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弗格森W-M架构新442

Over in Manchester big things were happening. Ronaldo achieved the dream of his lifetime by becoming more expensive than Zidane. Carlos Tevez took the sound advice of his agent and finally bought a house in Manchester, although he did take a wrong turn on the way to signing a new deal for Manchester United and ended up playing for Manchester City. Having lost arguably the best Striker on the planet, and one of the best DM's in the United squad, Ferguson was forced to completely rethink his entire tactical basis for Manchester United, and decided upon the 4-4-2.
Except he didn't. What he did was sign a foil for Patrice Evra in Antonio Valencia, a hardworking, very physical, very direct winger, and went straight to work on his own version of the W-M.
While the attacking threats of Messi and Henry were known in Rome, and "countered" by playing Wayne Rooney on the Left Wing and Park Ji Sung on the Right Wing with the instructions for his fullbacks not to let them shoot if they cut-inside and not to let them move unmarked in the channels, effectively doubling up on both Messi and Henry and attempting to keep them wide, the game itself was completely lost in the very heart of the pitch. The United central midfield of Carrick, Anderson and Giggs was supposed to fluidly shift from 2 DMCs and 1 AMC to 1 DMC and 2 AMCs as the team attacked, but they were completely over-run and Barcelona danced their way to a convincing victory of possession, and a strange couple of goals coming more or less directly through the centre. Eto'o turned Vidic after a throughball, and Messi rose above Ferdinand to nod home a direct counter-attacking ball from deep in midfield. United could not get to grips with the game in attack or defense, and had no real answer to Barcelona's play. Worse still was the complete inability to work the ball through the midfield. A couple of half-chances from wide areas was effectively the entire attacking threat from United. Irrespective of the Threat posed by Henry and Messi from wide, the game had been won and lost in the centre of the pitch, as they always are.
With the loss of the best Wide Striker on the planet to Real Madrid, Ferguson had little option but to turn his attention to the centre of the pitch. Here could be found players like Carrick, Scholes, Fletcher, Anderson, Rooney, Berbatov, Giggs, and Owen. A set of players that quite simply should never be completely destroyed defensively and offensively through the middle like they had in Rome. The problem in Rome had been the problem with the 4-5-1. Dual Trequartistas waltzing through a central midfield that could only sacrifice attacking play to have any hope of containing them, combined again to two goals from the channels, those most obvious of areas.
The solution seems obvious in hindsight, the W-M, but it was a bold gamble. With Evra and Valencia pounding the flanks, a ready made "Advanced Trequartista" in Wayne Rooney, and a collection of quality attacking and defensive players through the middle, the box midfield is the solution to the failures inherant in the 4-5-1. |
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