World Junior Championships training ground in Tilburg, Netherlands.

After successfully qualifying for the group stage with three consecutive wins, the Chinese team quickly switched from Utrecht to Tilburg.

Immediately after arriving in Tilburg, Krauchen led his team to the training ground.

The opponent of the knockout round of sixteen is out, Krauchen's homeland, the German team.

The national youth team played a warm-up match with the German team before, and it was a draw of 2-2, and no one was able to take advantage.

But that time, there was no Yang Yang in the national youth team.

In the subsequent group stage summary, Yang Yang was the first to point out the team's defensive problems, which he believed would become the biggest obstacle for the team to continue to go further.

Crawford also said that he already has a whole set of plans to improve his defense.

After arriving in Tilburg, Krauchen adopted a closed training camp and refused to be disturbed by outside media reporters.

For defensive training, Krauchen focused on letting players practice the overall operation and coherence of the defensive system, and what he emphasized the most was not to blindly press, but to work together as a whole and maintain meticulous integrity.

"Defending alone will not only have no effect, but will constantly waste our physical energy, and only the overall defense can protect our goal!"

Because many of the things that Crawford emphasized are very similar to Ajax's, Yang Yang also took the initiative to make a cameo appearance as a translator and commentator, hand-in-hand to convey Crowchen's intentions to the players, especially Feng Xiaoting, who was designated by Crawford as the leader of the defense.

In order to better help Feng Xiaoting understand Crowchen's intentions and command the team's defense at the same time, Yang Yang once again used the trick he had helped Zheng Zhi before, combined with the video and analysis report in his laptop, to explain to Feng Xiaoting how to be the core backbone of the defense, and how to ensure the ball in the midfield.

In addition to Germany's attack, set-pieces will also be a winning weapon for Germany, as they have an overwhelming height advantage, which is one of the most obvious advantages for Germany.

"The German team is very integral, relatively average in terms of technique, but very mature in terms of tactical awareness, and the body and impact are the strongest team in this World Youth Championship, so set-pieces will be their most threatening attacking method."

In response to this, Krauchen made a targeted arrangement for the set-piece defense.

And the end of the training is how the Chinese team will defeat the enemy.

The strategy given by Crouchen is to control the midfield and give full play to Yang Yang's advantages in attack.

Gao Lin's performance in the first three group games has been recognized by everyone in the team, including Yang Yang, although he does not seem to score many goals, but as a high school striker, his tactical role is quite obvious.

Chen Tao's performance on the right side is also quite good, and in this game, Krauchen is obviously not willing to let Yang Yang face the German team's defenders directly, but hopes that he can attack more ways in the future.

As for the all-important midfield set-up, Crawford decided to field a more controlling technical midfielder.

From the pre-match drills, it is not difficult to see that the midfield combination of Hao Junmin, Cui Peng and Zhou Haibin is the most recognized by Crowchen, and it is also the most controlling midfield combination that the national youth team has been able to put out so far.

Among them, Cui Peng from Shandong also performed quite well at this World Youth Championships.

In addition to the tactical level, Krauchen is also quite meticulous in technical details, such as how to deal with the German players' pressing on the pitch himself, and what he emphasizes most is the sudden turn after receiving the ball.

'The Germans have a height advantage but they are slow to turn, and we have an advantage in that area, just turn around and immediately create a local advantage.

These seemingly simple and basic things have actually brought great gains to the players of the national youth team.

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Due to the limited training ground, the Chinese team and the German team share a training ground, and the two sides communicate with each other to coordinate time.

However, the German team was 20 minutes earlier than the agreed time.

There are three fields in the same training ground, but after the German team came to the training ground in advance, they did not go directly to other venues to train, but stood on the sidelines and watched the training of the Chinese team with interest.

Among them, the most curious German player is Yang Yang, the number one star of the Chinese team.

But they didn't find Yang Yang in the main group, but saw him appear in the substitute group.

This can't help but make the whole German team wonder.

When he played Panama, Yang Yang didn't go on, and he didn't give accurate information to the outside world, and now he is arranged to be in the substitute group, what does it mean?

'They deliberately shuffled the order because they didn't want us to see their starting line-up. German coach Skibe laughed that this was just a pre-match trick.

Everyone knows that it is impossible for Yang Yang not to go, he is the core combat power of the Chinese team.

Not only is the lineup chaotic, but even the content of the training is nothing unusual, it seems that they are all ordinary group confrontations, at most, they can only see the strength of the Chinese players, and they can't see the specific content at all.

On the contrary, when Yang Yang forced a breakthrough with a quick dribble, the pendulum shook the goalkeeper, and the empty goal was successful, he won warm applause inside and outside the field, and even the German players on the sidelines applauded.

"Hey, well done, Yang!"

"The pendulum is so exciting!"

But the heckling of the German players quickly attracted the attention of FIFA officials, who immediately walked over to remind them not to interfere with the training of the Chinese team, and the group of German players walked to the training ground next door without care.

But the head coach Skibey's expression was solemn and solemn to his players.

"In the game, you have to freeze Yang Yang no matter what, don't give him any chance, he will be the deadliest knife of the Chinese team, give me a complete blockade of him!"

René Adler, the captain of the German team who plays for the Bundesliga pharmaceutical company Bayer Leverkusen, turned around, frowned at Yang Yang in the distance, and replied in a deep voice: "Don't worry, I won't give him any chance!" ”

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Willem II Stadium in Tilburg.

In the round of 16 knockout round of the World Youth Championship, China played against Germany.

To everyone's surprise, the seemingly strong German team did not take the initiative to press out to attack as many people in the outside world expected, but actively and steadily tightened the defense after the opening.

Ferocious pressing, solid overall defense, and obvious physical advantages all made the German team a tough battle for the Chinese team from the beginning of the game, especially the attacking players in the front court.

"As early as before the game, German coach Skibe said that the attacking power shown by the Chinese team in the group stage is worthy of vigilance, and the German team did not perform on the offensive side in the group stage, but no one expected that he would use defensive counterattack tactics to deal with the Chinese team, which is indeed quite unexpected."

"For Yang Yang's defense, the German team has obviously made enough preparations."

"Judging from the three group games, the defense has always been the advantage of the German team, they only conceded one goal in three rounds, that is, to the Argentine team, and relatively speaking, the Chinese team was able to qualify from the group stage with three consecutive wins, relying on the attack."

"So, this game might be a bit of a surprise for the fans."

"The seemingly strong German team actually faced the weak Chinese team and played defensive counterattack tactics."

"But we must not be careless, because Germany is the most terrible German team that plays defensive counter-attacks!"

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The commentary from the national television station broadcast live in China did not reach the Willem II Stadium.

But there is no need to be reminded by the outside world, the national youth team has a very clear understanding of this.

The German team adopted the four-four-two style of play, but took the initiative to shrink three lines, and the intention was also very clear, that is, to freeze Yang Yang.

Yang Yang also has his own sober understanding of this.

In this game, Crowchen discharged a four-three-three formation, Yang Yang was arranged on the left side, Gao Lin played the center, Chen Tao played the right side, and the midfield was a combination of Hao Junmin, Cui Peng and Zhou Haibin.

But in fact, Yang Yang and Chen Tao's positions have retreated a lot, the purpose is to ensure the initiative in the midfield.

From the very beginning of the game, the Chinese team successfully controlled the ball and had an advantage in possession.

The German team is mainly deployed in the middle line and does not retreat very far, but their pressing is very active, and the one-on-one defensive advantage is very obvious, which makes it difficult for the Chinese team to organize effective cooperation.

The smooth ground penetration of the first three rounds of the group was also difficult to replicate in the German team, and the attack was somewhat bogged down.

On the other hand, the German team has no advantage in ball control, but the physical confrontation is very superior, once they are close, the ball is easy to be broken, as soon as the ball is broken, they immediately counterattack behind them, and give full play to the speed advantage of the strikers.

In the opening stage, both sides played a little chaotic, first Yang Yang was very active on the left side, but the German team quickly put heavy troops on their right side, as soon as Yang Yang got the ball, he was immediately closely guarded by the German team.

For this situation, Yang Yang has also been mentally prepared.

He saw that it was difficult for him to get the ball out of the midfield, so he immediately took the initiative to retreat and receive the ball from his teammates in the midfield.

In the nineteenth minute, after Yang Yang retreated to receive a pass from the midfield, he suddenly turned away and advanced along the left side with the ball, shifting the attention of the entire German defense to his side, and suddenly a big foot shifted to the right side.

Chen Tao was already ready to start, and after stopping the ball on his chest, he took the ball along the right side and crossed it down.

Gao Lin, who was ambushed in the box, grabbed a position in the middle and headed a header into the far corner, but German goalkeeper René Adler flew to save the ball and gave China a corner.

But this wonderful flying save won Adler a full applause.

The young German goalkeeper was unimpressed, directing his teammates to start defending corner kicks, looking quite a general.

And when Adler looked at Yang Yang again, the tall German goalkeeper couldn't help but wonder a little.

Didn't you say that Yang Yang was a famous scorer?

How come it is that in the first 20 minutes, he didn't even have a shot on goal and looked more like a midfielder?

Could it be that this was Crouchen's arrangement?

Well, he had a couple of good passes, especially the big foot transfer just now, and he was very thoughtful.

But is that all he has to do?

Adler certainly doesn't think so, because Yang Yang is the winner of the European Golden Boy Award, the best player in the League Cup, the Eredivisie Golden Boot Award, and at the same time broke Ronaldo's legendary record at the age of 18, and became a talent in European football.

Is that being limited by our defense?