The diamond is not a silver bullet, but how did Van Garr and Rogers transform it?

Original article: Diamonds aren \'t forever, but van Gaal and Rodgers know how to make them shine Jonathan Wilson, SEP 18,201 4

Diamonds aren't forever, but van Gaal and Rodgers know how to make them shine

 

The 3-5-2 is dead. Long live the diamond! Hurrah!

3-5-2 dead, diamond permanent, yeah ~ (This is purely the ridicule of the title party)

It was excited that van garal had won the first game since he completed his role as Mu's manager. He seemed to have found the Martial Arts secret to win him 4-0 QPR, it seems exaggerated after England won Switzerland 2-0 in the European Cup qualifying round with a diamond.

There's been a huge amount of excitement since Louis van Gaal won his first game as Manchester United manager, beating QPR 4-0 on Sunday as though he's suddenly available on some secret formula which will guarantee success-a feeling inflated by the fact England prospered with a diamond in winning their opening euro 2016 qualifier, 2-0, away to Switzerland.

Van garal was not covered up by victory, and sticking to his football philosophy is more important than looking for a while.

Van Gaal himself has retained an air of slight bewilderment at the excitement, insisting his philosophy remains unchanged, and that is far more important than the formation.

 

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And Liverpool fans have joined in, making the valid point that Brendan Rodgers has repeatedly used a diamond over the past year or so.

Kop will say that liverpool has used diamond and scored a lot in the past year.

And, of course, none of this is new. The diamond midfield has existed since at least the 1960 s, when Viktor maslov employed it at Dynamo Kiev.

Of course, the diamond is no longer a new thing, and it was used in 1960 in Kyiv Dinamo.

What's happened is that-as is the nature with your tactical trends-the diamond has come back into fashion, at least in part because teams have, in general, forgotten how to play against it.

The reason why the diamond formation has returned to the mainstream is that some teams do not know how to deal with it, which is actually one of the trends of the football games.

It cocould be argued this is characteristic of the modern age of tactics: all the major evolutionary leaps have been made, so what we're re seeing are incremental developments on the one hand (in the sense that, say, tiki-Taka was an updated version of the updated version of Total Football employed by van Gaal at Ajax and Barcelona in the 1990 s), and, on the other, A vast game of scissors-paper-stone in which ways of playing and formations come into and slide out of fashion.

This may cause controversy. The characteristics of modern tactics are as follows: All evolution, as we currently see is the accumulation of 1.1 drops of increments (for example, tiki-Taka is an upgraded version of Van Garr's full-fledged football in Ajax and Barcelona in 1990. On the other hand, football is like a scissors, stone, and a reincarnation of things. Different playing methods and tactics are derived from decline, the change of waves is a natural law.

The problem with the diamond-at least when it's used as an attacking formation-is its narrowness.

Let's talk about the weakness of the diamond-it will appear narrow when it is attacking!

There's a gamble that the central midfield will win enough control of the ball to prevent opposing wingers coming into the game, while it's almost impossible for the team playing the diamond to stop the opposing full-backs if they are attack-minded.

This is a gamble. The Chinese avant-garde needs to hold the scene and won't let the other party's Bian Feng soar. If the opponent's face is torn and the defender starts to press it crazy, it is difficult to block the opponent's crazy attack with a diamond array.

 

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When Schalke hammered Inter Milan 7-3 on aggregate in the Champions leregular quarter-final in 2011, the main reason was that their full-backs, Atsuo Uchida and Hans sarpei, had the run of the flanks because the Serie A team's diamond had no way of countering them.

In the 2011 Champions League 1/4 finals, the main reason why Schalke was able to hit guomi in 7-3 was the backguard, infield, and Hans salpe, no way is available for the 3rd champion of Serie.

That's the risk, but what Liverpool and England showed is that judicous use of the center-forwards-pulling wide into the space behind the full-backs-can make them wary of advancing too far.

In this case, it seems dangerous to enable the diamond array? The wit of Liverpool and Britain is reflected in this. They used one of the two forward players to suppress the area behind the other's backend, so that they did not dare to press on.

That has the added bonus of clearing room for the player operating at the tip of the diamond-Raheem Sterling in these cases-to attack, his deep starting position making him difficult to pick up.

Another flash is that at the top of the diamond, the Short Cone of the broken armor-When Sterling was attacking, he started in a deeper position. The speed of the Jamaica and the open space, you can hardly stop him.

In theory, a side playing 4-2-3-1 shocould be able to cover his runs, but cannot holding midfielders simply don't have the pace.

In theory, 4-2-3-1 has a heavy inventory in the midfield and should be able to stop him from moving forward. But how many backbones can keep up with him on the market?

United are a slightly different case. van Gaal's insistence that the philosophy remains unchanged is supported by how similar his diamond is to a 3-5-2.

The situation of Manchester United is slightly different. Van garal's football philosophy is not intended to change. How does his diamond support 3-5-2?

All that has happened is that one of the three center-backs now plays 10 yards or so further forward, while the wing-backs play 10 yards or so deeper.

Currently, we can see that when the edge is about 10 yards behind, one of the three central guards is about 10 yards forward.

They may return to 3-5-2 and, even if they don't, there will be times that Daley blind drops back between the center-backs to form a de facto back three as the full-backs push on.

They may return to "3-5-2", and sometimes bringder moves back to the central guard to form a three-central guard, so that the backguard can move forward.

 

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In that sense, the diamond functions like the 3-5-2 as a way to include both a front two and a midfield three (and it wocould be odd if two of Wayne Rooney, robin Van Persie and radamel falcao did not find themselves in the Team) (something van Gaal has almost always insisted ).

In this case, it is more like 3-5-2 covering the diamond feature, with two forward and three midfield players (this is strange, it will make them not in their best positions ).

Juan Mata doesn't have sterling's pace, but his recent goalscoring run suggests how he has benefited from the space created by the two forwards, although his role may, ultiely mately, be a more orthodox playmaking one, with Angel Di Maria breaking beyond him.

Mata is not as fast as Sterling, but his recent goal track shows how he uses the space pulled out by the dual-forward. Although his role is mostly a traditional commander, tear up the line of defense with dimalia.

In both modes, the diamond is enjoying a new lease of life. it may be that the willingness of modern center-forwards to pull wide negates one of its key drawbacks. but it is no panacea. no formation ever is.

In both modes, the diamond formation regenerates a new life. Perhaps thanks to the willingness of the modern center to seek weakness.

However, there is no silver bullet in this world.

 

The diamond is not a silver bullet, but how did Van Garr and Rogers transform it?