In the head coach's office at the Carrington Training Base, Gao Han and four core coaching team members sat around the coffee table.

The office door was closed, the air conditioner was turned on inside, and the tea fragrance was filled with wisps of light smoke floating from the coffee table.

"The management has agreed to my recommendation and is currently arranging someone to go to Blackburn to talk to David Feffrey about his personal treatment and willing to pay him a penalty to allow him to come to work in Manchester City as soon as possible."

David Fefrey, forty-seven years old, was an Englishman. He started working at Manchester United in the early 1990s and worked as a team doctor. He made a lot of contributions to Manchester United's outstanding record in the 1990s. After the Red Devils won the triple crown, he chose to leave Manchester United, switched to Blackburn, and worked until now.

Gao Han was not familiar with the English team doctors, but after firing two Manchester City team doctors, he urgently needed to hire a high-level physiotherapy team. Brian Kidd, who also worked at Manchester United for many years, mentioned David Fefrey to Gao Han, who was very sure of the team doctor's strength.

Even in the original words of Brian Kidd, if David Feverrey was there, Ferguson probably wouldn't have built a mistake on Stam's body that could not be relieved, because Ferguson thought that Stam was unable to recover from his long-term injury.

Out of caution, Gao Han also used his keen eyes and found that David Feverrey's medical level was indeed very high and reached a full value. Not to mention the two before Manchester City, even compared with the team doctors of other giant teams such as Manchester United, his level was still much higher. He was indeed a trustworthy team doctor.

After the inspection, Gao Han immediately notified the management and recommended David Fefrey.

But what Gao Han wants to talk about today is not David Fevery’s business, what he wants to talk about is the team.

After announcing David Fefrey's incident, Gao Han shook Sergio Garcia, who immediately took out a document, opened it, took out a piece of A4 paper, placed it in the dry place of the coffee table for everyone to see.

I saw that the comparison chart of the ball possession rate of Manchester City in various areas of the stadium in the past few warm-up matches.

Through this chart by Sergio Garcia, everyone present can clearly see that Manchester City's ball possession rate is indeed superior to their opponents, especially in the midfield line to their own half-court area, where the ball possession rate is far ahead of the opponents.

But when it reaches the 30-meter area, especially at the front of the penalty area, the ball possession rate has dropped significantly.

Although Brian Kidd has just worked with Gao Han, he has been working with him for a month and has begun to understand Gao Han’s style of work and can also understand the difference between Gao Han and his team and many other Premier League teams in data analysis.

It should be said that Gao Han’s team is more advanced and pays more attention to data comparison.

"Look at the next one." Gao Han waved his hand again.

Sergio Garcia immediately took out the second chart, which was a passing route map for Manchester City in various areas of the stadium in a certain game. The success was black, but the failure turned into red, which was particularly conspicuous.

What makes many people feel strange is that the red lines with the most mistakes appear more in the opponent's 30-meter area to the front of the penalty area.

If it was just a game, it could be said to be accidental, but as Sergio Garcia put down one by one chart, everyone clearly saw that almost every game had the most passing and receiving mistakes in this area.

Of course, from a practical point of view, if the opponent has deployed heavy troops in the half of the team, and Manchester City will definitely be subject to tenacious defensive resistance when they enter this area. Whether it is the increase in ball possession rate or pass-and-receive errors, this is normal.

In other words, these charts show that Manchester City has attacked this area and has been subjected to tenacious defensive snipers.

"What do you think?" Gao Han asked lightly.

Brian Kidd, the chief assistant coach, looked up, glanced at the others, and thought for a while, "I think it's mainly because we don't have enough ways to deal with the opponent's intensive defense."

"Continue." Gao Han nodded.

Brian Kidd also understood Gao Han's temperament and continued boldly: "I think this has a lot to do with our lack of wing offensive players. Our opponents are very clear that we can't compete with the ball, so they gave up on the ball, instead laying heavy troops at the front of their own penalty area, first protecting their own goal, and then focusing on our counterattack."

Gao Han nodded. It should be said that Brian Kidd's judgment was correct.

Or it should be said that his understanding of his opponent is correct.

In four warm-up matches, Manchester City conceded four goals and one goal in each game, which made Gao Han very dissatisfied.

But what made Gao Han even more dissatisfied was that he was hit by his opponents many times in the game and only lost four goals. That was thanks to Kompany and Peter Cech's outstanding performance, otherwise he would have lost more.

Brian Kidd is an old Premier League fry, and he has a thorough understanding of his opponent's mind. They do adopt this tactical style. When Manchester City controls the ball in the first half, they organize defense slowly to save energy. Once they enter their half, they immediately increase the pressing efforts.

"If we have two full-backs in normal times, we should transfer the ball to the side when we encounter the opponent's sniper in the middle, and the full-back and the winger form a breakthrough in the wider area of ​​the wing, and then pass the ball back into the penalty area, which will then form a threat."

The offensive difficulty of positional battles is already very difficult, and many teams with full-backs are difficult to break. What's more, Manchester City has no full-back at all. The opponent's side only needs to stare at a Cristiano Ronaldo who cuts in from the left and a right assaulter Sanchez, to curb Manchester City's side attack.

Not to mention the Premier League, even the professional teams in the second and third-level leagues that Manchester City encountered in the warm-up match can be done, so Manchester City's warm-up match will be so frustrating.

"So, my opinion is that we should consider going back to the four-back."

Brian Kidd's opinion made Gao Han smile slightly, nodded in admiration, and signaled that he had heard it.

Buenaventura and Pedro Haro are physical coaches and goalkeepers, and they will not give much advice on the team's arrangement. Gao Han looked at Sergio Garcia, who curled his lips.

"I think what he said makes sense."

Gao Han smiled and wanted to slap him, but shook his head, "My thoughts are a bit different from those of Brian."

"Oh?" Brian Kidd was surprised.

As the team's chief assistant coach, he is also to blame for the warm-up matches, so he has been under a lot of pressure over the past period of time and has been studying this issue. He also hopes to take this opportunity to prove his strength to Gao Han. After all, he is a newcomer and has just joined Gao Han's team.

In order to make this summary, he has watched the game video many times over the past period of time. He has put in a lot of effort to draw this conclusion by himself, especially combined with the data analysis by Sergio Garcia, which is reasonable and convincing. Why does Gao Han even say that he has different opinions from him?

"Of course, I'm not saying that there is something wrong with your analysis, but we look at the problem from different perspectives." Gao Han first stabilized his chief assistant coach's mind to avoid misunderstandings.

"Then your idea is..."

"I think our problem has nothing to do with how our opponents defend. The main reason is that we are not doing well enough in many aspects, which makes our opponents look like they are well-defended."

Everyone present understood Gao Han's words.

Everything that happens on the football field is relative.

It’s like Manchester City cannot break through the opponent’s defense line. It may be because the opponent’s defense is very good, but it may also be because Manchester City’s offensive organization is particularly bad. So what is the reason?

This has to be viewed from the perspective of analyzing the problem.

After hearing this, Brian Kidd became interested and said that he would listen with ease.

"Look at this chart of ball possession rate and then the pass route map. Have you found an interesting phenomenon, that is, after entering the opponent's half, our ball possession rate dropped by a large margin, and the passing success rate suddenly decreased a lot."

Sergio Garcia's data charts are very intuitive, clear and clear at a glance.

"I think a very important reason is that once our ball enters the opponent's half, the pass and catch the ball becomes unpatiable, especially in the position in front of the diamond-shaped midfielder. Neither Ellano nor Stephen Ireland can calmly hold the ball under the opponent's press."

"I said early on that if we cannot form a good and patient ball control within the opponent's thirty-meter area, our high-level pass control and oppressive play will collapse and have no effect."

"But you can recall the game process. As soon as our ball enters this area and the opponent strengthens the pressing, our pass control will become impolite, which will directly lead to our pass-and-receive mistakes, especially when the opponent has already stood in the defensive position and organized the defense line."

"With the lack of patience in passing and controlling the ball, it is difficult for us to create threats in the front of the opponent's penalty area and then get the opportunity to cut into assists. This is the most serious problem we are facing now."

If you want to talk about the wing, Gao Han does not have special wing attacking players, but there are many offensive methods on the wing.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Sanchez are both good players on the wing, Benzema can also pull to the wing at any time, and David Silva and Modric can also pull to the wing according to the situation on the field, which is not a problem.

Manchester City definitely does not lack the means and strength to open up the width of the offensive, but the problem is that when the opponent organizes defense and stands well, the efficiency of the offense on the wing is very low.

At this time, the most effective offensive method is to create gaps in the opponent's defensive formation movement through patient passes and pulls, and then cuts into creating threats, or even score goals.

Ellano and Stephen Ireland have been recognized by Gao Han and are unable to compete for the position of breaking forward and front midfielder. They cannot replace the role Kaka can play in this position. At least it is difficult for them to maintain the team's calm and patient pass-through control alone.

After listening to Gao Han's analysis, everyone combined the data charts and the situation in the competition, they had to admit that Gao Han's analysis was indeed very reasonable.

In the pass-and-control style, the purpose of the wing attack is not to break through, but to attract the opponent's defensive players to the wing through the ball on the wing, and to widen the opponent's defensive team, so that the attacking players on the wing can better complete penetration and advancement in the middle.

Therefore, in theory, in the style of ball control, there is no problem with the goal of this tactical purpose on the wing road, the full-back can be used, the winger can be used, and the central defender can be used, even the central defender can be used.

But now the problem with Manchester City is how to pass the ball patiently to the front of the opponent's penalty area and create murderous intent.
Chapter completed!