Klose's injury has indeed been improving, and Yang Cheng even directly gave the team doctor team a lot of power to do their best to arrange Klose's recovery, and the team doctors have always worked hard.

The day before the first game against Colombia in the group stage, Klose put aside the crutches in his hand, but he was still not so dexterous when he walked, which made him unable to participate in the team's training for the time being, and even he will continue to carry out rehabilitation training in the next period of time, when he will be able to return to the training ground and football field, Yang Cheng does not know.

However, progress is something that everyone should be happy about, isn't it?

Another equally gratifying thing is that after Germany's 3-0 win over Colombia, the other game in the group was also played, Croatia drew 2-2 with Japan, which also gave Germany three points to the top of the group, while Croatia and Japan have one point each, and Colombia are bottom of the group.

In the second round of the group, Germany will play Croatia and Colombia will play Japan, which will also determine the qualification from the group.

After the winner of this game was decided, the media were very optimistic about the prospects of the German team, thinking that the German team had a good chance to qualify, but there were also some media, including Yang Cheng himself, after getting the results of this game, his brows were locked, especially Yang Cheng said, "The next game is not good!" ”

Looking at the four teams in the group, the German team can be said to be outstanding, which is also a fact recognized by everyone, so the German team killed Colombia, even if it was a 3:0, the outside world praised the German team more, but no one will be surprised by this result, because Germany is one of the top two in football today.

Football at the moment. Germany and Spain are the two giants. The other teams are slightly inferior to these two teams in terms of strength and fighting power, so the Germans will qualify from the group, which is something everyone is sure of.

But. Now Croatia and Japan are tied, and neither of them has a point difference with Colombia, which also means. In the next two rounds, these three teams will have to fight to the death for the last qualifying spot!

"Sometimes, playing this kind of group stage is the same as playing in the league, the most troublesome and difficult team does not necessarily have to be a team with close strength, but the kind of team that has no way out!"

In the office of the Cotia training base in São Paulo, while the players were resting at noon, Yang Cheng was discussing the next situation with the coaching staff in the office, and everyone was not optimistic about the next two rounds.

There is no way back. Generally, they aim to win the championship, or hit European competitions, or relegation teams. These three types of teams are the hardest to play. On the contrary, it is easier to deal with the kind of team that ranks in the middle of the table and has no desires. The same is true in this kind of group stage.

In the three rounds of the group stage, even if the German team wins the first two rounds, if it wants to strive for the first place in the group, it must at least fight for a draw in the third round, which means that the three games of the German team must be done in real time, and they cannot release water.

Now Colombia, Croatia and Japan are separated by one point, everyone still has a chance, they will fight for this opportunity, especially in the second round, Croatia beat Germany, they will definitely do their best to try to occupy a favorable position in the group qualification, such an opponent is enough to give everyone a headache.

"I heard that Pekerman had a rectification meeting when he returned to his home after the match with us, and it is said that he won three main players, including Zapata, and this time he is ready to be tough, while Croatia and Japan also fought fiercely in the first round, and they will still fight hard in the second round!" Paul? Bayer also had a dignified face.

This kind of group stage with close strength to each other is like this, it is easy to fall into a stalemate by accident, but those strong dialogues lose suspense early, and the strength and weakness are clear early, which is easier to deal with.

Therefore, many people say Brazil, but in Yang Cheng's view, if Brazil had not made a mistake in the first game and was upset by Klinsmann's United States team, their group stage would have been easy, but now, although it is not difficult for Brazil to qualify for the group, it is not easy either.

"Croatia have a lot of quality and a lot of good stars in the team, such as Luka Modric and Mandzukic, but they have the same problems as us!" Benitez chuckled.

The reason for this is that while most of Croatia's players play in Europe's top leagues and have established stars, they also lack the kind of attackers who are capable of doing well.

The German team is because there is no such attacker, so Yang Cheng's offensive tactics have to adopt a strategy of teamwork and division of labor to form, and Croatia's problems are exactly the same as the German team, but they do take another way, focusing on playing on the side to cooperate with the advancement, and cross to striker Mandzukic when there is a chance.

Mandzukic plays for Bayern Munich, has good physical fitness, has a hand in heading and shooting, and is a typical very well-rounded player, but what makes him better than Gomez is that he can take the ball with his back and act as the team's offensive fulcrum, which undoubtedly makes Mandzukic occupy a very important position in this Croatian attack.

One of the reasons for this is that Croatia's players' technical ability is generally that kind of solid, to put it bluntly, it is enough, but generally not good enough, coupled with the lack of a running system without the ball, which makes them unable to play a hearty passing and receiving combination similar to that of Germany and Spain, so they need to play more simply.

And there are also certain problems with Croatia's staffing, between the midfielder and the center Mandzukic, there is obviously a lack of a suitable tandem, so they pushed Modric to play the forward position, but this player has a hand in the midfield organization, but plays the front midfield, in the modern football environment, the effect is little.

From this, it can be seen why Croatia was forced to equalize by Japan after leading by two goals.

Originally, there was another suitable candidate, Eduardo, who used to play for Arsenal, and this striker was the best candidate for Croatia's second striker, and he pulled Modric back. Let him and Mandzukic form a double striker. I believe that the overall combat effectiveness of the team will be greatly improved at that time.

However, although the striker was brought to Brazil, Eduardo has completely lost his confidence to play since the tragic leg break that year. The performance was not satisfactory, and he came off the bench against Japan, but he did not perform well. Obviously, the broken leg incident left an indelible shadow on him that year.

Now that Croatia is known, everything is easy to do.

At least, there is definitely no way to copy the same tactics in the first game of the group stage as in Croatia against Colombia!

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"More and more people feel that Yang Cheng is unpredictable and can't guess with common sense!"

"According to common sense, in the first game of the group stage, Gomez scored twice and was the best player in the team. In the second game of the group against Croatia, he should continue to qualify for the starting line-up, but it was surprising and wondering. He is now sitting on the bench of the German team! ”

Inside the crowded Stadium of Peruo Horizonte. Before the game began, the live TV camera swept over the German bench. The on-site commentator saw Gomez sitting on the bench and said with embarrassment.

If it were another player, he might have gone crazy on the spot, but Gomez didn't look dissatisfied.

In that respect, he is definitely a player with a strong work ethic!

Of course, an important reason why Yang Cheng dares to do this is that the German team has become a system, and it is no longer relying on a combination of players to fight, but relying on a whole system to fight, so he does not need to worry about players using their abilities to threaten the national team or even challenge his authority.

It's not just the German team, take Spain as an example, Torres is a big name? Still taken by Bosque!

Only when the team is above the players, so that all the players are clearly aware in their hearts that they cannot challenge the authority of the team, they will naturally choose to move closer to the interests of the team, so as long as the interests of the team require, let them sit on the bench, what's the problem?

"From this point of view, we can indeed see the super overall discipline of the German team, Yang Cheng has done a very good job in the management of the dressing room of the German team, and I heard that no one dares to challenge his authority!"

"In this game, Yang Cheng not only won Gomez, but also won Khedira, and turned to the 4330 strikerless tactic that he often used before, which should be a surprise move that he is ready to fight his opponent!"

Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, and the backline is Lahm, Bad Stuber, Hummels and Jérôme? Boateng, the three players in the midfield are Schweinsteiger and Sven? Bender, Tony? Cross, attacking the vanguard is Thomas? Muller, Mesut Ozil and Reuss, no strikers were deployed.

"Took Khedira and Gomez and replaced Tony? Klos and Mesut Ozil, the German team's tactics are obviously more inclined to possession and passing and receiving the ball, and we also have reason to believe that the German team will not play a more simple and direct impact attack routine similar to the first game in this game! ”

Playing without a striker is to control, if you want to open up the situation and play, then go to the forward, which is also a rule that everyone has observed in the past few years that the German team led by Yang Cheng has used soldiers.

It's like the first game of the group, playing Colombia, Yang Cheng obviously wants to use the team's impact to crush the opponent, so he used Gomez, and even gave up the ball, and directly used Khedira to play simple and rough impact tactics, and the effect was also very significant.

In this game, Yang Cheng obviously wanted to control the ball, so he took Gomez and Khedira, and used Tony? Klos went up with Ozil and played a no-striker tactic, but I don't know what the effect is.

"Compared with the German team's strikerless tactics, Croatia continues to adhere to its 4411 tactics, and it seems that they also want to play more safely, after all, they failed to win Japan in the first round of the group stage, and if they lose to the strong German team in this game, then Croatia's group qualification situation will become very bad."

"In the case of a disadvantage, it is understandable to adopt more cautious and cautious conservative tactics!"

After the on-site commentators analysed the starting lists and tactical analysis of the two teams, the second group game of the German team officially kicked off with a whistle from the referee.

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Once the game began, it was clear that the German team had enough of an advantage. Croatia played carefully. Three lines, or four lines, are kept tight, with Luka Modric looking more like a midfielder in midfield, while the entire midfield line is retracted to the 32-metre zone.

Croatia are very resolute and decisive defensively. They adopted a more aggressive, tougher defensive stance and hoped to restrain and harass the German attack with more physical confrontations. It made it difficult for the Germans to penetrate and advance effectively into their dangerous areas.

And once they can't solve it, they will not hesitate to adopt foul tactics.

Beep!

As the referee's whistle blew, Croatia's midfielder immediately retreated into their own half, and the opposing midfielder Vukojevic tripped Germany's Ozil in a defensive attack, forcing a German counterattack to die, but the Croatian midfielder was not given the slightest warning.

Mesut Ozil rose from the ground and looked unhappy with Vukojevic's defence, believing he was tugging on his shirt while defending. He should have been given a yellow card, but the referee didn't look ready to do it! ”

The on-site commentator smiled and looked at the camera to give a big close-up of Vukojevic, who is Croatia's midfielder. The defense basically depends on him. "The timing of the foul this time was well controlled, so that the German team's counterattack could not be played!"

But this is definitely not an accidental phenomenon. Immediately afterwards, the referee's whistle was noticeably more, especially when the German team was attacking, once it was advanced to the Croatian half, the foul whistle came one after another, and Croatia was obviously using this way to interrupt the German team's attacking rhythm again and again.

Ozil, Tony? For a player like Clos, the German team does have an advantage at the technical level, but it suffers more at the physical level, after all, there is no good thing in this world, and if you want to get something, you have to give up the other.

Yang Cheng also noticed this problem obviously, and such fouls had a big impact on the players of the German team.

"Fuck, this bunch of guys is really a bit dirty, always engaging in confrontations and fouls, so it's hard for us to organize a continuous attack!" Paul? Bayer was also annoyed and scolded indignantly.

Can you make honest Paul man? Beyer's scolding is enough to see that Croatia's tactics have indeed worked.

"They're bullying us for not having set-piece masters!" Benitez chuckled, he looked at ease.

In the past, there were free-kick masters such as Bremer, Hasler, Basler, Sauer and Deisler, but the current German team basically lacks this type of free-kick expert.

This has to be regarded as a big regret in the comprehensive squad of the German team, because such a thing as free kicks needs to be accumulated over time, and there are a few good free kick penalty takers in the team, such as Toney? Cross, Reuss, Mesut Ozil, Bad Stuber, but that's just good.

Not to mention the god-level of Beckham and Juninho Jr., their free kick level may not even be first-class.

"So, if you fall behind, you will be beaten!" Yang Cheng also shook his head and sighed, set-piece tactics are indeed a major shortcoming of the German team, as the head coach, he is not afraid to admit this situation, so looking at the goals of the German team, the number of goals from set-pieces is very small.

"They are clearly going to eat us, and they have to teach them a lesson!" Paul? Bayer said with a look of righteous indignation that he hated teams that were always fouling, and that this was definitely killing the creativity of football.

Yang Cheng nodded and smiled, "I think so too, Paul, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Paul? Baier was immediately deflated, uh, for a long time, uh, I can't come up with a reason, which made Yang Cheng and Benitez and others laugh, everyone knows Paul? Bayer is not good at this kind of temporary adjustment, and the latter also knew that he was being tricked, so he immediately scolded angrily in his heart, but Yang Cheng looked at Barak.

The latter noticed the encouragement in Yang Cheng's eyes and said: "It's not a way to continue to fight with them like this, we have a technical advantage, it's better to control the game, give full play to our advantages, play with them slowly, and use the ball to mobilize them and consume their physical energy." ”

"One more thing you have to pay attention to!" Benitez listened and reminded, "The game has been played for 10 minutes so far, but we haven't had a single shot on goal, which is not a good sign! ”

The German team's passing and receiving cooperation has entered the 32-meter area many times, and even had the opportunity to enter the penalty area, but so far has not been able to get a shot, which is more reflected in the caution of the players, that is, after the opening, Croatia's aggressive killing tactics brought a certain amount of psychological pressure to the German players.

Sometimes, after the opening, the rush to encircle, and the opening after the attack, is not more to open up the situation, but to create psychological pressure on the opponent, if you participate in the game with such psychological pressure, the strength will naturally not be able to be thoroughly exerted, and it is easy to be contained by the opponent.

Croatia's opening tactics were lethal at the cost of two yellow cards, as they were on the underdogs.

As long as the German team is suppressed after the opening, then their goal of the game is half achieved!