Godfather Of Champions

In the VIP box of the Millennium Stadium, a fashionable blond woman couldn't help but yawned, and changed her sitting posture somewhat distractedly. She is not a very professional fan. She is not even a fan. She believes that the more important the game, the more exciting and exciting. But this England League Cup final lasted for ten minutes, but the scene was so dull that she was disappointed. In the eyes of beautiful women, this game was very dull.

Not only does this beauty feel bored, but the audience fans in the stands and in front of the TV also think so.

This is the final of an important cup competition, and conservative and dull is the main theme. Martin Taylor and Andy Gray, who were in charge of the commentary, knew this well, but they did not complain in the commentary. However, Gray raised questions about the forest team's shrinking defensive style of play as soon as they came up. They defended like this from the first minute of the game. When can Dunn's team defend? Forty-five minutes? Ninety minutes? Or... one hundred and twenty minutes?

"Macaroni (Massimo_Maccarone) tried a long shot! The player who hit the Forest team popped the bottom line. This is a corner kick. The Italian looked very excited after the start of the game. In just eleven minutes, he already had two shots. !"

The Middlesbrough game has a strong attacking lineup. Obviously, it is not McLaren who thinks that the key game should be conservative, or that McLaren did not choose to be conservative when facing Nottingham Forest.

In fact, since Robson coached this team, the tradition of Middlesbrough has been technical offensive football. They have the title of "Giant Killers" in the Premier League and have a lot of experience in playing strong teams. But playing against those teams that are good at pressing and have excellent players, you are a little at a loss.

Strong offense and weak defense are their greatest feature. McLaren doesn’t know what Dunn’s plan is. Anyway, he decided to launch a fierce attack at the beginning of the game, hoping to use this momentum to establish the lead first, and the rest of the game is more technically technical. Good Middlesbrough is easier. Contrary to Dunn's pre-match plan, he does not intend to strengthen his defense in the game, but to maximize his offensive advantage. Blasted through the gates of Nottingham Forest with a series of goals, blasting the fighting spirit of this first-class team.

Therefore, in this game, he ranked the strongest attacking lineup he could rank. The striker is composed of Italian striker Massimo Macaroni and Cameroonian Joseph Jobi (Joseph_Job). The former shoots accurately and the latter has excellent dribbling.

From left to right, the four midfielders are the star of hope in Middlesbrough. The 19-year-old talented player Stewart Downing (Stewart_Downing) is only 1.65 meters tall, but the skilled Brazilian midfielder Juni Juninho, a fierce defensive, fast, Dutch midfielder George_Boateng (George_Boateng) who is not afraid of physical impact, and Spanish midfielder Gaizka_Mendieta (Gaizka_Mendieta) on loan from Lazio.

There is no change in the arrangement of the guard line, and there are not many options for McLaren.

Left back, Frenchman Franck Quedrue (Franck_Queudrue), this is a very threatening player for Dunn, regardless of defense or offense for him can do well. Although he is only 1.83 meters tall, he has excellent header skills and free kick shooting skills. He is one of the best left-backs in the Premier League in the last two seasons. The right back is England international Danny Mills (Danny_Mills) on loan from Leeds United. The two centre-backs are 31-year-old veteran Ugo_Ehiogu and 23-year-old. Chris Riggott (Chris_Riggott).

The goalkeeper is Australia's Mark Schwarzer (Mark_Schwarzer).

Such a lineup, with the exception of Juninho, is basically the main lineup for Middlesbrough in the Premier League. Among the four midfielders, only Boateng is defensive, and the other three are more offensive than defensive. McLaren's intention is obvious-it is to attack!

Defense has never been a way of playing football that the people of Middlesbrough are familiar with. They like to play offensive football with beautiful cross-cutting cooperation.

And today... they still don't know that their most proud offense is about to hit the wall.

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Major Juninho took the corner kick, and Quedlu, who was guarded by the forest team players, failed to reach the ball, and Middlesbrough's offense ended without a problem.

Soon, the Middlesbrough team wearing a yellow away jersey came over again, because the Forest team basically didn't have any counter-attack power in front, only one Crouch, the goalkeeper kicked it over, even if he alone can compete with his height advantage. At the first point, the second point can only be given to the opponent.

Although the formation of the Forest team was 442 before the game, in fact, there was only one Crouch in the front. In the past, Dunn would arrange for Eastwood to hover around the tall guy to find a second point. Today, he did not ask for this, but instead asked the Gypsy to pull back to defend.

Nottingham Forest almost gave up the offense, doing so in order to build a high wall in front of his goal, completely blocking all Middlesbrough offense.

Italy has a tradition of "chain defense", which means that the team as a whole pays attention to assisting defenses, one by one. And Dunn spent more than a week building a defensive system for the Forest team before this game. He called himself a "wall defense". It is a comprehensive reinforced concrete defense system.

The back line never presses on, never makes offside, the three lines maintain close distance and complete formation. A small situation of playing more with less is formed within the 30-meter area of ​​the goal, requiring all the team to assist in defense and compress the opponent's offensive space. You can use your superb ball control ability to make lateral transfers outside of my defense, but my players will not be impatient because you pass from right to left and then from left to right. Do not! No matter how you pass it horizontally, as long as you don't pass it straight, then I will watch you play possession from behind the defensive line. It doesn't matter if you count 80% of the ball in one game in the final game.

But if you plan to change the offensive direction from horizontal to vertical, and want to pass straight through my defensive area... Then I'm sorry, I can't make you get what you want. The fierce shoveling, the enclosure of two or three persons, the airtight restricted area... is the situation you have to face.

The forest team's defensive range is like a muddy swamp. There is no problem if you don't set foot. Once you enter, it will make your offensive impossible!

In most people's minds, defense seems to be just the job of the back line and defensive midfielder. Forwards and midfielders can stand in front and wait for a counterattack when their team is defending. This kind of defense is like a three-ply board, which seems to be able to block the wind and rain, but in fact it will break with a little force. why? Because they don't have enough strategic depth, a subtle pass is enough to tear this paper tiger-like defense line.

But Dunn's defensive philosophy is not so.

What is a "wall"?

There is height, length, and thickness, an insurmountable wall made of boulders.

Height-George Wood is 1.86 meters tall, has excellent jumping ability and a good header. Robert Hut, who is 1.90 meters tall, has height and is good at headers. Wes Morgan is 1.88 meters tall and has excellent air defense capabilities.

There is a length-from the left side of the field to the right side of the field, Dunn’s overall defense is controlled. The starting two full-backs Chris Commmons and Ashley Young played a role in this game. Crouch headed the ball, but played as a full-back.

There is thickness-can a one-centimeter thick plank be called a wall? The moving wall of Nottingham Forest is a defensive area from forward to defender. From the beginning of Crouch and Eastwood's offense against Middlesbrough, the forest team's defensive system even began to work.

This is a real wall that is 2.5 meters high, 60 meters long, and 30 meters wide!

The Middlesbrough offensive gradually weakened after fifteen minutes. It was not that they didn't want to attack, but that they consumed twice as much energy in the defense against the Forest.

Dunn requires the team to dare to take a foot in defense, to be fast, to move fiercely, to close tightly and not to stop small movements. Even if the opponent's ball cannot be tackled, the action must be done sufficiently, because it will affect the opponent Every time they receive and pass the ball, over time, when their offensive errors begin to increase, the forest team's defensive purpose will be achieved.

Dunn firmly believes that no matter how technically Middlesbrough is, their players’ personal skills and team coordination cannot be compared to a team at the level of Real Madrid. Real Madrid are helpless in the face of crazy pressing and shrinking defensive teams. Don't mention you Middlesbrough in the middle of the Premier League.

Such defense makes Middlesbrough very difficult to play. Whether it is their head coach Steve McLaren or the players themselves, they did think before the game that the weaker Nottingham Forest might adopt a defensive strategy to deal with the Premier League team Middlesbrough, but none of them Thinking of the forest team's defense so thorough, so... crazy.

Major Juninho is a very good player at his feet, but he came to Middlesbrough three times before and after. In addition to his first impressive performance, it is a pity that Middlesbrough was finally relegated. The next two return to this team, the state is not as good as before, especially after he was kicked and broken, his performance was even worse.

McLaren let him play, originally intending to use his personal skills to create trouble for the Forest team's defense. He watched the two semifinals of the Forest and Bolton, especially the first. He believes that Bolton coach Allardys's biggest mistake is not giving full play to Okocha's personal technical ability. George Wood was very active in that game, but McLaren believed that he lacked the experience of how to temporarily deal with various changes. If Alledys gave Okocha full freedom from the beginning, let him disrupt the Forest team. Defense, then Bolton will completely crush the rookie Wood's debut.

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