Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 701 Abandoning the Midfield
While Deschamps was still sighing secretly, Newcastle scored.

The breakthrough that caused this goal was not the Monaco right that was almost blown by Newcastle's French left just now, but the other side.

Essien took the ball in the middle, and when he saw that Maicon was going up to the edge at an astonishing high speed, he immediately shifted and passed the ball to Maicon. After receiving the ball, Maicon did not go to the bottom as before, but He ran towards the center and crossed positions with Nie Fei. The moment the two passed by, the ball fell to Nie Fei's feet. plug in.

Evra stared at Nie Fei without hesitation, not only because Nie Fei had the ball at his feet, but also because the ball was obviously much more threatening under this guy's feet - Nie Fei, who was able to hit the sidelines last season, made the champion Those opponents in the cup suffered a lot.

Even Monaco's midfielder Zikos, who is close to the right, focused on Nie Fei, but who knew that Nie Fei immediately turned around after taking a few steps and handed the ball to Maicon in the middle!

The unguarded Maicon didn't continue to dribble the ball forward, because Monaco's defense in the middle is still very strong, but kicked directly and hoisted the ball to the back point!

Ribery quickly threw off Fakiri's defense, appeared near the bottom line on the right side of the penalty area, and swung his left foot against the falling ball—not offside!

Monaco's two central defenders rushed towards Ribery at the same time, but Ribery just took advantage of the trend and hooked the ball into the middle of the penalty area!
Ibrahimovic rushed up and volleyed the goal against the last defender of the opponent. All Roma could do was to fall helplessly and watch the ball fly into the goal!

One to zero! No.207 minutes, after a series of exquisite cooperation, Newcastle relied on Ibrahimovic's goal to lead Monaco by one goal at home!

The cheers above the stands were like a landslide and tsunami. Deschamps could only shake his head helplessly. Newcastle's offense has risen a level compared to last season, but Monaco's defense has dropped a level compared to last season. It's nothing more than normal.

Didier Deschamps didn't expect to get out of St. James' Park without conceding a goal. In this game, he didn't pin his hopes on defense, but on offense. The three forwards in the frontcourt all had strong personalities. Ability, when the cooperation is not tacit enough, their individual performance is the biggest capital of Deschamps in this game.

"Counterattack! Counterattack! Overwhelm them with offense! Got it?" Deschamps yelled from the sidelines.

In fact, what he said, the Monaco players all understand-it's just that there are two words in between, thinking and getting, that is to do.

Monaco is a typical Ligue [-] team. It pays attention to technology and the cooperation of passing and cutting in the frontcourt. It creates opportunities for the forwards through the organization of the midfield, or uses the personal ability of the forwards to attack in the midfield. Open up that coterie, midfielder.

But in the midfield, Monaco can't compete with Newcastle at all.

Now the three midfielders in Monaco, whether it is Zikos or Bernardi, or the newly transferred Blasi, are all midfielders with higher defensive ability than offensive ability. Last season, Monaco's offensive ability was more than 70.00% It was initiated by their two wings—Roteng on the left and Jiuli on the right. They can break through and create opportunities on the two wings, and they can also pass the ball to create opportunities for the center forward. Although this tactic is not very complicated, it is stunned. It wiped out all the powerful players last season. If it hadn't been broken at the beginning of the final, Newcastle's victory may not have come in time.

But now, the three defensive midfielders have no offensive ability, and the three forwards can only fight on their own. Caron often retreats to get the ball, but he does not cooperate with the other two forwards. Not high, but he is a pure center forward, as is Chevanton, which makes Monaco's offense only concentrated in the middle, and Newcastle's defense is naturally much easier.

As for the assists of the full-backs-Monaco's full-backs were completely suppressed by Newcastle's wingers, and the defense was overwhelmed, so there was no time to participate in the attack.

There is a lack of attackers in the center who can deliver deadly straight passes, and the speed of Chevanton and Saviola is useless. Occasionally, a few wing crosses are made, and several forwards who are not very tall in Monaco also Submerged in Newcastle's tall defenders, Monaco's players only felt that they were playing awkwardly in the game, while Newcastle played well on both ends of the offense and defense. If it is good, Newcastle will be able to seal the victory in the first half.

Ibrahimovic missed once with a single shot, Shearer scored three times in front of the goal and was saved by Roma twice, one time was high, Nie Fei and Ribery also had a few very beautiful long shots, and even Makelele rushed up It took a shot, but it was a little too far.

In the first half of the game, the three midfielders of Monaco were completely unable to compete with Newcastle's midfielders. They were tightly suppressed within their own half and could not provide effective support to the forwards. Caron and Chevanton could only retreat to the midfield to get the ball frequently, and Saviola was cruising alone in Newcastle's half.

The first half of the game is over, Newcastle has completely controlled the situation on the field, their ball possession rate has reached more than 60.00%, and other statistics, whether it is shots, offsides, corner kicks, free kicks in the front court, etc., have the upper hand. Coupled with the result of a [-]-[-] lead, Newcastle can be said to have played a perfect first half.

The most eye-catching Newcastle players are not Nie Feiyi and other offensive players, but their two midfielders.

Essien constantly interrupted the rhythm of Monaco's attack with abundant physical strength and ubiquitous pressing, while Makelele always appeared in the position that should appear most. The contribution made on defense is far more than that.

Not to mention how happy the Newcastle players were in the locker room, in another locker room, Deschamps was rarely furious in the locker room.

"Look at how you played in the first half!" Deschamps roared in the locker room, waving his arms: "Except for the first 15 minutes we played well for a while, you played well in the remaining half hour. Worse than amateurs! Look at the stats, we got 60.00% ball possession by a team known for their counter-defense! Besides fouls, what statistics do we have to beat them? Think about that damn guy before the game What he said! He thinks Newcastle can easily qualify in this group because they won us a game last season! Damn, and you guys showed everyone that what he said was right, we Not Newcastle's opponent at all! If we continue to fight like this, we can only leave Newcastle with shame and let these coal guys wantonly laugh at us! Yes, they are the European champions, but our European runner-up team is simply worse than joining the league. The team in the cup qualifying round is not as good as it!"

After venting a lot, Deschamps calmed down and said to the already pale players: "If anyone thinks that it is impossible for us to win this game, it is better to save some strength to deal with the other two players." If you are a team, you can say it, I will replace you and send players who are eager to win, because for me, if we lose this game, then there is no meaning for us to play in the following games Because a team that cannot fight back after being insulted is not qualified to play in the Champions League!"

He glanced at all the players: "Is there any? Just say it."

No one spoke, just joking, all fools know that admitting that they are determined to lose at this time is simply courting death, not to mention that the Monaco players are not bloodless.

"Very good. If you still have the desire to win, then we still have a chance to win." Deschamps nodded and said, "Now tell me why we were so passive in the first half."

Upon hearing this, the Monaco players immediately began to complain: the opponent's offense is too strong, the defender can only stay in the backcourt, the opponent's two defensive midfielders are too beastly, they can't pass the midfield at all, and the striker can't get the ball , can only run empty in the frontcourt...

Deschamps' complexion began to look ugly again, but he knew that the players were telling the truth, that is, in the first half of the game, in most of the time, Monaco could only be completely suppressed by Newcastle and led by the nose.

"This is indeed a fact, so we have to change this." Deschamps made a few strokes on the tactical board: "Our whole passivity is due to one point, the midfielder. On offense, Newcastle's two midfielders The performance was so good that our midfielders were completely unable to break through their defense to build the attack, and defensively, their two full-backs pulling back and forth and full-backs cutting in made us exhausted, since the opponent was in the midfield Occupying such a big advantage, and this advantage is something we cannot overcome in a short period of time, then we have to find a way from other places."

Having said that, Deschamps drew a heavy circle on the tactical board representing the midfield: "Give up the midfield!"

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After the start of the second half, Monaco made a substitution. Togo forward Adebayor came on and replaced midfielder Blasi.

"Is Didier Deschamps crazy? Planning to use four forwards?" Carver laughed on the coaching bench: "Only two midfielders are placed in the midfield. Doesn't that mean that the midfielder is handed over to us? Then they Is there any hope of winning?"

Mourinho frowned.

(End of this chapter)