Anyway, various combinations of midfielders are often used in training, so everyone is familiar with them.

Dortmund, who is also about to challenge Naples away from home in the Champions League group stage, has compiled a 4231 strongest lineup.

Center: Come to Wandowski.

Frontcourt: Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan, Royce.

Midfielder: Bender, Shaheen.

Defenders: Schmelzer, Hummels, Subotic, Grosskreutz.

Goalkeeper: Weidenfeller.

All the new players who joined Xia Chuang have appeared, and their offensive power seems to be much stronger than last season!

This also shows Klopp’s attitude towards this game: The Champions League is indeed important, but I want to win your Pan Yi’s hamburger!

Before the game, Aubameyang chatted and laughed with all the old Milan players from Hamburg, including Pan Yi. After all, everyone got along well during their time in Milan.

But when the game started, Aubameyang didn't give Hamburg a good look.

The Dortmund attack group composed of him, Mkhitaryan, Royce, and Lewandowski in front is full of firepower and very impactful.

After the opening, the two sides did not have any tests, and directly started the back-and-forth offensive battle. There were constant wonderful cooperation and threatening shots on the court.

But it wasn’t until the 38th minute that the first goal came.

Aubameyang dribbled the ball into the penalty area, Westmann had no choice but to bring him down, and Dortmund won a penalty kick.

Wandowski took the penalty. He calmly pushed the ball with his right foot and the ball flew into the lower left corner of the goal. Dortmund took a 1:0 lead at home!

At halftime, Pan Yi made decisive adjustments to the situation in the first half, letting Wu Lei come on to replace the underperforming Lin Zhijian to strengthen the offense, and let Paulinho come on to replace Calhanoglu, allowing Zhong Zhong to play.

The offense and defense of the field are more balanced.

After changing sides in the second half, Hamburg launched a series of attacks and quickly equalized the score.

In the 50th minute, Hamburg launched an attack by throwing the ball. After Paulinho caught the ball, he took a few steps and hit the goal with his right foot from the front of the penalty area.

The ball hit the left goal post and bounced back into the field. Wu Lei in front of the goal succeeded in a close shot! The score became 1:1!

After that, neither party could make any difference.

Klopp replaced Papastathopoulos, Kyle, Hoffman and others to maintain the pressure on Hamburg, while Pan Yi removed De Bruyne and replaced Casemiro to improve

Midfield hardness.

In the end, Hamburg relied on Wu Lei's contributions as a substitute and drew with Dortmund in the away game.

……

This highly anticipated battle for the top spot ended with the two sides shaking hands and making a draw.

The teams behind them also took the opportunity to catch up.

Leverkusen defeated Wolfsburg 3:1, while Bayern Munich defeated Hannover 96 2:0.

After five rounds, Hamburg, Dortmund, and Bayern Munich all ranked in the top three with 4 wins, 1 draw and 13 points, while Leverkusen ranked fourth with 12 points.

Schalke 04, another traditional strong team, had a poor start, with 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, ranking ninth with only 7 points.

As for Hamburg's draw with Dortmund, the media's evaluation of Pan Yi was also mixed.

Many media believe that after two weeks of national team matches, Pan Yi can still put together a semi-rotated lineup to draw with Dortmund in an away game with all the main players. The overall strength of Hamburg is now evident.

Pan Yi is obviously saving his energy for the Champions League group stage in midweek, but under this premise, they were not completely at a disadvantage against Dortmund, which is really commendable.

Opponents believe that Pan Yi's approach is actually very dangerous.

It is understandable that he attaches great importance to the Champions League, but if he loses in the Bundesliga, he will lose in the Champions League. If he fails to take care of both ends, he will end up losing both his wife and his army.

Although we have not lost now, we have still lost two points, and we lost them at the hands of Dortmund, one of our most direct rivals for the championship.

If these two points are missing in the final championship battle, and Hamburg fails to make a difference in the Champions League, Pan Yi will definitely regret today's decision.

"I will not regret it. On the contrary, I am very happy."

But at the press conference after the game, Pan Yi said this.

"I not only want to win, but I also want to win while all the players stay healthy."

"Rotating the team's lineup will be the norm for the Hamburg team this season, and you will get used to it in the future."

"I am very pleased to see that all the players in our first team are ready for the game and are full of confidence in winning the game."

"Having said that, I am also happy with the performance of the players today. Not all teams can escape from the Westfalenstadion unscathed."

"To win the Bundesliga championship, it does not require the team to win all the games. In fact, this is impossible. No team in the five major leagues has ever done it."

"What we have to do is to maintain our health and condition, and then do a little better than our opponents, that's enough."

Finally, Pan Yi concluded: "If you want to achieve good results in multi-line operations, it will definitely not work to stick to one lineup... Time will prove everything."

……

In addition to Klopp, the one who also used all the main players in this week's league is AC Milan's Allegri.

Although in the second round of Serie A, AC Milan defeated Cagliari 3:1, which finally allowed Allegri to breathe a sigh of relief.

So he wanted to pursue the victory and let the winning streak make Milan fans forget Pan Yi's existence.

In the third round of the away game against Turin, Allegri sent out most of the main players, trying to eat the opponent in one bite.

But the Turin team, known as the "Bulls", is not that easy to deal with.

In their 352 formation, the two wing-backs Damian and D'Ambrosio caused a lot of trouble for Milan, and the forwards Cerci and Immortali also frequently ran in and out to create threats.

Only six minutes into the game, Torino, playing at home, took the lead in scoring.

D'Ambrosio dribbled the ball into the penalty area from the left, passed several people, and succeeded in shooting with his right foot, 1:0.

In the 28th minute, Turin expanded the score advantage. Cerci cut in and shot hard from the near corner to break the net, 2:0.

In the second half, Milan just woke up from a dream. Kaka was replaced continuously. Matri and others stepped up the attack. Muntari and Balotelli scored two goals in just three minutes from 88 to 90 minutes to tie the score.

equalize.

The final score was 2:2, and the two sides drew.

But judging from the content of the game, Turin still has the advantage on the court, while Milan is full of hidden dangers.

……

Pan Yi summoned the coaching staff to watch this Serie A game together in the conference room.

Although he did not go to the scene, Pan Yi has also collected data from several Milan games so far this season, including the warm-up matches, so he also has some opinions on Allegri's current playing style.

"In this season, AC Milan has become a team that relies heavily on crosses."

"The reason is that Allegri requires players to exchange positions more, which means they must play more flexibly."

"But this way of playing, executed by unsuitable players, resulted in more goals being conceded during the offensive organization phase than last season."

"So increasing the number of crosses may be Allegri's way to curb these mistakes."

"And excessive switching and crossing attacks come at a cost: compared with last season, Milan conceded more goals on the counterattack. Within 20 seconds after losing possession of the ball in the opponent's half, the opponent's counterattack created more

In terms of goal opportunities, Milan will concede 0.08 theoretical goals every 500 passes, which is 33% higher than the previous 0.06 theoretical goals conceded."

The "theoretical goals conceded" Pan Yi mentioned is similar to the "expected goals" (that is, expected goals, xg for short), which is a data used to measure the possibility of scoring a goal in a specific area.

Its concept is actually not difficult to understand. It is to calculate the quality of each team's goal opportunities in a game to determine how many goals that team "should" score in that game.

There is such a data in recent real-life football and FM games, which can be used to analyze whether the team has created enough and good opportunities.

Because sometimes the score on the scoreboard does not fully reflect the true situation of the game.

If you have a lot of "expected goals" but no goals, it's probably because your tactics are actually good and your players' performance is okay, but you're just unlucky.

In short, Pan Yi has already introduced such advanced concepts in data analysis to help him and the coaching staff understand their opponents and their own on-field performance more effectively.

"In addition, Milan's current defense line also has a big problem." Pan Yi continued:

"After Thiago Silva was sold, Allegri chose the main center back partnership of Mexes and Zapata, but their performance, especially Mexes, did not leave a deep impression.

.He is responsible, or at least partially responsible, for the goals Milan conceded against Verona, Cagliari, and this game in Turin."

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"Compared to Thiago Silva, Mexes is not a reliable defender at all. He wins less than 30% of aerial ball challenges in the penalty area. In 1-on-1 defense, his success rate is

The rate is only 68%, and it drops to 40% in the penalty area."

"The reason why Allegri chose him is because of his performance on the offensive end. His ability to create goals has reached 0.67 expected goals per 90 minutes... Haha, I actually noticed it when I was in Milan.

He is a defender who likes to score goals!"

"But the defensive weakness is something we can take advantage of. We can use Mitrovic to compete with him for the top, further reducing his success rate in the top battle and 1-on-1 defense..."

After Pan Yi started, other coaches followed suit.

Nagelsmann and Inzaghi respectively analyzed the problems of Milan's frontcourt and midfield. For example, excessive position switching means that each Milan player's position is far away from the other party, keeping each player away from the ball, making Milan very difficult.

It is difficult to regain possession of the ball lost.
To be continued...