Chapter 48: The Chess Player
Mark Lawrenson's analysis makes sense, no one can guarantee that every action he made with the ball was accurate in 90 minutes of high pressure, and no human can do it except God. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
So as long as the Japanese team continues to be so strong and forces the Chinese team to make mistakes, then they will be able to score another goal.
One more goal, and a two-goal lead for the Japanese team is equivalent to the victory.
In the Olympic finals, if you are two goals behind and want to turn the tables, it is too much to underestimate the Japanese team.
When the Japanese team surrounded other players of the Chinese team, Zhou Yi still had a "shadow" Hotaru Yamaguchi by his side.
Hotaru Yamaguchi is still following Zhou Yi inch by inch, and has not changed his approach because of the team's slowing down.
How close are he and Zhou Yi?
There is a TV broadcast scene that illustrates all this very well - without the ball, Zhou Yi stood on the court, looking as if he was alone, but he took a step to the left, and at this time the Yamaguchi Hotaru hidden behind him was revealed......
"Hotaru Yamaguchi is like Zhou Yi's shadow samurai!" the commentator of Nippon TV exclaimed, "I think Zhou Yi will definitely be impressed by Hotaru Yamaguchi, because there are too few people who can guard him to this point!"
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The Japanese team's pressing did make them have some gaps behind them, but if the Chinese team plays fast attack and counterattack in this state, it will only increase the error rate.
And the Japanese team must also hope that the Chinese team will raise the speed and rhythm of the attack, so that if there are more mistakes, they will have more opportunities to counterattack.
They just want to win out of chaos!
And what Zhou Yi has to do is very simple, that is, to go against them and slow down their rhythm.
When the ball is passed to his feet, he is not in a hurry to pass forward, but to return or cross.
Not only is Zhou Yi not in a hurry to move forward, but what makes those viewers who don't know the truth feel very curious and interesting is that the performance of the Chinese Olympic team is very unified, and the eleven people are like one person, with a high degree of unity of thought.
They can only understand that Zhou Yi is really the brain of this team, and how much this team cooperates with Zhou Yi.
Every time the Chinese team gets the ball, they have to wear it in the middle and back for half a day before kicking the football forward - of course, it is impossible to pass the ball in the middle and back all the time, so sooner or later it will pass further and further backwards, and finally pass to a dead end - the Japanese team of course knows that the Chinese team is doing this to slow down the tempo, and they will not just allow the Chinese team to get their wish. So when the Chinese team fell in a row, they were even more crazy to surround and smash, hoping to snatch the football from the feet of the Chinese team players, and then directly launch a counterattack, just like the first goal.
Although the audience was frightened, the players of the National Olympic team who were re-inspired by Zhou Yi were very calm. Because they have faith in themselves. Since the Chinese Olympic team identified Zhou Yi as the core before going to the Olympic Games, the passing and possession ability of the whole team has been strengthened. Before the Olympics, everyone mainly practiced passing and receiving, as if they were practicing basic skills, and Blazevic thought of a lot of tricks to make the training more interesting and let everyone practice all the time.
In the end, against South Korea, they showed the results of their training.
Now, it's another opportunity to show the results.
The Japanese players kept running and grabbing, hoping to grab the ball.
But the Chinese team passed the ball further and further back, and even goalkeeper Sun Pan joined the ranks of the inverted feet.
The goalkeeper is involved in the inverted foot, which is actually a very dangerous behavior, because if the opponent can break the ball directly from the goalkeeper's feet, it is directly facing the empty goal, and you can score with any kick. At that point, the odds of not scoring are much smaller than the chances of scoring a goal!
So when the Chinese defenders passed the football back to Sun Pan, the Japanese team's striker Kenyu Nagai also rushed into the penalty area.
Japan pressed more and more forward in the pressing, and they were slightly compressing the space for the Chinese team to control the ball in the backcourt.
This is terrifying, for fear that the ball will be passed to the feet of a certain Chinese team player and lose control...... Especially when it comes to Zhang Jiadong's feet, everyone's hearts will involuntarily tug. It's not that Zhang Jiadong is black, but he is worried that losing the ball will have some impact on his psychology, and these effects will be reflected in his actions.
Someone complained on Weibo that the Chinese team was "playing with fire".
He Ping put it more vividly: "The Chinese team has been walking a tightrope for a while! Of course, we can understand why they are doing this, in order to reduce the speed of the Japanese team, in order to disrupt their rhythm. But there's still a lot of fear that they're going to fall off the wire......"
Mark Laurentian had the same idea as He Ping at first, but as a third-party neutral commentator, he suddenly felt that the scene of the Chinese team looked a little familiar.
And what is familiar?
It is somewhat familiar with Dortmund.
Under the leadership of Zhou Yi, Dortmund fell in the midfield, waiting for the opponent to press up, and when there was a big enough space behind them, there was a sudden counterattack!
This is an offensive routine of Borussia Dortmund, where Zhou Yi is located.
Does the Chinese Olympic team want to do the same?
Thinking of this, Mark Lawrenson looked at the court, because he was sitting condescendingly in the commentary seat, he could see the whole picture of the court, and he could see the position and running route of the Chinese and Japanese players on the court clearly.
Now it happens that the Chinese team is in possession of the ball, and the football is passed among the Chinese players in red jerseys. The players on both sides will constantly change positions depending on the situation. But this change in position is not completely irregular, but there is one basic reason - that is, the position of football.
Football is constantly changing positions on the pitch, and it also drives the players on both sides to not understand how to change their positions.
Where football is, there will be a relative concentration of players from both sides. Football is not only the focus of the viewer's vision, but also the kicker's action.
So is it possible to say that football controls the movement and concentration of players on both sides?
But football doesn't fly around on the pitch by itself, someone has to kick it, and the kicker doesn't just pick it up, it has to have a purpose.
So it's people who control football......
Thinking of this, a thought suddenly popped into Mark Laurenson's mind, forcing him to keep his eyes wide and continue to stare at the court, even forgetting to explain. As a result, viewers who watched the final on the BBC experienced a few minutes of inexplicable unexplained play, and some even thought that something was wrong with their television......
At this time, Mark Lawrenson stared at the field, he didn't have to be too deliberate to see that football would always be passed to Zhou Yi frequently, which is also the characteristic of Zhou Yi's football, no matter what position he is, the football will always come from all directions, be processed here, and then be passed to various places. It's like a CPU.
Regarding Zhou Yi's role positioning, in fact, it is a topic that does not need to be discussed, and now there are a lot of titles about him in the media, what is "Dortmund's brain", what is "midfield commander", what "command tower", what "hub"......
But at this moment, when Mark Laurenson saw Zhou Yi constantly passing the football around, and then the players on both sides ran around, he had a new interpretation of Zhou Yi's role - he looked at the scene on the court and felt as if he was watching a chess game, the players on the court were like chess pieces, and the people who were manipulated acted according to the ideas of the chess players.
But there are not two players, but only one, and that is ...... Zhou Yi!
The commentators sitting high up in the live commentary seats can see the whole situation from the perspective of God, including the audience watching TV through the camera position and from the perspective of God, everyone is used to this mode of watching the game.
But if you think about it, there is a player on the pitch who can look down on the pitch from the air and know every player's actions like them...... That's weird.
Mark Lawrenson felt that it was normal for him to watch the game from God's perspective, but he thought that Zhou Yi could also play from God's perspective like himself, which made him feel incredible.
How is this possible? How can a person look at himself outside of his dimension? It feels like an out-of-body soul.
But beyond that, there doesn't seem to be much better explanation.
And this explanation also allows Mark Laurentian to understand why Zhou Yi has such a terrifying vision and control of the overall situation - because he is not a chess piece, he is a chess player!
In Mark Lawrenson's view, when Zhou Yi led the Chinese team to the backcourt, he was constantly observing and testing the reaction of the Japanese team. If they show their vigilance against the Chinese team, then everything will end here, and the Chinese team will continue to fall when they are in possession of the ball, but they will not rush forward.
After Mark Laurenson figured this out, he watched Zhou Yi play football again, and the more he watched, the more he felt that this young man was terrible. In the excitement of football, he is calm like a chess player...... No, I heard that Oriental people like to play Go, and he is like one of those Go players who are as calm as water.
Calmly observe the situation and control the chess pieces in your hands...... He's playing in this unbelievable way!(To be continued.) )