Football No. 10: God's Perspective

Chapter 99 High Defense
After the game, Wang Po once again seized the headline position of the sports media.

Son of Benfica, resounding throughout Europe.

The most outstanding one is of course Football Special News' interview with Wang Po, which is full of dry stuff that fans want to know.

With this report, Football Special also broke out of the siege of sports media because of this exclusive interview.

Annie, the reporter who signed the exclusive interview, also leapt to occupy a place in the media circle.

Of course, what's more important is that after this success, the newspaper saw business opportunities, and Annie and her interview team received huge financial support.

On the third day after the second round of the UEFA Champions League knockout round, UEFA announced on its official website the winner of this year's Golden Boy Award, which is the player from the Bundesliga Dortmund team, Wang Po.

According to the internal information disclosed by the media, in terms of the number of votes for the European Golden Boy Award, Wang Po strongly crushed his competitors and was elected without dispute.

Soon, Dortmund's official social software released an announcement congratulating Wang Po for winning the award.

His old club Benfica followed suit and congratulated Wang Po on his award.

Of course, there are text messages from Gomez, Jim, Aubameyang and other former and current teammates.

Relying on the title of the European Golden Boy Award just won, Wang Po's worth has been refreshed again in terms of the latest net worth announced by Dezhuan, reaching 9500 million euros.

It is conceivable that with Dortmund's ability to manage players, as long as Wang Po has no major injuries, a transfer fee of over [-] million is a certainty.

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Double matches a week, Dortmund at home on the weekend ushered in the challenge of a strong enemy - Schalke 04 team.

In Germany, the Schalke 04 team can be described as an old-fashioned strong team. The team has a deep foundation. It has won the league championship 7 times.

The team is famous for its physical strength, such a name is well known to the outside world, and more thanks to a former former coach.

Felix Magath, known as the devil coach.

High-intensity training and medicine balls are the labels of Magath. The former Real Madrid star Raul once trained under such a devil coach, and the media broke the news of training and vomiting. It is conceivable that he has a lot of training.

There are even rumors that some players refused to join the Schalke 04 club because the head coach was Magath.

Once this imprint was laid, it became the style of the team and continues to this day.

Facing Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund attaches great importance to it.

Before the game, head coach Tuchel made detailed and careful tactical arrangements.

After continuous video analysis, Shaker 04 mostly adopts high-position pressing tactics, and the space behind the defenders is a point they can take advantage of.

In response to this, Tuchel also made some adjustments to the starting lineup, taking down the starting striker Immobile and pushing the wide player Ousmane Dembele to the position of the second striker.

Standing in the center position is the Gabon Lightning Aubameyang, with obvious intentions, using speed to hit behind the opponent's defense.

After a lapse of two games, Wang Po returned to the starting lineup again. This time Tuchel arranged for him to be a defensive midfielder, partnering with Gundogan.

Compared with the previous role of the defensive midfielder played by Jing Duo, this time, Tuchel gave Wang Po more defensive pressure in a normal way.

Contrary to each other?

In fact, this is Tuchel's brilliance. Wang Po and Gundogan's overall view and ability to read the game have reached the top level in Europe. In this game, Tuchel focused on hitting behind the opponent's defense.

To achieve such a strategy and tactics requires the cooperation of the Schalke 04 team.

Only when the opponent's formation presses forward can the space behind him be created, and the speedy striker, Aubameyang, Osmen-Dembele can give full play to their greatest advantages.

Wang Po's delay is largely a tactical intention to give up the midfield to open up space for the opponent's formation premise. Of course, there is another intention, which is to break the terrifying high-position press of the Schalke 04 team.

Abundant physical fitness, tacit teamwork, and steely will make this Schalke 04 team's high frontcourt press quite threatening.

Even Bayern Munich, known as the Cosmos team, has suffered such hardships.

The existence of a player with excellent foot skills and the ability to read the game is the secret to defusing the opponent's fierce high-position press.

Coincidentally, there is such a player in the Dortmund team, No. 11, Wang Po.

It can be said that Wang Po is the most critical link in the setting of Tuchel's entire set of tactics, and everything is centered on him.

At the same time, there needs to be a player who can connect the ball from the defense to the striker, and Wang Po has this ability.

"beep"

The game started.

Even as a guest at the home court of Europe's No. 04 Devil, Schalke [-]'s performance is still not stage-frightened, and its style of play is aggressive and proactive.

As soon as he came up, he implemented a high-position press in the frontcourt, which put great pressure on Dortmund's defense.

Tuchel on the sidelines was very dissatisfied with two consecutive defensive transition mistakes and lost the ball.

In the two high-position presses, the Schalke 04 team created huge pressure on the ball holder, which caused the ball to fail to reach his feet, so that the transfer of the ball was not timely, resulting in the loss of the ball.

Wang Po realized that in the high-pressure situation of the opponent, if he wanted to break through, he needed to hold the ball more and use his personal skills to solve the problem.

Of course, this means that Wang Po is under tremendous pressure.

A successful ball selection may not necessarily be converted into a goal, but a goal lost by the defense will definitely cause danger in front of the goal, and such mistakes will be infinitely magnified after the game.

It takes courage and responsibility.

When the goalkeeper was about to open the goal kick, Wang Po took the initiative to withdraw the request. After getting the ball, he felt the defensive pressure coming from all directions. From the corner of his eye, at least three defensive players from the Schalke 04 team had already surrounded him. In the blink of an eye, at the moment when the defensive player behind him was about to get close, a heel kick passed the defensive player behind him. He turned around and accelerated to shake off the opponent's entanglement. The center of gravity staggered and fell to the ground, looking very embarrassed.

After breaking the opponent's high-position press, what caught the eye was the Schalke 04 team's defense line full of holes.

Passing the ball is always faster than people. Wang Po is well aware of this truth. He observed that Ousmane Dembele and Aubameyang, who were ready to speed up on the front line, did not pause. A long pass of more than 45 meters hit the back of Schalke 04's defense.

The opportunity is here.

Aubameyang's speed left the defensive players of the Schalke 04 team far away. Facing the goalkeeper single-handedly, he calmly pushed and shot to break the deadlock and ignited the atmosphere at the Wiesle Stadium.

(End of this chapter)