963 Pros and Cons of High Pressing

Intermission arrived.

Real Madrid walked into the visiting dressing room at Anfield, and the morale of the players was not necessarily low.

After all, theoretically, Real Madrid still needs to score a goal to advance to the quarterfinals after 1:1.

Now down 2-1, scoring a goal can really tie the aggregate score and bring the game back to the starting point.

So no matter what, they're going to score another goal.

It's just that if you want to score, you have to play a threatening attack, and there is no guarantee that every threatening attack will be successful, and Liverpool's ability to seize opportunities to play counterattacks is very strong, and it has become an unchangeable reality that the defense line can't parry.

So, how do you do it?

No player can make decisions for the manager, and that responsibility must be taken on by the manager.

Bosque made a bold decision at half-time!

High pressing!

Rather than being crushed by Liverpool in the defensive of Real Madrid's defensive line step by step, it is better to fight with all its might, and the success or failure will be determined in the head-to-head battle.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, Qin Xiong returned to the middle of the midfield again, and Snedra was on the side.

After the start of the second half, Real Madrid's offensive was still crazy.

In the 47th minute of the game, Sneijder transferred the ball widely on the left side of the field, and Robben stopped the ball on the right side and knocked the ball back to the middle.

Qin Xiong then inserted the touch ball and changed direction and passed through Alonso's defense and sent a through ball, Higuain's volley in the box was saved by Reina!

The little smoker's toughness needs to be improved, and his movement is not a big problem, but the frizz and lack of composure when handling the ball are still exposed at this level of play.

In the 50th minute of the game, Qin Xiong handed the ball to Raul in the midfield, who was cut off in the bold pressing defense of Mascherano and Carragher.

Liverpool immediately instigated a counter-attack.

Mascherano passes the ball through to Gerrard, who runs in midfield.

At this time, Real Madrid's defense moved forward collectively, not retreating, but advancing!

Compress the space as much as possible. Let Liverpool be strangled in the process of organizing a counterattack!

But when Gerrard cleverly kicked the ball back to Alonso, who ran up behind, Real Madrid's high press failed!

Alonso stopped the ball and looked at the situation in front of him, he did not expect Real Madrid to adopt such an aggressive and risky defensive strategy.

He got up on the spot and sent a straight kick over the top.

Torres sprinted forward from between Cannavaro and Pepe, and he was 40 yards away from goal!

When the football flew over the heads of the Real Madrid generals, and when they looked back to see Torres riding the dust, there was a sense of despair in everyone's hearts!

Torres chests sideways to unload the ball on the run. Then he continued to dribble the football to the penalty area of Real Madrid, and the chasing soldiers behind him, Pepe and Cannavaro couldn't catch up with him at all!

Casillas had to abandon the goal, and when he was less than three meters away from Torres, Torres suddenly flicked the ball sideways and shook the angle and pushed it straight away!

Casillas fell to the ground and blocked the angle slowly, the football rolled under his armpit, and Casillas closed his eyes at this moment and did not look back.

With the tsunami-like cheers of the Anfield Mountains, it was no surprise.

The ball is in again!

"Fernando Torres scored twice! Liverpool scored the third goal at Anfield. 3:1 lead for Real Madrid!

Real Madrid had to pay the price for their forward press, Alonso set up an assist with precision over the top, Torres's anti-offside run combined with unrivalled pace allowed him to go one-on-one, calmly flicking the ball in front of Casillas and smashing it out of angle, Torres did it! He did what he said before the game: completely defeat Real Madrid! ”

Bosque looked expressionless in the dugout, but in fact he had gritted his teeth.

Gambling, failed?

As an experienced coach, Bosque knows that not every adjustment will produce the desired results.

Naturally, there will be bad results.

Now facing Real Madrid's old injury has not healed and added a new injury. Bosque was also a little helpless.

That's the only way to get down!

Team tactical adjustments can't change dramatically in a short period of time, in that case. It will only cause the team's technical and tactical system to collapse itself.

The Real Madrid generals seem to have become numb, and the team's defense is full of holes in a day or two, and it is Casillas who feels the deepest.

He didn't bother to complain about his teammates making mistakes of one kind or another.

In the 58th minute of the game, Liverpool launched a counterattack again, when Real Madrid's attack was blocked by Carragher outside the Sneijder penalty area, Liverpool's trailing playmaker Alonso controlled the ball and directly passed a straight ball to the ground!

Or look for Torres.

But was cut off by Las Diarra in the middle of the way!

Diarra passed the ball to Ramos on the right flank.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for Liela to run wild earlier to participate in the attack. Sergio Ramos pushed the attack forward 40 yards in one go, and Liverpool's defence had just gone through a round of bombardment, and the counter-attack was fast, but the after-effect of the failure was that there was less time to rearrange the defence.

Ramos passes the ball to Raul in front of the box on the wing.

Raul quickly crosses the ball under pressure from Mascherano.

Sneijder, who cut the ball, dodged Alonso's flying tackle and then sent a cross over the top on the spot!

In the midst of the chaos. Qin Xiong quickly stepped forward, he rushed past Carragher, and Sneijder's overhead pass was for him!

Carragher knew that he could no longer stop Qin Xiong, and this attack was very unexpected.

Many of Real Madrid's attacking players haven't taken a few steps back at all, and the second wave of the attack has returned, which gives them a good starting position, which is also one of the functions of high pressing.

Make the offense more direct and the opponent more difficult to defend against.

Bosque's adjustment cannot be said to be a complete failure, it can only be said that it cannot avoid risks.

As long as the tactical effect comes out, it will certainly be good for Real Madrid.

Carragher raised his hand to signal that Qin Xiong was offside, but the linesman said nothing.

Qin Xiong ran extremely fast, he came to the landing point before the football fell, and then looked at the falling football, he jumped sideways on the spot, and after taking off, he put on a volley position!

Bang!

The right foot hits soccer with an instep well!

Reina struggled to keep his composure to judge the trajectory of the football, and he saw that the football was deliberately pressed down by Qin Xiong and flew to the bottom left corner of the goal!

He immediately moved and made a horizontal lunge.

However, he didn't predict the right angle at which the ball would fly downward!

It's a bomb globe!

Because there isn't much time left for Reyna to react.

If you really see it clearly, then react to it, the daylily is cold!

Reyna watched in amazement as the bouncing ball bounced off the top left corner of the goal, flying into the goal from above his body! (To be continued.) )