Chapter 51 World Cup China VS Spain II
"Which game are you watching, Dominguez?"
"Spain and China. (Baidu search 4G Chinese network update faster)"
It was in the hotel where the Brazilian team was staying, and Dominguez was watching the game in his room, when another member of the Brazilian team knocked on his door, as if to invite him to play games with everyone, to do something that would allow them to spend a long month of barely being able to play games and training.
But when the Brazilian player entered Dominguez's room, he found that his national team teammate was watching a World Cup match.
"Spain and China?" The Dominguez national team teammate was obviously surprised to hear such a strange, non-focus battle, but then said, "Ah, I remember, I remember that the second round of that group was both upsets, right?" ”
"Yes. And the managers of both teams are also very good, and it will be interesting to see their tactics and on-the-spot adaptation. ”
"Tell me?"
"The Spanish team cut off the Chinese team in the middle and used the principle of space on the court to maximize their own space when attacking, which allowed them to complete their multi-point flowering tactics more smoothly. But now, the Chinese team simply abandoned their middle during a counter-attack, and the attack went completely to both sides. The midfielders moved to both sides, and they took the initiative to hand over all the control of the midfield to the Spanish team. ”
"That sounds ...... It's incredible. ”
"Yes, maybe only the Brazilians could come up with such a whimsical tactic. But now it seems, it works. ”
Even when Dominguez said this, the TV set, which had been turned down by Domingos before, still shouted excitedly from the South American narrator.
“garrincha!!!”
Almost as soon as he heard the name, Dominguez knew that his former club team-mate must have launched a dangerous attack on the right flank. So he asked his national team teammates with his eyes, are you really not watching with him for a while?
Lei Yi was selected by the South American sports media to be one of the top ten demons active in South American football this year, and was ranked first among the top ten demons.
Perhaps, Thunder Wing has already told people in this round of attacks why he has such a high opinion in South America when he has just turned seventeen.
If there is a type of person in football who can single-handedly put on the kind of attack that can almost completely turn the game around for dozens of minutes of a game, then ...... Lei Yi must be one of the best people in this category.
After the Chinese team handed over control of the midfield, their strength on the field and their offensive line seemed to take on the shape of an olive. After seizing the opportunity to counterattack, Yerti in the backcourt handed the ball directly to Thunder Wing, and then ...... This is the beginning of the solo show that belongs to the long and short legs.
Having abandoned the midfield, Cheng Chuan and Wei Lin's areas of activity moved as close to the side as possible, and used their own running positions to support Lei Yi's attack on the wing, and also blocked the interference from the Spanish team as much as possible for the Chinese team's wide striker.
Here it comes!
The main scorer of the Chinese team, right winger Garrincha!
At this moment, the head coach of the Spanish team stood up from his own dugout and walked to the sidelines without slowing down. He seemed to want to see how some of the Chinese team's leading scorers were attacking the penalty area of his team from the wing with the ball.
It's not just a confrontation between the 22 players on the pitch, it's also a game between the two managers.
Because the Chinese team gave up the middle and completely used the two sides as the main positions for their own attack on the Spanish team, the diamond-shaped midfield of the Spanish team had to be lengthened to both sides to the greatest extent.
Spain's two midfielders and a striker on the front trident were involved in the defence this time. I never thought that Lei Yi would stop and change direction when the other party only gave a very small gap!! This boy with long and short legs did not follow the path that the Spanish team members gave him!!
He turned backwards!
At this point he was very close to the Spanish team's penalty area!!
With a seemingly casual action at his feet, Lei Yi successfully dialed the ball to the middle!! Shen Tianhai, who rushed forward, made a slight movement at his feet, and let the ball continue to go to the left side.
The ball was passed to the feet of left winger Chirenima!!
When approaching the Spanish team's penalty area, the Chinese team, which gave up a large area in the middle of the midfield line before and after the midfield line, once again completed the cooperation of the two wings!!
But that's not all!
After taking the ball forward for two more steps, Chirenima was about to shoot towards the Spanish goal! But! He finally finished the ...... But it's a pass!! He handed the ball back to the initiator of this round of attack, Thunder Wing!!
It's really a beautiful pass between the two wings!!
When Chi Rinima initiated that pass, the head coach of the Spanish team had a very shallow and meaningful smile on his face.
"Shot !!!!!!"
Accompanied by the excited shouts of the football commentator, all the fans who watched the game in front of the TV saw the close-up of Lei Yi's shot from the cameras at the scene.
It was a shot of great quality! It seems to be light and not fast, but because of Lei Yi's footwork, the special spin of the ball directly beat the goalkeeper of the Spanish team to lose his temper. However, just as Ray was about to take off his shirt for a frantic celebration, he saw the linesman's signal that the goal was invalid.
The linesman signalled that the goal was invalidated because Ray Wing was offside before he could finish his shot.
"The more the offside, the offside first?"
Lei Yi, who repeated this sentence, looked a little confused, and he pulled up the official jersey of the Chinese team that he wore outside, revealing that the back of the jersey inside was half covered from the side waist to the back, but now the jersey has been half taken off, and the goal that made him feel happy was not declared invalid.
It was only by this time that the smile on the face of the Spanish coach deepened.
Yes, offside, of course Garrincha will be offside.
Because, after he conducted an in-depth study of the current Chinese team, he formulated a strict offside tactic for the Spanish team.
The goalkeeper of this Spanish team may not be very strong. But the three centre-backs were a reassuring sight to the Spanish manager. Especially...... It's Laporte in the three central defenders. The Portuguese, who now plays for Juventus in Serie A, has a deep understanding of the essence of Italian defence. He may not be able to build an Italian chain of defense in the Spanish national team, but he is a true master of offside. In addition, he is able to direct and coordinate two central defenders other than him to play offside tactics at the right and necessary time.
When he determines that one of the attacking players is going to give the ball to another player who is likely to shoot, he directs the other two centre-backs to move in the same direction and puts the attacking goalscorer who is most likely to receive the pass closer to the goal than the last of them.
In this way, his offside was successful.
The offside rules that are now in use, in a sense, which greatly contributed to the development of modern football, were indeed formulated and established in 1925. In this regard, there is no difference between the two major symbols in the history of Brazilian football, Garrincha and Pele, who were active in football. But after more than half a century of evolution, today's football is very different from the football of that era.
For example, in the days when Garrincha and Pele were active on the pitch, the strikers were not protected from yellow and red cards.
For example, starting with the chain defense in Italy, football has created new defensive tactics from generation to generation.
Create offside tactics.
This was clearly an area that no one had touched at all in those days.
Moreover, such defensive tactics are not prevalent in South America, which advocates offense.
So when Lei Yi encountered such defensive tactics for the first time, he was stunned.
And the Chinese fans who came to the scene were almost cheering, but they couldn't wait for the score change on the large scoreboard in the stadium. So the fans, who couldn't figure out the situation at all, grabbed the people around them and anxiously asked what happened to the ball, whether it went in or not!!
Many of the fans watching the televised broadcast were frustrated by the offside goal, of course...... There will also be many people who are relieved by this.
Almost as soon as the on-site director of the game gave the camera replay and offside line, the other game of the group was switched in by the TV director. That's exactly what it was like Portugal got on the scoresheet in that match against Honduras!! The Portuguese players hugged each other to celebrate the goal that meant so much to them!
So, now both Iberian duo are in the lead in the final round of the World Cup group stage!!
If they can maintain or even extend that lead, they will be able to take the initiative in the group stage breakout.
The Chinese fans who were watching this game looked at the picture of the Portuguese team celebrating after scoring a goal in the match against Honduras that was being cut at this time, and their hearts were actually attacked by an inexplicable surprise. The strong contrast between light and dark, sadness and joy on the football field made many people feel a little unbearable for a while, and many emotional fans even cried at this moment.
Even though they understand that there is hope for them, sometimes, when that kind of love comes, you feel like you can't use reason to control your tears.