Football: After listening to the advice, I became the strongest free man! - Chapter 382

c382 Has Barcelona really stepped down from the altar?

In this defense, Vazquez’s position is worth paying attention to. Zidane is equivalent to throwing two right-backs on the back line.

According to the initial position, Vazquez is the right forward; but the strength of his retreat is actually equivalent to the team adding a left back. It is unclear whether it is a 4-4 position or a 5-3 position.

This conservative defensive method actually runs through Zidane’s entire coaching period. The outside world always says that Valverde next door will change from 433 to 442, but it is actually one of the most commonly used defensive ideas.

In theory, it is the dream of all teams pursuing passing and controlling to rely on front-court pressing to replicate the passing and controlling system of the Guardiola era; but how difficult is it to do that?

Zidane gave up midfield pressing and adopted this front-to-back split defensive strategy. It is true that he could not stop the opponent from advancing, but he could also rely on the backcourt to keep people in addition to investing heavily in the frontcourt, and restrict the opponent’s counterattack.

It is a typical case of the midfield giving up pressing and shrinking the back line, but instead organizing the opponent’s fast break and shooting.

In that season, Real Madrid’s opponents’ counterattacks accounted for 8.11%, ranking second in La Liga; but only 15.48% of these counterattacks were able to eventually form a shot, the fifth lowest in La Liga.

In contrast, Enrique’s Barcelona became one of the teams that emphasized pressing the most in La Liga, with 3.07 defensive confrontations against the ball holder per minute (second in La Liga); however, they allowed 26.55% of the opponent’s counterattacks to form a shot, the third highest in La Liga.

This is actually a choice you must make when you don’t have enough defensive resources at hand – the paradox of grabbing and defending has been perfectly solved for so many years, only Atletico Madrid and Liverpool.

So we admit that Real Madrid’s defense was not good in the 16-17 season, but we can’t blame too much.

Hidden dangers are hidden dangers after all. If you don’t face them, they will explode.

If you read the previous article carefully, this conclusion has basically come out.

In the 16-17 season, Real Madrid still exposed many problems. Unfortunately, it is not known whether Florentino did not make targeted reinforcements after the season due to the consideration of renovating the stadium.

Instead, important players were released one after another, and the hidden dangers were not solved, but new crises emerged.

First, the problem of Real Madrid’s midfield defense hardness has always existed, and with the aging of Modric and the decline of Kroos, there is even a clear trend of aggravation.

Secondly, the decline of the midfield dual-core state combined with the traditional reliance on the combination of the midfield and the backcourt, the final result is that Real Madrid loses the ball more frequently in the backcourt, and the threat of opponents taking advantage of mistakes and counterattacking on the spot is naturally greater, which has also been very obvious in the past two years.

Thirdly, Real Madrid made a very wrong decision to let go of several important players in the team, especially Morata. As mentioned above, the team’s offense relies heavily on crosses. Benzema was always used to wandering outside the penalty area before the second half of last season, doing the so-called “cooperation”. In fact, when the team’s passing and control resources are enough to hit the ball around the penalty area, and the opponent repeatedly recovers, the fixed receiving point in the penalty area is more important than anything else.

Morata, who is the best player in the team, was released to Chelsea.

Putting aside the economic value, this is a complete three-lose deal.

At that time, Morata’s number of touches in the penalty area per 90 minutes was second only to Ronaldo in the team. Zidane did not trust Bale much in the 17-18 season, and as a result, Ronaldo often faced the dilemma of being alone in the opponent’s penalty area.

It must be emphasized here that the above problems already existed when Ronaldo was in Real Madrid, and Ronaldo’s last season in Real Madrid was also prominent, but Zidane took Casemiro out of the game against Paris, played a shocking 442, and protected himself with metaphysics all the way, which changed his fate in the Champions League.

In fact, Real Madrid in the 17-18 season was already full of loopholes and in a precarious situation.

Looking through the history of the rise and fall of major top teams, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion: raising a team is like raising a car, it is easy to buy it, but it is difficult to maintain it-

It costs money to build a good team, and it is not cheap to maintain a good team…

2016 has passed in a hurry.

The 2017-18 season is about to begin.

A big news – Neymar joins Paris for 220 million transfer fee, MSN goes bankrupt.

This season’s La Liga is in turmoil again.

Highlight 1: Can Real Madrid continue the state of last season to defend the title.

Last season’s five-time champion was obtained as expected, and can a group of young talents such as Asensio, Vazquez, Isco, Ceballos, Kova, Vallejo and others take up the responsibility of Real Madrid.

Can Real Madrid create a new era based on the depth of the bench?

Whether it can defend the league and the Champions League is also worth looking forward to. Barcelona MSN disintegrated, and how long BBC can coexist is also a question.

Highlight 2: Barcelona is missing Neymar, although Semedo, Violent Bird and Dembele have been introduced.

But how is the team’s running-in degree. Barcelona has declined more or less. Since losing in two rounds of the Western Super Cup, can Barcelona play the cards in its hands well in the new season?

Has Barcelona really stepped down from the altar?

As Xiaobai gets older, the midfield was in and out of form last season.

And Busquets’s form is also worrying. The midfield is not strong enough and the right side is basically paralyzed. But the return of the German Emperor, Dembele and Semedo have joined.

It really gives hope to the wing.

Violent Bird can give the midfield strength and is also a good signing to attack when necessary.

It is also exciting to see which position Roberto will play this season.

The most anticipated DSM combination! ?

Highlight 3: Atletico Madrid once formed a three-way confrontation with Real Madrid and Barcelona in the past few years.

In the past one or two years, with Turan coming to Barcelona, ​​Gabi, Godin, Fran, Felipe and others have declined with age and cannot reproduce the iron-blooded defense of the year.

On the other hand, Real Madrid and Barcelona have more or less introduced some strong reinforcements, while Atletico Madrid has been unable to recruit reinforcements due to violating the ban, and can only go out but not in. Griezmann has a scandal again.

Torres is too old to play a pivotal role.

Gameiro is not this type of striker, and needs speed like Carrasco.

Griezmann’s single-handed fight is often needed in the frontcourt, and the midfield cannot provide much support.

There is also a winter window? Griezmann’s transfer? Meiyan’s return? ?

All are highlights Highlight 4: Which of Sevilla, Bilbao, Espanyol, Eibar, Villarreal and Valencia can challenge the three giants of La Liga as the fourth army?

I am more optimistic about Sevilla, Valencia and Eibar. Last season, Valencia was distracted by the Europa League and lost a lot of points in the league. Can they make a comeback this season?

Can Sevilla enter the quarterfinals of the Champions League, or even further? They fell to the Foxes last season.

And Bilbao has not given me too many surprises. Can veteran Aduriz lead the team forward? It is also the tradition of the team to only use players from the Basque region. And can the team have more newcomers to lead the team forward?

And can Eibar, a small team that I personally think is good, do better?

Point 5: Derby and rivals. The national derby every year. It is exciting to see whether it will be Barcelona or Real Madrid this season.

Madrid derby, Catalan derby. Rivals include Valencia, who took drugs when playing Real Madrid, and Espanyol, who took drugs when playing Barcelona.

These are all big and small highlights.

Point 6: The battle between Melo and Ronaldo? Who will fall behind in the new season of the two heroes? Golden Boot? Melo or Suarez?

Point 7: Coach. Whether it is Zidane, Valverde or Simeone who renewed his contract?

After the Real Madrid-Barcelona national derby, the 17th round of this season’s La Liga was completed. The 18th round will be held on January 6 after New Year’s Day.

The new season of La Liga will kick off in the early morning of this Saturday. In the past 12 years, except for the 13-14 season when the championship was taken away by Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid have monopolized the La Liga championship trophy. In fact, due to the impact of the transfer ban, Atletico Madrid may find it difficult to reproduce the style of the “La Liga” three giants in the new season, and the championship competition in the new season will inevitably be between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

From the Spanish Super Cup that just ended, Real Madrid showed great advantages and thickness in the rotation lineup.

Will the three-way pattern of La Liga end from this year? And thus enter the era of Real Madrid?

However, in the past 10 years, Barcelona has always maintained an extremely strong advantage in the La Liga. Even the best Real Madrid at the moment just won the first La Liga championship in 5 years just 3 months ago.

Even if Neymar is lost, I believe that the Red and Blue Army led by Messi will not give up easily.

1. The strongest Real Madrid aims to defend the title, and Asensio looks forward to soaring

Real Madrid was relatively quiet in the transfer market this summer. After completing the Champions League defense, they chose to further accumulate young talents.

Currently, the 16-year-old Brazilian teenager Vinicius ranks first on the La Liga transfer market. Real Madrid spent 45 million euros to introduce him, but he will not appear in the new season of La Liga.

In addition, the team’s most important signing is to buy full-back Hernandez from the city’s arch-rival Atletico Madrid, announcing that the team’s youth process continues to deepen, and he will also become the first substitute for left-back Marcelo.

In terms of central defender, Vallejo, who returned from youth training, will replace Pepe’s position.

There are two Spanish U21 internationals in the midfield. The return of Marcos Llorente has added another midfield interceptor to the team besides Casemiro. Betis’ talented midfielder Ceballos is the successor to Modric. In the competition with the arch-rival Barcelona, ​​winning the European Youth Championship Golden Ball player is also a great gain for Real Madrid this summer.

On the offensive line, although the departure of Morata and James Rodriguez will have some impact on the team’s strength.

But Asensio’s strong rise will make fans forget the former bench bandit.

In the two rounds of the Spanish Super Cup, Asensio scored the last goal of the first game and the first goal of the second game with two world waves.

Such an excellent performance has made countless media praise him as Ronaldo’s successor.

2. Barcelona, ​​which lost Neymar, must first finalize the new aid as soon as possible.

For Barcelona, ​​they actually have a lineup to strengthen this summer. The joining of right back Semedo and midfielder Paulinho still gave the team a boost in combat effectiveness.

However, Neymar’s departure has caused too much damage to the team. With the current situation that the purchase of Coutinho and Dembele is not going well, it may be hard to believe that the team can fight against the increasingly powerful Real Madrid by relying solely on Messi.

From the two rounds of the Spanish Super Cup, especially in the second round at the Bernabeu, Barcelona only had one chance to shoot in the first half.

After the game, we were surprised to find that this was the first time since 2008 that Barcelona’s possession rate was lower than Real Madrid after 32 national derby games. Although the team officially signed Paulinho, the main midfielder of the Brazilian national team, after the game.

However, relying solely on a midfielder who is better at grabbing and scoring forward may not help the Catalan giants restore their former glory. Judging from the game at the Bernabeu, the team’s best player in ball possession and passing is the newly introduced right back Semedo.

He completed beautiful passing or getting rid of Marcelo several times. But to regain midfield possession, Barcelona must introduce better midfield organizers.

After missing Verratti and Ceballos, Coutinho may be the best choice for the team.

But the serious rejection attitude of the Liverpool club at the moment makes it hard to believe that Barcelona can finally get the “genius” they want.

On the other hand, Deulofeu’s performance in the game against Real Madrid was not satisfactory. The team’s desire for Dembele has reached a peak. Faced with the 150 million euros offered by Dortmund, will Barcelona finally “spend money to avoid disaster”? This may be related to their fate in the league next season. After all, Messi really needs a few teammates who run fast.

3. The second group melee: Can Atletico defend its dignity?

Due to the transfer ban this summer, Atletico Madrid may lose the strength to compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona.

In fact, last season, Atletico, which finally ranked third in the league, was left behind by Barcelona by 12 points, and was 15 points behind the final champion Real Madrid.

This summer, Atletico, which cannot strengthen its lineup, is likely to further decline.

Although Atletico introduced Sevilla attacker Vitolo through the transfer of Las Palmas, he will have to wait until January to play for the team at the earliest.

For this reason, Vitolo is now on loan to his original parent team Las Palmas, which is also an interesting transfer operation method.

Atletico’s strongest competitor should still be from Sevilla, but they also made major adjustments to their lineup this summer: Vitolo, Ivora, Mariano, Rami transferred away, and four players, Jovetic, Nasri, Kranevitt and Bietto, returned to their parent team after their loan expired. Even coach Sampaoli and technical director Monchi left one after another.

Fortunately, the team still ensured the team’s combat effectiveness after introducing Muriel and Banega, and Nolito and Navas from Manchester City, and buying Kjaer and Kozia on the back line.

Former Celta coach Berizzo did not disappoint. They defeated strong opponents twice in the Emirates Cup and won away in the Champions League play-offs, which also made fans look forward to the new season.

There is a team that needs special attention, which is Betis, the city rival from Sevilla.

The team played more than 10 warm-up matches after the change of coach and performed well, including a victory over the rebuilt AC Milan.

Although Ceballos went to Real Madrid, the team bought experienced defensive midfielder Guardado from PSV Eindhoven, and Barcelona winger Tello followed.

Swansea center back Amat and right winger Barragan from the Premier League are also veterans.

More importantly, the joining of Algerian attacking midfielder Boudebouz and Osasuna striker Sergio Leon, who played well against Barcelona last season, has greatly improved the team’s combat effectiveness.

Others such as Villarreal introduced the Dutch striker Unal from Manchester City and brought Bacca.

And Real Sociedad introduced former Manchester United player Januzaj, these are also teams worth paying attention to. Together with Athletic Bilbao and Valencia, they will launch an attack on the leaders of the second group.

Before Barcelona spends Neymar’s 222 million euros, this may be the most “thrifty” summer in La Liga in recent years.

However, the new season of La Liga will not be discounted because of this. More importantly, the new season is likely to be the year for La Liga to re-establish order: from the battle between Real Madrid and Barcelona to the melee of the second group of La Liga.

Who will eventually become the winner? This will be a major highlight of the new season of La Liga.

In the past decade, the commercial strength of La Liga has become increasingly stronger, and all clubs and league officials are committed to improving their financial situation.

According to the La Liga 2016 Financial Report released by KPMG in April this year, from the 2011-12 season to the 2015-16 season, La Liga’s operating income increased by 736.9 million euros, an increase of 40.5%, and an annual compound growth rate of 8.9%. From this point of view, La Liga’s progress in business is obvious.

From the perspective of sports events, the most boastful thing about La Liga is that it can always attract the best football players in the world.

For many elite players, playing for Real Madrid or Barcelona is their dream (as the so-called “son of Real Madrid dream” and “son of Barcelona dream”).

Of course, the most money-conscious Premier League (with very tempting salaries) or teams like Paris Saint-Germain also have considerable appeal. Paris recently took Neymar away for a record price of 220 million euros.

But the home of the best players is La Liga. Of all the players who have won the FIFA Player of the Year award this century, only three have not played for Spanish clubs.

La Liga is entering a new era.

After dominating the Deloitte Football Club Revenue Rankings for 11 years, Real Madrid ranked third with revenues of €620.1 million in the 2015/16 season.

But Real Madrid’s revenue increased by 7% and received more broadcasting revenue than the top two Manchester United and Barcelona. The reason for the decline in the ranking is that their commercial revenue fell behind (€263.4 million).