For this key game, which is widely considered by the media and fans to be the final in advance, it was actually decided when the Chinese team qualified first in the group, that is to say, while Crawford decided to avoid the Italian team, it was inevitable that the Chinese Olympic team would meet the strongest opponent in this Olympic Games, the Argentine Olympic team.

In this regard, many anti-Krauchen domestic media maliciously interpreted it as a lack of confidence in Krauchen, so he chose the weakest opponent in the quarter-finals to ensure that he could reach the semi-finals, as for the further goal, apparently he did not think about it at all. It is a pity that Krauchen does not understand Chinese, and no matter how fierce their public opinion offensive is, it will not cause any interference to Krauchen, and it is completely acting for the blind to see - busy in vain. As for the fans, they may be temporarily bewitched, but as long as the national Olympic team plays well, the slander will be self-defeating

In fact, Crouchen is not without a further goal, in fact, it is precisely because he takes the championship as his only goal, and winning the silver medal will be regarded as a failure by him, so he doesn't care about meeting the strongest Argentine Olympic team in the semifinals, because it has to meet anyway, and it doesn't make much difference if it's a little earlier or later. In addition, there is another point that Krauchen can take the initiative to avoid Italy, because the Chinese Olympic team is not afraid of Italy's strength, but is more disgusted with Italy's style of play, so taking the initiative to avoid it will not affect the morale of the Chinese team; And if you take the initiative to avoid the Argentine team, it is because the Argentine team is strong, and when you meet again, there will inevitably be a psychological shadow, which is obviously what Krauchen does not want to see

Although he is very confident in his players, Crouchen also knows how strong the Argentine Olympic team is, and it is needless to say that Messi, a talented man who has long been considered to be the future core of the world's top giants Barcelona, although Aguero, a young striker who has grown rapidly for more than a year, has not scored in this Olympic Games, but he is already the main striker of the five major league teams, and no one dares to underestimate him, and it is rare. He has a good understanding with Messi.

And the core of this Argentine team is not these two little characters, the master behind them Riquelme is the real soul of the Argentine Olympic team. Although Riquelme was not successful in European football as a classic striker who was considered outdated, no one can deny his status as a football maestro, and in the Olympic Games against youth teams with low odds, Riquelme was able to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses. Play an even bigger role on the field than Ronaldo's former World Footballer of the Year.

With Riquelme's playmaker, it's only natural that the talented young duo in Argentina's front line will be a great complement, and there are far more than these three players in the Argentine Olympic team. Di Maria, who will grow into the world's top winger in two or three years, is still a little immature, and Gago, who was eventually injured, is now the main player of the Real Madrid team, and in the back position, the overage player Mascherano is the undisputed world-class back, and it is precisely because of him that the Argentine Olympic team dares to set up only one back, so as to discharge a diamond-shaped midfielder with a front waist, so that Riquelme's ability can be maximized. And he is for the Argentine backline, which has lost a number of key players due to injuries. It is as indispensable as the Dinghaishen needle

However, Crouchen set the breakthrough point of the Chinese Olympic team in the game on Mascherano, for the simple reason that the Chinese team's Gao Jun can overwhelm him in all aspects, even if Mascherano is most proud of his physical fitness, in the face of the Gao Jun who has been trained by Magath Devil to completely force out his potential, he does not have the upper hand, and the same is true in strength and flexibility. As for speed, height and bounce, Gao Jun is far superior to Mascherano. And for the crucial single midfield position. If you can't be prevented by a player on the opposing side, it will directly lead to a complete collapse of the entire defense line. In Krauchen's view, the Argentine coach's excessive trust in Mascherano is the biggest chance for the Chinese Olympic team, which is slightly inferior in overall strength, to win in this game.

Because Mascherano's position in the Argentine Olympic team is not just a midfield engineer, he also needs to drop back to get the ball and complete the first step of the team's transition from defense to attack. Therefore, Krauchen demanded that Gao Jun not only need to break down Mascherano's defense with frequent one-on-one, but also take the initiative to put pressure on him when he is not on the ball, interfering with his ball, so as to strangle the Argentine Olympic team's threatening and rapid counterattack at the source. You must know that the personal ability of the Chinese Olympic team is generally insufficient, and even Yu Hai, who has the strongest one-on-one defense, is only at the level of the main relegation team of the five major leagues if he specializes in playing center back. Not to mention the others, they can still rely on the numerical advantage to withstand the opponent's attack when they shrink the defense, but if they are counterattacked, the danger is much greater

Although he was very confident in Gao Jun's strength, in order to have a better chance of winning, Crouchen also specially increased the number of midfielders to increase support for Gao Jun, and in a certain way, the 352 formation with free men could have made the best use of the outstanding players in the Chinese Olympic team

On the front line, it is still partnered by Xue Lin and Xie Wenjun, and Gao Jun, who plays in the forward position, forms an inverted triangle "trident", and the two most critical fullbacks in the 352 formation are Rong Hao and Hao Junmin respectively, and if you need to strengthen the defense, Zhang Linpeng, a young player from the Oriental team who was born as a fullback, will be a good right wingback substitute.

The double back is still partnered by Yang Hao and Cai Huikang, who are more and more tacitly compatible, and the three central defenders are Yu Hai, Zhao Ming and Feng Xiaoting, of which Yu Hai is a free man and will not stay on the back line all the time.

Because Crowchen's arrangement of Gao Jun was a targeted deployment for the ranking of the Argentine team in the previous Olympic games, Gao Jun was not told until before the game, but this did not make it difficult for him, "Isn't it the 'defensive forward' that Yu Hai played at the beginning?" No, it's still a little different, Yu Hai doesn't have a specific defensive target, he needs to have a lot of coverage, and I only need to pester Mascherano alone when defending, to be exact, it should be called 'marking forward midfielder', the job is much simpler than Yu Hai's 'tackle type forward midfielder' played at that time."

It is worth mentioning that the football king Maradona also came to watch the game, which gave a lot of encouragement to the players of the Argentine Olympic team, and everyone wanted to win the Olympic championship and give it to the old horse who has always regretted that he did not win the Olympic championship, especially Aguero, who has now become the son-in-law of the old horse

But Gao Jun and his friends obviously will not let the Argentines get their wish, after guessing the side to win, as soon as the referee blew the whistle, Gao Jun immediately pounced on his opponent in this game Mascherano without hesitation, causing an uproar among the fans in the stands, no one thought that the number one star of the Chinese team would actually do such dirty work in this game

Fans didn't expect it, the two commentators of CCTV didn't expect it, and the head coach of the Argentine team, Batista, also didn't expect that seeing Mascherano, who couldn't pass the ball forward under the entanglement of Gao Jun and could only pass the ball back, Batista's face was suddenly clouded

Maradona in the box couldn't sit still, he stood up with a frown, and began to think about what to do at this time if he was the head coach, "You can't transport the ball forward in the middle, so you can only go to the side, and letting the frontcourt players retreat to respond is also a way, but the cost is too great"

Wing defense is the main weakness of the three-back formation, but the Chinese Olympic team in this game in the two backs were specifically instructed by Crowchen before the game, plus the Argentine team has almost no offensive in the middle, so they are very resolute when they make up for the side, plus there is a free man Yu Hai with a great range of activities and Wang Dalei, the attacking goalkeeper who started again, so the Argentine team's attack on the side has never received the desired effect from coach Batista. What made Batista even more headache was that the Chinese team took advantage of the numerical advantage in the midfield to completely cut off the line of passing the ball to Riquelme on the side, and the guide zhì, the soul of the Argentine team, had to retreat to receive the ball, which is exactly what Krauchen wanted to see

"Football has always been loose for fouls in the front court, penalties have always been relatively loose, not to mention that we are still the host, there will always be some home advantage, then it is even looser, Riquelme is too slow, the ability to get rid of is not strong, even if the technique is good, it is difficult to make any waves in the face of our unconventional tactics after being surrounded by us", although Krauchen is a rigorous traditional German coach, he has never been opposed to making reasonable use of home advantage

Although He Wei, the host of the CCTV broadcast program, praised the Chinese team's dripping defense after the opening, he still believes that the Chinese team must not be careless, "Today, the Chinese team's tactics seem to be successful, but the Argentine team has many players with excellent individual ability, even if they can't cooperate, we can't take it lightly."

And the guest Xu Yang saw another thing that was a little worried, "In this game, we limited the attack of the Argentine team very well, but today's Gao Jun seems to be too invested in defense, and our offense has not been played, so it is not good to go on like this, our number one star and a defensive player like Mascherano are one-on-one, it is really a loss" (to be continued......)