Chapter 1284: The Flying Dutchman
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With the Netherlands starting line-up for this game, let's take a look at the line-up on the Italian side.
Trapattoni is worthy of being a top coach who was once hailed by fans as the "gold medal coach", and he easily took out a starting lineup that was extremely suitable for defensive counter-attack. Gianluigi Buffon, Grosso, Cannavaro, Nesta, Zambrotta, Deco, De Rossi, Pirlo, Camoranesi, Vieri and Cassano, these are the starting eleven for Italy.
Apparently, Trapattoni believes that even in such an international tournament, the Dutch will not abandon their attacking traditions, intending to emulate the elder Maldini and beat them with the defensive counter-attack that Italy is best at. After all, the Dutch mentality of attacking football is so ingrained that any manager who wants to change the style is not going to end well.
In Zhuang Mingge's previous life, this phenomenon did not begin to change until the death of Michels, the godfather of Dutch football. Otherwise, Van Basten's strategy and tactical style of play will also be strongly criticized by the Dutch media.
However, what Trapattoni didn't expect was that Advocaat would actually put on such a starting role in this game and play so conservatively, which was really beyond his expectations.
"I'll you, Karin, Rebecca, I think we'd better prepare a little bit more for this game. Otherwise, I think we'd have to fall asleep in the box before the game was over. When he saw that the head coaches of the two teams coincidentally chose to play defensive counterattacks in the game, without waiting for the game to start, Zhuang Mingge had already predicted how boring this game would be, "It's better to let people get a deck of UNO cards, if the game is too boring, we can also have a little pastime." ”
Hearing Zhuang Mingge say this, Karin and Rebecca both covered their mouths and snickered. Living together for many years, and now that they have children, of course they know what Zhuang Mingge is thinking, but they just don't want to waste their time watching a game where both sides are playing defense.
If Mourinho were here, he would have complained about his boss: Didn't you come to the European Championship to see the players up close? How can you deliberately slip the number just because the game is boring!
Sure enough, as Zhuang Mingge expected, when the referee Frisker announced the start of the game, the players on both sides invariably chose to shrink the formation and tighten the fence, ready to lure the opponent to press the attack, so that their side had more space to counterattack.
For this situation, including Zhuang Mingge, they all felt very speechless. It's okay if Italy doesn't have the ball to defend and counter-attack, but now the ball is passing under the feet of your Dutchman, who do you want your players to play on the counter-attack?
Although Italy still has the trick of pressing high to deal with the Netherlands' backcourt down, this is also a target to be used. For a team like the Netherlands, where almost every player on the pitch is extremely skilled at their feet, Italy would be killing themselves if they really pressed them forward.
Seeing that the Italian players did not react much to their own backward foot move, and the pressing in the front court was not very active, only when the ball entered the area 30 meters from the goal will they cheer up and improve the defensive intensity, the Dutch players are a little unable to hold their breath and begin to gradually push the front forward.
After all, a significant number of these Dutch players had experienced the semi-finals of the 2000 European Championships, and they really had a lot of psychological shadows on the penalty spot. Therefore, they obviously do not want to drag the game into a penalty shoot-out rather than the Italian players who put on a calm appearance. In this way, the Dutchman will have to score as soon as possible and establish an advantage in the score to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
Strange to say, it stands to reason that these Dutch players have seen a lot of big scenes, and they are basically mainstays in their respective clubs, and their psychological quality is definitely not bad, but the problem of numb claws when they touch a penalty is really speechless.
Of course, the main reason why these Dutch players took the initiative less than ten minutes into the game was that they were used to attacking constantly in the game, and they were unwilling to shrink into their own half like a turtle. They are clearly more willing to devote their limited energy to flashy offense than the dirty work of defence.
As a result, the Dutch players, who could not contain their attacking desire and fear of penalty kicks, changed their style of play and switched to playing the attacking football they knew and liked to play the most, and Advocaat, who commanded from the sidelines, was stunned.
It's no wonder, after all, with the exception of Guus Hiddink, the other Dutch coaches have been fairly mediocre in their control of the team, and most of these big-name stars have been obedient rather than forceful to get them to obey orders.
Van Gaal had the intention to establish the absolute authority of the head coach in the team after picking up the national team coaching whip, but unfortunately he was overkill, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the national team bigwigs, coupled with the Netherlands' failure to break into the South Korea-Japan World Cup finals, which led to his hasty dismissal before he had time to receive results in the transformation of the national team.
Although the Dutch players took it upon themselves to put Advocaat's tactical plan aside, their performance on the pitch showed no signs of confusion, and instead played a fluid attacking football under Seedorf's organization, and gradually gained the upper hand in the battle for midfield.
The main reason for this unscientific situation is that these players are very familiar with each other's technical characteristics and playing styles, such as Seedorf and Van der Sar, who have accumulated a very deep tacit understanding when they played for Ajax. So, even if they went against Advocaat's tactical set-up, the Dutch showed no signs of running smoothly on the pitch.
Perhaps the attacking trident on the front line may produce some hesitation, but Ruud van Nistelrooy is only a pure goalscorer in the national team at this time, and the two young youngsters of Robben and Van der Meyde are also the leaders of the national team, such as Koku and De Boer, and it is impossible to express objections at this time. Therefore, the Netherlands will still play a smooth game against the intention of the manager, if it is changed to another team, it will be God forbid not to mess up on the field.
Robben was the Netherlands' biggest discovery in this European Cup, in the 23rd minute of the game, the Dutch Peter Pan broke through the defense of Zambrotta and De Rossi on the left side and dribbled into the penalty area, assisting the ambushed Van Nistelrooy in the small box to score and successfully break the deadlock on the field!