80. The importance of defense

As expected, after this game, Zhang Sheng did not give the team a holiday as usual, but let them continue training, although Zhang Sheng did not explain why, but the players knew the reason. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

In fact, after the end of the last round of the Chinese Super League, although the Longteng team only got a draw at home, but the position in the standings rose from sixth to fourth, except for Guangzhou Evergrande as the Chinese Super League hegemon showed its own stability - 5:0 defeated the second-ranked Shanghai SIPG, a direct opponent for the championship, R&F drawn, Luneng lost again. Evergrande has slowly distanced itself from the teams behind it.

At the same time, the Longteng team can be regarded as having the nickname of "robbing the poor and helping the rich", and when facing several strong teams, they are all big wins or forced to draw opponents, and when facing weak teams, they either lose or draw.

Of course, there are other reasons why Zhang Sheng does not give the players a holiday, that is, because of the double match in a week, the team is about to go to Nanjing to challenge Jiangsu Shuntian, and there is no time to take a holiday.

As a state-owned enterprise, Shuntian is only a local state-owned enterprise, and there are many deficiencies in both strength and management.

After Jiangsu Shuntian won the league runner-up in the 2012 season, it played very hard in the 2013 season, and could only succeed in relegation at the end of the season, and the former meritorious coach Dragan was also forced to step down.

Originally, in the history of this season Jiangsu Shuntian should have invited Gao Hongbo as the coach, but unfortunately because of the appearance of Zhang Sheng, Gao Hongbo went to Germany to study for two years, and he was still studying He could no longer return to China as the head coach. First of all, they introduced Shandong Luneng's meritorious foreign aid, the captain of the first team's foreign aid Antar, and then introduced the legendary foreign player Dejan Damjanovic of the South Korean K-League, known as the "Asian Ibrahim", and finally introduced Brazilian striker Elias.

It's a pity that these three players can still play a certain role in Antar, Elias's ability is indeed problematic, and Dejan is not suitable for the tactics of head coach Stano, so the team is not playing well.

Especially on the offensive side, in the 9 games of the Chinese Super League that have now ended, they have only scored 8 goals, which means that they can't score an average of one goal per game, and the only thing that is more gratifying is that their defense is not bad, conceding only 6 goals in 9 rounds of the league, which is one less goal than Guangzhou Evergrande, which ranks first, and is also the Chinese Super League team with the fewest goals at this stage.

After the Longteng team arrived in Nanjing, they have been adapting to the venue. In fact, what interferes with Jiangsu Shuntian's results is also the home choice this season. Last season, Nanjing, the former home city of Jiangsu Shuntian, was renovated to meet the Youth Olympic Games, and the Wutaishan Stadium and the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, which were once the home of Sainty, were renovated and could not be played, and Sainty was forced to play in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province in the 2013 season.

These two stadiums have been repaired this season, but in order to avoid the Youth Olympic Games, if Jiangsu Shuntian chooses them as their home stadium, they may wait until the Youth Olympic Games start in the middle of the season and move to Zhenjiang to play their home stadium, so the club management of Jiangsu Shuntian has been weighing the home stadium for this season, and it was not until the start of the season that it was decided to be in Nanjing Olympic Sports Center before May, and then discuss the home site selection after entering May, which has a very big impact on the club's pre-season preparations.

After the official game, the Longteng team, which was not very good in the last game, reflected the characteristics of being stronger and stronger, and the players who were beaten by Zhang Sheng played very actively.

The Longteng team also made certain adjustments in the players in this game, and the position of McGovern, who was sent off with a red card in the last game, was replaced by Lu Zhihui, who performed very well in the back line, and Ding Huaiyi as a starter, he will be replaced by Bo.

After the start of the first half, Shuntian could still rely on the physical strength of the players who had just started to defend the attack of the Longteng team through active running, but as the game progressed, the players on the field of the Longteng team slowly discovered the shortcomings of Jiangsu Shuntian.

As the head coach of Beijing Jingguoan last season, as the direct head of the first team, the first two of the three extremely challenging goals of "the top three in the league, the AFC Champions League qualification, and the FA Cup final" were completed, and Stano can be said to have done a good job, but in the end he was dismissed by Beijing Jingguoan. Now that he has come to Jiangsu Shuntian, he also wants to prove himself again.

Stano's football tactical system is characterized by defense first, counter-attack first, fast break first, and does not seek possession. As the opponent of the 1/4 finals of the FA Cup last season, Zhang Sheng and Stano have played each other, and Zhang Sheng has won a suppressive victory in terms of tactics and player strength.

So this time when facing Stano again, both Zhang Sheng and the players of the team seem to be very confident, in the face of the pressure of the Sainty players, the players of the Longteng team played their passing and receiving cooperation to the extreme, although the players of Sainty were very active, but there was not much effect.

In the 28th minute of the first half, the Longteng team relied on Ding Huaiyi's left breakthrough to send a pass to Pato, and Pato did not waste this pass and put the ball into the goal, and the Longteng team led 0:1.

Liu Jiayuan, who was in charge of the commentary, also praised this goal hit: "Although the last pass was Ding Huaiyi, and the goal was Pato, but before this pass and goal, the Longteng team passed more than a dozen feet in a row in the front court, and the Longteng team attracted the defensive center of gravity of Shuntian from the right side to the left side, and then from the left side to the right side, and then gave Ding Huaiyi a chance to break through one-on-one, once a player like Ding Huaiyi was given a one-on-one opportunity, Ding Huaiyi's breakthrough and pass were too threatening. As for Pato, in the face of Ding Huaiyi's pass, he only needs to run to the position where he should run, and such an opportunity is too simple for Pato. ”

After scoring this goal, the Longteng team, which had been attacking for a long time, slowed down the pace of the attack slightly, and the Sainty team only had a certain respite after this, and the players could also attack, but they did not have much offensive discipline in the frontcourt, Antar is a midfielder player, but his offense is far better than his defense, and Dejan is also a player who likes to retreat out of the penalty area to organize the ball, both of them want to organize, but no one can organize it, as for Elias who is at the front, he is fierce, but it is useless, everyone can only see his many mistakes in receiving the ball, failing to pass, and shooting off, and then after every failure, he slapped his hands with a look of regret to vent his emotions, so that many fans gave him the nickname "Patting Demon".

After easily resisting this round of onslaught from the Shuntian team, the Longteng team once again counterattacked, this time the breakthrough point of the Longteng team was placed on the right side. After using the midfielder's many passes, the defensive gap of Shuntian was once again exposed, Mahrez received a pass in the right corner of the penalty area, and faced the left fullback Ren Hang of Shuntian alone, he used his skills to form a technical knockdown on Ren Hang, Ren Hang's center of gravity was completely shaken, and Mahrez who entered the penalty area faced the defending central defender Ederson did not shoot but passed to the middle, because Pato was stared at very dead, the ball was received by Wen Kai, but Wen Kai's shooting ability was indeed not as superb as Pato, a basically empty opportunity was kicked by him on the goal frame, and the Sainty team also escaped。

Shuntian's goalkeeper Deng Xiaofei had already given up this save, and after seeing the ball bounce on the goal frame and fly out of the field in horror, he complained to his teammates a little angrily: "Marking people, how can it be so simple to let others enter the penalty area to pass the ball." ”

But whether it is a fullback or a central defender, they are a little helpless about this ball, and everyone knows that this kind of defense makes Deng Xiaofei difficult to do, but unfortunately it is not that everyone does not work hard, but it is really that this offensive method of the Longteng team is too difficult to defend.

Liu Jiayuan also said: "It is difficult for Shuntian to adapt to this offensive method of the Longteng team, there have been many leaks in the defense, and there is no good defense for the explosion points of the left and right sides of the Longteng team. If the defensive problems are not solved, the next dozens of minutes will be very difficult. Stano's defensive tactics have always been a mix of zone and man-to-man defense, but it doesn't seem to be working well right now. ”

Liu Jiayuan's defensive style of Stano is a more popular defensive style now.

Now the most advanced in international football should be the pressing counter-robbery, but the pressing counter-robbery not only requires the collective movement of the team, but also requires the formation and position cooperation before the counter-robbery, so to a certain extent, the pressing anti-robbery is often regarded as a mental behavior. Because if you don't react immediately when your teammates lose the ball, you will miss the opportunity to press back.

Whether by instinct or through training, players must immediately counter-attack after conceding a goal. Often, successful counter-robberies are a combination of training, mentality, and personality.

However, the tactical arrangement also plays a role. No matter how quickly a team throws in a counter-attack or how strong the counter-attack is after losing the ball, only when each player is in the right position in the formation can the counter-attack be successful.

Therefore, the coach can arrange this tactic before the game, where the players should stand more tightly on the court, and where they can spread out a little. Through these arrangements, you can set up defenses against the opponent's strengths and weaknesses.

Unfortunately, such tactics have high requirements for players' physical fitness, technical ability, off-ball running, ball quotient, and positional sense, and it is difficult for a team to achieve the effect of pressing defense if it does not have a large group of high-level players.

However, in terms of the basic way of defense, the pressing defense is just an upgrade of the two traditional defensive styles, which are man-to-man defense and zone defense.

With the continuous development and progress of football tactics, it has gradually evolved into two ways of overall man-to-man and individual man-to-man defense, and has evolved from the very beginning of absolute man-to-man defense to flexible man-to-man defense, space-oriented man-to-man defense, time-appropriate man-to-man defense, man-to-man defense against key players, man-to-man defense in a specific area or for a specific position, and so on.

The man-to-man defensive tactics have also changed qualitatively from the 20s to the 50s of the last century, and the man-to-man defense strategy has become one of the foundations of the most advanced oppressive defense.

As another long-established defensive tactic - zone defense, in fact, not much more advanced than man-to-man defense, the initial zone defense is almost completely different from today, the initial zone defense is obviously unorganized, and can even be said to be chaotic defense, defenders run around with opposing players, and only when they are lucky can they grab possession opportunities.

After the Italians revamped the zone defense, the effect of the zone defense was greatly enhanced. And with the improvement of players' physique, ball quotient and professionalism, the range of individual defense of players has become larger, mutual cooperation has become more tacit, and zone defense has gradually replaced man-to-man defense as the mainstream tactic. However, in this way, the area connected between the players is easier to cover, and the defensive responsibilities are sometimes unclear, which is also the biggest disadvantage of zone defense in both vertical and horizontal directions (especially vertical).

In the late 1980s, another new element was introduced into the zone defense, the so-called spatial compression. In principle, this makes the game tighter and with the help of the use of football rules such as time, space and offside, the attacking team is constantly compressed to the point where the ball is delivered.

This is also one of the ways in which pressing defense is manifested in zone defense, and has evolved into various advanced versions of position-oriented zone defense (anti-tactical position), player-oriented zone defense (player positioning), space-oriented zone defense (defense of overall formation), and possibility-oriented zone defense (anti-passing lane).

After entering the 21st century, in order to make up for the shortcomings of man-to-man and area defense, the mixed application of the two defenses has become the mainstream, such tactics have certain requirements for the player's foot technique, ball quotient, and running without the ball.

Foreign coaches like Stano always want to bring more advanced tactics to China, but unfortunately the domestic players are not enough to support their tactics, and these teams have become a sample of their "coaching failure". (To be continued.) )