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Chapter 1424 False Transmission Control

Transmission control, this should be the hottest topic in world football in the past few years, almost everywhere.

In fact, it is not a novel term.

As we all know, football is based on passing and running.

During Guardiola's coaching period, Barcelona was known for passing and controlling football, but what was really dreadful was their midfield press. Strictly speaking, their football philosophy was not passing and controlling, but reducing the opponent's holding time as much as possible.

Therefore, many people think that Barcelona regards ball possession as life, but if we go deeper, what Barcelona regards as life is not their own possession of the ball, but the opponent's possession of the ball.

An opponent who fails to hold the ball will naturally not be able to threaten Barcelona's goal.

In the past ten years, there have been two teams in European football that are unique in passing and controlling the ball, that is, Arsenal under the coaching of Arsene Wenger in the Premier League, and Barcelona under the coaching of Guardio.

When Yang Yang was still playing for Liverpool, he talked to Benitez about Arsenal.

The Spaniard believes that Wenger's Arsenal is closer to Holland's total defense in terms of pass and control play, emphasizing on a solid defense, fast counterattack after stealing the ball, and is especially good at creating opportunities with two wings.

In contrast, Guardiola's team puts more emphasis on control.

Their philosophy is to first ensure that the ball is in their hands, so they seek stability after stealing the ball, instead of making a quick vertical assault. After stabilizing the ball, they can tear apart the opponent's defense through their meticulous passing and receiving cooperation.

The scenes look similar, but the concepts are very different, which leads to completely different techniques and tactics of the two teams, but some of the most essential things are similar, such as running.

Arsenal has always been the team that runs the most in the Premier League, so many people think that the reason why Arsenal collapsed in the second half of those years is because the bench thickness is not enough, the players run too much, and they can barely support the first half. In the second half, they collapsed immediately.

In the years when Barcelona was at its peak, it was also the best running team in European football. However, as the players age and their running ability declines, coupled with the lack of thickness of the bench, a drowsy scene gradually appeared.

Because, with the development of the overall trend of European football, it is difficult to create opportunities if you have possession of the ball without running.

Real Madrid's overall tactical thinking is actually more inclined to Arsenal. It is mainly based on a solid defense. After stealing the ball, it quickly launches a counterattack from the two wings. When the position is in battle, the long pass is transferred to pull the defense line.

This makes Real Madrid seem to have taken the best of the two, but the pass and control are still slightly inferior to Barcelona.

This might as well be the result of trade-offs, not that Real Madrid can't do it, but that they don't want to do it.

Like Arsenal and Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid's running ability is very strong, but the difference is that Real Madrid's bench lineup is very strong.

Especially after Zidane took over the team, the arrival of Pintus further enhanced the team's strength.

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Sarri's Naples is a unique landscape in Serie A.

Many people think that he played a gorgeous pass and ball control style of play.

But in front of Real Madrid, Naples easily exposed its flaws.

Naples is very close to Barcelona's philosophy. The pursuit of ball possession means reducing the opponent's ball possession and desperately trying to control the ball at their own feet. Therefore, like Barcelona, ​​they seldom pass long passes from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and more advance from the backcourt.

In order to ensure the success rate of passing and possession, the Naples players always keep a close distance and the overall formation is compact.

Any professional player who can gain a foothold in the five major European leagues has the technical ability to accurately pass the ball to his teammates within a range of ten meters under tight pressure. Without this ability, he is simply not qualified to gain a foothold in the European league.

However, if the distance is increased, for example, to 15 meters, to 20 meters, or even further, the success rate will gradually decline, which requires the investigation of the player's technical skills.

Napoli's players are not as technically capable as Real Madrid. In order to ensure the success rate of the pass, their players must keep a tight distance. In addition, they never open their feet in the backcourt, and they advance slowly. This leaves enough preparation time for Real Madrid's defense to quickly organize an effective defense after losing the ball.

When Naples slowly dribbled the ball into Real Madrid's half, Real Madrid had already organized the defense. At this time, Naples' players didn't know how to pass, and their players didn't have the ability to move around in a narrow range and create murderous intentions like Barcelona's top superstars, and the offense immediately fell into a predicament.

Therefore, except for the wonderful pass from Hamsik in the first half, Naples seemed to be in control of the ball, but in fact they failed to create much threat. It was more like Barcelona in the later period, constantly crossing and flipping, to control the ball.

How familiar are Yang Yang and Zidane with Barcelona's pass control?
When they realized this, they immediately seized Naples' dead spot, decisively changed their tactics, and began to strengthen the pressing and pressing of the midfield and frontcourt, using Barcelona's tactics to restrain Naples' [false pass control].

Real Madrid's high-position pressing and oppression, especially the small-scale overall pressing, has continued from the Benitez period to the present.

Whenever Naples wanted to play the ball from the backcourt, under the pressure of Real Madrid, they repeatedly made mistakes in a panic.

Real Madrid always try to instigate a quick counterattack immediately after stealing the ball, but if they fail, they will immediately and patiently control the ball.

It's like No. 604 minutes this time, Marcelo pushed forward, and after stealing the ball with Hazard on the left side of the frontcourt, he failed to form a quick counterattack and passed it back to Toni Kroos immediately.

Naples counter-robbed immediately, but Real Madrid quickly transferred the ball with consecutive kicks.

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"Real Madrid played very patiently and passed consecutively outside the 30-meter zone in Naples."

"It's dangerous for Napoli."

"Suarez dropped back and made a post and Eden Hazard made the pass."

"With his back to the attacking direction, Suarez leads back."

"Modric came up, received a cross from Suarez and went forward."

"He saw Yang Yang's gesture, passed it forward, and sent it into the restricted area..."

"Yang Yang goes forward at the top of the arc, stops the ball with his right foot and turns to the left, and hits the goal directly with his left foot!"

"The ball went in!!!"

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"A very clean left-footed shot!"

"Real Madrid beat Naples [-]-[-]!"

"A cross from the back from Yang Yang, with his left foot piercing Reina's goal."

"This is Yang Yang's strength. At the critical moment, he sent a wonderful assist and two key goals. He led Real Madrid to reverse Naples and scored three away goals."

"Looking at the slow-motion replay, Yang Yang's back-up was very clever this time. He used his body to block the defender on his right side, stopped the ball with his right foot, and hit the ball directly with his left heel. There was no hesitation. Neither the central defender nor the goalkeeper could do anything about him."

"Three to one, Real Madrid really looks like a champion!"

"You know, they've won majors for three consecutive seasons, and it doesn't look like this team is satisfied yet."

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The entire San Paolo Stadium was immersed in an unbelievable atmosphere, and the Naples fans were a little hard to understand, why did the situation change so quickly in the second half?
Could it be that Real Madrid's players are taking drugs in midfield?
Otherwise, how to explain their sudden second half play so well?

But Real Madrid has clearly caught Naples' dead spot, and does not intend to let it go so easily.

Soon, Real Madrid created another chance.

After stealing the ball in midfield, Toni Kroos quickly sent a long pass behind him. Yang Yang quickly inserted, stopped the ball on the left side of the penalty area before the defender, shook the opponent away, and crossed to the center with his left foot.

Suarez followed up, faced the goalkeeper Reina single-handedly, and made a curved ball.

The ball hit the inside of the left post of the goal and hit the goal of Naples, four to one!

The players of Real Madrid celebrated unscrupulously on the court, while the players of Naples and the fans in the stands were full of depression. The live TV footage even captured the helpless expression of Maradona shaking his head.

Obviously, his arrival did not bring good luck to Naples.

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Soon, Real Madrid once again stole the ball in the Naples half and quickly moved to the right.

After Yang Yang received a pass from his teammate on the right side of the penalty area, he directly faced the defender.

After an exquisite feint, he quickly throws off his opponent and walks towards the baseline. Before approaching the baseline, he makes another sudden stop and starts, using the speed change to forcibly dribble the ball from the baseline into the penalty area.

But at this time, Yang Yang was completely restricted by the opponent near the bottom line, and he had no chance to hit the goal at all, so after breaking into the penalty area, he suddenly sent a kick back.

Because Yang Yang's dribbling attracted Naples' defensive attention, the perimeter of the penalty area was empty, so when Yang Yang's knockback came to the front of the penalty area, Toni Kroos kicked and shot almost without defense.

The ball hit Naples' goal again, five to one!

This time, the fans at the St. Paul Stadium really couldn't sit still!

It’s okay to lose, and it’s not ashamed to lose to Real Madrid, but it’s not okay to lose like this!

……

Subsequently, Real Madrid continued to attack Naples.

Still on the right side of the penalty area, Real Madrid once again planned an attack.

But this time it was Suarez, who took the initiative to cooperate with Modric and Yang Yang on the right side of the penalty area, trying to drive the ball into the right side of the penalty area, but was tackled by the opposing defender in time.

The ball went out of the penalty area and landed at the feet of Casemiro who jumped in from behind.

The Brazilian midfielder didn't wait for the ball to land, and directly volleyed the ball into the far corner of Naples' goal, five to one!

World wave!
(End of this chapter)