Section 386 Distinction in Defense

Tottenham scored their first goal in the opening 21 minutes. It wasn't a delicate goal, or even a beautiful one, but Yaya Toure's brilliant long-range shot still stunned Arsenal fans.

From the back to the front, stealing, assaulting, and then scoring with a long-range shot - this process is simple to describe, but how many people can complete this task in the world of football?

'Yaya Toure's fourth Premier League goal – this season, he and Suarez are tied for the most Premier League goals, it's hard to imagine that he is a midfielder, a defensive midfielder, a defensive midfielder can score four goals in seven games, Yaya Toure's form, it's crazy. This is like the appearance of a top midfielder, when we were in Serie A we used to doubt his level, but now we know that he is really worth 20 million pounds! Compared to him, Denilson's mistake was a little too unbearable. This is a top-flight stadium, not beach soccer, so how can you not be careful with your opponent's pressing at any time after getting the ball? ”

The commentator was accusing Denelson of not paying attention to the game, but Li Bin felt that Denelson couldn't be blamed entirely for this goal. Denilson, who was born in Brazil, has played few Premier League games, and it is difficult for him to be near his own penalty area and guard against opponents. Second, Denilson was born as a striker in his early years, and he needs to be protected by others, but at Arsenal, he needs to be someone else's bodyguard. The gap between the two is huge, which naturally makes him not play well.

And if you want to talk about the third reason, it is also related to Wenger's tactical arrangement.

Arsene Wenger's defensive philosophy at Arsenal is a defensive philosophy called 'deep defence' or 'penetrating defence'. Of course, the crossing defense is not a defense created by the crosser, but a defense that prevents the opponent from passing the ball past the midfield. This tactic, which originated in the Paraguayan national team's concept of "cutting the defense", has undergone some changes since its introduction to Europe, but in the end, his core idea remains the same: its essence is that when the main first defender oppresses the opponent's ball carrier, the other defender closest to him is ready to cut off the line of the ball carrier passing to the most threatening attacking partner in front of him, forcing the ball carrier to pass to other teammates or cross back, interrupting the first and most threatening attack. If there is no particular threat and there is no need to cut the link in front of them, assist the main defender to press the ball carrier and bring the ball to the side area to reduce the threat to the goal.

This tactical arrangement can be said to be quite advanced. Although he can't do it with a mask and oppress everyone, he can cut off his opponent's quick attacks. However, the bad thing is that such defensive tactics have extremely high requirements for the experience and judgment of defenders and the tacit understanding between players, once the players do not have enough cooperation experience, it is difficult to play out tacit cooperation, if it is a veteran, even if there is no tacit understanding of cooperation, you can also rely on experience to make up, but Arsenal is a team, and most of the young players are young, they do not have much cooperation experience, and there is no tacit cooperation with the defense.

On Arsenal's side, Denilson is first and new, the second is not very old, and the third is still in a position that has just changed, so it is difficult for them to think of problems when they play like this. When Yaya Toure is covered, it stands to reason that someone should keep an eye on him at all times, and since Denilson is going to do the passing, Cesc Fabregas should be watching as another midfielder. However, they didn't have the awareness of this kind of cooperation, and when they received the ball, they all thought about attacking and relaxed the pressure on the opponent, so Yaya Toure directly broke the ball and broke the door.

In the opening 21 minutes, Arsenal were already down 0-1 at home, which made their playing situation suddenly tense.

The game between the two sides continued, and the pace of the game on Tottenham's side suddenly increased a lot.

Arsenal's players, like Tottenham, are younger, and the younger they are, the more likely they are to get emotional, and when they're feeling down, it's hard for them to play well. The confrontation between the two sides immediately accelerated, in order not to give the Arsenal players time to think, forcing them to have a tougher confrontation with Arsenal.

Arsenal are very afraid of the physical flow of the team - Tottenham have only lost once to Villa, and Arsenal have not won away from Villa since sending Vieira away - their weaknesses are obvious, the average child soldier, the body is a big problem. Tottenham may not be a particularly strong team, but it is definitely possible to suppress them.

Arsenal are also trying to resist, but the attacking efficiency of the two sides looks completely different.

'We can now clearly see how different the defensive quality of the two teams is. In midfield, Gustavo has a wide range of movement, Fabregas can barely get out of his coverage, and he also juggles defending Nasri on the wing, paralyzing an entire wing by the way. Moreover, his ability to make a tackle in the first point is very strong, and Tottenham are not particularly reliant on the awareness of helping to cover the position now, what they do is Gustavo to get up as soon as possible, and Yaya Toure and another full-back are in the wings position, blocking the space for players to pass the ball to either side - which is much easier than Arsenal play. ”

Arsenal are in a hurry, but Tottenham are even more sloppy than they are. However, Tottenham's defense did not have much problem, they relied on Gustavo to block the opponent for the first time, and two players blocked the passing line from the left and right at the same time - relying on three people to move together instead of two to defend, they directly covered the 180-degree pass range in front of the ball carrier, no matter where he passed, it was difficult to succeed. Compared with the tactics that require reading ability and skillful coordination, this style of play only requires the physical running of the players, as well as the excellent ability of the first defensive player, although these two points are also rare, but can be obtained by selecting the right players, unlike tacit cooperation, which must be cultivated slowly.

Arsene Wenger was right, but idealistic. Such details determine success or failure.

This also makes Tottenham much better defensively than Arsenal now, at least since the start of the game, Arsenal have not had many chances.

However, with three people defending together, there are fewer people at the attack point. Tottenham are now all on the wing to counter-attack, and they have also been unable to score goals. However, Tottenham's tactics originally pursued the policy of more ants biting elephants, and there are more opportunities, and one can always be obtained.

'We can see that Tottenham have picked up the pace. Now after they got the ball, they all split the sides for the first time, trying to rely on the advantage on the side to force the door of Arsenal. Arsenal's two wings are a little weaker and they haven't formed a very good defence to intercept Tottenham's frantic breakaways...... Let's see this time, Lennon broke through the right flank, and it was so fast that almost no one could stop it! Chrissy tackles! The ball was broken and the referee didn't pull out the cards. Surprising breakthrough, this season is not only Bale and Di Maria played well, the two of them, in seven games, Bale took one rotation, Di Maria took two rotations, and Lennon started three times, and they also played very well. ”

Of course, that's just good. Lennon's task is much simpler than Di Maria's, he is doing simple raids on the field, and he still has no problem completing such a task.

But everyone knows that Tottenham's chances can't come from him. Di Maria's injury caused Tottenham to suffer a big problem before the game, and it was difficult for substitute Lennon to play Di Maria's basic coordination, so their attacks needed to be launched more from the left side.

Soon, another attack by Tottenham was launched. This time, after one of Arsenal's failed attacks, the ball was carried into Neuer's arms. In the penalty area, he threw the ball with all his might, drove the ball directly across the half, and let the ball fall to the left wing. This brilliant hand-tossed ball made everyone exclaim at once.

Long-distance, accurate hand-tossing of the ball will be of great help to the game, which everyone knows. But most goalkeepers don't have such skills, not even hand-tossed balls, even if they kick the ball off the field, there are also a lot of people.

But Neuer's pass was quite precise to Bale's feet. Bale took two steps forward with the ball, but Sagna immediately came closer. He followed Bale so hard that his eyes were always on Bale's left foot, which he was in possession of, and he didn't even look at his right foot.

As a left-footed player, it's hard to keep up with the right-footed skills, and Bale has this problem now, as he has a hard time controlling the ball with his right foot when he is carrying the ball. Sania didn't care about the pace of his right foot, just stared at the changes in his left foot, and pushed him towards the flank.

Throughout the process, it was difficult for Bale to even find a chance to cross with his feet. Sania, who had already passed the ball to him just now, would not make the same mistake this time.

Bale was driven to the left side of the box by him, and Sagna was so close that he couldn't even get rid of him. He had to take a step to the left, trying to hold Sagna on his body and give the ball to his teammate behind him, and then make plans. However, behind him, there were no teammates at all at this time - Kolarov did not insert the task, and Gustavo was relatively backward and could not be inserted in time, which made him not know how to deal with it for a while, but Sania, who was behind him, had already pushed hard and pushed him forward.

Bale quickly held the ground with both hands, and instead of allowing himself to slip completely, his body formed a bow and protected the ball under him. And the moment he slipped, his foot also kicked backwards and hit Sania's leg, and Sania also fell and pressed on top of him, which made Bale immediately think of an opportunity. He struggled to prop himself up, and at the same time turned another half circle to the left, bringing Saniag behind him, and then he immediately strode into the box!

"Bell is in! A good chance! ”

Bale followed the baseline and struck into the small penalty area. In front of him, Almunia had already abandoned the goal and was ready to defend, while Sylvester was also on his right, blocking his pass. At this time, Bale found that his situation was still a little embarrassing: he didn't know how to hit the goal at a small angle, and bringing it over like this was completely hitting the opponent's goalkeeper.

Suarez in the middle was closely guarded by Galla, and Cavani kept running back and forth, trying to find a position, but was also constantly affected by Klich. What made Bale even more anxious was that he didn't know how to pass the ball at all.

Fortunately, Suarez saw his embarrassment and met him, and he kicked the ball towards Suarez with a close-range pass, but Silvestre, who was in front of him, lifted his leg and blocked the ball, allowing it to fly behind him.

Cavani and Klich ran together, after all, Klich was one step faster, he kicked the ball, trying to kick the ball away, but this kick he couldn't find a good position, the direction of the ball flying was not right at all!

“gooooal!!!! Klich scores an own goal! It's unimaginable that in the derby, an own goal was scored, and Chrissy made a big mistake at this time! ”