Chapter 266: Counterattack
"Rostock, last year's promotion horse, this year's German B fish belly brush extension, if you don't want to become like them, just give me a good performance in this game, the strong team defense of the German B is very powerful, but if Rostock's defense can't be torn apart, don't come to see me after the game!" In the locker room, Haike encouraged the players and then waved his hand and led the players out of the players' tunnel.
After a grand opening ceremony, Haike saw that his players had been in place, especially seeing that Luo Bao and Luo Yu, who started for the first time, were also in place, so he slowly sat in his coach's seat.
Although many players perform very dazzling in training matches, they often perform in a mess as soon as they arrive at the high-profile court, and even appear stiff as soon as they get on the field, while Luo Bao and Luo Yu are a little unnatural on their faces, but they are relatively normal.
Although Haike can't say that he has high hopes for them, he has also spent a lot of time paying attention to them, and the impression that Ye Xin left on him is too deep, so in his mind, he can't ignore anyone who has something to do with Ye Xin.
And Rostock in this game is just their touchstone, if the two perform outstandingly, he will give the two more opportunities to play, as long as it continues, Heiko doesn't mind changing their contract, but if the performance of the two is average or worse, he can only refrigerate the two for a period of time, until the two have improved, of course, this period is generally about a year, no manager will raise two players who can't contribute to the team for so long, especially that Luo Bao is 22 years old, If it is a giant team, they don't mind putting a few more years to strengthen his ability through training, but Jena can't afford it, as long as the two don't have much effect on the field, Haike won't be looking at Ye Xin's face at that time.
However, he thought that he would not look away, and the strength shown by the two in that intra-team match really surprised him, but there was a reason why he delayed letting the two of them go to the field to feel the game, and the game in the first part of the league is too important, and the morale of a team is often settled at this time.
If the league plays well in the early stage, then it will basically be smooth sailing, if the early stage is not good, then the team's morale is likely to plummet, and then the lower the morale, the more difficult the game will be, and eventually form a vicious circle, Haike has personally experienced, 06 Jena was promoted to the German second division, 07 relegated back to the German second division, the reason is so.
So he didn't want to waste this second chance, but he really had no choice in this game, and the two unreliable guys Alex and Voji actually had a bad stomach, which made Haiko have to start his plan in advance.
In fact, he originally wanted to use Damir and Luo Yu in this game, after all, Luo Yu's ball quotient is very high, but Luo Bao's body and scramble made him reluctant to use, two central defenders, one interception and one defense, it is a perfect match, and the two are brothers, and the degree of tacit understanding is not comparable to others, which made him finally decide to let the two play together.
With a whistle, the match, which was broadcast live on television, was finally staged at the DKB Arena.
As soon as Rostock started the game, they put on the posture of other Bundesliga clubs who played against Jena, and they did not choose to attack with all their strength at home, but only relied on a few strikers to play long passes in front, or midfielders followed up with a straight kick.
Typical defensive counter-attacking play.
Heiko pursed the corners of his lips disdainfully, this is obviously abused by the Bundesliga team, originally he still had a good impression of Rostock, not why, just because Rostock's sworn enemy was Dynamo Dresden.
But now Heiko feels that this team has no spirit of its own, five years ago Jena was promoted to the Bundesliga was abused to scum, he did not admit defeat, his players did not admit defeat, even in the face of some strong teams most of them chose to attack, and Rostock in the face of such a promoted polo team, in front of the home broadcast on the TV set did not have the courage to play an offensive football.
Haike shook his head silently.
Rostock's tactical thinking is for victory, another cluster of typical triumphism, of course, this idea is not bad, but in Heiko's view, this kind of football is completely stripped of the essence of football, football itself is not for the pursuit of victory, but for the pursuit of joy, excitement, anger, regret in the process.
It's just that individuals have their own pursuits, and Haike will not criticize this style of play, but he believes that football will eventually return to the path of the past.
Attack, offense, and reckless offense.
And Rostock's tactics have to be said to be quite effective, first of all, their defensive counterattack is a low-post defense, basically most of the people are cowering near the big penalty area, as long as the person who dares to break in will inevitably face more than two players in the bag, but as long as you don't break in, no one pays attention to you, you still pass the ball or shoot from the periphery, but it just doesn't give you the opportunity to break through and receive the cross.
Although Niels's breakthrough is becoming sharper and sharper, the ability to deal with this multi-person defense tactic is still limited, and Bjorn's long-range shot does not pose much threat to Rostock's goalkeeper, no way, Bjorn's pass is quite accurate, and the shooting accuracy is also good, but the shot is not strong.
It's still okay to bully the belly of the German B with a long-range shot that is not fast, and although Rostock is the belly of the German B, it is not something that Jena's long-range shot can do.
It's just that Jena's attack is blocked, and Rostock's counterattack is not very effective, often after they intercept Jena's pass or shot, a long pass is like a headless fly, and basically there are few shots to find the striker.
And what's even more bizarre is that the two players in the middle of Rostock have no sense of returning, they just let their back line play the ball.
The 3-1-4-2 counterattack with both wings flying together didn't fight like this, right?
Heiko was a little confused for a while, this is completely different from the Rostock counterattack highlights he saw collected by the club's scouts, the Rostock counterattack in the highlights was initiated by their midfielder Mikal Wellman, usually after the midfielders quickly divided to the side to make a low high cross, with the help of the height and strength of the two forwards, either the header ferry, or the first shot after grabbing the front point, this kind of attack is very concise and efficient.
It's just that now the situation in Rostock seems to be completely different from what he imagined.