"It's like...... Something is wrong! ”

In front of the away team's dugout at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Chile's head coach Jorge ? Sampaoli looked worried, not at all like the look that should have been on the face of the Chilean coach who had the advantage when the game started, and he could have been more relaxed and confident.

But he couldn't, because he was facing the number one coach in the world, a manager who even Bielsa couldn't help but do!

"No, we managed to get the pace of the game under our control, it's been 15 minutes, we're completely in control, the Germans look a little passive, how could something be wrong?" The assistant next to him said optimistically.

Sampaoli's brows furrowed, he didn't know what to say, he couldn't see what was going on, but he always felt as if something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was, in short, after the game started, everything seemed to him as if it wasn't real.

"Perhaps...... It went so well! Sampaoli said in disbelief.

"It went too well?" The assistant next to him smiled, "Isn't it smooth?" This proves that the tactics you laid out before the game worked, we completely pressed the strong German team, we are now one goal away, as long as one goal is needed, we can open up the situation, we can beat the German team and reach the last eight! ”

Speaking of this achievement, the assistant looked excited, because the defeat of the German team would definitely make Chile famous, and he believes that not only him, but all the Chilean internationals on the pitch have the same hope and eager desire in their hearts.

Yang Cheng and his German team, as long as they score a goal, they can become famous in one fell swoop, and eliminate them, which will definitely shake the whole world and make fans all over the world remember Chile forever from this moment on. Remember each and every one of them!

Just think about it. Everyone's bodies are hot and hot.

Sampaoli looked at his assistant with an excited face, and then looked at the situation on the field, he didn't know what to say, but he really felt that everything came too smoothly, as if his opponent was deliberately putting the initiative of the game in his hands, Chile did not encounter the slightest resistance, and easily controlled the advantage of the game and took the upper hand.

"Perhaps. After the German team played the group stage match against Japan, the form came out too early and too fast, and now it is at a low point! The assistant seemed to be looking for a reason to convince Sampaoli.

Is that really the case? Sampaoli asked himself in wonder, but he didn't say it: I hope so!

Turning his head sideways, he looked at Yang Cheng, who was standing straight and straight, and still looked calm. Sampaoli couldn't believe it. It's the reaction of a manager who is at a disadvantage, doesn't he want to salvage it? Doesn't he want to turn things around?

Sampaoli didn't understand, he didn't have any contact with Yang Cheng, the only time he met face-to-face was before the start of the game just now, when he saw Yang Cheng walking out of the player's tunnel, he took the initiative to walk over to say hello, and get to know the head coach who even Bielsa was full of, and then the two had a short and polite conversation. After that, there was none.

Everything about Yang Cheng, Sampaoli is directly from Bielsa.

In Chile, in Argentina and even in South America, many fans know that Sampaoli, 54, considers himself a student of 59-year-old Bielsa, and he always says that he is a follower of Bielsa. Although the relationship between the two looks more like that of like-minded friends, no one knows Bielsa and his football better than Sampaoli.

Everyone says that Bielsa is crazy, but only Sampaoli clearly knows that even if Bielsa is crazy, he must be crazy for persistence, although he has only been coaching in Chile for less than three years, but he can definitely be called the godfather of football in Chile, he is a god in Chile!

Although in the early days of coaching, Bielsa was questioned, but soon, Bielsa used the ticket to the World Cup to make the whole of Chile crazy for him; Although Chile suffered a heavy defeat at the feet of Brazil at the World Cup in South Africa, Bielsa won the hearts of Chilean fans with his admirable football.

After that, Bielsa set off an Argentine craze in Chile, and the football-loving Chilean even asked Bielsa to attend the National Entrepreneurs' Annual Conference, where he presented his management experience to entrepreneurs from all over Chile.

If it weren't for the subsequent change of president of the Chilean Football Federation, Bielsa would not have left Chile!

No one knows Bielsa's contribution to Chilean football better than Sampaoli, because it is he who leads the sluggish Chileans out of the trough, just like Yang Cheng led the German team out of the trough, both of whom are revered as gods by their respective countries!

Sampaoli still remembers that after Bielsa coached La Liga, he competed with Yang Cheng for the first time, and then he called Sampaoli with a smile, and Sampaoli did not feel the sadness of the loser from Bielsa's body at all, but the excitement of a crazy philosopher who worked hard to prove the truth.

Bielsa said that he saw the philosophy from Yang Cheng, Yang Cheng's Real Madrid made him really understand, football tactics is a philosophy, a philosophy given by the head coach, and Yang Cheng's football philosophy is like the Dutch Michels's full attack and defense, Italy's chain defense, England's long pass and other philosophies, which will have a profound impact on world football.

Bielsa even asserted that the influence of Yang Cheng's football philosophy on the football world will continue to influence the football world even 50 years later, and the world will deeply feel the changes that Yang Cheng has brought to the football world!

Such a person, a man who praises even the crazy Bielsa, would he be so miscalculated? So vulnerable?

Sampaoli didn't believe it, he couldn't believe it!

Yes, he is a follower of Bielsa's football philosophy, but his personality is different from Bielsa's, he doesn't have Bielsa's almost crazy stubbornness, he is more flexible, which makes his team seem to be in the same vein as Bielsa, but in fact he is more flexible and practical than Bielsa.

Or rather, Bielsa is the kind of manager who is dominated by me, he doesn't care how the opponent plays, it doesn't matter who the opponent is, he just has to do it his own way. Tune your team according to your own ideas and ideas. This makes the results of the team he leads generally ups and downs, big ups and downs.

And his style has been deeply engraved into the soul of Chilean football in just three years.

Sometimes, Sampaoli thinks it's fate!

In the early days of Chilean football, it was a team with a relatively rough style in South America, and it was once familiar to the whole world by relying on Chilean Shuangsa, but Chile at that time belonged to the Shuangsa team to some extent, and everything revolved around Shuangsa, and with the departure of Shuangsa, Chilean football also fell into a trough because of adjustment. In 07, he even met Brazil twice in the Copa America, but was slaughtered by the opponent 3:0 and 6:1 respectively, which was humiliated by Chile.

After Bielsa took charge of Chile, he injected more things into the small but smart style, which made the team's overall attack and defense faster, and the team's viewing experience was greatly improved, which led to the crazy Chile team in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

But Bielsa's success has also fueled Chile's madness. His football seems to have been born to cater to the Chilean aesthetic. For a while, from the national team to the club, from the senior team to the youth team, all began to follow Bielsa's style of football, obsessed with ground coordination and advancement, coupled with the fact that Chile did lack individual breakthrough experts and threatening center forwards, so the style was established in one fell swoop.

But after Bielsa, Chile went into a slump, and former AC Milan star Borgi failed to continue Bielsa's madness. Chile suffered a defeat in the 2011 Copa America, and the group stage was already difficult, with Venezuela being eliminated 2-1 in the group stage and then suffering five consecutive defeats in World Cup qualifying, which frustrated the ambitious Chilean and Borgi was sacked. I chose Sampaoli, who was leading the University of Chile at the time, and was in the limelight.

Sampaoli is actually a very self-aware and introspective person, and he knows that the reason why he led the University of Chile to second place in the world after Real Madrid in the FIFA club rankings is more due to the team's accumulation of points in the domestic league.

The traditional giants Colo Colo Colo and their arch-rival Universidad Católica have both encountered great difficulties and problems, which led to the University of Chile being invincible and winning the league, but the status of the Intercontinental Cup and the South American Club Cup in South America is somewhat similar to the European League Cup, and the real top teams compete in the Copa Libertadores.

In the two-legged contest with Copa Libertadores champion Santos, the University of Chile drew one and lost one, losing 0:2 on aggregate!

In the 2012 Copa Libertadores, Universidad de Chile also lost to Boca Juniors again in the semifinals, and like Santos, it was a draw at home and a loss away, losing 0:2.

Sampaoli is a sensible person, he knows how much weight the so-called second in the world at the University of Chile he leads, so after he took charge of Chile, he also knows very clearly that today's South America is no longer the South America of the past, and today's South America has become more and more European, especially at the tactical level, and football around the world is going to be unified.

Although this trend is less than a lot of local differences, it is more mature, as evidenced by the 2011 Copa America, which was definitely an America's Cup for the masters of tactics, not the Copa America as it is traditionally defined!

As teams like Uruguay, Venezuela, Paraguay, and Bolivia begin to Europeanize and play more calmly and conservatively, Chile will not be able to maintain their place in South America if they continue to stick to their open-ended, if not crazy, style of play, and continue to be obsessed with their own tactical style and fail to keep up with the times.

As a result, Sampaoli has always wanted to transform Chile while retaining some of Bielsa's imprints, and in the South American qualifiers, he also confirmed certain results, and in the group stage of the World Cup, he did just that.

However, in this game, when facing the powerful German team, he seemed to have a feeling that every Chilean player was suppressed in his heart, and the devil with the deep mark of Bielsa broke free from the cage and controlled everything!

Looking at the excited assistant next to him, watching the almost crazy attack on the field, seemingly dominating, but never really threatening the German team's goal, he suddenly had an understanding, he suddenly thought, did he fall into the trick?

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"Bielsa is a respectable madman, and the team he brought out is certainly not a normal person!"

In front of the home team's coach's seat, Yang Cheng watched the game silently. What he saw was the German team on the defensive. Chile is on the attack, but he has always liked to take the initiative, but he is not angry at all about this situation and does not want to change it, because this is what he wants.

Of course, it is not that Yang Cheng completely directed the current situation on the field, but the tactics of the German team in this game began to consciously give up the initiative and let Chile come up to attack, because in his opinion, Chile is a typical team that is stronger in attack than in defense. And it's the kind with a big gap.

Looking at the Copa America games, Chile met Uruguay and Venezuela, and they all played miserably, for a simple reason.

Chile has largely inherited the tactical style of the Bielsa period, although Sampaoli has changed from a back three to a more European and more stable back four. It is hoped that Chile will be able to adopt a more practical teamwork strategy. But the effect is not always obvious.

Their routines have been figured out, and even sometimes, they seem a bit mechanical, deliberately ground advancing purely for the sake of ground advancement, and reversing feet back and forth in order to fall back and forth, this kind of tactic may have a good effect when encountering a team with poor tactical discipline, but once it encounters a team with good tactical discipline and strong teamwork. It's a loss!

There is a way that the strength of unity is great, and there is no advantage in individual soldiers, so play system combat!

Every team has its own traditions.

Some people may wonder, what is tradition?

Tradition is a temperament, a character, a label!

This kind of temperament and character is often formed in this team, or when it is transformed. Given by the head coach, injected into the soul, from then on, no matter the passage of time and the change of personnel, unless this team breaks the transformation again, the soul of this team will always be in this team and affect everyone.

While Bielsa transformed Chile, he also endowed this team with a character, an obsessive, persistent, and even a little crazy character, all of which came from Bielsa.

It's just that with the loss of Bielsa, the team has lost a helmsman who is most suitable for them and has begun to go astray!

"The ancient Greek poet Eupepides once said that if God wants to destroy it, he must first make it crazy, and now Chile has begun to lose its rationality!" Yang Cheng looked at the court, the game time has entered 30 minutes, and in the past half hour, the German team has firmly controlled the 32-meter area in front of the goal.

As long as this area is controlled, no matter how fierce Chile's offensive is, it will be thunder and rain.

Chile's shortcomings are obvious, the attacking means are single, the lack of variety, the excessive pursuit of ground coordination, and the lack of a strong striker in the forward line, which makes it difficult for Chile's attack to break into the German team's penalty area after the German team tightens the defensive line.

"This world is really cruel enough, even after Bielsa went to La Liga, he still learned to compromise with this cruel world, and began to learn how to integrate and adapt to this world, but in South America, Chile has always adhered to Bielsa's crazy football philosophy, which doesn't look like an ancient Greek tragic poem?"

Paul on the side? When Bayer saw that Yang Cheng was dropping his book bag, he immediately laughed, "Don't pretend to be a cultural person over there, if you are really so compassionate, it is better for you to simply lose this game!" ”

"I look down on a hypocrite like you the most!" Benitez couldn't help but blow coldly.

Yang Cheng was completely choked and speechless, this group of bastards had been talking about Chile and the like before, and now they turned their guns to hit themselves? Who is the hypocrite?

"Although Chile deserves sympathy and pity, there is no way, this is the trend, it is the general trend, even Bielsa has changed, their persistence is doomed to become a tragedy!" Barak said realistically.

As they spoke, they saw Chile launch another wave of attacks, but this time the German team once again sacrificed Sven? The two-man midfield combination of Bender and Schweinsteiger also showed a very solid performance, organizing and combing the midfield well, and the entire German backline behind them was well organized, so Chile once again failed to do so.

As the game dragged on, the Chilean players were visibly impatient, as they were able to control the ball skillfully, but they were never able to find an effective way to break down the German defence, and as soon as they entered the German half, it was as if they had hit a wall.

But they won't give up, they are still trying to chisel the wall in front of them, because they know that behind the wall is the opponent's goal, which is victory, as long as they chisel it and tear it down, the victory will be theirs.

This belief has been supporting them since the beginning of the game, encouraging them to keep attacking, and they themselves have not noticed that as they are impatient after a long time of attacking, they have more and more mistakes in passing and receiving the ball, especially the situation in the back line has been stable and a little overpressed.

One of Sampaoli's best things in charge of Chile has been to avoid over-pressing the defence as it did under Bielsa, but now, as the situation progresses, the players seem to be a little less calm and are starting to go back to the way they used to be.

After Yang Cheng saw this situation, he glanced at Sampaoli again, the Argentine looked a little aware, and he smiled, "This show is finally going to enter the climax!" ”