Extraordinary coach

Fans, led by Richard, a famous fan of Nice, frowned as they watched the game on the field.

Richard is not an ordinary fan who has only watched football for one or two years. He is a senior and hardcore fan. More than 20 years of experience in watching football has given him a different perspective from ordinary fans. He is very worried about what he sees.

The scene in front of him is that Nice's formation is relatively high, fighting with Schalke 04 in the front and middle court, and then investing a lot in the offense. It is completely giving up defense and only focusing on offense.

If Nice played this way in the previous few games, he would be as happy as all other Nice fans. Because that is exactly what they want to see.

But today he is not happy at all. As a senior fan, he knows that Nice is not as strong as Schalke 04. At the same time, he also knows that after changing the new coach this season, Schalke 04 is very good at playing fast defensive counterattacks, and also likes to carry out high-pressure pressing in the front court.

Facing such a Schalke 04 team, isn't the Nice team's playing style today to attack the opponent's strengths with their own weaknesses?

Richard couldn't understand why Sun Yi did this today. Obviously Sun Yi only knows how to play defensive counterattacks, but he took the initiative to attack the opponent who is good at defensive counterattacks.

"This is simply messing around!" Richard, who finally had some good feelings for Sun Yi because of the four consecutive wins, had to start to doubt that Sun Yi's previous victory was completely luck. Or maybe he was drunk today.

Drunk? How is it possible?

Sun Yi is very sober now. He was very sober, so he decided to take a risky move today.

Everyone knows that the Nice team is far inferior to the Schalke 04 team in terms of overall strength. Everyone thinks that facing the Schalke 04 team, the best and most likely choice for the Nice team is defense. But in multiple positions, especially in the midfield and backcourt positions, it is very likely that they will not be able to defend. Even if they defend, at most they will get a draw.

Actually, passively being beaten is either a loss or a draw, so Sun Yi naturally has to do the opposite. You all expected me to play defense, so I will attack. Not only can I catch them by surprise, but I can also maximize the advantage of Nice on the front line.

The core idea of ​​Sun Yi's strategy is to compete with each other in attack to see whose knife is sharper. Whoever can stab the opponent first will have the first chance to win.

Of course, if he met Schalke 04 a month ago, Sun Yi might not have the determination to do so. But Schalke 04's Sarr, who has a strange speed, was sold to Manchester City earlier. Without Sane, the fast counterattack point, Sun Yi doesn't have to worry so much.

Sun Yi is still confident in his arrangement today.

And after the game started, he was really happy.

Nice's uncharacteristic approach was obviously beyond Schalke 04's expectations. Nice's stranglehold in the front and middle court and the desperate attack of the forwards made Schalke 04 very uncomfortable. For a while, the game was a bit unsystematic.

On the sidelines, Andre Breitenreiter, the head coach of Schalke 04, frowned. Nice's tactics were completely beyond his expectations. In his research and analysis, Nice is a team that likes to play defensive counterattacks. He and the coaching staff believed that Nice would definitely play defensive counterattacks today.

Breitenreiter was most familiar with defensive counterattacks, and he had been immersed in this aspect for many years. He was very experienced. Therefore, all his previous preparations were centered around how to target Nice's defensive counterattacks.

With the strength of Schalke 04, he was very confident in his arrangement. He felt that he would either draw or win this game, and his winning rate was very high.

Now Nice's unconventional situation disrupted his arrangement. Originally, Schalke 04 should have pressed hard in the frontcourt and besieged the opponent. But now everything is reversed.

Breitenreiter couldn't help but feel a little worried.

However, after thinking for a while, his brows loosened.

Thinking calmly, he felt that his opponent had made a bad move today. Using methods that you are not good at will only expose your weaknesses more.

Now Sun Yi's arrangements are like this in his eyes. He thinks that not only will it not be effective, but it will also weaken the offensive ability of the Nice team. The strongest point of the Nice team is the counterattack led by Salah. Now putting Salah in the positional battle is just tying its own hands and feet.

Now the discomfort caused by the Nice team to the Schalke 04 team is only temporary. When the players on the field of the Schalke 04 team adapt, the Nice team will only lose more miserably than expected.

"Are you going to give me points? Young people are too impulsive and easy to take things for granted!" Breitenreiter smiled with a winning smile on his face, turned his head to look at Sun Yi, and couldn't help shaking his head.

After thinking it through, Breitenreiter was more confident before the game.

As the game progressed, the Schalke 04 team gradually adapted as Breitenreiter thought. Because they are good at pressing in the front court and are also accustomed to fierce confrontation.

Seeing this, it seems that everything has begun to go as Breitenreiter just thought.

However, Breitenreiter was wrong. Salah is very threatening in fast counterattacks, but he is not only threatening in counterattacks, he is also threatening in positional battles.

In positional battles, Salah's speed may be limited, but his better dribbling ability and through ball ability make him the offensive engine of the Nice team in positional battles.

After playing for more than ten minutes, he had already passed two threatening balls to his teammates.

With Salah holding the ball and organizing in the frontcourt, Nice's offensive firepower is not weak at all.

In addition to Salah, Breitenreiter missed another thing. That is the defense of Nice and the threat that Schalke 04 can bring in the counterattack.

In fact, in order to defend Schalke 04's quick counterattack today, the full-backs Dalbert and Pereira, who used to participate in the attack, were pressed by Sun Yi on the back line. In addition to sending a 45-degree cross to Balotelli in the penalty area, their main task is to guard against the opponent's quick counterattack at any time.

The most effective place for a quick counterattack is the opponent's wing and the ribs between the center. Dalbert and Pereira, two full-backs with good speed, can just control these places.

In this way, Schalke 04 did not play their characteristics and advantages of being good at counterattacks.

After the game was played for 20 minutes, Breitenreiter also began to discover this.

Schalke 04 had many opportunities to counterattack. But every quick counterattack did not achieve the desired effect. The ball holder was always disturbed in the first place during the counterattack, and the ball was often poked out of bounds. Then the quick attack turned into a positional battle.

"What should I do?" Breitenreiter had to start thinking about countermeasures.

And just when Breitenreiter's attention left the field for a while, the whole stadium suddenly burst into cheers.