After Hidetoshi Nakata came off the pitch, the situation on the court became completely different from the first half.

Cruzeiro's situation turned out to be as Ou Chuliang thought, and after the lack of Nakata's central playmaking, he began to seek inside opportunities from the two wings.

But how can this be rare to stop the Jianlibao players who have been expected for a long time?

Li Tie, Zhang Ran, Zhang Xiaorui, Huang Yong and other main defensive forces caught the right attack, and every time Cruzeiro wanted to cut inside, he faced Jianlibao's "closing the door" blow.

At the suggestion of Ou Chuliang, Jianlibao successively replaced the consultation, Zheng Yi and Li Jinyu, and replaced Wang Lei, Yang Xiaoping and Wang Wenhua. Although Li Hui and Pascal are nominal coaches, Ou Chuliang still has some say in the substitution.

After the substitution, Jianlibao, who was leading by two goals, no longer focused on attack.

Double insurance, there is no need to waste energy by scoring goals, after all, there is still a game to play tomorrow.

But how to play the next game, Li Hui is not very clear.

For a long time, the Chinese team has not been very good at taking the lead.

Whether it was the "Black 519" in '85 or the two "Black Three Minutes" in '89, the continuous loss of goals at the last minute of the game led to a 180-degree reversal of the result, which exposed China's barren strategic planning and tactical singleness of the football project.

The leading ball has the leading ball play, and the backward ball has the backward ball kick. What to do when the team is ahead, what to do when you are behind, and what to do when the situation changes again when you are ahead or behind.

Not only do the players not know this, but even the coaches don't know much about it.

Everyone knows that when you fall behind, you have to catch up, and you have to keep your record after you are ahead. But how to do it and how to implement it, it is difficult for local Chinese coaches to give a charter.

For example, after the team takes the lead, some players want to make persistent efforts to make the next city, and some players want to retreat to the corner to hold the advantage. In this way, there is a contradiction between the whole team, and it is easy for the opponent to seize the gap.

Therefore, this time in Brazil, the Football Association has already regarded this matter as a top priority, urging Zhu Guanghu to make the team consistent in strategic thinking and tactical implementation.

Nearly 600 days and nights in Brazil, these players have understood that Jianlibao is a collective, and they are a member of this whole. Ou Chuliang is the brain of the whole team, whether it is offensive or defensive signals, it is transmitted from here.

It is no wonder that the local residents of Brazil call Ou Chuliang the "head of the dragon", and those spectators who know no more about football have long seen the importance of Ou Chuliang.

After the order to "stop the attack" was conveyed, Jianlibao's overall rhythm slowed down.

Sun Zhi, who had run for the whole game, began to retreat, and the front court was left to Wang Lei, a high-school striker who had just been replaced. The players in the middle also began to move back en masse, especially the wide players, pulling away as much as they could to the sides.

When Jianlibao members fully spread out their own field, each player ran in their own small area, facing the ball, receiving the ball, passing, running, and controlling.

More often, Zhang Ran and other defenders are not in a hurry to attack, but will wait for the opposing player to grab, or pass back to the goalkeeper, or cross to the side.

As a result, Cruzeiro's overall formation was torn apart, and the connections between the various positions became clumsy.

When Jianlibao passed the ball along the flanks to the front, Cruzeiro's players struggled to run long distances to barely keep up.

"Andy, here!"

"Gazi, catch the ball!"

Wang Wenhua on the side did not rush to his feet after failing to dribble the ball, but passed the ball back to Zhang Xiaorui, who ran over in the middle to answer.

Zhang Xiaorui glanced at the dense standing position that the opponent had just run out of after winning the ball, and handed the ball to Li Tie in the back without saying a word. Facing the opponent's striker's grab, Li Tie passed the ball back to Zhang Ran, and Zhang Ran did not hesitate after getting the ball, and kicked the ball to Yu Shunping on the other side.

After several successive passes, Cruzeiro "resolved" Jianlibao's attack, but the ball was still at the feet of Jianlibao's players.

Not only that, but their closest player to the ball is more than ten meters away from the ball.

In desperation, the whole team had to move to the other side of the court.

"Caged birds?" Seeing Jianlibao's purposeful way of controlling the ball, Hidetoshi Nakata, who is well versed in the tactics of "Football Player", subconsciously blurted out.

"Birdcage tactics" is the tactic used by "Football Player" Li Xiuzhe Primary School against Nange Primary School. The principle is also very simple, use the open field to pass the ball back and forth, and wait for the opponent to press heavily and look for a breakthrough from the wing.

If the bottom team doesn't find the right opportunity to attack, the whole team will easily give up the attack and instead hand the ball back to the backcourt, reorganize, and repeat.

Such a "rogue" move is only effective for the leader, because the score is ahead, so there is no rush to attack, and while consuming the opponent's physical strength, it is also consuming the remaining time of the game.

Before you know it, all the players of Cruzeiro are like birds flying into a cage, gradually at the mercy of others.

"Is this the real strength of Jianlibao?" Hidetoshi Nakata held his head on the sidelines, looking at his teammates who were walking around, with a look of disbelief.

If this Chinese team develops, will the Japanese team still be able to break out of Asia and go to the world in '98?

Hidetoshi Nakata didn't dare to think about it anymore.

As the minutes ticked by, the stadium, which was gradually becoming dull, finally heard the fans chanting again before the end.

In the 86th minute, Jianlibao successfully cut into the bottom, and the ball was sent into the penalty area by Wang Wenhua as he wished.

Cruzeiro's defenders took the lead and disrupted the ball with tackles.

No.2 centre-back Henrik cut in quickly from inside the box and aimed at the ball for a big kick.

"Who's afraid of whom?!" Zhang Xiaorui roared angrily.

Boom!

Rumble!

In just one second, the direction of the ball was reversed by 180 degrees.

Henrik's clearance ball hit Zhang Xiaorui's ankle like a cannonball. However, Zhang Xiaorui's right leg was like a pendulum that could not be turned back, hedging back Henrik's clearance.

The Cruzeiro goalkeeper's dynamic vision could not keep up with the afterimage of the ball, and it wasn't even until the ball was in the net that he heard the roar of the ball that had been twisted and distorted.

"The ball went in?"

"Scored a !!"

Zhang Xiaorui raised his arms high, turned around and ran towards the bench.

The surrounding fans also threw bursts of applause to celebrate the goal, which is hard to see even on a professional football field.

"I'm going to make it, what kind of shot is this? The ball speed is too fast, right? ”

"Yes, this black guy is too tiger, he dares to fight Henrik!"

"To the feet?"

"No, no, no, it's not the right foot, it's not the right foot!"

Hidetoshi Nakata bounced up from his seat at once, and Zhang Xiaorui's shot once again refreshed his cognition.

"It's... This is a reactionary swift cannon! ”

"Reactionary Swift Cannon?" When the teammates on the side heard this strange pronunciation for the first time, their eyes were full of doubts.

"This team, we can't play, we really can't play."

In the middle of the night, Nakata Hidetoshi fell to the seat with his head in his arms, and his mind was drowned out by the celebration of Jianlibao.

It wasn't until many years later that Hidetoshi Nakata recalled this experience and still had palpitations.

He said: "For a moment, I even felt that Xiao Junguang was on the court. For the first time, I felt that Japan still had a long way to go before the World Cup. ”