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After dealing with the players' problems and declaring that he would win two games, Wei Le now has to deal with how to realize this declaration.

But to the surprise of the coaching staff, it seems that Wei Le has already studied the two teams and has his own understanding of the tactical play.

"The game against Atalanta is quite special. After all, this is our first time playing against strong teams from different national leagues. We still need to investigate and study it. But for Manchester City, I think we can communicate."

While speaking, Wei Le switched to a PPT, which showed Manchester City's starting lineup in these games. Wei Le probably used magnetic buckles to arrange two formations on the whiteboard, one of which was 4-2-3-1 and the other was 3-1-4-2.

"Let's talk about Manchester City first. In fact, Manchester City is not invincible." Wei Le stood in front of the coaching staff and said, "Whether it is Gasperini, the head coach of Atalanta, or Guardiola of Manchester City, their football styles are actually very similar."

"In essence, it is still through high-position pressure that makes it difficult for the opponent to catch his breath, and through continuous attack, the opponent's defense will have flaws."

Manchester City in the 2017/2018 season basically reached its complete state.

Guardiola spent his first two seasons at Manchester City to find his championship lineup. This year, they have only one goal, that is, the championship. In the first few rounds of the league, Manchester City won three games and tied one, and was able to control the game most of the time.

Even in the fourth round, Guardiola's Manchester City won 5-0 at home against Liverpool, Manchester City controlled the game with 60% ball possession, and all data were ahead of Liverpool, which already had the Red Arrows of Salah, Firmino and Mane.

Guardiola had formed a relatively complete 4-2-3-1 style of play last season. At the beginning of this season, a more aggressive 3-1-4-2 style of play appeared, with Jesus and Aguero as double strikers, but no matter how the lineup changes, its basic style of play will not change.

Because Guardiola has three fast horses in the frontcourt, Sane, Sterling and Aguero, most teams tend to let the back line retreat to a low position when dealing with Manchester City to prevent the opponent's three fast horses from rushing behind the defense line.

At the same time, in order to ensure the pressing of Manchester City's defenders, the forwards of Manchester City's opponents often press forward. But this will inevitably lead to a disconnect between the front and midfield, so Manchester City has room to do more between the two lines of the opponent's front court.

At the beginning of this season, except for Liverpool's courage to press forward and attack Manchester City, most teams have learned from the lessons of last season and adopted a relatively stable style of play. It is precisely because of this that they basically have the problem of disconnection.

Manchester City has formed a hierarchical 3-2 ball-playing system in the backcourt.

Generally speaking, it is the right back Kyle Walker, a full-back who is not afraid of the opponent's pressing, who retreats and forms a three-center back with two central defenders.

The left back is Delph, who was transformed from the midfield position. When Benjamin Mendy and Otamendi play as left backs, they will move forward and form a double defensive midfielder position with Fernandinho.

If it is a 3-1-4-2 ball-playing system, let the left forward player retreat to the position side by side with the defensive midfielder, and Kyle Walker can move forward, allowing the third central defender in the backcourt to replace him in the ball-playing system.

The five players in the front court formed a "W" shape.

In the 4-2-3-1 system, there may be two wingers, one attacking midfielder, a central midfielder (David Silva) who moves forward to the attacking midfielder position, and a center forward.

In the 3-1-4-2 system, there are two center forwards (Aguero and Jesus), two attacking midfielders (De Bruyne and David Silva) and Kyle Walker who moves forward to the winger position.

In the 4-back defense system facing the opponent, it is easy to form a 5-on-4 advantage, resulting in a local number advantage caused by more people, thus creating scoring opportunities.

This style of play has been tried and tested in the first four rounds of the league.

So how should Wolves deal with it?

"First of all, it is clear that if we let Godfrey partner with Ruben Dias as central defenders in this game, we will have two high-speed central defenders, and Tierney and Doherty will not be slow."

"This means that we are notThere is no need to worry about not being able to keep up with the opponent's forward speed. "

"On the contrary, if we follow Manchester City's intention and let the defense retreat, Manchester City will be more likely to organize an attack effectively, which is more disadvantageous to us."

Wei Le's point of view caused the coaching staff to think about it. Gianluca Conte agreed with this, but then he asked, "But how to pass the ball to their backcourt?"

Wei Le smiled and said, "They play theirs, we play ours! "

Weile believes that the reason why the team failed to pose a threat to Manchester City before is indeed because its ability requires it to defend low and give up the front space.

But the current Wolves, although the players are not the strongest in the Premier League, at least the Wolves players will not be completely crushed by Manchester City. In the backcourt defense stage, the Wolves can just leave one central defender behind, and the other central defender forward, and work together to narrow the distance between the two lines of the midfield and backcourt.

Thereby oppressing the opponent's frontcourt.

Dendoncker is the fifth defender of the Wolves. In the defensive stage, he needs to quickly return to the middle to hold off the opponent's wandering Jesus, so as to resolve the opponent's numerical advantage and form a five-on-five balance.

Therefore, the team's double defensive midfielders are indispensable. The Wolves will play a 4-2-3-1 formation in this game, or more precisely, the game against Atlanta.

"We must not be led by them. They want us to defend low, but we must compete with them for control from the midfield. "

"Our forwards and midfielders must start pressing in the frontcourt, and the key is their central defender, which is the key to our breakthrough!" Wei Le was confident, and he pointed to Otamendi in the middle of the whiteboard.

"Otamendi, what's wrong?" Celars was a little confused, and Wei Le immediately reminded him, "He is a right-footed player."

"What's wrong with a right-footed player? A right-footed player... Oh!" Celars thought for a few seconds, and his eyes lit up, and he understood! Gianluca Conte next to him also almost understood what Wei Le meant, and he looked at his new boss with a new look.

Manchester City is now facing injuries, which has led to the fact that Manchester City did not actually have a fixed lineup in the previous few games. Due to the injuries of several important players, Manchester City has never shown their 100% level.

Due to Kompany's injury, the team has always lacked a high-level left-footed central defender.

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