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How does Al-Ahly coach Betso Mosimane treat his technical and psychological players to face Zamalek in the Champions League final?
This question resonates in the minds of many, and FilGoal.com answers it through Gollam Valudia, performance analyst at Mamelodi Sundowns.
First in the technical aspect, all the following lines are in the language of Valudia:
“Pitso Mosimane first tactically determines the characteristics of the opposing team by observing at least the last 10 games of the team to find out about various basic axes, such as how to build the game and leave the team with the ball.”
“How does the opponent behave with and without the ball, and how does he leave his place and leave spaces? Herein lies a seasonal intelligence that can quickly read the location of spaces in the opposing team, even if those spaces are available for a few seconds, but he takes advantage of them and plays well in them. “
“There are other important axes for him, for example the fixed balls that he used to pay a lot of attention to because they are an advantage for North African teams. He used to say that they are more organized in him than the rest of the continent, despite the distinction. from the rest of the continent with very tall bodies, and they are physically stronger in contact and air balls. Control the position of the players within the penalty area and their movement in proportion to the opponent.
“He analyzes how the team will attack the defense. He puts everything in his head and determines how he will beat the opponent. Musimane loves to apply his style regardless of the opponent, but with his technique he plays in some points that seem small but give him the victory”.
After analyzing the team in general, identify the strengths and weaknesses and then analyze each player separately, through their movements on the field and their vision, the ball leaves their foot and how they attack and defend, almost everything, after of all this, he puts the proper training from his point of view in his head, how He will play and the proper way to play and he will not tell anyone about it, and he will begin his technical talks with the players and give each player a clip of the opposing team and some of their players ”.
“In the evening, he meets with the players to watch all the clips and discuss their views. He listens to each player’s opinion and then starts talking about their point of view and analysis of the match.”
“In any important game he plays at home or in a final game, he always prefers to press and attack from the first minute. I remember that before facing Zamalek in the 2016 final, he dedicated a great technical talk to pressing from the front to the front. Zamalek defender, for the full 90 minutes of the game he did not tell his players but to keep pressing. Even a correction from the team before the game was more concerned with the physical aspect, to help the players with the pressure, which makes in all major matches, as well as the Al-Ahly match, which ended with the team winning five.
“He always said, if we were strong pressing and recovering the ball faster, we would win with a great score.”
Second, on a psychological level:
“In training, he is a calm person on the field, who is sometimes very nervous, like the nature of any coach. Before important games, he is good at dealing with the players psychological.
Musimani studied sports psychology, and he always tries to prepare his players to enter the atmosphere of the match, the beginning is always with a closed camp in which the players are completely isolated from what happens on the media or social networking sites, and asks them not to pay attention to what is said about them, he is good at responding and isolating the team from any pressure. .
“He used to give psychological lectures to his players, talk to them constantly, give them a great time to have fun and watch rave movies that help the team psychologically to get into the atmosphere of the match.”
