38. Countermeasures
In football, many players have good individual skills or strong bodies, but there are only a handful of players who can control the tempo. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Xavi, for example, was such a player at his peak.
And the reason why players like Xavi can achieve so much is because they have a strong sense of the big picture, they know when to be fast and when to be slow, and they can also use their strong foot skills to make themselves fast when they want to be fast and slow when they want to be slow.
When they want to be slow, they can firmly control the ball at their feet, and pass the ball to their teammates comfortably, and then run smartly to catch the ball and make the opponent's pressing ineffective.
And when they want to be fast, they still use their superb ball quotient and strong foot skills to create a search or create a gap by observing or getting rid of it, and then pass the ball quickly and accurately to make the offense faster.
To do the above, not only does the player need to have skills and bodies, but also the ball quotient is extremely good.
If it was Zheng Zhi at his peak, maybe he could play at such a level in the Chinese Super League, but now in the face of these high-level players of the Longteng team, and when he is older, he seems to be a little weak.
Because it's very simple to make the game faster, pass the ball a little faster, focus, run forward immediately after passing the ball to respond, or use the speed to sprint back and forth, and the game will quickly get up.
But it is very difficult to pass the ball to your teammates steadily under the pressure of the opponent, and then run to receive the ball, and continue to pass like a monkey.
This requires not only you to be able to pass in place and run in place, but you also need your teammates to be able to pass in place and run in place.
When you want to play fast-paced, it doesn't matter if you pass big, anyway, you have to sprint frequently, and if you make a mistake, you will come back next time, but when you want to be slow, you don't pass well, you have to run hard to get the ball, and such frequent running also makes the original intention of slowing down the pace disappear.
Under the high pressing of the Longteng team, the players of Guangzhou Evergrande had to start using the non-stop running position to avoid the opponent's tactics, of course, this situation Cannavaro is acceptable, because of such a high pressing tactics, the Longteng team spends more physical energy than Guangzhou Evergrande.
But another move of the Dragons - the non-stop back and forth sprinting on the side made him a little unacceptable.
Because the defense consumes more energy than the attacker. The offense's fitness is decreasing, and the defender's fitness is also declining.
When attacking, it is generally 3-4 people to sprint and consume physical energy, while the defender needs at least 6-8 people to defend with all their might. Then use three people to drag down the physical fitness of the other party's 8 people, and then change to three new forces to go up, so that the attack can keep speeding up.
Now the Longteng team is taking advantage of Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin's youth, momentum, and acceptable technical ability, and they keep going up and down on the two sides.
At the same time, among the players in the midfield, Lin Feng and Tao Wentao kept taking turns to cooperate with their side attacks, when Lin Feng rushed up, Tao Wentao retreated to cooperate with the defense, after Tao Wentao went up, Lin Feng went back to cooperate with the defense, plus Nie Jiang in the frontcourt, Ben Alpha and Pato also frequently changed positions to cooperate.
On the Guangzhou Evergrande side, two full-backs, two full-backs, two midfielders, plus Goulart have to defend from time to time.
Guangzhou Evergrande's desire to slow down the pace of the game fell through.
He Wei, who was in charge of the commentary, obviously also saw this: "Evergrande is a little embarrassed now, they want to slow down, but they can't slow down, the Longteng team keeps using pressing and fast passing, and the side is inserted to attack." It's okay now, can they hold up in the second half?"
Xu Yang said worriedly: "Don't think about the second half, now Evergrande's defense is already very passive." ”
In Xu Yang's commentary, the Longteng team launched an offensive again, and this time the Longteng team aimed at the left side of Guangzhou Evergrande, because Li Xuepeng had a yellow card.
However, the difference is that this time the Longteng team's offensive frontcourt switch, Ben Alpha came to the right side, Pato went to the left side, Zhang Sheng's idea is also very clear, that is, Ben Alpha is better at breaking through, and the threat to Li Xuepeng, who is carrying a yellow card, is greater.
Sure enough, Ben Alpha used his foot technology to create a breakthrough this time, and Li Xuepeng wanted to pull people, but thinking that he had a yellow card on him, he could only withdraw his hand at the critical moment.
Li Xuepeng put people over, someone had to come to take the blame for him, and this time it was Huang Bowen who came to take the blame, and he grabbed the opponent's arm and pulled him to the ground before Ben Alpha broke through into the penalty area.
The tactical foul was unfetched and a yellow card was given, and a well-placed free-kick was given to the Dragons.
Seeing the free kick in this position, not only the fans of Guangzhou Evergrande booed worriedly, Cannavaro also stood nervously on the sidelines to remind the players to pay attention to their positions, and goalkeeper Zeng Cheng also arranged the human wall with a serious face.
He Wei said worriedly: "You are really right, Evergrande doesn't want to find a way, it's really dangerous." Free kicks in this position, there are too many people who can attack the goal directly by the Longteng team, and now Pato, Ben Alpha and Lin Feng on the field have a good free kick kung fu, and Tao Wentao is also a player who has scored a free kick. Let's take a look at the arrangement of the Dragons' free-kicks. ”
As He Wei said, now Pato, Ben Alpha and Lin Feng are all standing in front of the ball to discuss free kick tactics.
"Zeng Cheng is not easy to deal with now. Even if the first player runs over the ball, you don't know if the second or the third person shoots, and if you move the center of gravity a little early, it may lead to losing the ball. Xu Yang also added.
But soon the mystery was revealed, Lin Feng shook a shot and ran over the ball, Pato then made a move to shoot, but this was still fake, and it was Ben Alpha who kicked the ball in the end.
Zeng Cheng was really deceived by Pato's feints, he guessed that Lin Feng must be covering, but he didn't expect that in the end it was Ben Alpha who took the penalty, when Pato made a feint to kick the ball, he saw that Pato's right foot wanted to kick the arc, so he immediately moved to the right, and when Ben Alpha's left foot shot, his center of gravity was completely to the left side of the goal.
After Ben Alpha kicked the ball with his left foot, the ball went around the wall and flew straight to the right side of the goal, and Zeng Cheng, who had no possibility of saving at all, could only pray that the ball would not go in.
But then he was disappointed when the ball flew straight to the right post of the goal after going around an arc, and just as the ball was about to graz the post and fly into the net, the ball hit the post and bounced into the box.
Nie Jiang, who was ambushed in the penalty area, already knew that it was Ben Alpha who was in charge of the penalty, and knew the way he took the penalty, he was standing at the right post, and rushed over as soon as he saw the ball bounce back into the penalty area.
However, it was obvious that he was the target of the target, and it was Feng Xiaoting who started faster than him, and he poked the ball before Nie Jiang could make a supplementary shot, and the ball flew out of the bottom line.
Seeing Ben Arfa's shot hit the post, Zhang Sheng sighed in the sky, what a pity.
"Ben Alpha's shot, oops, the post, hit the post. It's a pity, Zeng Cheng has given up this ball, and it's a beautiful free kick to cooperate, Evergrande is lucky this time. He Wei also felt sorry for the free kick of the Longteng team.
Xu Yang praised Feng Xiaoting: "Feng Xiaoting's performance this season is really good, this second point of protection is really good, Nie Jiang didn't rob him at all." ”
Nie Jiang, who missed the second point, was very depressed.
Before the game, he boasted to Zhang Sheng, saying that he wanted to play at the level of foreign aid, but when the game came, he knew what kind of "care" he would receive when the other party treated him as a foreign aid.
No matter where Nie Jiang is in this game, Evergrande's defenders have no room for him to get the ball at all, compared to these adult players, Nie Jiang is only 17 years old after all, and he has no chance at all in terms of physical confrontation.
Evergrande's players quickly seized his weakness, the first time Nie Jiang got the ball, they immediately leaned in, not giving him a chance to accelerate or turn around, and these time-tested old players are extremely experienced, all kinds of small actions emerge in endlessly, Nie Jiang has a full body of skills, but he can't use it.
After Nie Jiang suffered a setback, he also began to adjust his style of play, he began to pass the ball more, and for a player like him with good skills at his feet, once the ball was passed, the opponent was really not easy to target.
At this time, Nie Jiang finally realized the benefits of Zhang Sheng letting him practice passing more before, and the attack of the Longteng team would not fall to him and end here.
However, Nie Jiang began to think about another problem, that is, he is a striker player after all, and he can't hide from the work of fighting and grabbing points in the penalty area, and he can't blindly pass or escape, and how to face each other has become a problem he needs to solve.
When he began to find a way to solve this problem, his teammates also began to help him, Pato and Ben Alpha used frequent changes to allow Nie Jiang to go to the side to seek a breakthrough at the right time, and the stronger Tao Wentao also stepped forward at the right time to help him share the task of confrontation with the Guangzhou Evergrande central defender, allowing him to retreat slightly to find space.
Nie Jiang, who had been given enough space, returned to normal slightly, and he used his speed and technique to contribute a lot to the attack of the Longteng team with two consecutive wings and a little further away from the penalty area in the middle.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and when this free kick of the Longteng team caused a great threat, the players of Guangzhou Evergrande began to use another way to interrupt the rhythm of the Longteng team - frequent fouls.
In Evergrande's previous Chinese Super League games, you can often see a situation, that is, the opponent keeps using various fouls to stop Evergrande's attack, among which Evergrande's old opponents such as Beijing Guoan, Guizhou Renhe and Changchun Yatai often use sabotage and delay to make Evergrande's attack fragmented.
In last year's Chinese Super League, Guangzhou Evergrande's net game time was the second-to-last in the Chinese Super League, which is a very strange phenomenon.
Because the higher the player's technical and tactical level and stronger application ability, then there will be fewer relative mistakes, the success rate will be higher, the offense and defense of the game will be relatively smooth, and the viewing will be stronger, and the net game time will be longer at this time.
Guangzhou Evergrande has the best foreign aid in China, but also has one of the best local players in China, logically speaking, their skills and tactics should be higher, the net game time should be longer, now there is such a situation, that can only show that basically all the Super League teams in the face of Evergrande, its leading idea is not to be proactive, to win, but to passively delay, in order to destroy the consumption of time.
Guangzhou Evergrande, which had been tortured by this style of play before, also had to start using this way to interrupt the attack of the Longteng team.
Among them, Nie Jiang, who was younger and stayed in the key defensive area of Guangzhou Evergrande for a long time, became a victim, as soon as he got the ball, the Evergrande defensive players used very hidden continuous kicks, all kinds of shoulders, all kinds of sneaky pulling jerseys and other small actions to foul him.
Nie Jiang's slightly thin body couldn't withstand such a confrontation at all, and he was put to the ground many times, but the other party didn't have any warning.
Seeing this, Zhang Sheng immediately began to complain to the fourth official: "Such fouls are too frequent and very dangerous for players!"
However, the fourth official did not pay much attention to Zhang Sheng's complaint, this is Evergrande's home field, there are many fouls, but the action is not big, and there is no possibility of playing cards at all.
Not only Zhang Shengjian but even He Wei said: "Evergrande has made too many fouls now, how many times has Nie Jiang fallen to the ground? ”
Xu Yang said worriedly: "Nie Jiang's age is still too young. We Asians mature later than whites and blacks. Now Nie Jiang is only 17 years old, his skills and ball quotient are in place, but his body is not in place, if he is injured during such a growth period, the impact on the future will be very great. ”
It should be said that Xu Yang's concern is correct. Football is a high-level sport, injuries are inevitable in the heat of the game, and it is not a good thing for players who are too young to play in the professional league too early, and once they encounter serious injuries such as broken bones, torn ligaments, etc., it is very likely that a player's football career will be ruined.
Coupled with the relatively inferior level of referees in the Super League, many dangerous actions on the field have not been punished accordingly, resulting in an endless stream of rough actions, in fact, physical confrontation and large movements, fouls are completely different things!
In a real game, first-rate defense relies on skill, second-rate defense relies on body, and third-rate defense relies on fouls.
Over the years, we have often seen foreign aid in interviews, saying that the Super League is difficult to play, and it depends on physical confrontation, and the subconscious meaning is obvious, one is to smear the league they play, and the second meaning is to say that the technical level of the Super League is low.