Ace Young Marshal

Chapter 85

Monaco's schedule at the beginning of the second half of the season is relatively easy. Although the schedule is heavy, the opponents are not strong.

In the 21st round of the league, Monaco challenged the relegation team Caen as a guest.

The outside world saw a change that surprised them. Situ Yunbing removed Pino from the starting lineup and formed an asymmetrical 451 formation.

Goalkeeper: Rufael.

Defenders: Simic, Modesto, Mongongu, Muratori.

Midfield: Perez, Nkuru, Merian, Matic, Moro.

Forward: Falcao.

Caen was struggling at home. They wanted to get three life-saving points from Monaco, but they were afraid of being killed by Monaco. So they took a defensive counterattack posture at home, but put two forwards in front.

When Situ Yunbing stood on the sidelines to supervise the battle, he actively directed the team to speed up the rhythm and frequently carry out offensive transfers.

After 20 minutes of adaptation, Monaco gradually showed a threat that was in sharp contrast to before on the court!

Muratori and Simic's assists were so large that they almost didn't go back after staying in the frontcourt on the wing!
The left flank was originally Monaco's offensive advantage area, which drove Caen's defense to concentrate its forces on this side to strictly guard against it. After the left flank failed to create opportunities, Monaco would quickly transfer the attack through the midfield, and Simic on the right flank assisted and killed While attacking the dangerous area, Merian will also take the initiative to approach to respond, or Perez will respond from the side, while Merian will advance into the penalty area to form a threat!
Caen deployed heavy troops to defend Falcao and Morrow's side. When they saw that Monaco's full-backs were so aggressive in attacking, they naturally wanted to counterattack to take advantage of the emptiness of Monaco's wing defense.

However, Situ Yun took this point into consideration when he changed his formation.

Nkuru, who is fast and has strong sweeping ability, frequently defends the sideways!

Strictly speaking, Monaco's midfielder is Nkuru and Matic's double midfielders, and they are divided into front and rear. Nkuru is at the back and Matic is in front. Nkuru is more flexible. , it depends on the opponent's offensive development direction and whether the local area is weak in strength.

Perez is a central midfielder, who is responsible for tandem and back-up to form a threat in front of the penalty area. Merian is an attacking midfielder, and Morrow is a full-back. This asymmetrical formation is mainly to make full use of the width of the field and strengthen midfield scheduling. Shifting the speed of the attack, it also makes the midfielder more flexible. It can not only allow the wings to fly, but also allow the players behind to form a more concealed threat.

Merian will advance into the penalty area, and Perez and Matic can take turns to reach the opponent's penalty area to form a long-range threat.

In addition to the standard defensive line in the backcourt defense, Nkuru plays a key role in delaying or even killing the opponent's counterattack.

When Caen's counterattack was repeatedly cut off by Monaco, Monaco's offensive threat was straight up and caught them off guard.

In the 34th minute of the game, I thought that Monaco would shift the attack to Simic on the right. Unexpectedly, Simic quickly passed the ball diagonally back when responding. Perez stepped forward and knocked the ball across the left. Mu Latori did not sloppy, and sent the ball straight to the baseline with one kick.

After Morrow hit the bottom, he waded the ball to the penalty area. When he restrained the opponent's defender to block it, Morrow passed the ball obliquely to the right side of the penalty area.

Falcao outflanked the goal to form a cover, and Merian stepped in and easily pushed the ball directly into the lower right corner of the goal in the penalty area!

Situ Yunbing couldn't help nodding when Merian scored a goal!
The Monaco generals ran to celebrate the goal, and the Caen generals looked a little ugly. They don't want to lose even one point at home.

Before the re-kick-off, Situ Yunbing gestured to the players, asking them to strengthen the oppressiveness of the midfield counterattack!
Caen will definitely not sit still, and Monaco will give full play to their advantages at this time.

Fight against oppression!

It can be said that after changing the formation, Monaco's counter-robbing ability has improved again!

In the 42nd minute of the game, Simic made a pass from the right and was cleared by the opponent's defender. Seeing that a counterattack from the backcourt was about to be formed, Muratori countered and forced the opponent's fullback to change direction. Matic immediately Stepped forward and made a precise steal.

After stealing the ball, Matic protected the ball to block the opponent from the outside, and then sent a diagonal pass after seeing Merian's position.

When Merian touched the ball in the front right of the penalty area, he directly used the outside instep to send the ball to the right side of the penalty area.

Falcao took advantage of the opportunity to go forward and hit the kickback, wiped out the panicked defensive back, and took advantage of the opportunity to rub his left foot to the far corner of the goal!
The Caen goalkeeper was powerless and stood motionless in front of the goal line, but to the disappointment of the Monaco fans, Falcao's shot hit the crossbar and bounced back!

Falcao tried hard to keep himself calm, and his luck was really bad!
However, the bounced football was headed to Perez by Moro from the left side of the penalty area, and the latter sent a through pass!
Falcao was in an offside position, and his retreat was slow, but Merian advanced but was not offside. After such a pass and cut cooperation, he directly penetrated the entire defense line of Caen.

Before the penalty spot, Merian deftly shot the ball with his left foot to the upper corner of the goal. He abandoned the goal and lowered his center of gravity to block the lower angle. The Caen goalkeeper reached out and tried to block the football but failed.

The football flew into the goal!

Caen are two goals behind at home!
Situ Yunbing raised his fists on the sidelines with an extremely excited expression!

If we say that in the first half of the season, Monaco made use of the successful defense as much as possible to speed up the conversion of offense and defense to play the ultimate counterattack and succeeded, then the two goals in the second half of the season, especially in this game, reflect Monaco's technical and tactical level. Another progress!

Their offensives repeatedly hit the opponent's defense line like a tide, often making the opponent sleepless even after a successful defense!
The most important thing is that the midfield has radiated new vitality, and the offensive methods have also become richer!

Of course, if Falcao can become more confident through scoring goals and integrate into the team system faster, then the team's combat effectiveness must have reached another level!
During the intermission, Situ Yunbing adopted a tactical change in order to allow Falcao to have more chances to shoot and counterattack defensively!

The team's formation retreated, allowing Falcao to be at the top, and Caen fell behind by two goals. They will definitely form up for the goal. Situ Yunbing will give them this opportunity. At the same time, Monaco will have more opportunities to counterattack. Then Falcao at the top will get some good chances more easily.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. The situation developed as Situ Yunbing expected. Caen had no choice but to attack. Monaco's tight midfield defense never allowed the opponent to get an excellent shot, but Situ Yunbing was a little helpless. Yes, Falcao performed very well in the counterattack, but the finishing touch was a bit unsatisfactory!
In the open environment, Falcao almost won one-on-one, but the quality of shots in or outside the penalty area needs to be improved!
Situ Yunbing can only worry about this. His player cards are now used up before every game. At the end of the first half of the season, there are only two left. Although the past two games won one and drew one , but basically maintained the rhythm of using up all before the game.

What can be given to Matic is given to Matic, what can be given to Benatia is given to Benatia, and the rest are Moro, Nkuru and the others. Before these three games, Situ Yunbing did not have any I have seen the cards of "Benzema" and "Niang", otherwise I would definitely use them for Falcao.

If this continues, Falcao will become less and less confident. Just relying on Situ Yunbing's off-court cheer will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. The striker still needs to score the bottom line.

Unfortunately, this is not a game that belongs to Falcao. In the second half, Monaco wasted a lot of chances and failed to rewrite the score.

In the end, Caen lost 0:2 to Monaco at home.

In the standings, the top five teams in this round all won, and Monaco's lead is still 4 points. After Lyon tied in the last round, they were caught up by Bordeaux.

Monaco, 43 points.

Lyon, 39 points.

Bordeaux, 39 points.

Marseille, 37 points.

Toulouse, 36 points.

(End of this chapter)