Coaching career started as a college team coach

After the first game of the Europa League 1/16 finals, the result was not surprising.

The most surprising result was that Wolves defeated the traditional powerhouse Dortmund, especially since Wolves achieved this feat away from home at the "devil's home" Westfalenstadion.

The result of Wolves' game was not the only upset report.

After nearly 100 minutes of fierce battle at home, Nice lost 2-3 to Lokomotiv Moscow. Nice was not in good shape throughout the game, which made people doubt the competitiveness of the French Ligue 1 again.

However, Lyon's 3-1 victory over Villarreal at home seemed to prove that "Ligue 1 can still be played."

In Italy, Napoli, playing at home, was beaten by RB Leipzig three times and finally lost the game 1-3. This strong duel also attracted a lot of attention. Salzburg Red Bull, also under Red Bull, tied with Real Sociedad 2-2 away.

In fact, overall, although there were unexpected results in this round of games, most of them were still acceptable.

Predicting the score of the second round, most people think that Wolves are the most stable.

After the first round of games, Dortmund's board of directors is rumored to have discussed whether to change coaches before the end of the winter window, but more people are willing to continue to believe in Steger.

In this case, how much threat they can pose to Wolves at their home ground is indeed an unknown.

After a big victory in the Europa League, people suddenly discovered that this team, which first appeared in the intercontinental arena, had quietly come to the top five of the Premier League.

And the legendary experience of Wolves has been known by more and more people. At this time, everyone looked back at the games that Wolves had played before, and found that they even blocked Manchester City, which was in full swing at the beginning of the league!

And the smooth offense played by Wolves has also "circled" many football fans around the world.

But in such a favorable voice, a video began to spread in the domestic football circle.

This video was posted on Bilibili and a green professional football APP, but was soon reposted to other platforms. Amidst all the praise, this video has a striking title -

"The backcourt group is high - or a huge problem that caused the collapse of Wolves' defense"

The author of the video is familiar to football fans, the "Islington Tactical Room" which has become famous recently, and everyone knows that the real creator of this account is the current head coach of the Shanghai Port reserve team, Cai Huiqiang.

Cai Huiqiang is a professional football coach. Before Wei Le debuted, he was called the representative of the new generation of young coaches. Of course, this title was given to Wei Le after his debut.

However, Cai Huiqiang's account does make up for the gap in detailed football analysis that is missing among domestic football fans, and provides those who want to understand the game from a macro perspective and improve their tactical understanding with a lot of new ideas that they have never heard of.

His videos are well-made and of very good quality, and he has gained a lot of fans in a short period of time - after all, the base of the domestic fan group is ridiculously large.

Most viewers were actually a little surprised to see this title, because everyone knows that Cai Huiqiang and Wei Le have a good relationship, and they also know that Cai Huiqiang was able to create this account partly because of Wei Le's recommendation.

So Cai Huiqiang's analysis videos about the Wolves are basically praising the Wolves for doing well in some aspects.

This video was released before the war, but it had such a sharp title. Everyone didn't know what happened, so they clicked into the video with surprise and confusion.

It seems that Cai Huiqiang predicted everyone's doubts, so he showed a set of data at the beginning of the video.

"Ruben Dias, the main right center back of Wolves, is 187cm tall and weighs 83kg; Maguire, the main left center back of Wolves, is 193cm tall and weighs 95kg. Coady, the substitute center back, is the shortest among the Wolves defenders, 185cm tall and weighs 80kg. It is rumored that the young player Marcos Kilman, who is about to return to the team, is 194cm tall and weighs 90kg."

"These are the data of the center backs, let's take a look at the full-backs."

"The main right back is Kounde, 181cm tall; Doherty, the substitute right back, is 182cm tall. Alphonso Davies, the main left back in rotation, is 185cm; Tierney, the main left back in rotation, is 180cm tall."

After listing these data, Cai Huiqiang said, "We can see that the Wolves' back line, whether it is on the left, right or center, is above 180cm tall,In the last game, Kounde, Reuben, Maguire and Alphonso Davies started the game. The shortest player was the full-back Kounde, who was 181cm tall. "

"Now let's look at the midfield. Rodri is 191cm tall and weighs 82kg; Dendoncker is 188cm tall and weighs 85kg."

"At this time, the average height of the six players behind the midfield line is around 185cm, and the shortest is no less than 181cm. At this time, I must introduce a concept, 'backcourt group height'."

"What does 'backcourt group height' mean? It is actually very simple, that is, the height of a team's backcourt players is very tall. The current situation of Wolves is undoubtedly the best example of 'backcourt group height'. ”

When it comes to the selection of backfield players for Wolves, Wei Le prefers to choose versatile players, such as Kounde, who can play both as a central defender and as a right back; Dendoncker, who can play as a defensive midfielder and can also retreat as the third central defender.

Of course, for example, Coady, he could also play as a defensive midfielder before.

At this time, the two main players of Wolves' defensive midfielders are both very tall and strong players. This is intentional by Wei Le, in fact, to ensure the defensive hardness of the backfield.

"It's actually very good. Wolves have a very high success rate in headers in the backfield. Wolves' backfield players can basically make those tall and thin frontfield players who are not strong uncomfortable for the whole game."

"For example, in the last game, Rodri and Dendoncker's first line of defense forced Reus and Gotze to go back to a very deep place to receive the ball. Due to poor transmission in the midfield, Dortmund was forced to use long passes to launch attacks, while Wolves' backcourt was able to take advantage of high ball defense, which is why Dortmund was unable to play well in the last game. ”

But immediately, Cai Huiqiang's voice-over changed the topic: "But this is a double-edged sword. It has both good aspects and also brings some hidden dangers. "

Speaking of this, Cai Huiqiang played a video clip, which was a clip of the second half of the match against Dortmund. At this time, Reus was restricted very much, so coach Steger sent Goetze in the 70th minute.

After Goetze arrived, the scene was different. He played very flexibly in the frontcourt and provided support in various areas of the field. It was precisely because he was very flexible that the tall players in the backcourt of Wolves were actually clumsy, and sometimes they would lose their center of gravity and be easily passed.

In the video, Rodri made a defensive mistake and had to use an uncertain shovel to try to end the opponent's attack, but the ball was still passed, the attack was favorable, and Reus in the frontcourt completed a threatening shot.

In the end, Rodri was not shown a yellow card, which also caused boos from the home team fans. In Cai Huiqiang's view, there was nothing to say about the yellow card for this ball.

"You can make a thousand mistakes, but if I make a mistake once, it may create a threat. "Cai Huiqiang said seriously, "In the next game, I'm afraid Steger will choose to press forward from the beginning, and may even let Reus and Gotze play at the same time."

"If the Wolves' "backcourt group high" problem is discovered at this time, it may lead to very serious consequences!"

"But the problem is that the Wolves' room for adjustment is actually not large. They need tall players as defensive midfielders in the backcourt, and the two sidebacks can't choose other candidates. Therefore, how Wei Le handles this problem may directly determine the outcome of the game. "

Cai Huiqiang paused, and then he said, "Wei Le himself knows this problem. He actually replaced Doherty with Kounde as a means to balance the backcourt group high. "

"But Kounde is also a central defender after all. He replaced Doherty, just from a serious backcourt group high to a not very serious backcourt group high. "