Chapter 63: Benitez

From this point of view, Napoli has studied Qin Shou, or rather, Atletico Madrid, very thoroughly.

To put it bluntly, Atletico Madrid as a whole can only be regarded as a medium-sized team, only because of the core of Qin Shou and Simeone's tailor-made tactical system around Qin Shou, this team's combat effectiveness has skyrocketed, and it has the strength to compete with a number of giants.

This is clear to many teams and there is a consensus that if they want to beat Atletico Madrid, they must limit the play of China's Qin.

It's just that you know it, but it's very difficult to do. Qin Shou's personal ability is very strong, breakthrough, passing, speed, everything is top-notch, it is really not easy to restrain him. This is also the reason why many teams are depressed, knowing that as long as Qin Shou is prevented, it is equivalent to weakening half of Atletico Madrid's strength, but it just can't be prevented.

Naples is facing the same problem. Through the video of the game and the information collected by all parties, they also confirmed that if they want to score points on Atletico Madrid, there is only one way, to freeze Qin Shou first. Only by letting this Atletico king settle down, Atletico will have no power and will not be able to exert it.

The current manager of Napoli is Spaniard Rafael. Benitez. The name is also extremely loud in today's European football, and he has coached Valencia and led the Bat Army to the La Liga title over Real Madrid and Barcelona. Then at Liverpool, the Reds, it was also a huge success. Although the curse of Liverpool's failure to win the league title was not broken, it led Liverpool to a shocking comeback after falling behind by three goals in the 2005 Champions League final, which can be called one of the most classic battles in modern football.

Rafael Benitez is a veritable champion coach with an introverted personality and arguably not good at interpersonal relationships, his strength lies in analysing the game. Make the best tactical arrangement according to the different opponents. He is a typical "workaholic", or a representative of diligence, his on-the-spot command is average, and his tactics are not surprising, but he can rely on continuous analysis and continuous pre-game work, so as to arrange the best tactics to contain the opponent.

When Mourinho was still in the Premier League, his arrogant and arrogant mouth made the Premier League coaches angry enough, and almost offended him all over again. But the madman has said it in public. He is not scared of anyone in the entire Premier League, except for a certain "dead face" of Liverpool.

"Dead face" refers to Benitez.

Unlike Mourinho's arrogant and arrogant personality, Benitez is almost the other extreme, he is so low-key that it is almost easy to ignore him, and it seems that he is not interested in anything but work.

Jose Mourinho is good at psychological warfare, always provoking the anger of his opponent before the game and making the opponent's mentality unbalanced. But in the face of Liverpool, Mourinho can only hold back. Benitez didn't bother with him. No matter what he said, what he did, and how he tried to tease, Benitez had an ancient face. When he was pressed, Benitez would throw out a phrase "wait until you win us at Anfield".

It was a stab in the heart of Jose Mourinho – the madman had never beaten Liverpool at Anfield since taking charge of Chelsea, and Chelsea even held United back in the league for a time. But against Benitez-led Liverpool, the record is really bad.

It can be seen from this, in addition to being low-key. Another characteristic of Benitez's personality is pragmatism - I don't argue with you, I speak with facts. It's like a game, I don't chirp with you, I don't pursue the process, as long as the result is good, that's enough.

In this regard, Benitez and Mourinho are surprisingly similar, although the two have different personalities, but the football philosophy is the same, the theory of life - as long as you can win, the process of the game, the scene or something, you can abandon it for a while.

In fact, this football philosophy is very suitable for cup competitions, and throughout modern European football, whether it is Chelsea, Liverpool, or even Atletico Madrid last season, they have performed very well in the Champions League. The saying in football that "if you want to win fans, you rely on offense, and if you want to win the championship, you rely on defense" is by no means an empty phrase.

Chelsea, Liverpool, Atletico Madrid, they all pursued attack while basing themselves on their own defense, and they all achieved good results.

But when two teams that are equally good at defending meet, it's a bit of a blind sight.

Benitez is well aware of Atletico's defensive prowess, which is not bad at all compared to his own team. But in terms of offense, with Qin Shou, the opponent's attack methods are better and richer, and at this point, they are at a disadvantage. In contrast, it will be very difficult for your team to pick up points away from home.

Benitez, who is known as the "master tactician", has been thinking hard about countermeasures to contain Qin Shou during this time, but after thinking about it, he has not found a good solution.

But if you don't make targeted arrangements for it, it obviously won't work, and it's no different from early surrender?

In desperation, Benitez opted for the most old-fashioned method, which was to mark man defensively. He sent two players to close Qin Shou full-time, as long as the opponent got the ball, he would go up to interfere and try his best to destroy.

Although this will weaken the defensive strength in other places, Benitez has also studied that Atletico Madrid's offensive is launched from Qin Shou, it can be said that Qin Shou is Atletico Madrid's brain, as long as Qin Shou can be cut off from this source, then Atletico Madrid's offensive ability will also have to drop a notch, so calculated, Napoli will not suffer.

So at the beginning of the game, Qin Shou was surrounded by two players from the opponent.

Benitez's thinking was not wrong, but he still underestimated Qin Shou's ability a little.

Qin Shou's escape technique in a small area is excellent, and the frequency of his feet is not much better than Messi. The two Napoli players quickly grabbed up, but Qin Shou's movements were faster, and with a slight pull of his left foot, he avoided the fastest and fiercest Napoli striker Cavani, and in the next second, the football that was pulled to the left by the left foot was blocked by the inside of the left foot in an instant, and bounced back in reverse, Qin Shou's right heel, with a slight stab, the football drilled under the crotch of another Napoli player Behrami, Qin Shou also twisted slightly at the same time, and ran through the gap between the two.

During the whole process, Qin Shou was incomparably light and flexible, and the football was like an obedient elf, where Qin Shou told it to go, it would go.

The two besieging players were like two wooden stakes that had no emotion and couldn't move, and only after being left behind by Qin Shou did they turn their heads to look at Qin Shou in hindsight, and Qin Shou had already rushed out of the encirclement with the ball.

"Beautiful! A beautiful breakthrough! Qin only used a few simple actions to successfully play the two Napoli players! ”

"Qin is like a dancer on the green field, his dancing is intoxicating!"

"At the beginning of the competition, China Qin made people enjoy a wonderful breakthrough!"

"I think Benitez must be dumbfounded at this moment, ha, he thinks that sending two players to surround him will be able to restrain Qin? It turned out that this was really a failure, and as soon as Qin opened the scene, he slapped this 'master tactician' hard with such a subtle breakthrough! ”

The commentators at the scene made a fuss and shouted, and many of them still had sneers on their faces. Benitez estimated that he had been away from Spain for too long, and he thought that Qin Shou could be involved so easily, wasn't that nonsense? If it was really that simple, then last season, this season, so many teams in La Liga were not fools, and they could kill Qin Shou and Atletico Madrid by grabbing, then they would have done it a long time ago - in fact, there are also many teams who have used the same tricks as Benitez, and as a result, Qin Shou has lost face, and that face, tsk, was beaten by "Papapa~".

The commentators are gloating, and there is another name to be added to the self-deprecating team, Benitez, master tactician, hum, I hope your face doesn't swell after the game.

"Oooo I think Qin's feet can do magic, it's wonderful! ”

"I think we should be grateful to Benitez, we like to watch China's Qin's outstanding performances, so please continue to send people to press Qin, so that we can better appreciate Qin's wonderful breakthrough!"

"Attack! Offensive!! Chong, Qin !! ”

Tens of thousands of fans at home also shouted excitedly, and at the beginning of the game, they enjoyed a good show, and their hearts were full of satisfaction and happiness.

Benitez was indeed a little dumbfounded, even if he had already overestimated Qin Shou's strength, but when he really came to the game, he found that he was still underestimated, he didn't expect Qin Shou's reaction to be so fast and so flexible.

Qin Shou's quick breakthrough suddenly tore a big hole in Napoli's midfield defense, and he could either sprint forward with the ball alone or choose a long pass.

Benitez was a little anxious, and when he came back to his senses, he shouted, "Stop him!" Stop him! ”

Without Benitez commanding, the Napoli players on the field also understood what kind of threat Qin Shou's breakthrough forward had to the team's midfield and backfield defense, so immediately another Napoli player who was close rushed over.

Rushing over was Hamsik, the heart of Napoli's midfield.

Hamsik is the brain of Napoli's midfield, and Qin Shou is the commander of Atletico Madrid, and the two meet in a face-to-face ace battle.

Qin Shou has risen like a comet in the past two years, shining in European football, and his reputation has been lost for a while. Before the game, Hamsik envisioned that he would perform well in this game, defeat Atletico Madrid, and also defeat Qin Shou, so that the world would know that he Hamsik is also the world's top midfielder.

But the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

It turns out that no matter how beautiful the imagination is, reality is not writing a novel, you can do whatever you want - besides, you can do whatever you want, that is the protagonist of the novel, are you Hamsik?

No, so, the result is only bitterness.

PS: Kicking WeChat YX3335665. (To be continued.) )