When Xu Mingyu was desperately in Kadenisov's position, Li Yun did not hesitate to come up decisively to defend and poke Denisov's ball out of the sideline, turning a counterattack by the Uzbekistan team into a sideline ball that was not very threatening.

For the Uzbekistan team's sideline ball tactics, Lippi and his team have also undergone a detailed analysis.

Denisov is known as the key player of the Uzbekistan team's attack, not only for those previous characteristics, but also for a "hand" - his record for the longest distance of a strong hand throw is 41 meters!

It can be said that as long as it is a sideline ball between the front of the penalty area and the bottom line, the Uzbekistan team is dealing with it as a corner kick, which is why Lippi asked the players to try to disrupt the opponent's attack area as far away as possible from the 30-meter defensive area.

Like this time, Li Yun destroyed the ball not far from the halfway line, and no matter how powerful Denisov's unicorn arm was, he couldn't throw the ball into the penalty area here.

Even if it is reluctantly thrown into the forbidden area, it is the end of the strong crossbow - the force cannot enter the Lu Min - there is no threat.

After the Chinese team returned to defend and stood in a good position, the Uzbekistan side has lost the suddenness of the counterattack, and the positional battle is not their strong point, and finally the football was pressed back to their second half step by step, the central defender Klimetz passed the ball to the Chinese team half with a big foot, and after Du Zhenyu easily grabbed the header, the ball returned to the feet of the Chinese team again.

Uzbekistan coach Babayan stood on the sidelines with a cold face and began to find a solution to the predicament on the field.

Before the game, he also analyzed the current situation of the Chinese team with his team. China now have an advantage in the group, with seven points more than themselves and three more than South Korea, and a bigger goal difference.

It stands to reason that the Chinese team can play steadily in this game, even if the Chinese team plays like an OTTO in this game, Babayan feels that there is nothing strange about it.

However, Lippi is abnormal, the three midfielders with strong technical advantages in the midfield, the formation moves forward very strongly, and the high pressing has not dropped a trace of intensity since the opening.

It's a completely back-to-back style of play.

On the contrary, he is now four points less than South Korea, and winning this game is the top priority.

Could it be that the Chinese team got the script wrong? He was a little suspicious of himself.

In fact, according to the tactical arrangement before the game, it should be right to press in the high position by yourself, after all, the team still has masters in defense.

The team's veteran Jeparov is old and strong, and his rich experience allows him to keenly grasp the team's offensive and defensive transition nodes, directing teammates to deploy defense, and captain Akhmedov needless to say, he has already proven himself in the Russian Premier League and the Chinese Super League, both offensive and defensive.

Uzbekistan has not fallen behind and still has hopes of playing in the play-offs, finishing second in the round of 12 with an average of 48 tackles per game.

After observing the Chinese team's style of play for a few more minutes, Babayan had his own judgment: "The Chinese team obviously played the plan of scoring as early as possible, and the game had 90 minutes. On the contrary, this is our chance, and we can take the counter-attacking tactics to the extreme, stand on the defensive well, and when they have physical problems, they will immediately counterattack. ”

"Deparov. Babayan thought of a key figure, "This veteran has a sense of smell and agility on the field, and when he seizes the opponent's physical bottleneck in time, the opportunity to attack comes." ”

Thinking of this, he shouted a few words to Jeparov on the field, and then made a gesture - this is a code that the Uzbek coaching staff has long discussed before the game to let Jeparov decide when to counterattack.

How the opponent adjusts his tactics will have no impact on Lippi for the time being. The coach is very confident in his own tactics, and when the media interviewed him before the game, he repeatedly emphasized: "No matter what the opponent is, we will adopt the tactics of focusing on me." ”

In fact, the players on the field performed very well, for example, in the 19th minute of the first half, China played another extremely beautiful attack.

It was the defender Xu Mingyu who initiated this attack.

As the point of the Chinese team's midfielder in this game, Xu Mingyu pressed higher with the team's formation. With good foot skills and passing and receiving ability, he observed the real-time situation of the Uzbekistan team's defensive formation, while constantly passing the ball horizontally with the left and right fullbacks and Li Yun, who was not far behind.

His purpose in doing this is to pull the opponent's defensive center of gravity by constantly passing the ball and disrupt the opponent's overall defensive formation.

The game was less than 20 minutes, and the players of the Uzbekistan team were at their peak in terms of concentration and physical fitness, and Xu Mingyu's pulling effect was not great.

Just when Xu Mingyu was a little disturbed by the opponent's conservative play, Ding Huaiyi took the initiative to run over and ask for the ball.

After all, they are old teammates and people who play in Europe, Xu Mingyu immediately understood and began to press towards the left side where Ding Huaiyi was.

The left side of the Chinese team's starting line is Li Xuepeng, Ding Huaiyi and Qin Minghao.

The latter two are Chinese players who play in Europe, and they are players who often play in the Europa League and Champions League-level games, Uzbekistan has long believed that the Chinese team will attack the left side, and Li Xuepeng has also shown the Uzbek side what it means to be reckless and unstoppable.

So when Xu Mingyu also began to press forward to the left side, Uzbekistan thought that the Chinese team was going to attack the left side. However, the actual situation is that when Xu Mingyu took away Jeparov, who had been harassing him, Ding Huaiyi suddenly stabbed diagonally to the middle of the road.

Xu Mingyu and Jeparov gave up the territory to Ding Huaiyi. His pace immediately picked up, and one of the opponent's midfielders, Bikmaev, was not slow to come up at all.

The problem is that he didn't expect Ding Huaiyi's next move. The latter's forward dribble turned the ball with his right foot into a horizontal one, and then his body deftly avoided the rushing action of Bikmaev's upper grab, and then his left foot seamlessly connected with the dialed ball, and he broke forward sideways.

It's a beautiful and practical croquette.

Ding Huaiyi, who had passed by, did not wait for the surprise on Bikmayev's face to disappear, and directly picked up a pass that everyone didn't expect to pick up the penalty area, and Qin Minghao had already turned around and entered the forbidden area at this time.

As early as when Ding Huaiyi began to pass, Qin Minghao had already run to the position of the ribs between the right wingback and the right central defender of Uzbekistan.

4. The defensive system of the back, the defense of the ribs has always been a big problem, and the defense of the two ribs usually relies on two midfielders to fill the position, otherwise if these two holes are poked, it is really cool.

Now the midfielders on the right side of Uzbekistan have been attracted away by Xu Mingyu and Li Xuepeng, and the back waist Bikmaev has been grabbed again, and Qin Minghao's threat to the ribs is greater.

Qin Minghao is also a thief in his running position, he is not standing still in this position, but leaning sideways to start rushing into the penalty area, and when Uzbekistan's right fullback and right central defender pressed forward to create offside, he suddenly ran back, and Uzbekistan's offside failed.

At this moment, Ding Huaiyi keenly seized the opportunity, did not take one more step to bring the ball, but lightly picked up the pass to the penalty area, and Qin Minghao also turned forward again after running back.

It was a beautiful anti-offside attack.

"Qin Minghao, knock on the door!", Huang Jianxiang and Su Dong called out almost at the same time.

"Oh! Huang Jianxiang couldn't wait to go up and kick the ball in at this time.

Babayan was taken aback on the sidelines at this point, and it can be said that the team's goalkeeper saved himself once.

He's a little stumped.

The reason is that many of the players on the team have accumulated yellow cards on the team, this is not the last game of the Uzbekistan round of 12, and the last home game against South Korea is the final decisive battle.

But now it seems that the players' fouls should be more aggressive, and they can't let the situation of passing people like Ding Huaiyi appear easily, and the necessary fouls are needed.

With Babayan's big hand, the players on the field were more engaged, the confrontation of the game became greater, and the offensive rhythm of the Chinese team was repeatedly interrupted.

As the captain, Li Yun had to remind the referee again and again, and received a certain effect.

For example, in the 27th minute, the referee decided that the away goalkeeper Nesterov was suspected of delaying time, and immediately pulled out a yellow card to him.

Especially in the 31st minute, Ding Huaiyi took the ball on the bottom line. He suddenly changed his move in the process of smashing the ball with his left foot, turning the inside instep like a right kickback, and in a flash of light, he completed two touches of the outside and inside instep, and got rid of the opponent's frontal defense.

This is a passing action that belongs to Ding Huaiyi's signature style of flicking the tail of the ox, and suddenly the fans in the audience burst into cheers, especially some female fans, such as Chen Jiangfeng's girlfriend screamed: "Ding Luo!!"

Ding Luo belongs to the nickname given to Ding Huaiyi by Longteng fans.

But then, when Ding Huaiyi was cheering from the fans and preparing to go all the way into the penalty area, the cheers stopped abruptly, and the right forward Shukurov, who was filling in the position on the Uzbek side, came over and blocked Ding Huaiyi fiercely.

Ding Huaiyi's physical confrontation was not an advantage after all, and he was knocked down by the other party.

Li Yun will not be so easy to talk this time, as the captain, it will be better if he does not go up to fight for the interests of his teammates and the team at this time.

"It's a foul. It's a penalty. Li Yun complained to the referee with a very excited expression, of course, a large part of this emotion is pretended.

He could see that although Ding Huaiyi was grinning, he knew that this foul was purely a foul to block and hit people, and it didn't hurt him.

The referee saw it very clearly and said directly: "No, outside the penalty area." ”

often ask for the top and get it, and ask for it and get the bottom, Li Yun didn't get the penalty, but let the referee give Shukurov a yellow card.

As the flower wheelchair worshipper of Wei Shihao in later generations, Shukurov's plea was invalid for a long time, but he was warned by the referee that if there was such a foul again, he would not hesitate to take out the card again. Shukurov could only accept.

Shukurov's yellow card seems to have become a node, more than 30 minutes of high-level pressing, the Chinese team's physical fitness is a little unable to maintain such a rhythm, and the game has slowed down slightly.

After all, although it has entered early autumn, the temperature in Jiangcheng is still high under the influence of the autumn tiger, such as the training of the national football team in the past few days is carried out in a high temperature of 35 degrees.

Most of the national football players are already sweating.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Uzbekistan slightly pressed out the formation and organized several attacks. The problem is that the offensive intensity of the Chinese team is down, and the defensive intensity is still there, and most of the former's offense ends with a long-range shot in the form of a peripheral prize.

The only time they threatened the Chinese goal came from a corner, when striker Sergeyev's header went wide of the post.

Several successive attacks, although not threatening, gave the Uzbek players an illusion that the Chinese team was no longer physically fit enough at the end of the first half.

The actual situation is that in the tactical training in the past few days, Lippi specially told him to take advantage of the relatively young average age of the starters of the Chinese team in this game, and launch a wave of strong attacks in the last five minutes of the second half, and the advantages of the home game should be brought into full play as much as possible.

From the 40th minute of the first half, the Chinese team suddenly had to raise the rhythm again.

In the forty-first minute, Zhang Linpeng exerted his strength on the right side.

In view of the fact that Uzbekistan's attack is seriously "left-leaning", the Chinese team prepared a tactical drill to attack their left side before the game, taking advantage of the gap behind their left-back Denisov after the assist.

After the triangle defensive formation of Zhang Linpeng, Xu Mingyu and Du Zhenyu teamed up to cut off the pass of the opponent's left midfielder Shomurodov, Zhang Moss rushed up.

There is still a difference between Zhang Linpeng in this time and space and reality.

Although he has played in low-level leagues such as Serie C and Serie B, it is not easy to gain a firm foothold abroad, and he has always maintained a good form.

Coach Lippi told him to go ahead, and in the early days of this game, he was not deeply involved in the attack much, and now it was finally time for him to have fun.

Shomurodov and Denisov both attacked, and after seeing Zhang Linpeng's counterattack, the veteran Jeparov hurriedly came over to fill the position, but the 35-year-old couldn't catch up with Zhang Linpeng after more than 40 minutes of high-intensity confrontation.

Akhmedov, who was the big midfielder, came to face it hard.

The problem is that Zhang Linpeng also knows that Akhmedov's defense is strong, he didn't give him a chance to be close at all, and directly sent the ball to Wu Lei's feet, and he slipped along the sideline to the bottom of the line, forcing the opponent to have someone to follow him and reduce Wu Lei's defensive pressure.

Akhmedov was a little desperate at this time, as a club teammate who got along day and night, he knew how strong Wu Lei's explosive power was at that moment after the first touch of the ball, and he wanted to run over to prevent him, and his only chance was to quickly recycle to the inside line to block Wu Lei's shot, hoping to curb Wu Lei's shooting rate by reducing Wu Lei's shooting angle.