Volume 2 The Miracle of Huo Village Chapter 162 Fighting Methods and Changing Formations (2)
Magath made such adjustments to the lineup mainly to deal with the impact of Hoffenheim's frontcourt and Li Huan's breakthrough crosses from the wing. Hoffenheim beat Dortmund in the last game, Magath studied that game very thoroughly, when Hoffenheim did not rush to the Bundesliga, Magath vs. Hoffenheim game was lively, and did not study it carefully, but now Hoffenheim has become his opponent, he was surprised to find that this Hoffenheim team is stronger than he imagined.
Hoffenheim's three strikers, Ibisevic, Demba Ba and Obasi, all have good technical body awareness, but the difference is experience, which will be a headache for any team to charge up front.
Even if you can look at Hoffenheim's three strikers to death, under the cover of the three forwards, Eduardo, who is physically weak but technically excellent, will use his individual breakthrough to create free-kicks in the front court, and they have a defender who has a free-kick routine, and once a well-placed free-kick is formed, it is almost a must-go chance.
When all the above attacks have not worked, their full-back Li Huan's assists often break the balance on the court, and the Chinese are a domineering defender, not only extremely fast and said to reach 10.3 seconds, but also very good technique, and the bottom cross from the side is almost unstoppable.
Such a midfield combination, even in the Bundesliga, is definitely the level of the middle and upper reaches, if there is a solid backline, they definitely hope to enter the Champions League, and it is no wonder that they can be invincible in the Bundesliga.
Magath's change of formation arrangement is mainly aimed at Eduardo's breakthrough and Li Huan's side assist, Wolfsburg's two central defender combination has been proven to be useless in the first league game, and now the new Simnek and Maderen have not worked together a few times, so they were directly impacted by Hoffenheim's front four, and the score is definitely greater than 3:1, so Magath placed three people in front of the two central defenders, and it is not a purely non-attacking three-back midfielder, and the original Kiro who played the central defender has the heaviest defensive task, Gentner and Santana on either side of him were tasked with attacking.
Putting Marcelinho in the forward position is to make full use of the Brazilian's creative surname and experience, and in the last game, Magath put Marcelinho in the forward line did not have too good effect, Marcelinho's fitness and speed have dropped a lot compared to the original, and it is no longer suitable for setting up in the forward line.
Magath made adjustments to the lineup, Rangnick also made some fine-tuning to the lineup of the last big win, the formation is still 433, Sarichovic replaced Weiss, and Eduardo, Gustavo formed a midfield trio, which is a signal to strengthen the attack, because Sarichhovic's offensive ability is better than Weiss, but his defense is much worse, and Sarichovic means that Hoffenheim, who is playing at home, will attack Wolfsburg.
After seeing this starting lineup, Tao Wei, the commentator of CCV5, said: Magath has been pursuing change, using three different starting lineups for three games, while Hoffenheim has hardly changed, and their only way of playing is to attack and attack. Today, let's take a look at the contest between the two leaders of the Young Zhuang faction, who wins and who loses. “
The game finally started, Hoffenheim, who played for the first time at Karl Benz, made up his mind to crush the opponent with an attack, and after Wolfsburg kicked off, their midfield pressed through the center circle like a tide, putting pressure on the opponent, and the defenders now directly advanced ten meters to play a risky offside tactic.
However, Hoffenheim's offside tactics were no longer there a few minutes later, with Li Huan and Ibertsberg pressing straight through the centre circle, leaving only two centre-backs in their own half, Jaisler and Compaq.
Maga deliberately expected Hoffenheim to attack, but still did not expect Hoffenheim to launch such a fierce attack, it is simply a life-and-death struggle with Wolfsburg, such a style of play is impossible to have a draw, either you die or I live.
Wolfsburg's players were also intimidated by Hoffenheim's relentless attack at first, with all the players being pinned down in the half, and the three midfielders were almost on the same level as the defenders. After all the players got the ball, it was like getting a hot potato, and they quickly kicked it out, where did they dare to stay under their feet.
The Hoffenheim fans at Karl Benz's home stadium were singing the team song and waving the blue team flag, while the Mannheim fans who came to watch the game were stunned by Hoffenheim's passionate attack, they were not watching a Bundesliga game for the first time, but it was the first time to watch a Bundesliga game on their home turf, Hoffenheim's crazy style of play made even the most hardcore Mannheim fans have to give them applause.
Hoffenheim's attack after winning the ball is very concise, basically a pass, with the fastest speed to the feet of the front court Eduardo and Sarihovic, Eduardo and Sarihovic are very close to the opponent's goal, they either directly give the ball to the three strikers, or directly break forward themselves. Li Huan pressed more advanced than Ibertsberg, almost standing on the same level as Eduardo and Sarichovic, and Li Huan was equivalent to a right midfielder in the attack, which is also the essence of Hoffenheim. Although it seems that the number of midfielders is a bit small, Li Huan is a midfielder after pressing up.
Wolfsburg's left-back Shafir and Gentner are opposite Li Huan Li Huan, one of these two is from Munich 1860, the other is from Stuttgart, both have played against Li Huan, and they are also Li Huan's subordinates, these two now dare not have a little revenge on Li Huan, they have been repeatedly tortured by Li Huan are about to have a psychological shadow, just hope to be able to prevent this Chinese, don't let him score to thank God, where to expect to be able to break the gap from Li Huan. Fortunately, Magath also knew that Li Huan was powerful before the game, and did not let the two of them attack, Magath's attack was arranged to Marcelinho in the middle and Santana and Ritter on the right side.
Magath's pre-match arrangements are still in place, the Argentine Quiro who is a central defender does not have the usual sense of assists at the back, and his defense in the midfield can not only effectively slow down Hoffenheim's attack, but also buy time for his teammates' defense. Although the central defenders Madelen and Simnek did not work well together and were a bit bulky, the two central defenders effectively defended Hoffenheim's aerial attack due to Kiro's interception. At the same time, both men weighed more than 80 kilograms, and they were equally effective in resisting the frontal attacks of Demba Ba and Ibisevic. The two full-backs, Shafael and Ritter, also largely prevented Hoffenheim's wide break with the help of midfield. Even if Hoffenheim's attack occasionally filtered through wide blocks and frontal blockades to the front of the Wolfsburg goal. Facing them is also the goalkeeper Yanqi, who is now in good form.
The defense is defended, but now Wolfsburg's offense has not played at all, Magath stood on the sidelines and couldn't help but shake his head again and again, he didn't know when Professor Rangnick actually sharpened his courage so much, and dared to make such an offensive arrangement at the beginning, Magath thought that he would not dare to do this even if he brought a giant like Bayern Munich. Now the situation on the field made him both happy and anxious, happy that he had a thoughtful arrangement before the game, the players finally blocked the opponent's opening onslaught, but the anxious thing was that the opening played for more than ten minutes, Wolfsburg did not attack at all, Marcelinho and Radu almost never touched the ball, saying that it was almost because they touched the ball too shortly, and they were destroyed by the opponent just after receiving the ball.
How to win without offense, Magath came to Karl Benz Stadium not for a point, his goal is three points, in the face of the promoted horse, he only uses three points to calm the hearts of fans, players and media, anxious to be anxious, Magath did not show it, he just walked from the coach's bench to the sidelines, and then from the sidelines to the coach's box, the game played for more than ten minutes, and he walked at least eight times.
The team couldn't open the situation, and the burden of attack naturally fell on Li Huan's head, Eduardo failed to break through in the middle, and immediately hit the ball to the feet of Li Huan on the side, Li Huan has been defended by Gentner and Shafir in the frontcourt, and the breakthrough on the side was not successful, and the inside cut was not successful, only two crosses, but they were also pushed out by Madelen and Kiro.
This time Li Huan decided to cut inward, there was no chance to counterattack, so that the opponent's defender stood on his heel to defend, Demba Ba, Obasi and Ibisevic were difficult to grab the opponent's defender, Magath also has a nickname called Solid Ball Coach, because Magath likes to use solid balls to train the strength of players. This kind of solid-ball training made Wolfsburg's players very strong, and Hoffenheim's three so strong forwards couldn't find the goal in the Wolfsburg penalty area.
Shaffer and Gentner didn't dare to be careless, the opponent was a perverted guy who could do anything, no one knew how he would break through their defense, Shafir and Gentner didn't dare to stand in parallel, but stood sideways one after the other, the distance between each other was a little closer than during training, even if Li Huan broke through one of them, the other person could get entangled without waiting for Li Huan to accelerate, and then continue to form a pinch.
The cautiousness of the two Wolfsburg players made the Mannheim fans on the scene boo them, and the Mannheim fans did not see Li Huan's courage in breaking through, and couldn't believe that Li Huan could break through under the bag of the two people, so they laughed at the timidity of the Wolfsburg players.
(To be continued)