133: I Am Legend, I Am Leon Will (4)
As a member of the staff of the German team, Loew has clearly noticed the crisis of the German team.
Physical.
Football is a very physically demanding sport, and many friends who have actually played football know how painful it is to run all over the field. Because people are not machines, football is different from basketball, basketball is an instantaneous turnaround running consumption, and basketball can be substituted an unlimited number of times, and football can only have three substitutions.
In a football game, many people can run up to 5,000 meters in amateur competitions, I don't know how many friends have tried to run 5,000 meters, and the feeling of vomiting blood after running can definitely make you feel that you are too strong.
In professional football, this figure must be doubled, and in modern football, you don't have to mix up if you can't run more than 10,000 in a game.
So this match between Germany and Argentina? According to the running distance of the German players now, excluding the goalkeeper, if they play the full 90 minutes in this game, the last central defender Mertesacker will run more than 12,000 kilometers, and the other midfielders will likely reach 15,000 kilometers.
When technology did not prevail, the Germans could only suppress Argentina with a wide range of runs.
And the price of this running distance is what Loew just said about the collapse.
"Argentines are accumulating." Loew continued to say with a blank face.
Klinsmann finally got nervous.
As a former professional footballer, he knows how powerful this tactical push can be. The most famous back-up force in this World Cup is undoubtedly the match between the team and the Australian team.
In that game, he suppressed Australia for a full 80 minutes, and for 80 minutes, the Kangaroos did not even have a decent chance.
However, the last 10 minutes of the game were all about the game, and fitness is not a strong point for the Kangaroos, not to mention that most of the Kangaroos players play in the English league with a lot of games but no off-season.
So the Dutchman Hiddink bet on the outcome of the game in the last ten minutes, and in the last ten minutes of that game, Hiddink's Australia burst out with amazing energy, and under the impact of their sudden increase in tempo, the team collapsed, and they were defeated by Australia in the last ten minutes by three goals in a row.
In today's game, the physical fitness of the Argentine team is no problem at all, Tevez, Cambiasso, Leonwill, and Zanetti are all famous in world football.
However, after the German team ran wildly to win the initiative of the game, why did the Argentine team remain indifferent?
The Argentine team did not choose to play aggressively and riskily with the German team, they chose to accumulate power.
They were waiting patiently, it was horrible.
Klinsmann felt a chill down his spine, "It's too late to adjust now, at least we have to wait for midfield." β
"It's better not to adjust and trust the willpower of the players. The players have already consumed a wave in the first half and if the second half suddenly tells them not to play like in the first half, we could collapse much faster because the mental and physical impact of the players is huge. Loew said.
"So what do we do?" Klinsmann looked at Loew helplessly and asked.
"It's up to you, Coach." Loew pointed at Klinsmann and said.
"Me?" Klinsmann looked at Loew with some fog, and then pointed at himself with his own finger.
"Yes, only by your mental contagion, we can only believe in the willpower of the players, we must withstand, at least we have to withstand extra-time, I have a hunch that today's game will be played in extra-time or even penalties." Loew looked at Klinsmann and said.
"The Argentines will let us play until extra time?" Klinsmann asked, confused.
'Yes, because they're playing solidly, they'd rather play extra time and take penalties than lose this game in regulation time. And the Argentine added a penalty before the game. Loew nodded and said.
"Can we stand it?" Klinsmann frowned.
"There's no way, we lost the layout, we still underestimate the Argentines too much, they may have already made more analysis than us for all the situations we may have, if I guess correctly, there is definitely a powerful database behind the Argentine team to support them to make the following judgment: play fast-paced with us, the victory or defeat is five or five, but when we collapse physically, the winner and loser are seven or three open, and they are also seventy percent sure of playing overtime, Maybe even the penalty kicks that we are best at have made data analysis......" Loew still didn't have any expression on his face, he paused and said: "This game is no longer a five-five, from the beginning of our pressure on the Argentine team, it has been a three-seven open, and the Argentines intend to eliminate us in the most stable way." β
"It's terrible, when did the Argentine team have such an advanced database?" Klinsmann still can't imagine it, because in the field of football technology, Klinsmann is very confident that the German team is stronger than all opponents.
"Don't forget, Leonwill used to play in Germany, and the data analyst behind the Argentine team is definitely not worse than us, and should even be better than us." Loew suddenly felt that the German team had really met a formidable opponent this time.
An opponent harder than an iceberg.
While Loew was analysing the situation on the pitch for Klinsmann, four data analysts on the Argentine bench were constantly reporting to Bielsa on the situation on the pitch they monitored.
Spirit can overcome technology, that's something that only appears in this comic. On the football field, strength always comes first, and technology is also part of strength.
Bielsa relied on these high-tech figures to judge his pre-match tactics, and it looked like the Germans had taken the bait.
Except for the goal conceded in the opening game, everything was under Bielsa's control, and all this was studied by the Argentine team after LeΓ³n joined Bayern Munich three years ago.
When it comes to data analysis, Bielsa is confident that Argentina is better than Germany.
The real game of football is a war, and the players play with their skills and brains. The managers have to use their great wisdom to decide the trend of the game on the field.
At least so far in today's game, everything is still under Bielsa's control.
On the pitch, thirty minutes into the game, and as Loew expected, the hosts Germany had begun to deliberately slow down the tempo as the German players on the pitch began to reach their first fitness limit.
"Press up, Camby, don't let the Germans rest easily." Leon said as he looked at his partner.
Cambiaso nodded, and while the German players were ready to use possession to get through this physical pole, the Argentine team began to press with their physical advantage, that is, the advantage of entering the physical limit later than the German team.
As a result, the German players, who had planned to take a break, had to continue to grit their teeth amid the applause and cheers of the fans at the scene.
And by the time they had already held the belief of fighting to the death, the Argentine team, which entered their first physical pole a few minutes later, suddenly slowed down the pace by taking advantage of their technical advantage at their feet.
This contrast made the German players complain, they wanted a relaxing rest, the Argentine team did not give it, and now, when the Argentine team once again dispatched their positive surname, the Argentine team began to use the possession to rest.
The psychological contrast between the German players made them continue to grit their teeth and press the Argentine team, and as a result, the Germans have begun to overdraw their physical strength.
'We were very successful in the first half and the Germans are starting to go crazy. The corners of Leon's mouth, who guided the process of this game, rose slightly, and looking at the eyes of the Germans who were eager to swallow the Argentine team players alive, Leon knew that the German team was playing very hard now, and it was still the uncomfortable feeling of wanting to kill.
When referee Bussaka blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the Argentine players looked the same as usual, while the German players walked back to the dressing room one by one.
'They are really mentally strong and if it had been another team, it would have collapsed by now and we have to be more patient, the Germans are much tougher than we thought.' Looking at his teammates who were coming towards him, Leon said.
"Damn the Germans, they really can't kick to death, but I think they can't withstand our toss even if they are mentally strong." Cambiaso said with admiration and hatred.
"I'm not used to it, but I can see that they're more uncomfortable than us." The little beast Tevez also nodded and said.
"Of course, this is the best and most secure way to beat the host after countless data analysts and tactical analysts. Germany are a strong team and we need patience and some luck. Leon patted his teammates on the shoulder, "Okay, let's go back to the locker room lounge, we need to refuel some energy." β
After his teammates were almost gone, Leon looked at Argentina coach Bielsa who was at the end and said: "So far, everything is going well, but the assistant coach of the German team, Loew, is a very good guy, he must have guessed our intentions and tactics." β
Bielsa smiled and nodded: "Isn't there a saying in the Chinese that if you don't know, unless you don't do it, don't be nervous about Leon, if the Germans adjust in the midfield, they will only die faster, I think what they have to come up with is definitely a quick solution, I think the Germans will only increase the pace of the game faster in the second half." β
"I'm not going to let them score and jump over our zone easily." Leon smiled, and seemed confident in the German team's attack.
Leon's confidence is not groundless, although this German team brings together German elites from all over the world, but to put it mildly, this German team is still playing Bayern Munich's style.
Bayern is prosperous, German football is prosperous, Juventus is prosperous, Italian football is prosperous.
Bayern, Bayern's style Leon is the most clear, because he was once at the heart of that system.
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ps: Another silent offering.