Volume 4 Chapter 69 The Butterfly's Wings
Alonso knew Mackin as well as he knew all his habits, a teacher, friend and rival.
Although they have only been working together on the pitch for two years, the mindset of the midfield commanders is always similar, and this is the friendship and story between two of Liverpool's top brightest men in the past.
But now Mackin is one game at a time, and his fame has become so great that even Alonso needs to show him the necessary etiquette, which makes him suddenly feel that he is aging very quickly, and he will officially run for three next season.
With a self-deprecating laugh and a hollow thought, Alonso handed the ball to the maturing water man, Ramos, and then regained his usual composure.
Capello stared intently at the net he had carefully compiled in midfield, on which the balance of victory and defeat was about to be torn and entangled, and then each went to find that glimmer of life.
It's helplessness, it's gambling, and it's the best choice!
The red and white stands, mixed with nervousness, anticipation, and trembling shouts, collided violently, with a hint of hysteria, with a full of madness.
The passing and pressing of each foot is like the confrontation and collision of two nets, a red pass-controlled net and a white blocked net, and the ball fights for each other.
"Ramos, quite flexible at his feet, Frank Lampard on the defensive, Capello put him in the left midfield ......, I really can't guess what he wants to do", Huang Jianxiang smacked and said.
"Maybe it's to defend Ramos", Zhan Jun watched Spain skillfully do back-and-forth back-and-forth coordination on the right side, and estimated that "compared to Capdevilla on the left, Ramos's assist threat is too great"
He is one of the few players who can play both right-back and centre-back in completely different positions to become world-class, and if it weren't for his overly irritable personality at a young age, Ramos would have stepped into the world class earlier.
In the Spanish system, Ramos is the equivalent of a strengthened version of Alves, no worse offensively than him, and stronger defensively than him.
Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived.
Alonso and Butskic both came over to make a few passes to Ramos, but England couldn't break the ball this time, "Hoo, oh", "Hoo", Spain's skillful foot pass immediately ushered in cheers from the stands, even neutral fans love to watch this kind of gorgeous performance.
They passed and retreated, and ran forward at any time, so that Macqin and their midfield line did not dare to press unscrupulously, but restrained control the line near the top of the arc of the opponent's half.
"Ramos, dunk past Frank Lampard, hand Xavi with the outside instep to Xavi in the front, Xavi's range of movement is also quite large, Gerrard puts the tackle, oops, Xavi is very fast", Huang Jianxiang exclaimed.
The in-cut Perrod received Xavi's pass, but Barry and Ashley Cole came in fairly quickly, almost as soon as he didn't stop the ball.
Pedro stabbed the ball to Ramos on the side first, jumped up to avoid Barry's grab, Ramos didn't stop the ball, and directly curled the ball straight behind the middle.
"Ramos, pass through ......," Huang Jianxiang shouted, and a red figure with John Terry swooped out of the England backline and followed the ball straight into the penalty area.
"Villa......", "Boom", Carragher frantically made up for the position behind him, Joe Hart was already on the way to give up his life, and the English fans were as if they were hung on a gallows.
"Toot ......", the side flag raised by the linesman and the whistle of the referee made the English players and fans put their hearts back in their stomachs together, and in a moment.
"It's offside, it's offside, let's look at slow motion, the moment Ramos passes, Terry and Carragher collectively press forward, this is an offside tactic," Huang Jianxiang said.
"Oops, I kind of understand it now", Zhan Jun said, "England is going to paralyze Spain's half-court passing, and would rather sacrifice the space behind them, which is a bit of a gamble."
"It's a lot more demanding from the midfield," said Hao, "England have to paralyze Spain's midfield and make their through balls longer to give the defenders time to react"
Huang Jianxiang and Zhan Jun both nodded, sweating for England in their hearts, and the conservative Capello sacrificed this kind of life-fighting tactic, which surprised everyone.
"My fault, my fault", despite being offside, Lampard still patted his chest and apologized to his team-mates, blocking the Spanish midfielder's through ball, which was their top priority in this net.
"Hiss......", Lineker and Wilson in the BBC studio also took a hard breath and almost died of fright!
The two veterans stood up from the dugout at the same time, Bosque was thinking about England's style of play, and Capello walked directly to the sidelines and opened his mouth to reprimand Lampard!
"Frank, how did we get to the tactical meeting! If you can't do it, give it to me! Frank Lampard had to nod his head and keep apologizing.
Any one overstep could lead to the loss of this match, and just as a nail could lead to the loss of a war, Capello finally showed his harshest side.
Mackin returned to the back to receive John Terry's ball, a scene he was no stranger to, and that was also the case against Barcelona.
The Spanish frontcourt pressed towards Mackin quickly, like a reversal of the role, the blocking and pressing turned red, Mackin passed back to Joe Hart, and then ran into the penalty area himself.
The pressing system formed by Spain under Barcelona is very distinctive, otherwise it is impossible to suppress so many teams with a bunch of small men, in short, it is to block the area, cut off the ball road, and squeeze locally.
Ordinary players can't pass the ball steadily in this kind of pressing system, because there is no time and space.
In this case, it is also difficult to find teammates who are in the far gap, and even if they do, most people will not be able to pass it.
At least most of the English players on the pitch don't have that ability, so they have to be concise to reduce their chances of making mistakes.
"Mackqin, he controls the ball in England's back line, he is very cautious, and he doesn't dare to go up casually", Huang Jianxiang said, "after all, it is the final"
Spain's overall formation was running with the ball at all times, and when the ball moved to the feet of Milner, who retreated deeply, the four red players could already be seen from the live broadcast camera to shrink the encirclement in an instant.
Iniesta, Villa, Xavi and Buzkec!
"Danger!" Huang Jianxiang shouted, "Don't play with fire in the backfield", Milner staggered back and poked the ball on his toes towards the white player who came to answer.
Mackqin, who came up against the ball, picked up his thigh with a kick, and narrowly avoided Villa!
The ball did not fly blindly up and forward, but crossed the pitch diagonally and quickly and went straight to Lampard on the left, "Good ball, good ball", Zhan Jun shouted.
A quick transition from strong to weak may be the most effective way to deal with Spain or Barcelona, and Capello's role in deploying Frank Lampard at left midfield is also on the horizon.
Frank Lampard doesn't have the pace to sprint now, but he doesn't play as a winger on the left wing, but as a Beckham on the left, with Ashley Cole at the bottom.
Frank Lampard stopped the ball near the touchline on the left flank as soon as he chested it, and Ramos naturally couldn't let him get the ball in comfort, squeezing him hard behind him, trying to force him to miss the ball.
"Cole, he's on the edge quickly", Ramos saw a white figure on the sideline rush behind him, forcing him to switch guards with Pedro.
Taking advantage of this, Frank Lampard directly knocked the ball and half-turned, glanced at the right side of the diagonal, and directly picked up another big foot, Gerrard was inserting on the right highway.
Milner, like Frank Lampard, is also a pseudo-right wing-back today, his role is mainly to help defend Iniesta on the right and in the right midfield position, and the real impactor is Gerrard!
The day after the final matchup, Capello called Liverpool's trio to the office when the coaching staff didn't think of a specific solution, and asked them in detail how they played the triangle counterattack against Barcelona.
This is the formation arrangement of this variant of England today!
Many things in history, only when a long time has passed, do we know how influential it is, Mackin's unintentional moves, in addition to the success of Liverpool, have successively affected too many teams, Inter Milan, now England, and the biggest loss is the team that follows Guardiola's passing control system.
"Boom", "Gerrard, GoGoGo", the vigorous impact is indeed more adrenaline-pumping than flashy passing, at least at the moment the stands are performing.
The speeding big truck, as if it was back at Anfield, back to the original Camp Nou, Spain torn apart by two big diagonals, the right side is finally empty!
Capdevilla has just received the penalty area, and the right side can now be called Gerrard's passage!
"Gerrard, Gerrard, England are moving beautifully", Zhan Jun shouted, because he saw what he wanted to see, and only this thing could create a threat to Spain!
Cushion the ball on the chest, rush forward is still the same, the surface of the foot is smoothed to let the ball obediently roll against the turf, Gerrard turned his head to look at the penalty area, and it was directly a waist arc ball that seemed to be passed and shot straight to the far point of the small penalty area!
The ball slashed through the penalty area like a swift scimitar, and with Gerrard's strength, you can imagine how fast the ball was, Capdevilla and Puyol shoveled out one after another, but they couldn't touch the ball.
"Good opportunity, Rooney ......", Huang Jianxiang's passion does not need to be repeated, only to see two players, one white and one red, pulling each other in the penalty area and running to the far point of the small penalty area at the same time, Casillas also moved wildly, ready to pounce on the side at any time.
Most of the England fans in the stands stood up, ready to stand up and cheer, but it turned into a huge sigh as Pique, who kicked the ball first, kicked the ball off the line.
"Oh oh ......", the England substitutes who stood up on the bench all held their heads, and their movements were uniform, I don't know if they had been specially trained to steal the show.
"Hey, hey, hey", this time Rooney got up unusually quickly, and ran directly to the referee who ran over, "He pulled my jersey, pulled, it should be a penalty, a penalty", looking at his appearance, the referee must owe him a lot of money.
Rossetti shook his head, stretched out his hands and waved cross, NO!
Pique stood up and high-fived Casillas, who was palpitating, to celebrate the success of the rescue, "It was really too dangerous just now, Rooney was a little slower", Li Pengpeng gestured a small distance with his fingers, "Otherwise, England will take the lead"
Mackin didn't slowly run from the back to the corner until he confirmed that it was a corner, and at this time he missed Alonso very much, and if Alonso was behind him, he could share the pressure of his long pass.
That would give him more opportunities to get on the attack, unlike now, where he can't play quality balls without himself at the back.
It's a pity that Brother Long has run to the opposite side today and has become an opponent, the brothers who once fought the legendary battle together, are going to turn against each other today, and they who once incited the wings of butterflies have now come to the highest football stage in the world......