"Pan Yi, tell me, is our team's bench depth too insufficient? Should we consider signings in the winter window?"
Unexpectedly, Allegri called Pan Yi into the office to discuss it first.
It seems that he is more anxious than Pan Yi.
Pan Yi raised his head and glanced at Allegri.
Indeed.
Not only was he anxious, Allegri's eyes were now bloodshot and his face was not looking good. It was obvious that he had not slept well for several nights.
The head coach is still under a lot of pressure.
No matter how good your previous record is, as long as you fail to perform well for a period of time, you will immediately be criticized by the media and fans.
Pan Yi shook his head slightly: "Our bench depth is indeed average, and we may indeed need signings, but this is not the key to the problem."
In fact, what Pan Yi wants to say is that the problem still lies with Allegri himself.
He is too rigid in using tactics. Once he finds out which tactics are good, or even which lineup is good, he wants to use them to death.
And once the key screws are missing in this tactical lineup, Allegri will be unable to twist it.
In other words, Allegri doesn't know how to teach students in accordance with their aptitude and doesn't change tactics according to the players' own characteristics. Instead, he often lets the players passively and helplessly adapt to the inappropriate tactics he arranges. The most typical one is Inzaghi. A smart striker like him is used as a center forward by Allegri. Can it be effective?
Pan Yi wondered if young players like Salah and Mane, if they were used independently by Allegri, would have grown into pure passing wingers who would only use their speed to hit the bottom and sweep behind.
In front of the door.
Of course, when Pan Yi speaks now, he will consider Allegri's feelings and will not speak too directly.
When Pan Yi said this, Allegri also sighed: "I know, you are talking about my refusal to change the 442 formation. I was not thoughtful enough. Then your suggestion is still to make us
Will the formation be changed to 442 in the future?"
Allegri is no longer angry anymore.
He originally thought that with a winning streak at the beginning of the season, the team's morale was good, and they should be able to cope even if they were missing a few players.
And if he relies on himself to make adjustments at this time, doesn't it prove that his level as a head coach is higher than others?
But the record of 2 draws and 2 losses severely awakened Allegri.
Facts have proved that despite the shortage of personnel, he still cannot play this set of 433.
In other words, he may not have truly understood Pan Yi's usage of 433 and cannot make adjustments and changes flexibly.
So Allegri decided to lower his profile and ask Pan Yi for advice.
In fact, he had relied heavily on Pan Yi before. The team's main tactics and main lineup were basically formulated by Pan Yi for him.
But now that he is away from Pan Yi for a little while, he starts to lose the ball. This makes Allegri have to admit defeat and feel that he should trust this young assistant more.
As for Allegri's attitude, Pan Yi saw and heard it.
Pan Yi is also confident to solve the current dilemma.
He just recently watched part of the system tutorial about Klopp solving similar dilemmas.
Since many of the core players in the team are African players, Klopp will often encounter situations where players are absent to participate in the African Cup, so he must have alternative plans to tide over this period of difficulties.<
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Forwards Salah, Mane, and defensive midfielder Keita, these people have been absent for more than a month. How similar is the situation with Milan now?
Pan Yi said: "In fact, it is not necessary to change the formation. There is no problem in still playing 433, but some playing methods need to be changed."
Allegri frowned: "Don't change the formation? Well... Just like when we played Barcelona for the first time, let the players change some tactical instructions?"
Pan Yi nodded: "The truth is similar. Of course, the opponents we face in the future are not too strong, so the tactics should still focus on breaking the defense, rather than defending against counterattacks like when playing Barcelona."
"Tell me more specifically." Allegri is now like a well-behaved student, ready to listen to Teacher Pan Yi's lecture.
This is why Allegri only consulted with Pan Yi this time.
Although Pan Yi, a young man, never takes credit for designing these team tactics, if Allegri is asked to act like a student in front of others, he still can't pull it off. Pan Yi didn't hesitate for a moment and immediately walked to the tactical board and said:
“When we were playing Lecce, I mentioned a concept called defending in the center and putting the ball out wide. That is to use the pressure of our forwards and the interception ability of the midfielder to force the opponent to play wide, and then form a pressure on the strong side, and then attack.
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"But now that we are missing Ibrahimovic and Salah at the front, and Kante in the midfield, it is difficult to execute this tactic perfectly."
"So, I suggest that we do the opposite now, which is called locking the edge and putting it in the middle, and creating a trap-style pressure."
Allegri opened his mouth wide: "Lock the edge and put it in the middle? Trap pressure?"
He found that this kid Pan Yi had a lot of professional terms that he, the so-called champion coach, had never heard of.
Pan Yi nodded: "The so-called locking the ball in the middle is to let our three forwards cut off the opponent's passing line to the wing, regardless of the opponent's players, and guide the opponent's center back to advance with the ball, or pass the ball
Lower back."
"Once the opponent does this, they enter our pocket formation. Our central midfielder will quickly step forward to press and interfere. At the same time, the three forwards will quickly approach the ball carrier while cutting off the return line to complete the attack on the ball carrier.
Encirclement and suppression."
"Since the central midfielder is needed to cover the frontcourt more, our original deep-lying midfielder can no longer be used. The three central midfielders can stand in parallel, which avoids the weakness of the lack of Kante."
Allegri thought for a while and asked: "But if we play like this and fail to steal the opponent's ball carrier, wouldn't our midfield and backcourt be empty?"
Pan Yi smiled and nodded, agreeing with Allegri's view.
After all, Allegri is also a famous coach. Sure enough, we can still see the hidden dangers of this style of play.
But Pan Yi immediately explained: "Yes, this mode will not work when facing opponents with talented midfielders and backfielders, so it will be used more cautiously. For example, I would not suggest this when playing against Barcelona and Juventus."
Kick."
"And even if we face a weak team, I will ask the back line to keep a close distance from the midfield line and cooperate with the overall pressure."
"This style of play also requires a lot of mobility from the defender. Fortunately, we have top central defenders like Van Dijk and Silva, and the two full-backs are also very good at forward penetration, which can meet this demand.
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Allegri felt enlightened.
"Then..." he thought for a while and said, "What you mean is that we can just change our playing style with this lineup, and we won't need to sign in during the winter window, right?"
Pan Yi shook his head and pointed at a chess piece on the tactical board:
"No. We still have to sign in. Because of this style of play, the weaknesses in this position are exposed..."