Since reaching the Champions League final, Gao Shen has been studying Barcelona in the tactical library every day.
Although he has repeatedly studied some of the tactical ideas of Rijkaard and Tenkat, and has a certain understanding of Cruyff's dream team tactical concepts, this is still far from enough.
Later, Gao Shen read Mourinho's book again, especially the part where he faced Barcelona for two consecutive seasons.
Even though Mourinho shouted loudly outside, as if Barcelona couldn't win if it weren't for the red card, in fact, in his book, he quite recognized Barcelona's strength.
For example, this season, he was amazed by Messi's performance, but disappointed with Del Horno's poor performance.
He believes that Del Horno obviously did not prepare Messi enough before the game, so that he made such a mistake during the game, resulting in one less person for the team to fight.
Many times, what a head coach says in front of the media is not necessarily what he really thinks in his heart.
The Barcelona coached by Rijkaard is indeed quite outstanding.
In the 4-3-3 formation, Barcelona's offensive power is very strong. The players run actively and press well. Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Messi and Giuly all have strong personal abilities.
Being able to flexibly retreat and advance forward makes Barcelona more dynamic in attacking and pressing in the frontcourt.
Excellent personal abilities in the frontcourt, coupled with technical players such as Deco, Xavi and Iniesta in the midfield, allow Barcelona to control the ball very delicately and have strong passing and cutting coordination capabilities, especially continuous kicks.
When he was still a fan, Gao Shen always felt that Guardiola was a genius. The Dream Team he trained completely overturned the pattern of European football and led the technical and tactical trends. It was great.
But after becoming the head coach of Real Madrid, he gradually discovered that in fact, all of this was a sign.
As Sacchi said, in his era, many head coaches were reflecting and summarizing the marking and free men, and many people were also discussing zone defense. He was just standing on the shoulders of giants.
Make it happen.
This is really not Saki's modesty, but a fact.
But the reason why it was Sacchi who implemented it, and not other people involved in the discussion, is the problem.
Back to Barcelona.
In fact, if you compare Dream Team 2 and Dream Team 3, Rijkaard's team and Guardiola's team, to a certain extent, are of the same origin. They have too many similar genes.
The biggest difference is that Guardiola has learned from the experience and lessons of the Dream Team.
What?
Superstars and defense!
The subsequent decline of Ronaldinho and Deco led to the collapse of the Dream Team dynasty.
The biggest change Guardiola made after coaching the team was actually setting up a very detailed and meticulous tactical system, which restricted all players, including superstars, into his own system.
Remember Henry said that Guardiola even strictly controlled his running routes.
Is this, as Benitez said, using players like robots?
If you analyze it carefully, it is not difficult to find that in the Dream Team 3, although Messi performed better, got the support of the whole team, and scored more goals, from the perspective of tactical authority, he is not as good as Ronaldinho.
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This is actually what Gao Shen advocates, which is to control the performance of talents within the overall tactical framework of the team.
While solving the superstar problem, Guardiola's tactical philosophy has a strong element of Bielsa.
Everyone knows that Bielsa's football philosophy was actually influenced by Van Gaal. Interestingly, Van Gaal also coached Barcelona and Guardiola.
Both Bielsa and Van Gaal actually emphasize one point, which is the pressure in the midfield and frontcourt.
But it's not set in stone.
For example, when Van Gaal was coaching Ajax, he strictly required the full-backs not to insert themselves in front of the wingers. There are three reasons for this: one is to ensure that the defense is stable after the attack is frustrated; secondly, always on the offensive line
Leave enough space for the winger to attack; third, the ball can be quickly transferred from one side to the other when necessary.
Both Bielsa and later Guardiola were actually adjusting Van Gaal's tactical concepts according to the circumstances.
But one thing remains unchanged, and that is tactical discipline.
Emphasis on tactical discipline and emphasis on pressing and pressing in the midfield and frontcourt are all to ensure defense.
Passing and controlling the ball itself is Barcelona's traditional advantage. If they can regain the ball in the shortest time after losing the ball, and then return the game to the rhythm of passing and controlling the ball that they are best at, this will form a closed loop.
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Rijkaard actually has his dream second team. He was also born out of Dutch football and was also influenced by Cruyff and Van Gaal. He also emphasized pressure in the midfield and frontcourt, but he did not do it like Guardiola who later took over.
So ultimate.
Perhaps this is because Rijkaard believes in Cruyff's philosophy.
Respect genius!
Cruyff's football is actually the football of geniuses.
Therefore, Rijkaard admires talents like Ronaldinho. He believes that the player's personal ability, supplemented by the team's tactics, can solve all problems.
Genius is disordered and unstable, so Rijkaard succeeded because of genius and failed because of genius.
Real Madrid is also full of talented people, but they are all old.
Real Madrid's success this season is definitely not due to the talents of Zidane and Ronaldo.
It's about the team's unity, order and tactical discipline.
So some people say that this season's Champions League final is a contest between contradictions and shields.
Barcelona is the sharpest spear in European football, while Real Madrid is the strongest shield since the knockout rounds.
This is actually the confrontation between genius and order!
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On the morning of the final day, after Gao Shen got up, he read a lot of newspapers in the hotel.
After Real Madrid reversed Barcelona and won the La Liga championship, the outside world's impression of Real Madrid changed a lot, and the odds of winning the championship began to rise. Although Barcelona is still the favorite, Real Madrid is no longer a weakling.
Rijkaard said in an interview with the media at yesterday's pre-match press conference that he did not think Barcelona's loss of the La Liga championship was a failure. On the contrary, he thought the team had performed very well throughout the season.
"Since March we have had a very thoughtful manager who has done everything he can to cause us problems."
This can also be regarded as Rijkaard's disguised recognition of his advanced coaching ability and his implicit admission of his previous mistakes in formation, especially in the game against Athletic Bilbao.
For the final, Rijkaard still promised that the team would adopt more aggressive tactics.
"Barcelona's football has always been full of offense, and tomorrow night will be no exception, but we will also make some targeted adjustments because our opponent's head coach is very smart and very cunning."
Rijkaard believes that Real Madrid's counterattack is very deadly and the attack and defense transition is very fast.
"This is a very big change for them. Starting from March, the pace of their entire game has obviously accelerated a lot, but many people have ignored this change."
The Barcelona coach also does not believe that Barcelona is guaranteed to win the final, because Real Madrid is not as fragile as reported outside, and Barcelona needs to show its best performance and state to defeat Real Madrid at the Stade de France.
"I will arrange our strongest attacking lineup and defeat our opponents with the most Barcelona-specific football in the finals!"
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After comparing the reports of several media and receiving the interview video sent by Lucas, Gao Shen basically confirmed Rijkaard's answer and the clues revealed in it.
Combined with the results analyzed by Real Madrid scouts and Lucas in the past period, and after mutual confirmation, we basically have a relatively intuitive impression of Barcelona's final tactics.
As he expected, Rijkaard was going to attack!
Messi will most likely start.
Gao Shen quickly sketched out a Barcelona lineup in his mind.
Goalkeeper Valdes, defense line Van Bronckhorst, Marcos, Puyol and Oleg, behind is Edmilson, in front is Deco, partner is Xavi or Iniesta, the trident is
Ronaldinho, Eto'o and Messi.
There is also Belletti on the right back, but the front trident and the midfielder are so aggressive, especially the combination of Van Bronckhorst and Ronaldinho on the left, and Oleg on the right.
Be more prudent, especially against Raul.
As for holding back, Edmilson defends better. Van Bommel's performance in Barcelona's fourth position is average. Compared with Edmilson, the attack power is stronger, but the defense is not stable enough. Thiago Motta is in the century
After the Derby, the performance was not very stable.
Gao Shen quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote down his guessed starting lineup.
I have to say that Barcelona's lineup is really strong.
Putting out this midfield and frontcourt, combined with the current strength and status of this group of stars, how many teams in the past and present can compare?
Facing such an attacking lineup, I should be more conservative, right?
Gao Shen thought to himself.
The most important thing is that in the past period of time, the media has always scolded him for one-to-zeroism. He really wanted to press him out and fight to the death, but the problem was that he was not strong enough!
Needless to say, Real Madrid's stars are all in peak form. As long as Ronaldo can show the same form as he did at the World Cup in Korea and Japan, and Zidane returns to the form of 2002, Gao Shen will definitely dare to play against Barcelona.
But the problem is, it’s now 2006, brother!
When Gao Shen thought of this, he felt worthless for himself.
He obviously has a heart for offensive football, but due to circumstances, he was forced to defend, and he was wrongly accused of being a conservative.
Do I look like Capello?
Why do I look like Capello?
Is that bad old Italian man as young and handsome as me?
When has he ever played high-pressing football?
When did you see him risking his life against his opponent?
Even in that battle at the Alpi Stadium, Capello was sure that Real Madrid couldn't do anything to him, so he only dared to open up the formation and fight to the death, and he didn't have the blood of a man in his bones!
Thinking of this, Gao Shen couldn't help but want to look up to the sky with sadness.
