Dad was a Genius - Chapter 110



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My Dad Was a Genius Episode 110

[3-1! Wolves win again against Tottenham! With this, Wolves are on the verge of matching Chelsea’s record with 8 consecutive wins!]

As the game ended, cameras captured Levy storming out of the stands in a fit of rage.

With Taltenham Hotspur’s chairman Levy known to be extremely sensitive to the jinx of a title win, today’s win was more important than ever.

But former Tottenham player Kyle Walker proved that jinxes are not a fate that can be undone, putting in a superb performance to lead Wolves to victory, only to see Spurs lose the game at home.

-Wow

-Levi’s reaction is Umai

-The reaction is really delicious

-Taltenham is here again with science… … .

It’s foolish to already predict who will win.

No matter how many winning streak a team has, they can fall at any time.

That’s exactly what Liverpool did last season.

They held on to first place until Christmas, but due to a series of conflicts between the board and manager and between players, they eventually fell to second place and failed to win the championship.

As for the EPL, you never know until it’s over.

Of course, even so-.

-8 consecutive wins is amazing.

-They say it’s been 10 years since a team won 8 games in a row.

-How on earth did Chelsea win 9 games in a row?

Wolves’ eight-game winning streak was a huge success.

-Where did all the guys who used to be like Yaktimdor go?

-Now I can’t even say I won against a weak team lol

-We haven’t played against Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea or Man City yet.

-Whoever you bring in now, Wolves will win.

Up until now, it has been impossible to criticize Wolves for winning against weaker teams.

They showed overwhelming performance against Manchester United and Tottenham, who were in great form at the time.

As a result, EPL managers have no choice but to pay attention to Wolves.

No manager will ever dismiss Wolves as an underdog again.

After seeing Tottenham crumble helplessly, they realized that Wolves were more powerful than they could have imagined.

It wasn’t like he was being incompetent just because he was a director without a P-class license.

What makes Wolves such a strong team?

Now that was the focus of the first meeting.

“Of course it’s because of the director.”

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp knew what was causing the yellow storm at Wolves.

The car is exactly like that.

It’s because of this one director.

Some say Wolves have an outstanding squad.

That’s what Wolves are good at.

But if we think about it calmly, can we really say that Wolves have been on a winning streak so far because of the players?

Most of them are rookies, or those who joined Wolves after being kicked out of their original teams.

Are you really saying they are that great?

Why have so many great players gone unnoticed until now, when they came to Wolves and are now going wild, almost as if by coincidence?

The answer to that was obvious without much thought.

What is different is the ability of the director to utilize them.

You can realize this just by looking at the way Cha Seong-eun operates the game.

He said that he was at another level, another class.

“It is a tactic where you pretend to give space to the opponent while they are cowering under pressure from the front, and then take it back… … .”

Klopp was amazed at Wolves’ tactical management, which improved day by day.

People say Wolves are specialised in gegenpressing, but that’s not the case at all.

This might look like gegenpressing, but it was on a whole other level than the tactics Klopp knows.

This is different from Klopp’s gegenpressing.

It just seems like they’re putting pressure on the front.

Things after that are completely different.

Even Wolves are increasingly defending space rather than pressing forward.

They appropriately mix space defense and forward pressure, sometimes using an offside trap, and sometimes using a defensive tactic that we have never seen before.

So this was a different defensive tactic than before.

Cha Seong is his own tactic.

“Then should I call this… … tea pressing?”

After saying that, something felt strange.

Anyway, Cha Seong-eun was developing and improving his own tactics.

In other words, Wolves are not using tactics that are already complete and stagnant, but rather tactics that grow with each match.

“But isn’t that kind of tactic a bit risky? It means the tactics change for each game, so players might get confused and make mistakes?”

That’s right.

But it depends on what the director does.

“Look at Pep Guardiola. When he first came up with the tiki-taka tactic and pursued possession play, his tactics were a mess. But he improved them every game.”

Pep Guardiola’s possession play.

Jurgen Klopp’s gegenpressing.

Arsene Wenger’s artistic passing football.

All of those who have risen to the ranks of masters have their own philosophy.

They all made variations on every tactic that had been used so far.

Cha Seong-do could be seen as one of them.

That’s why it was threatening.

Because no one can predict how far it will develop.

Perhaps even Cha Seong himself cannot know the end.

“That’s the kind of team we have to deal with.”

Wolves’ next opponent was right here, against Liverpool.

In fact, the coaches didn’t really care about Wolves’ performance.

Because it was more urgent to analyze strong teams like Chelsea, Arsenal, and Manchester City.

But Wolves had emerged as a strong team just like them, and they were sweating bullets as they hurriedly analyzed the situation.

The only fortunate thing is that Klopp was watching Wolves’ games more seriously than anything else.

“In fact, it can be said that the reason we got back on track after our initial slump was thanks to Wolves.”

“yes?”

“Because I saw that coach’s tactics and changed the way our team operates.”

Klopp found that the gegenpressing that had worked so well in Germany was not effective here.

It is not only because of the players’ physical strength issues, but also because the level of EPL teams is so high.

However, after seeing that Cha Seong-eun was active based on gegenpressing, he dug deep into the tactics and realized that the core of Wolves’ tactics was not gegenpressing.

Gegenpressing is just a small accessory that adds to the perfection of the tactic.

That should never have been the point.

Having come to such a great realization, Klopp admitted his mistake and made a major tactical overhaul, which resulted in the team breaking out of its losing streak and maintaining a certain level of performance.

“At first I thought it would be a fight with my own kind… … .”

He could not dare to call Cha Seong-eun his own kind.

Although he is a rookie coaching in Europe, his skills are far superior to those of veteran Klopp.

A face-off with that kind of person.

Klopp began to feel a similar emotion when he faced his greatest rival, Pep Guardiola.

* * *

Just as my timeline was twisted and the fates of many changed, the fate of a director I admire was also changed.

Jurgen Klopp.

Originally he wasn’t supposed to come to Liverpool this year.

As far as I know, Klopp suddenly took over in 2015, mid-season, and saved Liverpool from a crisis.

But somehow he ended up taking charge of Liverpool in the 2014-15 season.

That means my existence changed his fate.

I wondered if perhaps my father’s fate, which was turned upside down because of me, had an impact on Klopp’s career as well.

In retrospect, it was right for Klopp not to have won the trophy with Dortmund last season.

But thanks to his father’s presence, he beat Pep and won the title, and that led him to leave Dortmund and move to Liverpool.

As such, many things have changed in the history of football.

Wolves should have been relegated from the third tier this season, but they are currently on a whirlwind eight-game winning streak in the top flight.

In addition, players like Van Dijk and Salah, who were originally supposed to play for Liverpool, are now playing for Wolves, and they were preparing for their next match against Liverpool, which should have been their team.

Truly, so much has changed.

And a lot will change in the future.

“If we beat Liverpool, it will be nine consecutive wins. It will be Chelsea’s record of nine consecutive wins in 10 years. And if we win 10 consecutive games after that, it will be an unprecedented record in the EPL.”

Following 9 consecutive wins, 10 consecutive wins.

It is a record that no one has ever achieved in the EPL.

Even manager Arsene Wenger, who led Arsenal to an undefeated championship, has never won nine games in a row.

“That means we are now moving into uncharted territory that no one has ever challenged before, except Chelsea.”

The players’ expressions changed.

Some people have faces filled with joy and delight, while others have faces filled with fear and tension.

Everyone listened to my story with such a variety of mixed emotions.

“No one is going to look down on us as a weak team anymore. As we promised at the beginning of the season, we have now clearly shown all the teams that Wolves is a strong team.”

A smile appeared on the players’ faces.

But it wasn’t something to laugh about.

“That means that all the teams that will play against us in the future will recognize Wolves as a strong team and will prepare thoroughly. In the past, some teams let their guard down and we won easily, but that won’t happen in the future.”

A strong team is strong in its own way, and a weak team is weak in its own way.

They will do everything they can to stop Wolves.

Now, Wolves are a team that cannot be ignored any longer.

“Furthermore, we have to play only strong teams since the Liverpool game. We also have the FA Cup and Carabao Cup scheduled, so the schedule is very tight. From now on, tactics are tactics, but it depends on your mental strength.”

The only good thing is that the strong teams we have to face have tighter schedules.

The teams that made it into the Champions League last season should focus on the Champions League, and the teams below them should focus on the Europa League Cup.

That’s why there are managers who make the choice to cleanly give up on the FA Cup or Carabao Cup.

Because the physical burden is so great, we just focus on the league, Europa League, or Champions League.

“So what tactics should we take?”

I looked at the players closely.

They lowered their heads like students avoiding the gaze of a teacher who is about to make a presentation at school. Then, my eyes met with Ramsey, who was sitting in the center.

“……me?”

“Yes, Coach Ramsey. You. What do you think?”

Ramsay blinked a few times and scratched his head.

“Shouldn’t we play defensively?”

“Oh. That’s wrong. Our passing coach gave such an answer. You should reflect on your actions.”

“… … .”

It seemed like the guy was muttering a curse under his breath, but I let it slide.

“It’s good to play defensively against strong teams, but I don’t think our Wolves players are inferior to the players of strong teams. I think they are overwhelming. However, I think the opponents think that the quality of their players is much better than ours.”

Of course, when you look at the average stats of the entire squad, it’s true that other strong teams are ahead of us.

Even though I have been recruiting players, there are still Wolves players who have remained from the second team.

But in the end, soccer is a battle of tactics.

Even if the opponent’s stats are overwhelmingly higher, the end result ultimately depends on tactics.

“So we will be using much more aggressive tactics going forward than we are using now.”

I brought up the screen and showed him the new tactic we had to implement.

“… … ?!”

The players began to open their eyes wide one by one as they watched the tactics on the screen.

“This is a new tactic we will deploy starting from the match against Liverpool.”