(a)

By the time the whistle blew, Chen Zhuo had completely entered football mode, all the messy things, troublesome things and things that might cause him depression were all run out of the clouds, and what he had in mind at this time was the tactics and position on the field arranged by Baggio before the game, that is, he kept running, and constantly commanded by shouting to his teammates.

Baggio's pre-match knowledge of the UAE team was through two warm-up matches, namely the Chinese national youth team in Zibo, Shandong Province, China, against Su Maozhen in September, and the Chinese team in October, which was coached by Sun Wei at this year's Asian Games.

In those two games, the UAE team won one and drew one, defeated the national youth team 1:0, and drew 1:1 with the national Olympic team, and the purpose of these two warm-up matches was obviously to adapt to the Hong Kong team, which is also an East Asian team.

The UAE Olympic team, which includes 14 Olympic-age players, has basically used the Asian Games as a training ground for the London 2012 Olympic Games, which is in line with the purpose of most countries.

The UAE football team also continues the delicate style of typical West Asian football, according to Baggio's evaluation, the players of this UAE team are more delicate in their individual jishu ability than the South Korean players participating in the Asian Games.

Loose discipline, poor tactical execution, and poor confrontation are the significant shortcomings of West Asian football, but from the two warm-up games, it seems that the tactical awareness of this UAE team is stronger than that of other West Asian teams, which is also a change in West Asian football in recent years. Also began to strengthen liliang and confrontational exercises.

In the two games against the Chinese national youth and the national Olympic team, the Chinese team also used the routine of speeding up the tempo through long-pass offense and strengthening the pressing pressing in the front court, but the UAE team showed a strong ability in the overall position and the systematic defense of each other when dealing with this "special Ksia" style of play.

In the warm-up match, whether it was a one-goal victory over the national youth team or a one-to-one draw with the national Olympic team, the UAE team blocked the opponent's indiscriminate bombardment through overall defense, and then started to play control tactics from the backfield, winning opportunities through patient passing and short pass penetration.

(b)

"Beet~~~" the referee blew the whistle. Whistled for a foul on Garson. Garson looked at the referee innocently, meaning that his action was completely a steal under a reasonable collision situation, and Chen Zhuo also ran over to communicate with the Australian referee in English.

After all, the Hong Kong team is half a home stadium, although it is only a small stadium of 20,000 people. But the atmosphere is still very good. The Australian referee also only gave a verbal warning. No yellow card was shown.

This was the third foul by the Hong Kong team in the second minute of the opening game, and it was also the second foul by Garson himself.

This was Baggio's tactical requirement. He asked Garson and Chen Zhuo to move slightly more in the first five minutes of the game to "test" the referee's penalty scale.

The Hong Kong team is not a liliang type of team, which is almost a style that the big feet agree with, and like the southern style of Guangdong, the Hong Kong team also prefers to play a small range of cooperation or individual dribbling breakthroughs, and achieve escape and advancement through beautiful and delicate jishu movements in a small space.

However, after watching the warm-up matches in the United Arab Emirates, the players admitted that most of the players' jishu is not as delicate as the UAE players, after all, the UAE is also among the second-rate teams in Asia, and the Chinese team is in the same grade......

(c)

Here is a slight mention of Baggio's classification of Asian football, and also a comparison of the gap between Baggio's classification and Chen Zhuo's classification.

Baggio has set the bar for Asia's top teams to be at least two Shijie Cup winners, at least two Asian Cup finals and at least one Asian Cup winner.

In this way, there are only four teams that are eligible: Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Japan, plus Australia, which has just joined the AFC, Baggio believes that Asia is first-class, that is, these five teams. Therefore, it makes sense that FIFA has given Asia 4.5 places for the Shijie Cup. Chen Zhuo also agrees with this.

Second-rate team, Baggio's setting criteria are very simple, that is, in the last three Shijie Cup qualifiers, at least two of them have entered the finals of the Asian region, and the three Shijie Cup qualifiers have not even entered the final stage of the two qualifiers, so what qualifications do you have to say that you are a "first-class team"?

According to Baggio's standard, in the 2002 Top 10, 2006 Quarterfinals and 2010 Top 10 Tournaments, in addition to the five first-class teams, there are six teams, namely Bahrain (3 times), Uzbekistan (3 times), Iraq (2 times), North Korea (2 times), the United Arab Emirates (2 times), Qatar (2 times), strictly speaking, these six teams are the "second-rate teams" in Asia! And in this, there is no Chinese team at all!

In this regard, Chen Zhuo believes that from the perspective of history and foundation, Kuwait and China have had the experience of participating in the main stage of the Shijie Cup, and in the Asian Cup, both countries have entered the finals twice, Kuwait won the championship once, and the Chinese team has no championship experience......

Of course, this is just an indicator for Baggio to make an overall combing of Asian football and a reasonable positioning for the Hong Kong team, and it is not an authoritative ranking, so the two did not discuss much.

For Hong Kong, the next effort is to raise itself to a higher level and enter the ranks of the "second-rate team", which is like being promoted from the third division to the second division.

He has reached the top 10 stage twice in the three Shijie Cup qualifiers, reached the finals at least twice in the Asian Cup, and won at least one championship...... It's not easy to be second-rate in Asia.

(iv)

The UAE national team is second-rate in Asia, but this UAE Asian Games team is not, there are only 7 players who have participated in the 2010 Shijie Cup qualifiers, so from this level, the UAE team faced by the Hong Kong team in this Asian Games is only the level of the third-rate teams in Asia.

However, after adding five players who have played in European leagues, Hong Kong can already consider attacking the "second division" ranking in Asia!

The reason why many superstars came to Guangzhou Huadu to watch the football so enthusiastically is also because the Hong Kong team's three warm-up matches in Europe ignited their enthusiasm and gave them hope, although they dare not imagine that this team will be like the miracle of winning the championship in the East Asian Games, but there is already an expectation of victory!

(5)

The test of the referee's law enforcement scale at the beginning is an experience, and the referee did not show a yellow card within 5 minutes, which basically shows that the referee's law enforcement scale in this game is still relatively relaxed...... This scale, for having five players playing in Europe, is undoubtedly a good thing.

And this kind of test is very necessary, otherwise both sides are polite at the beginning, and the referee slowly knows the scale of the two sides, and after a while, the opponent uses delicate footwork to rush left and right in the Hong Kong team's formation, and then screams in pain and rolls in the penalty area...... This kind of routine is not unused by the West Asian team!

After all, the players of this UAE team are all young players, all of them are players who play in the domestic league, 7 of the 11 players on the field were born after 89 years, and only 3 are overage players......

In this case, they were fooled, and when they started to block tackles without the ball instead of relying on the overall formation to squeeze, they fell into Baggio's tactical trap!

The formation arranged by Baggio is 3-5-2, goalkeeper Liang Xingjie, and the three defenders are Rong Aping, Zhai Tingfeng, and Xie Jiaqiang.

The double back is Lin Zhijian and Xu Deshuai, and the cooperation between the two of them is already relatively tacit, including the triangle counter-robbery tactics with the left and right wingers and the front midfielder Chen Zhuo are already very skillful.

Left midfielder Guo Jianbang, right midfielder Ouyang Yaochong, after the game against Hamburg, Ouyang Yaochong showed more and more confidence, and the dribbling and breakthrough on the side became more and more resolute.

The starting strikers were Chen Zhaoqi and Garson, who Baggio named Garson as a "sweeping striker", and in addition to being a tactical support point in attack, he was also responsible for counter-attacking and sweeping the slow UAE backline to disrupt their rhythm.

(f)

With Baggio's gestures, Guo Jianbang and Ouyang Yaochong continued to hang and pass from 45 degrees to the big ban, and Garson and Chen Zhaoqi used their physical advantages to squeeze and bump into their opponents and fight for the opportunity to score.

The UAE team's tactics were bizarre, completely different from the 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 they used in the warm-up matches, and as the game went on, Baggio saw clearly that the UAE had adopted a 5-4-1 defensive formation, with the single arrow being their 21-year-old striker Ahmad Hariri, and their team's number one star, 27-year-old Imesr Matar, was put in a midfield position by their homegrown head coach.

But is this an attempt to play a defensive counterattack? Defensive counterattack, that needs to have a speed type of player, this UAE team does not seem to have this kind of counterattack-type striker, 27-year-old Imesr Matar 2003 World Youth Championship "Star of Hope", 2007 West Asian Football Association "Gulf Cup" champion hero, but also the Golden Ball Golden Boot double winner, known as "Gulf Maradona", 1.68 meters tall and 68 kg weight Matar is known for his delicate and dribbling, speed is not his strong point.

Ahmed Hariri, who is 1.80 meters tall and weighs 74 kilograms, is considered tall and big in the Jishu-type team of the Gulf countries, but due to the style and characteristics of the UAE's steady and steady advancement, at least in the warm-up match materials that Baggio saw, he has not seen the UAE play defensive counterattack tactics, nor has he found that Hariri has amazing speed potential.

Sure enough, after several attacks and defenses converged, Baggio found that the UAE was indeed defending intensively, but was not in a hurry to launch a quick counterattack, and played very carefully. (To be continued......)