Tyrant of green giants, signed Guardiola at the beginning

Chapter 392: Transformation in the middle, bad luck!

Leeds United's draw was narrowed by the pursuers behind them.

But after the end of this round of league games, Leeds United's advantage is still so great that people don't think that the title race has taken a suspenseful turn.

Because Liverpool drew with Everton in the Merseyside derby.

Manchester United's victory only allowed them to overtake Liverpool, but they were still 11 points behind Leeds United and 13 points behind Liverpool.

Chelsea rebounded immediately after the coaching change and scored 3 points. They are still a shocking 16 points behind the top spot.

This was the most unshakable era for Leeds United in the Premier League, but it was also described as the darkest era by Fleet Street!

Because the traditional giants have no hope of winning the championship.

Leeds United will have no games for the next 10 days.

Shen Tanhao leads the team to train step by step.

During the period, the team was given two days off, and he took Bai Muxin to Portimao to reunite with his parents for the New Year.

Tan Youyou specially brought Shen Xiuqi to Portimão, and the scene was awkward when she met Bai Muxin.

However, Tan Youyou showed such enthusiasm that even Shen Hao was surprised. She, a cold and cold beauty outside, could talk endlessly to Bai Muxin about her experience in having an abortion, and even gave Bai Muxin a psychological inoculation in advance. Insufficient care should be taken for babies during the day.

The scene of his uncle Shen Yao and his nephew Shen Xiuqi playing ball together made Shen Guoqiang smile from ear to ear. It was clear that the two children were just passing the ball at an ordinary slow speed.

However, he commented seriously that the two children were extremely talented.

Shen Hao couldn't laugh or cry.

"Your grandson is just able to stand firm and kick the ball out with his feet. Why are you so excited?"

Compared to Shen Yao who is already two years old, Shen Xiuqi is only one year and two months old.

Shen Guoqiang couldn't help but mocked: "Do you know what you looked like when you were one year old? You kicked the ball out and you fell to the ground. My good grandson can stand still, which is better than 99% of his peers."

Shen Hao muttered: "You didn't give me my talent..."

"It's a pity that you didn't inherit my excellent genes."

Shen Hao hesitated to speak and finally gave up.

Not to mention, Shen Guoqiang's talent potential is higher than him.

There is no excuse for this.

The family spent two days happily.

Since it is the Chinese New Year, there is not only no shortage of food and drink at home, but also a large table of leftovers.

Shen Hao habitually packed up the leftovers.

Bai Muxin wanted to help, but Tan Youyou asked her to rest. While packing, he asked curiously: "Back then, I saw you carrying leftovers to a player. It is good to be frugal and not wasteful, but it seems to have nothing to do with saving. .”

Because Shen Hao never packs food when he eats in restaurants outside.

Speaking of which, the cost of eating out is definitely much greater than the cost of eating at home.

Are you frugal at home and extravagant outside?

If you say it's just a pretense for outsiders, that makes sense.

But now that they were all on their own, Tan Youyou still didn't understand Shen Hao's intentions.

Shen Hao said casually: "My mother made this by herself. Nothing should be wasted. It is better to feed people than to feed dogs."

Tan Youyou looked unhappy.

This guy's words are rough but his reasoning is rough.

Shen Hao took away all the leftovers from the New Year dinner in big and small bags.

After it was brought back to Leeds United, it was reprocessed by the chef team and it was still a feast.

Players have been patched from time to time over the years.

Although they are all leftovers, in terms of actual value, they are worth a thousand dollars.

...

It has become a club tradition for Leeds United to send blessings during the Chinese New Year every year.

It's both promotion and thanks.

Continuously consolidate their position in the Chinese market, and hope to continuously attract new fans to join the army of white fans.

The Premier League started midweek at the end of January, and a few days ago, Leeds United in the FA Cup at the weekend went without a game.

They faced the challenge of Liverpool at home in midweek.

Benitez frankly admitted before the game that Leeds United's stability was beyond imagination.

Again.

If you only look at the traditional BIG4, Liverpool is now competing with Manchester United and Chelsea for the championship.

But looking at the current standings, the traditional BIG4 are very desperate.

If BIG5 all use their maximum fighting power, Leeds United may not be able to surpass one level.

But Leeds United is absolutely in a league of its own in terms of stability.

This is more critical than hard power in the long competition in the league!

Shen Hao said before the game that Leeds United still needs to play steadily and step by step.

Compared with the pain of most teams not being able to win games, or not winning all the time, Shen Hao is now more worried that the team will relax because they win too much.

Once you relax, no one will be able to recover if your condition declines.

March 1th, late.

Elland Road was buzzing.

The red-white battle between Leeds United and Liverpool is about to begin.

Shen Hao stood still and supervised the battle with his hands behind his hands.

Benitez also looked serious on the sidelines.

He was disturbed by Leeds United's starting XI today.

Goalkeeper: Neuer.

Defenders: Belletti, Kompany, Helguera, Baines.

Midfielder: Deisler, Modric, Ze Roberto, Van Bronckhorst.

Forwards: Ronaldo, Ronaldinho.

Leeds United has begun to adopt a 442-[-]-[-] formation more frequently in the Premier League this season.

In the past, 442 was always used to prevent counterattacks during military training.

But now this formation technique and tactics are also used when fighting the first echelon civil war.

Benitez also couldn't figure out Shen Hao's intentions.

Does it mean that the more successful you become, the more timid you become?

The reason why Shen Hao changed his technical and tactical formation was Jamie Redknapp.

It was thought that Jamie Redknapp, who performed well last season and played a key role, could continue to have a good season.

However, his strength began to decline this season. He maintained his peak ability before the age of 35, but the numerical changes were adjusted between different abilities, one waxing and waning, and the overall strength changed with almost no fluctuation.

But when Shen Hao noticed that his ability began to decline as the season was about to enter the middle period, the first thing he thought of was: What will his ability and status be like by April 2009?

As a veteran who was approaching 36 years old at that time, Shen Hao couldn't be too demanding of him.

Therefore, he can no longer be regarded as the absolute main force in the peak battle, so changes to Leeds United's current lineup are imminent.

Rakitic still needs to grow.

If you want to use your ultimate combat power, you can only change the formation to 442.

Even Seth Johnson is currently ranked higher than Jamie Redknapp, because the latter's replacement as a substitute is Modric, not Ze Roberto.

Ze Roberto was given higher defensive responsibilities, and his substitute could only be full-time defensive midfielder Seth Johnson.

In today's English football, 442 has almost disappeared.

At least in the Premier League BIG5, no team is still playing the British tradition 442.

However, Shen Hao's current parallel stance of 442 surprised Fleet Street.

In fact, in the changing game, Leeds United's 442 and the traditional British 442 are not the same thing at all.

Liverpool started today at 433.

Goalkeeper: Reina.

Defenders: Arbeloa, Carragher, Skrtel, Aurelio.

Midfielder: Lucas, Gerrard, Mascherano.

Forwards: Benayoun, Torres, Babel.

Alonso is out due to injury.

The whistle blows to start the game.

Leeds United adopted a defensive counterattack posture, and Liverpool began to take the initiative to speed up after entering the state.

Without Alonso's backcourt organization, Gerrard is left to shoulder the organizational tasks in the midfield, and the effect of the sudden attack will be weakened.

Benitez is in a similar situation to Ferguson.

Facing Leeds United, we must strive to score points.

This urgent need to score points is not necessarily to narrow the gap with Leeds United. It is simply an unwillingness to fall behind and fall into the dangerous situation of fighting for fourth place.

And Benitez also knows very well that relying on Babel and Benayoun to tear apart Leeds United's defense at the front is tantamount to wishful thinking.

Without Alonso, he didn't play Kuyt.

With Alonso here, Liverpool's midfield configuration is not only reasonable, but its overall strength is also at the top level of the Premier League, even Leeds United can't match it.

Gerrard, the all-around B2B player, Alonso, the master of deep-laying organization, and Mascherano, the full-time defensive player, need to be tough, organized, and aggressive.

It’s almost the effect of maxing out polygon capabilities.

In this configuration, Kuyt can disrupt Leeds United's defense from the front, because the efficiency and effect of Liverpool's offensive organization will be very stable.

It's enough to support their strong offensive.

But without Alonso, Kuyt probably won't get many opportunities to disrupt the situation.

Benitez's first thought was to find a way to tear apart Leeds United's defense.

Therefore, Gerrard stabilized the offensive organization in the midfield and continued to send artillery shells to both wings.

Liverpool's two wingers, supported by the full-backs, worked hard to open up gaps in Leeds' wide defence.

Leeds United were very passive after the start.

This was Shen Hao's intention.

Playing back today.

In addition, he also needs Leeds United's defense to withstand Liverpool's offensive impact to improve its pressure resistance and defensive capabilities.

After the change of thinking, the way of polishing skills and tactics will naturally also change.

You can't play defensive counterattack here, but then press the opponent and attack hard to let the opponent counterattack at the beginning, right?

Even with the support of Aurelio and Arbeloa, Benayoun and Babel could hardly create a clear threat.

Torres's occasional sporadic shots were easily resolved by Neuer.

Leeds United are becoming more and more leisurely defensively.

After 20 minutes of the game, Leeds United began to fight back.

When Arbeloa assisted to the frontcourt and hit the wall with Benayoun, he made a pass.

However, Neuer rushed out of the small penalty area, took off, reached the moon in the air, and picked off the ball.

This kind of pass to Torres definitely doesn't work well.

Leeds United's quick counterattack started quickly.

Modric connected in front of the penalty area, Gerrard stepped forward to counterattack, and Modric passed the ball to the left.

Liverpool's attack on the right was full a moment ago, but now the defense on the right is in danger!

Baines moved forward to receive the ball and directly got rid of Arbeloa and Benayoun who were returning to defend.

In terms of the acumen of offensive timing, Leeds United players' awareness was repeatedly instilled by Shen Hao in training before actual actual combat.

Baynes dribbled the ball vigorously and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.

In front of Van Bronckhorst running wildly.

Lucas had to help defend the wings.

But after Van Bronckhorst received the pass from Baynes, he did not continue to move forward, but passed the ball diagonally inside.

Ronaldinho connected in the left area in front of the penalty area, and Mascherano and Carragher quickly flanked him.

Ronaldinho did not advance but retreated. After containing the ball for the first time, he transferred the attack.

He controlled the ball and retreated, and when Mascherano pressed him, he came out of an angle and sent a cross.

Deisler cut in from the right to the right side of the top of the penalty area, stopped the ball and sent a through ball on the spot.

Ronaldo made a diagonal run behind Skrtel and successfully connected.

Reina attacked, and Ronaldo raised his leg to fake a shot and went outside.

The ball bypassed Reina and then pushed the ball from a small angle into the near corner of the goal!

"Wow! Ronaldo, it's still the same Ronaldo who failed to score a goal but the goalkeeper, hahahaha!"

"This wave of quick counterattacks is textbook-style. Teams who want to defend against counterattacks can study and study it over and over again. Watch it carefully and learn it hard. No matter how much you gain, you can use it for life."

"Leeds United 1:0 Liverpool. Today's tactics are very similar to the tactics we adopted when we played Manchester United. Does Hao want to change Leeds United's technical and tactical style? Don't we have the strength to play with pressure?"

"Maybe, haven't you noticed that Jamie Redknapp's playing time has decreased recently? The strength of our midfield has been weakened. Alas, it's a pity that a beauty turns old and a hero languishes."

Liverpool fans sighed.

The expedition to Elland Road was a difficult and dangerous battle.

They are aware.

When facing Leeds United, which was historically strong in terms of record, they couldn't help but feel a little bit unwilling to accept it.

It seems that he has absolutely recognized the gap in strength from the bottom of his heart.

Benitez was a little distraught.

Leeds United are unpredictable.

Just like their counterattack can achieve changes created by the offense while pursuing speed.

This is the deadliest.

A counterattack team that simply steps on the accelerator and speeds up may be strong, but it will be difficult to reach a very strong level.

Only those teams that can use talent to upgrade threats based on speed can truly create the power to prevent and counter-terrorism.

Leeds United are exactly that.

In the Premier League BIG5, Chelsea returned to the old path of defensive counterattack after Hiddink came to put out the fire.

However, in terms of effectiveness, the connotation and essence of their defensive counterattack has not improved since Mourinho left.

On the other hand, Leeds United came up with an anti-counterattack 442 system that even Benitez, who has the aura of master tactician, was unfamiliar with.

Benitez couldn't help but regret it again.

Generally speaking, the skills and tactics played by the substitute lineup are not of reference significance.

Because in a real battle, you won't be facing your opponent's substitute lineup.

However, he had long heard about Leeds United's rotating substitute lineup and their 442-[-]-[-] defensive and counter-attack tactics, but he had not studied their games.

If we had been alert and carefully studied those games, we would have been able to find out the essence of Leeds United's 442 defense from the clues.

Keren's energy is limited.

Benitez likes to target his opponents too much.

This makes his workload itself very large.

During the 10-month competition period, there are 38 rounds in the league alone. Although we will face the same opponent twice, the opponents we face must be of different strength. There may even be an extreme change in style due to changes in coaches and players. change.

How could he still have the energy and time to study the games played by Leeds United's substitute rotation.

No coach is going to do that kind of job.

Even Shen Hao will not study the opponent's substitute rotation game.

But it happened that Leeds United was the first to use a substitute rotation lineup to play this anti-counterattack 442, in the league, in the local cup, and in the Champions League.

Benitez was enveloped by a familiar feeling again.

Bad luck!