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Chapter 493 Core

Chapter 493 Core

When Queiroz's shout came, Mourinho, who had not yet returned to the coach's bench, froze for a moment. He quickly returned to normal, but a gleam flashed in his eyes.

Although as a coach, Queiroz still has one or another deficiency, but his keen observation of the situation on the court has actually reached a very high level.

Now on the field, the core of Newcastle, or the most important piece in the offense, is Long Bisheng, who has only joined the team for half a year.

Of course, Mourinho will not rashly make him a core player. After all, he is a new player, and he was not a player who was already very famous before he came.

This season Mourinho wants to attack across the board and strive for honors on all fronts, so a proper rotation system is imperative, because after sixty or seventy games in the whole season, it is impossible for him to have so many iron-like players under him, and the chances of players being injured in continuous battles will be very high.

What's more, the boundary between Newcastle's substitute and the main force is not so clear. If young players with outstanding abilities such as Baxter, Walcott, Bostock and Huntington are allowed to sit on the bench for a long time, it will be a huge loss for both Newcastle and the England national team.

However, rotation can ensure the physical fitness of players and reduce the chance of players being injured, but in fact, in the European leagues, few teams can use the rotation system very well.

The reason is simple. It is good for an average team to have a competitive main lineup. The strength of the substitute players is usually average. The occasional rotation is just to let the main players rest.

This is also the reason why every season in the five major European leagues there will be a few dark horses that are aggressive at the beginning, but later have no success.

And those top giants, although there is no problem with two sets of excellent lineups, after all, there is still a certain gap between the strength of the main force and the substitute. If the strength of the substitute is stronger than the main force or almost the same, they will naturally not be willing to be a substitute. Playing games-their opponents are not computers after all, but people, and what a team needs most is continuity. Too frequent rotations can only make players feel at a loss.

Rotation and grades—these two go hand in hand, yet seem incompatible, and no good coach can be perfect in this area.

What Mourinho did was to use rotation as much as possible to retain the continuity of the team's performance.

In this case, at least a few people cannot be rotated. For example, in Mourinho's tactical system, the center position is very important. In addition to being the first line of charge, he must also be the first line of counterattack after losing the ball. He must also attract the opponent's firepower and create opportunities for his teammates...

It just so happens that Long Bisheng is a player with exceptional physical fitness, and it is no problem for him to play every game, so Mourinho unshakably chooses Long Bisheng to play at the center position, and adopts rotations at other positions.

It is precisely because of this that Long Bisheng will become the most important piece in Newcastle's offensive system, not only because of his impact and pulling ability in the penalty area, but what Mourinho values ​​more is his ability to play the ball!

Although compared with other outstanding forwards, Long Bisheng's personal breakthrough ability is slightly insufficient, but it is precisely for this reason that after he started playing the center forward position, he is most used to passing the ball immediately after receiving the ball. He has played countless games. With such experience, his awareness and accuracy when dividing the ball is no worse than any outstanding passer!

Passing the ball immediately after stopping at the feet is easy to say, but how to pass it, how to pass it, who to pass it to, and where to pass it to is much more difficult than those wonderful and beautiful passing skills!

Football is a very simple sport, passing, stopping, dribbling, shooting, tackling, running, any action you take on the field will not depart from these six basic movements, and any gorgeous skills will not depart from the scope of these six movements.

Take Long Bisheng’s passing as an example, what action is the safest to use to stop the ball, observe the position of teammates when receiving the ball, what kind of action to use to pass the ball to make the teammate catch it most comfortably, where should the pass be passed to make it most difficult for the opponent’s defensive player to defend, how to run before receiving the ball to smoothly receive the pass from the teammate... A few simple actions contain the sweat and hard work of Long Bisheng for more than ten years.

In this impetuous era, although there are still many players who are willing to do the basic moves well, because they know that the basic skills are the basic reliance on the court, but there are not many players who are willing to do this kind of work after they become famous, because this kind of thing will always be ignored by the fans. The fans will always cheer for the moment of victory, the moment of wonderfulness, the moment of exquisite passing, and those moments of furious shots... They will not applaud an ordinary passing festival, even this ordinary one Passing takes up more than 80.00% of the time in football games.

Long Bisheng is such a player, and Mourinho is such a knowledgeable coach, so Long Bisheng will gradually become the core and absolute main force of Newcastle's giants.

Although each of Newcastle's attacks is different, they have one thing in common-that is, they must pass through Long Bisheng's feet.

Even so, it is not easy to see, because although Long Bisheng will definitely touch the ball in every attack, the timing is not necessarily the same. Maybe when he touches the ball is when he shoots, maybe when he touches the ball is when he divides the ball for his teammates to shoot, maybe when he takes the ball, he just passes the ball out in a normal way, and then he falls down several times to form a shot - probably a bit like Ibrahimovic in the last season of Inter Milan. .

It’s just that Long Bisheng is much less conspicuous than Ibrahimovic on the court, because Ibrahimovic’s skills are quite good. After he takes the ball, he always makes a few moves to make the opponent focus on him. Long Bisheng is different. Except that he feels that he can turn around and forcefully break through the opponent’s defense, he just receives the ball honestly, and then passes the ball honestly.

This is also the reason why Newcastle's main lineup has been different in almost every game in recent rounds, but the results are still very stable.

No one would have thought that Mourinho would allow an unremarkable striker who had only joined the team for less than a year to play the offensive core, let alone that Long Bisheng would do surprisingly well. It can only be said that Mourinho gave full play to every point of Long Bisheng's strength, and Long Bisheng did not let him down.

But at this time, Queiroz actually saw it.

The order he gave Evans was that no matter where Newcastle is attacking, he must follow Long Bisheng closely-this is completely a means of marking a very important core, but Queiroz just did it.

Mourinho was calm on the surface, but he immediately changed someone.

Bostock came on and replaced Carrick.

Seeing Mourinho's substitutions, Queiroz's eyes lit up—although Bostock always played Carrick's position in Mourinho's tactics, but the two of them had different types. Carrick's defense was better, and he mainly relied on long passes and instigation in offense, while Bostock had better skills and stronger personal breakthrough ability.

Why would Mourinho replace a playmaker with an attacker at this time?You must know that Manchester United is mainly defensive now, and Newcastle already has many players with excellent personal breakthrough ability on the field. Adding an assaulter will not help much, but will reduce the organization of the team, which is counterproductive.

Can't Mourinho see this happening?Or does he feel that Newcastle's offense will be greatly affected after Long Bisheng is marked, so he needs to add an assaulter to increase the continuous pressure on Manchester United's defense?

Queiroz wasn't sure about this at first, but now he has begun to be sure-Long Bisheng is indeed the core of Newcastle's attack, the most important part!

After Bostock came on the field, Newcastle's offense began to focus on breakthroughs. Messi, Ribery and Bostock's breakthrough abilities were excellent. Long Bisheng started to run in a wide range, trying to disrupt Manchester United's defensive formation. However, except for Evans who has been gritting his teeth and closely following Long Bisheng, Manchester United's defensive formation maintained very well. And Welbeck around the middle circle to contain Newcastle's attacking force.

As time passed, Queiroz's eyes became brighter and brighter. He could naturally see that Newcastle's offense was much less threatening than before. Without Long Bisheng's go-between, Newcastle's offense was fierce but lacked some layers.

Although he only led by one goal, Queiroz was completely relieved. Now Newcastle's offensive points have been completely blocked by him. Although the scene is passive, he still has the confidence to maintain the lead until the end!

There may be some embarrassment, but it is nothing compared to victory!What's more, Manchester United played against Newcastle in the first half, and it is completely normal for them to be suppressed by the opponent in the second half!

(End of this chapter)