Klose's injury has indeed been improving all the time. Yang Cheng even gave the team doctor the power to do his best to arrange Klose's recovery, and the team doctors are always working hard.

The day before the first group match against Colombia, Klose put aside the crutches in his hand, but he was still not so flexible when walking, which made him unable to participate in the team's training for the time being. Even in the next period of time, he would continue to undergo rehabilitation training. Yang Cheng didn't know when he would be able to return to the training ground and football field.

However, making progress is something that everyone is happy about, isn’t it?

Another thing that is also worthy of happiness is that after the German team defeated Colombia 3-0, another game in the group also came to an end. Croatia tied Japan 2-2, which also made the German team jump first in the group with 3 points, while Croatia and Japan each scored 1 point, and Colombia ranked last in the group.

In the second round of the group, Germany will play against Croatia and Colombia will play against Japan, which will also determine the qualifying situation in the group.

After deciding the outcome of this game, the multimedia were very optimistic about the prospect of the German team's qualifying, believing that the German team has a good chance of qualifying, but there are also some media, including Yang Cheng himself, who frowned after winning the result of this game, especially Yang Cheng even said, "The next game is not easy to play!"

Looking at the four teams in the group, the German team is the only one, which is also a fact recognized by everyone. Therefore, even if the German team defeated Colombia, even if it played 3:0, the outside world praised the German team more, but no one would be surprised by this result, because Germany is one of the two football dominants today.

At present, Germany and Spain dominate the team. Other teams are slightly inferior to these two teams in terms of strength and combat effectiveness. Therefore, it is a matter for everyone to confirm that the German team qualifies from the group.

However, now that Croatia and Japan have tied, they have not scored a point difference with Colombia, which means that these three teams will still have to fight for the last qualifying spot in the next two rounds of the game!

"Sometimes, playing in this kind of group stage is like playing in the league. The most troublesome team may not necessarily be a team with close strength, but a team with no way out!"

In the office of the Cotia training base in Sao Paulo, while the players were resting at noon, Yang Cheng discussed the next situation with the coaching staff in the office, and everyone was not optimistic about the situation in the next two rounds.

The so-called no retreat. Generally, it is a team that aims to win the championship, or to compete for European competitions, or to relegation teams. These three types of teams are the most difficult to play. On the contrary, the team that is ranked in the middle and has no desires is easier to deal with. The same is true in such group matches.

In the three rounds of the group stage, even if the German team won the first two rounds, if they want to strive for the first and third rounds, they must at least compete for a draw. That is to say, the German team must do their best in three games and cannot let go of the water.

Now Colombia, Croatia and Japan have a score difference of 1 point. Everyone still has a chance. They will fight for this opportunity, especially in the second round, when Croatia plays Germany. They will definitely do their best to strive to occupy a favorable position in the group qualifying. Such an opponent is enough to make everyone feel a headache.

"I heard that after Peckelman returned to the base, he held a rectification meeting when he returned to the base. It is said that he won three main players, including Zapata. This time he was preparing to be tough, and Croatia and Japan fought fiercely in the first round, and they would still fight desperately in the second round!" Paul Bayer also looked solemn.

This is the case with similar strengths to each other. It is easy to fall into a stalemate if you accidentally fall into a stalemate. On the contrary, those strong dialogues will lose the suspense early, and the strength will be clear, making it easier to deal with it.

Therefore, many people say Brazil, but in Yang Cheng's opinion, if Brazil made a mistake in the first game and was upset by Klinsmann's American team, their group stage would be easy, but now, although it is not difficult for Brazil to qualify in the group, it is not easy.

"The Croatia team is strong and there are many good stars in the team, such as powerful players like Modric and Mandzukic, but they have exactly the same problems as us!" Benitez laughed.

The reason why they are exactly the same is that although most of Croatian players play in the top European leagues and have famous stars, they also lack the kind of assaulters with excellent personal abilities.

It is because the German team does not have such as a assaulter that Yang Cheng's offensive tactics had to adopt a strategy of teamwork division of labor to form. The problems in Croatia are exactly the same as those of the German team, but they really adopted another method, focusing on playing on the wings and cooperating with the advancement, and crossing them to find the striker Mandzukic when they have the opportunity.

Mandzukic plays for Bayern, has good physical fitness, headers and shots, and is a typical and very comprehensive player. However, what makes him better than Gomez is that he can take the ball with his back and head at the front as the team's offensive fulcrum, which undoubtedly allows Mandzukic to occupy a very important position in this Croatian offense.

One reason for doing this is that Croatian players generally have solid technical abilities. To put it bluntly, they are sufficient, but generally not good enough. In addition, the lack of the off-ball running system makes them unable to play a refreshing pass-and-receive cooperation similar to the German team and Spain, so they need to play a simpler game.

Moreover, Croatia has certain problems with its personnel configuration. There is obviously a lack of a suitable tandemist between the midfielder and the center Mandzukic, so they pushed Modric up to play the front midfielder position. However, this player has a good hand in the midfield organization, but playing the front midfielder has little effect in modern football environment.

From this point we can see why Croatia was equalized by Japan after leading two goals.

There was originally a suitable candidate, which was Eduardo, who once played for Arsenal. This striker was the best candidate for the second striker of Croatia. He retreated Modric and made him and Mandzukic form a double striker. I believe that the team's overall combat effectiveness will be greatly improved by then.

However, although the striker was brought to Brazil, Eduardo has completely lost his confidence in playing football since the terrible leg break incident that year. His performance has never been satisfactory. He also came on as a substitute when playing against Japan, but his performance was not good. Obviously, the leg break incident that year left an indelible shadow on him.

Since we know the problem in Croatia, everything is easy to do.

At least, there is definitely no way to copy the tactics of the first group stage game like Colombia!

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"More and more people feel that Yang Cheng's use of military power is unpredictable and cannot use common sense to guess!"

"According to common sense, Gomez scored twice in the first group match, and was the best player in the team. In the second game of the group, he should continue to be qualified for the starter, but what is surprising and puzzled is that he is now sitting on the bench of the German team!"

In the crowded Minelo Stadium in Bero Horizonte, before the game started, the live TV camera swept across the German team's bench. The live commentator saw Gomez sitting on the bench and said sighingly.

If it were other players, they might have been furious on the spot, but Gomez seemed to have no sign of dissatisfaction.

From this perspective, he is definitely a player with strong professional ethics!

Of course, one of the important reasons why Yang Cheng dared to do this is that the German team has become a system and no longer rely on player combinations to fight, but on a whole system. Therefore, he does not need to worry about players using their abilities to threaten the national team or even challenge his authority.

It’s not just the German team, just take Spain as an example. Is Torres’ big name still defeated by Bosque!

Only when the team is above the players and all players can clearly realize from the bottom of their hearts that they cannot challenge the authority of the team, will they naturally choose to move closer to the interests of the team. So as long as the team's interests are needed, what's the problem?

"From this perspective, we can indeed see the German team's super overall discipline. Yang Cheng has done a very good job in managing the German team's locker room. I heard that no one dares to challenge his authority!"

"In this game, Yang Cheng not only won Gomez, but also won Khedira, and instead adopted the 4330 frontless tactic he often used before. This should be a move he was about to catch his opponent off guard!"

Goalkeeper Neuer, the defense line is Ram, Badstuber, Hummels and Jerome Boateng, the three midfielders are Schweinsteiger, Sven Bend, and Tony Klos. The attacking forwards are Thomas Muller, Ozil and Reus, and there is no forward arrangement.

"I won Khedira and Gomez and replaced Tony Klos and Ozil. The German team's tactics are obviously more inclined to cooperate with ball control and passes and catches. We also have reason to believe that the German team will no longer play a simple and direct impact attack routine similar to the first game!"

The purpose of playing without a front is to control it. If you want to start the situation, then go to the forward. This is also a rule that everyone has observed the German team led by Yang Cheng in the past few years.

It's like the first team game in Colombia. Yang Cheng obviously wanted to use the team's impact force to crush his opponent, so he used Gomez and even gave up on the ball. He directly used Khedira to play simple and rough impact tactics, and the effect was also very significant.

In this game, Yang Cheng obviously wanted to play the control ball, so he took Gomez and Khedira and used Tony Klos and Ozil to play the game without a striker, but he didn't know what the effect was.

"Compared with the German team's strikeless tactics, Croatia continues to stick to its 4411 tactics, and it seems that it wants to play more securely. After all, it failed to defeat Japan in the first round of the group stage. If it loses to the strong German team in this game, the situation of Croatia's group qualifying situation will become very bad."

"When strength is at a disadvantage, it is understandable to adopt more cautious and conservative tactics!"

After the on-site commentator analyzed the starting list and tactical analysis of the two teams, with the referee's whistle, the second group stage of the German team officially kicked off.

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After the game started, the German team clearly had enough advantages. Croatia played carefully. Three lines or four lines were kept tight. Modric, who played the front midfielder, looked more like a midfielder, while the entire midfield line was retracted to the 32-meter area.

Croatia is very determined and decisive in defense. They adopt a more aggressive and tough defensive posture, hoping to restrain and harass the German team's offense through more physical confrontations. It is difficult for the German team's pass and receiving cooperation to effectively penetrate and advance into their threatening areas.

And once they encounter them that they cannot solve the problem, they will adopt foul tactics without hesitation.

Beep!

With the referee's whistle, Croatia's midfield and backfield immediately retreated like a tide and retreated to its own half. Ozil, who was tripped by the opponent's midfielder Vukoevich in a defense, forcing the German team to die, forcing the German team to die, but the Croatian midfielder was not warned at all.

"Ozil stood up from the ground and seemed dissatisfied with Vukoevich's defense. He thought he pulled his jersey while defending. He should have given him a yellow card warning, but the referee doesn't seem to be ready to do so!"

The live commentator smiled and looked at the camera with a big close-up. The latter was Croatia's midfielder. The defense was basically up to him. "This time the foul was well controlled, which made the German team's counterattack unable to be hit!"

But this is definitely not an accident. Immediately afterwards, the referee's whistle sounded significantly, especially when the German team launched an attack. Once it reached the half-time of Croatia, the foul whistle sounded one after another. Croatia was obviously using this method to interrupt the German team's offensive rhythm again and again.

With players like Ozil and Tony Klos, the German team does have an advantage in the technical level, but they are at a disadvantage in the physical level. After all, there is no good thing in this world that has the best of both worlds. To get anything, you have to give up the other one.

Yang Cheng also noticed this problem clearly. Such fouls have had a significant impact on German players.

"Fuck, this group of guys is really a bit dirty, they are always fighting confrontations and fouls, so it will be difficult for us to organize a continuous attack!" Paul Bayer also felt annoyed and cursed indignantly.

The fact that the honest man Paul Bayer was able to curse him was enough to see that Croatia's tactics were indeed effective.

"They are bullying us without set-piece masters!" Benitez said with a smile, he looked free and easy.

Today's German team does not have decent free kick experts. In the past, there were free kick experts such as Bremer, Hasler, Basler, Schor and Deisler, but now the German team basically lacks this type of free kick experts.

This has to be considered a great regret in the German team's comprehensive lineup, because free kicks need to be accumulated over time. There are several good free kick players in the team, such as Tony Klos, Reus, Ozil, and Badstuber, but it's just good.

Not to mention the god level of Beckham and Juninho, their free kick level is probably not even a first-class one.

"So, if you fall behind, you will be beaten!" Yang Cheng also shook his head and sighed. Settings tactics are indeed a major weakness of the German team. As the head coach, he is not afraid to admit this situation. Therefore, looking at the German team's goals, there are very few goals in set pieces.

"They are clearly going to be able to take us, and they have to teach them some lessons!" Paul Bayer said indignantly that he hates teams that are always fouling, which is definitely killing the creativity of football.

Yang Cheng nodded and smiled, "I think so too, Paul, what are you good ideas?"

Paul Bayer was immediately defeated. After a long time of uh, he couldn't tell the truth, which made Yang Cheng, Benitez and others laugh. Everyone knew that Paul Bayer was not good at this kind of adjustment at the moment, and the latter knew that he was being fooled, so he immediately cursed in anger, but Yang Cheng looked at Barack.

The latter noticed the encouragement in Yang Cheng's eyes and said, "It is not a solution to continue fighting with them like this. We have a technical advantage. It is better to control the game, give full play to our advantages, and play with them slowly. Then use the cooperation of passing and receiving balls to mobilize them and consume their physical fitness."

"There is another thing that must be paid attention to!" Benitez listened on the side and reminded, "The game has been played for 10 minutes so far, but we have never even shot one shot, which is not a good phenomenon!"

The German team's pass and receiving cooperation has entered the 32-meter area many times, and even had the opportunity to enter the penalty area, but has not been able to score a shot so far. This is more reflected in the players' caution. In other words, after the opening, Croatia's aggressive killing tactics brought certain psychological pressure to the German players.

Sometimes, after the start of the game, and after the start of the game, it is not to open up the situation, but to create psychological pressure on the other party. If you participate in the game with such psychological pressure, your strength will naturally not be fully utilized, and it will be easily curbed by the other party.

The reason why Croatia was willing to use lethal tactics at the cost of two yellow cards was actually to achieve this goal, after all, they were on the disadvantaged side.

As long as the German team is suppressed after the start, their goal of the game will be halfway!
Chapter completed!