Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 416 Victory and Honor

The "wonderful game" that Huang Daxian said has passed 10 minutes, but the scene was not exciting at all. The Chinese Olympic team basically did not play any offensive after launching the attack at the beginning, but they did a good job defensively. , The three midfielders built a solid barrier in the midfield, leaving little space for Pirlo's skills and through balls, not to mention that there is Li Gang who is like a brown sugar staring beside him, although the Italian Olympic team on the wing Occupying a certain advantage, especially Zambrotta on the left was very active. It was difficult for Sun Chenghai to mark him, but the Chinese Olympic team protected very well in the penalty area. General Fan and Li Wei are players with excellent headers , and did not allow Ventola to win a few headers.

But in terms of offense, the Chinese Olympic team is lackluster. Milu’s tactic is to find Nie Fei as soon as he steals the ball from the backcourt. But the two Italian beast engineers are too strong in the midfield, almost all of them are the enhanced version of Li Gang. Several times, the Chinese players hesitated for a moment and were immediately attacked by two people. They could only rush the ball out, and then without exception, the Italians took control of the ball again and launched an attack.

Zambrotta relied on speed to forcibly break through Sun Chenghai's defense from the left, and Sun Chenghai was chasing after him, which also made Zambrotta unable to smoothly insert into the penalty area to create more chaos, so he had to rush ahead of Sun Chenghai and pass a pass When the half-high ball hit the penalty area, Ventola rushed forward from the back row to use his physical advantage to hit the ball. General Fan, who was four centimeters shorter than him, jumped up under unfavorable circumstances and grabbed Wentola's lead. Torah headed the ball in front.

However, General Fan didn't have much time to adjust the position of the header to make the ball fly farther. The ball drew an arc in the air and flew out of the penalty area, which once again caused a new period of competition between the players of both sides.

Zhao Junzhe jumped up and was about to head the ball, but Zanetti under him subtly arched him. He lost his balance and fell down ahead of time. The ball flew over his head, and Li Gang and Pirlo headed towards the ball at the same time. They ran side by side, but no one could get the ball. Maresca rushed out from the side and stopped the ball at his feet.

The ball hadn't stopped at his feet for more than a second. Zheng Zhi quickly broke the ball with a tackle on the ground. Before he got up, he swept the ball with his legs and swept the ball towards Nie Fei in front of him.

"Beautiful defense! The 20-year-old Zheng Zhi made his first start in this Olympic Games, without any stage fright!" Huang Daxian shouted excitedly. The Chinese team has no bright spots to speak of until now, and he has nothing. That's right, Zheng Zhi's performance made him feel happy for the first time.

Nie Fei took a step back, stretched his feet to stop the ball, made a sudden stop while stopping the ball, hooked the ball behind him, then immediately turned around and prepared to break through, his movement successfully swayed behind him and chased after him Gattuso, but failed to make a breakthrough—seeing that he had no chance to break the ball at Nie Fei's feet, Gattuso immediately chose to foul, and when Nie Fei passed over his body, he quickly shot to Nie Fei's side. Crooked, bumping Nie Fei into a stagger.

Being hit by Gattuso, Nie Fei did not fall to the ground, but this delay prevented him from losing the opportunity to control the ball again. Cirillo got the ball. At this time, the referee's whistle sounded. Gattuso made a foul. Free kick.

Nie Fei smiled wryly as he watched Gattuso walk past him, and couldn't help saying: "Ivan, you are so unfriendly."

The bearded Gattuso grinned: "After the game, I can treat you to coffee in a very friendly way... But now, I will not be soft, as I said before the game, It is me who is marking you today, you have to be careful."

Nie Fei also laughed: "You also have to be careful... If you succeed once out of ten times, you will fail... This is the privilege given to our offensive players by football rules."

Gattuso's expression changed, he snorted and walked back.

With the help of this free kick near the middle circle, the Chinese team started to control the ball, but they encountered a lot of trouble in passing the ball. The essence of Italian concrete defense is not just huddling around their own penalty area and placing iron barrels. ——If the concrete defense is just that simple, then they would not be able to win three World Cup championships with this tactic—starting from their own penalty area, expanding to at least two players in the entire half to attack the players with the ball This kind of tight oppression and deterrence is the real concrete defense!

Faced with this level of defense, even the best Brazilian players can hardly pass the ball to organize the offense smoothly, let alone the Chinese team, which is not very good at technology, and won the Chinese Olympic Games against the Italian team The team was at a loss several times, and was almost directly intercepted by the opponent to counterattack.

"These young Italians really... have inherited all their traditions." Pei Wei in front of the TV sighed and said, "Tardelli did a great job. He is worthy of being an Italian superstar in the past. Football has been developed for 100 years, but the basic things will not change. Italy has won three World Cups by relying on chain defense and shadow forwards. This tactic is effective even now.”

"Tell me, I just watch football for fun, and I don't know so many different ways." Mr. Su heard Pei Wei talk about tactics, tradition, history, and old news a lot while watching football these days. I could hear some interest: "What's so good about this Italian tactic? From what you said, it seems to be very powerful."

"Italian football has quite a lot of tactics. After all, their league is the best league in the world. It has concentrated the best players and the highest level of coaches in the world. It is not unreasonable to call it the 'Little World Cup', but for For the Italian national team, there are only four mainstream tactics, which are chain defense, cross defense, full-back assist and shadow striker." Pei Wei explained: "The chain defense and cross defense are defensive tactics. , mixed together is the 'concrete defense' that the Italian national team is proud of. Based on its own half court, at least eight players are conducting extremely tight and ubiquitous defense, expanding the entire defensive area to their own. The whole half, plus the Italian defenders have the best defensive skills, so when they defend at full strength, no team can not get a headache. However, defense alone will not win the game, Italy Football focuses on defense, which doesn't mean they don't pay attention to offense. It's just that their offense is more concise and more effective. Italian football has never blindly pursued possession time. The tactic of full-back assists was also invented by the Italians. Defenders are more likely to be ignored by opponents when assisting forward, and are more likely to obtain results, while shadow forwards are the most important part of Italian football offense, and are generally played by players with outstanding skills and imagination. , they take on the important task of connecting the midfield and the backcourt, pass the deadly ball at the moment when the opponent turns from offense to defense, and help the striker to kill with one blow - Baggio assisted Vieri when Italy played against Chile in the 98 World Cup The goal scored is the best example. After stealing the ball from the backcourt, it took only three passes and one shot to create a goal. The efficiency is high and no one can match it. Fortunately, we are facing It’s just the Italian Olympic team. This team does not have a full-back with a particularly good assist ability. The famous left-back Koko did not participate in the Olympics this time. Without the assists of the full-back, it is difficult to break the same The defense of the Chinese Olympic team with a seven-man defensive formation."

When Pei Wei just said this, Zheng Zhi on the field barely passed the ball to Nie Fei under the pressure of the opponent. When Nie Fei received the ball, he was immediately flanked by Gattuso and Zanetti's two midfielders. Although he has excellent skills and strong ball-handling ability, he is still not enough in front of these two engineer midfielders who have the strength to become a world-class midfielder. Without enough players around him to support him, he can only barely pass to the front. Hao Dong.

After Hao Dong got the ball, he had no choice but to forcefully break through the penalty area. After rushing past Maresca's defense, he saw Cirillo and Grandoni approaching him at the same time, so he had to rush to the penalty area. Choosing to shoot from outside the penalty area, the ball was caught by Abbiati without any suspense.

"Oh, why are there only so few people up here!" Su Mei said anxiously: "No matter how good Nie Fei and Hao Dong's personal abilities are, they can't easily break through this level of intensive defense! If there is no With the help of other teammates, this kind of attack can only give them the possession of the ball again!"

"You're right." Pei Wei stared at the TV screen: "I think Milu didn't intend to score in the first half... Now the Chinese Olympic team's offense is just to contain the opponent and put pressure on the defense line." It's just to lighten it up...he's betting that Italy won't score in the first half, so that in the second half the Italian team can only strengthen their offense, and that's our chance."

"Zero to zero or being dragged to a penalty kick is definitely not what Tardelli wants to see... Italy's luck in penalty shootouts has never been very good, and he is not willing to waste too much energy on the Chinese team. This is the only place we can take advantage of. After Italy strengthens their offense in the second half, the loopholes in their defense will increase. At that time, it will depend on Nie Fei and Hao Dong. Milu used the most likely to win. A tactic, even if this tactic will be criticized by countless people."

"If you still lose..." Su Mei seemed to hear something.

"That's why I admire this old man." Pei Wei closed his eyes: "In the face of victory and honor, he chose victory."

(End of this chapter)