Miguel: Mbappe brings negative effects of tactics, Flick creates team football

Barcelona won the La Liga title this season early, and Real Madrid seems to be in a trough. Kross' retirement affected Real Madrid's midfield layout, but the Bernabeu introduced Mbappe on the offensive line, and Bellingham and Brazilian Gemini are both in the growth stage. In theory, the attack power of the Galaxy battleship should be stronger. Some people will say that Real Madrid's frontcourt superstars cannot integrate, and Ancelotti cannot combine them into a whole. Barcelona's team reporter Miguel talked about this topic. From the perspective of bystanders, Miguel said: Mbappe has brought about a negative tactical effect. In fact, there have always been problems with many super stars in the frontcourt and the coach cannot integrate them. Especially in the era of Ronaldo and Benzema, Real Madrid's offensive lineup is even more luxurious.

Why did the frontcourt stars of the Galaxy Battleships not be compatible in the Mbappe era? Miguel believes that Mbappe's playing style is a very low-compatibility play style, so he will bring about tactical negative effects, and it will be difficult for Alonso to solve such a problem in the future. After all, the "Turtle" is a superstar introduced by Florentino at a high price, and he at least represents this era and is an established candidate for the Golden Globe Award. It is obviously impossible for him to leave the team in these seasons. So the negative effects he takes in tactics may only allow his teammates to force him to cater to him. "Bears" and others must change their playing style. In sharp contrast, the situation of the Camp Nou system this season. Miguel also admitted that purely from paper strength, the Red and Blues are not as good as Real Madrid. Especially in the middle of the season, Flick's men were already full of wounded soldiers.

Fortunately, Barcelona got out of the predicament, and they entered the semi-finals in the Champions League, which was considered to have achieved their goal. Miguel summarized this - Flick has created a team football team. You should know that the personal abilities of Barcelona players are no worse than Real Madrid, especially the super shooter with the ability to finish, which is probably only Benzema at his peak can match him, at least there is no such player at the moment. Why can Flick let players put individualism aside? In Miguel's view, the German coach used the traditional German football concept and combined with the technical attributes of Camp Nou to create a team football with a high degree of integration, which is the fundamental reason why the Red and Blue Legions can achieve success.

Flick's success lies in his understanding of the football philosophy of "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts". During his coaching period, he showed his extraordinary ability to integrate individual stars into the tactical system - this ability has been more extreme in Barcelona, ​​where players gather in technology. The Germans use the "modular training method" and spend 45 minutes a day to specifically practice running without the ball, allowing players to form a tactical understanding of muscle memory. He particularly emphasized the "three-second principle": any player holding the ball must find at least three pass options within three seconds. This forced the Xavis to continue to observe teammate positions, while finishers like Lewandowski were asked to participate in the frontcourt counter-robbery. More subtle, Flick combined German-style vertical transmission with Barcelona's triangular short pass to create a unique "pulse attack" rhythm - when the opponent adapts to the fast impact, he suddenly switched to the tiki-taka ball control; when the opponent shrinks the defense line, he immediately switched to a three-dimensional strike combined in the edge.

Mbappe's arrival did put Real Madrid in sweet troubles in the frontcourt. The French superstar is accustomed to moving on the left and requires a lot of ball rights and sprint space, which is highly overlapping with the "Bears"'s playing style. When both wingers who need to break through with the ball are on the court at the same time, Real Madrid's offensive width is instead compressed, and midfield commanders Kroos and Valverde are often in the dilemma of who to pass the ball to. So Miguel emphasized that Mbappe has brought about a negative tactical effect, which is the fundamental problem encountered by the Bernabeu system this season. Otherwise, Real Madrid would not be eliminated by Arsenal in the Champions League. Looking back at the era of Ronaldo, although the Portuguese superstar also needs the right to fire, he formed a perfect complementary triangle with Bale and Benzema.

C Ronaldo is responsible for the ending, Bale provides depth, and Benzema becomes an offensive hub. This tacit understanding of each person performs his duties is exactly what Real Madrid lacks now. Mbappe is more like a "system player" who needs the whole team to revolve around him, rather than a team-type star who can actively adapt to the system. After the ball, I think that what is even more difficult is that Mbappe's defensive participation is much lower than that of the BBC group that year. When the opponent launches a counterattack, the left side often becomes the weakness of Real Madrid's defense. Ancelotti tried to let Mbappe play center, but the "Turtle" who was far away from the wings was like her wings cut off, and the threat level plummeted. Alonso, who is about to take office, may not have a clever trick. After all, letting Mr. 180 million be a substitute is nothing more than a fantasy. Perhaps the only solution is to completely transform the Brazilian Gemini into a wing-cut winger, and Bellingham retreated to serve as a midfield libero. But such adjustments will inevitably weaken the threat of English genius. In the Bernabeu, where superstars gather, how to balance personal talents and team interests is always the most brain-burning tactical problem.