I AM the Football Star

Gudiola felt a tremor in his heart.

Lu Yang pointed out the source of his worries.

This season, he actually encountered such difficulties, but he had not yet fully figured out the root cause himself.

Now Lu Yang has helped him sort it out.

Mateo and Moreira are both excellent core players, but... in the Barcelona system, there can only be one such player.

This involves the issue of efficiency.

Barcelona’s tactics are very clear at this point, which is the whole team tearing apart the opponent; everyone is just a link in the chain, a cog in the machine.

Except for one person.

When the team’s tearing encounters a skilled opponent, the tearing fails, but it can create a one-on-one situation, and at this time, the one-on-one expert must step forward to break the deadlock.

There are two issues here: it’s not the whole team tearing; it’s others tearing to create for the one-on-one expert.

Barcelona thus need to tear apart the opponent’s defense formation that has more players, in a situation where they are effectively one player short.

This in itself is very challenging and requires everyone else to increase their running to compensate for this one person’s ”absence.”

It’s okay to have one such person, but if there are two, the gap can’t be filled no matter how much the other players run.

The second issue is that someone might suggest rotating the two one-on-one experts?

When Mateo breaks through, Moreira helps him and becomes one of the cogs.

When Moreira breaks through, Mateo helps him and becomes one of the cogs.

Isn’t the problem solved?

But since ancient times, there’s no number one in literature, no number two in martial arts.

Breaking through efficiency is something that definitely distinguishes a higher from a lower.

Mateo and Moreira, one of them must have higher breakthrough efficiency.

Then why not just leave all the breakthroughs to the one who has higher efficiency?

Thus, the one with slightly lower efficiency loses the right to break through and becomes a tool completely.

Letting the person who is best at something do that thing is the exclusivity of the Origin Burst.

When the whole team is tearing for one person, the one with lower efficiency cannot step up and do the tasks of the more efficient one.

Because he is not only competing with the more efficient player but also letting the whole team down.

This pressure, even if the teammates don’t say it, the person will feel it.

This is why when Messi gets the ball, teammates from Argentina or Paris Saint-Germain are at a loss; all they can do is help Messi tear apart, they can’t replace Messi in breaking through because everyone knows the threats are greatest when the ball is at Messi’s feet.

This kind of football brings out the ability of that Origin Burst player to the extreme but also obliterates possibilities for other players.

It’s mechanistic football.

Not personalistic football.

Gudiola took a deep breath, he finally understood why Barcelona was doomed to lose games this season.

Being restrained by Praxedes is one aspect.

On the other hand, there have indeed appeared some issues internally within Barcelona.

The local Barça crew have grown up playing team football and can seamlessly absorb Gudiola’s tactical ideas.

Mateo’s breakthrough efficiency and benefits are tremendous; his Origin Burst efficiency is the best in the team.

This is why he is considered the future king of Barça.

In contrast, the football Elf Moreira’s Origin Burst capability is equally formidable, with efficiency exceeding that of others in World Football, perhaps only slightly lesser than Mateo.

But in terms of spectacle and spontaneity, Moreira is peerless in the world.

Moreira epitomizes extreme personal heroism.

His presence makes Barça’s tactics less harmonious.

His football might be ten thousand times more aesthetically pleasing than Mateo’s, but Mateo is more efficient!

Some smart teammates can also feel this.

Barcelona is already subconsciously ”alienating” Moreira.

Despite everyone liking and respecting Moreira, tactically, he has already begun to be incompatible with Barça.

The loss in the Champions League semi-final was largely due to the simultaneous presence of Moreira and Mateo making Barça ”short” one player. This not only failed to tear AC Milan apart but instead exposed gaps themselves, falling to an Izalelt’s strike.

After a night of open discussion, Gudiola gained a lot.

He also closely sensed the charm of Lu Yang.

Of course, not only did Lu Yang speak that night, Gudiola shared his football philosophy, some training methods, concluded positioning patterns, etc., with Lu Yang.

Otherwise, why would Lu Yang say so much?

In exchanges between experts, everyone must bring out the real stuff.

Otherwise, you’d be disdained by everyone.

Top-tier researchers often compete for this very breath.

A common person saying they’re amazing doesn’t matter to them at all.

It takes an expert saying they’re amazing for them to be truly refreshed.

Maniero subsequently also explained his football philosophy; that’s another set altogether.

Hard to say which is higher or lower, as football tactics develop, only becoming more complete, reaching mutual restraint, with no absolute leading tactic.

Of course, infinite positioning swapping will continue to be a leading tactic in the next decade, with tactical advantages.

Because football tactics haven’t yet reached the extreme.

Gudiola will be one to reap the dividends.

Maniero, Lu Yang, and others will closely follow and together reap the tactical dividends; the future team building will basically head in this direction.