Chapter 10 Replacing Defense with Offense(1/2)
The German team has the highest average height in this World Youth Championship, and the height of their entire team is over 1.85 meters.
So the German team's offense in this game was very simple. They did not have the kind of organizers with delicate and outstanding footwork at home. They were different from the adult national team. They did not play the technical football Klinsmann, but also played the physical football that Germans were best at.
The German tactics for fighting against the Chinese team are to rely on the body and bomb at high altitude.
The Chinese team's defenders are generally not tall, and the highest is only 1.86 meters, and compared with the Germans, they are thin.
Therefore, from the beginning of the game, as long as the German team takes the ball to organize the attack, they will go on the side and then pass the ball high into the penalty area.
They have found the weakness of the Chinese team's defense.
This Chinese team is not without weaknesses, but they performed too strongly before, and their weaknesses have been covered up.
But in fact, no team is perfect.
This Chinese national youth team is no exception.
They are indeed outstanding among the many participating teams in this World Youth Championship, but it does not mean that they will stand out.
The weakness of the Chinese team is their defense.
This sounds strange. How could it be a weakness for Dong Zhuofang to lose a goal in the three group matches?
But this is true.
The Chinese team's air defense ability is indeed their weakness, but the first three teams were all frightened by China's powerful offense, and they didn't expect this at all.
Despite this, Panama's central defender used their height to create a threat to the Chinese team in the last game.
But those opportunities were not caught once.
After carefully studying the Chinese team's game video, Skibe discovered this problem.
High-altitude bombing happens to be what the German team is good at.
This allowed Skibe to see the dawn of defeating the Chinese team.
If you don’t compete with the Chinese team for midfield, you won’t be as good as your feet, just play simple and rough.
Bomb the Chinese team's defense with air balls.
After the game started, they did do this, and it really caused trouble for the Chinese team...
The Chinese team's central defenders Feng Tingxiao and Zheng Tao were a little troubled to face such high-altitude bombing.
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"The Chinese team is in trouble... the Germans are too tall." Huang Jianqiang also saw it.
The Chinese fans in front of the TV were nervous for the first time this year.
They even were a little worried that this team would be complacent after qualifying in the group... Didn’t there be media reports that the preparation atmosphere of the Chinese team was very relaxed before the game?
Could it be that I was blown to the sky and I forgot the image of being proud?
If this phenomenon really happens to the Chinese team, it would not be surprising... Chinese football has this tradition. What they are best at is "winning, arrogance, and losing."
Although he was able to enter the quarterfinals, he was already the same as the previous Chinese Youth Team's performance in the World Youth Championship.
But anyone who has watched these three games will probably not be willing to stop at the top 16 like this
It is definitely not just people who are unwilling to stop here.
Rongguang also saw that the Chinese team's defense was facing a crisis.
If the German team continues to attack like this, they will sooner or later lose the goal.
But I am not a defender and I am not good at heading defense, so I cannot directly solve the problems facing the Chinese team's defense line now.
But this does not mean that he has no choice.
He is the striker and he can score goals.
Don't it be said that "the best defense is offense"?
Then I will use offense to solve the defensive problem
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Cheng Tao took the ball in the frontcourt. When he saw the glory, he waved to him and asked for the ball.
Although Rongguang had two German youth team players defending him, Cheng Tao still passed by without hesitation.
He believed that Glory had a way to get out of defense, as he showed for them in these three games.
On the court, there is no problem at all that he can be hard to get.
Rongguang ran up to the football, and two German youth team players behind him also followed him to catch up.
Head coach Skibe has reminded them more than once that the defense of Glory must be "independence" in the game, otherwise it will be meaningless.
Now they are really inseparable
Glory ran to football and it seemed he had no chance to get rid of these two German players behind him.
At this moment, Rongguang raised his right foot, made the move to pass the ball, and kicked the ball with his feet.
Passing the football back, then turning around and cutting the running position without the ball is a common method for many players to get rid of it and let go.
After he passed the football out, he should immediately turn around and penetrate the defender.
The two German youth team defensive players immediately knew what they should do.
Seeing Rongguang kicking towards the football, the two of them quickly turned around and retreated - since the speed was not as good as Rongguang, they could only make moves ahead of him. Otherwise, when Rongguang turned around, they would have turned around and would have been thrown away...
But after they turned around and retreated, they did not find that the glory followed.
The two of them braked suddenly, and then they found that the glory was not moving in place.
His right foot kicked out just a fake shot, and in the end he did not pass the football back, but stepped on the football and stopped the football.
When the two of them stopped in surprise and looked back, they happened to see Rongguang turning around while stepping on the football and facing them.
Then they saw Rong Guang laughing at the two of them. Before they could react to the meaning of the smile, he suddenly dribbled the football out and accelerated the pursuit of the ball.
Rushed over from the two of them
The defensive players of the two German youth teams did not react at all...
"The breakthrough of beautiful glory is unexpected. He deceived the two of them to retreat first, but he did not move on the spot. This immediately opened the distance between him and the other party. He could turn around and make movements calmly." Huang Jianqiang exclaimed.
After breaking through two German players who have been following him, Glory is like a fish swimming into the sea, swinging its bodies in the water, hitting the water and crossing the water.
He increased his speed and the German players rushed up to stop the glory.
Rongguang made a fake move to shoot from a long shot during the run. In front of him, three German youth defenders blocked Rongguang's shots in various ways at the same time.
The two of them fell directly to the ground and raised their legs and flew to the shovel. One of them jumped up and turned 180 degrees in the air, blocking the long shot of glory with his back.
But Glory is just a fake move.
After swinging his foot, he did not shoot. After the foot fell, he pushed the ball to the right. At the same time, he drifted the ball and rushed over from the three men.
"Beautiful, glory has broken through," Huang Jianqiang shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice a little hoarse
He has yelled like this many times these days, which is a great harm to his throat. But at this time, who cares about his throat?
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Skibe saw this scene on the sidelines, gritted his teeth, leaned back slightly, clenched his fists, and his body tense, and his whole body was extremely nervous...
Then he saw Rong Guang breaking into the penalty area and facing Adler who was attacking, swinging his right leg again, this time it was no longer a fake move.
The football crawled directly between Adler's legs and rolled into the goal behind him...
"The ball is in," Huang Jianqiang shouted.
In front of the TV, countless Chinese fans were also doing the same actions as him.
They jumped off the bed, on the sofa, on the chair, stood on the ground, leaned back, yelled: "Beautiful——"
"When the Chinese team encounters problems, you can always expect him to stand up. This is the number ten of the Chinese team, the undeserved core - glory"
On the TV, Huang Jianqiang was desperately praising glory.
But no one finds these words disgusting.
At this moment, they even hope to hear Huang Jianqiang say more of these words and praise Rong Guang
Praise the glory and make them feel happy.
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Skibe was still tense just now, but now he looks like a deflated ball.
Finally lost the ball...
He firmly believed that as long as he gave the German team some time, he would definitely be able to break through the Chinese team's goal. He has never doubted this until now.
But he didn't expect that Rong Guang would score a goal before this...
Leading and being led are completely different states.
The impact on the players is also different.
To be continued...