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Since the 7th is the away game against Japan, the next few days, the training of the national football team will be mainly recovery training.

Dapeng deliberately practiced a goalkeeper training match, that is, Zheng Yaxin's team training match in the position of the main goalkeeper.

"My request is only the following."

"One, try to stay defensive."

"Second, play normally, if the Japanese team is very fierce in the counter-robbery, they will pass the ball back to Zheng Yaxin."

"Third, when Zheng Yaxin gets the ball, others should spread out in time to respond and open up space."

"Fourth, if you have a better chance to shoot, then shoot, don't hesitate."

"Fifth, when you get to the front, you have to make a free kick when you have the chance."

"Sixth, our goal is to win Little Japan, occupy the top spot in the standings, and enter the Qatar World Cup!"

Win Little Japan and advance to the World Cup.

Every player remembered this phrase.

Then, the training match begins.

Zheng Yaxin stood in front of the door and became a goalkeeper.

"It's imitating Arsenal playing Chelsea and Manchester City."

"Little Japan is going to suffer in this game!"

Chen Shi, the leader of the national football team, and Wang Yang, a reporter with the team, stood on the sidelines and whispered about the training of the national football team, and the latter saw the intention of coach Dapeng at a glance.

The reason why Arsenal can win Chelsea and Manchester City is not because Zheng Yaxin is high in front of the goal, plus waiting for the opportunity to go up and hit a free kick.

"If you play like this, the national football team can now walk sideways in Asia, right?"

"Anyway, it is difficult for the opponent to break through the national football goal, and the national football team only needs to score one goal, then it wins."

Team leader Chen Shi nodded, "That's right, that's it, it's really time for Xiao Zheng to come out, and it can really be said that he has made up for the most missing piece of the puzzle for the national football team." ”

When he said this, he was a little embarrassed. For many years, the national football team has not been able to rush out of Asia, afraid of South Korea, afraid of Australia, afraid of Japan, and now it can be regarded as seeing hope, with a door god like Zheng Yaxin standing in front of the door, the national football team is not afraid of any opponent in Asia at all.

Anyway, if you want to break my goal, there is no goal, I only need to score one goal and win.

"yes."

"It's really a blessing for the national football team, you see, when Xiao Zheng stood in front of the goal, the other team members made a lot more bold moves, without the burden of wanting to win and being afraid of losing, and there was no pressure to be afraid of making mistakes."

On the training ground, the national football players have let go of their hands and feet, boldly doing technical moves, although there will still be mistakes, but at least the midfielders are not so timid when they make moves.

In the past, the players were not like that.

In the past, once the opponent attacked the third zone of their own team, the players' movements would be deformed due to nervousness.

The harsh football public opinion environment has greatly increased the pressure on players to make technical moves, and everyone can't help but think, I can't make a mistake with this ball, and the mistake will be sprayed by the whole network.

However, on the football field, mistakes are allowed, Materazzi once gave a penalty in the World Cup final, Robben once missed a penalty in the Champions League final and caused Bayern to lose the championship, Messi once missed a penalty in the Copa America final to cause the team to win the runner-up in a row, and was even sprayed to withdraw from the Argentine national team for a time.

However, the domestic football public opinion environment obviously does not allow players to make mistakes.

Once a national football player makes a mistake, it is basically the end of his life.

Under this kind of pressure, few players dare to play the ball with their hands and feet.

Now, that pressure doesn't exist.

With Zheng Yaxin in the goalkeeper position, everyone has unloaded the pressure on their bodies.

Everyone can clearly feel that the atmosphere in the national football team is different.

That's pretty good.

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When the national football team was training intensively, the Japanese team, which lost in the first round, was also studying the tactics of the national football team.

Hokazu Mori has the highest winning percentage in Japanese history, winning 38 of his 55 games, a 69 percent win rate. During his tenure at Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the J-League from 2011 to 2017, he won three league titles in four years and became the best coach in the J-League. Mori Hoichi's coaching ability is very strong, and the only thing that has been criticized by Japanese fans is that he is too conservative, winning is only one win, and there are few big wins, which does not match the Japanese team's ranking first in Asia.

After losing 0-1 to Oman in the first round, Moriyasu was under a lot of pressure, coupled with the Chinese team's 5-0 victory over Australia, which made him have to attach great importance to the tactical play of the Chinese team.

However, after researching, Mori was stunned and found that he was a little unable to defend it.

Zheng Yaxin is not a ball-feeding striker, let alone the kind of offensive player with the ball, he can even not touch the ball for the whole game, but as long as he touches the ball, it means that the ball is going to be scored.

Such a player simply can't defend.

This road did not work, Mori Bao changed direction, no longer studied how to prevent the Chinese team from scoring, and began to study how to let the Japanese team score.

In his opinion, no matter what type of striker Zheng Yaxin is, no matter how many goals he averages per game, as long as the Japanese team scores one more goal, then they can win the game.

So, after the end of the first round of the qualifiers on September 2, Mori Boichi practiced attacking, attacking, attacking every day.

And in Japan, media people are not idle, and they have given Mori Bao a trick.

Some newspapers said: We should try to avoid fouls in the backcourt and not give the Chinese team a chance to take free kicks in the frontcourt.

Some said: We should replace defense with offense, replace defense with control, and put an end to the danger directly in the opponent's half.

There are even newspapers that suggest that playing defensive counterattacks, with the Chinese team's not particularly strong offensive ability, and the sharpness of the Japanese team's counterattacks, playing defensive counterattacks can maximize the advantages of the Japanese team.

Regarding the disturbances outside the field, Mori Bao didn't even bother to look at it.

Anyone can make a suggestion, but the decision is not something that everyone can do.

No matter what style of play is used, there are advantages and disadvantages, as a coach, you must make use of your strengths and avoid weaknesses, think about what people have never thought of, and seek what people have not planned, so that it is possible to win the opponent.

It's not a simple choice of what style of play to play.

Let's just talk about the kind of pass-and-pass style of Spain and Manchester City, which seems to be very strong and can also stifle most of the opponent's attack in the initial stage.

But this style of play is a bit useful when playing a weak team, and it is really useless in the European Cup/World Cup/Champions League, where every round is a strong conversation.

That style of play has extremely high requirements for every player, and once a certain link can't withstand the counterattack, it's gone.

You know, in a football game, the core elements are suppression and counter-suppression, when you suppress the opponent more ruthlessly, the more flat the formation suppression, correspondingly, the opponent's counterattack will be more direct, faster, and more deadly.

——When ordinary counter-attacking methods can't break the ball control + high-level counter-robbery tactics, the opponent will break the boat, pass directly behind him, let the striker and your defender fight one-on-one speed, and then face the goalkeeper.

Whether it is Manchester City or Spain, they have died countless times from this kind of counterattack, and the most representative game is naturally the 14 World Cup, the Netherlands 5-1 Spain.

In that game, Spain's possession rate was close to 8 percent, but it was useless, as soon as the Dutch team got the ball, it passed the ball directly to the Spanish half, Robben van Persie rushed over on a motorcycle,

And then it's a one-handed one.

Simple, brutal, straightforward!

Therefore, in Moriyasuichi's view, a coach who is not bound by the rules and regulations of tactical play is the top coach.

Therefore, the style of play is the least important thing, and as long as you can win, the Japanese team can try any style of play.

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In a blink of an eye, it was September 7th.

The second round of the top 12 started as scheduled.

The Chinese team sat at the "home" Khalifa Stadium against the Japanese team,

Before the game, the coaches of both teams announced their starting line-ups one after another.

China's starting lineup is 532.

Goalkeeper: 13-Zheng Yaxin,

Defenders: 20-Wang Gang, 3-Wang Shenchao, 5-Zhang Linpeng, 2-Li Ang, 6-Jiang Guangtai,

Midfielders: 15-Wu Xi, 19-Yin Hongbo, 18-Jin Jingdao,

Forwards: 7-Wu Lei, 9-Exxon

Japan's starting lineup is 4312.

Goalkeeper: 12-Shuichi Gonda,

Defenders: 5-Yuto Nagatomo, 16-Kenhiro Tomiyasu, 22-Maya Yoshida, 3-Nari Muroya,

Midfielders: 6-Hiroshi Endo, 7-Takeshi Shibasaki, 14-Junya Ito,

Front: 17-Hisaka,

Forwards: 15-Yuya Osako, 18-Henggo Furuhashi.

As soon as the starting list came out, sharp-eyed reporters immediately thought of the post-match headline - "The battle between Arsenal's substitute defenders and the main goalkeeper".

Kenhiro Tomiyasu just joined Arsenal this summer and has not yet got the opportunity to play, while Zheng Yaxin also joined Arsenal this summer and has now secured the main force.

not only sat firmly on the main force, but even won the top scorer list in the Premier League by the way.

This comparison, the gimmick comes.

Whatever the outcome of this game, Arsenal have already won.

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