Super Marshal

Van Buyten eventually moved to the Premier League, but not to Everton and Fulham, who had been close to him before, but to Tottenham Hotspur coached by Juande Ramos.

After learning that Bayern Munich gave the green light to Van Buyten's transfer, Juande Ramos took the initiative to call Gao Han before the winter break to learn about Van Buyten's situation. Gao Han also repeatedly said that Van Buyten is a famous player. A very capable central defender.

After getting the approval of Bayern Munich, Juande Ramos flew to Munich in person and introduced to Van Buyten his technical and tactical play at Tottenham Hotspur and the importance he attached to the Belgian central defender.

In the UEFA Cup last season, Juande Ramos and his Sevilla shined brilliantly, winning praise from European football people. Even in many strong dialogue games in La Liga, Sevilla Villa is not left behind.

This season's Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur had a bad start. Dutch coach Martin Jol led the team for ten rounds, and the results were quite unsatisfactory, with one win, four draws and five losses, ranking third from the bottom in the Premier League. Such a bad result The record was simply unacceptable to Tottenham Hotspur, which ranked fifth in the league last season, and Martin Jol was fired directly.

With the halo of the UEFA Cup championship, Juande Ramos took over midway to put out the fire. He has played exactly ten rounds so far, with five wins, two draws and three losses. Three of the losses were excusable.

They lost to Blackburn in the first game after taking over. After conceding a penalty kick at home, they reversed two goals. However, Robbie Keane's red card in the second half made Tottenham play with one less player. After half an hour, he was finally reversed by his opponent.

However, the most regrettable game was the away game against Arsenal in North London, where they lost 1-2.

But under the leadership of Juande Ramos, Tottenham Hotspur also defeated Wigan 4-0, defeated Fulham 5-1, defeated Reading 6-4, and won the White Hart League. A unanimous yes from the lane pitch.

As the results increased, the ranking also increased, from the original 18th place to the 12th place.

Before the winter break, Juande Ramos wanted to introduce a strong central defender to make up for the holes in the defense.

There is no doubt that Van Buyten, who plays for Bayern Munich, is a pretty good candidate.

Because of this, Juande Ramos is very sincere, which is related to whether he can stay in the job after the season.

In the end, Juande Ramos convinced Van Buyten with his sincerity and planning for the players.

On January 1, as soon as the winter break transfers started, Tottenham Hotspur couldn't wait to announce that it would introduce central defender Daniel Van Buyten from Bayern Munich for a price of 10 million pounds. This was more than a year ago, and Van Buyten Teng's value increased slightly when he joined from Hamburg, but Juande Ramos still said it was worth it.

The sudden announcement of sending away Van Buyten surprised the entire German football world.

Although the Belgian central defender cannot play the main role, he is also an important rotation player for the team. If he suddenly lets him go, what is Gao Han planning?

In this regard, Gao Han did not explain much, and the Bayern Munich management also remained silent. On the contrary, Van Buyten expressed his gratitude to Gao Han at the press conference on joining Tottenham Hotspur and reiterated that it was his own initiative. Leave the team.

But for Bayern Munich, sending away a powerful central defender will undoubtedly weaken their defense.

The day after Van Buyten's transfer, Bayern Munich general manager Hoeness held a press conference to officially announce the start of negotiations with Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Hummels, Lucio and Barca. Contract renewal negotiations for De Stuber and other players.

This once again caused a strong reaction from the German media.

Hoeness solemnly reiterated at the press conference that these players are the future backbone of the club, and the team will do its best to keep them and build a competitive European team based on them. Super strong team.

Head coach Gao Han also attended the press conference. In an interview with the media after the end, he also expressed his support for the management’s decision, “There is no doubt that their performance in the past six months was enough to win them a new contract. , I think this is the best New Year gift to these players."

However, some media revealed that Podolski was not on the list for contract renewal negotiations.

Could it be that the German striker is about to leave the team?

But soon, Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, Hoeness and others spoke out in the media and communicated with Podolski, and finally succeeded in convincing the Prince of Cologne to stay at Bayern Munich.

As for the defense that sent away Van Buyten, Gao Han said that he would not sign any more players.

"We have three excellent central defenders in Lucio, Hummels and Demichelis, as well as two young players in Boateng and Badstuber. I believe this is enough to ensure that we can cope with this season."

Regarding the second half of the league, Gao Han also said that he is full of expectations and has set goals for himself.

"Yes, there is no doubt that several players performed very well in the first half. Ribery, Klose and Aguero all left a very deep impression, but in the second half we will try Let's activate Robben."

When Robben joined the team, he still had residual injuries from his Chelsea days. This caused his performance to be sluggish soon after experiencing the highlights in the early part of the season. Although he was still very capable, he was far from what the fans expected of him. expectations.

But after more than half a year of adjustments and recharging during the winter break, Gao Han believes that his second half will be even better.

"We have another very important task in the second half, which is to try other different styles of play."

Media reporters generally have high expectations for what Gao Han said.

With Bayern Munich's current lineup and situation, what other tricks can they play?

In early January, the team regrouped and headed to the resort city of Marbella in southern Spain.

In the tactical meeting on the first day of the team's preparations, Gao Han presented his plan in front of all the players.

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Under the dim lights, everyone sitting in the conference room was watching the projector projecting a clip from the game highlights of the Barcelona Dream Team during Cruyff's coaching period.

But unlike other game highlights, which all edit highlights of a game, this highlight only edits some seemingly unremarkable clips, some of which are players plugging in to cooperate, and some of which are players who go forward and play one-two...

If it were on weekdays, the players would definitely be bored by this kind of bland editing. In contrast, they would rather enjoy the impact of goals and wonderful performances, which can more arouse the enthusiasm for football in their hearts.

But now, they are all looking very attentively and seriously.

Before watching the highlight video, Gao Han told them that scoring goals is only the result of pursuit, not everything.

He asked the players to pay attention to the players' movements in the highlights, their responses, their passing and cutting cooperation, and their confidence and decisiveness.

When the highlight video finished playing, the lights in the conference room became bright again.

Gao Han walked back to the main podium and looked at the players in front of him with a smile.

Underneath, every player's eyes are shining with various lights. Some have a hint of enlightenment, some look confused, some look confused, and some seem to have gained something.

This is what he wants.

"OK, I have copies of these half-hour video highlights. If any of you are interested in this, you are welcome to borrow it from me at any time. I don't have any other requirements for you. I just hope that you will Being able to see more of these games.”

“In the future, I will arrange other game highlights, including Michels’ Netherlands team, Beckenbauer’s Germany team, Barcelona during Van Gaal’s time, AC Milan during Sacchi’s time, and Argentina during Bielsa’s time. The national team... I will arrange to play it in the tactical meeting."

"I hope you won't just watch, but always look for answers with questions."

Gao Han stopped at the point of his speech and did not go into more depth, because if he went further, it would be very boring. Players may not like to listen to it, and it is difficult for him to speak clearly in a short time, so he still left it until You will slowly understand it through training and practice.

In this tactical meeting, what Gao Han wanted to focus on was the set of changes that the team will prepare for next.

Three defenders.

This is an idea he came up with after communicating with famous coaches such as Guardiola, Ferguson, and Wenger at the European Head Coaches Summit. However, they were all under pressure from the team's performance and had no room or room for practice. But Gao Han is the best in the Bundesliga and has very little pressure.

Therefore, Gao Han wanted to do an experiment on Bayern Munich.

Although Van Buyten left before the winter break, Bayern Munich still has five central defenders in the team. If you include Vidal, a versatile player, there are six in total, which is enough to try out.

What Gao Han wanted to implement was the [Total Attack, Total Defense, Three, Four, Three] formation that he spent a lot of money to buy from the coaching system.

As the name suggests, this is a three-four-three formation, a set of tactics refined from the essence of Michels and Cruyff's tactics, combined with the tactical concepts of modern football.

Gao Han took advantage of the past few days of rest and studied it carefully. He felt it was very exquisite. I am afraid that the players will not be able to exert their full power in a short period of time, but as Bayern Munich's preparation plan, it should be more than enough.

More importantly, this set of tactics has very high requirements for running without the ball, which is also very consistent with the characteristics of Bayern Munich.

Everyone knows that the Bundesliga has unique attainments in running without the ball.

In this tactical meeting, Gao Han carefully explained and analyzed the coordination routines and movements of the three-four-three formation of the Dream Team during Cruyff's coaching period that he had just played for the players. After a while.

Gao Han highly admires the three-four-three formation and believes that it is a tactical formation that has super control over the game. It can even be said that, in theory, it has super control over every area of ​​the court, but the premise is Every player needs to actively participate in the game and run actively.

With Bayern Munich's current overall strength, it is not difficult at all to gain an advantage in the midfield, so Gao Han's main focus is on running, involving and cooperating with players after attacking to the thirty-meter area in the frontcourt, or even at the front of the opponent's penalty area.

Speed ​​and efficiency are his highest requirements after the ball enters this area.

On the defensive end, in addition to requiring on-the-spot counterattacks in the midfield and frontcourt, Gao Han also emphasized the cooperation between the deep-lying midfielder and the three central defenders. Only a solid defense line can allow the midfielder and frontcourt to devote themselves wholeheartedly to organization and play. attack.

But it was just talk in the tactical meeting. Whether it can really work will have to be seen on the court.