Football: My AI System Provides Max-Level Predictions-Chapter 47: Combine the Universality and Particularity of Contradictions!
Chapter 47: Chapter 47: Combine the Universality and Particularity of Contradictions!
At seven thirty the next morning, Chiwo was the first to arrive at the training base.
He didn’t go to Mancini’s office, nor did he go to the meeting room, and certainly not to the training ground.
Instead, he was rummaging through the video analysis room!
After working on the computer for a while, Chiwo sat in the chair scratching his head.
"After searching for a long time, I only found a clip of over ten minutes. Where can I find several hours worth for Tang?"
Ten o’clock last night.
Chiwo was leaning on the bed, reading the UEFA A-level Coach exam books, almost fell asleep.
Who would’ve thought Tang Long would call, asking for Icardi’s video highlights.
Chiwo was initially surprised!
Such video highlights of a player are only used when coaches study tactics.
What does Tang Long want with this?
Then he heard that Tang needed several hours of it, which made Chiwo even more perplexed.
Tang Long said he wanted to study Icardi’s positioning and ball-handling habits to feed him better on the field.
Chiwo praised Tang Long on the phone, saying he was ambitious, and suggested he check the video analysis room at the base tomorrow.
But today, even after searching, he only found a clip of over ten minutes.
The content was actually a negative tutorial on Icardi’s positioning!
This was done during former coach Mazzari’s time, a tutorial deep in the hard drive.
Right-clicking "Properties" showed the last open was December 2013.
Back then, Icardi had only been with Inter for half a year and was a substitute for Milito and Palacio.
At the time, Icardi was not yet one of Serie A’s top strikers.
He had a lot of common issues young players face, not mature enough to be Inter’s mainstay.
For this, Inter’s tactical analysts made a video of Icardi’s errors from over 10 matches, analyzing his positioning and ball-handling insufficiencies, playing it for him.
After that, Inter’s coaching staff did not specifically analyze Icardi officially for over a year.
Tang Long arrived full of anticipation, only to be told this by Chiwo.
This inevitably brought some disappointment!
It seems Inter’s coaching team’s work was not as thorough as he’d imagined.
Why did Tang Long want Icardi’s highlights?
His goal was to use AI data analysis by watching dedicated highlights of Icardi’s positioning, to auto-match the best passing lanes and timing suitable for Icardi during games.
Tang Long knew that as the league progressed,
Icardi would increasingly become an indispensable asset under Mancini’s command.
If he wanted to stand undefeated in the main force competition with Gualin, the key lies in completely aligning with Icardi!
After all, as someone who has traveled through time, Tang Long knows that next season the Argentine striker will be promoted by Mancini to captain the first team, replacing Ranocchia.
From a broader perspective, if you want to cling to the big player, you have to hold onto the team’s biggest strength, or who will become the strongest in the future.
Currently, Tang Long is continuously feeding match footage into his AI system.
He often watches matches involving world-renowned teams.
But these matches aren’t fully adaptable for Icardi!
Both Inzaghi and Icardi are good at positioning, but their habits differ.
Both Van Nistelrooy and Icardi are masters of one-touch football, but Van Nistelrooy’s preferred passing angles differ from Icardi’s.
Even when to start preparing or exerting force is a unique football language for each player.
For example, in a match against Bologna, there was an excellent opportunity, yet Tang Long and Icardi failed in their coordination!
It was in the 66th minute, during an Inter counterattack.
Tang Long drove the ball forward, and the AI system indicated there was a perfect gap on the right side, a pass there had a high chance of creating a direct through ball!
Tang Long did pass, but Icardi had gone to the left, so the ball went out of bounds.
Actually, it’s not impossible for the Argentine striker to move left, there was indeed another gap there, and he did run into position.
The Argentine even clapped towards Tang Long, indicating his thought process was also correct.
But it was this disagreement on football understanding that led to their coordination failure!
Every player in the world is unique.
This confirms the saying that contradictions are universal, but they also possess particularity.
Having watched over a thousand complex match footages,
Tang Long’s AI data system is still a broad system.
To combine the universality and particularity of contradictions, better clinging onto Icardi, Tang Long has to watch more of Icardi’s matches.
Watching one match at a time is too slow!
He needs to use highlights.
After all, in a match, Icardi as a point-grabbing striker, only takes the ball around 30 times, has about 20 passes, and shoots three to four times.
Chiwo only provided a highlight of Icardi’s errors from a year ago, which clearly does not satisfy Tang Long.
He decided to personally ask Icardi if he had gathered any related materials.
However, Icardi’s answer was more disappointing for Tang Long.
"Hey! Even the coaching staff doesn’t have it, where would I get a compilation of over a dozen hours? I’m not Messi or C Luo, who would make such a long video for me to analyze? Tang, you’re overthinking!"
But.
Fortunately, effort paid off!
A few days later, Icardi sent Tang Long a video link on his phone.
Upon clicking it open, it was precisely Icardi’s match highlights.
All 15 hours of it!
To say that Icardi, at 22, has played only seventy or eighty professional games and scored less than thirty goals, where did the 15-hour match highlights come from?
Icardi replied to Tang Long in the message:
"Tang, after mentioning this, I’ve been paying attention. I casually found this on a video site today, an Argentine fan who is my supporter edited this compilation of all my matches.
I was shocked at first! Someone actually edited such a long video about me in this world, even footage from my U19 matches at Samp is included!
Some parts are quite blurry, just make do with it, it’s definitely the most comprehensive video about me in the world, hoping it helps you."
This video had only about 90 views on YouTube, not even past 100.
Clearly, most people who came across this video were intimidated by the sheer length!
But to Tang Long, this was the fastest way to understand his forward partner.
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This weekend, the first major Serie A showdown kicks off at Meazza Stadium.
Inter hosts Juventus.
This is also known as Italy’s national derby!
The intensity is no less than the Milan derby.
In recent years, with Juventus’s strong resurgence, they have repeatedly bullied Inter in the national derby.
Currently, Juventus sits at league number one, having the absolute leading advantage, their championship odds are the highest!
While Inter is in sixth place, outside the Champions League zone.
This huge gap makes it the biggest disparity in recent national derbies.
At the pre-match press conference, Mancini conveyed certain victory with fierce eyes and firm tone.
"If Inter wants to surpass themselves, we must defeat teams like Juventus. I’m not pressuring the players, on the contrary, I’m infusing them with confidence!"
