Chapter 529 Su Dong's Territory
In the last few days of training in Donaueschingen, Heynckes began to incorporate more technical and tactical drills into training.
Especially the inculcation of the team's tactical play for the new season and the running-in of the team's formation.
Four-two-three-one, this is the formation that Heynckes tailored for Bayern in the new season.
In his vision, the defense line should be pressed forward, which is a bit similar to Benítez's tactics, but he will not invest too much pressing and oppression in the frontcourt, but will instead use strong suppression in the midfield.
Because the defense line is pressed forward, it will be easier for the full-backs to participate in the frontcourt attack, and Bayern will be able to launch a counterattack faster after stealing the ball.
The configuration of double defensive midfielders is basically a combination of Schweinsteiger and Mascherano, but in actual games, Mascherano will be further back, Schweinsteiger's position will be more flexible, and Modric is not like an attacking midfielder, but closer to the double defensive midfielders, leaving the entire area in front of the penalty area free.
Su Dong himself is a center forward with a wide range of activities. Ribery and Robben's dribbling from the wing is their trump card, so the area in front of the penalty area belongs to the territory of the front trident.
In the offensive tactics in the front court, Su Dong is still the well-deserved core, firmly occupying the front court center and the penalty area. This is Su Dong's exclusive territory.
Ribery and Robben are on the two wings, and both players have superb personal abilities.
Robben is very good at dribbling and changing direction on the right. Su Dong has seen this in training. He has a very good sense of rhythm and his movements are very smooth. In a one-on-one situation, it is basically difficult to defend against him.
To put it simply, you know he is going to break through and cut inside, but you just can't defend him.
Ribery is also in trouble. He is short, agile, has very good ball control, skilled footwork and superb ball control ability, which makes it difficult for opponents to defend him when he takes the ball from the wing and cuts inside.
Robben and Ribery can be said to be among the strongest wingers in world football today. They have the ability to penetrate the defense alone. Opponents cannot defend against them in one-on-one situations, so they can only use two of them.
According to Heynckes's thinking, no matter which side the two players are on, once they get the ball, the opponent's defensive attention will definitely be tilted towards the side where the player with the ball is, and the other side will naturally be left open.
Unfortunately, Robben and Ribery both have strong enough personal abilities to protect the ball and transfer it, either to the other side themselves or to Modric or Schweinsteiger.
Everyone knows that the most important thing in football offensive tactics is to stretch the opponent's defense line.
The essence of Barcelona's ball possession tactics is to continuously stretch the opponent's defense through passing the ball until they reveal a flaw.
Ribery and Robben have such an effect on the wings, and by pulling on the opponent's defense, Su Dong in the middle can easily get more scoring opportunities.
In fact, as early as when he played for Barcelona, Ronaldinho and Messi played the same role, so Su Dong's goals set new records. After coming to Bayern, it became Ribery and Robben.
Ribery's ball handling is completely similar to Ronaldinho's, except that he lacks the Brazilian's spirituality. Robben's ability to dribble and challenge is no less than Messi's.
Of course, the prerequisite is to stay healthy.
As for the misunderstanding of many fans that these two players have too individualistic styles of play, this is indeed true, but the problem is that the time when they are most threatening is precisely when they have the ball and work alone. Once they complete a breakthrough and penetrate the opponent's defense, it is easy to create a threat.
Just like Ronaldinho.
When he played for Paris Saint-Germain, the Brazilian was often criticized for playing too independently and too sticking to the ball. But when he arrived at Barcelona, Rijkaard told him that it didn't matter, just take the ball and dribble it. It would be best to dribble it within the opponent's 30-meter area or at the front of the penalty area, so that the opponent would foul. That's our free kick.
Needless to say, Ronaldinho transformed from Ronaldo II to Ronaldinho.
Football is a sport of division of labor and cooperation. Especially in top clubs like Barcelona and Bayern, the division of labor will be more detailed, and different players will play different roles.
All I can say is that players like Ronaldinho, Messi, Robben and Ribery should get the ball more and make more breakthroughs.
Su Dong is also constantly changing his tactical role. For example, he basically no longer plays like he did in Valencia, because a lot of work can be done by his teammates around him, and he only needs to concentrate more on doing what he is best.
That is scoring goals! As for Bayern's introduction of traditional wingers and the traditional two-wing play style of breaking through and crossing the ball, it can only be said to be a step backwards. For Su Dong, not only will it not bring any benefits, but it will also tire him to death.
Why do you say that?
As we all know, crossing from the wing is a very inefficient offensive method.
So the question is, the space for attacking from the wing is larger than that from the center, and the difficulty of crossing is not high, so why is it inefficient? The real inefficiency is not crossing from the wing, but grabbing the ball in the center.
Given the current tight defense, Su Dong couldn't imagine how exhausted he would be if Bayern adopted this tactical style. He would have to deal with two central defenders in the middle at any time, and even with the retreating defensive players. Because of this, there has been a very obvious trend in football tactics in the past two or three years, that is, Beckham's side crosses have gradually fallen out of favor, and have been replaced by players like Ronaldinho, Ribery, Messi and Robben, who specialize in taking the ball from the side to attack the opponent's ribs.
Football tactics are always in an upward spiral. Perhaps many years later, the traditional cross-field passing style will be revived again, but in the foreseeable future, within five to ten years, flank attack will become the mainstream.
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After training in Donaueschingen, Bayern Munich set off for Hong Kong, China without stopping.
The Bundesliga giants were invited to participate in the Handover Cup Invitational Tournament to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China.
There are three games in total, one is the entertainment star league, and there are two highlights, namely Bayern Munich vs. Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Chinese national team vs. the World Team.
Su Dong is not a player of the Chinese national team and will only participate in Bayern Munich's match against Sao Paulo.
It was raining heavily when Bayern arrived in Hong Kong, but Su Dong was still warmly welcomed by the fans. Many fans even came to Hong Kong from the mainland just to see Su Dong in person and watch him play a game.
Especially during the training session after Bayern arrived in Hong Kong, the scene was even more heated. All the fans came for Su Dong, and even the heavy rain could not extinguish their enthusiasm for chasing Su Dong.
This made several Bayern stars feel envious and helpless.
In fact, no matter where he goes, Sudong is the most popular and most watched star in Bayern.
After the training session, Sudong and other players including Kahn attended commercial activities and fan meetings on behalf of Bayern. Sudong is still the most popular superstar among the media and fans. He patiently answered all questions and met the requirements of the fans from his home country one by one.
One of the media from the mainland asked about the German media's report that when Su Dong went to Prague, Czech Republic, he was accompanied by a female companion who was suspected to be Su Dong's girlfriend. The media reporter asked if this was true? Su Dong laughed awkwardly at first, but soon answered into the microphone: "Yes, I have a girlfriend!"
This answer caused the entire venue to explode.
Except for Kahn and others, no one present knew that Su Dong already had a girlfriend. When they first heard it, they were really surprised.
But if you think about it carefully, isn't this normal? Ribery has been married for several years, Robben is also married, and Su Dong has just got a girlfriend, which is already very late.
In Europe, professional players usually have one characteristic, which is early marriage.
This is caused by many factors, but early marriage is indeed very common.
After a moment of surprise, the media reporters and fans at the scene quickly sent their blessings to Su Dong.
Although he is very popular among female fans, Su Dong has never been an idol, so he doesn't need to worry that his relationship rumors will affect his commercial value or other things. On the contrary, it will further increase his influence.
Of course, Su Dong would not deliberately reveal his feelings.
Regarding his girlfriend, Su Dong only revealed that she is a Chinese girl. The two have known each other for many years and are very familiar with and understand each other. They also love each other deeply, so he called on media reporters to "show mercy."
This is actually equivalent to telling the media that he does not want his private life to be interfered with too much.
Su Dong can let them write about what happens on the court and let them scold him if he performs poorly, but in private, especially his love life, Su Dong does not want the media to dig too much into it and leave him some privacy.
Su Dong believes that the Chinese and foreign media should be able to understand what he said.
At his level, he actually doesn't need to consider the media at all, because he now has his own traffic, but Su Dong doesn't want his relationship with Wang Chuqing to be disturbed, so he still said it. This can be regarded as a kind of protection for his girlfriend.
He and the media often have a symbiotic relationship of cooperation and mutual benefit. They have a tacit understanding with each other, and he believes that media reporters will know what to do.
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As expected, the news that Su Dong personally admitted the existence of his girlfriend in Hong Kong spread around the world overnight.
Media all over the world heard the news, but basically maintained a tacit understanding and only revealed Wang Chuqing's name and occupation, and stopped short of revealing everything else.
The day after Bayern Munich arrived in Hong Kong, they faced Sao Paulo in Brazil.
This was Bayern's first game after the summer training camp, and they performed quite well, beating Sao Paulo 3-0.
Su Dong scored twice, Klose scored a goal after coming on as a substitute, Ribery and Robben started and played the first half with Su Dong, and they all performed well. Su Dong's second goal came from Ribery's wonderful pass.
It is worth mentioning that Hummels and Toni Kroos both came on as substitutes in the second half. The performances of the two young players were quite good and left a deep impression.
After playing against Sao Paulo, Bayern returned to Germany overnight and returned to the Donaueschingen training camp.
(End of this chapter)
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