Chapter 300: Slow Fights Speed (48/134)
After the start of the game, Dong Qiudi sat in the stands and watched the game with the Lazio fans around him. [This article is from]
The Lazio fans around him are quite relaxed.
Because no matter what the outcome of this game is, it will not affect Lazio's qualification as group winners, and they do not believe that Lazio will lose the top spot in the group.
Secondly, they don't think Tottenham Hotspur can beat Lazio, even at Tottenham Hotspur's home turf.
This relaxed mentality comes from their confidence in the team.
Over the past five seasons, the winning team has proven their favour for Lazio with real results, and this Lazio team really deserves their high hopes and never disappoints.
So in the days of following Lazio in the north and south, they learned to be confident by relying on victory.
Even at White Hart Lane, where they were so silenced by the Tottenham Hotspur fans that they could barely make their voices heard, they were not worried.
Many people even crossed their hands on their chests and crossed Erlang's legs on the chair to watch the game.
How is this like watching a bloody game? Dong Qiudi was more excited than them.
Dong Qiudi was excited, but he did not forget his work. He's going to watch the game live to see if his analysis is correct - Chang Sheng didn't tell him the results after getting his report, so he doesn't know if he's right.
Once the game started, Tottenham Hotspur did focus on Lazio's two wings, because their wide attacks were very sharp.
That's Redknapp's tactic.
The true meaning of tactics lies in attacking the enemy's shortcomings with my strengths, and to put it bluntly, it is to bully the weak. Even the so-called victory over the strong with the weak is the result of constantly expanding it to the overall level on the basis of forming the strong and weak advantages of our strong enemy in some key links. From the point of view of the rationality of the tactical arrangement, the commander must hide and make up for his own shortcomings and weaknesses as much as possible, and constantly accumulate and expand his own advantages. And managed to take the initiative. Fight the weakest opponent with the strongest of our side, get the greatest possibility of winning and pay the least risk and price.
Redknapp's choice is right in Dong Qiudi's opinion, and it is also the only choice he can choose. Tottenham Hotspur's most powerful attacking weapon is the wide attack, and their two wide players stand out for their individual ability, with Gareth on the left. Bale, with Lennon on the right, is a player who is fast and can lead well.
If you don't play to your strengths, you have a sick brain.
As for the organisation of the midfield, that's Tottenham's weak link.
Whether it's Hoddlestone. Neither Jenas nor Jenas is a pure organizer.
Tottenham Hotspur have only one Van der Vaart as a midfielder.
With Lazio's muscular midfield, it would be easy to contain Van der Vaart.
Dong Qiudi thought to himself that Chang Sheng should have seen this.
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Chang Sheng certainly saw this.
In fact, he knows better than Dong Qiudi.
Because there is no Modric in Tottenham Hotspur today, there is only one Van der Vaart who came to Tottenham Hotspur from Real Madrid to heal his injuries.
Van der Vaart, who was originally in Hamburg, was the absolute heart of the midfield, but after going to Real Madrid, he performed well at first. A rapid descent, injuries and ups and downs in form all affected his status at Real Madrid.
With the arrival of Mesut Ozil and Canales this summer, Real Madrid lost the Dutch midfielder's place altogether, so he had to move to Tottenham Hotspur at the last minute before the transfer market closed.
The transfer fee is 10 million euros.
After coming to Tottenham Hotspur, to be honest. Van der Vaart's performance is still good.
But injuries still affected his performance.
In the last leg, Tottenham Hotspur challenged Lazio away, and Van der Vaart was also unable to travel to Roma with the team due to a minor injury.
Redknapp clearly thought the away trip was a bad one.
So simply gave up the game. Leave the most important cards at home.
Van der Vaart is his trump card, along with the team's top scorer Olivier Giroud, who has already scored six goals.
However, in the eyes of Chang Sheng, the attack of Tottenham Hotspur with Van der Vaart and Bale, Lennon and Giroud still seems to be lacking in depth and too simple.
Giroud knows it well. Because that's what I cultivated.
Bale and Lennon played in the last round, and Lazio have already figured out their characteristics.
Van der Vaart is even simpler.
Tottenham Hotspur in that time had Modric. That's the real heart of their midfield, and Modric's presence makes Tottenham's attack more layered and three-dimensional.
Now, Redknapp can only hope for Van der Vaart's playmaking in midfield.
However, his position is the front midfielder, and now the development trend of football, the organizational function of the front waist has become weaker and weaker, although many front players are named front midfielders, but they are actually doing shadow striker things, such as the typical trick front midfielder Kaka, he is best at scoring with the ball in the defensive counterattack, rather than organizing the attack with the ball.
Players like Van der Vaart became more and more difficult to mix in the days that followed, and finally returned to Hamburg altogether, which has rarely appeared in the eyes of the mainstream media in Europe, in addition to his frequent injuries, but also the change in tactical style in the football environment.
For Van der Vaart, Chang Sheng did not let the three midfielders stand in front and back in the midfield, but stood in a unified line, and came to a back three.
In this way, Ledesma and Meireles can focus on containing Van der Vaart without delaying Modric to organize the attack.
Bell and Lennon relied on Gotze and David. Silva combined two full-backs, Barzaretti and Azpilicueta, to press.
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Giroud was very positive at the start of the game, but unfortunately he couldn't get the ball, so even if he ran a lot, he didn't threaten.
Lazio's targeted defensive set-up paid off.
The winning game sacrificed the attacking ability of the midfield, strengthened the defense and contained Van der Vaart.
In particular, it was the frantic tackles of Ledesma and Meireles that put Van der Vaart under a lot of pressure......
He has been suffering from frequent injuries in two seasons at Real Madrid, so he is now afraid of injuries, plus he has only just returned from injury before this game. He was even more afraid of getting hurt.
As long as Ledesma and Meireles are a little more ferocious, Van der Vaart will have to focus more on how to protect himself from injury than on how to organise the attack.
Not long after the match began, Van der Vaart was caught in Lazio's muscular jungle.
Even the commentators could see that Van der Vaart was not in good shape today.
"Van der Vaart put too much energy into the physical confrontation with Ledesma and Merelles...... Tottenham Hotspur's attack, on the other hand, made no progress......"
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Van der Vaart was restricted, so Tottenham were able to rely on two wings again.
Especially Bell.
But this time it was different from at home.
Lazio don't need to rush to attack.
The tactical idea of winning this game is to defend.
Yes, you read that right, it's the defense.
Lazio, who held up the attacking football, did not choose to attack. I actually chose defense!
Tiki-taka was used to defend by Chang Sheng, and Lazio in this game was more about control.
When the football was at their feet, they slowed down and they were not in a hurry to attack, which was completely different from the previous Lazio style.
They passed back and forth. Even the offense is pushed in layers, and every effort is made to consume more game time.
That's why Cruyff doesn't like to win.
Cruyff was happy when he first played tiki-taka in Valencia, because it meant that his set had paid off, although not in Barcelona. However, he hopes that his tactical ideas can be accepted by more people, and if Barcelona can't, other teams can come and help him preach. He was also more than happy to do so.
So at that time, he also wrote a special article to praise Chang Sheng.
As a result, he was upset when he later found out that Tsunetsu was actually defending with tiki-taka.
He felt that such a beautiful tactic was completely desecrated by Chang Sheng.
Since then, Cruyff has been transformed into a long-cherished black.
It's okay to lash out at Chang Sheng in his newspaper column. This continued until Chang Sheng left Valencia and went to Italy, with much less frequency.
However, it also laid the groundwork for the verbal war between Chang Sheng and Cruyff after Lazio eliminated Barcelona.
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Contain Tottenham Hotspur's two flanks. The principle is very simple, that is, do not give each other space. Then it's good to shrink the defense.
If the opponent plays a quick counterattack, then disrupt their attack at the first time, whether it is in normal ways or fouls.
In this way, the advantage of Bell and Lennon is gone.
And Lazio also have an advantage in this game, they have already won at home to Tottenham Hotspur, they are playing away from home in this game, and they don't need to care too much about the pitch like they do at home.
This kind of defensive tactic, when you play, there is no pressure at all.
So Tottenham Hotspur, who was full of enthusiasm and planned to fight Lazio to the death at White Hart Lane, was dumbfounded.
They felt like they were punching with all their strength, but it hit the cotton, and it didn't hurt Lazio at all.
Originally, Tottenham Hotspur planned to use speed to fight Lazio to the death, because Lazio is also fast.
That's the speed, see who is fast.
But I didn't expect Changsheng not to fight with them for speed! Always win the selection is full, and use control to curb their speed.
Football is more at the feet of Lazio, and Tottenham Hotspur's speed will naturally not be able to play, and any team will not be able to play without the ball at their feet.
Dong Qiudi's analysis report for Chang Sheng's analysis is not far from ten, and the difference is that he didn't expect Lazio to defend so resolutely, using the ball control and slowing down to deal with Tottenham Hotspur's fast pace.
He thought Lazio would stick to the attack.
But he underestimated the utilitarian nature of constant victory......