Chapter 345: Defending champion Denmark
Our next game is against defending champions Denmark, who still have superstars Laudrup, who won the last European Championship because of the artistic football victory of the two Laudrup. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but this Danish team is still a Nordic powerhouse after all, and most of their players are power players except for Laudrup.
Denmark's ability to win the European Championship is very much in line with our coach's theory: a team with good skills may not necessarily win the championship, if it is only a team with good strength, or even a weak team. Only a team that can develop in a balanced way of strength and skill can become a strong team. And the current Danish team is like this, the two stars Laudrup are the superstars in their team, and the other players are mainly power players, so that they have made a perfect combination of strength and technology, becoming a super team with both strength and technology, Laudrup is just the pearl of art in this power team, although they are very strong, but their success is still based on the premise of combining strength and technology. If there is only the skill of the Laudrup brothers, and there is no strength of other players, the Danish team will definitely be defeated by the power team, and if it is only a power team, Denmark may become a weak team like Norway and Finland. The most terrifying thing about our opponents is that they have a perfect combination of strength and skill, both of which are excellent, and the Danes have been one of the most feared teams in Europe since '92.
Croatia, on the other hand, was a purely technical team before we used the gravity room to train. In our team, although there are many big-name stars, but there are very few power players, and the only ones in our team who really belong to the power players are the central defender Simic, and even Bilic is a very artistic and technical defender who plays football. Such a Croatia, although it seems that the lineup is very strong, but in fact it is like an embroidered pillow that can only be seen, but it is useless. It wasn't until we were able to improve our fitness and strength through training in the gravity room, and even the whole team was able to have good fitness and strength, that we finally got rid of the name of the weak team and began to be known to the whole of Europe.
Then we have to rely on strength and speed to further let the whole of Europe know us and our Croatian team! Our match against Denmark was the best battle to test the quality of our Croatian team! Now I am very much looking forward to the game against Denmark, the past European Cup titles, maybe only represent the past, and even their European Cup titles are considered to be stolen, they are all stolen from us...... If it weren't for them, instead of us to go to Euro 92, maybe this European Cup title would be ours.
Two days later is the battle with the Danish team, these days we can not use the gravity training room to train, we can only use the grass field to train normally, in the training we practiced a lot of tactics, and in the exercise, we clearly feel that our physical condition has been greatly improved, due to the increase in physical condition, our technical and tactical level has also been greatly improved, our speed has become faster, our passing cooperation, play relatively less, And the forward passing is more. We're starting to move away from possession in midfield and more into the way and over the top. In the intra-team match between our main team and the substitute lineup, the main team frequently used breakthroughs to break the goal on the side of the substitute team, and the substitute team also broke the goal of the main team several times in the form of defensive counterattacks, through big foot passes and assaults in front. When the physical condition and strength condition have been greatly improved, I found that our attack has become sharper, and then the defense has become more fragile, this fragility may not be an absolute vulnerability, but because the physical condition of both the main squad and the substitute squad has been greatly strengthened, so relatively speaking, the defense has become more difficult.
After one or two intra-squad training sessions in the past few days, we are more confident about the future games. We didn't have a big bottleneck in fitness like we did against Turkey before, but we were able to maintain it for quite some time. The two consecutive days of training matches between the main team and the substitute team were able to maintain 90 minutes of physical fitness. Since the game between the main team and the substitute team can be maintained for such a long time, and the physical condition does not decline, it means that we should be able to get similar results when dealing with the Danish team, the Danish team, it is obvious that the physical condition is no longer better than ours, they may have a certain advantage in strength and height, but we should have an absolute advantage in speed.
Through these few days of training, we have mastered the way to play against Denmark. We used our bench to mimic the Danish team, who used a very strong collision tactic to trouble us, and we tore through the back line of the substitute with more speed and quicker escapes, with very nice crosses and cuts and very fast and through balls. With the whole team working in the gravity room, we are going to be in better fitness than Denmark, so as long as we can beat my bench very well, we should be able to play against Denmark.
In two days' time, our Croatia-Denmark match will begin.
We came to the stadium where the game was played. There were obviously more Danish fans than Croatian fans, singing songs in praise of Denmark, the winners of the last European Championship, while the fans didn't have that much thought about us Croatia. Although our first game was a 4-1 win over Turkey, which was very good and attracted some fans, after all, the Danish team, as the winner of the last European Championship, has attracted the attention of quite a few fans, and the artistic football of Laudrup and Laudrup has fascinated the fans. We, the Croatian team, are obviously going to be a little bit behind them in that regard. So it's normal for me to have fewer fans, not to mention that we in Croatia are a newly established country, we've just experienced a war, and the people are still very poor, so we don't have many fans to come and watch our games away from home. We don't expect our fans to give more to the Danish fans, as long as we can get the Danish fans to shut their mouths after this game, then we will be very satisfied!