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Among the top three in Ligue 1, Lyon is the team that other European teams least want to encounter.

I can't say where he is strong, but he is very difficult to deal with and has always been difficult to deal with. In the European war, if given the choice, almost all the giants would rather meet the wealthy Paris Saint-Germain or the fierce Monaco than play two games with Lyon.

After two years of absence from the Champions League, Lyon, who is not strong when faced with weakness, but never weak when faced with strength, is back.

In the 2018-1 group match, the defending champion Manchester City is divided into Group F with Lyon, Dunhuang and Huocun. Lyon will be Manchester City's opponent in the first game. Even if a few days ago, Guardiola beat the bottom of the Premier League 11:0. He didn't dare to be careless at all.

But before going to the away game to teach Lyon, Guardiola did a small thing first.

Newcastle United and Fulham 11:0 made the English media start to reflect confidently that "there are no underdogs in the Premier League". Is it time to tear off the emperor's new clothes?

Bayern Munich is the only one in the Bundesliga, Serie A has grown from seven sisters to the top three in the north and now Juventus is a big company. La Liga has been the exclusive territory of Real Madrid and Barcelona since ancient times. Only the Premier League has continued to counterattack, and grassroots heroes have emerged one after another. Leicester City's gorgeousness in 2015 Still vivid in my mind.

'There are no underdogs in the Premier League' has always been the reason why England despises other major leagues. The rise of the giants does not happen in a day, but the bloody spirit of the mid- and lower-tier teams in facing the giants without giving up and fighting until the last second of the last game is the most important thing. An admirable place.

But Manchester City's performance in the new season has forced the industry and the media to face up to this change. Through data analysis, in recent years, the scoring rate of mid- and lower-tier Premier League teams has dropped significantly when playing against giants. BIG's solidification of class is evidence of this.

In BIG, there are dominant teams like Manchester United, Chelsea, and Arsenal, as well as Manchester City, which has risen since Mansour took over. The four of them have shared more than twenty championships except for 2015.

But in the past, the winners of the championship for strong teams mainly depended on their respective winning rates against mid- and lower-tier teams. Whoever can win the three-point game will have an advantage in the competition.

And this is the true essence of ‘There are no underdogs in the Premier League’. It was a miracle that Leicester City won the championship, but the Bundesliga also had Kaiserslautern and Madiburg, and Serie A was as far away as Verona and as close as Naples. The La Liga Super Depor and Super Bat championships are not far away either.

The dark horse myth is not unique to the Premier League. The weak team's year-round performance is the unique symbol of the Premier League.

But in recent years, the data has changed significantly, and BIG originally depended on the results of direct strong dialogue between them. The upset of the weak defeating the strong in the league is still happening, but it cannot affect the final ranking of the top six teams in the standings.

Don't think that this change is a trivial matter. The most fundamental reason why the Premier League has attracted the most investment from consortiums and has more TV broadcast fees than other major leagues is that the games here are more intense and there are no garbage games. The confrontations are fast-paced.

The reason is that the teams in the middle and lower reaches are full of fighting spirit and have the courage to fight even to the death. But now, these good qualities are disappearing, weak teams are gradually accepting their fate, and they are losing the courage to resist faster and faster in the face of wealthy teams.

If this continues, the Premier League will 'degenerate' into several other major leagues and lose its unique prosperity.

The media and industry hope to explore the reasons for this phenomenon from various angles. Although Zhuo Yang is powerful, the consecutive victories of Manchester City led by him are only the most outstanding performance. In fact, BIG's winning rate is improving, and Manchester City is the most scary.

Many experts and gold medal journalists have discussed this issue in the media. Among them, an article signed by Joe Gallo Site in the football section of The Times stood out.

The article explains it in an extremely professional writing style from a purely technical and tactical perspective, and the views it puts forward are very convincing.

The article believes that since Professor Arsene Wenger coached Arsenal and brought European technology to the Premier League 22 years ago, the stereotype of long passes and lobs in English football has begun to change.

Over the past two decades, the technical level of the Premier League has been significantly improved, and the tactics have become more colorful. The fierce fighting and open-minded style has not been lost, making the Premier League full of fast-paced and fierce confrontation.

Premier League teams believe in fighting and are good at fighting, but the weakness of fighting has been fully exposed under the passing and controlling system led by Guardiola.

Guardiola's success in Barcelona has led the trend of passing control in football, and many different schools have emerged, such as Klopp's bombardment, Pochettino's wing-back revolution, and so on.

These new styles of football have a common feature - high pressing.

Fighting is not pressing. Pressing is more advanced than traditional fighting.

The traditional fighting of Premier League teams mainly occurs in the first and second offensive zones, that is, the midfield and backfields, but the high-position pressing starts from the pressure on the goalkeeper and defenders. The defense of Premier League teams has never felt such pressure and pain now. .

In the previous Premier League, defenders were at least safe when holding the ball. They could complete most of the work with their iron-blooded spirit and courage, but that is no longer the case. Defenders must have good ball-taking, ball-controlling, and ball-playing abilities. Possible to counter high pressing from the side without the ball.

However, defenders who can play, control and safely advance with the ball are scarce all over the world, and almost all of them are recruited by wealthy clubs. Due to their financial resources and influence, middle and lower-tier teams cannot retain such defenders even if they have them.

In the past two or three years, BIG has been very different, but they are still very good at pressing high positions. During the transition between offense and defense, the effective pressure on the opponent's defense and even midfielder makes it difficult for the opponent to play a bright rhythm on offense.

High-position pressing is not just a matter of physical fitness, nor is it a simple tactical issue, but a system of physical fitness + high technical ability + tactics, which is very advanced football.

Teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League cannot do this. They have neither the right players to support their tactics nor the right tactics to improve their players.

Therefore, the power of simple iron-bloodedness and bravery is greatly reduced. If you can't fight hard on defense and can't hit the ball on offense, the team will soon lose its confidence and courage.

After a little time, I felt deeply helpless and gave up in the face of BIG. It is better to say that I conserve my strength.

The harder you struggle, the worse you will lose, so you might as well lie down and enjoy it.

The point of view of the article is very sophisticated and convincing. It not only contains data, partial tactical illustrations, but also explains the key points of game examples.

It's all dry stuff, without any water content, and will embarrass all long-form writers, including platinum masters.

The article highly praises Guardiola, believing that his total offense, total defense, pass-and-control football revolution has now solidified the Premier League’s class, and will surely promote a second technological wave in the Premier League in the future, which is no less significant than the industrial revolution.

Other big-name coaches may feel bad about the articles criticizing Guardiola, but they all hold a positive attitude towards the "high pressing theory" and agree that this is what it is.

"Profound Changes in the Tradition of the Premier League by Pass-Control Football" has aroused resonance and sensation in the football world, but no one knows who the author Joe Gallo Sit is.

Judging from the professionalism of the article, he is either a senior coach, but ordinary coaches do not have such a good writing skills, or he is a gold medal reporter who has been immersed in football for decades, but this name has not been heard of in that circle.

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Zhuoyang also watched it, and he watched it with assistant coach Arteta. Brother Tazi smiled while watching, and seemed very happy.

"Brother Tazi, you ate magpie eggs and smiled so... Oh, I know, you wrote this."

"No, no, I'm not that capable." Brother Tazi shook his head quickly.

"Then you laugh like a hammer, it's so weird."

"Hey hey hey, I know who wrote it."

"Oh? Do I know him?"

"I know him, you know him so well." Brother Tazi leaned close to Zhuoyang's ear: "It's Pep."

Zhuo Yang: "..."

"Holy shit, are you serious? He's so shameless when he licks himself." Zhuo Yang said, "Although Pep is usually quite shameless, he's not so sick."

"He really wrote it, why did I lie to you?"

"Did you ask him?"

"Old Zhuo, look. Joe Gallo Siatt, a very British name, isn't it? But the three initials of his name are 'JGS', and the three initials of Pep's name also happen to be 'JGS' , do you think it’s a coincidence or not?”

Guardiola's full name: Josep Guardiola Isarra (), 'Pep' is the nickname of the Spanish name Josep (Josep).

However, it would be a bit far-fetched for Brother Tazi to infer that ‘Jo Gallo Siit’ is Lao Gua’s pen name.

"That's it? I don't study well, so don't coax me."

"One hundred percent."

Zhuo Yang: "So...he is really shameless. "

"Not so good."

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Lao Gua, who looked calm, held the newspaper and read it carefully. Only the look in his eyes that glanced at Zhuo Yang from time to time revealed a little bit of his thoughts.

Zhuo Yang didn't ask. Focus on trimming your nails with a small file.

In the end, Lao Gua couldn't hold himself back. He handed the newspaper over casually and said nonchalantly: "Zhuoyang, look at this article. It's quite professional."

Zhuoyang didn't answer and continued to polish his nails.

"Have a look, have a look. It's rare to find such professional football articles in the British media. I admire this author very much. He is very knowledgeable and competent at first glance."

So shameless.

"Put it there, I've seen it."

"Tell me about it." Lao Gua's eyebrows were trembling.

Zhuo Yang punched the nail polish on the file. "If this article were given to me as my graduation thesis, maybe I would wear a second doctorate hat on him, Doctor of Football."

"Really? So powerful?" Lao Gua's eyes were filled with stars.

"Of course." Zhuoyang said, "But Brother Gua, the article is a good article, but don't you feel embarrassed that you praise yourself so much?"

The look on Guardiola's face was wonderful. "No...it wasn't written by me. How could it be written by me? No..."

"Come on, it's not shameful to be shameless, it's shameful to be a tough talker. Brother Tazi has already analyzed this pen name, and it was written by you. How about Joe Gallo Sit, who can't speak well? You can even think of it. The pen name of 'The Great Immortal of Wocao' is also better than this."

"Oh my god, it's a bitch." After being completely exposed, Guardiola smiled instead. "He's a bastard in analysis. He saw it when I was writing in the office and helped me correct two typos. He was the one who gave me the pen name and promised not to tell anyone else..."

"...You two are shameless."

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