Ambrish soon made adjustments to his tactics, turning Quintero into a three-striker formation, while the other three in midfield opened up and played in three.

Such a change of formation is Ambrish's best option right now.

Because the formation of three central defenders in the face of three forwards, if you want to maintain the stability of the defense, you must withdraw the two wingbacks to deal with the opponent's three forwards, at this time the five people in the backfield to deal with the opponent's three people is safe, but in the midfield, in the forward line, that is their own four people to deal with the opponent's seven people, the team wants to gain an offensive advantage, unless your four frontcourt players are the top in the world.

And if the wing-backs are not withdrawn, the two wingers of the front three will make the team's flanks extremely empty, and the opponents in the middle will have unlimited space to shoot.

So if you let the centre-backs deal with the wingers, the result is either the door wide open in the middle or the time and space that the wingers crave.

Seeing the situation on the field, Zhang Sheng was extremely decisive, he let Pato return from the front line to the right side, Ben Arfa went to play the front midfield, Wei Zhimin played to the left midfield, and the back line also changed.

Lu Zhihui came to the left wing-back position, the central defenders were Ma Yongli and Du Zhenyu, and the right was Xiao Yunfan.

The Dragons' formation changed to a 4-2-3-1 formation, with two full-backs and two wide midfielders to deal with the two wingers.

This formation has put the attacking end of América's 4-3-3 formation into a quagmire, while the distance between the three midfielders has become very far, allowing the Longteng's two wings and midfielders to pass the ball very easily.

After all, the overall strength of the American team is still stronger than the Longteng team, and the two wingers of 4-3-3, Quintero and Benedetto, use their skills and speed advantages to make the Longteng team's left side of the defensive pressure a lot, and it is difficult for Wei Zhimin to rush to the front court to help his teammates form an attack.

And Benedetto used his one-meter-eighty-eight body to bully Xiao Yunfan, which made Xiao Yunfan's impact much weaker.

Fortunately, the Dragons have Chavez as the fulcrum in the front, and Pato and Ben Alpha are also super strong, so that the back and left midfield of the Mexican American team cannot be pressed at all.

A stalemate was formed between the two sides on the field.

He Wei also discovered the situation on the field at this time: "Both sides have changed formations, in the past ten minutes, one has become 4-3-3, and the other has become 4-2-3-1, and there are not many ways on both sides to break through the opponent's defense again." ”

"That's good for the Dragons. Xu Yang said, "Now the leading team is the Longteng team. With such a balance of power on the field, the Longteng team can slowly kill time and wait, but the opponent can't afford to wait. ”

Can't afford to wait is indeed the idea of the current Mexican América team, a strong offensive formation like 4-3-3 has no good effect, then it is really difficult, do you want to play 4-2-4?

At this time, the individual players of the Mexican América team began to decide to solve the problem with their own one-man combat.

In the twentieth minute of the first half, Paolo Aguilar, the right wing-back of the American team, assisted the front, as the main right wing-back of the Mexican national team, his ability to assist is his greatest characteristic.

This time, after Paul Aguilar got the ball in the midfield, a very light dribble made Wei Zhimin's defense useless.

Next, Paolo Aguilar faced Lu Zhihui's defense, first made a fake action to accelerate the straight line and the bottom, and then decisively sent the ball to Andrade, the defender at the back of the ribs.

For Paulo Aguilar's defense, or the defense of the two wings of the Mexican American team, Zhang Sheng gave very clear instructions before the game, that is, not to spend too much energy on their bottom crosses, to guard the gap between the full-backs and central defenders, and not to let them shoot in front of the penalty area.

So this time Lu Zhihui's defensive intention is very clear, I will give you the line of the bottom cross from the side, but I just don't give you the opportunity to cooperate in the ribs.

Paulo Aguilar's pass this time really gave the ribs.

Lu Zhihui's defense allowed Paul Aguilar to pass the ball back deeper, and Andrade was further away from the goal, but Andrade's ability was still enough.

Even when he was still 30 meters away from the goal, he still shot decisively, and the power of this shot was very strong, and the angle was very good.

It's just that because the distance was too far, the ball eventually flew out of the bottom line against the right post of the goal.

In the twenty-fifth minute of the first half, Paul Aguilar made a comeback, and this time he didn't need any feints like smashing the ball, and directly used his body to be stronger than Wei Zhimin and the advantage of being faster to eat Wei Zhimin.

Next, he faced the combination of Roque Gill and Lu Zhihui, and once again passed the ball to Benedetto who switched over, although the latter is 1.88 meters tall and looks very big, but his movements are very dexterous, facing Lin Feng's close defense of another back of the Longteng team, a light knock ball, the ball bypassed Lin Feng's defense and came to the feet of Quintero in the middle.

Quintero didn't make much of a difference and just got up and shot.

The power of this shot was very large, and although Zhou Wei pounced on the ball, he still got rid of it.

Peralta in the penalty area ran to the ball at high speed, but fortunately, Zhou Wei's second reaction was fast enough, and he pounced on the next hungry tiger after he got rid of his hand, and pressed the ball directly under him.

He Wei was also worried at this time: "The American team's offensive is very fierce now, and the continuous periphery threatens the goal of the Longteng team with long-range shots, and it is time to strengthen the protection in front of the penalty area." ”

In fact, in Zhang Sheng's view, the American team has a lot of shots like this, but the threat is not too big, and the reason why they can only shoot outside the penalty area is mainly because they can't penetrate the defense of the Longteng team, so they can only take this way from a farther away.

And such a crazy offensive style of frequently using full-backs' assists not only can't last, but there are also big holes behind the fullbacks' assists.

In the twenty-eighth minute of the first half, the Longteng team decisively found such an opportunity.

This time it was Paul Aguilar who provided the assist, but his pass was guessed by Roque Gill, who intercepted the ball halfway through and then passed it directly to Ben Arfa who was cruising to the left.

When Ben Arfa got the ball, it was a big gap after Paul Aguilar left.

Seeing Ben Alpha holding the ball in the front court, not only the players of the American team were extremely nervous, He Wei also shouted loudly: "Ben Alpha, the left side of the opposite side is empty." ”

Ben Alfa managed to attract the attention of Guerrero, the defender of the opposition midfield, who raced over to block Ben Alfa's breakthrough.

Like Paulo Aguilar's absolute advantage against Wei Zhimin before, Ben Alpha crushed Guerrero in personal strength at this time.

In the face of Guerrero's defense, Ben Alfa kept changing direction in the high-speed dribbling, and in the third change of direction, Guerrero's center of gravity was finally unstable.

Ben Alpha also picked up the speed again at the right time, completely asking Guerrero's defense.

When the last of the America's midfielders is passed, it is only their centre-backs who come out to defend.

Ben Arfa also found the right time for the opponent's central defender to come out and shot directly.

With the centre-backs out of position, the attackers of course had plenty of angles to choose from, with Ben Arfa finding the bottom left corner of the net.

In the face of Ben Alpha's shot, the opponent's goalkeeper Muñoz made a save, but his palm was still a cut short of the ball.

When Muñoz was about to give up, the ball hit the bottom left corner of the goal post and bounced into the box, Chavez tried to grab the second point, but was blocked by another central defender, Pablo Aguilar.

Eventually, Muñoz got up and held the ball under him, and the América kept the goal.

"It's really comfortable to see Ben Alpha with the ball. He Wei exclaimed, "No matter how his body moves, the football is always less than half a meter in front of him." Change of direction, change of direction again, beautiful, accelerated to get rid of. Oops kicked on the post, Chavez, alas, a step slower. The counterattack of the Longteng team is very beautiful, and what they are looking for is the rear air defense after the opponent's onslaught. ”

"It's the right way to play. Xu Yang said. "Football is all about speed now. There is a statistic that proves that in football games, the transition time between offense and defense cannot exceed eight seconds, because a team with strict tactical discipline can generally complete the transition from offense to defense within eight seconds. Ben Arfa, on the other hand, is the kind of player who has the ability to finish an attack in under eight seconds and hit a quality shot. ”

"In this team, not only Ben Arfa, but also Pato can do that. He Wei said proudly, "The American team is now in a hurry to equalize, and will leave many such opportunities for the two of them." Ben Alpha is probably too much of an angle, otherwise this shot just now would have been a must-have. ”

When Zhang Sheng was holding his head regretfully on the sidelines, Ambrish was terrified, once he scored another goal for the Longteng team, the game would be too difficult.

Amblish could only give instructions to his disciples on the court: "After losing the ball, you must fight back as soon as possible, and even if you foul, don't give the opponent a chance to play a quick counterattack." ”

Sure enough, in the 35th minute of the first half, when the fullback Samudio of the American team on the right side assisted the pass in front of the court and the pass was broken, the Longteng team handed the ball to Pato on the right side.

In the face of Pato's quick start with the ball, the American team did not follow the defense like Guerrero just now, but chose to take the initiative to foul, and Andrade directly went to Pato and pulled Pato to the ground.

The referee, Swedish whistle Eriksen, rushed directly to the scene of the incident and gave Andrade a yellow card.

At this time, Ambrish also knew that he wanted to rely on a three-striker, and the idea of two full-backs attacking was difficult to break down the opponent's defense, and the hole his team dug in the back was likely to make the opponent pose a threat to his goal again.

As a last resort, Ambrish switched from a 4-3-3 formation to a 4-1-4-1 that was similarly attacking but closer in midfield.

This change in the Mexican América team has indeed made the midfield defense more solid, but the pressure on the opposition is much less due to their own forwards.

Seeing the changes in the opponent on the field, Zhang Sheng also waved his hand, let his two fullbacks press up, give more support to the players in the midfield, and strengthen the fight with the opponent in the midfield.

Sure enough, the next battle between the two sides turned into a non-stop exchange of balls in the midfield.

The Americas relied on the better individual ability of their players to form a breakthrough, while the Dragons relied on overall defense and consistent and fast passing to stabilize the situation.

In the end, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, neither side had a decent shot on goal, and the score was fixed at 1:0.

At this time, the two commentators were also reviewing the game in the first half, and He Wei first commented: "From the first half of the game, it seems that the opponent's individual ability is stronger than us on average, but the overall tactical choice on our side is more appropriate, and it seems that Coach Zhang Sheng is very well prepared before the game." ”

"Yes. Football tactics always come first. Xu Yang also blew it to Zhang Sheng, "Coach Zhang Sheng's opening 3-5-2 formation left a deep impression on me, but the change of formation behind him was more decisive, and the opponent did not find too many ways to threaten the goal of the Longteng team." ”

'Ambrish has been very successful as a player. He Wei finally concluded, "As the captain of the strongest Mexican national team in history, he is teammates with world-class stars such as Sanchez, Blanco, and 'Flower Butterfly' Campos, and he is very famous in Mexico, but from this game, his coaching ability is not very strong." If he doesn't make tactical adjustments in the second half, it's hard to win. ”

In the locker room of the Longteng team, Zhang Sheng began to take the initiative to find loopholes in his tactical arrangement.

This loophole is also very obvious, that is Lin Feng's position.

At the beginning, the goal of the Longteng team relied on Lin Feng's organization, but then the Mexican American team quickly made arrangements, and their captain Sambuesa strengthened Lin Feng's defense, not allowing Lin Feng to easily take the ball in the front court to organize the attack, and the Longteng team's counterattack also relied on Pato and Ben Alpha on the two wings to execute.

But in football, the middle is always the focus of the attack, and the wing is not facing the goal in the right direction, so it is too difficult to score goals.

The tactical clamping of the American team against the Dragons is the same as the practice of the Dragons against Dubai Al Ahly in the AFC Champions League, and those two games proved that the single-organization core style of play will still be defeated in the end, so Zhang Sheng must change this situation.

Lin Feng was not fast enough because of his personal ability, and he couldn't make a breakthrough when holding the ball, so it was inevitable to replace him.

In terms of the choice of substitutions, Zhang Sheng chose Nie Jiang, and the intention was obvious, that is, to let Nie Jiang retreat deeply, participate in the defense, and at the same time provide speed and technical advantages in counterattacks.