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Chapter 222 Changes in positional warfare!

Manchester United defeated Manchester City in the Community Shield and successfully won the Community Shield, but only defeated Manchester City's second team. Not only did they not prove their strength, they exposed more problems.

The next morning, Solskjaer gave the players who played the game for half a day off, and everyone else was taken by Lalin, Valk and the new physical coach Tony Stradwick for physical training.

Solskjaer himself had a tactical meeting with coaches such as Rui Faria, Gary Neville, and Banfield. This morning, he had to figure out how to solve the problem of Manchester United's weak positional attack. If this problem is not solved, Manchester United will definitely encounter greater resistance in the next battle.

"Guys, everyone saw yesterday's game. We didn't have any effective means when we attacked in the frontcourt position. This problem is the center of our meeting today. Let's find a way to solve this problem."

Rui Faria smiled and said, "All, there are only two ways to strengthen the attack power of positional warfare. One is to formulate some offensive routines through powerful centers, and the other is to rely on the players' passing and running."

Gary Neville and Solskjaer are old brothers, and they speak more casually: "Ole, let's practice the midfield pass and run. We must not have time to introduce another powerful center now, and it is unlikely to find a beast like Lukaku. You can design some pass and run routines early to let the midfield players master it."

It was very relaxed when both of their partners said, and Solskjaer couldn't help complaining in his heart... In the relationship, you are not the team's head coach, so you are not nervous!?

After returning from London yesterday, Solskjaer didn't sleep for two hours overnight. Now his eyes are full of red bloodshot. Of course, he also knows two ways of positional battles. The easiest way is to get a powerful center forward and push others around him to attack, but now Manchester United... does not have this condition!

As for relying on short passes, empty cuts, and breakthroughs to attack opponent's goal, this kind of cooperation is actually more difficult. Not only does the players need to have enough tacit understanding between each other, but also depends on the opponent's defensive ability. If you really encounter those with strict defense, the effect will definitely be so bad that you want to have nightmares!

Yesterday at Wembley Stadium, Manchester City's defense was not quite strict, but even so, it caused a lot of hardship in Manchester United's offense. Both goals can actually be regarded as defensive counterattacks. The first goal was directly scored by Yang Xiaozhuang, and the second goal was also created through counterattacks.

Manchester United's performance in positional battles throughout the game...is a bit terrible.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Solskjaer didn't know whether these partners were really unintentional or wanted to take this opportunity to test his level and ability. He could only show his tactical idea that he had been thinking about for a long time last night.

"Guys, that's what I think. Since we let Yang fight the pseudo-center in the middle and want to use his speed, we can actually use it when fighting in position!"

While saying that, Solskjaer cast his tactical diagram onto the big screen...

"Look at it, under normal circumstances, Yang must be at the front of the middle in the positional battle. His position is in the penalty area. If he quickly pulls out at this time and runs outside the penalty area, then the opponent's middle defense will definitely be brought out at this time. Next, we can give the ball to the penalty area on both sides, and the winger players rush in to complete the attack."

Solskjaer's routine is actually very simple, but... it should be effective!

Seeing everyone nodding, Solskjaer continued: "After Yang runs out, if the opponent's defense does not follow out, we can also hand the ball directly to Yang, so that the opponent will definitely run up to defend. Then Yang can choose to pass the ball to the big penalty area on both sides, or to the person rushing up from behind. I have seen that B Fei and Herrera have good long-range shooting abilities, and even the new French boy Aliyu also has a long-range shooting. Fortunately, our midfielder has a strong long-range strike ability."

When he said this, Solskjaer couldn't help laughing. He didn't expect that Aliyu, a seventeen-year-old French boy, not only boldly took Pogba's No. 6 jersey, was actually a big-hearted boy. He used his tenacious style to support the team's waist on the court.

Seeing that Solskjaer had thrown his marks, the other coaches in Manchester United's coaching staff naturally could not be idle anymore. Next, they contributed to the tactical ideas proposed by Solskjaer to enrich the ones proposed by Solskjaer.

In the afternoon, when all Manchester United players came back, the team began to engage in the drill of new tactics. After all, time is tight and the task is heavy!

Before playing the European Super Cup with Chelsea in the next game, Manchester United actually only had two full days of training, because this year's European Super Cup venue was placed in the Rierkula Stadium in Estonia. This is also the fact that UEFA wants to show its influence and rely on football to drive tourism and help Estonia's economy. Otherwise, why put the European Super Cup in Estonia?

After all, this small country that separated from the former Soviet Union... was really small!

Forty-five thousand square kilometers of land and more than one million people, this is the level of a prefecture-level city.

Even the stadium used to host the European Super Cup has a poor capacity... but it hasn't reached five figures!

Manchester United players and Chelsea players arrived together on the same flight. They went to the scene to observe and adapt to the venue at the same time. Then the dozens of stars from these two teams... were so shocked!

What's this?

What is this?

This can also be considered... a court?

The stadium has stands on all sides, but the four corners... are all empty!

Two large shelves were built in two corners, which seemed to be temporarily built, with searchlights installed on them.

There is also a corner where there is a newly installed huge idea screen, and there are workers debugging... This is a temporary worker to drive it out!

As for the remaining corner... there is nothing, there are only a few bungalows there, and I don’t know what it is for.

This condition... cannot be described as simplicity!

It was impossible to imagine that this stadium could hold a European Super Cup match before. Fortunately, the quality of the lawn under your feet was pretty good. I heard that this is also the home court of the Estonian national team, and the stars of Manchester United and Chelsea were speechless... Well, our treatment is also the highest.
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