(a)

The United Arab Emirates did not show too much anxiety when conceding the goal, they were still unhurried according to their slow pace and kept doing backwards, and the players did not seem to have any psychological pressure because of the conceded goal, from this point of view, the UAE team, which is mostly under the age of 21, is still very good in psychological quality.

Another reason is that when the UAE conceded a goal, it was only the first fifteen or sixteen minutes, and they still had a lot of time.

If it were their home stadium in West Asia, with their West Asian background music with Islamic style, they could indeed play slowly at this pace, but the current background music obviously didn't match what they did.

The Chinese song sung by 20,000 people in the stands in unison was adapted from the ancient song "General's Order", which was a song urged by war drums, which made the Hong Kong players who were very familiar with this melody and song feel extremely excited!

(b)

In the UAE's attacking and defensive system, possession tactics are at the heart of their tactics.

Possession tactics believe that in terms of physical exertion, the side running without the ball has nearly twice the physical exertion of the team playing possession tactics.

For the West Asian team, except for Iran, which is the northernmost country in the geographical dimension, has a liliang style of play, the rest of the countries along the Gulf coast are all based on delicate footwork to play this kind of possession tactics that saves physical strength.

The style of football is also inextricably linked to the geography of the country in which it is located, such as the Nordic style and the style of Spain and Portugal, which are located at the southern tip of the European continent. It's very different.

Incidentally, modern football theory has combined the football style of each country with the geographical environment of the country where it is located to do a scientific analysis, and found that there are certain scientific laws in the football style of countries in the cold, temperate and tropical regions.

As we all know, exercise will intensify the work of the circulatory system, resulting in an increase in body temperature, and the human body must activate the heat dissipation function for thermal balance, to maintain a constant body temperature, in order to maintain normal metabolism and physiological functions, this heat dissipation function is mainly completed by the evaporation of sweat. It is also closely related to the external environment temperature, humidity, wind speed, etc.

So play in these climates. In order to control the body temperature in the range of 39-40 °C, the only effective way is to increase the time of individual dribbling and ball control. Keep most players on standby. Minimizes fast runs over a wide area. At the same time, long-range shooting is not recommended in tropical football, because long-range shooting is the greatest physical consumption in an instant.

Over time, these climatic conditions of the country. It has gradually formed a football style that is suitable for the tropical climate: the basic personal jishu is exquisite, the footwork is delicate, the body is flexible, the short pass is skillful and free, the ground attack is the main, flexible, and the strong defensive system in the face of cold and temperate teams, only by relying on superb ball control jishu, can they drill around like a loach in the giants, South American teams, especially Brazil, they deal with Europeans in this way.

(c)

Guangzhou is on the Tropic of Capricorn, and it is also a tropical city, and in November the north of the Yellow River in China has even been cold to below zero, but in the absence of cold air in Guangzhou, the minimum temperature is still around 20 degrees, and the highest temperature during the day will still exceed 30 degrees, and the climatic conditions in the Bay Area are not particularly different.

After analyzing the situation of the Hong Kong team's group stage opponents and the entire semi-region, Baggio believes that it is very likely that the Hong Kong team will enter the round of 16 with the second place in the group or the third place in the group, and the opponent in the group stage is a West Asian team, two Central Asian and South Asian teams, if they pass the group stage, then it is likely to go all the way to the semi-finals, and this way is likely to deal with West Asian teams!

From this point of view, in the days leading up to the Asian Games, Baggio spent a lot of energy on the players to reserve their fitness, which is also the reason.

Baggio also developed a series of targeted measures, how to store fitness in training and how to distribute it during the game, how to increase the opponent's physical exertion through the change of tempo, and how to adjust the rhythm to allow the players to rotate and rest on the field......

The three elements of football in modern football theory are liliang, jishu, and speed, in Baggio's view, jishu includes two aspects, dribbling control and passing shots, these basic jishu are of course important, but for liliang and speed and rational use, the reasonable distribution of physical energy, these scientific jishu, the same is jishu!

The improvement of those basic jishu is not a lot overnight, but through scientific jishu sexual means to make liliang and speed can be used and distributed reasonably, and through tactics to suppress the opponent's strengths, give full play to their strengths, promote their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and improve what can be improved in a short period of time, starting from bit by bit!

(iv)

Compared with their two warm-up matches against the national youth team and the national Olympic team, in this game, the Hong Kong team's defense against Matar can be described as "unceremonious"!

UAE Olympic coach Riha? Mahdi has coached the national youth army at all levels in the past, and has also participated in the Asian Youth Championships and the World Youth Championships, and has relatively rich experience in international competitions.

In Mahdi's view, the Hong Kong team's style of play is not sustainable, from the weather forecast he has mastered, the temperature of the stadium is about 27 degrees, the relative humidity of the air is 80%, it is relatively hot, and the evaporation and heat dissipation effect of the players' sweat is not good.

Now the players of the Hong Kong team, especially their midfielders, are indeed running actively, but it has only been more than 30 minutes, and their jerseys are already soaked, and it is impossible for these players to support 90 minutes with this style of play!

Baggio was also watching the clock as Garson moved to the right midfield to press on Matar's trio in the group. Ouyang Yaochong has already switched positions with him, and Chen Zhuo has withdrawn from the front position to the back position, Xu Deshuai also took Chen Zhuo's position in the three-person pressing group, and Chen Zhaoqi's running speed has also decreased.

There were rotations on the field, but Matar was always under high pressure.

With this pressing, the UAE also had to minimise the number of times the ball passed through Matar, which was organised by the rest of the midfield.

As long as Matar is not in possession of the ball, the Hong Kong team will not adopt this strategy of pressing and marking, and the left and right wing-backs and Chen Zhuo are all imminent and keep the marking

When the UAE's pass reached their own half, Hong Kong closed the goal with full-backs and midfielders. A strategy for sweeping man-marking centre-back destruction.

When the offense and defense are switched. The Hong Kong team's routine is also very clear, first through a kick pass to form a quick opportunity to advance on the wing, leading the UAE team's midfield players in the Hong Kong team to a collective short sprint to the back half, and then when the wide players find the opportunity is not haode. Then knock it back to the back half. Return it to Chen Zhuo for organization.

When the ball was handed to Chen Zhuo. The Hong Kong team began to play a small cooperation near the midfield, attracting the UAE team to come out and counterattack, and they marked and surrounded Chen Zhuo. It's like the Hong Kong team marking and encircling Matar, which is just as welcome.

Similar to the UAE team's tactics, the Hong Kong team also pulls the opponent through the tactics of controlling the ball, causing the opponent's physical exertion, and both sides are using the same routine.

(5)

With 5 minutes left in the first half, with a gesture by Baggio, the Hong Kong team's pressing range was further expanded, and it was originally just a three-man group against the core players of the UAE, but now it suddenly expanded to the whole court of the entire defense line in advance!

Hong Kong's entire defence has advanced by as much as 15 metres, and the formation has also been greatly adjusted.

Rong Aping and Zhai Tingfeng all pressed through the half to participate in the scramble, Xie Jiaqiang dragged in front of the team, and goalkeeper Liang Xingjie even stood at the forefront of the big penalty area!

If you didn't watch the game in front, you would even think that this was 5 minutes of the whole game, and the Hong Kong team was behind at this time!

This sudden change in rhythm caught the UAE players off guard, and it was no longer the experienced "Gulf Maradona" who controlled the rhythm of the game at this time.

The coach of the UAE team, Mahdi, was eagerly shouting on the sidelines to let the players pay attention to their position and formation, but at this time, it was not something that he could solve the problem by shouting two voices, the fierce pressing in the middle, and quickly turning to the side after winning the ball, and Guo Jianbang or Ouyang Yaochong pulled along the side in a wide range, and the UAE players were forced to run and fill in with the rhythm of the Hong Kong team, constantly destroying the ball out of the sideline through tackles.

This is also a targeted arrangement made by Baggio for the UAE team, while fully considering the physical limits of the Hong Kong team's players.

In other words, it is a very simple thing for the German team to press them for 60 or 70 minutes and tear their defensive system to pieces, just like the 2006 Shijie Cup when Germany played Saudi Arabia 8:0, which was achieved through this kind of full-court pressing and marking.

For the Hong Kong team, although they have gone through a 28-day cycle of physical reinforcement training in advance, and their physical reserves have been enhanced, it is clear that most of the players will not be able to implement this kind of pressing and marking tactics throughout the field.

Therefore, Baggio's plan was to play the whole court in the first five minutes of the first half, test the referee's penalty scale and get him used to this rhythm, and this test basically achieved the desired effect.

In the next 15 minutes, the focus of the adjustment into a local is to close the marker to steal, and strive to score goals through the frontcourt counter-robbery, this tactical design has also been realized.

For the next 20 minutes, the Hong Kong team continued to focus on Matar's markers and blockades, while rotating the players and gradually slowing down the tempo and appropriately recovering the defensive line into their own half, allowing the players to distribute and adjust their physical strength in this way.

When there were still 5 minutes left before the end of the first half, Baggio made gestures to let the players speed up again, and this time let Rong Aping and Zhai Tingfeng, who did not consume much physical energy in the first half, go to the front to participate in the rush, once leaving Xie Jiaqiang alone in the backcourt, and the rest of the players participated in the attack and frontcourt counter-robbery.

Counting the one minute of first-half stoppage time, the UAE team experienced six minutes of fear, and for them, the referee's half-time whistle sounded like a heavenly sound, and Mahdi couldn't help but put his hands on his chest and thank Allah for protecting him and the UAE team.

For the Hong Kong team, this six minutes is a pity, in six minutes the Hong Kong pair won 3 corners, a total of 7 shots on goal, but in the end regret did not expand the score, even Chen Zhuo's long-range shot was magically saved by the goalkeeper of the UAE team!

In the defensive system, preventing Chen Zhuo's long-range shot is an important subject in the UAE, which also led to Chen Zhuo's grabbing the point, but there was not enough space to adjust the angle and strength, and he played more reluctantly.

This was also the result of Baggio's well-planned and orchestrated tactics, with Hong Kong tactically effective in restricting the UAE team in the first 45 minutes of the first half, while playing to their strengths.

Duan Xuan, who commented on the game on CCTV, praised the game as if the South Korean team and the United Arab Emirates team were playing, and netizens who watched the live broadcast complained during the interaction that the Hong Kong team had defeated the South Korean team without Chen Zhuo and other five major European aids, and not once, it was two consecutive defeats of the South Korean team in the East Asian Games and the East Asian Cup!

Zhang Jun, who commented on the game on Hong Kong TV, did not compare the Hong Kong team to any team, but used the commentary game to talk about the "Chen Li incident" that still has not subsided, and now because Chen Zhuo's words "China is the second rate in Asia" and "Hong Kong can win the Asian Games championship" were taken out of context, Chen Zhuo's nickname was also called "Chen Cannon", canceling the meaning of his nonsense.

Zhang Jun said that the UAE team is the seeded team in this group, and the Hong Kong team is the third tier team, but from the perspective of the situation on the field, the Hong Kong team is no worse than the UAE team in terms of momentum and situation, if it is not for their goalkeeper to play bravely, at the end of the first half, the score of the Hong Kong team may be 2:0 or even 3:0!

Zhang Jun objectively commented that in terms of overall strength, although the addition of five major European aid has greatly increased Hong Kong's strength, the thinking of "nouveau riche" who reached the peak of Asia overnight is not the thinking mode of Hong Kong people, but through this game, people have seen the importance of reasonable tactics.

Compared with the UAE, most of the players are more than a notch worse than Jishu, and they don't even have the ability to gain a foothold in the top league of the UAE, but everyone can see with their own eyes that Coach Baggio has strengthened and blended in just two months, so that the current Hong Kong team has given all Hong Kong people a bright feeling.

(f)

"All right, lads! The second half of the game is about to begin, go ahead and stomp your opponents under your feet one by one! Baggio pointed to the door of the dressing room and shouted cheers on the players.

Singing and cheering outside came and went, and they had a good time playing by themselves during the intermission. (To be continued......)