(a)

In the second half of the game, the UAE team also made corresponding tactical adjustments, Matar's position was also moved from the middle to the wing, and the tactics of the entire UAE also changed from short pass coordination to Matar controlling the ball and breaking along the side, and then making short passes after going to the front.

The reason for Mahdi's arrangement was that he spotted that the opponent's players surrounding Matar were basically their midfielders, so that they could quickly organize a counter-attack once Matar was tackled.

If Matar moves to the wing, if they continue to use this strategy to contain Matar, it will inevitably lead them to pull the attacking player's position to the wing, and even if they make a steal, there will be some distance from the wing to the dangerous position.

Mahdi is still from the perspective of playing a protracted war and a war of attrition, he also made an analysis of the Hong Kong team, from his point of view, even if the rhythm is adjusted in the middle, but this tactic is still a great physical drain on the players of the Hong Kong team, if they are still so tight in the second half, then Zuihou ten minutes, they will have no physical strength at all!

A very important strategy for West Asian teams to deal with East Asian teams is to consume their physical strength and drag them down by strengthening control tactics, just like the Chinese team, they played with West Asian teams for five minutes, eight minutes and ten minutes, whether there are many black memories, it is not that they are not lucky enough, but that the tactical use of West Asian teams has played a role that should have been played!

According to this line of thought, Mahdi's arrangement is: Use the card of Matar to contain and consume the Hong Kong team, not let the opponent expand the score, wait until more than ten minutes, and then let the UAE team speed up the pace and launch a Jedi counterattack!

(b)

Following Baggio's gestures, the Hong Kong team made adjustments in the defensive formation, Zhai Tingfeng moved to the right-back position, left wing-back Kwok Kin-pong retreated to the left-back position, and Garson moved to the left wing-back position.

After such adjustments, the formation of the Hong Kong pair became 4-5-1. Begin to shrink the line of defense. The tactics of pressing and grabbing were adjusted from full-court to defensive counterattacks, leaving only Chen Zhaoqi alone to cruise in front.

With this kind of adjustment, the forces besieging Matar have become the "trio" of Lin Zhijian, Ouyang Yaochong and Zhai Tingfeng, and Chen Zhuo is only on the periphery of the trio. Be prepared to cut off Matar's crosses and backballs.

It would be unobjective to say that Mahdi's tactics did not work at all. Matar's involvement on the wing. made Ouyang Yaochong have to take care of both offense and defense, and in less than 20 minutes of the second half, Ouyang Yaochong showed physical exhaustion. Baggio also kept watching the time, and the substitutes of the Hong Kong team on the edge of the field had already begun to warm up.

Mahdi's tactical routine, Baggio is also prepared, it is obvious that the UAE team also understands the players of the Hong Kong team, Ouyang Yaochong's fast dribbling breakthrough on the right side is one of the important offensive routines of the Hong Kong team, which they will inevitably pay attention to, and the free kick in the first half was created by Ouyang Yaochong's breakthrough.

The reason why Mahdi arranged Matar to play ball control tactics in the second half and pulled Ouyang Yaochong's side, wanting to use offense as defense to restrict Ouyang's play on this side is also an important idea!

Ouyang Yaochong tried his best but couldn't catch up with the ball, and a UAE player rushed to protect the ball before Ouyang Yaochong, covering the ball with his body and rolling out of the bottom line, which was the second time.

Last time, he barely caught up, but he no longer had the strength to do an inward action, so he had to kick the opponent out of bounds to ask for a corner kick, this time it was even more difficult, Ouyang Yaochong's physical fitness declined quickly, and he had lost his speed advantage on the field.

Not bad, originally Baggio expected that with such an offensive and defensive balance on the right side, with Ouyang Yaochong's physical fitness, he would be able to withstand it for a maximum of 20 minutes, and after a successful steal, he would be able to launch two or three side breakthroughs.

As a result, this guy lasted 26 minutes, broke through along the wing four times after a successful steal, made two successful crosses, asked for a corner once, and only Zuihou failed to catch up with the ball once.

Very good! It has exceeded Baggio's expectations! Taking advantage of this dead ball opportunity, Baggio arranged to replace Ouyang Yaochong.

At this time, Ouyang Yaochong was bent over near the corner flag area of the UAE half, supporting his knees with his hands, gasping for breath, and when he saw the substitution sign, he raised his hand, lifted his shirt to wipe his sweat, and slowly walked off the field.

In the first 20 minutes of the second half, Ouyang Yaochong's performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends was very eye-catching, and everyone still remembers that the wonderful breakthrough and free kick created in the first half is the result of this player's hard work.

After seeing the number of the player who was replaced, the UAE coach turned his head and called the assistant coach, who was also looking through the information in his hand, probably because they were not familiar with the substitute player.

(c)

Mahdi is unfamiliar with the player, as not only did he not start in three warm-up games in Europe, but he also did not come off the bench for a minute.

Not only did he not appear for a minute in the warm-up matches in Europe, but the player even made his official debut for the Hong Kong senior team for the first time! Last year, due to an accidental injury, he even missed the East Asian Games! No wonder Mahdi doesn't know him.

The player's name is Chen Wenhui, born in 1988, he is a member of the Hong Kong 08 team, that is, the Beijing 08 Olympic team, and was also selected for the Hong Kong team's training list in the later East Asian Cup and East Asian Games, but Chen Wenhui was not lucky.

He was under 20 years old at the time of the 2008 Olympic qualifiers, and he was not a very talented kid, a bit of a gap compared to a 23-year-old, so he only played in inconsequential events or garbage time, sitting on the bench most of the time.

If Chen Wenhui is one year younger, then he still has the opportunity to participate in the 2012 London Olympics as a player, but Hong Kong's identity information and passport management system have little chance of falsifying, even if it is only to change the age of one year, he can only serve as a substitute in the Beijing Olympics. At the time of the London Olympics, the 24-year-old was also an overage player, so Chen Wenhui was not very lucky.

In addition to the unlucky age, after 08 years, Chen Wenhui suffered another "curse" experience, after the East Asian Cup and East Asian Games, Chen Wenhui was injured on the eve of the competition and absent, since 08 years, he has not played for the Hong Kong team once!

Of the three overage players in this Asian Games, almost all of them think that Baggio's choice is Chen Zhuo, Chen Zhaoqi and Li William. After all, William Lee was the Hong Kong Footballer of the Year in 2009. And the original Baggio's choice was also like this.

However, this time the "curse" fell on William Lee, an accidental strain in the training camp in Italy, which caused William Li to not be able to participate in the warm-up match, although the injury recovered after returning to Hong Kong. But it has not been able to adjust to the best condition. At the moment when the list of participants in the Asian Games is determined. Baggio gave up William Li, and Chen Wenhui was lucky to be selected.

Therefore, Chen Wenhui's selection has also caused many questions for Hong Kong fans and the media. However, the Hong Kong media did not question Baggio because of this, nor did they take it for granted to criticize the Chinese football team and the head coach of the national football team as the Chinese media.

(iv)

Checking the player's profile, Mahdi found that there was not much record of the no.17 shirt, Chan Man Fai, who had not played a minute in the Hong Kong team's three open warm-up matches in Europe.

This should show that the strength of this player is far inferior to the No. 19 on the field, although it seems that this player is a head taller than No. 19 Ouyang Yaochong, and he is also a lot stronger, but if his strength is really outstanding, then he should play the main force!

Chen Wenhui is 1.85 meters tall and can play multiple positions as a center forward, winger and right midfielder. Mahdi looked over, the player and Ouyang Yaochong hugged and ran into the field, this player is one size older than Ouyang Yaochong who came off the field, or the coach of the Hong Kong team Baggio replaced a defensive full-back to further strengthen the defense on the side.

Walking to the sidelines, Mahdi shouted Matar's name to the far end and gestured forward.

According to Mahdi's idea, the substitute players always have to have a process of adapting to the game after they come on the field, taking advantage of this opportunity to press the whole formation forward, the speed and dribbling breakthrough ability of the opponent's No. 19 player is what Mahdi has always been afraid of, and now this "fast horse" has been replaced off the field, and the UAE team must want to take the opportunity to launch a fierce offensive!

It's been 267 minutes, more than half of the second half has passed, Mahdi's thinking, let Matar rush a little more, and by the fifteenth minute of Zuihou, he began to make personnel adjustments, and launched an all-out attack on the Hong Kong team's defense!

The UAE team quickly sent out a goal kick, Matar retreated to get the ball, Mahdi saw that the player who had just been replaced actually went to the front to force Matar, and there was no other player around him to cooperate, he couldn't help but laugh, and glanced sideways at Baggio, the young coach of the Hong Kong team was still expressionless, but seemed to have clenched his fists nervously.

Most of the tall players are slightly rough under their feet, moving and turning slowly, and Matar is known as "Gulf Maradona", and the one-on-one breakthrough is still sure!

Sure enough, Matar was able to get past the new player with ease, and Mahdi couldn't help but be secretly happy......

What's going on? Why did Chen Zhuo move to the right side to participate in the defense of Matar? Isn't this a location overlap? What's going on?

(5)

Without waiting for Mahdi on the field and Matar on the field to figure it out, with the cooperation of Zhai Tingfeng and Lin Zhijian, Chen Zhuo squeezed away Matar, although Matar staggered to the ground, but the referee did not blow a foul.

The referee in this game is simply blowing a friendly game, and the Australian referee has not shown a single red or yellow card until the game has been played! Mahdi looked very unhappy with the fact that the ball was not blown!

The referee was indifferent to Mahdi's complaints on the sidelines and the shouting of Matar lying on the ground, and his hands were stretched out to signal the game to continue, and then he hooked his hands and motioned for Matar to hurry up and participate in the game. (To be continued......)