our euro cup

Chapter 353 A Difficult Showdown

When I scored that barbed shot, the Czechs kicked off at halftime and started attacking again soon after.The Czech team did not feel any frustration. Although the ball pierced through their net, they had such a tenacious will and were not affected by the ball at all.The Czechs should attack or attack. They didn't give up attacking because I scored a goal, and focused on defense. Even, in order to avenge this goal, the Czechs' offense seemed to become stronger.

The Czech team gave the ball to the midfielder Borg, who has good ball control skills and passed our midfielder Boban.At this time, our defensive force in the middle is only the central defender Simic.At this time, the full-back Garni quickly moved closer to the center to assist Simic in defending Borg.Although Borg's technique is good, his speed is not very fast. Facing Gianni's pressing, Borg is still a little uncomfortable.Coupled with Simic's joint press, he finally snatched the ball from Borg's feet.At this time, Simic took the ball with a big kick, and the ball flew near the midfield. The Czech midfielder Nedved and our midfielder Prosinecki competed for the top. The two jumped high together, and Prosin Netzki's jumping ability has become very good after many training sessions in the gravity training room, but Nedved's physical fitness has never been better. The two are evenly matched!
After the two jumped high, their heads hit each other, and the ball hit Prosinecki's head and rolled to the ground.Although the heads of the two collided, there was no bleeding. As soon as the two hit the ground, they immediately chased after the ball bouncing on the ground.Prosinecki's speed was slightly faster than Nedved's. He took the first kick and kicked the ball. Nedved couldn't break Prosinecki's ball, so he could only look at the ball and sigh.However, although the ball was kicked out, the direction was not well grasped. Nemechek intercepted the ball from another angle. At this time, our midfield had become empty, so Nemechek took the ball by himself. Go ahead, pass Boban, and head towards our back line!
Now there are only three people left in our back line, and Kuka rushed into our back line again. Nemechek stepped forward as a defensive midfielder with an assist, and there were Borg and Kuka in the frontcourt. Under the attacking numbers, our three defenders had difficulty controlling their offense at all.So Nemechek handed the ball to Borg, Borg took a few steps, and then passed the ball to Nemechek. The two-for-one cooperation between the two was very beautiful, and Simic had Keeping back to defend, at this moment, apart from Simic, including Gianni, and another full-back Stimach, they have all returned to the defensive position in the middle, defending as three central defenders.After compressing the defensive camp in this way, the defense in the middle was finally stabilized.However, Nemechek, very smart, he immediately passed the ball to the left wing, and Smicer on the left took the ball forward. Since Stimach had recovered, Smicer was on the side Lu was almost as if he had entered no one's land. He went all the way to our big penalty area. Stimach went to defend. Smicer quickly passed the ball. Nemecek followed in the middle. , a shot, but fortunately Boban came back in time, a flying tackle, kicked Nemechek's shot in the middle, the ball flew out of the baseline, and a corner kick.

The corner kick of the Czech team was taken by Pavel Nedved.Under normal circumstances, the Czech team's corner kick will be taken by Borg, but this time Nedved took the penalty, which shows that the Czech team attaches great importance to Nedved, a rookie.

Nedved sent a corner kick, Czech striker Kuka jumped up high, his jumping ability is not bad, facing the challenge of Simic, although Kuka's header does not have an absolute advantage, But sometimes you can win.This time Kuka won the header competition, and his header headed towards the goal guarded by Latic.But this header was not very powerful, and Latic got the ball easily, and then he took a big kick, and the ball flew directly to the midfield.

Near the midfield, our Croatian team has no players there anymore.The Czech midfielder Nemecek stopped the ball, and while no one was defending, he immediately kicked out again and passed the ball into our penalty area.

This really doesn't work.Our Croatian team now has to retreat with many people. Once the midfielder retreats to the back line, there will be no one in the midfield to fight for the header. The defensive line is very empty, and once the two full-backs move to the center, the two sides are empty again.

The Czech team has obviously caught our goal, so they didn't hold the ball too much in the midfield, but quickly passed the midfield and burned the battle to our defense.Such a tactic makes us busy with defense, which is very difficult. Although the Czech team's striker is not particularly strong, if their midfield and wide players form a scale and attack our defense, That is also a very difficult thing to do.

I suddenly remembered the birdcage tactics that the Portuguese team used against us before.In fact, the Czech team is giving up on us now. It can be regarded as another tactic. Although they are not like the Portuguese team, there are so many people who come to surround our defense line without attacking, but they are also against us after all. We have encircled them, but their encirclement is for the purpose of offense.

If we want to break through such a cage, and when we have a small number of people, we must have more courage and use stronger pressing to force the opponent to make mistakes.

How can we force the other party to make mistakes?The defensive players have worked very hard, of course they cannot be allowed to take on such a responsibility, and the person who can take on such a responsibility, perhaps, is the only one...

Back to defense!I have to go back to the defense!Only by returning to the defense line can I assist our entire Croatian team to form an advantage in numbers locally!The Czech team may be able to invest in an offensive force of 8 to 9 people, but if we want to gain a relative advantage in numbers in defense, we must have more than nine people to participate in the defense!
Then on the forward line, it is enough to leave Boksic alone, and I decided to return to the defensive line to assist in the defense!

(End of this chapter)