Coaching career started as a college team coach

"Wei doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all." Martin Taylor said with some surprise, "He and the opposing coach should know that if they want to qualify, they can't lose this game."

"Gasperini's state is more like a winning coach." Martin Taylor joked, "Wei looks like he has obtained a VIP seat very close to the stadium."

Lineker smiled, but didn't say anything, but he felt that it was not that simple.

What is Wei Le doing at this time?

He is still chatting.

"Boss, will they really 'lose balance' as you said?" Haaland, who was sitting next to him, asked curiously.

Wei Le smiled, "Just tell me whether you believe it or not, and I'm done."

"I believe it, I definitely believe it." Haaland blinked, "But if it's really like what you said, then the Atlanta team seems a little...stupid?"

"How can it be called stupid?" Wei Le rolled his eyes, "This situation has happened to us before, but we have adjusted back in the end."

"As for whether Atlanta can adjust, um..." Wei Le touched his chin.

Offensive and defensive balance is a key part of football, which means that a team can always keep clear thinking during the game.

The speed of attack and defense conversion in modern football is very fast. The team may be attacking in the last second, and the next second the ball is lost and it has to switch to defense. And a good team can quickly adapt to everything that happens on the court.

Why is Wei Le not in a hurry at all? Because Wei Le just wants Atlanta to lose its offensive and defensive balance!

Except for those teams with excellent tactical execution ability, most teams can definitely not reach 10 players who can attack at the same time in the game. Similarly, when defending, there are less than 10 people who can be used for defense (except the goalkeeper).

In most cases, at least two defenders will be delayed when attacking in the frontcourt, and in the process of defense, some offensive players who are pressed higher cannot run over.

To a certain extent, the more people attacking in the frontcourt, the fewer people can quickly defend when switching between offense and defense.

Although in theory, after the concept of "all-out attack and defense" was proposed, most teams are pursuing all players to grab the ball back in the first second after losing the ball.

However, in high-intensity games, players' physical and mental strength will actually make them "lazy" at times. They may take a walk when more people run back immediately, or they may not be so focused and be far away from the defensive players they need to guard.

The game lasts 90 minutes, the stadium is very large, and the players are not robots after all, so they will get tired. This is understandable, and it is also the difference between football tactics and reality.

At the same time, the ball always rolls faster than people. It is difficult for people to catch up with the speed of the ball. Even if a player in a high position starts to chase back immediately after losing the ball, it is still difficult for him to keep up with the opponent's advance speed.

It is difficult for him to bring any help to his own defense.

So since there is such a situation, a team must be prepared.

The most basic manifestation is that during the game, no team will rush all 10 people when attacking, leaving the goalkeeper in the backcourt.

This is unrealistic, because once the ball is stolen, the opponent can face the goalkeeper directly.

Obviously, the offensive 1-0-10 formation is impossible in modern football. It is more likely to be a 4-4-2, 4-3-3 formation. In this case, the decision to maintain the balance of offense and defense during the attack may be to leave a full-back in the backcourt to assist the midfield in interception.

Or leave an extra midfielder to drag back and not enter the offensive third zone.

In any case, the purpose of doing this is to prevent the opponent from getting the ball and the team from attacking and being unable to defend effectively.

"The characteristic of the Atlanta team is that they press forward in large numbers during the attack, so they are more likely to be counterattacked." Wei Le told the players this in the locker room, "But Gasperini is very smart. He requires a wingback to always be in the backcourt during the attack."

"Either on the left or on the right. In short, one thing that can be determined is that in theory, Atlanta will only have one wingback."

"But pay attention to what I said, 'in theory'." Wei Le smiled and motioned to Celars to turn on the projector, which showed a video of a game of Atlanta.

At the last moment of the game, the score was still 0-0, and both of Atlanta's wingbacks pressed forward!

Their three midfielders were all in the frontcourt, and there were only three central defenders in the backcourt!

Fortunately, they were not counterattacked in this game. But such an extreme lineup also reflects that Atalanta will actually lose the balance of offense and defense at the critical moment of the game.

"They will be impatient, which is their shortcoming because they don't have Rodri!"

Wolves are unlikely to have such a situation, because their engine Rodri plays the role of "slowing down", and he will always pay attention to whether the Wolves' formation is in chaos.

But unfortunately, Rodri is a treasure found by Wei Le, and such treasures are not common.

"Losing the balance of offense and defense, isn't this the space for us to play?" Wei Le gestured with his hand to the breakthrough route of the Wolves. When the number of people is superior, the Wolves have a thousand ways to break the opponent's goal!

This is the pride of the Wolves.

And this game is a key game. If Atalanta loses, they will not be able to advance to the knockout stage of the Europa League! This is unacceptable to Gasperini.

For Atalanta, who is wholeheartedly trying to achieve results, it is unacceptable!

This is why they must, will definitely attack fiercely.

As they were attacking, maybe at some point, the wingback who was responsible for trailing back couldn't help but rush forward...

The left wingback Castagne wiped the sweat from his head and looked at the time ticking on the big screen. It was already 40 minutes.

From the first half until now, Atalanta still hadn't been able to score a goal at Wolves' home ground. At this point, he didn't have much hope of qualifying.

If it continued like this, Castagne was not sure if Atalanta could score the winning goal in the second half.

Because Wolves' defense was indeed not weak.

But in the previous attack, because no one went up to the left to respond, Alekjandro had to choose to shoot by himself. But the problem was that Castagne was asked to stay behind when the wingback on the other side pressed forward.

It was really helpless. Castagne sighed.