Chapter 34: Brewing Change

On the way back from Liverpool, Don Eun was silent. Everyone in the car was celebrating the first victory of the four-wheeled wheel, but Don Eun didn't say a word. Some people thought the boss was angry again.

Actually, it's not, he's finding the inspiration he's continuing to think about the competition.

After experiencing the first two seasons, Ribery's characteristics have been thoroughly studied by his opponents. He is almost a transparent person in Premier League teams. Everyone knows Tony; Donn asked Ribery to break through on the wing, and as long as he stuck the wing corridor, Ribery's threat will be gone.

Check out this season...

Logically speaking, Ribery shouldn't have only such a little energy...

Don En carefully searched in his memory. After the World Cup, Ribery went to Bayern Munich and soon became the core figure. If a person can only play a role in the wing, how can he be the core of a team like Bayern Munich?

Tang En rarely watches Bundesliga broadcasts and doesn't care much about the news there. But he knows that Ribery will succeed immediately if he changes the place, which must be related to his strength.

If he can be the core of Bayern Munich but is restricted in the Forest team, then he must be not doing well here.

Before the match against Everton, Donn had thought about this question. Why did Ribery's performance show an overall downward trend in the third season of the league? What's wrong with that?

In the game against Everton, Donn thought he had found the problem - the position.

Players like Ribery should never be limited to wing activities. He is different from Ashley, Young, Allen, and Lennon. He is more comprehensive and has a better awareness. He only lets him on the wing, just like putting shackles on his running feet.

In the game against Everton, because of Gareth and Bale were in a very good state, not only did he take on the offense and defense tasks alone, but he also squeezed Ribery into the middle. This was a helpless move, but the team won the third goal.

What does this mean? Anything must have a reason, and this third goal will never appear for no reason.

All Tang En had to do was to connect these things.

Obviously, the goal was generated after Ribery went to the middle. On the wing, Ribery made more crosses and assists, and he was less likely to shoot directly. Only when he went to the middle would he have the best chance of shooting.

Gareth; Bell has grown up. He can take more responsibilities on the side, so that he can free Ribery by handing him on the left.

So, as long as Ribery is placed in the middle, the role of both of them can be maximized. This is undoubtedly.

OK, the problem is here.

If everything on the football field was so simple, there wouldn't be so unpredictability.

If Ribery goes to the middle road... What should I do if Van der Fate? What should I do when Eastwood? What should I do when Arteta?

We can't sacrifice the interests of others in the middle to liberate Ribery?

So change the position directly. It is no problem in theory, but it is very practical.

This requires the coach to consider. Maximize the role of everyone without sacrificing the interests of other people in the team.

Donn remembered the tactics that Real Madrid often used in the Bosque era. Although Real Madrid had midfield superstars like Figo and Zidane, they did not have a midfielder.

Spanish coach Boske used a very strange method to solve the problem of too many Real Madrid superstars.

Figo is still on the right side that he is most familiar with. However, the front midfielder Zidane did not appear in the middle of the midfield. He went to the left side. Judging from the formation, he is a left forward. In fact, what about? The game started.

People only discovered that Zidane was playing the front midfielder in the left forward position - he would keep running towards the middle, and the left forward was just a false idea, and he did not play the role of a wing forward. For Zidane, being a wing forward is too wasteful...

Therefore, the left-wing forward in the formation is still a front midfielder, and in actual game it does not affect Zida's performance in the mainland. It also does not affect the performance of other people in the midfield.

Where is the left side? As we all know, Robert; Carlos's assists on the left side are invincible. If Zidane is fixed on the left side, it will be equivalent to nullifying Carlos's skills.

Zidane moved to the middle and left the corridor on the left to Carlos, allowing him to play since he was a child. If he wanted to attack, he would insert it and then retreat. Anyway, the Brazilian small defender could run. He was fast.

How similar is this situation to the current Forest team?

Gareth; Bale is not as good as Carlos, and is also a top among the younger generation. His assisting ability is indeed very good for full-backs. It would be a waste to just let him be a full-back.

Ribery is even called "New Zidane", and both of them even have the same role.

How to copy Real Madrid's tactics?

Tang En thought for a long time and finally denied this idea.

After all, Real Madrid at that time was different from Nottingham Forest today. Zidane went to the middle to fully utilize Carlos's assist ability on the wing.

At that time, Real Madrid's midfield offense relied on Zidane and Figo, and Marklele was a defensive midfielder, which was very similar to Wood today.

But the Forest team also has Van der Fate, the real middle player. Ribery has come over. What should the Dutch do? Originally, everyone will do their own jobs, and they will not violate the rivers and be peaceful... If Ribery comes to the middle, it will be like breaking the original balance, so that the entire midfield of the Forest team will be rebuilt.

It's a change again...

Change means an uncertain future and a risk.

As the car moved into the Nottingham area, Don Eun came to his senses from his contemplation and moved his stiff body.

"Tony?" Tang saw Tang En reacting and asked quickly.

"Ah--" Tang En did not answer Tang Da's news. He raised his hands and stretched his body, and moved his body in the car.

"Are you asleep, Tony? I see you turned your head and didn't say anything." David Chris Lack also asked with concern.

"I'm not Zhang Fei..." Tang En muttered.

"Who is zhangfei?" Chris Lack was confused.

Tang next to him explained to him: "A very powerful general in ancient China. Legend has it that he had his eyes open when he slept."

"Oh, that's it...what are you thinking?"

"Go back and tell you." Tang En looked at the night view outside the window, becoming more and more familiar with him, and was about to enter the downtown area of ​​Nottingham. "You two stay after the team is disbanded later."

Seeing that Tang En said so formally, the two nodded.

The bus bypassed the brightly lit city center and drove directly into the Wilford training base where the players disbanded and went home. Or went to some other place to have fun, it was already evening, and the bars and some red light places were doing business.

Don Eun didn't ask what the players were going to do, but just reminded them when they were disbanding and came here to train on time tomorrow afternoon.

After everyone was finished, Tang En walked back to his office with two assistant coaches.

Turning on the light, Tang En took the videotape of the game from Tang - the Forest Team will record every game. Unlike the live broadcast of the game on the TV station, they do not consider the audience's feelings and only shoot what they need.

The game shot from the coach's perspective at this time is definitely not for ordinary fans to watch.

After putting the video tape into the video recorder and waiting for a short time, the scene of this game appeared on the TV screen.

"There is nothing to see in front." Tang En said, pressing the fast forward button on the remote control.

It was not until he saw Ribery shoot a goal that completely locked the victory that he let go and fell back.

"Look carefully here."

He repeated the goal several times. Then he asked: "What do you think?"

Don stared at the TV screen without saying anything. Chris Lack opened his mouth several times, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"We didn't let Ribery go to the middle before the game, right?" Tang En asked back. He didn't like to make things clear as soon as he came up. He liked to be tempted and let the other party in the conversation say it out by themselves.

Chris Lack shook his head: "No. The tactics of this game are no different from the land we used before."

"Bell's performance was entirely due to his good personal condition." Tang added next to him.

"The little monkey has been in good training these days." Chris Lack added, "because you are back."

Tang En smiled at one of his last words. Bell admired him very much, and he knew very well.

"Bell's performance was beyond my expectations." Tang En said, "As a result, his excessive activity caused Ribery to lose his position on the sideline. He could only be forced to go to the middle."

The two assistant coaches nodded in agreement, and they did see it.

"I thought Ribery had no choice but to go down the middle, but I didn't expect..." Tang En pointed to the freeze-framed picture on the TV screen and said, "Bell assisted Ribery to score the goal.

Scoring a goal can tell a lot of questions, why did you score, why at this position, why Bale assisted Ribery instead of assisting Van Nystruei or Eastwood?”

Tang En threw these questions to his two partners.

Tang fell into deep thought again. Chris Lak also stared at the TV screen. Although the picture was still, the whole process of the goal had long been imprinted in their minds. You can understand it without watching the video again.

"Think about Ribery's decline in form after this season... do you have any ideas?"

When Tang heard Tang En say this, he raised his head: "Ribery and Bell are both liberated."

Tang En laughed: "Tang is smarter. That's right, that's what I mean..." Then, he told the questions he had considered in the car.

He said the benefits of doing so, and the disadvantages.

Chris Lack, who had heard the benefits before, was still excited to put this idea into reality. But after hearing the disadvantages, he seemed to have been poured with cold water and suddenly became silent.

"This is a double-edged sword. I think the Forest team's tactics have brought about the time of change. We can no longer stick to the same thing as before. At that time, our strength and goals were different from now. The tactical ideas are naturally different.

It is great to fly both wings together, but if we only rely on both wings to fly together, we will never be able to get out of England in our entire life.

"Tang En said, "What is the reason for losing to Fulham? Because our wings are restricted, the attack in the middle is very immature, and there is no other way to face the opponent's intensive defense... Fortunately, it's just a Fulham. If we face European strong teams, in the key matches of the Champions League.

If you lose, life will be difficult for you and I.

These words made the two people on the other side nodded frequently.

"I used to think that too much ball control was useless, and now we have to make changes. At that time, we were weak teams, and our opponents were stronger than us. When we played with them, we often shrank and defended, and then scored goals through counterattacks.

In this case, too much ball control will only slow down our offense and be detrimental to counterattack. Now the situation is completely reversed... Look at the game between Fulham and us.

"Tang En attaches great importance to the first defeat in that new season. Many times, many places will use that game as an example to illustrate the problem. "Our opponent shrank and defended.

Waiting for an opportunity to hit us behind us, while we are in a big army, controlling the absolute ball possession rate. Isn’t this ironic?”

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped. His eyes were staring at the TV screen and was in a daze.
To be continued...