Chapter 598: Breaking the Deadlock
Although the Chinese team failed to break the deadlock in the first half as they did in previous games, and were slightly inferior in terms of statistics, the team's coach Lippi still praised the performance of the players.
In Lippi's view, even with the "god" level of Feng Quan, the Chinese team is still slightly inferior to the South Korean team in terms of overall strength, so being able to keep the goal in the first half and almost break the opponent's goal many times has made the world-class coach feel very satisfied, not to mention that the strategic policy he formulated for this game is "stalemate in the first half, and decide the winner in the second half".
After affirming his team's performance in the first half, Lippi made a fresh move for the second half.
"The Koreans' ferocious pressing in the first half gave them a certain advantage in terms of play and stats, but they also put in a lot of physical exertion, so they couldn't continue to press as much as they did in the first half in the second half, so the pressure on both the offensive and defensive ends of the pitch will be lessened."
"Of course, even if the South Koreans press less, it doesn't mean that we will be able to win as well as we have in previous games. If we want to win, we have to work harder. ”
"Feng (Quan), Gao (Lin), Wu (Lei) The three of you can be regarded as all-round strikers, so I ask the three of you to switch positions more frequently in the second half of the game to disrupt the opponent's defensive deployment as much as possible. At the same time, if personal physical strength allows, increase the intensity of pressing in the front court, even if you can't directly complete the break, you can also reduce the pressure on the back line. ”
After giving the latest instructions to the front trio, Lippi immediately turned to Zheng Zhi, Wu Xi and Hao Junming, who were exchanging the gains and losses of the first half.
"Our midfield worked fairly well in the first half, but statistically it was a little lacking in support for the attack. Although the Koreans' ferocious pressing had an impact on our attacking organisation, the root cause was that the midfielders were a little conservative in handling the ball, which of course had something to do with the game strategy I had developed before the game. ”
"In order to get more support for the front three in the second half of the game, I decided to change the parallel position in the midfield and put Hao in the forward midfield position to better deliver more shells to the three of them. At the same time, hold their back 6 when defending and try to interfere with the connection between him and the backline. ”
"Wu, when attacking, you have to get as close to Hao as possible, and be ready to respond at any time, and when defending, you have to keep an eye on their No. 16, and don't give him the opportunity to organize an attack calmly."
After a pause, Lippi turned to Zheng Zhi and said: "Zheng, the accuracy and suddenness of your long passes are very good, so I hope that if conditions permit, after winning the ball in the midfield, you can increase the number of passes to the open position of the opponent's two ribs, so as to create more breakthrough opportunities for Feng and Wu." ”
After that, Lippi deployed four more players at the back: "Although our back line has done its job well, its contribution in attack is minimal. Especially the two wings, I looked at the game statistics in the first half, Jiang (Zhipeng) and Xu (Xin) The two of you together have not crossed the halfway line more than 10 times. ”
"Wind was able to tear apart the opposition in the first half many times with his superior individual ability, but if you can help him more, it will greatly reduce his physical exertion."
"You know, South Korea, like us, have conceded a clean sheet in this tournament, so there is a good chance that they will fight us until extra time, and if the wind is very physical at that time, it will undoubtedly greatly affect our attacking power. Therefore, I asked Jiang and Xu that you two must increase the number of assists in the second half and try to help the front court reduce the pressure of the attack. ”
"Of course, it's not that you blindly press the assist, which side of the wind moves, the fullback on that side must decisively insert the assist, and the defensive gap left by it is filled by Zhang (Lin Peng), so that the backfield can always maintain a three-man defensive state, so as to deal with the rapid counterattack of the South Koreans at any time."
Finally, Lippi said to all the players: "When you switch from defense to attack, you must rush to the opponent's half at the first time, and you must not miss any opportunity to counterattack." You must know that modern football has developed to this day, and the highest goal scoring rate is the goal in the counterattack. ”
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After some adjustments by Lippi in the midfield, the Chinese team was significantly more active in the second half than in the first.
The pressing of the forward trio in the frontcourt, coupled with the harassment of Hao Junmin and Wu Xi in the midfield, made the offensive organization of the South Koreans also blocked, which greatly reduced the team's defensive pressure.
As the pressure on the defensive end dropped, the offensive end led by Feng Chun also put the South Korean team's defense under more and more threats.
In the 9th minute of the second half, Feng Quan did not choose to cross to the goal after tearing the opponent's side defense on the right side of the front field, but found Hao Junming who was ambushed near the corner of the big penalty area with an inverted triangle pass.
Hao Junming immediately made a gesture after receiving the ball, but when Zhang Xianxiu subconsciously stretched his leg to block, he dunked the ball back, and then took a curling ball with the inside of his left foot to find Gao Lin who was ambushed behind the goal.
This time, although Gao Lin, who had taken advantage of the position early, completed a powerful header attack, he still failed to break the deadlock on the field due to the early defense of goalkeeper Kim Jin-hyun.
However, just five minutes after Gao Lin's header, the Chinese team finally took advantage of a counter-attack opportunity to break the deadlock on the field.
At that time, after Sun Xing forcibly broke through Jiang Zhipeng's defense on the right side of the front field, he sent a cross with a high arc to the front of the goal five or six meters from the bottom line.
Although Li Tingxie, who occupied a favorable position first, beat Feng Xiaoting to complete the header, the football pushed out by him was firmly in the arms of Wang Dalei who was in an accurate position.
At the same moment when Wang Dalei confiscated the ball, except for Feng Xiaoting and Jiang Zhipeng, the rest of the Chinese players all moved quickly in the direction of the opponent's half.
After receiving the ball, Wang Dalei observed the running position of his teammates, while holding the football and running quickly towards the edge of the big penalty area, when he saw that there were no defenders within 5 meters of Zheng Zhi, who was about 10 meters away from the top of the arc of the penalty area, he immediately used his hand throwing stunt to throw the ball hard.
Long before receiving the ball, Zheng Zhi, who was facing the attacking direction from the side, saw that Feng Quan had been running at high speed along the left sideline, so the next moment he received the ball, he sent an accurate long pass to the empty space on the right side of the Korean team's backfield.
Although Cheduri quickly turned around and chased back the moment Feng Quan started, and tried to stop Feng Quan's rapid advance by pulling on Feng Quan's global suit, before he could touch Feng Quan's jersey, Feng Quan swept past him like lightning, causing Che Duri to almost fall to the ground.
After easily throwing off Che Duri's Feng Jeon near the football landing point, he first parked the ball three or four meters in front of him with his chest, and then walked the ball towards the baseline before Park Joo Ho and Jang Hyun so surrounded him, and then quickly changed direction and ran in the direction of the South Korean team's penalty area.
Because Feng Quan tore apart the entire right side of the South Korean team's defense, all the Korean players who returned to the backfield subconsciously moved closer to the area where Feng Quan was located, after all, with Feng Quan's superior individual ability, even the double defense could not guarantee that his breakthrough with the ball would be completely blocked.
Just when the Koreans thought that Feng Quan would perform a good show of riding alone, Feng Quan suddenly stopped moving forward, and then accurately transferred the ball to the empty space on the right side of the front court.
Xu Xin, who was inserted at high speed, did not choose to stop the ball, but padd the football in mid-air to Hao Junming, who answered in the middle.
Hao Junming's receiving number was slightly adjusted, and he sent a scalpel-like through ball to the empty space on the right rib of the opponent's penalty area.
Since most of the Korean players' attention was on Feng Quan's body before, when Wu Lei inserted the empty space to complete the stop ball comfortably, he still had time to observe the position of the opponent's goalkeeper.
When Wu Lei saw Kim Jin-hyun abandon the goal and pounce on him, he immediately chose to shoot into the far corner of the goal.
Although Kim Jin-hyun forcibly reined in the momentum of Wu Lei's forward rush the moment he got up, and tried his best to jump to intercept Wu Lei's hanging shot, he could only helplessly watch the football draw a wonderful line in the air and spin into the far corner of the goal...... Fupin Chinese