Dad was a Genius - Chapter 97



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My Dad Was a Genius Episode 097

Kieran Trippier has been having so much fun with football lately.

It wasn’t just because he left Burnley and moved to Wolves, a second-tier powerhouse.

Of course, as a soccer player, wouldn’t you want to aim higher?

There are far better teams in the EPL than Wolves.

But Trippier has no intention of leaving Wolves any time soon.

It was through Cha Seong-eun that Trippier found his strengths.

He was originally evaluated as having precise passes, but after coming here, he made long crosses more often than short passes.

Trippier was actually a little dissatisfied, as he considered his strength to be his short passing.

But Cha Seong-eun realized that his real strength came from his long crosses, not his short passes.

Whip pass.

The ball curves beautifully and lands precisely on the attacker’s foot or head.

The ball’s trajectory curves so dramatically that it is extremely difficult for defenders and goalkeepers to react.

That is why it could be said to be extremely threatening.

[Player Trippier! Bring the ball up from the side!]

[Ah. What a beautiful trajectory!]

As a result, rather than building up with short passes and advancing little by little, Trippier can now either pass the ball up from the halfway line and try to penetrate at once, or change direction to try to create a new breakthrough.

Although he is a fullback, Trippier was quite surprised by his ability to have a huge impact on the attack. Above all, the players here were so talented.

I don’t know what the media is thinking when they denigrate Wolves players.

If you watched their game, you would never say that.

Fullback Kyle Walker, positioned opposite him, is also good at defensive ability and is also good at overlapping and penetrating in an instant with his incredible speed.

And that’s not all.

Bruno Fernandes and Maddison in the midfield also continued to make sharp passes that were a challenge to the opposing defense, while Joao Palinha blocked the opponents’ ability to pass the ball backwards through his aggressive forward pressure.

[Trippier’s long pass creates another chance. Salah runs!!]

Attack, center, defense.

Wolves were so solid that there weren’t any holes anywhere.

That’s why the teams that faced them were always confused, shocked, and quickly collapsed.

[Salah player Shoooooosh-! Gooooosh!! Wolves scores first goal for 4th game in a row!]

[Yes. With this goal, Salah has now scored a whopping 6 goals!]

Trippier could see the Newcastle players’ pupils twitching.

The pleasure felt at that moment is indescribable.

This sense of superiority that we are overwhelmingly superior to our opponents.

The thrill of creating an attacking opportunity through your own feet and then seeing it lead to a goal.

Cha Seong-eun said that Wolves are a strong team that can win the EPL.

Of course, I didn’t believe it at first, but at this moment, I could say it with confidence.

They say our Wolves are a strong team in the EPL.

* * *

The match between Newcastle and Wolves was attracting a lot of attention.

It’s a showdown between Wolves continuing their four-game winning streak or Newcastle breaking their losing streak.

When evaluated overall, people predicted a Newcastle victory.

Although Newcastle have lost consecutive games, it is because the opponents they faced were too strong.

On the other hand, Wolves have been on a winning streak, but weren’t all their opponents weak teams?

The prevailing opinion was that it was not that Wolves were good, but that those teams were bad.

But that evaluation seemed likely to change after today’s game.

[GOAL! Wolves score again!]

“… … .”

Coach Kinnear’s hands were shaking.

Clearly Wolves are worse than Newcastle and their winning streak was just luck.

But that wasn’t luck.

They just got here by overwhelmingly suppressing the opposing team with their skills.

Just like they are doing to Newcastle now.

“Oh, no way. Are you sure this is Wolves?”

Manager Kinnear was confident that Newcastle’s players would be able to overwhelm Wolves.

So, I was planning to use that difference in stats to directly destroy my opponent’s tactics.

But when they actually played each other, the difference in skill between Wolves and Newcastle was like heaven and earth.

“You’re so good at it?”

“The ability to decompress and escape our pressure, and the ability to sneak in a surprise pass. The players are all so good.”

We’ve heard time and time again that Wolves’ prospects are exceptionally talented.

But I just thought it was because the person I met was incompetent.

But coach Kinnear seemed to know it when he saw it for himself on the pitch.

They are monster newcomers.

Not only was he able to throw precise passes, but his ability to suddenly hit mid-range shots was also quite scary.

Those aren’t abilities you can acquire just by training hard.

Since he was born with such great talent, he is able to succeed at any attack he attempts.

“How on earth did you know about all those monsters and bring them here?”

Aren’t the Wolves players all players who were abandoned because they weren’t well-received by their respective teams?

Even that Salah is a guy who worked hard at Chelsea.

But here, he was flying high enough to be worthy of the nickname EPL Pharaoh.

“Coach. If this continues… …we’ll keep conceding goals.”

“Something needs to change.”

Coach Kinnear knows too.

That the tactics he initially brought in weren’t working.

It hurts, but I have to admit it.

Newcastle’s players are nowhere near the level of the Wolves squad.

In that case, the only way to overwhelm the opponent is through tactics… … .

‘Even that is flawless.’

It wasn’t just the players who had differences in skill.

There was also a huge difference in the directors’ skills.

The opponents seemed to know Newcastle’s strategy and started to attack from the beginning of the game, focusing on the left line where Newcastle was particularly vulnerable.

I tried to supplement that part and seize the opportunity to counterattack, but no matter what I tried, it didn’t work.

“How can there be such a difference… … .”

The media and the so-called soccer experts were all fake.

How can you call that awesome team a weak team?

Wolves are a strong team.

I could feel it on my skin.

It felt like a bigger wall than the strong teams we faced in the pre-season.

‘How on earth did that Asian coach change the team?’

Kinnear was looking at Cha Seong-eun, who was quietly watching the game with a dignified attitude even from afar, with fearful eyes.

* * *

Jurgen Klopp takes over at Liverpool.

As the only manager who could compete with Pep, who dominated the Bundesliga with overwhelming skill, fans were extremely excited about the fact that he was finally coming to the EPL.

In particular, he has been drawing attention to how he will apply his unique gegenpressing tactic to the EPL, and he has also focused on testing out his own tactics during the pre-season.

And indeed, the EPL was very different from the Bundesliga.

I expected it to be used destructively, knowing that they are not immune to gegenpressing, but the problem was that Liverpool players did not follow the tactic very well.

‘It’s obvious that you’re physically very different.’

In Germany, I have been leading the team for a long time and have been gradually training my physical strength to prepare myself to use gegenpressing.

However, since I had just taken office and had no understanding or experience with tactics, I was unable to properly implement gegenpressing.

Although they trained the players to learn the tactics as much as possible in a short period of time, Liverpool continued to show a precarious appearance both in the pre-season and the regular season.

Fans who were expecting the breathtaking pressure and cool attacking performances that Germany displayed could not help but be slightly disappointed.

“There wasn’t enough training time.”

Was it a mistake to try to apply gegenpressing?

However, I tried to implement the tactic by purchasing players who fit my tactics and forming a new squad, but it didn’t work as well as I thought in the EPL.

The players here are of higher quality on average than in the Bundesliga, and although they were initially confused by the harsh pressure, they quickly got used to it and were quick to relieve the pressure.

I didn’t think there would be much difference between the Bundesliga and the EPL.

Klopp came here and realized.

The difference between the two leagues is much bigger than you might think.

It’s not for nothing that people mock the Bundesliga as Munich’s one-tool.

“So what should I do now… … .”

Liverpool’s current record is 1 win, 2 draws, and 1 loss.

If things continue this way, Liverpool may fall endlessly, unlike last season.

Last year, Liverpool showed the power of a strong team by rising to second place with Luis Suarez’s one-man carry. However, there were many comments that the performance was very disappointing, and in fact, many said that the team would not have even made it to the top four without Suarez.

The biggest problem was that Luis Suarez transferred to Barcelona this season, and with other Liverpool players leaving the team one by one, the Liverpool board, feeling a sense of crisis, hastily recruited Klopp.

And although he spared no effort in providing full support and assistance to Klopp, once the season started, he started to show a slump and people were starting to criticize him.

“Some solution is needed.”

While I was alone in the director’s office, thinking hard about it.

[Wolves’ unstoppable streak. How far will their winning streak go?]

[Who said Wolves were a weak team? Wolves even defeated Newcastle.]

A newspaper on the desk caught my eye.

The front desk staff always leaves a sports newspaper on the table, and Klopp reads it without fail to keep up with the results of each league match.

But lately I’ve been so busy worrying about Liverpool’s tactics that I haven’t been able to watch other teams’ games.

“Wolves… … Wait. Wolves… … ?”

The tea ceremony.

That’s where the guy is as a director.

The first Asian manager in the EPL, appointed by the Wolves board despite not having a P-class license and even having to pay a fine.

Besides, he was a person who used tactics similar to his own.

“But you said you won 4 games in a row?”

Klopp was watching the Wolves game as if he was possessed by something.

Klopp, who looked at all the regular season matches from the pre-season to the present…

“I didn’t know tactics could be handled like this.”

I was secretly shocked.

“It’s the same Gegen pressing, but it’s clearly different.”

Although the essence was the same, the method of operating it was completely different.

During the pre-season, they experimented with various tactics and seemed to have perfected the system, and they were using those established tactics during the regular season.

“This was the answer.”

Rather than just using gegenpressing alone, mix in other defensive tactics appropriately.

That was Cha Seong-eun’s secret.

He knows it too.

This means that gegenpressing alone will never be enough to overcome the EPL wall.

Also, like Liverpool now, Wolves would have had less time to train their players.

To compensate for that shortcoming, a new tactic was introduced, and it worked well.

Of course, there were some players who excelled.

But doesn’t Klopp know?

The players he recruited were also very good players.

Ultimately, it is the director who utilizes them.

“hmm-.”

Klopp, who had been watching Wolves’ game all day, replayed the game from the beginning again.

He had a gut feeling.

If we learn Cha Seong-eun’s tactics, it could be a breakthrough for Liverpool.

He watched match videos all night long, his eyes burning with excitement, trying to learn the tactics used by Cha Seong-i.