Volume 1 Chapter 122 Atypical Center
August 24 at 20:30 p.m.
There are still 15 minutes left before the start time of the UEFA Super Cup.
Ajax sat in the home team's locker room, and Ye Qiu kept emphasizing to the players the tactics to be used in this game against Bayern Munich, because the current Bayern Munich team can be described as strong.
The starting line-up has been out, the goalkeeper is Kahn, and the backline is Lizarazu, Kufuor, Robert? Kovac and Sagnol, the midfield four are Salihamidzic, Jeremes, Effenberg and Sauer, and the two strikers are Elber and Pizarro.
In this powerful green Hollywood, any star is picked out, they are all first-class in Europe, and Ajax cannot underestimate such an opponent even if he is bullish, because with Bayern Munich's strong strength, coupled with Heathfield's tactics and adjustments, it is easy to defeat Ajax.
But this does not mean that Ye Qiu and his team will be willing to be killed.
In Ye Qiu's analysis, Bayern Munich is not completely without disadvantages, for example, the Bundesliga has ignited the fire at the end of July this season, and now Bayern Munich is coming to Monaco after playing many rounds of league games in a row, which may lead to the poor condition of Bayern Munich players.
Ajax's situation is relatively better, because Ye Qiu rotated a number of players in the team in the second round of the league to ensure that the team can have better fitness and better form to participate in this Super Cup.
But compared to this is not an obvious disadvantage, Bayern Munich's advantage is too obvious, a strong lineup of players, and a strong mental will, which makes Bayern Munich enough to sweep the entire Europa.
"There is no doubt that Bayern are very strong!"
Ye Qiu was in the locker room, looking at the upcoming competition, a serious player, and said seriously.
"But as we said before, Bayern's strength is built on the strength of the whole, so if we want to beat them, we must also rely on the whole, I ask every player to go all out in the game, to always maintain 100% commitment in the 90 minutes of the game, we can only use hard work and sweat to fill the gap in strength!"
"Wesley, Seydoux!" Ye Qiu pointed to Sneijder and Keita, "Bayern Munich's two central midfielders, Jeremies and Effenberg, must be strictly guarded, you have to suppress them and entangle them, you can't let them easily take the ball and organize, understand?" ”
Ye Qiu's solemn inquiry made both Sneijder and Keita nod in agreement.
"Bayern Munich's wing attack is very strong, on the left side is Lizarazu and Angel Wings Salihamidzic, this pair of strong assault ability combination strength does not need to be said more, on the right side is the combination of Sagnol and Sauer, which is a combination of control organization, and it is also very dangerous!"
"We have to be careful when we defend, when Bayern Munich has made a wide break, our full-backs will take the initiative to retract into the box, block their route to cut inside and participate in the strategy, force them to stay on the touchline, and our two central defenders and our goalkeeper must pay attention, the cross will be handed over to you!"
In this game, Heathfield put his German high school striker Jankel, who is known as the Gestapo, on the bench, and instead chose Pizarro, who had just been introduced this season, which undoubtedly gave Ye Qiu a confidence, that is, to let them cross.
It is impossible for any head coach to completely block the opponent's attack when arranging the defense, so he can only choose the defensive strategy that poses the least threat to himself and is the most sure of himself.
If a player makes a mistake, there is no way for the manager's tactics, no matter how good they are.
Elber and Pizarro are not very high, although both players have good headers, but as long as Ajax strangles the link between the two wings and the middle of the penalty area, forcing Bayern Munich's wide cross, then their threat will be minimized, because Ajax have Lucio and Kivo in the box, as well as Van der Sar!
"Bayern Munich's two centre-backs are on the short side, Zlatan, you know what to do!" Ye Qiu looked at Ibrahimovic, and the Swede smiled with arrogance and confidence, and nodded in agreement.
This is a relatively obvious weakness in Bayern Munich's entire tactical system, Kufuor is 1.78 meters tall, Robert? Kovacs is 1.82 meters tall, and Thomas? Link is also 1.82 meters tall, and his overall height is not too tall among central defenders, and even a little shorter, but they are more agile and faster.
As the head coach, Ye Qiu can also understand the difficulties in Heathfield's heart.
Tall central defenders often lack flexibility, and the frontal defensive confrontation is very good, but the problem is that the defense behind is a big weakness, and a team like Bayern Munich is destined to press the attack, in this case, the lack of defensive ability behind the central defender, it will be fatal, as long as you encounter a flexible and speedy striker, it is almost a dead end.
As long as you think about it again, Bayern Munich's central defender combination later, whether it is Demichelis, Van Bitten, or Lucio, has the height, but the overall flexibility has declined, which directly leads to Bayern Munich's backline always being uneasy.
This is a matter of trade-off, whether you want to be tall or flexible, so generally speaking, a good combination of central defenders is generally one tall and one fast, one front and one assists in defense, for example, Chelsea's Triga Carvalho is such a combination, and Ye Qiu's current Lucio Gakifu also takes this route.
After emphasizing and arranging the specific tactical details, Ye Qiu didn't have anything to say, just looked at the players in front of him and smiled, "For tonight's game, I have already boasted about Haikou before the game, don't forget, at the UEFA award ceremony last night, I made a challenge!" ”
"If we can't win Bayern tonight, then I will definitely become the laughing stock of all Europe tomorrow, and I can guarantee you, everyone, your life must be very, very difficult, so you can watch it yourself!"
In the face of Ye Qiu's underworld style intimidation, the Ajax players couldn't help laughing one by one, but they all knew very well that they had no choice but to fight in this game.
"Head, don't worry, if you are ashamed, we will be ashamed, we will not do this!" Ibrahimovic said with a smile.
"yes, head, we're going to kill Bayern!" Lucio said confidently.
Ye Qiu smiled, "Let's listen first!" ”
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Heathfield and Bayern Munich have been almost invincible in Europe in the past few years, even when they met Bosque's Real Madrid in 2000, the latter adopted a defensive attitude of five defenders, and finally eliminated Bayern Munich with a tight defense.
This makes many people think, even Bayern Munich itself, that in the current football Europe, there are very few teams that dare to play against Bayern Munich, and there are only a handful of teams that can retreat in the attack.
But in any case, the weak Ajax is definitely not one of them, because they don't deserve it!
But at the beginning of the game, Ajax used their service advantage to attack Bayern Munich.
This is a typical attacking strategy of Ajax, using the rush after the opening game to play their devastating and very impactful offensive to break down the opponent's defense in one fell swoop, suppress the opponent's morale, and control the game.
Heathfield anticipated that Ajax might play like that and he reminded his players, but it was clear that there were things they couldn't predict or predict but couldn't do about it.
Just 1 minute into the opening game, Van der Vaart combined with McCone on the right side, took the ball and cut inside and stuffed it straight to his back to suppress Robert? At the feet of Ibrahimovic in Kovac, the Swede with his back to the goal and pressing Roberts with his back? Kovacs.
Height and strength against the flaws that make Robert? Kovacic couldn't catch the ball at Ibrahimovic's feet, and the Swede's delicate skills, which were completely out of step with his height, allowed him to skillfully control the ball at his feet, and his nimble and flexible body allowed him to suppress Robert? At the same time, Kovac successfully completed the next technical moves.
Jeremes retreated as soon as he wanted to pinch Ibrahimovic, and when Heathfield arranged his tactics, he must have reminded his players more than once that he must be careful of the Swedes who are excellent in skill but very good in height and physical confrontation, and he even believes that Ibrahimovic is a **-type difficult center.
But just when Jeremes grabbed back, Ibrahimovic picked the ball smartly, picked off Jeremes, and suppressed Robert in the body? At the same time, Kovac turned around, and after just pulling out half of his body, he met the ball with his right foot and fired a kick from near the penalty spot.
It was a powerful shot from inside the box that was very fast and powerful, but it went just wide.
But this shot made everyone break out in a cold sweat, and Heathfield also realized for the first time that his team's defense had encountered an unprecedented test, because when the Ajax defense pressed forward and suppressed Bayern Munich's defense in the penalty area, in the face of Ibrahimovic, Bayern's double central defender's height defects will be very obvious.
"Press them out, Stefan, don't shrink back so far, press them forward and push them back!" Heathfield walked to the sideline and shouted at Effenberg.
It was just a shot on goal, but it had already made the experienced Heathfield aware of the danger of the team.
But Ajax are clearly not ready to retreat, they launched a strong midfield encirclement and pressure for Bayern Munich, and firmly ensured their own high defense with physical scramble, while Bayern Munich lacked a tactical fulcrum in the front court, and did not have a player who could hold the ball in the front court, which was very disadvantageous.
Just like this time, when Effenberg made a long pass and wanted to go to the front to find Elber, Lucio broke the ball to Kifu first, and the latter made a long pass to Bayern Munich, Van der Vaart quickly inserted on the right side, and after winning the ball, he wanted to find an opportunity to enter the penalty area, but Kufuor firmly blocked the way to cut inside, and finally wasted a good opportunity to attack.
Compared with Ajax's initiative to press the attack, Bayern Munich's first shot came in the 8th minute, Effenberg hit a high and wide shot from about 20 meters in the front of the penalty area, which was not threatening, but in the 10th minute, Robert, who was entangled by Ibrahimovic? Kovacs took down the Swede.
Kifu's direct free-kick was met by Kahn, and although the angle was on target, it was less powerful.
"From the start of the game, Ajax's attack was more aggressive, Bayern Munich looked a little hesitant, and Bayern's defense didn't have a very good and effective way to limit Ibrahimovic, the Swedes were active and threatening, Robert? Kovac alone would be hard pressed to contain this player! ”
"Speaking of which, we have to think of Capello's assessment of Ibrahimovic, he thinks that the Swedish center forward is a very special center forward, with the physicality and confrontation ability of the traditional center forward, but his header is a weakness, and his shooting ability has improved a lot, but his foot skills and agility are not lost to those small strikers at all."
"Such an alternative center forward is indeed enough to give all the central defenders a headache because his control surface is too big!"
While the on-site narrator was analyzing, Gilberto? Silva broke the ball off to Sneijder, who slid it through and slotted it down to Ibrahimovic.
The advantage of having a large area of control is that when Ibrahimovic, who pulls the ball to the right side, leans his body against Kufuor, who has nothing to do, but the Swede is able to deftly and skillfully stop the ball with his left foot to Kufuor's left.
Stopping the ball, turning, catching up, playing the ball, the whole process, Ibrahimovic did not give Kufuor any chance, the Ghanaians could only watch Ibrahimovic form a breakthrough, fortunately the Ghanaians were fast, not tall, but very flexible, and suddenly turned around and chased up.
Ibrahimovic also knew that he was not as fast as Kufuor, so he didn't plan to get up on his own, but after forming a breakthrough on the right side of the penalty area, he crossed the ball to the left.
I saw Robben cut into the penalty area quickly from the left side without knowing when, Sagnol was left behind him, and Robert, who assisted behind Kufuor? Kovac wanted to turn and chase the ball, but the Dutch winger had already fired a left-footed shot into the back of the net.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!”
"In the 18th minute, in the 18th minute, Ajax finally took the lead to break the deadlock on the field!"
"Very, very unexpected situation, after the game started, the disadvantaged Ajax took the initiative to press the attack, Bayern Munich was completely suppressed, and the Champions League champion obviously did not have a very effective way to take Ajax."
After Robben scored, he excitedly rushed out of the Bayern Munich penalty area, but as soon as he was halfway through, he was knocked to the ground by Ibrahimovic, and then Keita and other teammates pounced one after another.
"It's amazing, this young Ajax team completely suppressed Bayern Munich without resistance, they used their best high post defense and midfield strong pressing tactics, almost completely controlled the situation on the field, Bayern Munich is very unsuitable for their tactical strategy."
After the team scored, Ye Qiu quickly rushed to the sidelines, raised his arms to celebrate, but soon kept calling on the players, "Don't be careless, continue to keep pressing, continue to press me, don't slack off!" ”
The players of Ajax are convinced of Ye Qiu, what the head coach says, what they do on the field, so that Ye Qiu's control and command of the team can be like an arm, without the slightest hindrance.
In the 32nd minute, Keita distributed the ball to the left side to Robben, who faced Sagnol one-on-one, flexibly pulled out the gap, and passed to Ibrahimovic, who pulled to the left side of the penalty area, who carried Robert? Kovac, after winning the ball, turned and shook Kufuor past the scramble again, and fired a powerful volley into the box to find the back of the net again in Kahn.
It was a powerful and hearty shot that Kahn could do to react but could do nothing but whine at his team-mates as he scooped the ball out of the net, believing that the two centre-backs had given Ibrahimo too many chances to score, especially in the box.
"Obviously, Bayern Munich's central defenders have no way to take Ibrahimovic at all, the Swedish center performed very well in this game, Ye Qiu's tactics were also implemented very resolutely and decisively in the game, Bayern Munich is completely controlled by others!"
In the 43rd minute, Ibrahimovic pulled out of the box and immediately put Kufuor and Roberto Brown? Kovac also followed and pulled out of the penalty area, Sneijder won the ball outside the penalty area and made a precise through ball, penetrating the Bayern Munich defense, passing straight behind him, Van der Vaart on the right quickly shook off Lizarazu and went straight into the penalty area.
As a left-footer, Van der Vaart's right foot has always been a weakness, but he has been paying attention to strengthening the exercise of his right foot in the past year, although he cannot be as flexible as his left foot, but there is no problem with stopping the ball.
I saw Van der Vaart raise his right foot, stop the ball firmly at his feet, and in the face of the goalkeeper Kahn who had already attacked, Van der Vaart pulled the ball to the left with his right foot, and then pushed the ball to the goal behind Kahn with his left foot.
The ball went around the right side of Kahn, and although the German goalkeeper made a judgment, it was too late to block it, and the ball slanted towards the goal behind him, almost grazing the post and crashing into the goal, 3:0!
This time not only the fans and players of Ajax were happy, but even the head coach Ye Qiu on the sidelines couldn't believe it, he had already judged that Bayern Munich's central defenders were not good at positional battles in the penalty area, because of the lack of height, but he didn't expect that after a little use, Bayern Munich would have this kind of defeat situation.
And what made him even more puzzled was that when the team's overall performance was poor and the state of many players was obviously sluggish, Heathfield didn't make adjustments, which is too weird!
If Ye Qiu hadn't guessed Heathfield's thoughts before, when halftime came, he would have understood when he looked at the Ajax players who were panting as cattle when he walked off the field!