Chapter 549: The strongest team in the Premier League this season, no one!

There are many famous coaches in today's football world. The tactical styles and concepts of these famous coaches are also unique, such as Mourinho's pragmatic defensive counterattack tactics, Guardiola's Barcelona passing and controlling system, Klopp's High-position pressing tactics, Conte's three-centre-back tactics, Wenger's short-passing tactics from the frontcourt, etc., etc.

In contrast, Sir Alex Ferguson does not seem to have his own signature tactical style.

In the 26 seasons that Ferguson coached Manchester United, Manchester United played defensive counterattacks, passed and controlled, pressed high, played three central defenders, passed and switched - almost any time. Manchester United has tried all popular styles, and they have tried well.

Ferguson is very rigid when it comes to managing the locker room, but at the tactical level, he is very flexible and good at learning and referencing.

Ferguson likes to learn, or to put it more bluntly, Ferguson likes to imitate.

The word imitation may not sound good, but objectively speaking, Ferguson's style is like this. He will imitate whoever is popular, and imitate whatever tactics are popular. And it is not just imitation. Ferguson can add his own tactical ideas, so Manchester United under the leadership of Ferguson has always been at the forefront of the times.

In the early days of coaching Manchester United, Ferguson still used England's classic 442-92- two-wing tactics. The results of this formation were not very good - of course, this was due to the fact that Manchester United's overall strength was not good enough in the early days of coaching, and Class had not really grown up. s reason.

In the late 80s, Ferguson actively sought changes and began to imitate variations of Michels' total offense and defense system.

"The Sphinx" Linus Michels is the originator of Total Attack and Total Defense in the Netherlands and the master of St. Cruyff. Although when it comes to Total Attack and Total Defense, the first thing that comes to mind is the pass-and-control style. They are all Cruyff, but this tactic was created by Michels. From a certain perspective, Cruyff, including later Rijkaard and Guardiola, were all imitating and learning from Michels. Shires' Total Attack and Improvements.

Ferguson also learned from Cruyff and Carlo Ancelotti, who was inferior to him at the time. He also learned from Arsene Wenger's Arsenal's frontcourt passing and cutting skills. He also learned from Van Gaal's backcourt return method. He also learned Mourinho's defensive counterattack.

Ferguson's last few years at Manchester United were the era of the rise of Guardiola's pass-and-control style in Barcelona. Ferguson also seriously studied to imitate Guardiola's pass-and-control style of play.

Therefore, Ferguson's Manchester United has never had only one style of play. Whoever is the strongest can imitate whoever is the best, but it is not a complete copy of other people's formations and tactics. Ferguson has reorganized according to his own understanding and the characteristics of Manchester United players to quickly form combat effectiveness.

If we have to talk about Ferguson's tactical style, then Ferguson's tactical style is so changeable and difficult to figure out.

If we have to make Ferguson's tactics concrete, then the characteristic of Ferguson's tactics is England's traditional "flying on both wings".

During Ferguson's coaching period, Manchester United's formation has been changing and has never been fixed, but the traditional idea of ​​two wings flying together has always been throughout it.

No matter how the tactics and formations evolve, Ferguson's foundation of "flying on both sides" has never wavered - this also shows that Ferguson is definitely not a coach who has no opinion on tactics and always likes to go with the flow, but a true coach. A coach who knows how to structure a formation to achieve its core intent.

Ferguson very much prefers to use two wings to attack quickly, and then use long passes to lob, pass from the bottom or pass in an inverted triangle to achieve offense.

This kick is simple, rough, and effective at the same time.

Of course, the requirements for the two wingers are also very, very high.

In Ferguson's philosophy, there is no need to be fancy about tactics. Even if they are fancy, they are used to confuse opponents. But what a head coach must understand is that the true core tactics should be as simple as possible. Ferguson believes that if a tactic is so complicated that the whole team has to run to a fixed angle to catch and pass the ball accurately like parts, then it is not a good tactic at all. At most, it can only be regarded as using ten times the efforts of others. , accumulating a large number of world-class players, and then they may not be able to win the championship.

Ferguson believes that both formation and tactics are only for the core players to get the ball and shoot. If the core players are allowed to serve for the fancy formation and tactics, it is putting the cart before the horse.

The current popular playing style in Europe in which the winger is the core of the offense is, to a certain extent, imitating and learning from Manchester United's double-wing playing style.

Another characteristic of Ferguson's tactics is that he never uses the attacking midfielder.

This is not because he doesn’t like the attacking midfielder tactics, but because in Ferguson’s view, the technical requirements for players in the attacking midfielder position are too high. He also wanted to create one when training Class 92, but he simply failed to cultivate it. Not coming out.

In Ferguson's view, to be called the world's top attacking midfielder, he must have one characteristic - when breaking through in the frontcourt, he cannot be restrained by less than four players on the opposite side.

There are only a few top attacking midfielders in the world, and most of them are concentrated in Italy.

Moreover, even if he gets the world's top attacking midfielder, he still has to redesign his tactics and give up his beloved two-winger.

The world-class attacking midfielder who met Ferguson's requirements did not want to come to Manchester United, and Ferguson, who was almost a midfielder, did not want to give up flying on both wings for him, so in the end, Ferguson gave up the setting of the attacking midfielder.

During the 26 years that Manchester United was coached by Ferguson, they focused on using almost all formations and tactics, except for the attacking midfielder tactics.

There is no problem if there is no attacking midfielder. Ferguson's alternative method is to bring the defensive midfielder forward when attacking and assist in the attack in the middle of the frontcourt.

After all, the core of Manchester United's offense is still on the two wings.

All in all, Ferguson turned Manchester United, which was already in chaos, into a prosperous dynasty with his strict and almost autocratic management style and his tactical thinking that put down his posture to seriously study and imitate popular playing styles.

This dynasty will not collapse due to the departure of big-name stars from the team, nor will it collapse due to the chaos of the management, nor will it collapse due to the blood-sucking of the Jewish consortium.

Because of Ferguson's presence, many of Manchester United's serious problems and conflicts have been covered up.

In the later period of Ferguson's coaching at Manchester United, he actually forcibly renewed the life of Manchester United.

But it is undeniable that this life-extending ability is too powerful, especially in the 2010-2011 season, Manchester United's combat effectiveness once again reached its peak.

In today's game, Southampton faced the strongest team in the Premier League this season, bar none. (End of chapter)