stadium assassin

Chapter 80 Spear and Shield

Wang Qi stared at the young Cech. At this time, Cech was not as domineering as he thought, but his strength was not worse than what he thought.

Italy unexpectedly put up a defensive formation in this game. It is said that the defense is all good, and it is simply a bus.

The on-site commentator also excitedly said that this is the strongest spear-shield contest in Group D.

"Damn, is this a contest? This is simply cowardly behavior..." Wang Qi couldn't understand that this was not a knockout match, but a group match. There was no twelve yards at all. You must know how many goals the Chinese team scored in the first two games. In Italy, even if the game is tied, the Chinese team still ranks first in terms of net goals.

He would understand if Italy took the lead, but now that the two sides are split equally, Italy should be in a hurry.

Wang Qi, who sits on the Italian head coach's bench, is also very familiar with him. He is also the world-famous head coach Guus Hiddink.

Isn't this old man advocating playing offensive football? How could he play such an ugly tactic?

In fact, Wang Qi knew that he was wrong. Wang Qi knew Hiddink when he was coaching the Dutch national team. Under his leadership, the Netherlands won the fourth place in the 1998 World Cup in France.What shocked Wang Qi the most this year was the pleasing football played by the Dutch team in the game, especially the match against Brazil, which was the most entertaining match in the World Cup.The Dutch team perfectly demonstrated their powerful attacking power and beautiful and smooth overall coordination in the game. It was only when they lost to their opponents in the penalty shoot-out that Wang Qi fell in love with the Dutch team crazily.

The earlier Dutch Three Musketeers were too unfamiliar to Wang Qi’s era. On the contrary, it was Guus Hiddink’s Dutch team that introduced Wang Qi to the Dutch football of total defense. Since then, Hiddink has played in Wang Qi’s team. In cognition, he should be a coach who advocates offensive football.

But in fact, Hiddink is not only good at offensive football but also prefers a pragmatic style of play. It can be seen from the earliest days when he was the coach of PSV Eindhoven. In 1987, he served as the team's head coach.In the first year as the head coach of the team, he led the team to win the Eredivisie championship and achieved three consecutive Eredivisie championships. In 1988, he also led the team to win the three gold cups of the Dutch League, the Dutch Cup and the European Champions Cup. The "Triple Crown" has become a world-renowned coach in one fell swoop. Famous players such as Gullit and Koeman are all from his disciples.

During this period, PSV Eindhoven mainly focused on offensive football. They scored 87 goals in the Eredivisie League in the 88-117 season, ranking third in history. However, in the Champions League that year, Hiddink adopted a very pragmatic approach. From the quarter-finals to the final, all 3 games were tied with the opponents, and the opponents were eliminated twice by away goals. In the final, they defeated Benfica by penalty kicks.This period is also the best period in the history of the PSV Eindhoven team, creating a number of records, so Hiddink is considered the most successful head coach in the history of the team.

However, after leaving Eindhoven, Hiddink's style of play was not so successful, especially in Valencia, Spain. The team has Leonardo, Penev and other powerful foreign aids. In Hiddink's 93-94 game against Bundesliga Karlsruhe in the UEFA Cup, Valencia, which won 3:1 in the first game, went to the away game and lost 0:7, which is an unprecedented defeat in the history of the team's European war...

Then he became the head coach of Real Madrid in July 1998. That year, he led the team to win the Toyota Cup by beating Brazil Vasco da Gama. After defeating Barcelona 7:22 in the round of the national derby, they lost to Athletic Bilbao 0:3. The ranking fell to 0th and was immediately dismissed by the club.

These defeats are the turning point for Hiddink. He constantly reflects on his tactics. In this world, there are basically no giants inviting Hiddink, and this world happens to have invitations from the Italian World Youth Team. Hiddink hopes to find It is his own breakthrough, so he is willing to coach Italy, which is famous for its defense.

Because Hiddink wants to change his tactical system, advocating the Italian integration of defensive counterattack, even though it is only a youth team, the Chinese team Hiddink, who is playing offensive football in front of him, knows how to deal with it.

Wang Qi did not expect a head coach who advocates offensive football to implement his defensive tactics so thoroughly, the Chinese team has no good chance at all.

This is even more uncomfortable than when I played against the Japanese team, because Italy is not only tall, but also very familiar with this style of play, unlike the Japanese team who kicked the ball and directly cleared the siege.

It's a small-scale cooperation that slowly consumes the physical strength of the Chinese team.

Even in the Asian qualifiers, the Chinese team did not encounter such a tactic at the beginning of the strong team. On the contrary, the Chinese team defended against the strong team.

Now the strong attack power shown by the Chinese team in the Dutch group stage has attracted all the opponents' attention.

Italy is proof that they have put the Chinese team in the same position.

Italy has always been short of an excellent striker. World football says that Italy has the world's top midfielders and superb defenders, but only second-rate strikers.

In this game, although Italy created several opportunities by using defensive counterattacks and sacrificing patience, the forwards of the Italian World Youth Team obviously inherited the excellent qualities of their predecessors, and they were always unable to pose a threat to the Chinese team.

But relatively, the Chinese team has not opened the door to Italy. In addition to Italy's solid defense, it is also because of one person, that is Petr Cech.

He seemed to have eight hands like a spider, and he kept intercepting all the shots of the Chinese team. At the end of the first half, the number of shots of the Chinese team reached an astonishing 38 times.

During the half-time break, it was clear that the Chinese team had the upper hand, but no one felt relaxed. All the players felt exhausted. It was clear that the score was equal and they had the upper hand.

If Wang Qi is still predictable now, then he can see that his team's momentum has begun to weaken, while the Italian side has begun to press up.

He Yihang was caught in a dilemma looking at the tired appearance of his players, while Hiddink looked at his players with a confident smile in the lounge in Italy.

"In the first half, you played more and more confidently under the onslaught of the Chinese team. On the contrary, because of the delay in scoring goals, the Chinese team was more tired than us, especially their tiredness. In the second half, we have completed two conditions for victory. It's..."

Hearing Coach Hiddink's words, Cech and his teammates all laughed.

For this Dutch coach, he has won the respect of all Italy in just a few months. You must know that although Cech is very good, at the beginning Cech was unwilling to come to the Italian World Youth Team because After the establishment of the youth team, all the youth teams did not win one practice match.

But after Hiddink came, everything changed. He used his own strategy and tactics to turn the impossible games against Italy into victories, making Cech the core of Italy. , making the defensive counterattack sharper in his team.

So they believed in their coach, and they even felt that if Cech hadn't been injured in the game against England, they wouldn't have lost against Germany.

"Coach, do you mean that the head coach of the Chinese team will follow our script?" Cech asked. The crazy attack of the Chinese team in the first half really made the young Cech have enough.

"Hehe, it seems that Cech was very annoyed by the Chinese team in the first half. If the Chinese team still attacked in the second half, our victory in this game is [-]%. I don't think any coach will endure the good situation. Basically let's play defensive football, especially since they are entering the Netherlands for the first time, a complete victory in the group stage is what every head coach hopes to achieve..." Hiddink said confidently.

Just like what Hiddink said, He Yihang knows that the players need to suspend the offense now, and it is best to play defensive offense like Italy.

But He Yihang too wanted the record of three consecutive victories, he wanted to create more history.

In the second half, the Chinese team kicked off and really started to attack. Hiddink clenched his fists tightly. In this contest between spear and shield, shield took the lead...

(End of this chapter)