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Massimo Carrera largely succeeded last year in the attempt to overthrow the team, but failed, like the vast majority of his colleagues who have worked at AEK since 2015, to succeed by taking the team from the start.
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Traianos Dellas, Timur Ketspaia, Marinos Ouzounidis, Miguel Cardoso and Massimo Carrera – they couldn’t start and finish the year. Only Manolo Jiménez achieved it and in the end he was crowned champion. Everyone had responsibilities, but when the scenario always remains the same and it is not only the fault of the coaches.
VICTIMS
To a large extent, coaches are victims of a reality that does not help their work. AEK does not have a budget commensurate with the opponents being compared and, more importantly, it does not have the same organization. I am not sure that the coaches have the material and the conditions to do championships.
Also, there is no long-term plan that creates the conditions for the job to bring a football plan that makes the money. Therefore, we become permanent spectators of the same work. With the difference from above to open, there is an easy goal and we are going to change coach.
THE EASY WORK
AEK from the moment it decided to dismiss Massimo Carrera signed another ruling. Essentially, a new cycle starts from the beginning that, while repeating, seems to make no sense. The Italian manager, after all, achieved 100% last year in what his successor will be called upon to achieve. The club has reached the point of offering two jobs. The easy one is the sulupoma. In other words, the one that Manuel Jiménez will take, as Carrera did a year ago.
When AEK moves away from the top positions and there are no requirements for a championship, it is given to a coach with players who from one point onwards were not fired and above all to keep their predecessor and his dismissal will give them motivation. The need for the players to screw the coach who left leads to some early victories, while if he is good and in words the new coach creates an initial dynamic and generally the season ends better than it seemed in the first half.
THE DIFFICULT WORK
However, things change when AEK passes into the hands of a technician from the beginning. There we have a suicide mission, since it starts from the same starting point with two teams that have a bigger budget and better jobs behind them. In these conditions, they demand it to play in a championship, having a base of trained footballers that if they are injured, the coach is expendable.
As long as these conditions exist, we will constantly see the same work. AEK is easy to find someone who will succeed in the role that Carrera achieved last year. The important thing is to understand that the club itself must first create the conditions for a coach to succeed where Carrera failed and those who started the season on the AEK bench, in addition to Manolo Jiménez.
Regardless of what everyone thinks of Himeneth, the truth is that during these years he was the only one who stuck to the team, but the Spanish did not trust him to be able to offer a long-term project.
STRATEGY FOR A MORE AGGRESSIVE PHILOSOPHY
For all the coaches there were reasons that motivated their dismissal. In many cases, however, the elections themselves were met with incorrect criteria. Never in all these years has AEK gone looking for the football logic that the club wants to apply and bring in the right coach and support him on all fronts. In other words, creating the conditions with the work that will be done in the training center to build a team capable of holding a championship but also worthy of the club’s past.
AEK’s history is related to teams that played attractive attacking football. The club has achieved important things, while on its return it won a championship, a Cup and played in the Champions League groups and previously had a very good course in the 2017-18 season in the Europa League, but failed to acquire a unified attack philosophy.
THE RACE DID NOT CREATE A VISION
An aggressive philosophy that the people of the team need and this is the key piece that showed that Massimo Carrera cannot last long. He failed in other places that cost him his job, but it was clear that he was not the coach who would create the vision of a more attractive AEK.
It was evident from the reactions of the people in this year’s first derby with PAOK. The average fan is tired of seeing his team play permanently on a conservative plan and take a second role in the derby. For many years the derby has been treated with conservative logic and saturation has occurred. It quickly became clear that even if Carrera surprised and managed to keep his position until the end of the season, he was not the right person for AEK to build his future.
He failed, however, in pieces that do not fit his football philosophy.
ANARCHI
To get away from the big picture and watch the game, it is a fact that this year AEK is an anarchic team. This is the first thing that comes to mind and you see a complete game. Of course, this fact overwhelms the coach.
There is also a big defensive problem, a combination of weaknesses. The problem at the ends of the defense is enormous, as is the lack of orientation and quick reflexes in the center of the defense. We constantly see AEK under intense pressure from its edges to create a space somewhere where the opponent finds oil and builds his attacks that end in an easy threat in the center of defense and in reactions reminiscent of stoppers.
With Panathinaikos there was the side of Insua, with Olympiakos the space that Bakakis covered, with Volos of Paulinos. In every game, if you look back, the pressure came from the ends of the defense and ended in troublesome reactions from the blocks.
FAILURE RECIPE
There is a football logic that defense works. In fact, it is easier to build your defense. But modern football has changed the position of the extreme wingers. You cannot defend yourself safely when your own back is not threatening. The ability of players playing on the sides has increased significantly and if their backs cannot threaten, they create the possibility that opponents will exert intense pressure from the sides.
In addition, the coaches, to put more pressure on the opponent, bring the wingers, so it is very important that the runners can take over the entire field. This year’s AEK does not have extreme backs with these modern features and is significantly injured by the wings.
In addition, Czigrinski is suffering and we see it easy in individual errors that he was not used to in previous years, while Svarna, Nedelcearou, Hnid lack quick reactions. Neither of them can lead and create security in a defensive center that receives significant pressure from the extremities, a combination that, as Themis Kaisaris analyzed with the help of OPTA statistics, leads to many goals that AEK concedes from the head.
EXTREME INDIVIDUAL ERRORS
I repeat, Carrera also has responsibilities. The team is anarchic and even on the offensive side it is clear that their roster offers many options they have not managed to create a set with automation. It seems that he trusts the inspirations of his quality footballers. But no one can deny that a recipe was created in the summer that we now understand was a recipe for failure.
A defensive technician was given the most complete squad of midfielders AEK has had in recent years, and at the same time the solutions at the ends of defense and in the center of defense do not belong to a team that wants to play. in the championship. Because it is easy to curse the coach but in the last games extreme individual mistakes are made that are not allowed by players who play in a team that is playing in a championship.
Of course, this part also includes the responsibilities of Ilia Ivic, who took care of the planning and created a puzzle of failure.
TOTAL LONG-TERM PLAN
Today in AEK they must understand that the election of Himeneth and the general plan must refer to the summer of 2021. I understand that the teams are constantly playing and being judged. But the strategy must always take into account the big picture. After all, we must be honest: there are no conditions for him to claim the championship against Olympiakos. Europe does not exist, only the Cup that for 4 years AEK reaches the final where it pays that it has not managed in all these years to build a team that will be able to beat its two competitors in national titles by its own dominance.
There is no point going around the same circle as the dog chasing his urine. At AEK they have to see what they have achieved, what they have failed since 2015, when they returned and take a step forward. Above all, Himeneth must have time to work and a general direction to make AEK more creative.
Of course, to be able to do that, you need reinforcements in the center and at the ends of the defense. Options that will give you security so that you can later build the team and make use of the options available to midfielders. Footballers must also understand that it will not be expendable to stop anarchy.
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