On the afternoon of April 3, in the 31st round of the Premier League, Manchester City faced Sunderland at home.
Meeting his ex again, Gao Shen actually didn't have too many feelings.
He never considered Mark Hughes a rival.
Sunderland is a typical English team, with mediocre technical and tactical abilities, but excellent physical fitness and a very tough style of play.
But now Manchester City has a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of English team.
Although affected by the national team competition and the Champions League next Wednesday, the team has undergone a substantial rotation, but Manchester City still skillfully controlled the ball and rhythm from the beginning, using its strong technical and tactical advantages to suppress its opponents.
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Only seven minutes into the game, Manchester City tore open Sunderland's defense in an attack from the front of the penalty area. Yaya Toure broke into the penalty area with the ball and then returned. Robinho scored with a low shot from the right rib.
Manchester City opened the scoring.
Then, less than ten minutes later, Manchester City started their offensive again. Sturridge received a pass from Hazard, entered the penalty area from the left rib, and shot a low shot, which hit the inside of the right post and bounced into the goal.
Two to zero!
In the 18th minute, Leighton Baines passed the ball from the left, allowing the unguarded Van Persie to volley and score again, 3-0!
In the next half hour or so, Manchester City continued to launch a fierce attack on Sunderland.
In the second half, there was a direct pass from Fernandinho and a cross from Sturridge. After Van Persie's shot in front of the goal was saved by the goalkeeper, Hazard followed up and shot into the empty goal, expanding the score again to 4-0.
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Four minutes later, Leighton Bynes passed in from the left, and Yaya Toure made a header and hit the goal, 5-0!
Gao Shen quickly made substitutions and adjustments to the team, but Manchester City's offensive continued.
In the 73rd minute, after Yaya Toure intercepted the opponent's ball in the middle, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area and scored with a single shot, rewriting the score to 6-0!
In the third minute of stoppage time, Sunderland defender Turner fouled at the edge of the penalty area. Robin van Persie took the free kick, which hit the dead center of the goal.
Seven to zero!
Manchester City completely ravaged Sunderland!
Throughout the game, from beginning to end, Sunderland only shot two shots, and they were not even able to threaten Neuer's goal.
Most of the rest of the time, they were beaten by Manchester City.
At the post-match press conference, Mark Hughes directly broke the defense and uncontrollably denounced teams like Manchester City for causing an imbalance in the Premier League and seriously damaging the ecological balance of the Premier League.
"I agree with some points. I think teams like Manchester City should be restricted, especially financially."
Mark Hughes says Manchester City's rise is unhealthy.
"We are ranked ninth in the Premier League, but facing Manchester City, who played with a broken team, we lost 0 to 7..."
Mark Hughes nearly collapsed.
If he originally wanted to attack the European theater, now, this idea has completely failed.
Gao Shen did not explain Mark Hughes' "bloody and tearful denunciation" after the game because he thought it was unnecessary.
"I don't think there is any problem with this. Perhaps the biggest problem is that some people have spent nearly 200 million, and the team is still only ranked tenth, which is lower than the current Sunderland."
Gao Shen changed the subject and said that European football is a professional field with a very clear division of labor.
"Different people are suitable for doing different things, but you can't stand up and say, after you can't do it or screw up, and see others do it and do it well, it's not fair, this and that, and so on. That’s boring, right?”
Gao Shen's response showed grace and he didn't even mention his name publicly.
But media reporters would not be so polite.
Today's Manchester City is indeed powerful, but Sunderland performed so poorly throughout the game. What else can Mark Hughes say?
As for Manchester City destroying the ecology of the Premier League...
Please, why didn't you say this when you were coaching Manchester City?
Are you pretending to be righteous now? Do you want face?
To put it bluntly, isn't it because Gao Shen fucked her 0-7, and her mentality collapsed?
Needless to say, this time most of the media really supported Manchester City and blamed Mark Hughes.
It's not that they agree with Manchester City's way of doing business, but they feel that Mark Hughes's words are too bitter and lack of grace.
As the Manchester Evening News said, "Eighteen other teams in the entire Premier League can say this, but only Mark Hughes does not have this qualification!"
However, this big victory also brought some troubles to Gao Shen.
That's why Van Persie and Yaya Toure performed so well.
The Ivorian himself said that in Manchester City, the tactics created for him by Gao Shen perfectly brought out his strengths and characteristics, allowing him to play in a state and performance that he could not achieve in Barcelona.
So does Van Persie.
But in this case, when it comes to the Champions League, it will be a headache to decide who to use and who not to use.
Sacchi, the top player in the world, revealed in a column in The Times, "The most troublesome thing for Gao Shen every day is to arrange the starting lineup, because he found that every player is too outstanding."
"This is a happy trouble that all head coaches in the world long for!"
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The Premier League will be played on the afternoon of the 3rd, and the Champions League quarter-finals will kick off on the evening of the 6th.
This time Manchester City's opponent is Bayern Munich from the Bundesliga, and the first leg of the game will be a guest at the Allianz Arena.
On the morning of the 4th, after the team finished its recovery training, the coaching staff gave all the players time to shower and prepare, and then held a meeting in the conference room to prepare for the game against Bayern.
Fernando Lucas and the analysis team not only prepared a report for the players, but Gao Shen also received an analysis report on Bayern Munich, especially on Van Gaal's current situation.
After winning the double last season, Van Gaal has experienced a trough this season.
A very important reason is that Bundesliga teams began to figure out his tactical ideas, and also discovered Bayern's weaknesses.
That's Bayern's defensive line ability to deliver the ball.
In the past few years, European football has increasingly seen that the ball-playing ability of central defenders is becoming a very scarce quality.
And this trend started from Gaoshen.
For example, during his time at Naples, he reused central defenders with strong ball-playing abilities such as Bonucci, David Luiz and Benatia. Even Cannavaro was trained by Gao Shen to become a master passer among central defenders.
This is even more true when you arrive at Manchester City.
David Luiz, Kompany, Gary Cahill and Jerome Boateng are all players with strong ball-playing abilities, not to mention that he even occasionally plays Javi Martinez and Yaya ·Toure was moved back to central defense.
This has become a unique landscape in advanced tactics.
As the head coach with the keenest tactical sense, Van Gaal was naturally aware of this.
From the perspective of a head coach, especially as an avid offensive football enthusiast, it is actually easy to discover the benefits and advantages of a central defender playing the ball, but along with it, there will also be some problems.
For example, due to the logic of ball control, each player moves to make it easier to pick up the ball and pass the ball.
If you want to get the ball and pass the ball better, you have to move more and the players' positions should be more spread out.
This is no problem in the midfield and frontcourt, but it will bring about a very serious problem in the midfield and backfield, that is, how to maintain the defensive formation?
Van Gaal actually has his own set of logic. For example, he will require the three players in the midfield not to be further forward than the wingers, and the full-backs cannot overpower the wingers, in order to create more attacking space for the wingers.
, but at the same time, it is also to ensure your own defense and avoid being directly faced by the opponent's back line after losing the ball.
But in the midfield and backcourt, this problem is difficult to solve.
To put it simply, while ensuring possession of the ball, you also want to ensure an orderly defensive formation. The requirements for the defensive line players, especially the central defenders, are very high. They must not only have excellent passing ability, but also be flexible and quick.
, able to quickly return to position when losing the ball.
Just like Manchester City, when Neuer gets the ball, the two central defenders have to quickly move away and run to an open position to respond. But at this time, what if the ball is lost?
Found it?
The goalkeeper and the two central defenders are very, very crucial.
Mistakes can easily occur if you are not careful.
Bayern has had this problem this season.
Many people say that Bayern's defense is very loose because when they switch from offense to defense and lose the ball, the defensive players cannot quickly return to their positions.
This is actually not difficult to understand, because high school defenders such as Van Buyten, Badstuber and Breno are not their strong points in terms of speed and flexibility. Sometimes, even when they are under strong pressure, their passing success rate is worrying.
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Therefore, Van Gaal's strategy was to bring back the midfielders, such as Gustavo or Tymoshchuk.
But the problem still exists.
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"At the Allianz Arena, our opening focus is on pressing."
In the tactical meeting, Gao Shen explained the tactical details of the game to the players according to the PPT, emphasizing the pressure on Bayern.
"I found that when we pressed Bayern's ball into the back line, or even at the goalkeeper's feet, their two central defenders tended to pull away to both sides, and the midfielder players would retreat."
Having said this, Gao Shen smiled and said, "Does it feel familiar?"
The players also smiled one after another.
This is how Manchester City plays.
"But their center backs and goalkeepers are deficient in passing and ball delivery, stability and success rate, so the focus will be passed on to Bastian Schweinsteiger."
The profound point is to pen up the piggy.
"That's the point of our pressing."
"When Bayern's two central defenders spread out, there is a huge vacuum in the middle of the entire penalty area. At this time, the distance between the two central defenders will be very far apart, and there is basically no contact with each other. But Bastian Schweinsteiger is not a traditional
The fourth position player, he is still a little immature in handling many details. At this time, we only need to press the central defender to get the ball and force him to pass to Bastian Schweinsteiger..."
There is no need to elaborate on what happens next, the players all know it in their hearts.
This routine has been carried out countless times in Manchester City in the past two years, and the players have long been familiar with it.
Even, many times when they get to the court, they can draw inferences from one example.
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