Chapter 149: The Decadent Bosque

Looking at the Belgian players who were celebrating their goals on the field, Bosque on the sidelines couldn't help but look dazed.

Although there is still half of the game, but from the beginning of the second half of the ten minutes, Spain has no hope at all, the Belgians' rapid counterattack, concise play, the Spanish team has no power to fight back.

The most lethal thing is that the fierce defense of the Belgian team has completely rendered the two cores of the Spanish team, Xavi and Iniesta, completely useless, and the reason why Spanish football has been touted by countless people in recent years and is regarded as artistic football and beautiful football is inseparable from the excellent performance of Xavi and Iniesta.

But today Xavi and Andres Iniesta's grip on the midfield completely collapsed, they couldn't even complete the turn when they got the ball, and the passing seemed a little blind, passing the ball for the sake of passing.

Bosque looked to the other side, where Antienes was high-fived his coaching staff, and Bosque couldn't help but think of what Antienes said at his pre-match press conference: "The Spanish team controlled the tempo of the game very well, but we were strong-willed and we will prove it again today." ”

Originally, Bosque looked down on Antienes' football, but through this half of the game, he has seen that Antienes is not only tailored to his own situation in terms of tactical arrangement, but also prescribes the right medicine for the enemy's situation, and the tactical design and on-the-spot command are very clever.

First of all, Antienes discharged the "433 formation" when attacking, leaving Lukaku alone in the striker, Digan and Hazard on the wings, breaking through the two wings of the Spanish team from time to time, and defending the "4411 formation", Digan also came back to defend, leaving only Lukaku in front.

Such a weak formation not only has the intention of indulging the enemy, but also has the merit of prompting the generals under his command to correct their mentality and strengthen their determination to fight the strong with the weak.

Increasing the defensive density in the middle is obviously aimed at Spain's penetrating ability to control the ball, and induce the opponent to increase the attacking force when it is difficult to penetrate, so as to expose the air defense behind it.

Secondly, Antienes did not invest much in attack, and mostly used accurate long passes to find his team's attackers in front of him and hit the opponent's back.

Degan's goal to break the deadlock and Romelu Lukaku's second goal to extend the advantage were both great chances to open the scoring with a long ball.

With such a fast transition between attack and defense, the "Matador" has no time to retreat, so it can create a large space in the opponent's back, and with the personal ability of Deegan and Hazard, they can completely kill the opponent.

Bosque now has to say "yes" in his heart, Antienes' understanding and judgment of the game mode, positional battles and counterattacks should be taken are very unique.

In today's game, Belgium relied on the extremely high offensive and defensive conversion speed to counterattack Spain with long passes, which was not improvised by Antienes, but the housekeeping skills that Belgian football had in the past, and it was the housekeeping skills that allowed the European Red Devils to crack the Spanish bullfighters' control ball play style with defensive counterattacks on the field today.

Simple pressure is complicated, and the speed breaks the short pass!

The philosophy of Belgian football is that safety comes first, and specifically the four defenders in a row, plus three defensive midfielders, form a strong breakwater.

Although the Belgian backline does not have superstars like Nesta and Cannavaro back then, they have become a difficult to break through iron bucket formation together.

The Belgian was not at all conservative at the back, with Dugan and Eden Hazard repeatedly pushing forward from the flanks, Marouane Fellaini playing an excellent role in midfield, and striker Romelu Lukaku making a big splash up front with his individual ability and team support.

This style of play is in line with Spain's short ball control, and the Belgian's presence in and out of the box has left the matadors breathless, and the short pass combination is completely difficult to achieve.

The Belgians beat the complexity of Spain to pieces with simplicity!

So far, Bosque has not figured out how his advanced style of play could be defeated by the sudden return of the Belgians?

In fact, there is nothing difficult to understand, the ball control style itself is a tactic that requires a lot of skill from the player, and if you have a lot of ball handlers, then the possession rate is very important.

The problem is that when players don't have a lot of ball control, it's easy to go wrong, but luckily there are plenty of technical talents in Spanish football, and Spanish football has taken this style of play to the extreme.

However, when the Belgian deliberately released possession, only asking the players to hold their positions, and then paired with a clear counterattack, the extreme passing was useless.

The Belgian did a very good job today, and in the face of the opponent's cumbersome tactics, the Belgian knew that the best way to crack it was to cut through the mess quickly!

Looking at the possession rate of both teams so far, Spain have held a maximum of 70% possession, but so what?

Football is not about possession, but about scoring more goals!

And in the second half, the Spaniards didn't even have possession of the ball!

When the Belgian defense became more aggressive, the Spaniards were left to struggle!

When the clock ticked for the 73rd minute, a goal came to seal the win, when Digan cut back into midfield penetrated the entire defence and allowed Hazard's speed advantage to be fully exploited.

Casillas tried his best to block it, but unfortunately, God didn't bless him!

Eden Hazard's deft volley, the ball flew over Casillas's head, and then went straight to the king, everything seemed so easy!

Faced with a 0-3 deficit, Bosque was left to sit in the coach's seat, holding his chin and his eyes blank.

The Belgians on the pitch didn't even look excited, they simply high-fived, hugged each other and turned around to wait for Spain to kick off.

When did the Belgian team become so strong!?

Facing their opponents in the Euro 2008 final, the Belgian players did not feel the slightest nervousness on their faces, and they relaxed as if they were playing a very ordinary intra-team training match.

The fans in the stands who were still cheering for the Spanish team just now also died down, and some fans even began to leave the stadium, they really couldn't accept that their beloved team was so embarrassed.