Chapter 137 Professor Wenger

Chapter 137 Professor Wenger

Fiorentina's advancing speed is fast, and Arsenal's destructive ability in the middle is not comparable to a team like Chelsea that treats the midfield as a gun mount.

Speaking of which, Arsenal really doesn't look like an English team. Under Wenger's leadership, they pay more attention to ground cooperation, centering on Fabregas, advancing layer by layer, and actively using the two sides. Attack more, and the same is true when defending. Unlike Barcelona's inverted triangle defensive formation, their defense pays attention to layering, just like Milan. Often the first line of defense has not been broken by the opponent, and the second line of defense is the same. It has been organized and the integrity of the squad has been maintained at all times.

This is Wenger, who has coached Arsenal for more than ten years, and this team has already been branded with him from top to bottom.

Of course, Wenger's tactics often attract criticism from others. Ferguson once laughed at Wenger's plan to turn all his players into robots. Which leg to step first must be entered in the program in advance, but we have to admit that Wenger's strict tactics The arrangement worked very well, and with this tactic, it brought Arsenal a glorious period.

If it weren't for the construction of the Emirates Stadium, if it wasn't for the club's business philosophy, with Wenger's coaching ability and Arsenal's deep heritage, it might not be possible to establish an Arsenal dynasty in the Premier League.

"The two sides did not intend to test it at all from the very beginning. Fiorentina invested a lot of troops in the offense, and Arsenal's defense was also very firm. The two sides launched a fierce fight in the midfield!"

Wenger stood on the sidelines with his shoulders up. Although the ball was under Fiorentina's control after the start, he was not in a hurry at all. He was very confident in the team's defense.

Fiorentina tried to transfer the ball into the penalty area twice, but the two central defenders judged the position in advance and pushed it out.

What worries him is the team's offense. Neither Adebayor nor Eduardo is the kind of player who can attack with the ball. In this regard, there is a big gap between them and Van Persie, but it is a pity that Van Persie is injured.

But it doesn't matter. In this game, Wenger's tactical arrangement is to fight against Fiorentina in the first half to free up space for the opponent to attack. In the second half, Fiorentina's players can't attack for a long time, and they will definitely be impatient. In that case, their The opportunity is coming, don't forget, on the bench, Arsenal still has a little tiger Walcott.

Wenger was meditating in his heart: Don't worry! Don't worry!

His contract is only until the end of this season. Regarding whether to renew the contract, he has not yet made up his mind. His old friend left, which made him a little disappointed with the club, but even so, even if one day he really wants to leave, he I also hope to leave something for this team.

Counting now, it has been twelve years since I came to North London.

Although it has been a long time, Wenger can still remember every bit of his time at Arsenal. He remembers that when he first came, people were not convinced of him.

Especially the captain of the team, Tony Adams, looked arrogant when talking about Wenger's taking over: "What does this Frenchman know about football? He wears a pair of glasses and looks like a teacher. He must It can't be better than Graham. By the way, does he speak English well?"

Indeed, Wenger was the first foreigner to coach Arsenal. Before that, the proud English had never heard of his name. Many people felt that the board of directors had been completely overwhelmed.

The "Evening Standard" took the lead in using the sentence pattern that all major sports circles in the future, including nb, will never tire of doing it as the headline "Wenger, who is that?" ", to "welcome" his arrival.

At that time, Wenger came to Arsenal with such a nerdy expression, and then started to change Arsenal from all aspects.

One of the first things to do is to plant Wenger's banner on the top of the Arsenal dressing room. At that time, Arsenal's dressing room was a typical Anglo-Saxon clan, and the patriarch was Adams.

The bigwigs in the team are all addicted to drinking and don't take training seriously. On weekends, almost half of the team enters the stadium from the tavern.

But Wenger changed all this. He first persuaded Captain Adams, took the lead in banning alcohol, and made the locker room gradually move towards the path he designed. On the training ground, he subdivided the subjects and detailed each item The minutes and seconds and the energy consumed by athletes are quantified and scientific, which greatly increases the training efficiency.

In addition to training, he completely changed the team's diet, abolishing the previous series of British menus, and turning the former fish and chips into pasta and vegetable salad.

Especially on the match day, five or six hours before the start of the match, he asked the whole team to eat together, which has since changed the chronic problem of the team's lack of physical fitness in the second half.

Of course, the most significant change has been on the pitch.

Before Wenger took office, Arsenal was a well-known ugly team in England, especially in the Graham era, "dumb, boring, Arsenal", the Gunners were the laughing stock of England.

Wenger also admitted that he had heard about this before, but he didn't take it to heart. Since then he has led Arsenal to a completely opposite path. Offensive, smooth, and exciting will become his target style in the next ten years.

Wenger carried forward the unique talent of Bergkamp, ​​the ice prince who joined in the same year, and let this strong forward with a height of 185 go against the "barrel theory", which did not make up for his weakness of being tall but not good at heading. , On the contrary, he can support his teammates in front, back, left, and right, especially the talent of finishing the last pass inside and outside the penalty area is infinitely expanded. It even revitalized the previous monolithic attack line, and then successively called Vieira and Petit, Pires, Anelka, including Henry, Wiltord, etc., and built a strong Arsenal for several years. of the French Gang.

In the process of establishing a technical dn for the team's tactics, Wenger realized the Frenchization and gorgeousness of Arsenal. Unlike most young coaches who like to completely transform the team's offense and defense in order to establish a personal mark, Wenger showed patience and gentleness to the defense.

The five veterans of the defense in the Graham era are all retained, respect them, and reap the respect they return to the coach. Therefore, while undergoing technical transformation, the results did not regress in the slightest. On the contrary, after only less than two years after taking over, an undisputed double crown made Wenger famous all over the world.

What followed was Wenger's glorious period, with 49 unbeaten games and Henry's terrifying 39 goals. During the whole process, the princes of the Premier League faced Wenger's Arsenal helplessly and lost their armor.

The secrets in tactics can now be evaluated as follows: the previous traditional 4-4-2 is divided into two types, one is Manchester United's diamond-shaped 4-4-2, with the front and back in charge of offense and defense; the second is Arsenal's. Disc 4-4-2, double defensive midfielder defense, no front midfielder.

These two 4-4-2s, especially the former one, are very popular and widely accepted and used. Before the start of the undefeated season, Wenger, playing the 4-4-2 sign, started the first 4-2-3-1 revolution in the history of human football.

As the double defensive midfielders ensured the side defense, the left midfielder Pires began to cut in frequently and even crazily. Bergkamp waited in the middle at any time, using super High football quotient and technical support, and the forward who should be at the forefront, the left forward Henry, who was considered a waste by Serie A, began to rush forward in the vast left corridor like the Horqin grassland, meeting gods and killing gods, Meet the Buddha and kill the Buddha.

From the perspective of Arsenal's opponents, I can feel the despair caused by this change at that time. When attacking, the right midfielder and the front midfielder encountered the insurmountable Arsenal double midfielder like an iron tower. On the left are two tough guys who basically wait for the defense to steal the ball without attacking.

And when defending, he complained endlessly. Pires, who cut in from the wing, could pass, shoot, and cut in, and he was not at all like the traditional midfielder who received the ball from the midfield and advanced forward, which made the opponent's midfielder extremely uncomfortable. There must be one person close to Bergkamp at all times, and the other has to follow Henry to the midfield. This allows Henry to repeatedly dribble from behind the opponent's right midfielder and kill the right back first and then the center back.

What is even more painful is that if the defense leans too far to the right to help defend Henry, the space left in the left rib will be attacked by Ljungberg diagonally, and the two forwards will retreat to different areas, and the tactical arrangement of the double midfielder arching the defense Under the circumstances, the entire team has the sharpest blade as the left wing of 4231, and the two technical team players who are the most capable of passing the ball and have the same strong attack power. Tactical revolution.

The left midfielder Pires scored 23 goals in more than 40 games, even among all midfielders today, it can only be described as horror.

Admittedly, looking at it now, this kind of relentless movement is not for one's own personal assault, but to draw away the opponent's defensive force, create space for the three-person offensive team that inserts behind, and attack the opponent's center with the front midfielder. The area between the field and the back line is not uncommon, but it was like a fresh wind blowing over the British Isles at the time, and the multi-army coordinated operations under Wenger were fast and smooth, as well as various dazzling breakthroughs and passes. The combination allowed Arsenal to form an offensive style like mercury pouring down the ground, and it also surprised the Premier League fans who were accustomed to the midfielder organizing outside the penalty area and the striker bombing in the penalty area. This is Wenger's famous stage.

Of course, after 49 unbeaten games, there was no championship for many years, but this was not Wenger's mistake. First of all, the thing that had the greatest impact on Arsenal was the completion of the Emirates Stadium.

In 1999, Wenger promoted and participated in the plan to jointly write to the board of directors for a new stadium: "This project plays a decisive role in the club's survival in the world's highest level of competition. Either we risk building such a stadium or So we're dying competing with other big clubs."

Indeed, looking at the operating income before and after the stadium was built, we can see that Wenger was right.

However, since the beginning of the 2006/07 season, Arsenal's total liabilities have been as high as about 600 million pounds. The amount of mandatory current liabilities that needs to be repaid in a short period of time is huge, resulting in the need to spend a lot of money to repay current debts every year. Cash determines purchasing power. After the end of the first financial year, Arsenal had a lot of cash, and after the end of last season, it was as high as 90 million pounds, but the transfer budget actually allocated to Wenger was not much, because most of it had to be used to repay Short-term debts, as well as payment of various expenses, which eventually led to pennies on player transfer funds, became the source of Arsenal's sluggish transfer market since 2006.

2006 became a milestone and watershed for Arsenal. After selling Vieira, Henry and others at high prices successively, Wenger bought Adebayor, Rosicky, Walcott and others successively. The brilliant Fabregas, Flamini, Senderos and other young talents were integrated together to complete the reconstruction of the gorgeous team.

When these seeds of hope blossom and bear fruit, a brand-new Arsenal that is no less than the double champion and the undefeated team will stand majestically at the pinnacle of the top giants.

In such a grand plan, there is no need for strong signings in the next few years. Which club owner does not love such a head coach?

Especially after the start of this season, Wenger no longer has a superstar in his hand, and he does not expect to buy any superstar in the next few years. After Wenger set the rendering of the future stadium as a computer desktop, he resolutely The once again made a major overall change to the tactics.

Now the key point of Arsenal's offensive launch is no longer the striker's Henry the Great, nor the ice prince Bergkamp, ​​nor even the false left midfielder Pires, but the technical advantage of the entire midfield.

At this time, the midfield is mainly composed of four people on the field, Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb and Flamini, and the forward line is Adebayor and Eduardo. Through the division of labor and performance in the midfield Look at Wenger's new tactical thinking.

He was discovered by Wenger at the age of 15, entered the first team at the age of 16, and broke the record for the youngest goal at the age of 17. Wenger commented on him: "Mozart was able to play the piano very well when he was 6 years old, and I will never play it. Not as good, and some players at 17 years old, I never played at a level that I never reached, why? Because they are special talents."

This is Cesc Fabregas.

Accurate judgment, calm ball control and distribution, good overall view, super high ball quotient when looking for cooperation, and good shooting skills. He has never been stage frighted since he was a child. The bigger the scene, the better his performance. All these talents are integrated in one body, Wenger's love and expectations for him can be imagined.

Therefore, since the age of 16, Wenger has devoted himself to cultivating Fabregas as if he was raising his own son. The future of Arsenal's gorgeous football lies in the midfield, and the core of the midfield is Fabregas.

Fabregas has lived up to expectations, and his overall performance this season is definitely at the superstar level.

The core of the attack has been settled, the fighter group has a lead plane, and it is time to equip wingmen. Wenger first signed the "Green Mozart" Rosicky who was shining in the national team. With his superb skills and faster thinking speed, Rosicky looked very elegant and light when combing the midfield. In addition, he also has a talent that cannot be learned, passing the right ball forward at the right time.

Next is Hleb, which many people don't know. "White Russian Lightning" can often use amazing speed to get rid of opponents, and create goals and assists. His biggest feature is that the opponent cannot know what he wants to do next. He is especially good at The best way to score goals is to start from the midfield and go straight to the penalty area to score. Before Wenger successfully signed him, Hleb often staged a good show of "riding thousands of miles alone" goals in the Bundesliga. Long-distance attack king".

Combining the above three people, even if you are a new Gunners fan who has not watched the Arsenal games in those years, it is not difficult to find that the three of them have something in common, a super high golf quotient.

Wenger's purpose is very obvious, using three extremely smart, gifted and talented young midfielders to create the team soul of the Young Guards—creativity.

Maybe it's because after the Invincible's routines have been figured out by the Premier League teams, the professors have come to understand that no matter how sharp the tactics and staffing are, as long as the opponent understands your principles, sooner or later there will be a dead end. , the professor is determined to catch him off guard and catch him by surprise.

Let the opponent's defense line have no way of knowing who Arsenal will attack, how to tear apart the defense line, which area to focus on attacking, and when to launch a general attack. But one thing is for sure, Arsenal will create an unexpected situation with the skillful and accurate passing between the three No. 10s and the passing or breakthrough to the heart at any time.

In this 442 formation similar to 4132, Cesc Fabregas's position is not fixed. When defending, he and the full-time midfielder line up to protect the back line. At that time, the responsibilities were changed in turn from defensive midfielder, central midfielder, attacking midfielder, and shadow forward. With his tandem, Rosicky and Hleb were activated, and the two forwards actively ran to find gaps. Once the three No. 10s joined forces to form an attacking group Push the ball into the area between the opponent's midfield and back line, and then choose to shoot or continue to cooperate depending on the degree to which the opponent's defense line is pulled, until the ball is "passed" into the goal.

When Degan watched Arsenal games in his previous life, the two things he did the most were marveling at Arsenal's smooth flow, and regretting that he had to cooperate like this in the penalty area, otherwise he could score directly with a shot.

This season, although Arsenal's record is not brilliant, their magnificence has been completely sublimated. It is like a death roulette that makes opponents sleep in Arsenal's wonderful ball control. When they suddenly wake up, they find that the cold sword has pierced chest.

And these improvements were made after the reconstruction of Arsenal. In the summer of 2007, key players such as Ljungberg and Reyes were released. In the summer of 2006, Henry, Acor, Campbell and Pires were released. In 2005, they were released. Vieira, except for Gallas and Rosicky, the corresponding new recruits are young guys with little experience in professional leagues. Wenger commanded this group of vigorous young guards to play a world, the gun fans They are all full of beautiful vision for the future, and it seems that it is just around the corner to return to the top of Europe and make up for the regrets of 2006.

Arsenal has Wenger, so it also has Henry, with the current Fabregas, with the new stadium, with today and tomorrow. But for Wenger, Arsenal is a reasonable club, a good platform to showcase their talents.

I believe there will be no opposition from Arsenal fans. Wenger is the greatest coach in the history of Arsenal after the war.

Over the past ten years, Wenger's achievements for Arsenal are obvious to all. However, in addition to achievements, Wenger's contribution to Arsenal and the entire Premier League is also very prominent.

Graham has won a total of eight championship trophies for Arsenal, and Wenger has only seven so far, but no one has compared the two for a long time. In addition to the vast difference in the style of play and the scene, two double crowns and one unbeaten Premier League can be described as great.

Wenger is widely respected as a professor. From the point of view of his job, he is a football coach, but in the eyes of the majority of fans, it is far from that!

Wenger is a good teacher and helpful friend, an elder, and an idol. He is wise, self-denying, kind, believes in fairness and justice, emphasizes principles, and is dedicated. Of course, there may not be perfect people in the world, but if there are, then is it just Maybe Wenger?

First of all, as we all know, he is a coach. He brought gorgeousness to Arsenal. As for how he transformed Arsenal from a "boring egg" in the Graham era into a world-class gorgeous division, how to bring amazing smoothness and viewing to the rough and powerful Premier League . It is no exaggeration to say that Wenger created an exciting new Arsenal!

As a coach, Wenger is absolutely successful!

Don't say that there has been no championship for many years, the championship cannot measure everything. You can go and have a look at the results of financial investors like Arsenal, and then look at Arsenal's results, and you can get a relatively fair conclusion.

Of course, it's not that Wenger no longer pursues the championship, it's just that he has higher demands on himself. If football is regarded as a game, Wenger is playing at a "particularly difficult" or "crazy" level .

He is sticking to the traditional way, maximally relying on his own ability to achieve success and win the championship without taking advantage of external favorable factors.

Other coaches can use a joking tone, those who are richer themselves and invest more in the transfer market, play on normal difficulty, while those who are crazy about loans and investment, such as Real Madrid, such as Manchester City, they are starting to play. cheater.

There is no doubt that as a coach, Wenger is successful. In the eyes of ordinary fans, what is more dazzling about Wenger is the brilliance of his own humanity.

Looking at the world of football, there are countless coaches who have achieved success in terms of performance. It is undeniable that many coaches have achieved better results than professors, but why do professors enjoy so much praise and respect?

In the FA Cup match that year, Arsenal scored a goal to win the game when the opponent had a player injured and fell to the ground. After the game, controversy arose. Wenger took the initiative to propose a rematch to the FA. Just imagine how many coaches have such courage. Bergkamp scored in the replay and won. Although the opponents lost the game, they were convinced. Arsenal not only won the game but also won praise from all parties.

Wenger kept his promises and treated all players fairly. He once said that as long as there is a good performance on the training ground, there will be opportunities.

Almunia, who handles the goal for Arsenal on the field now, should know this best. At that time, Lehmann was not in good form, and Almunia got a chance, and he seized the opportunity, although the fans were always worried about him. , of course this has a psychological effect.

But Wenger has no psychological scruples. He gives everyone equal opportunities. As long as he performs well, he will always get opportunities. There are only eleven positions on the pitch, and Wenger is responsible for the team and fair to everyone.

Many young players around the world regard Arsenal as the palace of their dreams. Apart from the fair opportunities to play, what attracts them is this coach who values ​​and is good at training young players.

For twelve years, Wenger's life has been filled with football almost every day. Over the years, Wenger has been building his youth army, and he has been persistent, even called stubborn.

In fact, it is not difficult for anyone to figure it out, just like everyone has a dream, people pay and persist for it, Wenger is also like ordinary people, he is pursuing his dream, the difference is that his dream is more important than ordinary people Great, he is also more persistent.

Wenger deserves the title of greatness.

Because not every coach can succeed in three very different leagues, but Wenger did it, from Ligue 1 to Japan J-League, to the Premier League, maybe someone will mention Mourinho, but look at Mourinho For the money Neo spent, a stadium can be built.

Not every coach can deal with the club's old fritters after entering a new club and make them obedient. Look at Adams, the five veterans of the defense, absolutely violent, absolutely difficult to serve, but Wenger made them quit drinking .

Not every coach can take care of all aspects of the players so well. Providing players with scientific recipes may be nothing now, but it was different back then. At that time, even the most mature NB in ​​the sports league was just implementing it. Scientific diet.

Not every coach can bring good profits to the club. Looking at Magic Bird, perhaps the feeling is more profound.

Isn't every coach capable of having such charisma on a club's board? Ferguson? Yes, he has, and then what? Mourinho? He can talk, but will not be respected. Wenger is the king's speech on the board, while other coaches are often Ah San's complaints.

Not every coach in the league can maintain a strong contender for the league and a seat in the Champions League despite selling their main force every year. In the past twelve years, there are only four most stable clubs in Europe: Bayern, Manchester United, Arsenal Na and Real Madrid.

Not every coach can bring a stadium to the team, and not every coach of a club can participate in the construction and design of his team's new stadium.

Not every team's coach can put himself in the shoes of the club's future. Wenger's biggest contribution is not the Emirates Stadium, but more importantly, the UK's No. 1 Colney training base, the most scientific, advanced and comfortable training ground.

Not every coach is like Wenger, who is more familiar with players around the world than most f players.

Not every coach can be so unique and inject his own beliefs into the team.

Not every coach has such deep love for him even though he has not won a championship for many years.

Not every coach has the courage to challenge the authority of the gold dollar in the entire world. Just look at it now, even some small teams in the Premier League transfer costs are higher than Arsenal, but Wenger is using the most essential football investment to compete with the entire team. An impetuous world of competition.

Time flies, and the stars move!

More than twelve years have passed, and many people have said that Wenger may really be leaving this time, but even at the crossroads of life choices, Wenger still wants to do his best to bring Arsenal this A championship trophy that has never been touched.

On the court, the battle was fierce. Fiorentina took a shot from outside the penalty area and was directly caught by Almunia. After getting up, he threw the ball with one hand and launched an attack directly.

Arsenal's advancement speed is also very fast, and their utilization rate of the court is even higher than that of Fiorentina. As for Barcelona, ​​which only keeps short passes in the middle, it cannot be compared with it.

The role of Cesc Fabregas is constantly changing. When he was defending just now, he was still a defensive midfielder. When Almunia threw the ball, he immediately came to the position of a central midfielder. On both sides of him are Rosicki and Hleb, behind him is Flamini.

Fabregas received the ball, and Fiorentina attacked wildly for a while, and the formation seemed a bit messy, especially the space between the midfielder and the central defender was a bit big.

Fabregas immediately analyzed the form on the field. After receiving the ball, he did not let the football stay under his feet too much, and passed it to Hleb. Hleb took the ball and rushed towards the left side of the field.

For a while, Fiorentina's formation began to tilt in the direction of Hleb, and Fabregas and Rosicky rushed towards the front of Fiorentina's penalty area. Eduardo and Adebayor, who were originally forwards, were stuck in Over the penalty area line, attracting Fiorentina's defensive players.

Hleb's ball-handling skills are indeed top in the world, especially in the process of telling the push, the frequency of his feet is not slow at all, which makes Ma Qiao, who is in charge of defending him, dare not easily step down.

In Wenger's tactics, the two sides were originally very important, but after Ljungberg, Pires and Henry left, he gave up the two sides and hoarded heavy troops in the middle. Behind the opponent's full-back.

Although Ma Qiao returned to the defense in time, Hleb's speed had already increased. It was impossible for him to get stuck, so he could only keep retreating, giving way to a large defensive position.

Suddenly, Hleb's arch turned and pulled the ball horizontally to the right side of his body. Macho was shocked when he saw this, and Thiago Silva, who was assisting in the defense, rushed forward to prevent Hleb from cutting inside. .

But at this moment, Hleb passed the ball.

Wenger's eyes lit up, opportunity!