Super Storm

After receiving the prize from Zurich, Yang Yang and others returned non-stop to Madrid.

After a week of Christmas holidays, the team restarted training and will greet the 16th round of La Liga on the evening of January 3, which is obviously a big challenge.

This seems to be like just after the Spring Festival, after the big holiday, and restarting work, it will inevitably be a bit unable to find the state, even on the first day of the team restarting training, everyone went to the team doctor Carlos Dia Sri Lanka reported that when testing the body, many people were overweight.

This is not a big deal at all, and everyone is already accustomed to it.

Every three pounds of fat during the Spring Festival, as long as the professional players are on holiday, it is basically difficult to maintain the self-discipline during the league, plus diet and parties during the holiday, gaining weight is also a natural thing.

Not to mention others, even Yang Yang's data are somewhat unsatisfactory.

But he is not because of lack of self-discipline, but has been busy in the past these days, either to participate in club activities, or to participate in sponsor activities, and traveled long distances to Dubai and Zurich, resulting in his training and diet have become very Irregularity will naturally affect his body.

"It's okay. In comparison, you're pretty good." Carlos Diaz comforted with a smile.

"Carlos is right, adjust slowly." Yesterdam also comforted.

But Yang Yang still sighed deeply, he was somewhat involuntarily.

He is now the number one star in the team. Everyone is concerned wherever he goes. It is also the facade of the team. Naturally, there are many things outside the stadium. For example, this time he went to Dubai, Real Madrid officials tried to promote it.

If not, he would rather stay at home and live a comfortable life instead.

The coaching staff apparently has been mentally prepared for the player's situation. Before the holiday, a recipe was prepared for each person, but God knows how many people can strictly follow?

After Benitez received the medical report of the players submitted by the medical team, his face became ugly, and he took a few words, but it was not too harsh. The subsequent training was mainly adjusted, and there was no Measure blindly.

However, on the afternoon of the same day, the team conducted a tactical training class, the content of which was a defense exercise.

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In the final analysis, Benitez's tactical philosophy is two words, balanced.

The balance of offense and defense, the balance of the side and the middle, the balance of fast and slow.

As a Spaniard, he played in Real Madrid, but he did not play very well. After retiring, he became a youth coach in Real Madrid, but the most profound impact on him, but it is Italian football, especially the coach Saki That ac Milan.

With a tight defensive posture, the distance from the center to the last defender never exceeds 25 meters.

As a compact whole, the team moves up and down the court and shifts left and right.

This style of play is somewhat similar to the feeling of the Roman phalanx, and it is precisely this tactical concept that has created a comprehensive team like Liverpool that can advance and retreat.

Benitez's philosophy is to force the **** and oppression through a compact overall position, without giving the opponent any breathing space.

The benefits are very obvious. It can be said that Liverpool's glory in the past few years is based on such a tactical style of play, and Real Madrid also adopted this style of play in the previous five to zero away victory over Barcelona.

But there is a problem, that is, this style of play places great emphasis on the team's tactical execution and the player's availability.

When he was in Liverpool, the British media once criticized Benitez's defense, thinking that this regional man-to-man defense system, which combines regional defense and man-to-man, has serious problems, whether it is in positioning ball defense. It is easy to expose problems when defending the opponent's offense.

For this matter, the British media even discussed and criticized Benitez ’s regional mark defense system at length. The biggest one was Liverpool ’s Champions League defeat at home to Chelsea. Defender Ivano Vicki made consecutive headers, which made Benitez a criminal in almost all populations after the game.

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"Liverpool have four guards, and their names are: everyone, some people, nobody and anyone."

"When Ivanovic needs to be marked, everyone believes some people will do it."

"Anyone can do this, but in the end no one will do it. When no one does it, everyone will be angry because it is everyone ’s responsibility. Everyone thinks some people will do it , But no one realized that no one would actually accomplish this task. "

"The result is that everyone scolds some people because no one has done what anyone can do right from the start."

"So, Liverpool went home."

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This was a joke used by the media at the time to tease Liverpool.

Although it is a joke, it clearly analyzes the problem of the so-called zone-to-man defense. It is too complicated.

However, Benitez has repeatedly emphasized one thing in the face of ridicule, satire and sarcasm in the outside world. That is, Liverpool's regional mark defense is the most advanced defensive concept. There are problems, but there is no need to attack this set. Play style.

Regional defense will cause gray areas on the court, because each player's coverage area is limited; man-to-man can eliminate the gray area, but the frequent running of the opponent will cause more people to be missed by the defensive player.

The combination of man-to-man in regional defense is a defensive concept that is increasingly being used by more and more teams. At this point, Benitez is not wrong.

But in the world of professional football, the result dominates everything.

Regardless of whether you did it right or not, as long as the result is wrong, you must be wrong!

Today, the situation facing Real Madrid is the same.

Benitez ’s regional mark-to-point defense system is too complicated. There are both zone defense and someone-to-mark. How to define, how to switch effectively, how to teamwork ... Too many questions are all pushed to Real Madrid players before.

So sometimes it can be seen that Real Madrid's goal conceded is a consecutive conceded goal in just a few minutes. That is because the team was caught off guard by the opponent in a very short period of time and messed up.

In view of this situation, the coaching staff can't come up with a more effective way, and can only repeatedly emphasize training and running.

How can the pill accumulated over the past years be completely resolved in just a few months?

What's more, whether it is Ramos, Pepe or Fairmaren, they are young players, and they are not stable enough in experience.

However, in this training session after Christmas, Benitez and Yesterdam still took some new measures.

In the tactical training in the afternoon, Benitez arranged the team into two groups, each group of ten people.

The coaches move anywhere on the court, they will pass the ball to each other, and when the ball reaches a coach, the ten players on the court will quickly approach the coach and oppress him.

At the same time, Benitez and Yesterdam and others will closely observe the team's position on the sidelines, especially focusing on the player's position change, whether the overall formation remains compact and orderly, and whether there is compression between the three lines Neutral ...

Once a player makes a mistake, Benitez will immediately stop, and immediately go to guide.

Obviously, this is a brand-new training method that Benitez thought about during the Christmas period. The purpose is to help Real Madrid players to familiarize and implement his set of regional man-marking defense system as soon as possible.

In addition, Benitez also made a lot of preparations, giving players a tactical lesson every day, hoping to improve their tactical understanding and tactical literacy on the court as soon as possible.

Yang Yang, Xavi Alonso, Avelloa and Mascherano are Benitez ’s old servants in Liverpool. They also know the team ’s defensive system very well. They also help on weekdays. Follow the analysis and explanation with the teammates.

And Pepe ’s injury made Benitez decide to put Aveloa on the right back, and Ramos returned to the central defender to partner with Fermalen. Although these two central defenders are not tall, their air defense capabilities are limited. However, the maneuverability is very strong, the range of activities is large, and the technology under the feet is also very good. It is another combination.

However, the actual effect still needs the test of actual combat.

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On January 2, La Liga reignited the fighting.

Barcelona sat against Villarreal, and in the case of Pedro's goal at the start, Villarelle scored a tie in the second half, and eventually drew the yellow submarine at home.

The next day, Real Madrid challenged Osasuna away.

Real Madrid had an overwhelming advantage on the road, but after ninety minutes of hard work, they still failed to break the goal of Osasuna, and eventually brought back a point from the road zero to zero.

The team is more disappointed with this result, because everyone originally hoped to take advantage of the opportunity of Barcelona to lose points and further expand the lead. After all, they will face the double-line battle of the Champions League.

For Real Madrid this season, the Champions League is crucial.

Because the Champions League final is held in Bernabeu!

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In the middle of the week, the knockout round of the top 16 of the Spanish Kings Cup.

Real Madrid played against Santander at home, Benitez played with half-main and half-replacement lineups, and the result was a draw of two to two at home.

In the 56th and 61st minutes of the second half, two consecutive goals were conceded in just five minutes.

Real Madrid's defensive ability is again questioned by the media.

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On the weekend, the seventeenth round of La Liga.

Real Madrid welcomes Royal Mallorca at home.

Yang Yang received an assist from Sneijder in the seventh minute of the opening and set the team's first record.

Just started in the second half, Real Madrid once again made an attack and Yang Yang assisted Ibrahimovic to score.

In the end, Real Madrid beat Real Mallorca 2-0 at home.

However, also in this round, Barcelona beat Tenerife five to zero away.

Messi staged a hat-trick in this game, successfully chasing his individual La Liga goals to 13 goals this season, only one goal behind Yang Yang, surpassing David Villa and Ibrahimovic odd.

This also made people feel the outbreak of Messi.

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Three days later, the Kings Cup round of 16 elimination rounds.

Real Madrid drew a 0-0 draw against Santander again. The final score was 2-2, but they were unfortunately eliminated because of the away goal. This immediately caused the outside media to question.

Fortunately, Barcelona are also one to two at home, one to zero on the road, and the total score is two to two, but the number of goals on the road is small, and they were eliminated by Seville.

However, after the winter break, Real Madrid has not been able to find a state, which has become a concern for everyone.