After the Spanish team meeting was disbanded, Bosque left Casillas behind to say that he had something to say to the captain. When everyone was gone, Bosque turned around and saw Cassie sitting there with a stiff back, and went over and patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, relax." "I went out of my way to get Cassie a bottle of water.

Cassie took the bottle of water in his hand and waited for Bosque's lecture, knowing that he was incompetent for the captain of the national team today. Bosque sat beside him and was silent for a long time before he spoke, "It's hard to strike a perfect balance between the national team and the club, that's a fact. You're not doing anything wrong today, and to be honest, even though I had the same intentions, even I have to wonder if Kars had his own intentions in saying this. You see, I'm a national team manager who thinks like that, and you don't have to be burdened... But it looks like you're not just worried about that. ”

"You don't know him, no, no, I don't mean Kars, I mean you don't know Fran the man. Cassie unscrewed the water bottle, but didn't drink it but just played with the cap, and when he realized what he had said, Cassie paused and rubbed his face and stood up, "... It's okay, it's that I'm thinking too much. "I hope he's thinking too much.

"Igor," Bosque called to him, looking back at Cassie for a few seconds and waving his hand, "It's okay, let's go back." ”

When Casillas returned to the dormitory, he opened the door and saw Ramos and Alonso lying on his bed barefoot, he could clearly feel the green tendons on his forehead jumping, "Lie on your own bed!" Ramos saw that Cassie was obviously angry, and obediently led Alonso to lie on his bed next to him.

"What did the coach say about you, you want to make peace with the Barcelona people in the national team?" Ramos patted the pillow behind him to adjust a comfortable position and leaned against it, yawning heavily. Seeing that he was so comfortable, Alonso patted Ramos on the stomach and simply pillowed on his stomach.

Looking at the relaxed appearance of the two people, Casillas took several deep breaths before calming his breath, "No, the coach mainly told me not to think too much." "There's no need to think too much about it, how can a Barcelona man be the captain of the national team. Alonso of the Basque Country raised his eyes slightly, glanced at Ramos of Andalusia, complained about Puyol of Catalonia, and said casually, "At least he didn't really think that Villa alone could break through the Swedish defense... You didn't say anything else?"

"What can I say, I can say that kid has a good temper, but if he's really angry, he can do anything bastard?" Cassie snorted, Ramos was a little curious, "Seriously, it's rare for me to be angry when he's angry, what does it look like to be angry?"

“... Who would think he wouldn't see what we were going to do? When he's angry, he'll be able to do something that will wipe out Villa or Torres completely. ”

When Ramos and Alonso said this, they looked at each other, both surprised that Cassie would be so angry, and surprised by the Fran who would shovel the striker in Casey's mouth. Ramos whispered, "I've never heard of him tackling anyone," Alonso pouted, indicating that he didn't know either.

"It's not the worst guess. Casillas let out a long sigh and threw himself right on the bed. He seems to have a soft and collapsed temperament, who knows what will happen when the jar is really broken?

"I believe he's going to be forced to fight, but he's not going to use his skills to ruin someone else's career. Ramos retorted, Alonso saw that Ramos's rebuttal was too blunt, and hurriedly eased the atmosphere, "Igor, you think too much, you just think this arrangement is too sorry for him, we all understand." ”

Not really.

Fran seems to be a little lazy and a little shrewd at first glance, and sometimes he is even full of 'Oh, it's good to stay like this'. However, in his bones, he is clearly stubborn to death, and once he really decides something, he is stubborn to the point of fighting for his life to achieve his goal.

Casillas knew that this was the reason for his concern, Spain had a clear advantage, so it was enough to just play it neatly. But now this decision obviously makes the otherwise obvious result confusing.

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The match between Spain and Sweden is the latest round of quarter-finals. The Netherlands, Uruguay and Germany have already qualified and are waiting for the winner between Spain and Sweden.

It is generally believed in Sweden that the national team's breakthrough in the quarterfinals this time has already completed the mission goal, and how far it can go can be regarded as earned. It may be that the previous head coach and the vice-captain were too successful in relaxing the players, so that even the vast majority of the players in the Swedish team are particularly open-minded, and it is a joy to win against Spain, and there is no shame in losing to Spain.

Lagerbeck himself felt tired when he looked at this group of players who seemed to have no desire, and Fran was still there desperately trying to ease the emotions of his little teammates, so that the head coach wanted to kick them over, "Don't relieve them of psychological pressure, these people are going to the sky with ease, you have achieved your goal, right?" As a result, none of the people who were reprimanded by him relented, but everyone cheered at Lagerbeck.

Adhering to the truth that out of sight and out of mind, Lagerbeck took the penalty shoot-out list and began to scribble, writing his name on the first place to take the penalty in front of Fran. Unexpectedly, Fran's struggle did not come, and the man looked at the manager with a strange gaze of 'I watched him die but didn't want to stop it', "Tut-tut, good, I'm first, you're happy." ”

... Oh, it's not interesting if you don't struggle!" Lagerbeck meditated.

As if to see Lagerbeck's mind clearly, Forlan rushed two or three small teammates around him to the door of the locker room, and then turned back to Lagerbeck and said with a smile, "Igor's skill in sealing penalties, even if you let Zlatan play the first position, it is no different from me." "It's probably going to be saved anyway, maybe it's more likely that I'll kick it blindly.

As Forlan walked to the players' tunnel, he felt that the Spanish side was constantly looking at him with what he thought was unnoticed. Fran felt that this scene was somewhat familiar, and it was the same when Barcelona made a fuss about himself, "Hey, hey, hey, you're going to be miserable", for fear that others wouldn't know. He had some idea in his mind, but he didn't know what the gang was really going to do, so Alonso came over to him and hugged him, trying to arouse Fran's sense of teammate.

To be honest, after Igor said those words, he panicked himself, the only Real Madrid man in the midfield.

Players from both sides lined up, Sweden did not have many options, and the squad had already been thoroughly studied in the second half of the World Cup, and it was certainly impossible for Lagerbeck to choose not to let Ibrahimovic or Forlan not play. On the Spanish side, the goalkeeper position in the starting lineup is Casillas, who has no suspense, the defenders Puyol, Pique, and Ramos are lined up, the midfielders Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso, Basquets and David Silva are full of talent, and the top of the forward line is Villa and Torres.

"Spain are in a 3-5-2 line-up, and it looks like Bosque has not opted for a conservative style of play, and the back three also have the ability to cut forward on the sideline, and the attacking intention is clear. "The commentary silently swallowed back, 'Spain really doesn't take the Swedish team's forward line in their eyes'.

A few years ago, when Forlan wasn't mature enough to prop up a backline, Sweden's Ibrahimovic, Ljungberg and Larsson had a squad that could play against any team. The Swedish team, which is now taught by Lagerbeck to 'defence first', has a stable back that they are proud of, but because of the excessive weakness of the midfield, they cannot provide much support for the forward line led by Ibrahimovic.

"Spain are going to play directly in midfield. "Looking at the smooth ball control style of Spain, who dominated the midfield at the beginning of the first game, people already think that they have touched the strategic intention of Spain's game. It turns out that what people really don't look down on is not the striker, but the midfield.

Spain have a firm grip on the tempo in the hands of a few rhythm masters in the midfield, much like Fran's disgusting Barcelona's tiki-taka, which includes both passing and pressing. The formation of the whole team is highly pressed to the opponent's half, even if the ball is lost, it can immediately be on the spot to collectively counter high, relying on the player's running awareness and physical strength to cut the opponent's passing line, complete the monopoly of the ball and offensive rhythm, and replace the defense with grabbing.

This system uses passing, not dribbling. In a short pass, players need to form a passing triangle, and the ball carrier has two receivers next to him to pass the ball, and if there are more triangles, it means that there are more receivers around him. Triangles can be extended, and when a player receives the ball, other teammates need to approach quickly to form another triangle, so that there is no less than one passing option when the defender is pressing, and the possibility of conceding the ball is reduced.

The Spanish midfielder pushed forward slowly, but it looked like he was just passing the ball for the sake of passing, and there was no intention of attacking. The Swedish midfielder tried to make a save, but it failed in a delicate pass from Spain. However, Lagerbeck had told everyone before the game that this was possible, and Spain always controlled the tempo of the game in this way at the beginning, but they only had to reveal their attacking intentions. On the one hand, he did what Mourinho did with Inter Milan to win over Barcelona, forcibly disrupting Barcelona's defensive triangle, and on the other hand, he was patient and took the initiative away when Spain couldn't resist attacking.

"Spain is not Barcelona after all, Bosque has played this tactic well in the national team, but after all, not everyone in the midfield can fit into this system. The longer you use this set, the easier it is to spot the holes, and when Spain relax a little bit after the opening, that's our chance to attack. Ragbeck said this, too, taking inspiration from Ibrahimovic. There will be no doubt about Ibrahimovic's excellence, and the -taka is different from the rest of the system, not only the players cooperate with each other, but also the whole player serves the system as a whole. It's hard to fit in with a player with a lot of individual ability like Ibrahimovic, so how can it be so easy for the Spanish internationals other than Barcelona to fully master the routine?

After all, the pros and cons of the "False Nine" have always been questionable, and the "Passing Triangle" is not so easy to achieve. But this is something that Lagerbeck thought of, and Bosque, who knows the Spanish team best, could not have thought of it?

Bosque on the sidelines made an offensive gesture, and in order to facilitate the attack, the previously stable passing triangle opened up the space and dispersed. Forlan, who was familiar with this attacking method, was vigilant at the first time, but the scattered Spain did not choose to attack as Forlan expected, but switched from short passes to mid-area passes.

Seeing Xavi's next move to pass to Silva, Forlan vaguely felt a little strange, this distance Xavi shouldn't be so slow, this is almost sending the ball to his feet. He subconsciously slowed his pace, and the strange feeling became more and more obvious when he saw Silva receiving the ball and then falling back to Alonso.

Ragbeck on the sidelines frowned, he didn't understand why Forlan temporarily changed his mind to steal, but he could also see that it was not Fran's mistake, but he had his own ideas.

Alonso no longer moved the ball and began to slowly push forward with the ball, and the forwards who were hidden behind him were ready. Alonso ran sideways along the edge of the box, with Xavi next to him and the Swedish left wing-back had to defend himself. Alonso, on the other hand, struck the ball with the outside of his foot and flew the ball straight away, cutting over the left wing-back's head and falling backwards. Villa immediately burst out, Alonso's pass was extremely hidden, it was an excellent anti-offside opportunity, but it was a pity that Forlan took the first step to find a good landing point and showed a perfect chest stop.

Seeing Forlan successfully intercept the ball, more than 10,000 Swedish fans who were present broke out into a burst of cheers, mixed with the hoop of the South African fans. His footwork was steady and steady, and he didn't give the left and right wing-backs a touch of the line, but went straight to midfield with the ball on his own. Spain moved back cooperatively, and no one even symbolically stepped forward to grab the ball, and all returned to midfield. Forlan passed the ball to Larsson, the former captain of Sweden who had retired from the national team, and the youngster, who was a former Birmingham player who now plays for Sunderland.

Larsson's dribbling skills are very high, and after receiving the ball, he immediately chose to go straight down the left side, but unfortunately Spain returned too quickly after the last attack, and it was difficult to get down at this time, but the cross was intercepted by Puyol and re-transferred to the midfield.

The difference between the two teams is that Spain has the feeling of constantly trying to attack while passing and receiving the ball, while Sweden can't hold the ball in the midfield.

Forlan has had to be dragged out of the regular defensive area by Spain in the process of defending left and right, and quickly chased back to fill in the position when the opposing strikers took turns bombing from time to time. This time, Torres made an inward gesture with the intention of going to the bottom, but not only did not get rid of Fran, but was directly close to him. Torres was startled and wanted to get away from Fran, but his strength was not enough to match Fran, Torres's center of gravity shifted, and Fran poked the ball directly between his legs.

And this time, when he was about to pass the ball to the midfield, he found that Larsson, who had the best footwork, had been targeted, while Svensson had Andres Iniesta on his side, and Ramos was waiting for the ball to get out of Forlan's feet. Forlan didn't think it was a good idea to pass directly to Svensson, so he could only step forward to block Iniesta for Svensson, Karlstrom ran over to answer, and Forlan looked at the ball that made people feel as if he could be snatched away again in the next second, and hesitated to follow a few steps.

"He's almost in the penalty area, it's too ......" the assistant coach muttered next to him, and Lagerbeck was stunned, always wondering if there was some conspiracy in Spain. But if Forlan doesn't help the midfielder protect the ball, with Spain's crazy midfield lineup, where is Ibrahimovic so easy to get the ball to attack?

This time Sweden's attack ended when Ibrahimovic knocked on the post and bounced off, and the ball was held in the arms of Casillas, who then drove towards the Swedish half instead of handing it to the defender. Fran immediately turned around and galloped towards the base camp, and the stadium footage saw that he was very inconsistent with the overall style of painting.

Arnold Theodore sat in the press section frowning, and his peers kept questioning "Is there such a big gap between Sweden and Spain's midfield", but the truth is that even if the gap itself is not so big, the layout of the two sides seems so strong.

Bosque deliberately piled up five midfielders, three defenders also stepped forward frequently, and both forwards were not to be underestimated. Sweden have a good forward line and defence, but the midfield is really crushed and it is difficult to play a decent attack.

And watching Villa attack, retreat, pass Torres, Torres back to Alonso, Alonso is another long pass, and the football happens to be on the Villa running line......

The unlucky guy who was constantly dragged out and had to get back to his position as quickly as he could, and he rarely made up for his teammates anymore, but the Spanish team's offensive and passing adjustments were just stuck in his defensive range. That guy has never been a stingy person who will watch his opponent pass in front of him, he has always believed that the opponent is within his defensive range, and that is his duty.

When Forlan, who struggled to save the football from the baseline, took a deep breath and rushed to the midfield again, Theodore, who was a clear onlooker, was stunned, and he had probably guessed Spain's intentions.

"Spain is going crazy this time......"

Theodore's assistant was a little puzzled when he heard the senior say this, he only saw that Spain and Sweden were both constantly wasting opportunities, and even strangely felt that Spain had not used their best and still had a backhand. And the most impressive thing was to see Francisco Álvarez exhausted throughout the game.

“…… Do you know that many people think that the passing of tiki-taka is very similar to the style of a traditional Spanish bullfighter?"

The assistant nodded blankly, and saw Theodore looking at the man running in front and back and whispering, "Then do you know why Barcelona is a center for anti-bullfighting?"

The author has something to say: for the game in the early morning, I just want to say, good game, poor referee

I didn't go to Douban to post those places to deliberately find anger, anyway, it was a happy thing, but I was disgusted by the referee.

The "Bayern must-win" that has been hanging for a week can finally be removed, and I am going to put my dear Barcelona back on the top.

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