For a long time, Mexican football has always felt traditional, or rather classical.

They are not tall, they are relatively short, they are not very good physically, and even to some extent, the skills of the Mexican players are not excellent, as you can see from the style of play of Dos Santos, who was once known as a promising star in Barcelona, who is a well-known technical player in the Mexican team.

But it is precisely such a team that they can be evenly matched for a long time against the physically and supposedly fast United States, and even when they face a top team like Brazil, they are not at a disadvantage, relying not on physical and technical skills, but on the overall technical and cooperative ability of the team.

In the 2012 London Olympics, the Mexican Olympic team defeated Brazil and won the championship, and there were a lot of hopeful stars in the team.

At the time of the team meeting, Yang Cheng commented that Mexico is a strengthened version of Japan, and the reason is that both teams emphasize passing and receiving coordination, but Mexico is better than Japan in terms of technology and individual ability, which is enough to make any opponent feel a headache.

But Mexico's team also has weaknesses. That is, their offensive characteristics are too one-dimensional.

Football around the world has changed dramatically over the years, especially when it comes to developing players, with the traditional midfielder losing his position, and this is also true in Mexico, but in the traditional Mexican style, the position of the midfielder is very important, which has led to a talent gap at the core level of the Mexican national team.

Before, there was finally a dos Santos. But it turned out that these two brothers were cheats, never showed convincing core skills, and it seems that Carlos, a striker who joined Arsenal at a young age? Bella, in the end, failed to show eye-catching ability, but Hernandez, who later joined Manchester United, became the hope of the national team to score, which can also be seen from the hesitation of Mexican football.

Lost the traditional front waist. Mexican football has shifted to an over-emphasis on breaking and advancing on the wings, with Mexico having a Guardado on the left. This player is very good in terms of quality and technique. Barella, who is also a fast-horse player on the right, plus a dos Santos, makes up an attacking phalanx behind Hernandez.

But on the wing, Mexico did not have a decent high striker to guard the penalty area, which also became a major shortcoming at the tactical level of Mexico, making it difficult for their attack to create an effective threat, after all, Hernandez was there. Can you still ask him to fight with tall defenders?

Another disadvantage of Mexico can also be reflected in Hernandez's case. That's the physical disparity.

Without further ado, just count how many players in the Mexican team are taller than 1.8m. The central defender in the team is former Barcelona defender Marcos, who is 1.82 meters tall.

The disadvantage of size makes the Mexican team often suffer when it comes to the taller and more powerful teams.

Germany is undoubtedly the type of team that the Mexican team likes to encounter the most, because under Yang Cheng's tutelage, this German team is not inferior to the Mexican team in terms of overall strength, technology, and strength.

Yang Cheng has always paid attention to knowing himself and his opponent, he has studied the Mexican team very deeply, and he also knows his own advantages very thoroughly, so in this game, he decided to play the advantages of his team from the beginning. …,

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Della? Torre, Mexico's coach hired in a hurry after the resignation of coach Aguirre after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Ore Torre does not have the slightest glamour on his resume, and his only success was the league title with Guadalaja in 2006.

But after taking office, Dela? Torre completely changed the original image of the Mexican national team, and called for prostitutes en masse, and such a thing is no longer possible in Della? Torre's team, and with this discipline and order, Della? Torre led the team to defeat the United States and win the North American Gold Cup.

Della? Torre knows that playing the United States, Brazil, and Argentina, no matter who he plays, is completely different from playing Germany in this game, because this game is not someone else standing on his opponent's bench, but the world's number one coach, Yang Cheng.

Any manager will feel a pressure when facing him, even when he met Scolari's Brazil team in the first game of the group, he was not so great, because he seemed to have a feeling that he could not have any concealment and secrets in front of Yang Cheng.

In order to prepare for this match, he has been working almost all night in the past few days, studying the tactics of the German team, thinking about how to restrain the overall and physical advantages of the German team, and then drag the game into the most powerful situation for himself.

"Be careful at the beginning, the German team has an advantage, we have to stabilize the situation first!" Della? Torre gestured to captain Marcos, who gave him a reassuring sign language, because he had not played against Yang Cheng's team when he was at Barcelona, so he was not as afraid of Yang Cheng as other teammates.

Kodra? What Torre didn't expect was that from the very beginning of the game, the German team played with unimaginable momentum.

If in the past, the German team gave people the feeling that they were trying to stabilize the defense first, then in this game, the German team actively pressed forward from the beginning, actively attacked, and used the physical, technical, and overall advantages to crush the Mexican team's formation without scruples at the beginning.

When the game has just begun. The Germans attacked for the first time, Thomas? After receiving a through ball from Lahm on the left, Muller took the ball and shook off the defender and cut inside, and Mesut Ozil ran to where he should have been to meet it. Muller crossed the ball to the middle before his opponent's bag could form.

The moment the ball was stopped at Ozil's feet, less than 20 seconds into the game, everyone in the Mexican team didn't even have a good job of preparation. Even before their defence could be organised, and Marcos failed to convey the manager's intentions to his team-mates, the German attack was already on their doorstep.

Quick, that's everyone's first impression of the German team; That's the second impression that surprised the Mexicans with Germany's attack, as Marcos made a sure save when he realised he couldn't let Mesut Ozil get the ball on the edge of the box and face the goal. And let your teammates watch Thomas at the same time? Müller and Klose saw Schweinsteiger when he saw him.

At this moment. Marcos had a third impression of Germany attacking after the start of the game. Vicious!

It's so ruthless, it's surprisingly ruthless, it's so ruthless that it's unexpected!

Schweinsteiger almost gave up his midfield role, rushing forward fiercely, as if he was not worried that the ball would be cut off by the Mexican team, and then he was beaten on the counterattack, he almost pushed his fastest speed to cut forward.

Mesut Ozil was clever on the ball. It was between the opposition backline and the midfielder, so Marcos and his teammates organized a three-man bag. Unexpectedly, Ozil first turned around and blocked Marcos with his back. After protecting the ball, flick the ball sideways the moment before the opponent finishes the package. …,

The ball was light and slow, but it appeared strangely at the point where Schweinsteiger was rushing forward.

I saw that Schweinsteiger who was inserted from behind did not hesitate at all, he took advantage of his inertia to rush forward, supported his body with his left foot, picked up with his right foot, and faced the ball is a violent pump!

The nearly 50,000 fans in the stands of the Pernambuco Stadium in Recife could hear it clearly, as if the kick was in their hearts, and they could feel the power of the volley from the loud sound.

The thunderous shot came from the feet of Schweinsteiger, and the ball was like a bolt of lightning, finding a gap in the Mexican penalty area and drilling into the bottom corner of the goal, 1:0!

After the ball drilled into the goal, Schweinsteiger turned excitedly and rushed out of the field, stretching out his arms wildly to meet the cheers and cheers of the fans in the stands.

This goal not only stunned the fans in the stands, but even the head coach of the Mexican team, Della Lee? Torre was shocked, because he didn't expect that the German team would start so quickly and so hard, almost without giving the Mexican team the slightest respite, and directly bring the game into a fast-paced competition.

Conceding a goal in less than 1 minute of the opening kick made Della Dera Die? Torre panicked, at least he knew from the beginning that conceding first against Germany would be fatal, because Mexico would have to press out if they wanted to turn the tide from Germany, but what did Germany do best?

Yang Cheng himself said that his favorite thing for this German team is to play defensive counterattacks!

And this goal also completely destroyed Della? Torre was against the tactics of the defense before the game, at least they were behind!

"What should I do?" The assistant coach walked over anxiously and asked.

Della? Torre frowned, walked to the sideline, and waved at Marcos, "We have to stabilize the situation first, don't mess up!" ”

Marcos is also very experienced, and he also knows that the first thing the team needs to do is to stabilize the situation, because if you mess up, the German team's chance will come.

Sure enough, less than five minutes after the first goal, neither Germany nor Mexico had a single shot on goal in those last few minutes, so, strictly speaking, it was Germany's second attack.

This was a pass to the German team penalty area after being broken, the German team played a counterattack, a long diagonal pass to the right side of the Mexican penalty area, this game replaced Podolski on the field of Reuss on this side of the ball after a steady stop, quickly 45 degrees diagonal dribble into the penalty area.

Reus's dribbling action captivated Mexico's defense. Because they all know that this kind of dribbling from the ribs at 45 degrees into the penalty area, once it is not blocked, it can directly start after entering the penalty area and form a threat.

But just after the attention of the Mexican team was pulled away by Reus, Reus knocked back when he entered the penalty area, and the ball was given to the feet of Ozil, who was pulling the right side of the pick-up, and the player was transferred to the space created by Reuss again. After receiving the ball steadily, make a horizontal pass.

Mexico's defense is already heavily right-leaning, with Klose, Reuss and Ozil all on this flank, and Thomas? Muller is behind on the left, and the left side of the middle has become a vacuum, and this is not where Schweinsteiger scored?

"Dangerous!!" Marcos was the first to react, because he was directly facing Schweinsteiger, who rushed up again. People also flew out for the first time, but it was obvious. His reminders and reactions came too late. …,

Pretty much the same place. Almost in the same position, and in almost the same way, five minutes later, Schweinsteiger once again pulled out a powerful volley that was almost exactly the same as before, and the ball was almost exactly the same into the bottom corner of the goal, forming a goal again!

Excited and excited, Schweinsteiger rushed out of the court and jumped on the sidelines to celebrate. Hugging tightly with his teammates who flew up, in front of the live TV camera. Forget to celebrate his goal.

2：0！ Just 5 minutes later, Germany had a lead of as many as 2 goals over Mexico!

"Oh my God. Is the German team crazy in this game? The on-site commentator made a surprised voice after Schweinsteiger scored again, "Or is it that Mexico has collectively fallen into evil in this game?" ”

"In five minutes, two shots, two hits, and they were all weirdly in the same place, in the same way, we can't describe these two goals in words, but he did show up, and he hit the target, and the German team hit the goal twice in the opening two shots, showing a super high hit rate!"

The live TV camera was replaying the whole process of the two goals of the German team in slow motion repeatedly, and the on-site commentators were also watching the whole process seriously, and he did get some gains from it.

"We can find that the German team took advantage of the opportunity of the Mexican team to gain a stable foothold at the beginning of the game, and launched a very decisive and quick attack, but the German team's attack seemed to be heading for the goal, but in fact they also had a purpose, which was to provide an unmarked area for Schweinsteiger who was inserted behind."

"From the slow motion, we can see that the two kicks, Schweinsteiger is on the left side of the arc of the penalty area, which is very suitable for his right foot to exert power, and the pass given by Ozil is also very comfortable, he almost does not need to adjust much as he comes up, and it is a jerk when he picks up his foot!"

When he said this, the on-site commentator was also greatly admired, "Two shots and two hits, Schweinsteiger has a hard foot today, a decisive shot is strong, and the hit rate is also very good, it can be seen that Yang Cheng just took a fancy to his excellent shooting feeling, so he played the role of the final word!" ”

Before the game, the official website of the German Football Association had published a training report interacting with fans, which mentioned that Yang Cheng specially conducted a shooting match, and as a result, Schweinsteiger and Gomez were the players with the highest shooting efficiency and the most hits in the team, which was not valued by fans before the game, and even estimated that many opponents ignored this.

What I didn't expect was that the reason why Yang Cheng arranged the shooting game was to see the shooting smell and state of the players, which directly led to Schweinsteiger becoming the team's final scorer after the opening, and the little pig also lived up to expectations, hitting twice with two feet, allowing the German team to establish a 2:0 lead in the 5th minute.

"The next step will be more and more unfavorable for Mexico, the game will be more and more difficult to play, because they are now two goals behind, plus after the opening, their defense was broken by the German team, and the momentum was completely suppressed by the German team, which made them completely lose any initiative in the game."

The live TV footage happened to be given to Della on the sidelines? Torre, who lived in the coach's seat of the Mexican team, looked helpless, confused, and obvious, and still he still couldn't figure out what happened after the opening, what mistakes he made, and how he would lose so badly.

"Now, for the Mexicans, the most important thing is to wake up as soon as possible from the storm of attacks and goals created by the German team at the beginning, and re-stabilize the situation and position as soon as possible, otherwise, it will be difficult for them to pose a threat to the German team in this game, and it will be difficult to see the chance to win again."

After the opening game, the German team will naturally maintain this advantage and initiative, while Mexico will be in chaos, regardless of the next Dera? No matter how Torre arranged, no matter how he arranged, it was difficult to regain the initiative of the game.

If you want to pull back 2 goals from the German team with such a solid defense in a passive situation, or even reverse the score, without being attacked and counterattacked by the German team, the possibility of this is almost zero!

It is precisely because everyone, including the Mexican players and their managers, and even the fans in the stands, know this very well, so the result of this game, from the 5th minute, has lost its suspense.

"Yang Cheng, it's really worthy of Yang Cheng! It was not easy to win Mexico in 5 minutes!! ”

In the stands of the Pernambuco Stadium, Scolari also appeared in the stands with his assistant to watch the game, and this is his evaluation of Yang Cheng! (To be continued)