Red Rebels

Coming out of the laboratory, Xiao Yu accompanied Essien all the way to the training ground. He kept asking some questions about the experiment in the meditation room just now. Essien also answered them one by one. At the same time, he also felt that the meditation room should have certain training effect.

It's just that today is the first time he touches it, and he is still not used to it. I believe that as the number of contacts increases, he will gradually feel the effect of the meditation room.

After coming out of the laboratory, Essien ran directly to the indoor football hall. He also likes to play indoor football very much now. He feels that this kind of ball control in a small space can train his reaction, judgment and ball-playing ability. For midfielders, it's absolutely crucial, especially someone like Essien who isn't just content to think of himself as a defender.

Xiao Yu feels that Essien has great offensive potential. In fact, the coaching staff's evaluation of Essien is also both offensive and defensive, but his offensive ability is not outstanding at present, and his defensive ability is good, so the club treats him as a defensive player. use.

According to Mourinho's plan, the ideal state of his tactics is to have one attacking fulcrum in the frontcourt with skills, speed and ability to score goals, and two with excellent offensive ability, who can cut inside, pass in and tear apart the opponent. The defensive winger, coupled with a forward attacker who can suddenly dribble the ball in from the middle to point the way for the team's attack.

The combination of four frontcourts can enhance the new Manchester United's frontcourt offense to an astonishing level. At the same time, the four players cooperate with each other and move like water. Who can stop such an offensive combination?

The two full-backs have to be both offensive and defensive, able to be inserted and recovered, which is also very demanding, and the central defender is also required to have a certain running ability. In this regard, Hangeland is slightly lacking. His body is very strong. Strong, with great headers, but his running ability and speed are not very strong.

And because Mourinho requires the team to defend, the formation should be steadily recovered, which requires higher requirements for the two central midfielders, who must be the kind of players who can stand in position and be able to help the two full-backs to make up for it. position, so these two are crucial in Mourinho's tactical system.

Preferably the kind of player who can still play and play!

The current configuration of the new Manchester United is definitely impossible to play in such a formation. Mourinho is not stupid enough to copy his own ideas. He flexibly adjusts tactics according to the existing players. The formation is more like 433, and it is 451 when defending. Not the ideal 4231.

Of course, it's still an old saying, for the new Manchester United who runs frequently without the ball, the player's position is not accurate!

According to the current staffing configuration, there is no doubt that the three midfielders will be Juninho and Senna occupying two of the main players. Essien and Arau Diarra will compete for the third place, and De Rossi will be the substitute.

In the frontcourt, Mourinho focused on sculpting Drogba!

In order to help Drogba improve, Mourinho even specially arranged for Moniz to further sculpt Drogba's ability after training, along with Curtis, Terry, Ismail, Michael ·Johnson and John Obi Mikel and others, in charge of goalkeeping is Cech.

Xiao Yu stood on the sidelines quietly watching the training of the players on the court.

According to Mourinho's plan for Drogba, the current Drogba is only in the first stage.

His physical quality is super strong, his impact is amazing, his speed is fast, his explosiveness is excellent, coupled with his good skills, he is a near-perfect frontcourt as a wall-type center, a bridgehead for offense, Drogba is in France He had been playing this role for several years at the time, and he had already adapted to this role, and his back-to-back technique was very good.

But with the different requirements in France, Mourinho asked Drogba more.

In Moniz's training, he emphasized more that when Drogba leaned on the opponent, he suppressed the opponent with his body, created a gap, and his teammates cooperated with him to run.

It requires Drogba to make a decision, whether to choose to attack by himself, or to pass the ball to his teammates?

The former is very important for a center. It can be said that when resisting the opponent's defender, a center who can turn around can definitely be regarded as a first-class center. It can be seen that turning down is an ordinary action that can't be more ordinary. How difficult is it in a football game.

According to the observation of the coaching staff, Drogba's ability to get the ball with his back and turn around needs to be improved, but the team uses him as the fulcrum of the frontcourt to attack, so the most realistic way is to rely on him to pass the ball after receiving the ball. , which requires Drogba to have good awareness and observation skills.

That's why Mourinho and Moniz are always calling a stop in training to let Drogba look up and play.

The current training for Drogba also focuses on this.

Once Drogba can integrate into the team's offense, the next thing to do is to train his ability to take the ball and turn around. In the current training, Moniz has also pointed out Drogba many times, when he leans on the opponent At that time, he has a lot of options to choose from, and the opponent has a lot of space, which is to help him improve further.

But this is not Drogba's strongest state. According to Mourinho and Moniz's plans, Drogba's strongest situation should appear after he improves his stopping skills, gradually giving up physical confrontation and using more Ingenious stopping technique, so whether he is leaning on the opponent, turning around to break through the goal, or making the ball out of the wall, he can do it with ease.

At that time, even if Drogba encounters a defender with stronger physical fitness than him, he can completely erode the opponent, and then with an invincible attitude, he can overwhelm the opponent's defense line and disrupt the opponent's defensive arrangement.

Of course, Drogback is still far from being as strong as Mourinho planned for him. He still has to rely on his body to work honestly and cooperate with his teammates.

Michael Johnson is a very smart player. He has a strong ability to spy on the gap in the process of running. He can always run to the corresponding position when Drogba is relying on the opponent. His passing is very characteristic, and he also has a certain defensive ability, and his physical condition is also improving with age.

In Xiao Yu's previous life, he was considered a player similar to Gerrard, but his passing was undoubtedly more prominent than Gerrard's.

As for John Obi Mikel, although he is an attacking midfielder, his speed is not fast, his technique is excellent, and his ability to insert in the back row is very strong, but he has not been able to meet the requirements of a modern attacking midfielder. The coaching staff gave him the position of He is both offensive and defensive. After all, his body is very good. If he can improve his defensive skills, he will be a midfielder in the future.

On the training ground, Xiao Yu saw that Drogba received the ball from his teammates again and again, stopped the ball, tried to turn around, passed the ball, etc. All the movements were repeated over and over again, and they were very hard.

And Ismail on the side was also under Terry's defense, and he stopped the ball and turned again and again. His technique was better than Drogba, but his physical confrontation was poor, so he was in Terry's There are a lot of mistakes under the marking.

On the contrary, after Drogba leaned on Curtis, the latter could hardly make any movements.

In order to supervise the progress of the players, Moniz stood in the middle of the two groups, constantly calling off their training, and then instructing Drogba or Ismail how to create and grasp the gap, and instructing Curtis and Terry In this situation, how should we make judgments in advance, or be defensive.

As for Michael Johnson and John Obi Mikel, the emphasis is more on the timing of the pass to the center, the direction of the back row to plug in and run the gap, they are both very young and it is obviously impossible to ask them More.

Cech, under the guidance of Schmeichel, practiced stance and repeated goalkeeping skills. Once Drogba and others seized the opportunity to hit the goal, he immediately made a save.

The players' extra training is very hard, but Xiao Yu believes that their efforts will be rewarded, because they are not lacking in talent, what is lacking is the incentive for them to improve. Now the new Manchester United provides them with such an opportunity.

Well done, lads, you are the future of the club!

After watching the training for about half an hour, Xiao Yu turned around and walked out of the training ground.

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After three warm-up games, the time has entered August. 23 new Manchester United players are preparing for the final pre-season at the Newton Heath training base. Cup!

During this period of time, Mourinho, in addition to improving the various problems exposed in the warm-up match, also consciously or unintentionally strengthened the loyalty education of players, at least for the significance of the Newton Heath Cup, whether it was last year. Right here, or the players who just joined this year, they all know it well.

It's a friendly contest between brother clubs and at the same time contributing to charity!

The game attracted live broadcast by Granada TV. It is said that before and after the broadcast, their advertisements were very sought after by businesses. This shows that everyone is paying attention to this cup, especially after the trip to Africa.

The 14,000 tickets for this game were sold out. The scene was crowded with fans, and there was a sea of ​​red everywhere. The flaming red flags with green and gold lines danced continuously in the fan stands. From the moment the fans stepped into the stadium. seemed very excited.

The same goes for players on both sides of the game, especially the new Manchester United.

In the home locker room, the story Garry Turner told in the locker room at Butcher Knife Stadium last year, this time in the locker room at City Stadium, all the players have heard it countless times, but from Curtiss mouth Say it, don't have a taste.

Because Curtis is the player who has seen the new Manchester United come to this day, he is the club's oldest player so far, and he is also considered by his teammates as Garrett Turner, Darren Lyons and Karl ·The most loyal player to the club after Makinson and others retired.

The story that came out of his mouth, about him and a club called the Red Rebels, was naturally different!

With a grateful heart, the players left the locker room and came to the player tunnel, hugging and being polite to the Droysden players next to them, even though they soon became opponents!

But at that moment, there is no enemy in football!

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