Coach Gao Hongbo walked into the locker room and handed Zidane a note.

It reads the starting line-up of the German team for this match.

Zidane looked at it carefully.

Subsequently.

Zidane smiled.

He expected that the German team might not take this game seriously, but he did not expect Loew to be so arrogant.

In today's game, the starting lineup of the German team changed its face.

Compared to the last defeat against Sweden, they are almost half of the main force hidden in the snow.

For example, in the last game, Germany's centre-back combination was Rudiger and Boateng, and today's game was replaced by Hummel and Jule.

A completely different pair of defenders.

Zidane could guess that Loew must have made such a personnel adjustment in advance to prepare for the game after qualifying from the group.

After all, in the intensive schedule of the World Cup, if you want to go all the way to the end and win the championship, it is very important to retain your physical strength moderately.

Loew has a lot of experience with Germany.

They'll do it, it's normal. Think about it from their point of view.

Zidane touched his head.

He put down the German roster and said to his players with a serious face.

"Remember what I just said, stay in shape and defend in the middle."

"Today's game will start from the 70th minute of the game, and it will really start!"

"I know, I'm saying this now, you may not believe it. But we can win this game! ”

……

Loew stood on the sidelines.

He was ambitious.

In the last World Cup, he beat Brazil and won the World Cup in a subversive way, which brought Loew's popularity in Germany to a peak. Two years later, the success of the German second team in the Confederations Cup convinced Loew of his tactics.

Despite the poor performance in the warm-up games before this tournament, and despite the struggles of Germany in the first two group games of the World Cup, Loew always believes that he and Germany are on the right path.

Just as Zidane guessed, in the game against Huaxia, he did make a large rotation.

In the last match against Sweden, Germany won, but the attrition was not low.

In order to ensure the physical strength of the main players and to go further in the knockout rounds in the future, Loew believes that rotation is necessary.

If the game with Huaxia is not rotated, should we wait until Brazil to make rotation?

Loew smiled.

At the thought of Brazil's interesting opponent, Loew couldn't help but show a mysterious smile, and the index finger of his right hand unconsciously and easily stretched out to his sexy big nostril.

Then.

Zidane walked out of the passage.

Loew looked back at him.

Taking the initiative to greet him, Loew reached out and shook hands with Zidane.

"You've done a great job!"

"I never thought that today's game would become a life-and-death battle to determine the right to qualify, haha!" Loew laughed and hugged Zidane.

Zida thought to himself, judging from your starting lineup, I don't see at all that this is a life-and-death battle for you.

Or maybe the German never thought that Huaxia would be their opponent in the group?

Zidane exchanged a few words of greeting with Loew, and then left.

As he walked back to his coaching box, Zidane suddenly remembered something.

Before shaking hands with himself and hugging, the man seemed to be picking his nose before?

Groove ......

Zidane's whole body felt bad, as if he had been attacked by a magic attack.

I'm dirty......

Zidane was somewhat depressed.

He looked at Chu Ge who was coming out of the players' tunnel, and his mood was not beautiful.

In this game, if he can't win, Zidane feels like he has lost a lot.

The game hasn't started yet.

Chu Ge was preparing to warm up on the field.

When passing by Zidane's side, he noticed that the coach's expression was a little strange, as if he had been repeatedly drilled by a thick man, Chu Ge couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Are you alright?" Chu Ge asked with concern.

Zidane quickly shook his head.

"It's fine."

He said.

By the way, he hugged Chu Ge. Then, the palm of his hand rubbed the jersey behind Chu Ge.

"I'm all right." Zidane said.

Chu Ge: ......

……

Chu Ge soon met Cross.

Two former teammates came together.

"Let's have dinner after the game." Chu Ge greeted Cross.

Today's game is the last game of the group stage, and there is almost a week before the round of 16 match, enough friends who know each other to have a small dinner.

"Okay." Cross readily agreed.

"However, I'm afraid you'll not be in the mood to invite me to dinner then." Cross climbed Chu Ge's shoulder and chuckled softly in his ear.

"Don't be out of the mood by then." Chu Ge laughed.

The two of them stood very close, but a little far away from the German players.

Kroos has a good relationship with his Real Madrid team-mates, including former teammates. But he doesn't seem to have a close relationship with Bayern's players. Therefore, during the warm-up, he was more willing to chat with Chu Ge, but kept some distance from his teammates in the national team.

……

The game started quickly.

Germany's starting line-up were: Manuel Neuer, Kimmich, Hummels, Jule, Hector, Tony Kroos, Khedira, Goretzka, Draxler, Reuss, Timo Werner.

Zinedine Zidane looked at Germany's bench.

On the bench were Barcelona's young lion king Ter Stegen, Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger, Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan, Borussia Dortmund rookie Brand and "comedian" Muller.

All of them are famous generals.

However, Sane, who is not trusted and valued by Guardiola, is not among them.

Sane was not selected for the German national team at all.

The reason is simple, Loew will not use.

Loew won the World Cup last time out with his so-called passing, so he didn't want to make any changes to his tactics. He tried to integrate Sane into his tactical system, but interestingly, Sane played well under Pep Guardiola, but lost out of the German national team as soon as he returned.

Loew thinks it must be Sane's problem.

As a result, the talented wide attacker said goodbye to this World Cup early.

This is good news for every German opponent in the World Cup.

Loew's national team is too reliant on Bayern, which is a good thing. Because Bayern's internationals have a good understanding at the club, and they are really good. When Bayern's internationals return to the national team, and they bring the club's chemistry to the national team, the work of the national team will naturally be much easier.

But there are some problems with that.

For example, the issue of integration in Sane.

Another example is that in the past year, Bayern's form has not been good.

……

Just as Zidane expected, the German team quickly pressed through the half, pressing Huaxia firmly in the half.

Football is always passed in front of the Huaxia penalty area.

Germany's possession rate soon surpassed 70 per cent.

In football, 55% of the possession is already a clear advantage, and 60% of the possession is almost one-sided.

And the Germans did it 70%.

That is to say, football is almost passed from the feet of German players, and there is basically nothing to do with Chinese players.

The Chinese players have always been passively defending.

The fans were very worried when they saw such a scene of being beaten passively.

Despite knowing that there is a huge gap between the strength of their team and that of the powerful Germany, fans will inevitably be afraid. Every time the German team moves the football to the front of the Chinese penalty area, the hearts of the fans will be raised to the throat.

They are worried that Germany will score.

They fear a rout for the national football team.

For example, 1:7.

(Brazil: Feeling offended)

But.

After being besieged by Germany for a long time, Chinese fans actually began to gradually adapt to it.

They are no longer as nervous as they were at the beginning, worried that the other party is pushing too hard, worrying that the pain is too much, but they begin to relax a little, and even begin to have a lost pleasure.

It's not because the fans have Stockholm disease and are beaten for pleasure.

It's that the Germans didn't shoot for a long time.

The football was very lively on the periphery of the penalty area, but as soon as it entered the Huaxia penalty area, it was immediately like a quagmire and began to fail. In order to prevent losing possession, the German players had to re-pass the ball to the periphery, re-possess the ball and re-organize the goal.

Their offense was well organized, but they always just rubbed and didn't go in.

The danger to the Huaxia goal is not very great.

……

Zheng Zhi stood firmly in the forbidden area, like an iron tower. In front of him, Timo Werner struggled to push past Zheng Zhi and fulfill his duties as the team's centre-forward. But no matter how hard Werner tried, he couldn't squeeze Zheng Zhi half a step away.

In front of Zheng Zhi, the clear-eyed Werner is like a younger brother.

"The coach is right, the biggest weakness of the German team is the lack of a center forward."

'Their passing, the last step is to get the ball down the middle. In the middle, they don't have Klose, they don't have a tall center like Bierhoff as a fulcrum, and they don't have Klinsmann's impactful central strength, which makes their attack seem lively, but the threat is greatly reduced. ”

Zheng Zhi forced Werner away and smashed the ball out of the wing. Looking at the football flying out of bounds, he suddenly had more confidence in the game.

"Germany isn't that strong."

Zheng Zhi thought to himself.

And Timo Werner was a little depressed.

At the beginning of his debut, Werner was seen as Mario Gómez II. But then it was discovered that Werner and Gomez were almost two different types of forwards, in addition to being from Stuttgart and having the same excellent scoring ability.

Now that Loew is using Timo Werner as Gomez, it's no wonder that Timo Werner is playing awkwardly.

……

The game quickly went on for nearly 30 minutes, and the score was still 0:0.

Germany had a clear advantage, but did not score. They had a total of five shots, four of which were from outside the box, and two in total hit the woodwork.

Huaxia had two shots on goal, both from distance.

Zinedine Zidane stood on the sidelines.

The game turned out exactly as he had expected.

In La Liga, he has coached Real Madrid to play with passes, and he has also been played by passes. For the tactical play of passing and control, Zidane is very familiar with it.

He knows very well where the fate of this style of play is.

It's a pity that there is only one Chu Ge in Huaxia, but there is no Ronaldo plus Modric and Marcelo, otherwise he is sure that he will beat all the brains of the German team to him and teach Loew to be a man.

Tactics are dead, people are alive. If you insist on stuffing living people into old-fashioned tactics that do not keep pace with the times, even if that set of tactics has created brilliant results, it will eventually be outdated and outdated, and will be severely beaten by society.

It is clear that Loew's national team has not learned the lesson of being beaten by Mexico.

The problem with China is that they don't have the strength of Mexico to quickly give the Germans a memorable counterattack.

They still need time to build up their strength.

During this time, the players need to work harder and defend well. Especially the defense in the middle. As long as the German pass to the middle is choked, the German attack is basically paralyzed by more than half.

Who let them not take the center.

The prestige of the god of defeat is not blown out, but killed.

……

Defeat?

Cross: Yes, right down!

The football was passed back and forth between the two central defenders of the German team, one moment it was Jule who passed to Hummels, and the other time Hummel passed to Juller, and the possession rate flew up, and the number of passes and the success rate of the two central defenders soared.

Everything is so quiet.

It's just not a threat.

Kroos thought that this was not going to work, so he took the initiative to retreat and come over to get the ball.

Jule asked Kroos to come back and decisively passed the football to Kroos.

As soon as Kroos got the ball, Chu Ge followed.

However, Chu Ge is not a professional defensive player after all, and Kroos made a slight adjustment to protect the football.

But when he turned around to find his teammates, Kroos was dumbfounded.

In front of him, seven German players lined up in a straight line, shoulder to shoulder with the Chinese defenders.

wdnmd……

Cross couldn't complain.

For a while, Kroos, who is a world-class midfielder, didn't know how to play.

What kind of formation do we have now?

217？

Who am I?

Am I Casemiro?

Cross was in deep doubt.

However, a world-class midfielder is a world-class midfielder after all, and when he has doubts about life, Kroos is still very stable in protecting the ball, and he does not give Chu Ge any opportunity to take advantage of.

After passing the ball back to the defender, Kroos didn't care.

He also rushed to Huaxia's penalty area.

The matter of Casemiro for the Bayern Gang, not to mention that Kroos is not good at it, even if he can do it, he is not happy to do it now.

"In the last game, we relied on my goals to win. If we want to win this game, maybe we need me to score, I have to be closer to the goal. ”

thereupon

Cross happily thrusts forward.

Behind him were Jule and Hummels.

The two big guys, you look at me, I look at you, so I had to happily start passing left and right again.

……

"The German team doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all."

"yes, it's like they're already ahead."

"However, if the game is tied, aren't they the ones who will be eliminated? If memory serves, the German team has not scored as many goals as the Chinese team. With the same points and the same goal difference, isn't it just the team with the most goals? Am I mistaken? ”

Looking at the world-famous paintings on the field, the fans began to talk about it.

The German fans were starting to get a little caught up in it.

They became somewhat silent.

And those who bet heavily on Germany to win, or even Germany to win, feel that things are not so simple.

The soles of their feet began to feel a little chilly.

"Germany won't be drawn, will they? No, no, no, no, right? ”

Such a stable game, playing in the current situation, they never expected.

……

After the half-time break, in the second half, the scene was still similar to the first half.

The whole Huaxia team retreated.

Including Wu Sanshi and Chu Ge, everyone returned to their own half.

In their own defensive areas, Huaxia deployed heavy troops. Especially for the penalty area, as well as at the top of the arc of the penalty area, they are deployed layer by layer.

Zheng Zhi, Feng Xiaoting and others are all very hard-working.

They firmly stood in their defensive positions, using numbers and will to make up for possible deficiencies in awareness and technique, but Germany did not find too good a chance.

Of course, this also has something to do with the poor performance of the German team in the first half.

'Timo Werner is not fit to play as a centre-forward. Goretzka and Draxler are both very capable players, but they have gone to the big clubs to play as substitutes when they need the most goals. Kimmich has just transitioned from midfield to full-back and is still adapting. ”

"The only person who caught the eye before Germany was Brandt, but Loew didn't use his boldness. Muller, who can change the situation, has not been in good form this year. ”

'If Klose is still around, we'll have other tactical options. Now, do we need to count on Mario Gomez, who is thirty-three years old, has suffered a serious injury and can't even play at the club? ”

The German commentator shook his head as he watched the ball.

The German national team in front of him is not what he is familiar with.

"Loew hurry up and replace, hurry up and adjust!"

"If this game is a draw with Huaxia, Loew hurry up and get out, don't go back to China!"

The fans were a little anxious.

Then.

Loew couldn't sit still.

He picked his nostrils and made substitution adjustments.

Gomez came on alongside Muller, replacing Goretzka and Draxler.

When it came time to make substitutions, Loew chose to continue to believe in the players who helped him win the World Cup.

Zidane glanced at Loew.

The substitution adjustment of the German team was also completely expected by him. He had already calculated that Loew would be replaced like this.

It is considered that there is no last resort to Qi Xuanzong.

"Gomez has made up for Germany's ability to play in the middle, but he's out of breath."

'Muller is very good, but he is not a player who creates chances, he is a player who takes them. Moreover, the Germans criticized him too much. Muller may be the worst in-form player in the German squad this tournament. ”

Zinedine Zidane has a clear understanding of the two new German players.

He didn't panic at all.

I even want to laugh.

When will the German team, which is full of talent, encounter the dilemma of having no one to replace.

……

Really.

The arrival of two new players did not activate the German team. Their offensive is still thunder, no rain, and it looks lively, but there is no threat.

The German players pushed forward desperately.

It's as if everybody is a striker.

And in terms of offensive organization, the German team became more unorganized.

After Gomez came on the pitch, they even played the same old-fashioned crosses from the wings.

However, this style of play is based on the accuracy of the passer's passing footwork and the physical and positional advantages of the central player.

If Gomez is ten years younger, even five years younger, there is a certain chance that he will support the middle of the German team.

It's a pity that he is no longer the Gomez who can push Klose out of Bayern Munich.

After several failed battles, the Germans became more and more anxious.

They started messing around.

Every time they get the ball, they want to attack, they want to get the ball into the box as quickly as possible.

As a result, Germany's possession rate began to decline, and the Chinese team's chances of winning the ball improved imperceptibly.

Then.

The game went into the seventieth minute.

Zidane glanced up at the score.

The score is still 0:0.

He touched his head.

The feel of this boiled egg is still very moist.