Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 509 A Clumsy Friendly Match
In the locker room of the Chinese team, players were panting everywhere. They consumed a lot of physical energy in the first half, especially the defensive players, who played in Portugal's meticulous and patient long and short passes combined with back and forth. Under passing the ball, they had to move the defensive formation back and forth, which caused most of their physical energy to be consumed in empty running back and forth, which directly led to the rapid consumption of physical energy and even affected the offense. In the offensive link, the assists of the two full-backs accounted for a large proportion, but after consuming too much physical energy on defense, it was impossible for the full-backs to devote more energy to the offense, which also led to The strength of the troops was not enough, and it did not put too much pressure on the opponent's defense line.

Throughout the first half, the only threatening attack of the Chinese team was Hao Dong's shot after the opening, which can be seen in the passive situation.

"Now you know, right? Against a technical team, running out of thin air can only waste energy in vain." Milu told the players that he had already seen the problem in the first half, but he wanted to Give the players a first-hand look at the feeling of powerlessness: "So in the second half, we can't be so passive."

He walked to the tactical layout board: "When defending, Li Gang, Ma Tian and Deke, the three of you must return to the defense, and the front of the penalty area must be stable. As for their back and forth between the two sides, let them go! Let them pass in the cross, but pay attention to their internal breakthrough! In terms of defensive headers and physical confrontation, we will not be at a disadvantage even against world-class teams, but our defense on the move is lacking a lot. So we should try our best to play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses! The two full-backs can shrink back a little and mainly defend the opponent's breakthrough! Nie Fei, you have to do more in the counterattack, and form a formation with the two forwards As a whole, don’t just focus on individuals! When defending the opponent’s counterattack, the striker should counterattack on the spot, and the defender should quickly return to the defense! Only in this way can we have hope of victory, understand?”

"Understood!" The voices of the players replied a little louder than before the start of the game. The passivity in the first half also annoyed them-they swept everything in Asia, but they ate after the match against Portugal. With such a big suffocation, everyone's heart is full of fire.

Pei Wei looked at Milu's tactics and began to recall how Portugal lost to South Korea and the United States in the 02 World Cup. The loss to South Korea in the last game of the group may have been due to accidental factors, but in the first half of the first game of the group It is not accidental that they were beaten into a sieve by the US team and conceded three goals in a row. The main reason is that their slow passing and cutting tactics combined with tearing apart the opponent's defense did not work. The two fast forwards collapsed as soon as they rushed, and the defense was torn apart by the opponent's continuous counterattacks when the offense could not open the situation. The speed of the Chinese forward line is not slow, but a friendly match like this does not need to use that An ugly style of play to fully implement the counterattack, it seems that Milu still has a good strategy in tactics.

In the final analysis, the outcome of such a friendly match is not too important. The main thing is how to adapt the players to the high-intensity play in the World Cup. The Chinese team has been too smooth in Asia in recent years, and a proper loss is more beneficial.

After the start of the second half, the Chinese team's defense became tighter. Portugal's offensive ability was not too strong. A good way, and the counterattack of the Chinese team was more efficient than in the first half. Slowly, the Chinese team turned the situation back.

Finally, in the No. 201 minute of the second half, although the Chinese team failed to form a shot in a quick counterattack in the midfield, Deco firmly controlled the ball. After two consecutive two-for-one cooperation with Nie Fei, Deco Ke sent the ball to Hao Dong's feet beautifully. Hao Dong used his speed to get rid of Portugal's central defender Costa and then took a shot. Baia dropped the ball and Adriano made a supplementary shot in front of the goal to equalize the score.

After the score was tied, the head coaches of the two sides began to make frequent substitutions and adjustments. Portugal's number one star Figo played, while Milu replaced Nie Fei with Li Fang, and then replaced General Fan with Zhu Guosheng. The two sides continued on the court. entangled, but there was no energy left to score, and in the end the game ended in a [-]-[-] tie.

At the press conference after the game, Milu expressed his satisfaction with the game. At the same time, he also said that the national team has not concentrated for long enough and the players are not in the best physical condition. He believes that when the World Cup starts , The national team's competition ability will be improved again.

Portugal's head coach Oliveira also said that the players' state has not reached their best after a season. It seems that the problems facing all teams are the same, that is, after a fierce season, the players Their state has entered a trough, how to adjust the state of the players is the top priority.

Three days later, the Chinese team ushered in their second warm-up opponent, the Polish team also from Europe. In this game, the players of the Chinese team maintained a very high competitive state. With a victory in the warm-up match, full-back Wu Jiying and midfielder Nie Fei scored goals for the Chinese team. With a victory, the Chinese team began to fly to South Korea, where they will play two matches against Sweden and Cameroon. A warm-up match, and then start preparing for the first group match on June [-]th.

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In the two domestic warm-up matches, the Chinese team did not show a very good state. Although it drew with Portugal, which is called the world's top team, and defeated Poland, the first team to qualify from the European region, the appetite is already very strong. Many Chinese fans generally believe that the national team composed of so many stars playing in Europe can definitely perform better, and the current performance of the national team is far from meeting the expectations of the fans.

Looking at the overwhelming comments from online fans, Pei Wei could only smile wryly - he has the habit of surfing the Internet, and in his previous life, he was also one of these fans who posted online - but, when he sat on this In terms of position, after learning more about various situations, he realized that not everything can be known to the fans.

For example, the current Chinese team - if the players and coaches of the national team are willing, it is impossible to win against Portugal, but it is completely possible to play better in the game against Poland, but what is the point of this? meaning?Arranging these warm-up matches is not to win, but to find out the problem and adjust the player's state. If the player's state is too fast before the World Cup, then it may be a disaster in the World Cup— —The current physical fitness of the players is definitely not comparable to that of the peak period. Although these professional players can self-adjust and play several games even in the case of poor physical fitness, they must not waste their precious physical fitness in friendly matches.

For the national team's game, the key is the result, not the process.

However... Pei Wei looked at the heated discussions on the Internet, and he could imagine that the fans' mouths are also not idle in life. It is estimated that various sports media are also contributing to the current situation, right?But now the sports media is also difficult to do. Now they have learned not to describe the national team players' abilities, characteristics and tactics in detail before the competition, and they will not openly release the key information that the national team opponents are very interested in. It is on the front page of the newspaper, but they also have to eat after all. To make fans interested in selling their newspapers and browsing their website, it is their best method to cause a certain amount of controversy. Is it good to do so? No one can tell if it is bad, but at least it is of great help to the national team's preparations, and at least it has caused a lot of trouble for the opponents to collect data.

At this time, even if the fans complain, they can't take care of it. As long as they perform well in the next World Cup, the complaints of the fans will disappear immediately.

But for the next two warm-up matches, the fans will have to suffer a bit.

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After coming to South Korea, the Chinese team set up their own training camp in Gwangju. They will play two warm-up matches in Seogwipo and Gwangju, Sweden and Cameroon on May 23 and May 26 respectively, and then wait in Gwangju The first group match on June [-]th.

Chinese fans waited with hope for the performance of the Chinese team in the warm-up match. Unfortunately, the results of the two games were not satisfactory. They first played a boring game against the Swedish team in Seogwipo - the final score was zero. Compared to zero, the two sides worked hard on defense, but unfortunately they didn't make any achievements on offense. The total number of shots in the whole game did not exceed [-] times, and only [-] shots were shot within the range of the goal frame.

In Gwangju, the Chinese team ushered in the last warm-up match, but they lost [-]-[-] at the feet of Cameroon. The opponent's two forwards Mboma and Eto'o took turns to ravage the Chinese team's defense. In the first half The two scored a goal each. Although Hao Dong scored a point in the second half, the opponent's substitute striker Qiao Bu took advantage of the opportunity of the Chinese team's heavy pressure to turn offside and successfully scored the third goal before the end. It was the first loss in four warm-up matches.

The poor performance of the Chinese team made the fans unbearable, and some radical fans even shouted to dismiss Milu from get out of class. Submerged in the huge tide.

In this case, the Chinese team ushered in the first game of the upcoming group stage.

(End of this chapter)