the ball, it can force the opponent to attack from both wings, thereby choosing the offensive tactic of passing from the sideways.
Such a cross-ball tactic does not pose much threat to the two central defenders with excellent air defense capabilities in the Foxes.
In this way, the opponent can reduce the number of frontal breakthroughs or passes behind the back, thereby avoiding the shortcomings of Morgan and Huth, two tall central defenders, who turn slowly, and magnifying their frontal and air defense capabilities!
Once the ball is intercepted, the ball can be passed to Ling Feng or Mahrez for advancement, or directly long pass to Vardy in front.
In short, Ranieri’s tactical thinking is based on a solid defense, and then use the huge space left behind by the opponent after the attack, so as to play a more concise and efficient quick counterattack!
The change of tactics can be said to affect the whole body.
The change of defensive thinking and position will also lead to a change in the way of attack.
The coaching staff also has different opinions on this.
“If we give up our original high-pressure pressing, the opponent’s possession time will inevitably increase. Will this reduce the team’s offensive rounds and the number of threats to the goal?”
Facing assistant coach Shakespeare, Ranieri was clearly confident:
“We don’t need too much possession at all. On the contrary, this can reduce the consumption of pressing by the frontcourt players, allowing them to have more physical strength when counterattacking, thereby improving the quality of offensive rounds!”
Obviously, Ranieri attaches more importance to the quality of counterattacks than the number of counterattacks.
At first, the Blue Fox players were not quite used to this change.
Especially Brother Drinking Water.
As the team’s midfielder, his main task last season, in addition to receiving the ball from the backcourt, was to pass the ball to Ling Feng in front when the offense and defense switched.
As for the next attack, it was basically none of his business.
And now, Ranieri asked him to not only pass the ball to Ling Feng, but also to directly pass the ball to Vardy in front, so that the latter could directly attack the opponent’s back line.
In this way, the pass to Ling Feng is reduced, and the pass is passed directly to Vardy, which can make the entire counterattack faster.
It can also share Ling Feng’s organization to a certain extent, allowing him to use his speed to advance at high speed and quickly form a response with Vardy in the frontcourt.
However, this detail did not make the team’s counterattack sharper.
Because, compared with Ling Feng, Brother Heshui’s passing ability can only be said to be average.
As the passing distance becomes longer, the number of passing errors will also increase.
In several pre-season warm-up games, his long passes have made many mistakes, either not accurate enough or directly intercepted by the opponent.
At the time of offense and defense, once a pass is wrong, it is almost a good thing.
The ball that was not easy to grab was handed back to the opponent again.
The entire counterattack would come to an abrupt end.
Therefore, after seeing that this arrangement was not effective, Ranieri also gave up the idea of letting Brother Drink Water directly make a long pass to Vardy.
Instead, he let him give the ball to Ling Feng first when switching between offense and defense.
If Ling Feng happened to be closely guarded, then he would give it to Mahrez.
As for whether to dribble forward or pass the ball directly after getting the ball, it depends on Ling Feng’s decision-making ability.
Ranieri has only one requirement for Ling Feng, that is, fast!
With the fastest speed, burn the war to the opponent’s half, and then complete the shot!
In addition to Brother Drink Water, Ranieri’s requirement for another midfielder is to be responsible for interception and sweeping in the midfield.
However, since Kante and Inler only joined the team in August, they missed the team’s several pre-season warm-up matches in July.
Ranieri has not yet had a deep understanding of the performance of the two in the game.
Therefore, he still has some concerns about who will partner with “Drinking Water Brother” as the defensive midfielder.
Although Walsh strongly recommends Kante, and Kante’s performance in various trainings is also very good.
The running ability, defensive coverage area and sweeping and stealing ability of this defensive midfielder who is less than 1.7 meters tall are all eye-catching.
Definitely the sweeper that the team needs most in the midfield!
However, in Ranieri’s view, Kante’s excellent performance in a league like Ligue 1 does not mean that he can adapt to the rhythm and intensity of the Premier League.
And the position of the defensive midfielder, physical confrontation and experience are very important.
Therefore, after repeated consideration, Ranieri still let the stronger and more experienced Swiss captain Inler partner with the drinking water brother as the defensive midfielder in training to prepare for the upcoming first round of the Premier League.
He plans to examine the competitive level and game status of several midfielders through a few games at the beginning of the season, and then determine who will play the main force.
That day, after finishing the team training, Ling Feng finally remembered that he still had the [system].
After taking a shower and changing clothes, he sat on the bench in the lounge and summoned the [Character Panel]
[Player Name: Ling Feng]
[Age: 20]
[Height: 183]
[Weight: 76]
[Dominant Foot: Right]
[Club: Leicester City]
[Talent: God’s Vision, War God Heavy Artillery]
[Skills: Pull the Ball Back, Putting Master, Horse Stepping on Meteors]
[Attributes: Ball Control C, Shooting C, Passing S, Defense D, Physical B, Mental B]
[Overall Rating: 85]
[Available Attribute Points: 5]
After returning to the team, Ling Feng followed the team in pre-season preparations while also resuming his daily extra training.
At present, his extra training items are still dribbling and long shots.
He plans to improve his dribbling skills and long shot accuracy as much as possible in the next season.
This season, with the arrival of Ranieri, the team’s tactics have changed from high-pressure to defensive counterattacks.
As the core of the frontcourt organization, the number of times he dribbles the ball during the transition from offense to defense will definitely increase greatly this season.
Therefore, he must enhance his dribbling ability, and then make full use of his advancement speed in the counterattack to form an advantage of more people against fewer people in the frontcourt.
And long shots can diversify his offensive means.
Although with the change of team tactics, they may not play against BIG6 teams such as Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, etc. as last season, but let the opponent control the ball and seize the opportunity to counterattack.
However, when playing against some mid- and lower-level weak teams, the opponent will definitely not take the initiative to attack and give them space to counterattack.
Therefore, if they want to get three points, they have to take the initiative to attack, face dense defense, and fall into positional warfare.
The three most effective conventional means to deal with dense defense, in addition to the single-point blasting of the stars, are set pieces and long shots!
With the talent of [God of War Heavy Cannon], he doesn’t have to worry about his weak shots at all.
He only needs to worry about whether his shots hit the goal range.
Therefore, the higher the accuracy of long-range shooting, the more he can threaten the opponent’s goal from a long distance.
Once he is 30 meters away from the goal, the opponent’s defensive players will be passive.
If you defend his pass, you will leave him open for long-range shooting; if you defend his long-range shooting, you will leave his teammates open.
At that time, whether he shoots or passes, it will be hard to defend!
Considering that most attributes such as [Dribbling] [Ball Protection] [Long-range Shot] [Shot Power] can be
Ling Feng decided to add the precious free attribute points to some attributes that cannot be improved in a short time after training.
For example, [Physique]
Considering that the opponents in the new season will definitely guard against him more strictly and invade him more rudely in order to stop him, Ling Feng did not hesitate to add the five free attribute points obtained in the European Youth Championship to [Physique], which increased it from 90 to 95!
After adding the points, Ling Feng suddenly felt that he was full of strength and momentum.
In those gray eyes, there was a flame of eagerness:
Premier League, I’m ready.
What about you? !
. . .
Because I had an appointment with my parents in the evening, I had to go home for dinner.
So today Ling Feng did not practice as usual, but went straight to the parking lot after the training.
However, not long after he drove out of the team base, he saw a familiar figure on the side of the road.
It was a short black man wearing a Nike backpack and sportswear.
And this black guy who was running was his new teammate, Kante!
Slowing down the car, rolling down the window, Ling Feng drove the Land Rover to follow Kante, and then shouted:
“N’Golo?!”
Hearing his name, Kante, who was running, suddenly stopped and turned to look over.
“Ling?”
Because he couldn’t speak English, the team equipped Kante with a translator.
However, in daily communication with teammates, the newly arrived French midfielder basically expressed his meaning through gestures and some very simple words.
“Why are you running?”
“Saury.”
Seeing Kante’s silly smile, he just raised his hand and pointed to his ear, indicating that he didn’t understand.
Ling Feng suddenly had an idea, and then took out his mobile phone and clicked on the translation software he had just downloaded not long ago.
And through the translation software, Ling Feng learned from Kante that the reason he ran home was because his agent was helping him find a house recently and had no time to pick him up.
So, he ran from the hotel to the base for training every day, and then ran back to the hotel after training!
Looking at Kante with a silly smile on his face and no sweat on his head, Ling Feng had only one thought in his mind:
Awesome!
So the physical fitness of the world’s No. 1 defensive midfielder was trained in this way? !
While complaining in his heart, Ling Feng did not forget to ask:
“Where is your hotel?”
Then, Kante reported the name of the hotel.
“Your hotel is not far from my home, I will take you back on the way!”
Faced with this proposal, Kante thought about it for a while and gladly accepted Ling Feng’s kindness:
“Okay, thank you.”
Hearing Kante’s thank you that sounded more like “Fuck”, Ling Feng just twitched his mouth slightly and opened the passenger door casually:
“Get in the car!”
After getting in the car, Kante put his backpack at his feet and then fastened his seat belt obediently at the first time.
On the way, Ling Feng also asked Kante about his daily life, such as whether he was used to the food in the team cafeteria, what he would do during his break, etc. Although Kante is not a talkative person. However, he answered all of Ling Feng’s questions. After joining Leicester City for a few days, he had already discovered that Ling Feng, a young man who was a few years younger than him, had a very high status in the team. After he joined, Ling Feng was the first teammate who took the initiative to talk to him. Moreover, in the past few days, Ling Feng was also very enthusiastic to help him integrate into the team and familiarize him with the environment of the base. Therefore, Kante had a good impression of him. It can also be said that Ling Feng was the first friend he met in Leicester City. Otherwise, with his personality, he would not easily trouble others. After chatting, the two soon arrived at the hotel where Kante was staying. “Thank you for sending me back, Ling.”
“You’re welcome, it’s just a small favor.”
Just as Kante was about to get off the car, Ling Feng suddenly thought of something and suddenly suggested:
“By the way, N’Golo, before your agent is done, I’ll take you to the base and back to the hotel every day!”
Ling Feng’s sudden proposal made Kante, who never knew how to refuse, feel awkward.
“That’s not good, it’s too much trouble for you”
“You’re welcome, anyway, it’s boring for me to drive to work alone every day, so it’s a good opportunity to chat with you. Besides, I want to learn some French from you.”
“Besides, we can have more tacit understanding on the court only if we get familiar with each other. Isn’t it?”
“How about this, you teach me a little French every day, and it’s the fare!”
Since Ling Feng said so, Kante also felt that if he refused, it would seem too much.
No more face.
So, Kant nodded and showed a simple and honest smile:
“Then I’ll leave it to you!”
“Very good, I’ll pick you up here on time at 8:15 tomorrow morning.”
“Okay.”
Finally, watching Ling Feng’s black Land Rover roar away, Kant’s heart was warm.
Ling, what a good person!
(End of this chapter)