When the principal of Dagang Middle School followed Teacher Gu to the lounge, the members of the Longcheng team had already come out to start warm-up training.

Not long after, Chen Xiaojian saw Mr. Gu walking towards the side of the court with five uncles, four of whom were "black-clothed judges" wearing referee uniforms, and one was wearing white sportswear.

The four referees are well understood, and the previous group stage has always been configured like this. There are two linesmen, an on-court referee and a fourth referee on the sidelines. The fourth referee plays the role of the fourth official in the professional league during the game, and is also responsible for the task of raising cards for substitutions and stoppage time. If the referee on the field has any special problems, such as injury, etc., he can also come into the field as a substitute referee.

However, Chen Xiaojian doesn't know what this white sportswear does. Although Chen Xiaojian knew about the high school league, it was not on this official website, and Chen Xiaojian did not realize that he wanted to inquire. However, Chen Xiaojian estimates that it is a third-party person or something.

After the competition began, Chen Xiaojian knew that the white-clad man was a statistician sent by the organizing committee.

Yes, with the deepening of the high school league schedule, when it came to the provincial qualifiers, the game began to introduce a live broadcast and broadcast system, and a data statistics system was also introduced.

Of course, there is no way to compare the data statistics system mentioned here with the professional league, after all, there is only one person, and the statistical data items are not very complete, only some items that are easier to count. But even that's a lot better than the previous group stage, and a lot of times, things like that, can't be too demanding.

Reminded by the fourth referee, the game time was approaching, and the players of both teams finished their warm-up and returned to their respective locker rooms to make final preparations.

After the trimmings, the players from both teams returned to the pitch. Chen Xiaojian and the head coach of the Longcheng team handed over the game list of both sides to the fourth referee, and then the two sides shook hands and returned to their respective command areas.

The head coach of the Dragon City team really looked like he had seen the world, and when the players were curious about the lack of a classmate from the Dagang team on the sidelines, as the head coach, he did not show the slightest surprise. It was as if he had expected it.

Chen Xiaojian also secretly admired it in his eyes, Chen Xiaojian naturally wouldn't believe that he could calculate this step. After all, if it is a weak team, then there may be no spectators on the scene, but the Dagang team is the team that eliminated the Yan Squadron and the First Squadron and entered the qualifiers. There was no one to cheer for such a team, which was naturally beyond his expectations.

It's just that as a manager, I've long been used to hiding my true thoughts in my heart. The emotions he showed were just emotions he wanted to convey.

Under the leadership of the referee, players from both sides lined up to enter. Chen Xiaojian is still the old rule, and the discharge is a 4-2-3-1 formation, although it is said to be a home game, but it is no different from the third field, and the opponent is still a strong player in Jiangnan Province, so naturally he will not be careless. Therefore, Chen Xiaojian discharged such a stable formation.

The Dragon City team discharged a relatively standard 4-3-3 formation, and the reason why it is more standard is because the Dragon City team does not use a three-striker formation, but a single forward and double striker formation. Three central forwards, one midfielder, two forwards. This formation is definitely one where the middle is king. Although it seems to be more offensive, it is actually a relatively stable formation.

Just like Jose Mourinho's Chelsea in the first phase, the iron-blooded Blues did not rely on defensive counterattacks in the strict sense of the word, but relied on their almost the best European muscular midfield, and they were not weak in the multi-legged competition with the peak Barcelona, and Stamford Bridge was known as the cemetery of giants.

That's the middle lane is king.

Neither team is pursuing the kind of high-pressing, multi-layered tactics. It's more about the pursuit of scene control and counter-control, suppression and anti-suppression.

In other words, this game is not about who is more capable of attacking, but who does not make mistakes defensively.

Defending doesn't mean just stacking up defenders, defense requires corresponding tactics or systems.

It is absolutely a lie to say that Chen Xiaojian can adjust the defensive system of the Dagang team. Chen Xiaojian is not a top manager who can build a system, and there is no time for Chen Xiaojian to do so. Chen Xiaojian actually relies more on special defensive tactics to check and balance.

Although the Longcheng team is said to be the top team in Jiangnan Province, it does not mean that the so-called system can be established casually, after all, it takes one of the most basic things to establish a system, which is time.

And as a team made up of high school students, what they lack most is time. With players barely playing in two tournaments at most, no one has the patience to build a system.

After all, you can't call players from the first year of high school and then bring such a group of players to the second year of high school. The same group of players played for two years and may barely be able to. But what to do when the third year comes? That group of players are all in their third year of high school, and almost all the players have to start preparing for the college entrance examination, so they can only start to select again from the beginning of high school.

In this way, in fact, a two-year cycle is formed, and the first year is basically bound to be wasted, and all hope is pinned on the outbreak of the second year. But what if it doesn't break out? Then two years of time will be wasted. It's two years, not two days, and two-thirds of a high school career.

So, in high school leagues, no team has a mature system, whether it's offensive or defensive. In fact, like Chen Xiaojian, they also rely on corresponding tactical adjustments to carry out targeted tactics, either offensive or defensive.

After the start of the game, the two teams collided. The Dagang team pays attention to multi-level defense, and mainly relies on two back midfielders to do the frontal defense in the middle.

Therefore, comparatively speaking, although the two teams are on the field, neither can have a clear upper hand. But the fire of war burned more in the half of the Dagang team, because while Chen Xiaojian paid attention to the thickness of the defense, the midfield offensive pressure of the Longcheng team was also very layered.

For a while, the two teams were inextricably linked in the midfield. Both sides have invested a lot of personnel in the midfield, the Dagang team is a double back plus a front waist and a double striker to defend, and the Dragon City team is a three central defender plus a single forward midfielder, and then a second striker who retreats to get the ball.

So, for both teams, except for the four defenders who stood up the line and the center forward who was in front, the other players were stacked together.

Ten players were huddled together, all crowded in a distance between the 30-meter line and the midfield line of the Dagang team. It's really a lot of people, a lot of mistakes, and a lot of fouls.