In real history, it was clear that Villas-Boas was ready to abandon Wu Lei and put him on the shelf. His contempt and misuse of Wu Lei greatly affected Wu Lei's confidence in playing football.
Fortunately, as an assistant coach, Xie Hui has studied abroad and has strong communication skills. He bluntly said that Oscar can be eliminated, but Wu Lei must be reused. Because players like Oscar can be solved by SIPG with money - no worries
If you can't buy him, it's just throwing money away, but if you don't use a local iconic player like Wu Lei, who else can you use? Once Wu Lei's condition and ability decline because he is not trusted, then if SIPG wants to find him locally
Don't even think about players with the same ability as Wu Lei.
In the end, Wu Lei's better and better performance gradually conquered Villas-Boas and secured his position as a core player.
The same situation as Wu Lei was experienced by veteran Yu Hai. He could not live with Yu Hai. As a result, Yu Hai had almost no ball to play in SIPG at the beginning of the season and was wasted. Unfortunately, Yu Hai did not have Xie Hui to relieve him. Fortunately, Yu Hai never gave up.
The training attitude and level were very good. Later, when the team was short of manpower, Yu Hai seized the opportunity and found a place. Villas-Boas also recognized Yu Hai's ability.
In addition to these conflicts with clubs and players, what is even more troublesome for Villas-Boas is his conflict with the official Football Association.
As a former disciple of Mourinho, provoking officials seems to have become a passive skill. Historically, in just one season of coaching SIPG, Villas-Boas was suspended three times a year and fined four times.
For the first time, after the game against Guangzhou R&F, Villas-Boas supported Oscar on Instagram and was suspended for 2 games by the Football Association.
For the second time, in the FA Cup, after the match with Tianjin Quanjian, Villas-Boas was once again suspended for 2 games in the FA Cup due to "inappropriate remarks".
For the third time, against Beijing Guoan, Boas was suspected of counting money on the referee before he was sent to the stands. He was fined for 4 games in the Chinese Super League and 4 games organized by the Football Association next season. This not only means that Boas
The 2017 Chinese Super League is over, and there are still debts due for next season.
For the last time, perhaps because he felt that it was no longer challenging to fight against the Chinese Football Association, Villas-Boas targeted a higher-level opponent-the AFC. In the AFC Champions League, Villas-Boas competed against Guangzhou Evergrande in the AFC Champions League.
Later, he was dissatisfied with the team bus's mysterious five car accidents and angrily said, "We are facing a team that controls the AFC." He was fined US$14,000 by the AFC, but was not suspended.
In the end, SIPG failed to renew the contract with Villas-Boas. Apart from the fact that Villas-Boas wants to realize his dream of racing at the age of 40 and compete in Dakar, he looks down on the Chinese Super League, dislikes the Chinese Football Association, and even despises the entire Asian football.
Important reasons.
But to be honest, Villas-Boas is really the first young coach from the top mainstream European football coaches to be sent to the Chinese Super League, and it has also allowed Chinese football to once again integrate with the European first-line technical and tactical trends. He has successively played in Porto and Zenit St. Petersburg.
He has won 7 championships, was awarded the Premier League Coach of the Month twice when coaching Tottenham, and is the youngest winning coach in the history of the Europa League.
And it must be admitted that Chelsea won the Champions League in 2012 because of the work of Villas-Boas. After class, he gave Mata and others the best running plan based on the original team committee, which made subsequent
Di Matteo, who took over, benefited a lot. Later, Tottenham's Bale and Modric became world-class stars, also thanks to Villas-Boas's guidance.
His abilities are obvious to all.
Under the leadership of Villas-Boas, Shanghai SIPG now fights on three fronts and has not fallen behind in any of them. Not to mention the FA Cup, it has also successfully qualified for the AFC Champions League. In the eight rounds of the league, it has five wins, two draws and one loss, ranking first in the league.
The Longteng team is five points behind, and one point behind the second-ranked Guangzhou Evergrande.
In daily training, Villas-Boas is recognized by SIPG as the coach with the richest content, the highest level, and the most acceptable to the players among the coaches hired by the club in recent years. His grasp of tactical details and the design of
The tactical acceptance is also the best. Judging from the two months he has led the team, he has done a great job in switching from three defenders to four defenders, a long-standing problem in the Chinese Super League. It can be said that he is the best player in the Chinese Super League besides
In addition to the Longteng team, there is another team with a variety of tactics; at the same time, the team did not suffer many injuries despite the three-line battle. Boas's coaching team of 10 people showed their skills.
After Boas's training during this period, Wu Lei, who was already developing better than in history, has become more and more powerful. Not only him, but also Yan Shuai, Wang Liange, Fu Datie, and He Hao have also made great progress.
Before the game, Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff conducted a detailed analysis of Villas-Boas' tactics.
Last year, under the leadership of Eriksson, SIPG dominated the game more through passing control. In terms of offensive advancement, the team attached great importance to attacking opponents by flying together on both wings and passing from the bottom. At that time, the team
With Konka in the midfield and a top center like Elkeson in the Chinese Super League as the frontline, this choice is understandable; on the other hand, Villas-Boas took over the team and used Hulk as the core of the offense to carry out his favorite high-pressing tactics.
.The game does not blindly emphasize suppressing the opponent through high possession of the ball, but adopts a targeted strategy of luring the enemy deep to create space for quick counterattacks for the team's offensive players. It can be said that in the tactical setting, Villas-Boas prefers to use
The star's personal ability is to advance with the ball instead of passing the ball. The advantage of this style of play is that it is more direct and faster, but the disadvantage is that it is more dependent on the star's personal performance.
If you only look at Boas's new tactics from the perspective of employment, it will give people an illusion - no one can rely on foreign aid tactics, but overall, you will find that the SIPG team led by Boas is different from the previous one.
The two biggest improvements.
One is the variety and proficiency in tactical details, which is very similar to the Longteng team. SIPG is obsessed with details in tactics this season, and rarely has the ability to adapt at all when encountering targeted playing methods.
.At least from this point, we can see that Villas-Boas's team is really strong, and it is consistent with the goal of the Longteng coaching staff to pursue refined tactics.
The second is to bring the rhythm of the European competition to SIPG. In the previous Chinese Super League, in terms of strength, on paper, it was not only Guangzhou Evergrande, but also Shanghai SIPG, and even China Fortune Land Development and Beijing Guoan who could compare with the Dragons.
Not much worse than the Longteng team, but when it comes to the pace of the game, the Longteng team can be said to be the best.
The Longteng team, whose young players are dismissed from the team, under the deliberate arrangement of the Longteng coaching staff, often likes and is good at actively improving the rhythm of the game and using their physical fitness to wear down their opponents.
With the arrival of Villas-Boas, there is now another high-tempo Chinese Super League team - Shanghai SIPG.
For example, in the AFC Champions League, Shanghai SIPG's opponents mentioned this matter.
The head coach of Urawa Red Diamonds once commented after losing to Shanghai SIPG in an away game: "Their frontcourt organization is very orderly, very aggressive, and the effect is very good. There is a strong sense of pressure in the transition between offense and defense, and the tactical quality of the players is
The execution ability is very high and they have a lot of high-level attackers in the frontcourt."
It can be said that Petrovic's speech accurately and comprehensively summarized the Shanghai SIPG team since the season.
Faced with SIPG's style of play, the Longteng team adopted extremely targeted tactics, which was to watch their two foreign players in the frontcourt, especially Hulk, who was closer to the goal, and force him to dribble the ball. As for Oscar
, just don’t let him pass the ball to Hulk.
The Longteng team felt very lucky that Villas-Boas had abandoned his martial arts skills and did not let Elkeson play.
Therefore, the Longteng team adjusted their formation from 3-5-2 to 4-4-2 to correspond to Shanghai SIPG's 4-2-3-1.
Taking into account Hulk's overly strong body, the Dragons arranged for midfielder Zhang Hao, who also has excellent physical fitness, to use his running and interception abilities to stifle SIPG's offense in the midfield.
In other positions, the Longteng team played with all its main players, returning to the long-lost three-foreign-aid system.
Lou Yicheng and Liu Yue, who were responsible for commentating the game, also noticed the Longteng team's starting lineup.
"The Longteng team has returned to its long-lost 4-4-2. Judging from today's formation, the midfielder's hardness has been significantly strengthened, and Zhang Hao's appearance is a clear signal." Lou Yicheng introduced the starting lineups of both sides after the game started.
When he spoke, he spoke quickly.
"Hulk's long shot! It missed the goal, but it was powerful enough." Liu Yue, who was always paying attention to the situation on the court, interrupted Lou Yicheng's introduction, "It was a kick at the beginning. Although it was in Longteng
SIPG, the team’s home stadium, obviously has no intention of showing weakness.”
"SIPG has been in good form this season, and it has always been their goal to challenge the dominance of the Chinese Super League." Lou Yicheng was obviously convinced of the strength of the Longteng team in the Chinese Super League, and brought the words back to the beginning, "Hulk just now
Before shooting, I shouldered Zhang Hao, but he didn't move away, so he chose a long shot. This is so rare in the midfield, and there are really not many domestic players who can use their bodies to resist Hulk."
After Shanghai SIPG chose a shot at the kick-off, the game quickly entered the rhythm of the Longteng team.
Unlike in the past, one of the two centers of the Longteng team would always be very advanced. In this game, the two centers of the Longteng team retreated very deeply. Whether it was Nie Jiang, who was used to supporting in the midfield, or Chavez, who was further forward.
, the two didn't just rob each other's defenders in the frontcourt.
The four midfielders are also different from the common diamond-shaped position in the Chinese Super League. They maintain a parallel position. The same is true for the four defenders. They are very close to the midfielder.
The distance between the three lines of the Long Teng team was beyond the expectations of SIPG.
Under normal circumstances, if a team's three lines are too close, they will often be punished by the court - the length and width of the court will not narrow with your formation, and the opponent can make full use of the gaps and wings behind you.
of open space.
But the Longteng team used several methods to make up for the loopholes.
In the defense arranged by Zhang Sheng, defense is never an isolated task for a single player, but is always divided into two groups: oppressors (assistant defense) and tacklers (interception), who use pressure to disrupt the opponent's dribbling rhythm and pass the ball.
The tackler will then go up and make the final decision. Even if the tackler fails to intercept the ball, the tackler will immediately turn into an oppressor and pursue the pressure on the spot. His teammates will immediately transform into tacklers and start a new round of defense.
The emphasis on parallel positions has also caused SIPG's offense to fall into the offside trap many times; the pressing in the frontcourt interferes with the accuracy of the opponent's long pass behind the ball; keeping the center open does not expose the opponent's through ball.
Difficulty, the horizontal formation is tight and narrow.
Keep moving as a whole when defending. Due to the horizontal tightening of the defense line, there will inevitably be gaps on both wings that the opponent can exploit. When the opponent distributes the ball to the wings to take advantage of the gaps, the entire team must move there as a whole, not an isolated full-back.
Pull it out and fight for it.
On offense, the two wingbacks Fernando on the left and Tao Wentao on the right frequently cut in to the center and organized the attack from the midfielder position. The offensive width on the wing was left to the two wingbacks De Paul and Xiang Tiange.
Cross.
In this way, the advantages of several Longteng players - the organizational skills of Fernando (in special training) and Tao Wentao, the speed and high-quality crosses of De Paul and Xiang Tiange - are all given space to display.
Seeing such high-intensity pressure and pressing by the Dragons, Villas-Boas, who had followed Mourinho in Serie A, could not help but recall the famous saying of Italian tactician Sacchi in his mind: "If our forwards and defenders maintain their
Within a range of 25 meters, we are invincible."
In the eighth minute of the first half, the Longteng team played a beautiful triangle attack in front.
Nie Jiang made a beautiful pass outside the penalty area and accurately found Qi Ming who had entered the penalty area. The latter obviously knew his team's tactics well and gave the ball to Wu without any observation or hesitation.
The ball ran into Fernando's penalty area as the second wave of offense.
Fernando, who started much faster than SIPG's defenders, got rid of the defenders around him, and then his shot tested Yan Shuai, who made a magical save. He jumped up to hold the ball as if
Like a spring, the football was lifted off the crossbar.
"Fernando's shot and Yan Shuai's save were so beautiful. The shot was beautiful and the save was also beautiful." Lou Yicheng shouted loudly, "This move he made is so crucial. SIPG has been following him.
The team’s defensive player, who is it, oh, it’s Akhmedov, can’t keep up at all.”
Liu Yue went back to the attack a little further: "But the actual initiator of this attack was Nie Jiang. To be honest, several players in the frontcourt of the Longteng team have the ability to organize attacks. It is too difficult for SIPG to defend the frontcourt.
Moreover, Zhang Hao's appearance has greatly liberated Qi Ming's offensive ability, and he can frequently penetrate into the penalty area."
"The defense of the Longteng team is layer by layer, and the offense is also wave after wave. The suppression of SIPG is too strong." Lou Yicheng analyzed the situation on the court, "This season's biggest tactical challenge for the Longteng team
The change is that the overall formation has become extremely compact. This has greatly enhanced their continuity in both defense and offense. SIPG needs to find a way."
"I think SIPG should increase the speed of passing. They rely too much on Hulk and Oscar now." Liu Yue pointedly pointed out the shortcomings of SIPG's current tactics.
Liu Yue could see it, and Boas should also have noticed it, it just depends on how he adjusts.
