It is enough for him to just play well in his own Bundesliga.

Hamburg's next opponent is Monchengladbach.

In the first round, Hamburg won a four-goal victory on the road. This time back at home, Pan Yi is even more confident of victory.

It's just that football is never a simple addition or multiplication.

Hamburg's strength has increased, their condition is better, and they are playing at home, while Gladbach's coach and players have not changed much, and their ranking has even dropped compared to the first half of the season.

So if one thing goes up and the other goes down, can Hamburg achieve a better result than 4:0?

the answer is negative.

Although Monchengladbach still deployed the "old-fashioned" 4-4-2 formation in Pan Yi's words, still relying on the tactic of two centers relying on the winger's diagonal lob, but this time Hamburg did not get too many benefits from Monchengladbach.

Because this time, Borussia's veteran coach Favre has regarded Hamburg as a truly strong team and has begun to focus more resolutely on defensive counterattacks!

Of course, there is another important reason for Borussia's disastrous defeat last time, and that is the early departure of the team's card master Xhaka.

This time, Xhaka obviously learned the lesson from last time and played more calmly in the game. He also gave full play to his characteristics of large coverage area and strong defensive ability, so that Hamburg's midfielder did not occupy too much.

of cheapness.

Rudiger's suspension and absence caused Hamburg to encounter some difficulties in launching the offense in the backcourt.

With fewer attack initiation points, it will be easier for the opponent to defend you.

The game continued until the 78th minute of the second half. Hamburg still took advantage of the opponent's physical decline and relaxation of concentration after the opponent's strict defense. De Bruyne hit a world wave from the top of the penalty area and finally achieved victory.

A goal!

Once Hamburg takes the lead, Borussia, which is already inferior to its opponent in terms of strength, is a little helpless if it wants to come back.

This score was maintained until the end.

Hamburg wins five consecutive victories!

However, this winning streak was ended in the next round of competition.

Hamburg drew with Hannover 96 1:1 away from home, drawing with their opponents in both rounds.

When summing up after the game, Pan Yi made a profound reflection on himself.

He believed that his failure to win was due to his insufficient study of Hannover 96's formation.

Hannover 96’s starting lineup is as follows:

Forwards: Briam Diouf, Abdullah.

Midfielder: Justi, Pinto, Hoffmann, Jakonen.

Defenders: Poconioli, Schultz, Djurou, Chahid.

Goalkeeper: Ziller.

It was also a 4-4-2 formation, and it looked the same as Monchengladbach who played in the previous round, so Pan Yi relaxed his vigilance a little and continued to play according to the previous round's playing method.

But Monchengladbach is in a parallel position of 442, while Hannover 96 is in a dish-shaped position of 442!

This formation is not very common in world football. Even in Pan Yi's system courses, no famous coach used this formation, which made him somewhat neglected.

"Because the midfielders of the 442 dish-shaped midfield formation are distributed in two lines, overall, this formation will have four lines, including one forward line, two midfield lines, and one defender line."

"Because this formation has more people in the center of the field, the 442 saucer-shaped midfield formation makes it difficult for opponents to break through from the center, and the team's numerical advantage in the center can also be reflected when attacking. The team's 4 saucer-shaped midfielders

The two-line arrangement of positions is not only conducive to the passing coordination between players, but also facilitates each other's response and movement."

"Hannover 96's four midfielders have a high degree of tacit cooperation, so when they use this formation, their advantages on the offensive end can be fully utilized."

The summary after the game is very important.

When you win, you need to sum up, and when you lose, you need to sum up even more.

At present, this tradition has been formed within the Hamburg team, so that common progress can be achieved through constant business exchanges.

Naturally, the coaches listened particularly carefully to the summary that started after Pan Yi issued a "sinful edict."

Pan Yi pointed to both sides of the tactical list:

"Although the 442 dish-shaped midfield formation deploys a large number of players in the center, the offensive focus of this formation is not on the center, but on the left and right wings and the left and right rib areas of the court."

"The offensive idea of ​​​​this formation is to effectively drive the advantage of the team's midfield to radiate to the side and rib areas, perfectly combining the team's sides, center and ribs to make full use of the space on the field.

, forming an effective siege in the opponent’s defensive third zone.”

"However, as the defender, the middle area is in principle a heavily guarded area, and the effect of positional warfare attacks against us here will inevitably be ineffective."

"Unfortunately, the saucer-shaped midfield formation is on the wing, but there are very few personnel in the ribs. There are only two full-backs on the left and right who can be used without moving. How did they deal with this situation?

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"The answer is orderly rotation, switching and movement between players. This formation uses a two-forward combination, and the coach usually chooses a fulcrum center with strong physical confrontation - in Hannover 96, it was Briam Dee.

Uf, paired with another striker Abdullah who is more mobile."

"A reasonable combination of the two can complement each other's advantages. At the same time, the more flexible forward can also play a role in frontcourt support, support and running without the ball."

"We can have a deeper understanding of how this tactic works by looking at what they did before the goal."

Pan Yi picked up the remote control again and pressed the play button.

The game screen that had been paused on the big screen started moving again.

"Their forward Abdullah began to make large-scale lateral movements when the team was attacking to complete his task of supporting attacks on the left and right sides."

"And the full-back Chahid, when his own offense took the initiative, began to support the team's offense by running."

"What's worth noting here is that one of their two defensive midfielders is left behind when the team is attacking to prevent our counterattack."

"During this attack, one of their midfielders, Hoffman, moved forward. When Hoffman moved forward to participate in the attack, the other midfielder Pinto began to rotate to fill in.

, to ensure the stability of the formation."

"After such a rotation, we saw that they began to surround us in the flank area. The surround here is not only reflected in the numerical advantage, but more importantly, the flexibility of the players' understanding of tactics and the diversity of movement positions."

"So our defense was a little stretched. After several passes, the ball came to Abdullah's feet, and he passed it across the goal. At this time, all Diouf had to do was to push the ball gently into our goal.

inside."

The conference room was quiet, but the coaches were nodding.

Pan Yi retold the entire process of Hamburg's goal loss in great detail, which also gave everyone a more intuitive understanding of Hannover 96's 442-disc midfielder's offensive system.

Having listened to the likes of Inzaghi and Nagelsmann a lot, I think it's okay. Anyway, what else does coach Pan Yi not know?

But Pintus is different.

Although he has worked with many head coaches, there is really no one who can explain a tactic so thoroughly!

So he was amazed while taking notes.

At the same time, he was also glad that he followed Pan Yi to Hamburg so decisively - what, the main reason was that the salary doubled? No, I, Pintus, am also a man who will be the head coach in the future!

But at this time, Pan Yi looked at Pintus again, and praised him again off guard:

"Since I was not wary of Hannover 96's tactics and they scored first, why didn't I lose in the end?"

"I think it still depends on coach Pintus's strict requirements on the players, so that their physical fitness has really reached a very high level."

As an old man in his fifties, Pintus was "sneak-attacked" by such a young man in his twenties. He was praised and praised, and he even touched his head and laughed in embarrassment.

Pan Yi smiled and then said:

"When the game lasted for more than 70 minutes, because we counterattacked more fiercely, I also asked our players to avoid their heavily guarded area in the middle and focus on the wings. At this time, the physical gap between the two sides began to show. Hannover 96

The players also felt that it was difficult to defend."

"So, they took the initiative to seek changes. In order to make up for the weakness of this formation on the wings when defending, the two attacking midfielders began to move to the wings. At this time, the forward player Abdullah also retreated to the center.

, to fill the vacancy in the attacking midfielder position."

"After fighting for a while, they felt it still wasn't working, so the two attacking midfielders continued to move diagonally behind, forming a 4-4-2 parallel midfield formation."

"Although it was a change of formation due to a decline in physical fitness, at this time, they inadvertently entered an area we are familiar with."

"We started to block their two midfielders like the 4-4-2 against Borussia Monchengladbach, preventing them from having a stable outlet."

"And because Hannover 96's 442 is extremely demanding on the physical fitness of the two full-backs, when they cannot smoothly go back and forth between the two penalty areas, the spaces on both wings are very obviously exposed in front of us."

"Our goal came here, and this is one of our best offensive methods. Casemiro made a long pass behind Chahid, and Son Heung-min jumped in at high speed to get the ball."

"The opponent's center back must move laterally to cover the position at this time, but at this time our back-end Vardy and Wu Lei are already in place."

"Then it's a plot we are familiar with. Vardy took away another central defender, Wu Lei was unguarded, and he succeeded in shooting and equalized the score!"

At this time, Nagelsmann raised his hand:

"So, if the opponent has good physical fitness and insists on using a 442 dish midfielder to deal with it, what should we do?"

Pan Yi said with a smile: "You discovered it. I talked about it for a long time, but I really didn't mention the initial response method."

"I mentioned just now that this is a formation where the personnel are relatively concentrated in the middle. So, the basic idea to crack them is to specifically deploy players on the wings, or even let our front midfielders and defensive midfielders come in to support."

"In this way, their full-backs and midfielders have to leave their original positions in order to mark our wide players, and the team's entire formation will be damaged."
To be continued...