"What do you think we are playing the 4312 formation?"

In the hotel room, Lütten discussed with his assistant coach Booskens.

Boosters is a legendary figure of Schalke 04. He has been coaching for the youth team before. This season he was promoted to Lütten's assistant coach, responsible for the daily training of the first team.

Hearing Lütten's words, Buskens was stunned and then fell into deep thought.

"You mean, hit the three-middle midfielder?"

Based on the team's current staffing configuration, Boosters roughly understood what Lütten meant.

"Yes, I had a sudden idea," Lu Teng said excitedly: "Ye Feng's arrival gave me inspiration. His excellent defense can not only bring defensive range and intensity to the midfield, but importantly, his long-range shot can become the team's trump card."

"Jones, Englar and Ye Feng lined up in the back midfield, and their defensive coverage was enough to build a defensive iron gate in the midfield."

"Before the three, Rakitic is organizing the offensive, and we need to entrust him with important responsibilities!"

"Kuranyi is at the front, while Falfan prefers the frontcourt libero. He can usually move around on both sides or ambush behind Kuranyi in the middle."

"Don't look at this, there is no traditional wing attack. With three midfielders as protection, our two fullbacks can boldly insert and create threats on the wing."

"And once the situation cannot be opened in the middle or the side, then Ye Feng's long shot will be used as a deep attack."

"This set of tactics has no fatal weakness!"

As Lütten revealed his tactical design, Buskens couldn't help but lit up.

As Lutten said, this tactical arrangement focuses on midfield defensive interception, but it also has rich offensive levels, and offensive defense has its own characteristics.

"Engrail is definitely not a problem with playing the midfielder. Jones has a steady defense, but I am worried that Ye Feng, a little guy, will perform unstablely. If he cannot complete the task well, the power of this set of tactics will be greatly reduced." Buskens said with a little concern.

Indeed, among the three midfielders, the most likely problem is Ye Feng's position.

Jones' defense is as steady as ever. Englar is a Dutch international. Even when he is a winger, he can change to a midfielder. Not only does he have a tough defense, but his offense is also excellent. With his terrifying height of 196 cm, he needs to rush into the penalty area to compete for a header.

Then, the only thing to worry about is Ye Feng’s performance.

If Ye Feng can do a good job in defensive work and provide long-range firepower, then this set of tactics will be truly successful.

Once Ye Feng cannot achieve the expected defensive intensity, the three-man interception will lose its effect, let alone the subsequent tactical effect.

"I have confidence in that kid!"

When he was talking, the picture that appeared in Lu Teng's mind was actually a picture of Ye Feng throwing the ball from the power field, and he couldn't help but smile knowingly.

...

In the following training, Lütten and Boosters began to focus on training this tactic.

At the beginning, it is the overall coverage and interception of the three-man back midfielder. The three-mile back midfielder is the basis of the entire set of tactics. If the first step goal cannot be achieved, then everything in the future will be empty talk.

At first, Lütten placed Englar's position in the middle, Ye Feng was on the left and Jones was on the right, so that Ye Feng could contribute long shots even in the left position. Englar had a certain ability to block, so he was more suitable in the middle.

However, after a training class, Lüteng exchanged Ye Feng and Englar's positions, with Ye Feng in the center and Englar's positions on the left.

Lütten and Boosters discovered that only in this way can Ye Feng's long-range shooting ability be maximized.

Once Ye Feng enters, Englar and Jones immediately withdraw inward and join forces to fill in the gap left by Ye Feng's front insertion to further make up for the loopholes in the overall tactics. That is to say, Schalke 04's midfield defense is unbreakable at any time.

With the determination of the position of the three midfielders, Rakitic and the two players on the front line also adapted to tactics and created an offensive system on this basis.

Obviously, it is a very risky decision to overturn the team's overall style of play in the middle of the league, but Lütten knew that if Schalke 04 had a qualitative change, it would not work without overturning and starting over.

Since there is no longer a high chance of competing for the championship this season, why not just be a little bit more?

As a result, Schalke 04 decisively became the first Bundesliga team to prepare for the 2009-10 season.

Of course, this does not mean that they have really given up on this season. Lütten believes that after a period of adaptation and running-in, Schalke 04's new tactical system will take shape at the end of the season.

And once the sprint started at that time, other teams might not be able to stop it.

I dare not say that I will definitely be qualified for the Champions League, but there is still hope for getting the European Cup qualification.

Don’t forget that Schalke 04 is now ranked ninth in the standings.

Moreover, Lütten's radical decision was supported by Schalke 04 sports director Helt, so tactical reform did not encounter any obstacles.

Before the training camp in Spain, Schalke 04 played a warm-up match with a local Spanish League team.

In the first half of the game, Lütten directly showed his new tactics.

Ye Feng appeared in the midfielder and played the full first half of the game.

However, in fact, Ye Feng's performance on both offense and defense was not so eye-catching.

The reason is very simple, he and the two teammates around him are not tacit enough.

Englar is a wing player. Even if he has changed to play as a midfielder now, he always has a forward heart, especially in the offense, where he often stands in front of Rakitic, the front midfielder.

Another midfielder, Jones, also saw the dawn of transformation after the team changed to play as a third midfielder. After all, who was not an all-round midfielder when he was young?

So Jones rushed forward too.

There was no way, Ye Feng could only drag it to the end and could not move forward easily. In this way, his fort lost his due deterrence.

On the other hand, in the defense, the bad tacit understanding also caused the iron gate, which should have been theoretically unsparkled, to collapse again and again.

If the midfield line is divided into three parts, and the three people have their own defense zones, then if the opponent's midfielder strikes the personal front defense zone, the three people will still do a good job.

But once the opponent hits the junction between the three, the problem arises.

For example, just now, Englar gave Ye Feng a look, meaning "Come on!";

However, in Ye Feng's eyes, this look was completely like "Don't worry, leave it to me!"

Then, the opponent's offensive player dribbled away in the space between Englar and Ye Feng, leaving Ye Feng and Englar who were looking at each other in the spot.
Chapter completed!