In Valencia, Changsheng led Valencia to win the Triple Crown. They played the most beautiful football in Europe at that time, and at the same time they were able to win honors. This makes many teams compete to imitate them, and they are also looking forward to playing beautifully and winning the championship.
At that time, there were media comments, saying that Changsheng solved a difficult problem that has been puzzling the football world, that is, "you can have both the fish and the bear’s paw to win the audience and the championship".
As a result, when there were more teams playing offensive football, in order to beat them, defensive football began to quietly prevail.
Then, after Mourinho’s Chelsea won the Champions League in 2004-2005 with sharp counterattack and indestructible defense, everyone found a new way.
That’s defensive counterattack.
So more and more teams are engaged in this tactic.
Of course, in the 2005-2006 season, Barcelona’s Dream Team II was briefly restored.
But then in the 2006 World Cup, Italy, which emphasized defense and integrity, relied on their magic weapon-defense, and won the World Cup without being optimistic, which further proved that defense is the mainstream in today’s football.
In the 2006-2007 season, AC Milan won the Champions League, actually relying on defensive counterattack tactics. They played Kaka’s role to the extreme in the counterattack and finally won the Champions League. Kaka also won the Golden Globe Award and the World Footballer of the Year.
What’s more, we found that Lazio, which always wins, and Barcelona, Rijkaard, although both excellent, have a fatal flaw, that is, their football style and experience are not popularized.
The reason why the tactical mad dogs in Barcelona and Lazio are like this has their own reasons, and it is very unique.
Not all teams can play as beautifully and win as Lazio and Barcelona.
Although their football is very advanced, they have high demands on the team, and not all teams can play it.
This kind of football naturally has no basis for popularization.
Besides, Barcelona has also had the painful experience of being suppressed by Capello’s bloody Real Madrid. Only Lazio is a wonderful flower that can’t stand, but the success of such a team really lacks the significance of promotion.
Lazio is special, but other teams are not special, not at all.
What they need is a simple and easy-to-use tactic that is easy to popularize and learn.
Defensive counterattack is the best and most classic set of tactics.
It’s like Lazio is an antique work of art that is really priceless, although it looks good. Not everyone can just take it out.
Not everyone is deliberately pursuing it.
What most teams need is civilian tactics.
The mainstream of tactics in world football is not to see who can win the championship with this tactic, but to say how many teams use this tactic.
Obviously, there are very few teams like Lazio, but Chelsea’s tactics are very common. Any team will play, and even Lazio will sometimes play defensive counterattacks.
The success of the Italian national team, Chelsea and AC Milan has proved that this tactic is the most practical, easy to use and easy to achieve results.
Natural followers are like the tide.
Although those aspiring footballers have denounced Mourinho’s Chelsea as having made no contribution to the world football, they have left nothing to the world football except winning the first Champions League for Chelsea in history.
But who cares so much?
Who doesn’t just pursue their own interests?
There are so many people engaged in the football industry, why should I be responsible for the development of world football? I just want to win the championship for my team. What’s wrong with that?
Besides, is playing well and fancy the correct development direction of world football? Playing defensive counter-attack is the retrogression of world football?
Who stipulated it?
What evidence and data can prove this view?
Or do they all start with words with obvious subjective colors such as "I think" and "I think"?
In fact, the argument between offensive football and defensive counter-attack has nothing to do with connotation and righteousness, and there is no need to rush to go online.
In fact, it is just the contradiction between pragmatism and idealism.
Although the football in Barcelona and Lazio is very good, beautiful and popular, the learning cost is too high, which is not worth the loss. It is not practical for most teams, and naturally no one uses it.
The tactics of defensive counter-attack are simple and direct, although it may not be very beautiful in the scene, but it is practical, and any team can do it, and it is easy to make achievements.
It’s like having a practical screwdriver when screwing a screw. You have to learn from the martial arts experts to screw it by hand. People have practiced it. Have you practiced it? If not, I’m afraid your hands will bleed and the screws will not move.
No one is a fool. If you have to learn your complicated and difficult things, you may not be able to win a championship after studying for 20 years.
In the field of pragmatism, Mourinho is naturally a leader and has become a representative figure. Because he also plays football in Inter Milan, which is simple and direct, and the effect is good. If Lazio hadn’t been so perverse, Inter Milan would have won the league title this season.
In terms of idealism, Changsheng Nature is the most representative figure. Along the way from Valencia, his team played the most beautiful football, pleased the audience and won the championship-could there be a more successful idealist?
He completely reversed the impression that idealists are always synonymous with sadness, and he made idealism shine again. It is he who gives idealists who are struggling in the football world a reason to continue to adhere to their ideals …
All of the above are the comments of a magazine on Changsheng.
But if Chang Sheng knows that these media have chosen him as the representative of idealists, he will definitely think that these media really like brain tonic …
In fact, he is an out-and-out pragmatist. How can Chang Sheng be an idealist after his failure in the last life?
Of course, he has his own ideal, and he has been working towards it.
But at the same time, he is also a pragmatist. Since he knows that there is a shortcut to realize his ideal, why doesn’t he take it?
True idealists would rather take the road full of thorns, and may die halfway, but they should stick to their own path.
A pragmatist like Chang Sheng will not hesitate to take the easier shortcut, even if it is taken by others, he doesn’t care.
This is the true face of his pragmatist.
Pragmatists only consider the result, not the process.
Changsheng chose offensive football and Tiki-taka, but it was precisely because he knew that doing so would lead him to victory. If he didn’t know the future trend, he might choose defensive counterattack.
Just like Tony Twain who crossed back in 2007, the brilliant achievements of Guardiola’s Barcelona and the Spanish national team were after 2008. Dunn didn’t know that when he returned, he would naturally choose Capello’s "useless theory of ball control".
To put it bluntly, these two are pragmatists.
As a result, Chang Sheng and his Lazio became the last holy land of idealists because of the misunderstanding of the media …
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Another example that proves that Chang Sheng is not an idealist at all is that when the Italian media are discussing the significance of this game in the future development trend of football, Chang Sheng doesn’t care about the future trend of football at all. He only considers one thing-how to beat Mourinho’s Inter Milan at the Meazza Stadium.
The belief to win is there, but it is not enough to win only by faith, but also by correct tactics and strong execution.
Will Mourinho’s team play offensive football at their own home?
Changsheng doesn’t think so.
Although Lazio’s situation is not very good, this starting lineup can be regarded as the main force.
Moreover, he has already said that Lazio will attack football, so Mourinho is more likely to play a defensive counterattack.
But Chang Sheng thinks Mourinho will ask for a goal.
Is it contradictory not to play offensive football, but to ask for goals?
Actually, it’s not contradictory at all.
Just emphasize the efficiency of defensive counterattack.
As long as there is enough efficiency, defensive counter-attacks can also score four or five goals in a game.
Think about Mourinho’s Real Madrid, which is the most typical representative.