159. England VS Turkey (4)
What do you do when your team starts the game ahead?
Keep on the onslaught and score a few more goals to kill the game early? Or will the whole army retreat, stick to the rear and fight a defensive counterattack?
If it is Josep Guardiola, with a wave of his hand, it is advisable to chase after the poor man with the remaining bravery, and take advantage of the high morale to step on the opponent's body a few more times.
If it's Jose Mourinho, with a big wave of his hand, the bus swings up, first defends the one-goal advantage, and then uses the counterattack to steal the chicken.
At a cursory glance, Qiansheng waved his hand, and the frontcourt players retreated, as if they were about to swing the bus. But in fact, England's three lines are basically occupied in the midfield third, with tough defense and pressing, making it impossible for Turkey to pass the midfield.
After Fatih Trim lost the goal, he withdrew the Memet Topal position in the midfield position and played in the midfield, and the two full-back positions were preced, the Turkish formation was changed to 352, and the five defenders added five midfielders to the defense, Roy Hodgson knew that it was impossible to score another goal if he wanted to take advantage of the victory.
The Turkish national team has a lot of veterans and rich experience in the competition, once they implement the defense, even if the individual strength of the dry is strong, it is impossible to repeat the scene that just broke through the Turkish defense, if England continues to attack, the young Three Lions who have not been able to attack for a long time will definitely show their flaws and be seized by Turkey to counterattack. You know, Turkey's small skills are much better than those of England players.
So, Hodgson wanted to get his team to drop back and slow down the tempo. If you press too much, you will expose the emptiness of the back, and you will not see that the back line has crossed the halfway.
But these players who were full of excitement and only thought about where the attacking players would look to the sidelines to see what the manager had to say, so the role of Qiansheng as a free man was reflected on this field.
It's better than a captain. Joe Hart was too far away from the front to call out his teammates. In this case, it is natural for the pseudo-captain Qiansheng, who has long been prescribed by Hodgson, to make on-the-spot tactical adjustments.
In fact, even if Hodgson doesn't give a code to Qiansheng. Qiansheng will do the same. He is no longer Wu Xia Amon, he has a certain understanding of football tactics, and when he saw Topal standing between the two central defenders, and the fullbacks on both sides were close to Harry Kane and Jamie Walty, Qiansheng knew that the overpressed spring should be loosened.
However, even if they no longer pressed from the front, England did not return to the backfield to set up the bus, but under the command of Qiansheng. The three lines were tight, with England pressing in midfield to keep Turkey from advancing.
Just kidding, this starting lineup, Kane, Valdy and other players who are deeply influenced by the club's pressing tactics do not hesitate to run and press, plus as long as Turkey has players to dribble to the midfield, they will be surrounded by two or three English players, it is strange that Turkey can rush past the midfield.
As a war in peacetime, the midfielder wins the world, under the pressing tactics of England's strong midfield. Turkey was forced to keep passing from the back, but they couldn't penetrate it.
Some people will say that playing long balls, England's backfield is an empty area.
Do you have a high striker like Hakan Suke in Turkey? Even Ruri Shaheen and Alda Turan and Hakan Calhanoglu have good long balls. But Genke Tosson is not a high school striker, and at less than 185 to compete with the tall, header Gary Cahill and John Stones, isn't this looking for abuse?
So. With the advantage of possession and passing statistics (almost all of which are useless control passes at the back), Turkey has never been able to find a way to break through the English midfield fortress.
Turan and Calhanoglu tried to break through with the ball on several occasions, and England was surrounded by two or three people.
Kane and Varti are desperate to score goals. Several times they chose to go it alone, but they were repelled by Turkey's tight backline. The two sides were in hand-to-hand combat in the midfield. Gradually, it was approaching the end of the half-time.
The friendly matches of the national team have never been exciting, and this one is no exception, except for the opening game because he did not adapt to Qiansheng's technical style, which led to him single-handedly breaking through the back line and conceding the goal, Turkey's defense is still very good. After all, the team that can reach the finals of the European Championship can be weak?
"It's a game at the national team level." Qiansheng exhaled softly, and wiped his sweat when he was dead. After more than half an hour of oppression and running, the cadres who experienced the level of the national team competition for the first time had a personal experience after making a comparison with the club's events in their brains.
Tacit understanding is not something that can be established after a few days of training. In particular, the national team has team-mates from different clubs, and it takes a lot of matches to understand and familiarize themselves with their playing styles and habits, but this is not realistic. And most of the players in the Three Lions are very young, and it is not easy to pinch them together.
Due to the lack of metronomes and pie-feeding midfielders in Jack Wilshere, or the England national team's midfielders, there is no way for England to solve this world's problem once they encounter an opposition's dense defense, except to use set-pieces. Hodgson knew that there was no master like Mesut Ozil to feed Qiansheng, and Qiansheng would not be of much help to the team if he stayed in the forward position, so he gave Qiansheng a great deal of tactical freedom.
It seems that Qianqian is doing a good job, and until he finds a way to break through the Turkish defence, it is a good choice to stay in midfield. Hodgson leaned back in his chair and nodded secretly.
There weren't many highlights for most of the first half, and the pitch was quiet enough to hear the frequent tiki-taka sounds of the ball.
Martin Taylor on the commentary stage also turned off the horn in boredom, and chatted with Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker while watching the stadium.
"It seems that my expectations for this game are too high." Lineker said with some disappointment.
Shearer frowned slightly and said, "Why did Qian retreat to the midfield position?" Doesn't Roy know that Qian's powerful attack power is strong? ”
Taylor frowned, "I think Roy is practicing a tactic, a, it seems to be a dry-centered tactic." ”
Lineker pouted: "How could a 15-year-old be the tactical core......"
Before he finished speaking, the silent court exploded, and the three of them hurriedly looked towards the court, and saw Kane excitedly hugging Qiansheng, who was kicked to his ass with a disgusted face.
If you look at the big screen, let's say it's 2-0.
, patronizing and chatting, I didn't see the process of the goal, and Taylor turned off the horn, it was an unexplained goal.
Embarrassed, Taylor quickly turned on the horn and then stared at the screen to watch the goal replay. (To be continued.) )
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