(a)

"Approaching him, approaching him! Get down your feet! Ah Kin, Ah Kin! Okay! ”

Chen Zhuo observed the situation while running, and shouted loudly to command.

In Chen Zhuo's shouting, Porto midfielder Gu Alin made a stomping and turning motion, avoiding Lin Zhijian's ferocious tackle, and passed it horizontally with a flick of his ankle.

At this time, the only single arrow Chen Zhaoqi has returned to the top of the arc of the big penalty area, one of his tackles swept the ball to the side, and the marking central defender Zhai Tingfeng quickly made up for the position to protect the ball with his body, and gently knocked back to Chen Zhuo, who had already run.

"Good shot! Little Seven is good! Fengzi steady, steady, steady! Right right right side! The oranges are running! ”

Chen Zhuo kept directing by shouting, glancing left and right, or hanging the ball to the corner flag area on the side, Ju Yingzhi's starting speed and position were better than Garson on the left side......

Udinese's left-back Amero ran over quickly, squeezed Ju Yingzhi away with his body, and covered the ball out of the touchline with his body to dismantle the Hong Kong team's counter-attack.

After the opening fifteen minutes, Colombia averaged one shot per minute, three corners and a free-kick in front, while Hong Kong's only two counter-attacks, one on touchline and one on the line, failed to pose a real threat.

(b)

"From the beginning to the present, the Chinese player, who has performed well in the Italian league, has instigated two attacks, but his teammates have clearly not been able to match his rhythm......" Regarding the performance of the Hong Kong team, the South American commentator of the cup also politely expressed his dissatisfaction. As South Americans, who are accustomed to attacking football and delicate coordination, they feel very incomprehensible and unreasonable about the Hong Kong team's style of play.

The live TV camera showed Baggio standing with his arms on the sidelines, for the current situation of being beaten passively, Baggio does not have too much anxiety, as a third-rate team in Asia, there is a huge gap with any of the ten teams in South America, which Baggio knows very well, use these strong teams as warm-up opponents to see the world, return to Asia and then deal with those Asian strong teams. There will be more faith. Worry less!

As for this 5-4-1 formation, Baggio also made a special emphasis, and even Baggio specially asked someone to translate a professional textbook "Marking" for chain defense, and Baggio was in the interval between the highland physical training camps. It is to use this set of teaching materials and a large number of chain defense videos for players to learn theoretical knowledge.

The book "Marking" is a meritorious coach who created the era of big country rice. Hereño Herrera. An Argentine who developed the "horizontal and vertical cross-chain defense" on the basis of the chain defense. In the book "Man Marking", the Argentine claims that this tactic "can bleed from a stone"!

Thanks to this defensive tactic, Inter Milan in the old Herrera era won the Serie A title in 1964/65 and 1965/66, and reached the final for three consecutive years starting in 1963/64 and won the title in 1963/64 and 1964/65.

Inter Milan has won a total of three Champions League titles, except for Mourinho's one in 2010, the first two were brought to Inter Milan by the old Herrera, the old Herrera coached from 1960 to 1969, and it is also the only period known as the "era of big power", the foundation of the giants is laid in that decade, and Inter Milan with a hundred years of history, even Mourinho, has not surpassed the legend who has passed away.

(c)

During the Hamburg period, Chen Zhuo, with the assistance of the assistant coach, also engaged in chain defense for a period of time, and combined himself and Fanny to make hinges, files, double free men and other deformations, but in the month of this plateau training camp, after listening to Baggio's systematic explanation of "Marking", Chen Zhuo found that he only knew the surface of chain defense!

The basic "horizontal and vertical cross-chain defence" is a 4-4-2 formation, with two full-backs, a marking central defender and a scavenger, and four midfield diamond positions, forming a deep and cross-cutting defensive formation.

In terms of tactical play, the area of activity of the back is huge, and it needs to return to the back line or even the penalty area to defend, forming a deep and complex defensive network with great intensity, and tactically will require players to defend actively at any cost, and use tactical fouls fiercely and in a timely manner.

The manuscript text of this "Marking" is only 41 sections, but it is equipped with a large number of tactical diagrams, with detailed explanations for the styles of various different teams at the time, including the analysis of the tactical weaknesses of strong teams such as Real Madrid and Juventus at that time and the detailed description of targeted defense, which is very, very detailed.

Combined with the theory of the old Herrera, on the basis of "horizontal and vertical cross-chain defense", Baggio modified and adjusted the characteristics of the Hong Kong team, and made a style orientation for the Hong Kong team in the next 4 to 8 years.

In Baggio's tailor-made tactics for the Hong Kong team, it was actually a 1-4-4-1 "cross position".

Dragged back central defender Rong Aping, sweeping double-marking central defenders Zhai Tingfeng and Xie Jiaqiang, left and right fullbacks Luo Gangwei and Chen Weihao, these five players have no more than half the field, in order to strengthen the intensive defense, completely abandon the tactical routine of fullback assists.

The range of activity of the double back Chen Zhuo and Lin Zhijian is from their own penalty area to the opponent's penalty area, but the premise is that only one player is allowed to attack at a time, and when defending, Chen Zhuo will command Lin Zhijian to carry out a round of sweeping pressing in front of the two sweeping double-marking central defenders, and the left and right wingers are responsible for the card position and forcing the opposing sideline.

The requirements for the striker's single arrow are also very high, and the single arrow is required to retreat to the top of the arc of the big penalty area at the deepest point in the sports battle, and when a "sweeping midfielder" moves to the side, the striker must retreat deeply to prevent the opponent's horizontal pass and return pass.

The description of "being able to squeeze blood out of a stone" may also mean that the physical requirements of the players who carry out this set of tactics are extremely high.

(iv)

In fact, the chain defense has long been retired from the stage of history in the 21st century, on the one hand, because after the international football rules changed from a two-point system to a three-point system, the score of three draws is the same as one win and two losses, as a means to stimulate the team to pay more attention to attack. The second is the offside rule and the rule that the goalkeeper is not allowed to return the pass with his hands, both of which are adjustments in favor of the attacking team, both of which make it more difficult to defend.

On the other hand, the chain defense itself also has two major weaknesses, the first is that this tactic pays too much attention to defense, too many troops are invested in the defense, and only two or three players are really put into the attack, so it is necessary to seize the opportunity to kill a goal in the attack, so the chain defense generally waits for the opponent's strength to press the ball and then directly hand over the two or three offensive players in front of the opponent to take advantage of the opponent's foothold to counterattack steadily, forming a limited threat to the opponent.

The second weakness of chain defense is that this tactic focuses too much on man-to-man defense, which can easily lead to disposition, which in turn can lead to confusion in the transition between offense and defense.

For example, if a player on the right side runs to the middle for marking, it happens that his side gets the ball at this time and wants to attack from the right side, he will find that no one is available, which is the weakness of switching from defense to attack; In the same way, when a player fails to participate in the attack on the left side, and turns to defense, he will often find that his target has run to the right side, resulting in a situation of leakage, which is a disorderly shift from attack to defense.

Therefore, when a team plays more cross-transposition and running for the man-to-man tactics of chain defense, there is a chance to cause the opponent's three lines to be chaotic, which is also a common means of breaking chain defense, of course, if you want to break the chain defense and take cross transposition, it also requires players to run a lot of off-ball and cross transposition, and the physical requirements for players are also very high, which is another meaning of "can squeeze blood from the stone"!

(5)

In response to the long-discovered "chain defense crack", Baggio designed a strengthened version that uses a combination of zone defense and man-to-man defense to counterbalance the "cross-switching" tactics that opponents may adopt.

The combination of zone defence and man to man defence is to ask four wide players to play in a zone defence mode, and whoever passes by them will be intercepted.

Also using the zone defense mode are the scavenger Rong Aping and the command core Chen Zhuo, the two of them do not have a man-marking task, which is a reference to the "double free man" model used by Chen Zhuo when he was in Hamburg, and the area of activity for the two of them is infinite.

The other four players, two sweeping marking central defenders and sweeping defensive midfielders, each of them has their own marking tasks, and complements each other with Chen Zhuo's command. As for the single-arrow center player, one of his responsibilities is to return to the defensive position, under the command of Chen Zhuo, to mark the opposing attacking players, in addition to launching counter-robberies in the opponent's half to disrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm.

Baggio has conducted a lot of simulation deductions, thinking that this defensive counterattack tactics are extremely effective for the current Hong Kong team, as for the long term, it depends on the current 6-12-year-old Hong Kong youth player training system, to see if after 10 to 20 years of systematic training, can a large number of Jishu good foundation, solid basic skills, physical players, such players can really be called professional players, the current Hong Kong team, at best semi-professional nature!

The mission of this semi-professional team is to use a less advanced but practical tactic and adapt to it by improving their physical fitness, and to play to their strengths and weaknesses through a combination of tactics and fitness.

This choice is very objective and practical, for the players of this Hong Kong team, the possibility of their physical improvement is greater than the possibility of improving jishu and basic skills, and "strengthening physical fitness + defensive counterattack" is obviously more reliable for the Hong Kong team.

Through this transformation, let them further awaken the love of Hong Kong people for football through some victories in this "transition period", so that more young people can devote themselves to football, including Chen Zhuo, Baggio believes that their generation of Hong Kong players is destined to be a stepping stone on the road to the take-off of Hong Kong football!

This is their mission and their destiny. (To be continued......)