"You're crazy. Should I fight with him?"
In the tactical conference room, Pan Yi laughed with the coach and players.
Those speeches at the press conference were really just smoke bombs released by Pan Yi.
Of course, the purpose is opposite to the previous spat with Mourinho, which is to make Klopp think that he is going to fight him, so that he can relax his vigilance and also affect his tactical deployment.
Because Pan Yi knows that in this world, the people who have played against Klopp the most and can win are Guardiola and Ancelotti.
If you choose Guardiola's style of play, you will indeed have to fight Dortmund in an offensive battle and have possession of the ball on the court.
But such a style of play places too high demands on players, and it is still difficult to achieve it based on the current comprehensive ability of Hamburg players.
And even Guardiola has almost tied with Klopp in the long history of confrontation.
Looking at the strength of the team, Guardiola used Bayern to beat Dortmund, and then used Manchester City to beat Liverpool. In fact, from a purely tactical point of view, he was still slightly behind.
But Ancelotti is different.
He led teams like Naples and Everton, and Klopp failed to take advantage of An Pang.
In the 2021-2022 Champions League final, Ancelotti led Real Madrid to defeat Klopp's Liverpool and finally won the championship.
Even if the shooting ratio between Liverpool and Real Madrid is 24 to 4, even if the key pass is 21 to 4, Real Madrid can indeed play with ease.
At other times, Liverpool played lively enough, but Ancelotti resolved them one by one and scored a fatal blow in the end.
On one side is Klopp, who has always been me, and on the other side is Ancelotti, who is good at making ends meet and finding ways to make ends meet. This is a PK between two coaching ideas and attitudes. It’s hard to say who is better, but in the On that day, Ancelotti was clearly the superior side.
In a decisive matchup, the Italians knew that Real Madrid at that time was not enough to win the situation.
Since Liverpool likes to press high, he is happy to shrink the front and wait patiently for a turning point to appear.
After Liverpool's opening three attempts failed to work, Ancelotti and his players' psychological advantage became more and more obvious, and victory naturally beckoned to them.
Therefore, after Pan Yi conducted in-depth research, it became obvious what tactics to choose to compete with Klopp.
An Pang's defensive counterattack tactics are obviously more suitable for today's Hamburg!
Young and fast wingers, centers who are willing to drop back and fight for the ball, and even Casemiro and Carvajal who are exactly the same...
Of course, the goalkeeper who also makes excellent saves cannot be missing.
In terms of personnel matching, Hamburg is also very similar to that Real Madrid team, so it should not be a problem to implement An Fatty's tactics.
"The first task of defensive counterattack is defense. I want to emphasize our defense today."
Pan Yi placed yellow chess pieces representing Dortmund players on the tactical board.
"Lewandowski is in the center, Perisic and Reus are on both sides, and Gotze is delivering cannonballs from the central midfielder position. This is Dortmund's basic offensive position."
"And in their offensive system, the most ferocious firepower is obviously their center, Lewandowski."
Pan Yi patted the yellow chess piece No. 9 on the tactical board hard.
"He was the team's top scorer last season, scoring 22 goals and 8 assists in the league. By the way, he also scored 7 goals in 6 appearances in the German Cup and defeated Bayern in the final. Scored a hat-trick in the game.”
"So, the focus of our defense is Lewandowski."
Seeing that everyone was listening intently to his speech, Pan Yi cleared his throat and continued:
"A sage named Lu from our Dragon Kingdom once said that the strongest is often the weakest."
Pan Yi still couldn't help but utter nonsense, so he glanced at Wu Lei again.
Fortunately, he didn't react.
"A striker of his caliber is difficult to guard, but once he is guarded, Dortmund's offense will be greatly restricted."
"When he misfires, it will be difficult for his teammates to get support from an all-around center like him, and then they all misfire."
"So, whether it is Casemiro or Rudiger, they must do their best to cut off the pass to Lewandowski."
"As long as he is restricted from getting the ball, it is equivalent to restricting Dortmund's frontcourt offense."
"Of course, focusing on Lewandowski does not mean that we can relax control over others."
"Whether it's Royce or Perisic, their breakthroughs are very sharp. And Gotze, the 20-year-old German genius is also worth noting..."
After emphasizing defense, Pan Yi continued to explain the "scum-breaking tactics" he learned from An Pang.
In fact, most of it comes from experience gained from the Champions League showdown in the previous life.
"They are used to pressing high at the beginning and using their compact position to compress our space to handle the ball, making it difficult for us to calmly organize the offense in the backcourt."
"And what's great about Dortmund is that they can often move from one side of the pitch to the other, very organized and in sync."
"Even if they sometimes sit back a little bit and choose to press from midfield, they maintain a similar positioning structure."
"Squeezing space is key to successful pressing and Klopp's teams tend to do this very well."
"So, we have to try to overload the right wing to break Dortmund's defensive balance!"
"Carvajal, you have to press frequently and move near Lin Zhijian, and Hasebe Makoto also needs to move closer to the right."
"If they rely on defensive positioning and movement to cut off our passing lanes to the right three, then we need to make adjustments in a timely manner."
"Son Heung-min on the left, you have to move to the forward line at this time to support the midfield defense. If you are blocked, then De Bruyne will drop back to the forward line and move around Casemiro to form a second A 4-man defense line..."
"In short, throughout the game, we must show strict tactical discipline, maintain organization and compact positioning! This is the key to whether we can beat Dortmund."
"I witnessed in Milan the use of airtight defense to defeat the invincible Cosmos team Barcelona. I believe you can do the same! Dortmund is not better than Barcelona!..."
In the process of Pan Yi emphasizing tactics, every time he named a player, that player would give him a heavy nod to express his acceptance.
In this tactic, the only difference from before is that Wu Lei did not start, and Lin Zhijian took his place as the right winger.
On the one hand, it is because Wu Lei has just returned from injury, and Pan Yi does not want him to take the risk of starting the starting lineup because his physical fitness is a bit tight - his physical fitness is still a bit far behind that of a beast like Casemiro;
On the other hand, in this defensive counterattack tactic, wearing down Dortmund until they are exhausted, and then using a speed dog like Wu Lei to make a final charge will generally have miraculous effects...
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