In the middle of the season, when Aston Villa officially announced Gerrard as the new manager of the team, you asked me how I felt about this? Honestly, I don't know, all I know is that the Liverpool legend led the Glasgow Rangers to a long-lost league title in the Scottish Premier League, and other than that, I haven't even seen a Glasgow Rangers game.
And now, you ask me this question again? I would say, is this still need me to say more? Villa's performance, everyone should be in the eyes, they are in front of the opponents of equal strength or even stronger, the stability of the score is not a star and a half; and the frontal hardness of the traditional Giants of the Premier League is not at all afraid.
Isn't that? Villa just from the Mann joint, hard to grab 1 point, in the 70th minute of the game, still 0-2 behind the unfavorable situation, can pull two goals in a row or even almost overtake the score, the meaning behind it must be extraordinary, before we only heard of "no reversal, no red devils", but now, by Villa Sheng played "to reverse, look at Villa".
Manchester United transition manager Ronnick said tremblingly after the game: "This game is the best game I have played since I took charge, but 70 minutes later, I don't know what happened? ”
Yes, he really shouldn't have known that every head coach who has experienced a similar reversal scene is "buzzing, buzzing" and stupidly overwhelmed.
However, I would say that this is the most valuable asset that Gerrard has brought to Villa, and when the situation on the pitch is not favorable to his side, Villa did not show the slightest panic, but became more and more frustrated, and repeatedly launched counterattacks against Manchester United, constantly exerting pressure.
At the crucial moment, Gerald's winning and losing hand, Coutinho," was crucial, as he solved the problem that Villa had momentum but made too many mistakes and had poor opportunities in the front, and his pass and shot showed what is the passing, running position and superb shooting skills of top technical flow players.
And to be able to make the most reasonable substitution arrangement in such an important game, at the most appropriate time, is the excellence that Gerrard showed to the outside world, still remember Gerrard's first game in charge of Villa, in the case of a long time, in the second half, Gerald also sent the veteran Ashley Young, Villa only two consecutive cities, successfully won a victory.
In the details, Gerrard shows the qualities of on-the-spot adaptability that a top manager should have. However, we should actually see gerald's cleverness in building a team.
Friends who are familiar with Vera should know what kind of play Vera has been in the past. Simply put, before this season, Aston Villa was about equal to Gralis, and at that time, how Glalish played, Villa almost played.
This situation has actually changed somewhat last season, Villa returned to the First Season of the Premier League, until the last round of the game, the thrilling relegation, the main reason is that Villa, which designs tactics with Glalish as the core, is a technical flow of play based on passing, but the overall technical ability of this team is not enough to support their foothold in the Premier League, so in the first season of returning to the Premier League, Villa, who has a soft style, almost suffered the most poisonous blows.
After the pain of the will, Villa, after the success of relegation, carried out a series of large-scale reinforcements, Cash, Watkins, Martinez... Strong reinforcements of good strength followed.
That season, the rejuvenated Villa once gave the defending champion Liverpool an embarrassing 7-2, when the reason why Villa suddenly had the strength to break the wrist with the Premier League giants was the update of the style of play, they no longer slowly and slowly pushed step by step to the front, but used the fulcrum ability of new signing Watkins, as well as Cash's wing burst ability, with more long passes and oblique long passes, the speed of advancement also became faster.
At the time, I naively thought that Villa had gotten rid of the shadow of The Gloris, but when Gralis was out of the game again due to injury, Villa suddenly became less able to play football; this season, when Gralis moved to Manchester City, Villa's Gralis dependence sequelae completely broke out, and former manager Dean Smith could not solve Villa's technical and tactical problems, and it was inevitable to leave class.
So, what exactly did Gerrard bring to Villa?
First of all, Gerrard from liverpool coaching training class, deeply rooted in the essence of Klopp's tactical system, he implemented a 4-3-3 tactical system at Villa, basically replicating Liverpool's current high-level pressing style from youth training to the first team, Villa has been doing a good job in recent years, and former manager Dean Smith was obviously frightened by Villa's poor first season record, becoming conservative and utilitarian, and Gerrard passed on such an idea to Villa - only to play more proactively, in order to dominate and control the game.
Facts have proved that under the guidance of Gerrard's new tactical system, Villa has gradually established a strong team temperament, no matter what opponent, the team has the courage to try to advance the overall formation, the problem as far as possible in the midfield to solve, which is also the most mainstream and most popular way of playing at the moment, when the players are excited, it is naturally easy to achieve good results.
Of course, playing iron also needs its own hard, excellent tactical system, will spawn a high-quality game process, but it needs a large number of excellent players as a support, Gerrard also has a very clear idea in the formation of the team, such as the left guard Digne, who just joined Everton, can fly up and down left and right, personally feel that it is a very practical excellent player; although Coutinho has not been satisfied in Barcelona in recent years, but the technical skills are still ahead of many of the main players of the First Team in the Premier League. It just needs a good tactical system to activate his state, and it just so happens that Klopp has Coutinho's instruction manual, and Gerald is not bad at learning.
The reason why he can control such an Old England team as Villa, Gerrard has another magic weapon, that is, the experience of being the captain of Liverpool for more than ten years, he knows how to motivate and call on players, and he knows how to manage the emotions of players, and this quality is a valuable quality.
It can be said that with Gerald, Vera will never be like a soft egg, but will have endless courage and continue to fight. It seems that Villa not only found a good coach, but also found a "good captain", a good leader, this deal is really worth it!