Chapter Seventy-Six: Japan's New Marshal
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As the best local coach in China, Xu Genbao naturally will not fail to see that it is more advantageous for the Oriental team to play low-key defense in the AFC Champions League, but he has always been high-profile, but he can't control his mouth, although he asked his disciples not to be complacent in the team, but in the face of an interview with reporters, he still unceremoniously said "Since you come to participate in this competition, you must have the ambition to win the championship." Such bold words, so that Gao Jun can't help scratching his head, as a traverser he knows this year's AFC Champions League shì can not know better, maybe the Oriental team to adopt a radical oppressive offensive style of play may also win most of the AFC Champions League opponents, but this year's AFC Champions League team has been not inferior to the strength of the Evergrande team in the future - Saudi Arabia's Ittihad team!
Fortunately, judging from the schedule of the AFC Champions League, if the Eastern team wants to meet the Etihad team, it will have to wait until the quarterfinals in September at the earliest, and there is still more than half a year to go. The Eastern team is a team that is still growing in strength, how strong it will be in half a year, even Gao Jun himself can't say, how can he say that he must not be able to confront the Etihad team head-on at that time? In this sense, the reason why Xu Genbao is so high-profile may also mean to deliberately put pressure on the players and force them to grow faster
As a result, in the second game of the AFC Champions League group stage, the Oriental team sitting in Shanghai 80,000 Stadium was too pressed due to the light enemy, and the back line of the Oriental team had just been reorganized not long ago, and the tacit understanding had not yet been fully formed, and there were many loopholes, especially the two central defenders' turnaround and recovery were relatively slow. As a result, Thailand's Bec Sasana team used a quick counterattack to win two consecutive cities, and the game was played for less than 3o minutes before falling behind by two goals o:2
Fortunately, Gao Jun unexpectedly pulled back a point with a header before the end of the first half, which restored the calm of his teammates, who had been impatient. After the start of the second half, the Eastern team first equalized the score with the most feared header of the Southeast Asian team, forcing it to expand its defense area to contain the ball on the side of the Eastern team, thus gaining space for the penetration of the middle, and the power of the combination of the side and the middle was revealed. In the end, Yu Hai, Franck Ribery and Gao Jun scored a goal each in the second half to help the Eastern team defeat the Thai team in a thrilling comeback, but another goal conceded in the second half once again showed that the Eastern team's backline needs to be run-in, especially in the state of forward pressure in formation.
Although the second round of the AFC Champions League group stage was mediocre and exposed the weakness of a fiery personality and easy to win medals needlessly, Alihan still called him into the national team and let him play directly, because the second opponent in the quarterfinals was the Japanese team. Obviously, Alihan hopes that Zhu Lin can reproduce the brave swing in the AFC Champions League game, as for the run-in problem, anyway, the frontcourt players of the national team are basically from the Eastern team, and the tacit understanding should not be a problem.
Although Zico won the runner-up in the 2oo4 Asian Cup on the premise of basically not bringing overseas players, it did not satisfy the Japanese Football Association, and his stubbornness became more and more dissatisfied with the Japanese Football Association and the media.
After Osim came to power, he immediately made a major change to the main lineup of the Japanese national team left by Zico, and the returnee players naturally had to be recruited as much as possible, and in other positions, as long as the level gap was not too large, he gave priority to the players who were neglected in the Zico era
In the quarterfinals, the two new internationals who unexpectedly entered the main lineup of the Japanese national team attracted wide attention from the Japanese media, first of all, the naturalized player Tanaka Hatsa King, who has three-quarters of European and American blood, is 1.85 meters tall and weighs 82 kilograms, and the bounce is very good, the body is rare in the previous Japanese national teams, and Tanaka Hatsa King's foot skills are also very delicate, and he is very suitable for the traditional delicate play style of the Japanese team, Then there is the striker Seiichiro Makaki, who is also very good in physical condition, this player comes from the Chiba Ichihara team coached by Osim before, and it can be said that Osim's cronies are descendants.
Osim's explanation for this is that the Japanese team's midfield organization is already quite strong, and the main reason why the results in the international competition cannot go further is that the two penalty areas lack strength, take the back line with the biggest problem, even if you have a strong midfield, the opponent can directly pass the long pass to Kuò, as long as the striker is strong enough, you can directly burst the Japanese team's fragile backline. The problem of the forward line is the same, although there is a famous saying in the football world that "the midfielder wins the world", but the victory or defeat of the football game is ultimately decided by scoring goals and preventing the opponent from scoring, if the problem of the Japanese team's two penalty areas cannot be solved, then even if the midfield advantage is great, it is inevitable that it will often "win the game and lose the score." Naturally, the results are not much better.
And how to improve the strength of the two forbidden areas? Osim believes that the skills of Japanese forwards and defenders are actually not bad, at least in Asia, and the reason why they are not good is mainly because of their physical qualities. Unlike the midfielders, who have more space and are conducive to wielding technical advantages, the fight in the penalty area is to be seen with bayonets, and they can only be beaten by others without physical elements. That's why Osim is bringing in these two players with excellent physiques to enhance the hardness of the Japanese national team in the two penalty areas
Osim did see the crux of the problem that the Japanese men's football team could not go any further, but he was only half right. The defender is to prevent the opponent from scoring goals, and the body is indeed indispensable, because without the support of the body, it is difficult for the defender's defensive skills to resist the impact of the power striker; The situation of the strikers is very different, because the Japanese team is very strong in the midfield, almost every game can create enough good chances, so the Japanese team's forwards do not need to have a strong personal penetration ability like the strikers of other Asian teams such as China, but only need to have excellent ability to grasp opportunities, and be able to convert so many chances created by the midfielder into goals. Therefore, what the Japanese national team needs most is a pure scorer with a high success rate and a midfielder with strong scoring ability, rather than a strong striker as Osim thinks
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