Most people hate the repeated words that are said only to fill in the blanks, those that you hear in family sessions, for example, and are in the form that people are no longer the same, or that days have become tasteless unlike the past, or the stories of your uncle and your aunt's husband when they were seven years old, It is true that it is similar to all children's stories and does not contain anything exciting, and that you heard it at least 197 times in previous sessions, but you only have an artificial laugh to match events.
On the café, such phrases are repeated, in a different context, but they come from the same premise, the Milan derby is played and you watch it with only 7 people, while the rest of the café-goers play dominoes and look at their phone screens or talk among themselves, and with an opportunity or goal to move you and the spectators Seven, you find overlapping voices that are exactly like those you hear in family gatherings with minor differences, for example the phrase people are no longer what they used to be replaced by that Milan is no longer what it was, and the stories of your uncle and your aunt's husband are replaced by the stories of Kaka, Pirlo and Shevchenko, the names that they utter incorrectly because they are not They watch one match, but since when did the Fill in the Blanks chats include one logical sentence?
In the family session and in front of the match, you will have to respond with the same head nod with the same artificial smile because you have no other, and that you represent the minority always accompanied by your internal questions about the amount of fun that these people get by repeating these phrases, with a main unanswered question that says: If most people hate words The duplicate that is said only to fill in the blanks, so why do they say it?
But now the good news, it seems that Milan's phrases are no longer as they were nearing their end, and this is what we are going to talk about, as for the stories of your uncle and your aunt's husband, God helped you because they will never end.
Milan finished 2020 top of the Italian League, losing only two games during the year;
One in the Italian League and the other in the Euroleague, not only that, but that the Rossoneri is equal to Bayern Munich with 77 points and behind Real Madrid, who has 79 points at the level of the most points-collecting clubs in Europe during the calendar year.
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Going backwards, Milan finds that 2019 has ended tragically and by falling five in Bergamo against Atalanta, his coach was Stefano Pioli, who had not yet completed his third month in office, as he succeeded the article after only two months, Marco Giampaolo.
Until this moment, the scene was predicting a worse season than all the last bad seasons of the Rossoneri, but 2019 is over, and we have reached 2020, and with it the scene has changed completely.
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In the winter Mercato, Milan decided to contract with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the 38-year-old, who was waiting for everyone to announce his retirement, so he returned to Europe and laughed, whether for the man who thinks himself capable of giving in the European leagues at this age, or the miserable club that is looking for a solution In a player crawls about forty years old.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic
With the return of Zlatan, the results improved thanks to direct and indirect contributions from him, the man presented numbers in which he competed for the best version when he was young, in 2020 the Swedish star contributed 27 goals between scoring and industry in 29 matches, and became the fourth player in the history of the Italian league to score in the first 6 matches In the championship, as well as indirect contributions to the team's playing style, motivating colleagues, giving them a winning mentality and the constant search for it.
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This scene was specially designed so that everyone admits that Ibrahimovic is the only reason for that awakening, so by comparing the scene of the humiliating pentathlon at the end of 2019 and everything that happened after it, you will find that the formation is almost the same, and that the coach is the same, and the only thing that has been added is Zlatan, but despite this, the reality He proved that this conclusion was superficial, and while acknowledging that Zlatan was the one who played the biggest role, it must be noted that the story is greater than its reduction to it.
If you are not convinced, let me tell you a story that might make you change your mind.
The arrival of Stefano Pioli to Milan as a man of savior was not desirable, the fans demanded his departure before he supervised a single training session, because his recent experiences did not provide real credentials given the project that seemed to start at the beginning of the 2020 season, Giampaolo the article was coming from A promising trip with Sampdoria, but looking at the Milan coaches who have been sacked, there is an interesting trip for Filippo Inzaghi with Benevento, another for Mihajlovic with Bologna, and a third that is respected for Glebo with Napoli;
Enough data to tell you that the solution was not to replace the coach, the question now, where was he?
The answer, in technology!
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Stefano Pioli
Bioli's arrival was not just a coach, but an increase in the number of performance analysts to 4 people.
At the beginning of the season, Milan signed Roberto Ferrari and Giorgio Tenca as performance analysts, and with the arrival of Pioli, his son Gianmarco was added to them as well as the analyst Luciano Volcano.
Nice, but what do all of these do?
More importantly, is this job so important that you assign four analysts?
Milan now has four match analysts to help the coach do two things;
Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of his team, and do the same with the opponent.
The day in Milanilo begins early, with Pioli arriving at 8:30 in the morning, while analysts arrive at eight to prepare before the start of training sessions. Their main task is to study the opponent and record training sessions to find weaknesses and correct them.
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Often after matches they review what happened with certain reference points and requests from Bioli to get a better idea, remedy the mistakes that were made, and improve what the team has done correctly.
The interesting thing is that the space is open for communication between them and the players, not the coach himself, as the players themselves may come to the analysts with requests and suggestions or even inquiries about some of the data they have reached.
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DEFENSIVE TACTICS
The most important aspect of Milan's style of play is their defending.
Milan engage in pressing.
Pressing is closing down space or passing lanes of the player in spaces.
Milan do an innovative way of pressing called Horizontal pressing pic.twitter.com/fSOwiLZGqD
- Rohit Rajeev (@milantactics) December 24, 2020
Betting on old beliefs as technology evolves is complete nonsense, they are the rule for all aspects of life and not specific to football.
It is not reasonable for a thing to go on for tens of years as it is just because it started like this, and it is not possible to seriously deal with someone who insists on sending his messages in homing pigeons until today only because nostalgia eats it from time to time.
In this context, we can talk about the way performance analysts work in Milan, where the employees of closed rooms literally live with a computer next to them in all aspects of their lives professionally and personally, but it came to being summoned on their days off by the players or coaches to answer inquiries, So they cannot do without their computers even when they go to sleep!
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And to escape from this hell, and because technology has given us the answer to most of the complex questions of our life, the leading idea of these analysts was to introduce an application that can be downloaded on any smartphone, in order to constantly communicate with the players and the technical staff remotely without the need to wake up early on their holidays from In order to go to the training headquarters.
Indeed, the application has been installed in the phone of each player, so that videos, analyzes, statistics and everything required of him are sent to him, while providing a space for communication for permanent inquiries.
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Perhaps the most prominent incident in this context, and what was revealed by the cover, was that shot taken of Milan's midfield duo, Frank Casey and Lucas Bella, as they looked intensely at their phones in the dressing room, the photo of course provoked the fans who thought they were surfing the Internet while the team was playing an important game, but Bioli explained Later to the press that they were watching the videos sent to them by the team of analysts, pretty tech, right?
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Prima di una partita, di questo livello, in questa situazione, unica cosa da fare è fissare il pavimento e pensare a cosa fare in campo
Finché avremo elementi che pensano al loro Instagram anziché a cosa fare in campo… i risultati saranno semper mediocri pic. twitter.com/UjVc7Gg4jy
- Piani Mino (@PianiMino) November 23, 2019
Now we get to the backstage, where the working methodology underpins that process.
The matter is not only done by analyzing the statistics of players and the team through a company that you send to the club and then refute them and try to develop them, but almost everything is made, they are not numbers as you think whenever someone tells you about the revolution of statistical and digital analysis.
The four analysts begin working on their opponent two weeks before the match.
For example, for Milan's Derby, analysts had started collecting data the week before the match, in order to allow Pioli and his team to design their tactical and technical training to take advantage of the opponent's weaknesses.
For the analysis, they choose the last six or seven matches the opponent has played and analyze performance through positioning and behavior during shifts between play styles, try to determine the play patterns that are then analyzed by Bioli and devise countermeasures to neutralize the opponent's tactics, then on the last day before the match they analyze the balls Fixed.
This was about the opponents, but on the other hand, every training session for Milan players is recorded using a drone, which is used by placing it in the best possible angle to see all sides of the field and the details of the players' performance in different situations, for example, if the exercise is to stop counter-attacks , The camera will move in the direction of the defensive lines, which helps to gauge the effectiveness of the tactics developed during the exercises.
It is worth noting that its use does not stop at the tactical analysis only, as for the medical team, the flow with which the players run is monitored, as these data allow the ability to assess the physical ability of the player and predict injuries and reduce the likelihood of him being exposed to it.
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Did you think that the work of these people stops at the night of the match and then starts after it ends?
No, when match day comes, the analysts divide themselves into two teams;
One analyst - usually Volcano - sits behind Pioli and his assistant Merrilli, while the other three sit in the seats of journalists, where cameras are connected to laptops to analyze what is happening in the match as it progresses.
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Those who sit in the journalists' seat are at the top of the stands, where they can see all twenty players on the field from a vertical angle, and thus can see errors in positioning and make general observations about the overall performance as well as the detailed performance of each individual player, and then these analysts play their role. He informs the changes that are supposed to be made to Volcano sitting behind Pioli, by sending the data to his laptop, and he in turn, after reviewing it, gives it to Bioli, who leaves his seat then to direct the players.
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This method was recently introduced by Bioli in Milan, and this helped Milan to use the available resources to get the best possible product. The main points that these analysts evaluate are the opportunities created by the two teams and the points of advantage and weakness. Once these statistics are recorded, the analysts work on the whole sequence to find the detail That led to creating a real opportunity in their favor or in favor of them, and once the first half is over, these analysts sit down with the players and hold direct discussions with them to exploit their strengths and remedy weaknesses in the second half.
In a matter of one year, this arduous method full of details resulted in Milan leading the Italian League and a real competition for the title for the first time in 8 years, with simple additions that the same elements that were falling down after the other turned into a group capable of providing an exceptional year, so let alone more time to where Can it hit the spot?
Can you hear us, Count?
Talk about things going on right next to you here in Milan!
Accordingly, comes the superficial shorthand that the comedian considers the password behind everything. Accordingly, Pioli discovered that 4/3/2/1 that Giampaolo played with him brings out the worst of all his players, especially those in the middle, so he made a simple modification that turned it into 4 / 2/3/1 with a double in the axle are Casey and Bin Nasser, and the only playmaker, Hakan Chalhanoglu, with two wings and a striker in front without inverted triangles, which Giampaolo tried to use by force despite the lack of players capable of making them.
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Bennacer was closer to the number 8 game maker, which is not as good as his mastery of playing in the axis, the same thing with Casey, who was playing in advance and returned to form a double with the Algerian star, and in front of them, Chalhanoglu, whose ability to make games on the sides was buried so that Bioli brought him back to the depth As a result, the Turkish star finishes the year 2020 and is the second most stadium midfielder in the world contributing to the goals between scoring and industry behind Bruno Fernandez, and the first if we exclude penalty kicks!
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Bin Nasser
Bin Nasser, the axis, plays on the left to the side of Theo Hernandez, the starting back who needs a player to come back to secure his back, and on the other side Calabria finds the same role from Chalhanoglu and not Casey until the Ivorian remains in the middle, giving Milan strength on the sides, with reliance on balls. The longitudinal that is sent through the duos made by a midfielder with a left and right back, and with it Zlatan Ibrahimovic descends to play the role of the station by absorbing it and using his skills in rotating it with his teammates, and on the sides he often plays Repic and Salmikers, and with Zlatan injured, Repic comes to play the role of the striker and participates either Liao or Kronich is on the left.
And after all of that, comes the final image, dozens of special numbers by Theo Hernandez, Zlatan and midfielders, videos highlighting the moves, passes, and pressing methods, all of which is ultimately produced after hours of working behind the scenes about every detail you can imagine or not imagine in the game. , Before some came to reduce everything to 4/2/3/1, or defeated it in superficiality and reduced it to the presence of Zlatan!
Life is not superficial as most imagine, and the work space and planning exceed what is left to chance, and adhering to the homing pigeon in the era of speed is nothing but naivety, and nostalgia cannot be a reason to stop the development of time, and it does not go beyond just recovering memories in a family session in which phrases are repeated that People have not become what they were and you hear the stories of your uncle and your aunt's husband for the umpteenth time.
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What did Milan offer in 2020?
Milan is third behind Real Madrid and Bayern Munich on points level in 2020
Milan decides to sack Giampaolo and contract with Stefano Pioli
Milan end 2019 with a thunderbolt against Atalanta
Milan sign Ibrahimovic for free - January 2020
Ibrahimovic's numbers for 2020
Benevento numbers with Inzaghi in 2020
Gattuso's numbers with Napoli in 2020
Milan fans are demanding the dismissal of Pioli as soon as he is signed
How do data analysts work in Milan to bring out the best of every player?
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