Chapter 222: Shooting?!
Rangnick thinks that his adjustment has made Klopp's previous adjustments in vain, but Klopp may not think so, seeing Hoffenheim give up pressing in central midfield and choose to recycle the defence, he sat in the dugout without even moving his ass. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hoffenheim's contraction defense made the position of Shahin, who played in the back, a little precedent, and Zhou Yi, who was already in front of Shahin, went forward and approached Hoffenheim's penalty area.
Seeing Zhou Yi running forward, Klopp smiled.
In fact, going on the field and letting Zhou Yi make a transition and respond to Sha Xin is really not what Zhou Yi is best at. But at that time, the situation had to let him do it. Zhou Yi's performance was really good, he did not oppose this arrangement, but seriously completed the task he gave him.
In the face of such a player, it is difficult for Klopp to dislike it.
But Klopp also knew that letting Zhou Yi do the strategy was actually a waste of his talent.
So when he saw Zhou Yi moving forward and running to the front of the opponent's penalty area, Klopp's heart swelled up with expectations for Zhou Yi.
This teenager is always something to look forward to.
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In the face of Hoffenheim's dense defense, Dortmund actually didn't have much to do, even Shaheen.
Shahin's strength is not that he is a penetrating and threatening passer, otherwise why would he be a midfielder? He is mainly responsible for controlling the tempo of the team and making some big arrangements.
More delicate work he came to do or slightly less disadvantageous.
Compare him to another Turkish player of about the same age, Mesut Ozil.
Both are Turkish, but in the end Shaheen chose to play for the Turkish national team, while Mesut Ozil chose to play for the German national team.
Both are midfielders, but Mesut Ozil is a bit more advanced than Shaheen, and Ozil can also play as a winger. Mesut Ozil was better than Shaheen in the more crucial final pass.
Therefore, Dortmund, who uses Shahin as the core of the midfield, will inevitably encounter such a problem - when the opponent shrinks the defense, how will Dortmund attack?
That's why Rangnick dared to let the team make room and shrink the defense.
Shahin can only find the other party's vacancy through horizontal transmission.
Hoffenheim, on the other hand, took special care to keep the defence intact, that is, not to allow Dortmund to find a gap in this lateral inverted pass.
So far, they've been quite successful, and Dortmund really don't have much of a chance.
Zhou Yi also participated in these inverted feet a few times, it was not that he didn't want to pass forward, it wasn't that he didn't want to pass a penetrating pass with one kick, but he couldn't help it. If he takes the risk of doing so, the best chance is that possession will fall to the opposition's feet.
In the continuous pouring of feet, Zhou Yi's head never stopped swinging, he was constantly observing the situation and thinking.
This kind of Hoffenheim defensive situation has not been seen in the games he has simulated...... After all, he has always been the main starter in the simulation world, and there is no substitute appearance.
It looks like it's going to be hard to tear apart the opposition's defence by just passing the ball.
The team needs an assaulter.
After Zhou Yi received the ball, he began to pass the ball more to Grosskloitz and Kuba, and their dribbling ability was also limited.
Barrios, who plays up front, is not the kind of striker who is good at dribbling.
At this time, Zhou Yi began to miss Gitze.
Gotze is not fast, but he dribbles well, and if he is on the pitch, with the tacit understanding of the two men, he will definitely create some chances.
However, in this game, Götze stayed at Dortmund and did not come to Hoffenheim at all.
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"The opponent's defence is too tight, and we need people to open the breach. Off the pitch, Bouácz also spoke about it.
"Hmm...... Maybe I should have brought Götze with me?" Klopp and Zhou Yi thought together.
"It's too late now, do you want to make substitution adjustments?"
Klopp turned his head to look at the bench, and then shook his head: "In this situation, I'm afraid there is nothing to change......"
"What then?" asked Bouácchi.
"Let them play more on the wing. Klopp shrugged, "In addition, you can add a long shot appropriately." ”
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So Dortmund began to play on the wing, hoping to attract Hoffenheim to shift the focus of the defense to the wing by attacking on the wing.
However, Hoffenheim were unmoved, they knew that attacking from the flanks would always end up going back to the middle, so as long as they defended the middle, it would be fine.
Besides, Dortmund now have a striker Barrios, and it is easier to keep an eye on him alone.
In Rangnick's view, this is the after-effect of Klopp's substitution - he replaced Zidan, who has outstanding personal ability, shooting and passing, with a nobody who can only make transition passes, although he relieved Shahin, but made Dortmund's attack in the front court deadlocked. Now that Zhou Yi's last trace of role is gone, what is this substitution if it is not wasted?
Thinking of this, Rangnick smiled slightly, turned his head to look at Dortmund's bench, and waited to see what Klopp would do next.
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Seeing that Dortmund has not had a good effect on the side, Zhou Yi began to think that the side may not be a good way, or maybe it ...... Hoffenheim wants Dortmund to go on the wings?
Wide attacks are common in soccer and have been used by many teams to play well. But in reality, in football, the middle is the most popular area, and if they can, all attacking teams are willing to break through the middle and shoot instead of going around the wings.
But at the same time, the defenders are well aware of this, so they will always accumulate a large number of heavy troops in the middle of the field, so the attackers have to choose to go to the wing.
From the very beginning, the wing was a last resort. It's just that since you have to go, you have to study how to attack on the side, so various tactical routines of attacking on the side came into being.
But no matter how much you play on the wing, the attack will eventually come back to the middle, because the goal is in the middle.
There are many kinds of attacks in the middle, such as forcing through a small area of wall collision and forcing through the defensive line. There is also a person who dribbles and single-handedly enters the middle.
Another very common type of attack in the middle is long-range shooting.
Zhou Yi watched everyone pass back and forth, from left to right, and from right to left, and suddenly remembered a game in his mind.
Why not do that?
Zhou Yi always has some ideas that pop up out of nowhere, and then he will be attracted by these ideas.
Now the beast in his heart is ready to move, and he has decided to put his idea into practice.
If it were those mediocre people, they might have been frightened by Zhou Yi's idea - you are a nobody, it's good to be able to play, just do the tasks given to you by the coach honestly, don't do anything out of the ordinary! If you easily waste the team's offensive opportunities, then criticism will follow, and the good performances that have been accumulated with great difficulty before will be wasted!
But Zhou Yi would not listen to them, he actively ran to the middle, and then watched the pass of his teammates, looking for opportunities.
At the same time, he is constantly watching the Hoffenheim players and seeing that they don't seem to be paying attention to themselves.
This is a good opportunity......
At this time, Grosskloitz was having trouble getting the ball on the flanks and wanted to cut inside to seek development in the middle.
When he cut in, he found that Hoffenheim's defense was still tight and there were no holes for him, and Barrios cut forward diagonally, but he couldn't pass the ball because he didn't have a passing route, which led to Barrios being offside.
As a result, even if you yearn for a pass in the penalty area, you can't do it.
At the far end, Kuba was cutting in from the flank, but it took time, and Grosskloitz wasn't sure if he could get his foot on target, so he still wanted to settle down.
He knew that Hoffenheim was waiting for the opportunity to play a counter-attack now, and if he easily handed the ball to the opponent's feet, it would also be a blow to the morale of his side.
Just as he was hesitating and didn't know what to do, Grosskloitz saw Zhou Yi running towards him slowly.
Seeing Zhou Yi, Grosskloitz immediately remembered Zhou Yi's performance in training.
Or do you want to make a match with him?
Thinking of this, Grosskloitz decisively passed the football to Zhou Yi, and then he made a sharp stop to change direction and cut horizontally into the Hoffenheim defense.
At this time, as long as Zhou Yi can pass the ball over the top to the back of the backline, he can receive the ball.
But if it's late, he'll be offside like Barrios. If it had been too early, the ball would have fallen back into the hands of Hoffenheim's goalkeeper Hildebrand.
So the timing of the pass is important.
However, Grosskloitz is not worried about this, he has confidence in Zhou Yi. In training, Zhou Yi has shown them his ability countless times.
The kid wasn't just trained hard to stay in the first team.
However, when he was about to pass through the Hoffenheim backline, he turned his head to look at Zhou Yi, but he was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground!
What did he see?
He saw that Zhou Yi actually picked up his feet against the football!
Judging from the magnitude of his foot movement, it was definitely not a move to pick and pass, but ...... Shot!
Zhou Yi faced the ball from Grosskloitz, and he didn't mean to stop at all, but shot directly!
"Shot?!" Marcel Leif was a little uncertain, his voice full of doubt.
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In fact, it was not only Grosskloitz who was surprised, but everyone who saw this scene was shocked!
Most of them just had one thought in their heads -- this kid was going to shoot straight at the goal? He's crazy, isn't he?!
Many people can already see the football flying high over the crossbar, across the sky and into the stands of the Rhine-Neckar Arena.
An offensive opportunity was wasted in such a daze!
And the surprise of the Hoffenheim players was directly manifested in the fact that when Zhou Yi shot the goal, no one came up to defend him, block him, or interfere with him, just watching, allowing Zhou Yi to shoot with his right foot!
Of course, there is also the credit of Grosskloitz - his sudden inward cut attracted the attention of some Hoffenheim defenders, and they all followed back to defend him, invisibly widening the gap in front of Zhou Yi......
The ball arced, but instead of flying, it flew low above the turf, just past the Hoffenheim players in front of the box!
Everyone thought that Zhou Yi's kick must have been hit upward, including goalkeeper Hildebrand, who was ready to pounce up, and his focus shifted to the near foot to accumulate strength.
But when Zhou Yi kicked it out, and the football came around in front of the Hoffenheim defender, he was surprised to find that this kick was not a high ball!
Hildebrand's reaction was quick enough to make adjustments quickly, he took a lateral step, kicked out with his far foot, stretched his whole body, and reached for the ball.
At this time, Hoffenheim fans were pinning their hopes on the goalkeeper who had broken Kahn's record for the longest consecutive clean sheet in the Bundesliga.
Expect him to make a world-class save!
But the ball fell to the ground in front of Hildebrand's hand, bounced, and sprang forward, past Hildebrand's palm, and into the ...... behind him Goal!