Chapter two hundred and sixty-two: Croatian routines
"Jiayi, I don't know if you've noticed, but our players seem to feel a lot more confident today!" Xu Yang suddenly asked from the commentary stand.
When Shao Jia heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked with a smile, "Do you feel this way too?" I thought it was my own illusion!"
"No, no, no! This is definitely not an illusion!" Xu Yang shook his head, "I feel that our players are very energetic today. Our passing is not like the previous games. We are very conservative and dare to pass some risky balls!"
"Yes!" Shao Jia nodded, "And the defense no longer had the fear of making mistakes in the previous games. Today, Zheng Zhi and Feng Xiaoting dared to tackle Croatian players even on the edge of the penalty area!
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"This should have something to do with Lippi! I guess it was something I said to the players before the game!" He Wei, who heard the two people's words through the headphones in the domestic live broadcast room, also participated in this topic.
"Our players have been in a losing state for a long time, so no matter how well the player performs in the club, as soon as he returns to the national team, this hidden mentality will emerge, and the impact on the player's mentality is huge!
"Zhang Lu also spoke.
"But it's different now! Mo Yang is back!" Huang Jianxiang in the live broadcast room pointed to Mo Yang's face on the screen in front of him, "After Mo Yang came back, he brought not only changes on the court to the Chinese team, but also
Each victory after another is a long-term process of building self-confidence!”
Fan Zhiyi nodded and agreed: "Now, we are just seeing the effects of this process of building self-confidence!"
While several people were laughing and chatting, Croatia's continuous attack from the left wing once again achieved good results.
In the 33rd minute of the game, Croatia once again quickly transferred the ball from the right wing to the defensive weak side by passing back to the center.
After Perisic received a long pass from Vida in the center circle, he did not choose to go down, but dribbled the ball diagonally into the left rib area. However, after entering the rib area, Perisic was surrounded by Wu Lei and Wu Xi.
block.
Wu Xi blocked his path to cut inside, while Wu Lei cut off the passing path between Perisic and Rakitic behind him.
However, Croatia's attack was unusual, and changes occurred suddenly in the next second.
Even Mo Yang was caught off guard by Croatia's reverse attack.
Seeing that Perisic was blocked, Mandzukic suddenly started at the top of the arc. He first ran behind Wu Xi along the end line of the penalty area, and then suddenly changed direction and ran diagonally toward the corner flagpole, as if to provide support.
Zhang Linpeng followed Mandzukic all the way, and Feng Xiaoting, who was in the middle of the penalty area, also had a tacit understanding and quickly followed Zhang Linpeng to prevent the gap between him and Zhang Linpeng from being too large for Croatia to take advantage of.
In the middle, after Modric reached the top of the arc, he continued to follow Mandzukic's moving line, and Mo Yang followed closely.
On the end line of the penalty area in the right rib area, Zheng Zhi saw that the top of the arc was empty after Mo Yang and Modric left. Brozovic was ready to move at the top of the arc. He immediately entered the top of the arc to protect, while Hao Junmin entered the right rib.
area.
This series of runs happened almost at the same time. At this time, the Chinese team's defensive focus was seriously tilted to the left side of Croatia's offense.
At this moment, Perisic, who was facing Wu Xi, stepped on his bicycle twice, then suddenly knocked his right foot to the left, and the ball rolled from his left to the corner flagpole.
At the moment when Perisic passed the ball, Mo Yang, who was behind Modric, understood the true purpose of Croatia's series of tacit runs.
This is a trap!
On the left wing, Croatian left back Strinic moved forward along the sideline to meet the ball. Without a moment's delay, he directly took off the ball and passed it to the back post.
At this time, the Chinese team continued to cover each other's positions, resulting in the right side of the penalty area being completely empty.
On the right side of the small penalty area, the ball came and Rebic rushed to the top.
As a result, I don't know whether it was a problem with Strinic's passing or a problem with his top shot. He missed an excellent scoring opportunity.
"fool!!!!!!!"
Seeing the ball being pushed over the crossbar by Rebic, the 50,000 fans at the scene suddenly screamed again.
"call!"
Everyone in the domestic live broadcast room breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this thrilling scene.
"Croatia's attack was so tacit and fully demonstrated the essence of team football!"
"That's true. In this attack, Modric, Rakitic, Mandzukic, etc., almost every player in the frontcourt participated, just for Rebic's last shot!" Zhang Lu praised.
"The success rate of Croatia's long-range shots is not high now, so they use this continuous change of rhythm to tear apart our defense! This time they succeeded, attracting most of our players to this side!"
"I don't know if you have noticed it, but Croatia has unknowingly changed their player positions. Now when Croatia attacks with the ball, their formation is more similar to the single midfielder 433 and 4141. Rakitic
With Modric at the front and Brozovic at the back, the three of them formed an inverted triangle attacking position!"
On the field, after Croatia's attack, Mo Yang, who learned his lesson, quickly made changes again.
This change was quickly noticed by Zhang Lu and others.
"After Mo Yang's attack from Croatia, his position also changed again. Looking at his current position on the field, the formation has changed from 451 to 4141, and Mo Yang is in the single midfielder position!"
"Yes! Mo Yang's current position is that of a free man!" Zhang Lu nodded and began to explain, "The 4141 formation is a defensive formation that evolved from the 433 formation."
“This formation has an extremely limited number of players on the front line, so it is difficult for the team to intercept in the frontcourt, but in the midfield, five players including the midfielder are deployed, and they can intercept in their own half!
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"Yes! In the flexible 4141 formation, each player's distance from front to back, left, and right is kept relatively balanced, which makes it very easy for players on the field to determine their defensive area during the game, making it less likely to cause chaos.
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"In fact, through the first three group matches, it is not difficult to see that Lippi uses Mo Yang as a free midfielder. Lippi gives Mo Yang considerable power, which is no less than Lippi himself!"
"During the game, if the team wants to strengthen interceptions in the midfield area and improve defensive intensity, then Mo Yang, the free midfielder, will move from the midfielder position, and the formation will change to 451."
"And if the team wants to add a player to the defense, Mo Yang will retreat from the defensive midfielder position to the central defender position, and 4141 will also switch to 541!"
"This change happened in a single thought of Mo Yang! It is based on Mo Yang's strong game reading ability!"
"Perhaps many fans will think that changing formations frequently is really good?"
"But in fact, in professional games, especially in the five top leagues in Europe, there are no completely fixed formations at all. They all make real-time changes according to the team's needs on the offensive and defensive ends during the game!"
"Of course, this requires having a super midfielder or a group of midfielders with strong game reading skills, and long-term training between the players!"
"And Mo Yang! He is exactly this kind of super midfielder! At least so far, we have not seen him make any mistakes on the court, nor have we seen any discomfort with other players. This is obviously a result of long-term adjustment!"
"Lippi's tactical thinking can actually be seen in his first World Cup preliminaries when he took over the Chinese team!"
Zhang Lu’s summary of the Chinese team’s tactics during the World Cup is very accurate.
This is what Lippi has been doing since accepting the World Cup. After establishing an offensive and defensive change model through the basic formation 433, Lippi immediately began to carry out long-term and subtle matching training for the players bit by bit.
Then continue to add changes to this model, allowing players to slowly adapt.
Although he is still unable to fully integrate the players to adapt to the complex changes of this offensive and defensive model due to the differences between the Eastern and Western youth training systems, now by handing the button of this model change to Mo Yang, it can be considered completed.
his ultimate purpose.
On the sidelines, Lippi was sitting on the bench with his legs crossed. He was very satisfied with the current situation.
Lippi glanced at Dalic who was walking around in the coaching area next to him, with a faint smile on his lips.
Defense, their Italian football is the ancestor of all defensive football!