Klopp is a world-class coach. He has his own unique coaching style. People from all walks of life call Klopp's football a heavy metal rock. In fact, it is the tactic of running undead. Klopp's football requires players to run actively and make up for the defensive loopholes in the formation through crazy running. Because every formation will have defensive loopholes, when a player rushes to attack, there will be loopholes behind him, and it is easy to be exploited by opponents. However, the player's active running and high position press can promptly fill up or block the opponent's attack, preventing the opponent from breaking through and attacking the goal.
When Klopp first debuted as coach, Mourinho had already led Porto to the Champions League. That's why Klopp would say that Mourinho, the internet celebrity coach of the year, inspired him to work hard, hoping to win the Champions League like Mourinho one day. In fact, Klopp did it later, he copied Mourinho’s inspirational success in winning the Champions League.
Klopp first played in the 4231 formation used by Mourinho in Dortmund, but Dortmund is a youth army, his youth training is very good, young people can run and rush because of lack of experience. If you take a low defense like Mourinho, it is obvious that these young guys can't play the old cunning Bayern players. How to defeat Bayern has become the most urgent problem that Uncle Slag needs to solve. Klopp is very smart, he is eclectic in teaching according to his aptitude, and he decides to let Dortmund run wild. The youth army runs everywhere, always feeling that there are one or two more players on the court than you, which makes a middle-aged and elderly team like Bayern suffer a big loss.
Klopp tasted the sweetness of "undead football" in Dortmund. The Dortmund team created by Klopp is like a 100-meter sprint team. It will not kill you when you get the ball. The whole team ran, making the opponent panic, and before the opponent could react, Dortmund's children ran the ball into the opponent's goal. If Barcelona football is a pass goal, then Dortmund is a running goal, Klopp's Dortmund is the youth army parkour football, running is the most core indicator, running to break your defense.
However, a person has to pay a price for excessive running, especially the excessive use of young players will affect their football career. The most typical example is the England chasing teenager Irving. He became famous too early and was caused by excessive use. He had to retire early due to injuries. Klopp's late coaching Dortmund also experienced a large-scale injury wave, not occasionally one or two players, but more than half of the entire team suffered injuries, Dortmund suffered a lot of injuries in the later period, which affected Klopp The formation of troops.
arrived in Liverpool, Klopp changed the new formation 433, which is the same as Mourinho's change to play 433 in the Premier League. It can be seen that Klopp's traces of stealing Mourinho are everywhere. Although in a different league in the Premier League, the formation was changed to a 433 winger formation because of the lack of a strong center in Liverpool, but Klopp's "undead football" in Dortmund has not changed. He still continues to build his own Dortmund in the Premier League. He has used more young players, especially young people who can't die on the wing. Klopp's undead football can only be run by young people, he is not suitable for coaching veterans. If Klopp is placed on the team of a large group of three-year-old players in the Inter Milan triple crown, Klopp will be helpless.
Klopp has also achieved great success in Liverpool, but people only pay attention to the honor of winning the championship, but ignore the fact that Liverpool are constantly changing new players. There are many old players who can't run but are sold, and new players are constantly being introduced. In fact, those old players are not too old, they are only about 30 years old, but their bodies have been hollowed out by Uncle Slag. They are exhausted from injuries and can't run. It looks like a normal update of the team, but in fact this is the sequelae of Klopp's undead football. This year's Liverpool camp is full of injuries and almost half of the team has been injured. Is this exactly the same as Dortmund's later period? There is no help but the tide of injuries, and it seems to have known the Dortmund team.
Look at the main generals under Uncle Zha. Except for Lewand’s forwards who don’t need too much running and can continue to attack the city, the main core players of Dortmund, such as Gotze and Shahin, were only about 30 years old. , Already tired of injuries, can't run or kick. Let's compare Mourinho's players are still playing, they can play very "old" age before hanging up their boots and retiring. Whether it’s Di Maria, Sneijder, Terry, Pepe, Carvalho, z1Drogba, Z2z, Ibrahimovic and other veterans are still full of energy, even if the players retired, they retired at an advanced age.
Mourinho certainly understands the benefits of running undead football, and he also knows the power of high position presses, but he is a good man, knowing that running undead and high position presses will excessively deplete players' physical fitness. His low position defense is to keep players in the defense Here, when the ball is not coming, you can stand motionless on the court to "rest". He is responsible for the player’s career. In the Real Madrid match, it has reached the last few minutes of injury time. At that time, Real Madrid had already won, Di Maria was still sprinting from the wing, and Mourinho was running out of substitutions. , Directly beckoned Di Maria to stop running, and pulled him off the field to sit on the bench to rest. It doesn't matter if Real Madrid beat one person.
is the same in the Tottenham team now. At the end of the game, Mourinho even yelled at Sun Xingmin who was still sprinting, Sun, XXX, don't run, just stand in place and pass the ball. The same is true for defense generals Hoibel and . After Arsenal, Hoibel is given a few days off. Mourinho said that he can’t let Hoibel continue to play. He needs a rest, and the players are easy to be overworked Cause injuries. During the Inter Milan period, Mourinho treated Sneijder in the same way. He also gave Sneijder two days off to prevent Sneijder from continuing to play. This is Mourinho. No wonder many players are willing to die for Mourinho.
Mourinho said in a recent interview that he never said who is his best player, because those players who are willing to do everything for Mourinho on the court, he feels that he owes too many players, like now Kane, Sun Xingmin, and Hoibel in the Tottenham line are all doing their best to give everything on the court, and they owe them as head coaches. However, I have never seen Uncle Zha ever reflect on his undead football, and I have never seen a few players who say that they are willing to die for Klopp. As the saying goes, everything will be done, and it is in Klopp’s football philosophy. Here, that is: one crown wins the victory.
Every head coach has his own coaching style. They have achieved great success with their own formation tactics and coaching philosophy. It is not easy for us to conclude that whoever has a better football philosophy is better, which one is not his own descendants. The final conclusion. However, facts speak louder than words. Liverpool’s large-scale injury wave is definitely not accidental. It is just like a withdrawal from Dortmund's later injury wave. This is a question that modern footballers need to think deeply about. Is it important to win the championship or the health of the players? The health of the players behind utilitarian football is a subject worth pondering. Trying to fight for the championship trophy while keeping the players healthy may be the more humane football philosophy.