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Chapter 267 Use defensive counterattack against Italy
After the quarter-finals, the European media felt a little bit of a flameout. After the first two rounds of the quarter-finals, the hype of "taking the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship and turning the World Youth Championship into the European Championship" has become a joke. What makes them headache is that according to the semi-final matchup, the German youth team will play against the Brazilian youth team, and the Italian youth team will face the Chinese youth team. Hands like clouds?Faced with the elimination of England's youth team, presumably the head coach of the Italian youth team, Casiraghi, is not too sure.

According to the schedule, October [-]th and [-]th are the days of the semi-finals, and the game on October [-]th is the match between the Chinese youth team and the Italian youth team.The quarter-finals are held on October [-]th and October [-]th, which means that the China Youth Team only has one day to rest after the quarter-finals!

"Damn it, why did we arrange our game the day before?" Ding Yu complained angrily to the assistant coaches: "Italy has one more day off than us, we only have one day off, this schedule is really fucking fucked up."

Hearing Ding Yu's swearing, Chi Shangbing and Xu Genbao didn't take it seriously. It's normal for coaches to curse and swear. They are under great pressure and they must have some way to vent their anger: "The World Youth Championship in 05 was in June, and the World Youth Championship in 07 was in July. Now it's a good thing, it's going to be held in September! What are those guys from FIFA thinking! It's not easy to transfer players, and the schedule is also very tense. My mind is flooded, it's a bastard."

"It's almost enough... Tomorrow's game, how to play is a problem. The players are very tired from the continuous battle. From the 12th to No. [-], three games in six days, this is not something ordinary people can bear..." Chi Shangbing shook his head and said.

"Fortunately, in the third game of the group stage, we were all substitutes. They actually only played two games in a row. For the players who play in Europe, it is not long before the start of the season. After the physical reserve in the summer, their physical fitness is not bad, and they are not as tired as they look. It's just that Italy has an extra day off, which must be very beneficial to them." Ding Yu shook his head and said.

"Then what tactics are you going to use?" Xu Genbao asked with a frown.

"I haven't thought about it yet." Ding Yu rolled his eyes and said confidently: "The quarter-finals just ended yesterday. I don't have time to think about tactics. Let's talk about it tomorrow."

Seeing the stunned looks of the two assistant coaches, Ding Yu suddenly burst out laughing: "Do you really believe it? I have been preparing for the World Youth Championship for a year. Since the participating teams were confirmed, I have researched all the teams that are likely to enter the top 19! Although this Italian youth team is different from the youth team that participated in last year's European U-[-], their head coach has not changed. It is still Casiraghi! Let the players rest well today, and explain the tactics before the game tomorrow."

"You guys, do you even play tricks on us?" The two old guys shouted at Ding Yu angrily. Nowadays, young people are becoming more and more disrespectful to the old...

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"Aaron, are you familiar with these players in the Italian youth team? How can you say that you also played in Serie A." During the recovery training the next morning, the surroundings were warming up and asked Long Bisheng.

"I'm not familiar with it." Long Bisheng said without looking back: "I didn't have the chance to play against them in Serie B, and they didn't have the opportunity to play against me in Serie A." Although he watched the games of Balotelli and Parowski on the sidelines, he never played against them.

What he misses the most during the two and a half years in Italy is the season in Serie B. As for the season in Serie A, although only a little more than a year has passed, the only thing left to him is the endless waiting on the bench, training in obscurity on the training ground, and even the two goals that should have been impressive, he has almost forgotten.

When he was on the bench in Serie A, Balotelli had just started to emerge in Inter Milan, Parowski scored frequently in the second division, and young players such as Andrea Poli began to make waves in the reserve team. After he left Italy for England, David Thornton began to get a stable chance to play in Inter Milan. Although he participated in many games in the reserve team, it was strange that he rarely encountered these players.

Of course, Ding Yu will not entrust him with the task of observing the opponent’s intelligence. It is not too difficult to find the game videos of these outstanding players of the Italian youth team, not to mention that last season Balotelli and Thornton, the twin stars of Inter Milan, had a lot of opportunities to play in the league.

"Italian youth teams are accustomed to using a formation of 1.9. In recent years, many Italian teams have adopted this tactic. Mancini has achieved great success with this tactic in Inter Milan, and AC Milan has used the Christmas tree tactic to the extreme... Pirlo's success has also allowed Italy to have a large number of midfielders with excellent skills and accurate long passes. Andreapoli and Mazzarani are the best of them." Ding Yu said to all the players. His intelligence gathering ability gave him the greatest support: "Their main goalkeeper is Firiolo from Sampdoria. He is 1.8 meters tall and has solid basic skills. He is a typical Italian goalkeeper. The four defenders are estimated to be Inter Milan's Santon, Lazio's Tua, Roma's Brusco and Turin's Berdetti. Try to do other things, you have played in Italy, you should not be unfamiliar with their defense."

Long Bisheng nodded. He was also very used to confronting Levine and Kelly in England in the last game. Having played in the leagues of Italy and England, he is quite adaptable. No matter which country he is facing, he will not feel uncomfortable. In these two leagues, there are basically defenders from all countries.

"The biggest difference between this Italian youth team and their predecessors is that they have a group of outstanding technical midfielders. After Pirlo, there seem to be more and more technical midfielders in Italy. Among their three midfielders, only Viola from Regina is a pure engineering midfielder. The other Andre Poli and Mazzarani have good technical and organizational skills. The one who played [-] is Bonaventura of Atlanta. He is known as the new Morfeo and Atlanta. Montolivo, from this nickname, it can be seen that he is the kind of midfielder who can pass a deadly pass. He is not very good at breaking through, but his passing ability should not be underestimated, so in the game, Jiang Qi, you hang him. If he misfires, then Italy’s threatening direct passes in the frontcourt will be reduced by more than half.” Ding Yu drew a line on the tactical board: “As for their two forwards...Chen Jian, you are in charge of Parowski.”

"Me?" Chen Jian pointed to his nose in surprise. In the previous games, Li Jie had been watching the opponent's most threatening striker. He was responsible for making up and fighting fires. This is what he is good at.

"Yes, Lee Jie has other tasks, so you can only do things like Paroruski ... Don't worry, although AC Milan believes that Paroski will be a successor in Zhaji, but he is not as good as Aquofresca, not to mention that players such as Tzagi are almost uncomfortable. He is a diligent striker, and there are many goals, but you are also diligent in diligence. The defender, stay in the penalty area, go up and stare at him if he appears in a threatened place. "Ding Yu explained.

Chen Jian nodded. Although he didn't know what other tasks Li Jie had, since Ding Yu said so, he must have his reasons.

"The most threatening thing in Italy is of course the Ghanaian boy Balotelli. That short-tempered guy with a cool personality is a genius! No one can deny this. He has the height of a center forward, but he has the skills of a second striker and attacking midfielder. He can play as a winger, second striker, center forward, and even an attacking midfielder. Such a player can't use man-marking to deal with him...So, when he is in the midfield, Hu Gandang will deal with him, and in the penalty area, Li Jie will deal with him. He... look at him, you need to do more minor fouls, this kid has a bad temper, maybe he will retaliate against you if you tease him a few times, when the time comes, hehe..."

Ding Yu laughed sinisterly, and the players were used to it. This guy is a victory-oriented coach. Sometimes his tactics are quite shameless, and it’s just child’s play to provoke a hot-tempered genius to get angry.

The players of the Chinese youth team are also professional players. What professional players have to do is to use all means to win within the scope allowed by the rules.

"After talking about defense, let's talk about offense." Ding Yu erased all the lines he had drawn on the tactical board just now, and then drew a straight line from his goal to the center circle: "After getting the ball in the backcourt, he directly passed a long pass to Long Bisheng in front, and created offensive opportunities through his header ferry and other people's mid-way insertion...Italian defenders are good at blocking, stealing the ball, and defending in an elegant way, so we have to use speed and strength to attack their defense line! Long pass, defensive counterattack ...Although the average height of Italy's defense line is good, Long Bisheng's height advantage is unique, and except for Thornton, the speed of other Italian defenders is not fast, this is our opportunity!"

He waved his fist and shouted loudly: "In today's game, we will use defensive counterattacks to deal with Italy, the originator of defensive counterattacks! Let them know how powerful Italy's defensive counterattacks are mixed with England's long balls!"

(End of this chapter)