Chapter 154: Taking Back Control(1/2)
"Chu successfully cut off Navas's ball... He passed it forward! Menez dribbled the ball and ran forward...passed the ball to Ribery...shot! Ribery shot directly..., the ball entered! The ball entered-!!"
"Mess!Mess!!!Mess!!!"
The Metz fans in the stands burst into great cheers, and those who could not go to the scene and could only be at home or watched the game in the bar were cheering like them.
"It was surprising that Metz scored first in the final and they led Sevilla! It was a very beautiful defensive counterattack!"
Legov sat in front of the TV, opened his mouth and laughed. Until the game started again, he was still recalling the team's goal just now.
※※※ "Oh! I didn't expect to enter! It seems that Mays has a show this time, and Chu has a show too!" Boss John said in surprise.
"Yes, yes! I really didn't expect Mes to score so quickly! It seems that the defending champion is not very good..."
"That's because Mes has Chu, he organizes offense in the midfield... Didn't you see that as long as there is Chu, Mes's offense will be smooth?"
"In fact, the most important thing is that Chu, one man, blocked the attack of Sevilla on the wing, which is so amazing!"
Wimbledon fans in the stands exclaimed.
Not far from them were the Metz fans, a large group of people jumped and jumped in the stands, shouting the name of the goalkeeper Ribery.
Mathilde was among them. In the past, she only cheered for Chu Zhongtian, but today she wanted to be more active in the stands. She wanted to try to understand what this game meant to Chu. She always felt that she could not understand Chu's idea because she didn't understand the sport of football enough, although she could already understand the rules of football. So she wanted to act more like a normal fan, like the people around her, cheer for every goal of the team, applauded for every wonderful performance of the team players, laughed at each mistake of the other, or cursed loudly when the other player violated the team players.
She felt that maybe in this way, she would be closer to Chu's heart.
"Oh--good job! Well done!" she shouted loudly, putting aside her reserve.
※※The game started again, and Mess, who was leading, did not immediately retreat to fight back against the defensively, and Sevilla did not launch a crazily counterattack. The game lasted eleven minutes, and for both teams, time was still very rich. Of course, Sevilla's indifference can also be understood as they were stunned by Mess and didn't know what to do.
Juander Ramos was a little surprised. It was not that he conceded the goal, but that the two best players on the wing joined forces to make a move, but they were unable to get any advantage from Metz No. 8.
Before the game, he estimated that Chu Zhongtian must have been on the game with injuries. Due to injuries, his performance will definitely be greatly reduced. Then he should take advantage of this and put pressure on him, so that he will lose sight of the other.
When Navas shook Chu Zhongtian to the ground, Ramos once thought he had succeeded.
Now it seems that he underestimated the Chinese player too much.
What to do next?
When Chu Zhongtian encountered a tough guy, he retreated and looked for other attack paths? Ramos didn't think so. Even if he was not injured or sick, his players would be unable to resist the wing road in a row sooner or later.
In the 2000 European Championship, Cannavaro, who was also playing for Parma at the time, performed perfectly in Italy's right-wing defense, and no matter what opponent is in front of him, they have to bow down. At that time, Italy's head coach Zov fixed Cannavaro at the right-back position, and the facts proved the correctness of his choice. Cannavaro's defense is indecisive.
How did France's head coach Le Maire deal with Cannavaro in the final? He did not intend to avoid the best performer in the Italian defense line. Instead, he allowed the team to keep raiding from the side guarding Cannavaro.
No matter how good Cannavaro performed well or how good it was, in such an important game in the final, facing the French team's tide of offensives again and again, his psychological pressure accumulated layer by layer and became greater and greater. Finally, at the last moment of the game, his head clearance made Italy's lead a draw. Seeing that the champion was close, the French team scored a goal to equalize the score in the fourth minute and twenty seconds of injury time, the Italian team suffered a heavy blow. But none of them were as big as Cannavaro's blow.
In injury time, on the side of Cannavaro's defense, Pire broke through Cannavaro's defense and then made a cross near the baseline. Trezeguet volleyed into the winning ball, and Italy "suddenly died."
These two balls are very telling. Why did Cannavaro, who has always been stable in defense and is known as "rock-solid", make a mistake in heading off the ball? Why did Pire easily break through? This is all the result of Le Mail asking the whole team to keep rushing Cannavaro. In the strong Cannavaro could not stand it anymore and finally collapsed in the final stage of the game. The first goal was lost to Cannavaro, so it was reasonable to concede the second goal from his side.
Ramos still remembers that classic game, in which he wanted to follow the French coach Le Maire at the time. He used continuous attacks to attack Chu Zhongtian until he completely defeated him.
Navas and Alves are the most aggressive wingers, and it is most appropriate to do such things.
Marty can also move over to help if necessary.
He walked to the sidelines and gestured to the players on the field, indicating that they would continue to attack the sidewalk where Chu Zhongtian was responsible for assisting in defense.
※※※Chu Zhongtian thought that after he cut off the Navas ball and then instigated a counterattack to lead the team, Sevilla would definitely be very smart to retreat and try in another direction. In this way, his defensive pressure on his side can be reduced, and he can also have more energy to consider how to attack.
But things didn't go as he thought.
Navas and Alves still appeared in front of him one after another, attacking the wing guarded by Signolino again and again, and he had to come to help with the rest of the team often.
It must be admitted that Navas and Alves are two very excellent players. Signorino and Felicio basically do not play much role in defense. You should know that Signorino is also an offensive full-back, so many key defensive tasks are actually completed by Chu Zhongtian.
At the beginning, Fernandez formulated a strategy for two back midfielders to assist each other to defend one side. Considering that the full-back and the forwards both need to assist, the gap behind them is easy to be used, so they asked the midfielders who stayed behind to make up for defense. Unexpectedly, Sevilla used this to nail Chu Zhongtian firmly in the second half and did not dare to step forward.
Because as long as Chu Zhongtian inserted, even if Signolino did not assist, he would be beaten by the extremely fast Navas and Alves in turn.
Chu Zhongtian can only organize the attack more through long passes, and handed over the more delicate and closer to the goal to Menez.
From this point of view, the two plans prepared by Jean Fernandez are really prepared correctly.
Menez became a front midfielder, and Messe's formation changed from the original 442 to 451. Ibisevic was at the front and made a goal for his teammates. He didn't have many opportunities to turn around and shoot. Without Chu Zhongtian's continuous running and passing balls at the front of the opponent's penalty area, Messe's offense seemed to lack level - in the past two seasons, Menez played more shadow strikers, and the front midfielder was only a temporary cameo. In terms of organizational offense, he and Chu Zhongtian cannot be compared.
There is another advantage to letting Navas and Alves attack Chu Zhongtian's sideways in turn - Metz will gradually shift the focus of defense to this side, and there will be loopholes in defense on the other side. At that time, seize the opportunity and transfer the ball over and tear the ball through, and you can tear Metz's defense line.
For fans, the most enjoyable thing is that they can watch the wheel battle between Navas and Alves and Chu Zhongtian. Every showdown can make them secrete a large amount of adrenal hormones, whether it is Chu Zhongtian winning or Navas and Alves winning.
Chu Zhongtian couldn't stop the two opponents from attacking each time. He was not that powerful yet. Now he can only draw with the opponent at most, and win and lose each other.
※※※ When facing Chu Zhongtian, Navas made a false move to cut inward and break through, but Chu Zhongtian was unmoved because through studying the game video, he had long known that Navas rarely cut inward, and more often he would choose to go down the bottom and go to the outside line when he dribbled the ball. Therefore, as long as it was cut inward, it would be a false move.
Seeing that he was not fooled, Navas passed the football to Alves who was plugged in from behind.
Facing Signorino, who was weaker than Chu Zhongtian, Alves made a cross.
After the football was pushed out by Traore, Marty outside the penalty area swung her foot and shot a long time.
Goalkeeper Winbi thought the corner kick was off, but the ball hit the post and bounced back!
The Sevilla fans and Metz fans in the stands exclaimed at the same time, saying that the former regretted that the ball did not go forward, while the latter was frightened.
Rodriguez saw the football bounce back and quickly kicked the ball out with his feet. Winby only came to his senses at this time and quickly patted the Mexican defender on the shoulder to show his gratitude.
This is Sevilla's most threatening attack so far. Although the process is dull, the result is a bit awkward. But after all, it was Sevilla's closest goal - only twelve centimeters, the diameter of a goal post.
Finally, Metz responded.
Chu Zhongtian drove the ball forward, and just crossed the center line, he passed the ball to Menez in front. Menez turned his back to the goal, gently tweeted the football from Chu Zhongtian to the side, and turned around. The central defender Navarro, who was called out, fell to the ground. The referee awarded Mes a free kick in the frontcourt. Proman went up and took the free kick, and Chu Zhongtian stayed behind to defend.
Proman took a free kick on the right side of the goal. Ibisekic tried his best in the goalkeeper's goal, but the shot at the far end of the goal failed to hit the ball. After the football rebounded on the ground, it fell lightly into the hands of Sevilla goalkeeper Palop.
Next, Sevilla strengthened the offensive. Twenty minutes had passed, and it was time for them to exert their strength.
Navas and Alves once again took turns to attack Chu Zhongtian and Signorino's defense line. When everyone was focusing on their breakthrough, Navas passed the football between Chu Zhongtian and Signorino.
Paulson, who was inserted behind, received a pass from Navas at the top of the penalty area and shot directly, and the football went above the crossbar.
Soon Sevilla got another corner kick. It was caused by Alves who deliberately kicked the football on him without failing to break through Chu Zhongtian. The corner kick was taken, Puerta reached the point and headed the ball to the goal, and the football was slightly higher.
Both consecutive waves of offensives almost scored. Mess seemed to be in a hurry under Sevilla's press and didn't know how to play. Because Chu Zhongtian couldn't go up, their offense was very casual, without purpose or plan. I really thought anyone could organize the offense when he got the ball, but in fact he was just a waste of time. Those fleeting opportunities were missed in this unclear division of labor.
Control must be regained.
Chu Zhongtian stood up.
During the offense, he started running a large range again, no longer confining himself to the middle and right sides, but could see him in any corner of the court.
After he took over the team's offensive organization, Menez could honestly play the shadow striker he was best at.
His activity stabilized Messe's midfield, and everyone no longer hesitated when passing the ball, not knowing who to pass it.
Of course, Paulson would follow him closely, waiting for an opportunity to steal, or waiting for an opportunity to get a black foot. Because of a thigh injury, Chu Zhongtian paid special attention to Paulson's movements. After practicing his footwork for a season, he could play some role at this time.
When Paulson wanted to forcefully intercept the ball, he could always push the ball away in time, and at the same time, his feet avoided the opponent's almost savage defensive movements.
There were two times when Paulson flew from behind, but nothing was tackled. However, it aroused dissatisfaction among the Mets fans in the stands. They believed that Paulson's actions were too dangerous and the referee should play cards with him, even if he did not tackle Chu Zhongtian.
"Does Chu's old injury relapse and was carried off before he would give Paulson a yellow card?" The French commentator was also very dissatisfied.
Sometimes he would pull Chu Zhongtian's clothes, but Chu Zhongtian didn't care about him at this time. Even if Paulson pulled the jersey and deformed it, he still controlled the football and looked for the opportunity to pass the ball.
Sometimes the referee really can't stand it anymore, and he will stop the game, give Mess a free kick, and then verbally warn Paulson.
Of course, Navas and Alves did not let Chu Zhongtian go because of his active offense. They still took turns to attack the side lane while their team was attacking, and Chu Zhongtian continued to appear there to make up for defense.
This behavior requires very high physical fitness for the players, but Chu Zhongtian has advantages in this regard, so he is not worried.
Chu Zhongtian knew why the opponent focused on the side of the road he was on, because they wanted to see that they could not bear the heavy pressure. Since that was the case, they could also use them in reverse... Defense is not something that can only be passively endured, there is also the saying that active defense is to use the offense on this side to push the opponent back. Sevilla has Alves and Navas, and Metz has Ribery.
It would be a waste to leave Ribery without it.
Alves frequently assists, and there is a lot of room behind him. Moreover, Sevilla's midfielder is not like Metz, and the midfielder can frequently fill up and assist in defense.
Taking advantage of a dead ball, Chu Zhongtian called Ribery and Felicio.
"You have to change positions frequently in the game." He made a cross gesture. "Their right-hand sidebacks assisted frequently, and the pressure was very large, and there was nothing behind them. We want to take advantage of this."
Felicio nodded.
Ribery shook his eyes at Chu Zhongtian: "No problem. I have also played as a left-back in the French national team."
Next, Ribery changed to the left. As long as Chu Zhongtian and Signorino could break the ball from Navas or Alves, they would find Ribery as soon as possible.
Then Ribery's personal skill dribbles the ball and assaults.
This trick works very well.
When Alves pressed up to attack twice in a row, Ribery seized the opportunity to hit Huanglong, causing Ibisekic two-thres of two shots, Juand Ramos couldn't sit still on the sidelines.
He walked to the sidelines and shouted to Alves on the court: "Restrain a little bit, Daniel! You're too many times!"
Alves felt quite wronged - wasn't this what you asked for before the game?
But the head coach had to listen to the orders, so he consciously reduced his assists, leaving only Navas alone in front. At the same time, he stared at Ribery.
Chu Zhongtian took advantage of this and immediately reversed the team's disadvantage in the game. Sevilla's most proud wing attack lacked an attack point, and its power dropped sharply. Mess could finally make a move to deal with the dishonest defending champion.
Next, Paulson tripped while defending Chu Zhongtian and finally got a yellow card.
This yellow card made him a little more honest, at least there were fewer moves similar to judo competitions.
To be continued...