Coaching career started as a college team coach

///I was crazy during the holiday. I slept all day yesterday and all day today. I didn't pay much attention to the update. I will write one chapter today to answer my question ///

"How to limit Wolves?"

This question has been raised by different coaches during this period.

Today, it is the turn of tactical master Moyes.

Wolves are currently ranked fifth in the league, while West Ham United is ranked twelfth in the league. It stands to reason that West Ham United is a team with no wishes or demands, after all, they are far away from the relegation zone.

They are also far away from the area where they can play in the cup competition.

But for this West Ham United, the result of twelfth in the league is indeed difficult to satisfy.

In the West Ham United lineup, Joe Hart is the goalkeeper, and Arnautovic, Andre Ayew, Lanzini and Antonio are in the frontcourt.

In the midfield, there is the famous veteran Kouyate and the talented new star Rice. The back line includes familiar names such as Zabaleta and Cresswell, and central defender Ogbonna also had a brilliant resume in Juventus.

From this point of view, the result of ranking 12th, not even in the top half of the league, is not good enough.

Crystal Palace and Bournemouth, which have weaker lineups, are ahead of West Ham United. Teams like Burnley and Leicester City are not invincible.

However, West Ham United failed to get into the state at the beginning of the season, resulting in a lot of points lost in key games.

Moyes is a little worried. After the previous head coach, Croatian rock coach Slaven Bilic, who looks very similar to Klopp, was dismissed, his position as coach is also not stable.

The club's requirement for him is actually to ask the team to at least break into the top half.

At present, Moyes cannot meet the expectations of the board of directors and is very likely to be dismissed after the end of the season.

How to win the trust of the team? Moyes can only seek better results when playing against strong teams.

For example, Wolves. Yes, Wolves are already considered a strong team, and Wei Le would be very happy if he heard it.

West Ham United had to fight hard with Wolves. In fact, it was because when Moyes evaluated the strength of Wolves, he thought that the paper strength of Wolves was actually...relatively not that strong.

But this relative is only relative after all.

According to the data provided by the scouts to Moyes, the "known" paper strength and expected level of Wolves' players are far weaker than what they show in reality.

For example, De Paul, before coming to Wolves, basically stood in the position of right winger. But apart from his hot temper and good skills, he didn't show any special abilities.

Since the first time South Americans landed in Europe, De Paul seemed to have been replaced on the plane on the way there.

Judging from the data before coming to Wolves, scouts think that De Paul is unlikely to become a talent. After all, no team is willing to cultivate such a powder keg.

Maybe he has excellent skills and dribbling ability in Argentina, and is good at breaking through the wing.

So what?

It is not an easy process to adapt from South American football to European football. In the end, there are many examples of players who performed well in the South American league but failed to adapt to the European environment.

De Paul will probably be one of them.

After coming to Wolves, everything changed. De Paul was arranged in the middle instead of the wing. It was like a different person. He suddenly had the ability to organize the attack forward.

Why didn't anyone discover his offensive organization talent before?

Who knows? !

Valencia, who once put him on ice, never thought that the midfielder they sold at a low price would have a second spring in the British Isles. It is not appropriate to say that it is a second spring. Perhaps it can only be regarded as a young player who finally got on the right track after setbacks.

In Wolves, De Paul helped the offense a lot. In the Premier League, after Wei Le made tactical changes, De Paul's linking ability and good endurance were just right for this style of play.

Valencia even wanted to buy De Paul back, but where could they buy him back? Regardless of whether Wolves are willing or not, De Paul himself is actually not happy!

Here, his bad temper has also improved a lot. He has gained the trust of the head coach, and everything is developing in the direction he expects.

Why does he want to return to Valencia?

Is it just because Valencia is his "old club"?

De Paul is just an example. People including Rodri and Bowen have greatly improved their strength after coming to Wolves.

This creates a lot of trouble for evaluating their true abilities. Which one is true? Past performance or current performance?Will the current performance be just a flash in the pan?

In any case, compared with those famous players, Wolves players look more mysterious, which makes Moyes dare not underestimate Wei Le.

This is about the tactics of the Wolves.

In these few games, the Wolves' tactical play has changed greatly from the play at the beginning of the league.

Suddenly, Wei Le realized the essence of the three central defenders, and actually let a full-back receive the midfielder, and then formed a retro 3-2-2-3? The highlight of this square-shaped midfield has been discovered by many head coaches.

Some head coaches have begun to try to learn, but they all find it difficult to learn well.

To achieve control of the midfield, from diamond to square, there are still four people, what is the difference? Is it really just turning the shape sideways that makes the team look different?

Moyes has a very high tactical understanding. He has understood Wei Le's original intention, which is actually to add more people in the frontcourt to form a numerical advantage of five people against four people and six people against five people.

Then look for offensive opportunities from the ribs.

At the same time, the four midfielders form a circle in the middle, and work together with the wingers on both sides to strangle the opponent's attack, combined with high-position pressing, and quickly launch a counterattack.

That's what they said, but the tactics are not that simple.

Moyes knows that if he just told his team the above, his team will be confused.

Because the tactics are not designed like this.

Just like the ball-passing stage, we all know that we need to design more receiving points in the backcourt, but how to do it?

Some teams let the full-backs retract and the central defenders push forward; some teams just let everyone run forward and then play long passes.

Wolves' usual routine is to form a 3-2 ball-passing system, with one of the two central defenders standing in the penalty area, near the goalkeeper, while a central defender and a full-back pull to the side.

A midfielder and an inward full-back retreat, they can provide more options for passing.

And there are three midfielders in front to protect, which successfully established their attack.

Tactics are not just telling players "you need to form a numerical advantage in attack", but telling each player in detail "where you need to run, the ultimate goal is to form a numerical advantage".

Because of this, analyzing Wolves' tactics becomes very complicated, because each player's tactical flexibility is very strong, and their tactical play in the frontcourt is very flexible and very "casual".

A midfielder sometimes goes to the front line and sometimes retreats to the position of central defender.

There are also many horizontal rotations between players' positions, but each player knows what he should do and where he should run.

The tactical master is distressed - this Wolves team is not simple.