Not long after the game began, Zhou Yi got a glimpse of Freiburg's U19 style of football. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It's really that the three lines stand very close, and the guard line is pressed very high.

This style of play, which is tens of metres behind, may seem dangerous, but in fact, they have relied on this tactic to reach the final of the German Youth Cup this season.

Why?

Without a system, Zhou Yi may not be able to experience the power of this tactic until this final.

But after having the system, he has already experienced it many times in advance.

He knew very well why this tactical style of play, which seemed to have a lot of space behind him, was so powerful.

Freiburg's Under-19 style of play requires each player to be close to each other, with three lines, and the distance between each line is tight.

The three lines together are like a cage that traps the opponent in it, and the aggressive high pressing makes it difficult for the opponent to get the ball out of the cage again.

As soon as their opponents get the ball, even in front of their own penalty area, they will be pressed by Freiburg players, which creates an unprecedented tense atmosphere, making it difficult for the ball carrier to handle the ball calmly and calmly, and there will be many mistakes in the process of pressing the opponent.

And those mistakes will immediately turn into Freiburg's attack.

Borussia Dortmund's Under-19 boss Yebala has repeatedly stressed to his players that Freiburg are a very defensively good team, and indeed they have conceded the third-fewest goals in the Under-19 Under-19 region.

But Zhou Yi has a different view from his head coach. He doesn't see this as proof that Freiburg is excellent defensively, on the contrary, he feels that Freiburg is a team that is better at attacking.

Streich's Freiburg played not defensive football, but offensive football.

Why is there such a perception?

On the one hand, Zhou Yi consulted some data of Freiburg U19 in real life on the Internet, and on the other hand, the data he obtained after repeatedly playing against Freiburg U19 in the virtual system, and then analyzed and summarized.

In the virtual system, Freiburg U19 can create an average of 11 scoring chances per game, which is very impressive, and Zhou Yi compared his own Borussia Dortmund U19 virtual team, which only averaged 13 times per game.

And you know, Dortmund has their own side, and Götze, and what about Freiburg U19?

I haven't heard of them having players who are good at attacking playmaking.

What do they rely on?

It's this kind of high-level pressing.

In Freiburg's 442 formation, the defence began with the two strikers at the top harassing the opposing centre-backs with the ball. As soon as the ball is passed, all players begin to press forward against the opposing players, while they will maintain a tight position near the midfield, compressing the space and isolating the opposition players through purposeful and continuous running, so that the opponents do not have much time and space to organise their attacks, and it is difficult to penetrate their tight and orderly formation.

This style of collective pressing will give Freiburg plenty of opportunities to counter-attack up front, which is why they create so many scoring chances.

But after playing against this team dozens of times, Zhou Yi also understands that Freiburg's system does not run smoothly every time, and the cage they weave is not so airtight and difficult to fly.

As long as it is a system made up of people, there will definitely be loopholes.

While Freiburg are able to create an average of 11 scoring chances per game, the probability of converting those chances into goals is very low at 12 per cent.

The reason for this is that Freiburg lack strikers with excellent scoring ability, and their two forwards have less energy to score because they have to shoulder more defensive harassment tasks. In addition, Zhou Yi inspected their lineup and found that it was not a striker who could score, but he was sitting on the bench.

Why is that?

Didn't Freiburg's head coach Streich know this?

Zhou Yi analyzed and analyzed it, and felt that this was a reluctant choice for Streich - Freiburg's collective pressing style of play requires players to maintain a high degree of concentration throughout the game, to be aware of the position and movement of teammates and opponents at all times, and to move accordingly. The two forwards have to constantly pull and change positions and cruise in a wide area, which requires a high level of their running ability. And the forward who has excellent scoring ability is not good at running, if he is allowed to start, although he can score, it will affect the operation of the whole system, and in the end he will not only not be able to score, but also drag the whole team down.

This is actually the same as Schneider in Dortmund, Schneider's scoring ability is still good, especially the frontal scoring ability facing the goal.

But why was he still taken down in this game?

Because he will paralyze the entire tactical system that Dortmund is playing now when he comes on the field, he can only make a trade-off.

Freiburg's ability to score is relatively weak, which means that Dortmund have the time and opportunity to score.

Now it's up to you who has the higher success rate.

In this regard, Zhou Yi believes that his teammates, whether it is Kingcek, Gotze and Mark, they all have good scoring ability.

Gotze and Kincek had the best scoring ability, followed by Mark.

But if you want to say that the most improved, it is Mark.

Zhou Yi still remembers the first time he saw Mark, how miserable Mark's shooting statistics were, and he was not as good as himself.

That was seven months ago.

But Mark has really made a difference in the past seven months. Maybe if you look at it every day, you won't feel that Mark has changed, but after these seven months, looking back at the first time I saw Mark, Zhou Yi was surprised by the changes in his friend.

Looking at the stats, Mark's shot stats became fifty-nine. From forty-four to fifty-nine, an increase of fifteen points. This has something to do with the fact that Mark is working harder on goal in training, and in addition to the physical strength training, he will also practice shooting for himself, which is the reason for the increase in his statistics.

However, just looking at this number, it is still not too impressive.

But sometimes the data is very one-sided, and the shooting thing can't just look at the data.

Mark has scored a total of seven goals since starting Borussia Dortmund's Under-19s, which is not too many goals, but not a lot, which is normal for Mark. It can't be compared to the eighteen goals of the U17 morale, that is because too many of the goals in the U17 are assisted by Zhou Yi's nanny, and Mark has almost no effort to shoot.

In the Under-19s, Mark has to constantly play against opposition defenders up front, while he also has to constantly involve movement and create some attacking opportunities for Kinciek and Gotze, which has affected his goal tally.

So why can Mark still squeeze Schneider, who can score more goals than him, down?

Because in fact, Mark is not the kind of person who treats goals as if they were a mustard.

Zhou Yi also had this illusion at first, probably because Mark's excellent off-ball movement and ability to spot gaps in his stats misled him.

Let him think that Mark is an Inzaghi-esque striker.

But later, with the time of this July, Mark's step-by-step changes, Zhou Yi found out that Mark was a nine-and-a-half.

He is not Schneider's kind of center forward who can bombard the opponent's goal with a header in the front, although he can play a single center forward in front, but in that case, his ability to score goals will be greatly limited, what does he do when he is a center forward?

Pass the ball to your teammates, make the ball.

Because he has an excellent ability to find the vacancy, he can run to the vacancy, and he can also find the vacancy, so when he can't run to the vacancy, he can pass the football to the vacancy. This is somewhat similar to Zhou Yi, but his position is closer to the goal than Zhou Yi.

In the Ruhr derby in the U19 Western League, Dortmund finally defeated Schalke 04, and Zhou Yi scored a goal, wasn't it assisted by Mark?

He saw this vacancy, Zhou Yi also saw it, Zhou Yi ran to the vacancy, and he passed the football to the vacancy. The goal came naturally.

Mark is more agile than Schneider's kind of center, both in terms of movement and size. If there is also a center next to him, he can capture the record and score with a shot.

And when he can't shoot, he can also fit into the team's attacking system, using his movement, tackling and passing to help other teammates get their chances.

Some players are system players and they have to be in a particular system to play well.

But Zhou Yi thinks Mark is not. Mark is the kind of guy who goes to any team and no matter what tactics that team plays, there will be a place for him.

He can play as a striker, drop back and play as a midfielder, and he can play a number nine and a half between a striker and a midfielder. If he plays as a double striker, he will have more chances to score with his shots. If he plays as a lone striker, he can provide shells for his midfield teammates who are plugged in behind. If he retreats to play a nine-and-a-half, he can attack in tandem and contribute to the team's entire offensive system, like a screw, maybe not as good as an individual, but the whole team benefits.

What a good player...... What manager wouldn't want it?

In fact, Mark has also had a wrong perception of himself before, thinking that he is a striker waiting for his teammates to feed him the ball in front of the goal, and he is unwilling to run a few more steps, he feels that he is Inzaghi's second.

But with the arrival of Zhou Yi and his promotion to U19, he realized his previous mistake.

When he realizes that he is wrong and corrects it, his change comes.

And Yebara is willing to give him another chance to prove himself. In the end, he came off the bench in the Ruhr derby against Schalke 04, scoring two goals and providing one goal, which proved his tactical value perfectly.

It also laid the foundation for the concept of Dortmund's U19 trident in Yebarra's heart.

Among the three people, Zhou Yi has excellent passing ability and a unique ability to find openings, and can be used as the core commander role in the trident. Götze can shoot and pass, has the most comprehensive ability, and is the most important arrow figure in the trident. And Mark, the best tactical sense, willing to make a wedding dress for others, can cooperate well with Zhou Yi and Gotze, and is willing to make sacrifices for the team, these factors make him an indispensable lubricant for the trident, without him, the trident does not work at all, with him, the trident is incarnated into a revolver that can threaten the opponent's goal no matter who can - three people can be turned into bullets to take the opponent's life.

It can be said that Mark enriches the possibilities of the Trident routine.

Mark may never be able to achieve the kind of Golden Boot that scored, but his place in the team doesn't make it unimportant because of fewer goals.

For example, in this final, if there is no Mark, Zhou Yi will have to work harder to win Freiburg.

And now, he believes that Mark will support him and help him, and he also believes that Mark has such trust in himself.

Isn't this kind of fast passing and cutting coordination that they have practiced for more than a month just for this kind of opponent in this kind of game?