Chapter 45: Style

When many people watch the live broadcast of the game, they must be impressed by the situation on the court, that is, a good end of the court presents a clear light and dark, and a large area of shadow cuts the court into two pieces. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a common occurrence in Serie A and the Premier League.

This kind of court is called "Yin-Yang Field".

This is also more common when the weather is better and the sun is stronger. This is the projection of the stadium's stands and canopy on the pitch.

Generally speaking, stadiums should be built with this in mind. When players are playing, the glare of the sun can affect their vision and even cause short-term blindness.

The yin and yang court is unavoidable, after all, football is an outdoor sport, and it is impossible to always play with the roof closed.

However, when building a stadium, the direction of the shadow can be artificially adjusted.

For example, a north-south facing course is better than an east-west facing course.

Because the north-south facing court encounters a yin-yang court, at most the horizontal half has a shadow, and the other half does not. In this way, the players are the least affected by the sun when attacking and defending. The opposite is true for east-west.

But the new Wembley Stadium, where the final was held, is an east-west stadium......

It doesn't seem like a problem at the moment, but as the game goes on, it's hard to say.

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The Chinese team lost the right to pick the edge and got the right to kick off, so when the game starts, the Chinese team will kick off.

He Ying and Wu Lei stood in the middle circle, he stepped on the football under his feet, and Zhou Yi stood outside the middle circle.

Both players were already in their positions, waiting for the whistle to blow.

The scene, which was quite noisy before, gradually quieted down, and the silence even made people a little uncomfortable.

Even the narrator He Ping couldn't help but hold his breath.

The referee looked down at his watch and then blew the whistle in his mouth hard.

"The game is on!" He Ping shouted, "CCTV! CCTV! Audience friends, welcome to the final of men's football at the London 2012 Olympic Games! The match will be between the Chinese team wearing the red jersey and the Japanese team wearing the blue jersey. The game was kicked off first by the Chinese team!"

He Ying kicked the football to Wu Lei, and Wu Lei turned around and passed the football back.

The football fell to Zhou Yi's feet.

At the time of these two passes, the Japanese players had already rushed over the halfway line, and the first one was their striker Kensuke Nagai, who was a striker, and it was normal to rush to the front.

But the Japanese player who rushed to second was their midfielder Hotaru Yamaguchi!

This position on the field should be farther back than Higashi Keigo, Otsu Yuki, and Kiyotake Hiroji, but he rushed to the second.

He rushed straight to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi didn't let the football stay at his feet for long, he turned around as soon as he received the ball, and then kicked the football to central defender Guo Nu. After the pass, he pulled to the wing.

Hotaru Yamaguchi also adjusted the direction of her running and ran towards her new position. He is like a guided missile that locks onto the target, and he goes wherever Zhou Yi goes.

Takashi Sekizuka, the head coach of the Japanese Olympic team, who saw this scene from the sidelines, nodded, and he was very satisfied with Hotaru Yamaguchi's performance.

Zhou Yi passed the football back to the back line, but the Japanese striker Kenyu Nagai, who rushed to the front, did not mean to stop occasionally, but followed the football to Guo Nu.

In addition to him, other Japanese players also continued to push forward. Yuki Otsu, Keigo Higashi, Hiroshi Kiyotake...... Run up from different directions.

But not all of them are going for football. If you look closely, you will see that only Kensuke Nagai is like this, everyone else has their own goals, these goals are not football, but other players of the Chinese team, and if Guo Nu wants to get the ball, these people will target him with the ball.

Guo Nu also noticed this after receiving the ball, and when he wanted to pass the football forward, he suddenly found that he didn't have a good choice, because there were already Japanese players near the target of his pass. They have their backs to the attack, and after taking the ball, they are likely to be stuck by Japanese players who can't even turn around, and they are easy to lose the ball.

Guo Nu is also a person who has been trained in Serie A, he did not hesitate, but quickly turned around again and passed the football back to goalkeeper Sun Pan.

Kenyu Nagai ran past Guo Nu's side and continued to chase the football, as if he was chasing the sun, and he ran to goalkeeper Sun Pan.

In the face of Kenyu Nagai's snatch, Sun Pan didn't kick the football out immediately, he seemed to have other ideas.

But at this time, Zhou Yi, who had already run back to outside the penalty area, shouted at him: "Kick out!"

Sun Pan heard Zhou Yi's voice, so he was a little unwilling to kick the football to the front.

But just as he had completed this big foot, Kensuke Nagai had already run to a place that was only three or four meters away from him......

If he hesitates any longer, he may not have the opportunity to kick the football in front of him, so he can only kick the football to the side.

Zhou Yi's reminder was very timely.

But Sun Pan was still a little unhappy, and he sighed.

When Zhou Yi turned around and ran forward, he threw a piece of advice to Sun Pan: "Be careful, Panpan, today's Japanese team is not normal!"

Sun Pan took a sip: "When has Little Japan been normal?"

His mouth was quite hard, but he did muttered a little in his heart, the Japanese team was really fierce after the start of this game...... Addicted to drugs?

"As soon as the game started, the Chinese team just kicked off, and the Japanese team grabbed it fiercely! Kensuke Nagai even went directly into the Chinese team's penalty area...... "BBC's Mark Laurensen also highlighted what the Japanese team showed after kick-off.

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Zhou Yi is right, today's Japanese team is indeed not very normal.

In the ensuing game, the Japanese players kept running and scrambling.

As long as the Chinese players get the ball, they will see Japanese players rushing up to surround them.

To be honest, the people watching this scene are quite unharmonious. He Ping, the commentator, felt strange and said: "Today's Japanese team players seem to have suddenly turned into wolves......

Everyone who watched the game thought it was strange, and even more so the people who played it.

The Chinese Olympic players looked unaccustomed to being pressed by the Japanese team, a situation they had not expected before the game - no one expected Japan to play so aggressively in the game......

The technical characteristics and style of play of the Japanese team have always been clear and clear, and they have persisted for many years. That is the flow of technology, the flow of transmission and control. In terms of aggressiveness, they are far inferior to the Korean team, and running like this and surrounding the opponent like a wolf pack is the hallmark of the Korean team.

Ever since Japanese football set its goal of learning from Brazil, it has been working in this direction. Considering their own ethnicity, they believe that delicate technique and control are the most suitable path for Japanese players.

They have persisted for so many years, almost like Barcelona's insistence on Tiki-taka, which has become the DNA of Japanese football.

Because of the emphasis on ball creation, Japanese football often features some of the best Asian midfielders. For example, the earliest Hidetoshi Nakata, his successor Shunsuke Nakamura, and then Shinji Kagawa today, these are all people who can occupy a place in European football. In addition to the three of them, there are many outstanding Japanese players who can play in European teams, and most of them are midfielders.

For a while, there was a fairly popular opinion among Chinese fans that China did not lack good strikers or good defenders, but it did lack good midfielders. Japan has no shortage of good midfielders, but it just doesn't have the top strikers in Asia. This shows that Japanese football has a surplus of midfield talent.

However, today, Japanese football has taken the lead in Chinese football in all directions, and they not only have Asia's top midfielders, but also Asia's first-class forwards.

This style of skill and tactics in Japanese football is not only reflected in their senior national teams, but also in national teams of all ages, and even high school teams.

In fact, the whole of Japanese football can be seen as an enlarged version of FC Barcelona, where they emphasize the unity of football style from the beginning of the youth training, so that their players can easily play in the senior team and maximize the success rate.

Chinese football is completely inferior to Japan in this regard, and the style of football is erratic. More than 20 years ago, when everyone talked about the characteristics of Chinese football, that is, "good headers" and "fast horses", side crosses and middle headers are one of the magic weapons of the Chinese team's attack, so that it has the nickname of "Chinese head team". But when that group of athletes gradually withdrew, the characteristics of Chinese football became less and less distinct. At the national team level, it is who learns from whom, the style is erratic, and there is never a fixed standard. As a result, many things in Chinese football cannot be continued, and there is no direction for youth training. Good grades are luck, but good luck can't always be around, what if you run out of luck?

It's not scary to fall into the trough, but it's scary to be in the dark, and you don't know where to go.

The Japanese team knew what path they should take, formulated a "100-year plan", and unswervingly continued to do so.

This is the characteristic of the Japanese nation, they are more stubborn and follow the rules, and sometimes they leave the impression of the world as rigid, but stereotype does not necessarily mean a derogatory term.

At the very least, in football, their stubbornness has paid off their fruits.

But also because of stubbornness and rigidity, they left many people with the impression of a delicate pass-and-control style of play, and their physical confrontation ability was not good enough, which formed a sharp contrast with the Korean team.

It's a fixed impression, similar to labeling.

Many people think of these keywords when they think of Japanese football, but none of these keywords are related to "rushing around".

But in this Olympic final, the Japanese team fought a scramble when facing the Chinese team!

If it was South Korea against China, then it would be no fuss, and in the quarterfinals, South Korea played against China. When the Chinese team faces the South Korean team, they will also focus on how to deal with the South Korean team's pressing when preparing for the game, so when the Koreans play like this, the Chinese team can cope with it quite easily.

But when facing the Japanese team, they never imagined that the Japanese team would be so big, so naturally they would not make any targeted arrangements at all.

Now, as soon as the game began, the Chinese Olympic team was caught off guard! )