Red Rebels

7o8 Walking off the altar

Capello was greeted by fans as he returned to his flat in west London.

Thinking back to the moment when he took over the England national team more than half a year ago, when he decided to settle in this quiet community, the fans greeted him with enthusiastic cheers. At that moment, he felt as if he was A savior.

Yes, the title savior is also commonly used by the English media to describe him.

But the irony is that now fans greet him with boos, curses, and roars

At the gate of his apartment, the English cross flag that the fans planted for him is still planted beside the steps of his apartment. It has never fallen down despite the wind and rain. However, the fans who planted this flag for him now Things have changed.

Perhaps Capello will never understand that the media in England are always wandering between making stars and destroying stars, and those ordinary fans will only be affected by the media and become excited.

Leakage point, Capello once used to describe English football and fans. Now, he has also realized the disadvantages of this kind of weakness, that is, once the fans are encouraged, their weakness will evolve. The slobber and rage are enough to destroy anyone.

Including the former savior who stepped down from the altar, Capello

His wife Laura pulled Capello hard from the side. She was worried that Capello would get angry when he was in a bad mood, so she pulled him into the apartment and closed the door heavily, but through the window next to the door, he could still see I saw fans cursing outside the apartment and refused to leave for a long time.

In a depressing European Cup, Capello completely lost his sacred glory in the eyes of English fans. Many of the measures that they originally appreciated have now become evidence of insulting him. The original believers of the Baikal Cult , now they have defected to their mortal enemy and have become followers of the Cult of Taka.

Capello has his own football philosophy, so he has always known what he wants to do and what he should do.

The reason why he abandoned the players of the Red Rebels was definitely not because of personal hatred, nor was it just because he was worried that the Red Rebels would be too powerful in the national team and difficult to manage. It was also because Capello knew very well that his The football philosophy and the Red Rebels are completely different. It is difficult, very difficult to get those players who have been influenced by the Red Rebels football philosophy since childhood to accept his approach.

Abandoning the Red Rebel players will prevent the players from becoming too powerful, and it will also make it easier for him to instill his own football philosophy. However, Capello still underestimated the difficulty of coaching the England national team.

Really, seriously underestimated

As the club's gold medal coach, Capello won a championship every time he led a team. This made Capello famous. This made Capello initially confident in coaching the England national team. At the same time, the Football Association also I support his bold reform of the national team.

But no one expected that Capello's reform would directly overthrow the Red Rebel players in the first step. The Football Association wanted to stop it, but it was too late. They were kidnapped and boarded Capello's ship. , Beckham also retired with hatred.

After Capello coached England, the only two players of the Red Rebels who were selected for the national team, Curtis and Terry, are both the leading defenders in the world, but these two players are Ferdinand and Mike Dawson. , even Ledley King's substitute, especially Curtis, Capello was very dissatisfied with his habit of always dribbling the ball forward.

From Capello's actions, he touched the hearts of England fans. The strength of the Red Rebels in recent years has become a lofty status in the hearts of England fans, especially members of the national team such as Beckham, but Capello But he beat them all to death with one stroke, which forced him to embark on a path of no return.

Either a hero or a bear

Outsiders criticized Capello's hiring, his tactics, and his inability to deal with Gerrard and Lampard. You know, when Beckham was here, England was in good order, but when Capello came, , everything has changed.

On September 6, in the first game, England challenged Andorra away. In the 7th minute of the second half, Andorra's little-known forward Joël scored the winning goal. :o unexpectedly defeated England, and the whole country rejoiced.

On September 0, England challenged Croatia in an away game. This team, which performed well and eye-catchingly in the European Cup, suddenly became a European powerhouse. It defeated England with a clean 4 at home. Capello was completely furious. He even He was sent off by the referee but could not prevent England from losing.

Rooney's passing success rate was 55%. Gerrard passed 6 times on the right, but only once was received by his teammates. Lampard fired one shot after another throughout the game, but his sights were all wrong. none.

There are still some people who are arguing that in the just-launched FIFA national team rankings, Croatia has 8 points, surpassing the giants Brazil and Argentina, and Scotland, ranked 6th on this list, has 6 points. It is possible at any time Been passed.

Judging from the rankings, it is indeed the strong team that wins

But this is still absolutely unacceptable to English fans. The grievances between Scotland and England forced Capello to take on this responsibility, especially the 4: defeat at the hands of Croatia, which made England's qualifying situation in the group precarious.

After two consecutive defeats, England may completely miss the World Cup in South Africa in 2000. This is definitely a big shame for England fans who always think highly of themselves.

Why use Husky? Why not Ismail?

Why use Joe Cole? Why not Walcott?

Why use Gareth Barry? Why not Beckham, or Michael Johnson?

Why use Glenn Johnson? Why not Micah Richards?

Why use Ferdinand and Mike Dawson? Why not use Terry and Curtis?

For a series of reasons, everyone is habitually questioning Capello's coaching strategy. Even many famous players in England have criticized Capello's employment.

Heskey is a strong forward, but his skills are very poor. Rooney has a high passing error rate. A large part of the reason is that Heskey cannot help him. If Ismail is used at this time, his physical fitness He is not inferior to Heskey in terms of scoring and headers, but his skills are better and he can even ride a bicycle. Can Heskey do it?

The combination of Ismail Garuni has already been verified by the competition. Although England's results in the World Cup in Germany were not ideal, the team's performance is very exciting. Looking back now...

Fans protested in front of Capello's apartment, but no one knew what Capello was thinking behind the apartment door.

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In the administrative building of the Newton Heath training base, in Xiao Yu's office, Mourinho, Beckham, Cassell, Boyas and others gathered here. England has just returned to the UK, and the players are all here today. There is no need for training, so they are free to watch TV here.

The news was showing England's disastrous defeat at the hands of Croatia, and the incident of fans besieging Capello's apartment. Although the police had intervened and dispersed the troublemaking fans, there were still many people everywhere. Protesting, they asked Capello to leave.

"This is really an interesting game," Mourinho said with a sneer.

The arrogant Portuguese doesn't mind adding insult to injury to any opponent, especially Capello. He actually looks down on the players of the Red Rebels. You know, these players were all trained by Mourinho himself.

"It cannot be denied that Capello did bring a lot of new things to England. He also tried to create some more aggressive running spaces without the ball, but unfortunately, his tactical ideas did not work in Italy. But in England, it’s very, very difficult to achieve.”

Cassell is proficient in the off-ball movement system. When he observes a game, he observes more of their off-ball movement.

Capello's off-the-ball movement is different from that of the Red Rebels. The Red Rebels pay attention to technique, passing and receiving cooperation, and controlling the initiative. However, Capello is more passive. He uses Barry and Lampard as double midfielders. , the purpose was to strengthen the defense. The two had a good interception success rate, but they made England pay the price of disadvantageous offense.

Croatia aims at Capello's characteristics. Their players are not afraid of physical contact at all. They have the initiative in the game. Once the ball is lost, they immediately shrink their defense and focus on the road. Because Gerrard is used to the road, Joe? Cole is also used to the road, and neither player is a passer from the wing.

"Playing hard, Lampard, Heskey, Gerrard, Joe Cole, these players take turns to squeeze, no matter how strong Rooney's personal ability is, he can only be depressed, so in this game, Rooney's performance was very It was sluggish and even got the lowest score in the game.”

"Looking at Croatia, they made full use of the personal skills of their frontcourt players to attack England's defense and firmly took the initiative. Capello didn't realize at all that he should make adjustments immediately until he conceded two goals in a row. Finally, he wanted to adjust, but it was too late."

Cassel shook his head with regret and smiled bitterly. At the end of his analysis, Capello was impatient and collided with the referee and received a red card. This will also force the Italian to miss England's next home game against Kazakhstan. Contest.

Mourinho also somewhat agreed with Cassel's analysis, nodding: "When England decided to invite Capello to coach, I said that he may not do better than others. Although Capello has a brilliant record , but his team always has a problem, that is, once his team encounters a team that has better ball control skills than them and is not afraid of physical confrontation, he will be finished."

Do not believe? Let’s look back at history. In the confrontation between the Red Rebels and Jutus, when did Capello take advantage?

You know, Jutus dominated Serie A and European football at that time, but when encountering the Red Rebels, Capello felt unlucky and could do nothing. This is why some people say that Capello hates the style of the Red Rebels. s reason.

In today's England national team, how many players can control the ball without the Red Rebel players? absolutely not

On the other hand, in Croatia, Modric performed well and was their core player. His partner was Schalke O4 last season, forcing Ozil to Ivan Rakiti on the bench. Oddly, these two players are both technical players with strong ball control skills.

Croatia completely defeated England with their excellent ball control.

"As a head coach, Capello is undoubtedly excellent, but as the head coach of the England national team, he has his own shortcomings. He may be able to fill the shortcomings of the England national team through tactics, but he is very important to this team. The national team is not familiar with it and does not know that the real competitiveness of England, which is also the core of English football, lies in the missing points.”

"The deficiencies of the players, the deficiencies of the fans, everything, the deficiencies from all aspects, these are the reasons that really attract fans to pay attention to England and England."

After all, Mourinho has been in England for many years. He can be said to be one of the foreign coaches who are most familiar with English football, and his success in coaching the Red Rebels makes him more qualified than anyone else to comment on this. National football.

In the final analysis, England's failure before Beckham's transformation was more due to their out-of-control leaks. At that time, England's football was undoubtedly full of leaks, so their players always worked hard in the game, but But he doesn't know how to control his own leaks, control the rhythm of the game, and control the ball.

No one can maintain a high-tempo game for 90 minutes, so England, which does not know how to control leakage points, is doomed to be a tragedy; and after having Beckham, a group of Red Rebels led by Beckham The player has filled in the England national team's shortcomings in this area very well, giving England the control they lack.

Therefore, in England when Beckham was at the core, the leakage points were not as good as before, and the desperate efforts were not as good as before, but the record was better than before. This is the importance of control.

Although Capello today emphasizes oppression and tactics, he does not emphasize the control of the initiative in the game, the control of the rhythm, and the control of leakage points. All of this is the same as that of the England national team. Football seemed out of place.

In addition, Capello has his own shortcomings, which prompted England to suffer a disastrous defeat at the European Cup first, and then at the hands of Croatia. Even Capello himself lost his reputation for many years.

Of course, it cannot be denied that Capello did a good job, at least he tried his best, but he did not understand the key issue here. After all, it was his first time to take charge of a national team.

"Perhaps, England should look for a head coach who is familiar with them and can lead them to fill their shortcomings. This person must at least understand the English dialects from all over England and understand the core of English football. Only in this way can he lead this team. The team is back among the top teams in the world.”

This person will not be Capello, nor Mourinho, nor anyone else. He will only be an Englishman, an Englishman who has enlightened himself.