Chapter 126: Plan Ahead
Just as He Wei said, it only took 45 minutes for the Dragon Team to lead the Honduran team by three goals, and all the Dragon Country fans have been sure that the Dragon Country Team will definitely be able to win this game!
Although, in the history of the Dragon Country team, there was a "black three minutes" incident in which the first lead, and the opponent equalized and overtook in the final stage of the game, but at this moment, no one thought that such a tragedy would happen to this Dragon Country team.
Not to mention the performance of the Honduras team in the first half of the game, whether they can score three goals in a row in the remaining 45 minutes, equalize the score, or even overtake.
Just because Shen Feng is still on the field, all the Dragon Country fans are sure that the three-goal lead is definitely not the limit and end of the Dragon Country team in this game!
The Honduran team may score a goal in the second half of the game, taking advantage of the relaxation of the Dragon Country team, plus a little bit of luck, but the attack group of the Dragon Country led by Shen Feng will definitely use more goals to return the color to dispel the luck of the Honduran team trying to counterattack.
The Dragons established a three-goal lead in the first half, making the fifteen-minute half-time break lose the meaning of tactical adjustments, and even the head coach of the Honduras team has accepted the outcome of this defeat.
The three goals scored by the Dragon Country team in the first half of the game and the overall dominance of the scene, except for the classic goal scored by Shen Feng in the first minute of the game, which lasted for a long distance and passed five people in a row, with some elements of luck, the other two goals relied on hard power!
Even if those two goals don't go in, there will be other chances to convert into goals in the whopping fourteen shots made by the Dragons in the first half.
In the first half of the game, the shooting efficiency of the dragon team was actually not very high, and the luck of the shot was not very good, which led to the team's fourteen shots on goal, eight of which were within the range of the goal frame, and finally scored three goals.
If you shoot more efficiently and with a little luck, you might have scored more!
This is a fact that is in front of the Honduran team and cannot be denied!
In the face of the favorable time and place and the occupying Dragon Country team, the Honduran team, which was not strong in the first place, could only be helpless and accept the fate of defeat.
After the start of the second half, the Honduran team continued the tactics of the first half, still cowering in their own defensive third zone, and holding the bus formation.
On the other hand, the Dragon Country team has made some adjustments in terms of tactical arrangements and began to practice more offensive routines.
With the strength that the Dragon Team is showing now, in the future Asian arena, except for a few opponents such as Japan, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Australia, they will be able to form a crushing strength when facing other teams.
Therefore, it is conceivable that breaking the dense defense should be a realistic topic for the Dragon Country team in the future!
When Lippi, the head coach of the Dragon Country team, took over the Dragon Country team, the goal set was not the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but the 2019 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
Although Lippi is a World Cup champion-level international coach, but not a god, when he took over the Dragon team, the Dragon team in the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, facing the embarrassment of only 1 point in the first four rounds, although the hope of qualifying for the World Cup finals has not been completely dashed, but it is already quite slim.
At that time, no one could have imagined that just one year later, the Dragon Country team would really be able to reach the World Cup finals!
However, although it has basically become a foregone conclusion that the Dragon Country team has reached the World Cup finals for the second time, Lippi's mind has not lost his cool because of this, and he clearly realizes that with the current strength of the Dragon Country Team, even if he goes to Russia, he can only play the role of accompanying the prince to study, and cannot become the protagonist in the World Cup.
For this Dragon Country team, the more pragmatic goal should still be the 2019 UAE Asian Cup, first climb to the top of Asia, after several years of tempering, until the 2022 Qatar World Cup, there is the confidence to stir up the wind and rain in the World Cup.
In the future Asian arena, when facing strong opponents such as Japan, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Australia, the game will be easier to play, which is nothing more than playing against each other to see whose spear is sharper and the shield stronger!
However, when facing an opponent who is slightly inferior, or two or three points, it is very likely to face the situation of the opponent shrinking his defense and swinging the bus.
And how to crack the big bus formation is a problem that all strong teams in international football have to face, and it is a very headache!
The Dragon Country team is now going to establish a strong team mentality and begin to seek and explore ways to crack the opponent's bus formation.
It just so happens that the opponent of this game, the Honduran team, is a very good training object.
Although the Honduran team was successfully suppressed by the Dragon Country team in this game, their overall strength is not very weak, and if they let go of their hands and feet, they should be able to create more trouble for the Dragon Country team.
In this game, half of the Honduran team lost on their own tactical choices!
If this Honduran team is placed in Asia, it can also rank in the top position of the second rate, which is stronger than the Dragon team a year ago!
The overall strength is stronger than the Uzbekistan team, the Syrian team, and the Qatar team that the Dragon Country team met in the top 12 of the Asian zone of the World Cup qualifiers.
The bus formation they set up, according to the truth, caused great trouble to the Dragon Country team.
The attacking line of the Dragon Country team has played quite well in this game, creating fourteen shots on goal in the first half, eight of which are within the range of the goal, which is rare in previous Dragon Country games.
The Dragons fought with the Australian team for 90 minutes and drew 3:3 in the game, and the number of shots on goal and the number of shots on target were not as many as in the first half of this game.
In the end, only three goals were scored, and there were factors that needed to be further improved in shooting efficiency and slightly worse luck, but the tenacious defense of the Honduran team was also a reason that could not be ignored!
The tactical arrangement of the Honduran team in this game, although it is a contraction defense, but there is no passive slack, the players still work the field, fight for every ball, and sacrifice themselves to block the gun's hole, which also happens repeatedly.
The reason why the game played like this, except for the mistakes in their tactical arrangement, the players did not do anything wrong, it can only be said that after Shen Feng completed that classic goal in the first minute of the opening game, the Dragon Country team has seized the general trend of the game, took advantage of the situation to pursue, and grasped the initiative of the game.