Chapter 052 Midfield Adjustment
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In the visiting team locker room of Stamford Bridge, Tottenham players were crowded in seats placed in the locker room. The atmosphere of the entire team became more and more irritable due to the backward score and the harsh conditions in the room. It was like a powder barrel about to ignite.
It's no wonder that no matter which furniture club is, when decorating the away team's locker room, they will make the room as simple as possible, making it impossible for the away team players to play in the best condition. For example, now, it is obvious that mid-September is in the right place, and the weather in London is still at a relatively appropriate level, while the Stamford Bridge Stadium managers maliciously heat the away team's locker room at this time, making the whole room no different from the stove.
In such an environment, it would be really strange if Tottenham players can calm down and summarize their gains and losses in the first half and come up with a way to deal with Chelsea.
However, although the players can't do it, it does not mean that George can't do this either. In other words, through observation of the first half, before the game entered the halftime break, George had already figured out a way to deal with Ranieri and the Chelsea team in front of him.
After all, George, who was watching the game on the sidelines, had a completely different perspective from that of the players. The authorities were obsessed with the onlookers, and the onlookers were clear about this sentence, which was used to describe the difference between the head coach and the players. It can be said that it is the most appropriate.
This is also why there are no players on the English court serving as head coaches after Gulit and Viali. Because as players and head coaches, the former has considerable limitations in their observation angle and it is difficult to consider problems from a global perspective; the latter can better see the problems that the team has in the game and have enough time to think about corresponding countermeasures. Therefore, for the increasingly fierce modern football, it is a general trend to completely separate the two identities of players and head coaches and avoid the situation of part-time jobs.
"It seems that everyone is not in good condition now." Walking into the heat-wave locker room, George frowned first, a little dissatisfied with Chelsea's small moves. But George soon returned to his calmness. After all, the world is as dark as a crow. Don't look at Chelsea doing too much now, when they go to White Hart Lane to play, Chelsea players will be treated to the same level. Therefore, it is really unnecessary to care about such things: "But there is no way, who made us play away now? So please bear with it for the time being, and we can return to White Hart Lane to play next weekend. At that time, we can see our opponents enjoy the same treatment as we are now."
Of course, although it is common to play tricks on the hardware and software facilities of the visiting team's locker room in football clubs, everyone will generally grasp the degree in this process, and the visiting team members will not complain too much after the game, and will not deliberately turn on the sprinkler device to drive out the opponent's players after the opponent wins. After all, if you do that, the reputation and image of this club will undoubtedly suffer a heavy blow, and it will also be regarded as a manifestation of "can't afford to lose".
"The boss" saw George walk into the locker room, and Tottenham players all looked at him with hope. Obviously, after experiencing a turbulent first half and suffering from torture in the locker room, they all hope that their head coach can come up with an idea so that they can vent the anger in their hearts on Chelsea.
However, to the surprise of Tottenham players, George's next sentence was not about the tactical arrangement of the second half: "Sorry, this time was my mistake. I miscalculated the strength gap between us and Chelsea, and should not arrange defensive counterattack tactics in this game."
For Tottenham, which urgently needs to break the league circle with a victory, solving their weak offensive problem in positional battles is the top priority. Faced with Chelsea, who is good at defensive counterattacks, George also used defensive counterattacks to deal with the Blues in this game, which has to be said to be a mistake.
"Boss, how can you blame you?" Hearing George say this, Drogbadi couldn't sit still and quickly stood up from his seat to admit his mistake. "If my skills were better, the team would not be in a bad situation of falling behind in the score at the beginning, and the defensive counterattack tactics you set before the game would not become useless."
"Yes, boss, this is our responsibility and it has nothing to do with you." Seeing George enter the door, he admitted his tactical arrangement mistakes, and then Drogba led the rhythm so much. Even the Tottenham players who had complained about George's pre-match arrangements in advance would not say anything blamed at this time. "If you hadn't made timely adjustments when the team was behind two goals, then we wouldn't have recovered points before the end of the first half, and still retained the hope of winning."
"I am the head coach. It is my job to lead the team to play every game well, and it is also me who misjudged the gap in strength between us and Chelsea. Therefore, the main responsibility for the team's passive situation in the first half is still on me." Although as the head coach, it is very important to maintain sufficient prestige in front of the players, in George's view, this does not mean that when he makes a mistake, he has to bring others to be the scapegoat. Because doing so may arouse some players, so retreat and apologize to the players first is a relatively correct way to deal with it.
After all, most players are not the kind of people who are good at doing things. So as long as George is willing to give them enough respect and benefits and lead them to achieve visible results, the players will sincerely support George's domination in Tottenham.
"Boss, we just accept your apology!" Seeing George's attitude so firm, Ledelikin immediately realized that he, as the captain of Tottenham, should come forward and bring the topic back on track. "However, please tell me if you apologize for other apology after the end of this game. Now, what we want to know most is, what should we do in the second half of the game?"
"Lidley, I'm not sure if you said this personally, I'm not sure to complete the turnaround in the second half." Hearing Ridley King's words, George turned his head and looked at his captain, and immediately understood what the other party meant, "I don't know, what do you think now? Are you willing to obey the arrangements of me, the head coach?"
"No problem, boss! No matter what, we will obey your order!" Since George's previous apology has eliminated most of the dissatisfaction in Tottenham players, and Drogba's proactive admission of mistakes also made the players feel that they have actually made many mistakes. Therefore, as soon as George's words were released, they immediately attracted the unanimous response from Tottenham players!
"Since that's the case, then I'll talk about how we should play in the second half." Seeing that people's hearts are available, George yi smashed the tactical board in his hand on the small blackboard on the wall, and made a loud "bang", which scared many people who were not mentally prepared, "Occurrence! My requirement for you in the second half is to continue the offense! Use the offense to suppress Chelsea and strengthen Ranieri's determination to defend the situation! Only in this way can we have a chance to defeat Chelsea and end the history of three rounds of unwinning in the league!"
After a first half match, George also saw that. Ranieri's tactical attainments are indeed quite high. It is quite difficult to beat him in this regard and find loopholes. But the problem with the tutor is that he always prioritizes defense. Once he leads, he starts to think about letting the team play a defensive counterattack. Therefore, if Tottenham, who is behind in the score, continue to adopt defensive counterattack tactics in the second half, it will be difficult for them to create an opportunity to break through Chelsea goal if they are not investing enough troops on the offensive end.
In this way, in order to equalize or even reverse the score, George must let the team adopt an offensive style in the second half. Moreover, Tottenham, which uses this tactic, achieved good results in the second half of the first half, which is also the main reason why George dared to do this.
Of course, if Ranieri wants to win by surprise and use attacks against Tottenham, George will be happier in that extremely fast-paced attack. Deselli, who has a thirty-five-year-old physical fitness, and Bridge and Johnson, who cannot get back to assist, the Chelsea defense problems will only be exposed more clearly, and Tottenham will get more scoring opportunities!
"Gabriel Heinzer, Stephen Carl, in the second half you need to participate in the offense, use the offense to suppress Chelsea's wing offense, and reduce the forces they can invest in counterattacks!" After determining the main theme of the second half, George began to assign tasks to every player present. "Michael Carrick, if you still want to prove that you are not the shadow behind Joe Cole, then today is the best opportunity! Give me more work to insert shots in the second half. I did let you serve as the team's back-end organization like Pirlo, but I never said that you don't even have the power to insert the offense. Remember not!"
"Remember!" Hearing George's orders, Carrick nodded heavily. Obviously, although Carrick is honest and gentle, he is a perfectly good man, but he doesn't want to be always regarded as the shadow of Joe Cole, a peer and former teammate. He also hopes to have the opportunity to prove that he is no worse than Joe Cole.
Now, the opportunity has been placed in front of him by the head coach himself. How could Carrick not seize it?
Chapter completed!