Chapter 172: Defensive Counterattack
After withstanding the Welsh team's attacking three-board axe, the Dragons began to try to counterattack while stabilizing their position.
Defend and counterattack! Defend and counterattack! Only defense can only ensure undefeated, and if you want to win the game, you also need to have a sharp counterattack!
And the Dragon Country team has Shen Feng, so there is the greatest guarantee for a counterattack!
Shen Feng is currently a type of player with the Welsh team's Bale, with fast speed, strong ability to run without the ball, a keen sense of smell in front of the goal, and a good ability to grasp opportunities.
In this game, due to the focus of the Dragon Team's focus on the care of the Dragon Team, the Dragon Team's shrinking defense did not leave enough room for his best speed, so in the first 20 minutes of the game, Bale's performance was limited.
Shen Feng had no performance in the first 20 minutes, because during this time, the Dragon Country team focused on defense and almost gave up attacking, and even Shen Feng retreated to his own half to help his teammates share the defensive pressure, and took the ball several times, but the main purpose was to slip to the ground, delay time, and let teammates get a chance to breathe, rather than threatening the Welsh team's goal.
Before this game, although the Welsh team had watched the videos of the recent games of the Dragon Country team, and had some understanding of the characteristics of several key players in the Dragon Country team, they did not pay much attention to this game.
For the Dragon team, this game is a rare training opportunity before the World Cup, but for the Welsh team, it is just an ordinary commercial friendly match, which comes from far and wide, and the biggest purpose is to earn the appearance fee provided by Wanda Group, and they don't care whether the game is won or not.
Therefore, in the first 20 minutes of the game, after repeated attacks, but there was no way to take the Dragon Team, the players of the Welsh team began to slack off in their mentality, their attention to the game was no longer as concentrated as at the beginning, and their desire to attack also declined, which made the pressure on the Dragon Team defense team invisibly reduced a lot.
The Dragons had planned to try to counterattack after withstanding the Welsh team's attacking three-board axe, but now the pressure exerted by the opponent has weakened, and it is in the hands of the Dragons.
In this game, although the Dragon Country team only sent one player Shen Feng on the front line, among the four people in the midfield, Hao Junmin and Zhao Xuri are also defensive players, Zhang Xizhe and Yu Hanchao's offensive ability is better than defense, but the first task in this game is to defend first.
Only when the Dragon Country team gets a clear offensive opportunity, Zhang Xizhe and Yu Hanchao will assist to the frontcourt.
Therefore, the counterattack of the Dragon Country team in this game relied more on Shen Feng's personal ability.
Due to the small number of troops that can be invested in the attack, the offensive routine of the Dragon Country team in this tactical system is very simple, after winning the ball in the backfield, go directly over the midfield, do not entangle too much with the opponent in the midfield, and pass directly to the front court.
The big foot kick-off in the backfield of the Dragon Country team sometimes launches an attack, and more often it is simply a big foot clearance, which can also cause some interference and confusion to the opponent to a certain extent.
How to distinguish between bigfoot clearance and switching from defense to offense is very simple, it depends on whether the landing point of the pass is within Shen Feng's control.
Another point is that after Shen Feng gets the ball, what is the position he is in, whether there are opposing defenders around him, whether there is space in front of him, whether he can attack, or can only control the ball at his feet, try to delay some time, and fight for some respite for his teammates.
In the first 20 minutes of the game, most of the long passes in the backfield of the Dragon Country team were simply cleared, even if the landing point was within Shen Feng's control, due to the power of the pass, the angle, and the choice of the landing point, it was difficult to transform it into an offensive opportunity.
Now it's different, as the Welsh team's offensive slows down, the pressure on the Dragons' defense line is reduced, so that the Dragons' defenders can calmly observe the situation in the front court when they pass the ball in the backfield, and try to choose a better landing point.
When they pass the ball, they don't have to deliberately look for Shen Feng's position, because they haven't found it, the Welsh team has learned through the analysis of the video of the Dragon Team's previous games, although Shen Feng's role in this Dragon Country team, although the importance of this game is not too high, but the arrangements that should be made are still done, when Shen Feng retreats to his own half to participate in the defense, the Welsh team does not care about him, once he crosses the halfway line and shows signs of attack, the Welsh team will have a special defensive player, Keep a close eye on him.
Although because Shen Feng's running position is very flexible, he never stays in one position for too long, and he is fast and has good endurance, it is difficult for a person to completely see him to death, but the defensive pressure of the Welsh team is very small, and several defenders who are dragging behind, the main task is to keep an eye on Shen Feng.
In this case, it will be more difficult for the Dragon Team to make a long pass in the backfield, and it will be more difficult to find Shen Feng directly, that is, Shen Feng will get the ball with his own ability, and it will be difficult to stop comfortably under the interference of the Welsh team's defenders, and then transform it into an attack.
Therefore, in Lippi's tactical arrangement, when the Dragon team switched from defense to offense, the primary goal of the long pass in the backfield was not to find Shen Feng, but to find the vacancy in the Welsh team's defensive line!
This tactical arrangement basically does not pose any difficulties to the players of the Dragon team, because the Welsh team is very high in formation, and there are not many troops deployed on the defensive line, and there are vacancies everywhere!
Of course, under such a tactical arrangement, the Dragon Country team wants to make the transition from defense to offense effective, rather than becoming a useless kick clearance, in the choice of the passing point, it is still necessary to pay a little attention to the choice of the passing point - as far as possible, closer to Shen Feng's position, which makes it possible for Shen Feng to rely on his extraordinary ability to run without the ball, predict the landing point in advance, and then rely on the speed of one step faster, get rid of the defense, receive the pass, and win the opportunity to attack.
The Dragons' first two attempts to switch from defense to attack ended in failure, the reason was that the passer was too far away from Shen Feng, so that Shen Feng could not catch the ball before the Welsh defenders.
However, the players of the Dragon Country team were not discouraged by this, and they continued to try, after defusing another attack by the Welsh team, the old captain Zheng Zhi made a long pass directly from the top of his own penalty area for the third time.