"Modric brings Argentina to the brink of collapse!" - Aspen
"Croatia beat Argentina 3-0! Messi's dream of winning the World Cup is shattered again!" - Marca
"Argentina needs a miracle now!" - World Sports News
"This is a disastrous defeat! Argentina has slipped into the abyss!" - The Independent
Early the next morning, as soon as Mo Yang got his phone back, he saw the headlines from various media outlets.
Mo Yang was extremely shocked when he saw Messi's disappointed look in the report, as well as the sarcastic headlines with words such as 'failure', 'humiliation', 'shame' and 'rout'.
3-0, this score was something he never expected.
But after fast-forwarding and watching the entire game on his mobile phone, Mo Yang knew that Argentina did not lose unfairly, and those sensational headlines did not unfairly accuse them at all.
After the first half of the game, many of Argentina's problems have been completely exposed.
For example, there are issues such as the connection between the midfield and the backcourt, and the transportation thirty meters to the frontcourt.
However, in the second half, Argentina ignored these fatal flaws and simply gave up attacking from the center and switched to the wing.
The tempo of the game was controlled by Croatia from beginning to end.
Modric was so strong in this game that people have to admire him.
Seeing Modric's face on the video, Mo Yang suddenly thought that if they qualified second in the group, they would face Croatia, the top player in Group D.
Without the help of strong teammates, he felt that it would be difficult for him to compete with Modric, who was assisted by Rakitic and Krozovic in the midfield.
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At the same time, in the hotel where the Peruvian team stayed, Gareca got up early and asked his assistant to inform the players that this morning's training session would be changed to a tactical session.
When the Peruvian players heard the news, they knew that Gareca had found the weakness of their opponent in the last round of the match, the Chinese team.
Most Peruvian players are convinced of Gareca.
Because it was Gareca who brought Peru to the World Cup again after 36 years.
In Peru today, after continuous upgrading, he personally promoted most of the players into the national team.
At eight o'clock sharp, Gareka appeared in the hotel's multimedia conference room on time.
"Guys! Who can tell me where the strongest point of the Chinese team is?" Gareca said with a smile, looking at the players sitting upright in the audience.
"BOSS! It's the midfielder, China Yang!" Danish right winger Ander Carrillo raised his hand.
Cueva, Farfan and others nodded subconsciously when they heard Carrillo's words.
After China's matches with France and Denmark, fans who pay attention to the World Cup now know that China's midfield is very strong.
Even France's Pogba was completely suppressed, and the reason Denmark lost was because the midfield was dominated by that champion midfielder.
"wrong!!!"
Just as more than 20 Peruvian players were talking about it, Gareca raised his finger and pointed at the players in the audience, and suddenly his voice became louder.
Suddenly Carrillo and others were stunned.
"Yang is indeed the strongest point of the Chinese team, but he is also the most fatal weakness of the Chinese team?" Gareka pointed out with a cold face.
"In the two games against France and Denmark, Yang really showed the world that he is the best midfielder in the world!" After saying this, Gareca paused, which immediately made the Peruvian players scratch their heads.
After pondering for ten seconds and whetting his appetite, Gareka laughed again and said: "But football is a team sport. If one team is more integrated than the other during the game, then
It will be difficult for the weak side to change the situation through the personal power of a certain star."
"As you all know about yesterday's game between Argentina and Croatia, Messi was well restrained by Croatia. During the entire 90 minutes, he could be said to have done nothing. His state was so sluggish that the fans felt alienated!"
After hearing Gareca's remarks, all the Peruvian players suddenly looked confused.
"BOSS, then why did Denmark lose to China?" Danish midfielder Cueva frowned and asked his doubts, "And France, they almost lost to China in the first round!"
"Denmark's failure was caused by the wrong tactics used by their head coach!"
"Although Denmark's overall strength is much stronger than the Chinese team, they actually rely heavily on Eriksen just like the Chinese team."
"So when Eriksen was suppressed by Yang, the Danish players were confused and they lost their goal on the court!" Gareka said in a tone that left no room for doubt.
"There is also France. The reason why they almost failed is very similar to Denmark, that is, they behaved like a ball of sand most of the time and did not inspire the overall strength of the team at all."
"France's lineup is very luxurious, but on the defensive end, their frontcourt players rarely participate in the defense. They only rely on Kante and the backcourt players. This kind of tactical play that does not consider the team at all, they will lose.
I wouldn’t be surprised either!”
Gareca's words made all Peruvian players think.
Thinking carefully about the game between China and France and Denmark, it seems that this is indeed the case.
When Denmark changed their tactics in the second half, the players' offensive performance indeed had a unified goal and offensive thinking. If Denmark was given a little more time, they really would not necessarily lose.
And France, after falling behind and adjusting their tactics, showed their team's tacit understanding and relied on the strength of the team to continue to attack to equalize and then overtake the score.
Seeing that the players listened to his words, Gareka showed a smile on his lips and continued: "Next, I will analyze the other players of the Chinese team. Believe me, except for Yang He, the two players of the Chinese team are very fast.
The forwards and other players are only of second-division quality."
"As long as we limit Yang, the Chinese team will not be far from failure!"
Next, Gareca conducted a detailed analysis of the Chinese team and put on the table what Lippi had been trying to hide.
For Gareca, he has absolute confidence to defeat the Chinese team in the game a few days later.
Because he noticed the Chinese team from the first round of the group stage.
Under his detailed analysis, Gareka discovered many key factors that he had previously ignored.
For example, he found that the Chinese team could not play too fast-paced games.
The evidence is the last period of the second half of the game between France and China.
The Chinese team's seemingly intensive defense was obviously chaotic under France's fast-paced continuous small combination passing and cutting. Many defensive players could not keep up with the French game rhythm in their movements and thoughts.
After Gareca discovered this through the video, he immediately looked for the video of the China World Cup preliminaries and came to the conclusion that most of the players on the Chinese team can play fast-paced games, but they cannot compete at a sustained fast pace.
Otherwise, large-scale mistakes will occur.
And this is exactly what they are good at.
Although the game hadn't started yet, Gareca seemed to have seen the Chinese team turning into a mess under the impact of their continuous tacit small-scale passing and cutting and the impact of fast-paced offense.
As for the championship midfielder, if he were in Liverpool now, Gareca would just surrender and get a slap in the face!
But now the champion midfielder is in China, and his teammates are not the top stars of Liverpool. If he wants to limit him, Gareca thinks it is not difficult.
Mo Yang, who always gets the ball from his teammates in Liverpool, handles the ball with ease, but the players in the Chinese team do not have such top-notch ball-playing ability, so as long as the champion midfielder cannot get the ball, it will be easy.