Beast King Costa

Chapter 172 Two Over Three!
After Braga returned the initiative to Sporting Lisbon, the scene between the two sides was still silent.

Sporting Lisbon also put aside the idea of ​​scoring another goal after the midfield organization turned off, and concentrated on ball control, passing, and kicking, consuming the rest of the game time.

Anyway, for them, this is an irrelevant game in itself, 1-0 is enough to complete the tasks assigned by the club's top management-even if Braga equalizes the score later, or even overtakes the score, it will not affect their league ranking. will have any impact.

All in all, there is no burden, and you are relaxed.

Seeing that the game was about to enter the 70th minute, Paul Bento, who was sitting on the coach's bench, immediately decided: not to attack!
At Paul Bento's signal, the two wing attackers Nani and Devi returned to the midfield together, sitting on both sides of Custodio, João Moutinho and Rodrigo, leaving only Leadson advanced alone, forming a 4-5-1 position that controlled the midfield.

Anyway, it doesn't matter that Paul Bento started playing tricks early on.

Just get 1-0 in this game, even if there are still 20 minutes left, we won’t attack anyway!Just drop the ball and waste the rest of the game time.

"Tsk, Paul, when did he learn such a crude move!"

Watching Paul Bento set up a 4-5-1 formation and start to sway and sway endlessly, until the sky is dark and the sky is dark, and the mountains are dark, and the sky and the earth are united, before he dares to fight the ball...He in front of the coach of the visiting team Suardo Ferreira was extremely helpless.

In recent years, some young Spanish coaches have put forward a new tactical idea of ​​"replacing defense with control", which has aroused strong controversy in the Iberian Peninsula.

Some coaches feel that there is nothing wrong with such a tactical idea. They just need to keep the ball firmly under their feet and use various inefficient conduction balls to consume game time.

In this way, not only will the opponent not be able to get the ball and get an offensive opportunity, but even in the process of passing and controlling, the opponent's defensive formation can be forced to press up, and there will be flaws, which can be used to complete the goal!

There are also some coaches who firmly oppose such a tactical idea.

They will think that such an approach is anti-football as a sport-football is an offensive game for men, so what kind of skill is it to waste time by keeping the ball like this?

Although the new tactical idea of ​​"replacing defense with control" has not yet won mainstream support in Europe, some new-generation coaches in the Iberian Peninsula have begun to try to integrate this idea into the team's tactical system. After leading the score, he began to use a lot of useless work to control the ball in the midfield, and did not give the opponent the opportunity to counterattack with the ball.

Of course, doing so doesn't necessarily mean it's correct.

Some coaches rely on this trick to play a stronger defensive effect than the 5-4-1 or even 5-5-0 "iron barrel formation"; while some coaches are not good enough. When the time is wasted on the field, because the players' passing skills are not delicate enough, or their concentration is not enough, after being directly intercepted by the opponent's striker, the single-handed ball faces the goalkeeper and easily equalizes the score...

So, in terms of tactics, there is really no difference between good tactics and hot chicken tactics.

It depends on where the coach's training level is and where the players who execute the tactics are.

If the players can't even do the basics of stopping, catching, and passing the ball, it's useless to assign them a coach who has won the World Cup!You should help them find a coach with better basic skills, and pull them to start practicing from the most basic passing!
Facts have proved that there is still a big deviation in Paul Bento's understanding of the brand-new tactical thinking of "replacing defense with control".

Sporting Lisbon's pass-and-control football is completely inefficient crossing the two sides, or passing the ball directly to the backcourt or to the goalkeeper.

This is nothing more than a waste of time. It doesn't take advantage of the opponent's defensive formation at all, and makes good use of the space behind the defense to create offensive opportunities and expand the score.

Also because Sporting Lisbon treated the game time so negatively, this gave Braga a chance to equalize!
In the 74th minute, Van Dinho, who worked tirelessly in the midfield to grab the ball, finally won the ball from Sporting Lisbon!

After getting the ball, Fandinho immediately kicked the ball out and gave it to the second half of the game, constantly cruising in the area where Sporting Lisbon's two central defenders Abel Ferreira and Diego next to Canela were!

"Attention! Hold on to Braga No. 88!"

Paul Bento was a little uneasy, and he quickly called his two central defenders to go up.

Fortunately, Abel Ferreira and Canela were not distracted this time. The two of them stood behind Diego immediately, not giving Diego a chance to turn around with the ball.

Not only that, the defensive midfielder Custodio quickly gave up Sessin next to him, and rushed to Diego's area immediately.

This can be said to be the highest level of defensive treatment, a full team of three people double-teams one person!
However, Diego did not reluctantly stop the ball in the three-person double team. The moment the ball was passed to Diego's feet, Diego immediately passed it back to the feet of Sessions, who was already empty!

"This……"

The two central defenders of Sporting Lisbon were stunned—Braga No. 88, who is as brutal as a beast, doesn't he like to play rugby with us with his body after holding the ball?Why did you choose to pass back at this moment?

However, at that moment when they were stunned, Sessin immediately played the ball forward after receiving the ball!
"What the hell!? Is this... two-over-one cooperation?! Oh no! To be more precise, it should be 'two-over-three' cooperation! The three defensive players of the Lions couldn't even react. It’s time to make it!”

At this time, in the studio of the Portuguese national sports station, the "fancy blower" who watched the game from the "God's perspective" immediately discovered the problem-the moment Sessin took the ball, Diego turned back He got rid of the three defensive players beside him, and was sprinting forward with all his strength!

"Is this ball offside? The linesman...ah! The linesman didn't raise the flag! This ball is not offside! There is no offside! Braga's No. 88 teenager Diego Costa got a chance to score a single goal!!!"

"Fancy Blowing Brother" even shouted loudly: "Single-handed ball! The defensive players of Sporting Lisbon have even given up chasing back - it is impossible for them to catch up with Diego! At this time, The only one who can stop Diego is Ricardo in front of the door!"

"Diego! Diego faces Ricardo!"

"Diego!!!"

"Facing Ricciardo's defense, calm down and finish the shot!!!"

"The goal is scored! 1 to 1! Braga, finally equalized the score!!!"

"Gooooooooooooooool!!!"

At this moment, "Brother Fancy Blowing" even forgot his attributes as a "big fan". He was very excited because of Diego's wonderful single-handed goal: "The 75th minute of the game! Diego and Sessin finished the game." With the cooperation of two and one, they directly passed the entire defense line of Sporting Lisbon, singled out the goalkeeper Ricardo of Sporting Lisbon, and completed a single-handed goal! The score was equalized by Minho Arsenal! According to the real-time score, Minho Arsenal Back to their 3rd place in the league!!!”

(End of this chapter)