Fulham, who arrived in Hamburg after a 15-hour journey, was already exhausted. Fortunately, assistant coach Riley Vinson and the Fulham team leader made preparations in advance. Fortunately, there were four days between the end of the Premier League and the Europa League.
interval.
After finishing the Europa League, he returned to London to participate in the league, but there was only a 48-hour gap. No wonder Hodgson lambasted the bureaucrats of the FA and UEFA for not caring about the players at all, but purely treating the game as a cash cow.
In terms of Hamburg, the environmental noise around the hotel, transportation from the hotel to the training venue and competition venue, familiarity with the stadium, etc., the Hamburg club did not make things difficult for Fulham. The gentlemanly style of the Hamburg team is one aspect. Fayed asked Hoffman
Calling to ask for care is also one of the reasons.
However, during the process of adapting to the venue, Fulham's request to clear the field was rejected. The reason was very clear. The training at the Hamburg Stadium two days before the game was open to fans and required a fee. This was the request of the Hamburg club to the four major Hamburg fans associations.
requested, and used these two "pre-game public training days" to raise funds for the earthquake-stricken areas in China.
It was well-founded and very much in the spirit of international humanitarianism. Fayez could only smile when Hoffman talked about it. However, Fayez did not answer Hoffman's words and did not mention the donation. Fayez
He doesn’t have much interaction with China. Although a large number of Chinese tourists will definitely go shopping in his department store when visiting London and take photos in front of the statues of Dodi and Diana, but that is business.
Hoffmann didn't say anything more about Fayed's indifference. Chen Zhuo was in Hamburg, not Fulham. If there weren't Chinese players in Hamburg, what happened in China would have nothing to do with the Hamburg club.
relation.
Without a closed training environment, Hodgson did not conduct more secret tactical drills, which were just some basic recovery and routine contacts. The club's staff observing on site videotaped Fulham's training in full.
When Lem was training, Moniz was also at the scene to observe for more than two hours.
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"Fulham is only a mid-table team in the Premier League. They have the same characteristics as Mainz, our opponent in the game we just ended. They are both weak in offense and strong in defense. Fulham is also such a team. It is certain that Hamburg will keep a clean sheet against their opponents.
Yes, the key is the issue of several to zero, maybe
Three to zero, four to zero, or maybe zero to zero. What I’m thinking about now is that if Fulham pulls up the bus in front of the goal, the excitement of the game will be greatly reduced. However, I’m afraid they will do that.
..." Chen Zhuo said at the pre-match press conference.
Teams that are strong offensively and defensively are all first-class teams. For example, among the top three teams in the Premier League this season, after 35 rounds, Chelsea scored 86 goals and conceded 32 goals, Manchester United scored 78 goals and conceded, and Arsenal scored 78 goals.
Conceded 39 goals, both teams are strong offensively and defensively. The same is true in the Bundesliga. Bayern and Schalke scored 58 goals and 49 goals respectively after 30 rounds of games, conceding both goals, ranking in the top two.
A team that is strong in offense and defense is first-rate, and a team that is weak in offense and defense is undoubtedly a relegation team. There is no need to give examples. Then there are two kinds, one is strong in offense and weak in defense, and the other is weak in offense and defense. These two
The teams are all mid-table teams.
Relatively speaking, Fulham is a team with weak offense and strong defense. Many mid-range teams in the five major leagues that lack outstanding forwards rely on tenacious defense to gain a foothold. After 35 rounds, Fulham conceded a goal.
Only 37, which is two fewer goals than the third-placed Arsenal, but in terms of number of goals, Fulham only scored 35 goals, not even half of Arsenal.
In fact, when analyzing a team, there is also a data analysis of the points obtained by these goals. Taking the Premier League as an example, Chelsea scored 86 goals and 77 points, Manchester United scored 78 goals and 76 points, and Arsenal scored 78 goals.
71 points. In the goal value ratio, Manchester United's goals are the most valuable. Fulham scored 43 points with 35 goals. There is no doubt that their goals are the most valuable!
So what about Hamburg? The Hamburg team is slightly stronger offensively and slightly weaker defensively, and can be classified as a mid-to-upper-tier team.
So far this season, Hamburg has scored 50 goals, 1 more than Schalke, conceded 34 goals, only 5 more than Schalke, and has a goal difference of 4 points, but has fewer points than Schalke 04.
6 points, that is, two wins.
The confrontation between these two teams is actually as Chen Zhuo said. If Fulham is determined to defend zero to zero, Hamburg may not be able to break through their solid city defense!
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"Was he already in Hamburg when Fulham played against Juventus? Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot. At that time, he was still thinking more about whether he could play and didn't have the energy to pay attention to that legend.
Although the whole world was applauding Fulham for at least a week, 4
:1 Defeat Juventus, haha, he probably hasn’t been to Italy yet, oh, it seems he hasn’t been to England either, young people are always a little arrogant, haha..." Hodgson is actually a very elegant old man, according to
What the Fulham spokesperson meant was different from the tone in several places.
"At that time, he was still thinking more about whether he could play on the court." The original words should be, "At that time, he was still very excited about playing for a few minutes in garbage time."
"It seems like he has never been to England. Young people are always a bit arrogant, haha..." It should be "It seems like he has never been to England. London is a big city, so he must be given a guide..."
Hodgson retorted and deleted these more damaging words.
After these words came out, Hamburg Sport immediately refuted Hodgson, citing many examples of "psycho knife", and even commented on Hodgson's many inexplicable losses during his trough period to cheer for the Hamburg team.
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Those are just peripheral tidbits. At best, they just show that the air has been filled with the smell of gunpowder before the match has even started. But Chen Zhuo also knows that relying on these, it is impossible to shake Hodgson's stubborn belief!
Due to the importance of this game, before the game against Mainz, Hamburg's coaching team, as well as the technical center of Spankwitz's agency, began to search for Hodgson's detailed coaching information in accordance with Chen Zhuo's request.
Chen Zhuo also had another request, hoping to find out who had the greatest influence on Hodgson's tactics and where he learned from them. The coaching team in East and West Hamburg was unable to do anything about this. In the end, it was the technical center of the Spangwitz Agency that found it.
After seeing this, Chen Zhuo was also happy. What a fate! It turned out that the leader of the coaching career of the old coach Hodgson was him, Bobby Horton! The former coach of the Chinese Olympic team!
Roy Hodgson was Bobby Horton's assistant for six years before he took over as head coach of the Swedish Malmo team in 1985. Before that, Malmo's coach was Bobby Horton! In 1985, Horton went to West Asia to pan for gold.
, served as the head coach of the Saudi first-division team Itiad, so Hodgson changed from an assistant coach to the head coach of Malmo. From this perspective, Malmo's solid foundation was laid by Horton.
According to the information provided by the Spanwitz Company Technical Center, Horton and Hodgson are actually brothers. They were both taught by Alan Wade, the technical director of UEFA at the time. Wade re-wrote the program in the late 1970s.
"Coach's Manual", and divided football at that time into two factions: "English model" and "German academic style"...
As he read slowly, Chen Zhuo felt that he was getting clearer and clearer.
Hodgson, like Horton, stubbornly insists on a 4-4-2 style of play and adheres to the "English model", not long passes! The focus of the "English model" is "pressure, zone marking and through direct passes"
"Defensive counterattack" was the same tactic when Horton was coaching in China...
At that time, Chinese sports media criticized Horton's remarks, saying at the time that Horton's style of play was "the main task of the midfielder is defense, and the offense is to drive from the backcourt through the midfielder. The two forwards compete with the opponent's defender for the high ball and then shoot."
In fact, Horton has explained it in detail in his book "Tactics", and it is not the way the Chinese media interpreted and criticized it.
Hodgson's 4-4-2 and Horton's routine on the Olympic team are actually the same thing!
However, Horton did not explain that his "England Model" first places high demands on players' physical fitness, and then on players' personal abilities, especially defensive abilities.
