Chapter 90: The first battle of the group stage

The Huaxia team, or Wang Shuai, is completely prepared for the opponent of England, and the preparation on the England side is not lacking. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The England team doesn't know a lot about the Chinese national team, just because the Chinese team has not changed much in recent years. The formation has always been 4-5-1, and the tactics have always been defensive counter-attacks, and even those micro-tactics have not changed much. Even if the main lineup of the Chinese team has changed a few times in recent years, it is just a change of soup and not a change of medicine, and the most essential things are still those from a few years ago.

To say that the biggest change in today's Huaxia team is the addition of Wang Shuai to the lineup. However, these people in the England team probably know Wang Shuai more deeply than the Chinese team, after all, they have dealt with so much over the years.

And the only variable in today's game, that is, after Wang Shuai returns to the national team again, will it bring any new changes to the Chinese team.

The answer, of course, is that there is no change, not that Wang Shuai doesn't want to, but that it's too late in time.

The World Cup opened in early July, and when Wang Shuai went to report to the national team, it was already the end of June, and in just over a week, Wang Shuai had no time to implement any new tactics. Not to mention TF-BP tactics, it is difficult to adjust the offensive and defensive balance in the existing tactics.

It's just that this time is not enough, and it will be almost half a month longer, you must know that the World Cup will last for nearly a month, and the schedule of the World Cup is not so tight, which is enough to leave enough time for Wang Shuai to train tactically.

But this game against England is obviously going to go according to the old ways.

In this way, both teams "know each other", and all that remains is the strength of both sides.

From the perspective of overall strength, the England team is naturally higher than the Chinese team, but the Chinese team also has its own advantages, that is, the versatility of the midfielders.

The formation of the Huaxia team is the same 4-5-1 double forward formation as always, of course, Wang Shuai, the central midfielder, is a little incompetent, when attacking is the front midfield, when defending is the back waist, anyway, there is no time to stay in the center midfield position honestly.

Another central midfielder, Hou Shuang, is also an all-round midfielder, although he is still only a mid-level professional player, but his skills and speed attributes have reached the standard of senior professional players, and now with the addition of Wang Shuai's system, he can have a good performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

Then there is Zhou Aniu, whose defensive skills are comparable to a first-class defender, and he has excellent long-pass and long-range shooting ability, and even the shortcomings in speed have grown to an average level under the "tuning" of Wang Shuai's system in the past two years. It is conceivable that with time, even if Zhou Aniu grows to the level of Wang Shuai's current demon, it is not impossible.

On the England side, although there are two great players in the midfield, Brandt and Flonetti, both of them only specialize in their own areas. Brandt is defensive, Floniti is the ball, and the other striker, Lorenz, can only attack.

In this way, whether it is offensive or defensive, the Huaxia team can form a situation of more and less at the halftime, which invisibly makes up for the gap in the strength of the two teams, and even the Huaxia team still wins.

It's just that the midfield is only a midfielder after all, and it can neither complete the final blow of the attack, nor the last line of defense. With Wu Shi on the front line of the Chinese team, coupled with the participation of Wang Shuai, it can be said that the offensive ability is no worse than England, but the strength of the back line is really weaker. So overall, the two teams are really half a catty.

And that's exactly how the game went.

In the first 20 minutes, both teams were tentatively attacking, and it was clear that this attack could not pose much of a threat to either side.

Later, when the two teams really did it, the Chinese team took advantage of the midfield and occupied the advantage of ball possession, and the England team seized the hole of the weak defense of the Chinese team.

In the 41st minute, near the end of the first half, the Huaxia team converted possession into a score, and after a collision with the wall, Wang Shuai assisted Wu Shi to score a goal.

In the 53rd minute, shortly after the start of the second half, Lorenz took advantage of his physical advantage and won a long-range duel from a corner, which was ferried to Ibrahimovic, who volleyed it over.

Immediately after the 61st minute, it was still the cooperation between Wang Shuai and Wu Shi who collided with the wall, but this time Wu Shi did not shoot, but passed the ball back to Zhou Aniu, who was inserted, and the black guy kicked a powerful world wave, and shot the ball into the goal when the England goalkeeper did not react.

The last goal came in the 78th minute, when England got a free-kick in front of the goalkeeper, and David's "Silver Moon Scimitar" rushed past the five fingers of the Chinese goalkeeper to help England equalize.

2:2, a draw is certainly not the best result for both teams, but it can be said that everyone is happy. In the case that both sides are still on the same running line, as long as they win the remaining two games, it is enough to ensure qualification, and there is no need to look at the "face" of the other side. And the remaining two games are not difficult for both teams.

It is not surprising that England and China are in a good situation to qualify, but it is the Chinese team's playing style today that has made some people with a heart shine.

The key lies in two people, Wang Shuai and Zhou Aniu.

The two goals of the Huaxia team, Wang Shuai assisted one assist and one indirect assist, and replaced it with other players, such data is already quite good. But you know, this is Wang Shuai, for Wang Shuai, who won the best assist in the Premier League last season and ranked second in the scorer list, this data is not very eye-catching. The only explanation is that Wang Shuai has shared the burden on his body.

For this, everyone is more understandable, after all, England's Brandt's defensive ability has been shown in their eyes, and it is understandable for Wang Shuai to hand over the offensive task to others after being restricted. But it is precisely because of this that everyone has raised their vigilance, after Wang Shuai's power declined, the Chinese team still drew with England with two goals, and such offensive ability had to be defended.

And when it comes to two goals, we have to mention Zhou Aniu, who has one goal. Everyone also knows more about this black guy, and it is not too much to say that he is the pillar of Villa's defense. As for his role in attack, the only thing known was the header in Villa's FA Cup game against Chelsea last season (Author's note: see Chapter 46 for details). It's just that although the header is amazing, it seems to be just a flash in the pan, and Zhou Aniu has never participated in the team's offense in the past two years.

But today's world wave once again awakened the memories of these people, and they found that this defensive titan also seems to have quite good scoring ability, but Wang Shuai seems to be more inclined to put him on the back line. But the more this is the case, the more everyone feels that Zhou Aniu, who is ambushed in the rear, is like a time bomb, and he doesn't know when he will give them a fatal blow.