Coaching career started as a college team coach

"It's Marseille."

Cellars has already checked, and the game on the other side has also come to a conclusion. The second round of the quarter-finals was held at the same time, and the other side's game was the second round between Marseille and RB Leipzig.

With RB Leipzig winning 1-0 in the first round, Marseille turned the tables at home 5-2 in the second round, and advanced to the semi-finals with a total score of 5-3.

The four teams that entered the semi-finals were Wolves, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid and Marseille.

Among them, Marseille and Wolves met, while Arsenal and Atletico Madrid had to fight each other to decide the winner. After getting the information from the opponent, everyone looked at each other. Although no one said anything, everyone's expression still showed their inner thoughts - this is a good draw!

Although Arsenal is an amateur in internal wars and Wenger seems to be facing dismissal, it has also performed well in the Europa League this year. Simeone's Atletico Madrid during this period, the forward line composed of Griezmann, Torres and Diego Costa was unstoppable.

In comparison, Marseille does not seem to be as famous as the two teams mentioned above. However, although the French Ligue 1 is a league with relatively low attention among the major European leagues, its competitiveness is also very strong.

Marseille has reached the second half of this season and is currently ranked fourth after Lyon. Monaco is second, and Paris Saint-Germain is 11 points away from the second place, far ahead of the first place.

After losing some games in the previous rotation, the Wolves are currently caught up by Chelsea in the back row and are currently ranked sixth, but only 1 point behind Chelsea in front.

Therefore, although Marseille is a weaker opponent than Arsenal and Atletico Madrid, the Wolves cannot relax their vigilance. At this level, the Wolves are still elementary school students in the Europa League in terms of history and strength.

Although this elementary school student looks like a genius, he has been doing the first mock test of the college entrance examination in the first grade of elementary school. It is very likely that he will really take the college entrance examination, but elementary school students are still elementary school students after all, and they dare not relax.

In addition, the previous loss to Lazio due to underestimation is still fresh in the minds of the players, and now they really dare not underestimate any opponent.

The first round against Marseille will be away on April 27. Now it is April 13, and there are two league games to play in between. If you don't pay attention, Wolves have become the sixth place. The competition in the Premier League is fierce, and you really can't relax.

In addition to preparing for Marseille, Wolves must first win these two league games and strive to return to the fifth place.

Only the top four can get a Champions League seat. The Wolves have no time to take care of the Champions League seat through the league, but the Wolves have the opportunity to qualify for the Champions League through the Europa League.

At least Wolves hopes to rank fifth in the league and guarantee a place in the Europa League to lay a good foundation for next season, and to ensure that if they can't win the Europa League this year, they can still play in the European war next year.

The next league match will be in seven days, when Wolves will face Swansea away, so the Wolves will disband directly after the match on the 13th, and everyone will go home to enjoy the precious two-day holiday.

Wei Le also took this time to sort out and reflect on the problems exposed by the Wolves in these games.

And this time, he attached great importance to Motta's opinions and talked to Motta several times. Motta certainly knows everything. He and Wei Le chatted several times and learned many ways to consider problems from the perspective of the head coach.

The two also reached a preliminary intention. In the next season, Motta will come to Wolves for an "internship" for a period of time. In fact, Wei Le invited him to join the team's coaching staff.

Wei Le hopes that Thiago Motta can make full use of the experience accumulated in his career to help the players improve. He will be the technical coach that Wolves have been waiting for for a long time.

Also give Rodri and others some special training.

After all, the guidance of the world's best No. 4 is still very valuable.

Motta intends to stay at Wolves for at least three seasons, but he hopes that starting from the third season, his contract will include a termination clause for coaching alone, which means that if a team invites him to coach alone, Wolves cannot set up a checkpoint to stop him.

Wei Le understands Motta's goal is to become a head coach, so he no longer blocks him.

During this period, Motta also told Wei Le about his ideas about football tactics.

"That day, when I was watching the game, I had an idea."

"When we pass the ball from the backcourt, the goalkeeper is often used as one of the points of passing. So in this case, why don't we let the goalkeeper go to the defender's position directly?"

"The team must control the game, use high pressure, and have a lot of running with and without the ball. I hope the players can takeAfter receiving the ball, there are at least 3 to 4 passing routes, and there must be two teammates around to provide support. "Motta said incessantly, "Why not let the two side defenders go forward and take on the responsibilities of the No. 10 position directly! ”

Wei Le was surprised by Motta’s almost “upside-down” tactical choice. He also realized why Guardiola told him that Paris Saint-Germain had a great tactician like Motta but didn’t use it.

Because if Motta tried to implement this tactic in the youth team of Paris Saint-Germain, it would be equivalent to Motta trying to subvert the player training system of Paris Saint-Germain in a way that almost subverted the entire history of football tactics.

It is hard to say whether the players who were educated by Motta in the youth team can adapt to the first team’s tactics that are completely different from Motta’s. And Paris Saint-Germain is a football club after all.

They will definitely not support Motta. At least from a deeper perspective, they don’t want Motta to stay in the team.

At the beginning, Wei Le made a little gesture according to Motta’s idea, and felt that the extreme nature of this tactic had very high requirements for the rotation of the frontcourt players. Every player should know how to run at this moment.

For the goalkeeper The requirements are higher, because the goalkeeper not only needs to be good at saving, but also needs to dare to come to the back line and play the ball with the central defender at the right time.

But Wei Le keenly observed the merits of this tactic - although Motta's current idea is difficult to achieve in today's football environment, if Motta makes some improvements and has the right players, he believes that Motta will be able to rely on his tactical ideas to finally slap everyone in the face.

Why do you think so?

That's because Thiago Motta's tactical idea, which he doesn't even know how to call it, is actually very flexible. It fully controls most areas of the court and makes traditional man-to-man defense impossible.

When the central defender can move forward to the center position to shoot, how many players will be attacking in the frontcourt at this time? How to defend such a numerical advantage?

But potential is potential, and Thiago Motta's tactical idea is currently just a castle in the air, floating in the air.