Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 250 Sneak Attack
With the whistle of the referee, the first half ended. Schalke 04 temporarily drew with Villarreal in the away game. It is not too much to say that Villarreal created more opportunities than Sand Erke 04 is more here.

Apart from Farfan's chance for Schalke 04, there was also a long-range shot by Asamoah, which flew out against the beam of the goal.

However, from the data point of view, Schalke 04's shooting is not inferior, and it is similar to Villarreal. Schalke 04 completed 6 shots, and Villarreal completed 8 shots.

Schalke 04 did not fall below the ball possession rate, 48% to 52%, and Villarreal had the upper hand.

Pellegrini was not very satisfied with this result but he was helpless. He still lacked a Diego Forlan. Pellegrini himself felt a little lucky to be second last season.

In the locker room of the visiting team, Buskens and Mulder are arranging tactics. The two of them have almost no control over the locker room now. If they can listen to them, they will naturally listen, and if they can't listen to them, they have nothing to do.

When Buskens first arrived at the team, the conflicts at the top of Schalke 04 were not so blatant, but later the conflicts at the top level intensified, and the team could no longer cover it up. The players had different ideas. Naturally, he would not care about Buskens' "rhetoric words" at the beginning!
The two of you are just acting head coaches. There is a high probability that you will not be in this position at the end of this season. Who will be afraid of you? Some players in the team think so.

The tactics of Buskens and Mulder in the second half mainly required the team to try their best to hand the ball to Zhang Yuan's feet. In the first half, Schalke 04 mostly controlled the ball in their own half, because the opponents in the frontcourt The double-teaming of Zhang Yuan was very serious, and they rarely passed the ball to Zhang Yuan.

After being fooled once, Senna realized that it was definitely a wrong choice for him to single out Zhang Yuan. He took the initiative to ask his midfield teammates to form a zone defense to intercept the opponent's pass when Schalke 04 had the ball. Focus on the ball, don't rush to grab it.

It is precisely because of this adjustment that Schalke 04 can have so much ball possession, but it is still difficult to pass to the frontcourt.

Ginger is still old and spicy, Senna has to be admired!
"Zhang Yuan is looked down upon by them, and it is difficult for us to pass to his feet!" Rakitic raised his own doubts. This kind of doubt is not to challenge authority, but to raise his actual problems on the court.

"Zhang Yuan will move more flexibly in the second half. Don't be afraid of being intercepted, just pass the ball! Zhang Yuan gets the ball and let him organize the offense! Ivan, Gerrard, Jefferson, you three must be in front of you. Cooperate with the running position in the frontcourt so that Zhang Yuan can get the ball out!"

"Orlando, Jermaine, I don't want you to go forward in the second half, I need you to put all your energy into defense!" Buskens continued.

Faced with the opponent's strong offensive pressure, Buskens had to separate offense and defense in the second half. Six people concentrated on defense, and the offense was completely left to four people to play freely.

Jones nodded fiercely. He is the kind who listens to the head coach very much. No matter who the head coach is, he listens. From the interviews during the winter break, it can be seen that this fierce defender is actually very professional. The salary must be worthy of your own salary.

Engelal also listens to the head coach very much. He wants to stay. Compared with the Bundesliga, the Eredivisie must be better, with higher income and a bigger stage. Why not work hard!
So in fact, Engelal has been working hard on the court, and Rutten has worked even harder since he left.

The two sides returned to the court and the second half started. In the case of Villarreal, there is no need to make any adjustments. The lack of lead can only be blamed on the poor ability of the team to seize opportunities. Pellegrini is not thinking about it yet. Substitution adjustments were made, and a Nihat was also sitting on the shooter's bench.

Nihat also had a good time at Real Sociedad in those years, and his performance in the first season at Villarreal was still good, but this season he was completely out of shape, weirder than a ghost novel, and Kuranyi The state is really good. So far, Nihat has played 16 times on various fronts and scored zero goals!

Zero is an unreasonable number. On the contrary, Llorente and Rossi on the field are more trustworthy.

Villarreal stayed the same, but Schalke 04 changed. Pellegrini obviously felt that Schalke 04 played casually in the frontcourt. Engelal and Jones scored consecutively. If you can't pass the circle, just nail your own half to defend.

When they do this, Villarreal's ability to create opportunities is significantly reduced. Even if the opponent's defender has one more player, the defensive area formed is not calculated based on one person's defense. Villarreal has more Possession of the ball, but creating a threat is much more difficult.

Seeing this going on is definitely not going to work, Pellegrini waved his hand, and in the 60th minute he played the veteran Pires. Pires is old now, and he will definitely not be able to gallop on the wing as fast as before, for sure Nor can it be an important scoring point for Wenger like he did during the Arsenal period.

However, Pires' passing and organization skills are constantly improving with age and experience.

On Pires, replace Urgulen, and play 442 instead. Pires and Cazorla are separated on both sides. Pires has the ability to create opportunities to organize offenses, and Cazorla has speed and dribbling, and can be used as a winger.

Ibagaza and Senna in the middle are capable of passing the ball, and Rossi on the forward line has good skills and can hold the ball.

Villarreal's style of play will no longer revolve around the center, but will combine the side and the center. So far in the game, Pellegrini has fully figured out Schalke 04's style of play. Conservative thinking, so at this moment he has come up with his own offensive means, vowing to take the lead in the two rounds.

Pellegrini's adjustment is really like his nickname "Chilean engineer", first make the foundation solid, and then gradually build it.

But Zhang Yuan refused to let him do what he wanted. Zhang Yuan has been observing Senna. He retreated a lot in this game. confrontation.

Senna's style of play is not like the Brazilians at all. Brazilians tend to like to stick to the ball and feel like the ball is under their feet, but Senna is not. His style of play is more European, direct and simple. Then pass, or pass to Ibagaza, or pass back, or split the wing.

It is too difficult to find loopholes in such an old fritters, but it is not impossible. After Pellegrini changed, Senna took the initiative to seek changes. Ibagaza was forced by Schalke 04's third midfielder alone It was too difficult to organize, so Senna took the initiative to undertake part of the organization work.

This forces him to keep the ball under his feet for a longer time. He is not a god, he has no live map in his head, and he can point where to hit. Observing teammates' running positions is essential, and finding gaps is a must. Less.

Anyone who plays professional football knows that the coach's most disgusting thing is that the players keep their heads down when playing the ball, but require the players to watch all directions and listen to all directions when dribbling the ball.

Coaches including breakthrough players will require this, and of course organizational players must hold their heads up and play football.

In reality, there are very few people with eyes in the back of their head and a live map of teammates’ running positions in their brains, and there are few uncanny passes that tear through the opponent’s defense. After that, the teammates moved in tacit understanding, and it was difficult for the opponent to resist the impact of the teammates. On the football field, once the speed is up, the defender is inherently at a disadvantage.

When the offensive player’s running speed increases and the passing force and speed are in place, the defensive player will be half a beat slower than the offensive player even if he sees the passing direction first. This is the tacit advantage of the passer and the receiver.

In the 68th minute, Senna finally made a mistake. Strictly speaking, his teammate Fuentes should be blamed for this mistake. At that time, Senna held the ball and faced the opponent's dense center, but he did not pass the ball. Fuentes Seeing Zhang Yuan touch up from behind Senna like a ghost.

"Watch out! Marcos!" Fuentes yelled, alerting Senna to someone behind him.

Senna immediately realized that Zhang Yuan, who was standing in front of him, must be coming from behind him. The calm Senna actually panicked. He was very afraid of Zhang Yuan's speed. Zhang Yuan came from behind. Pass the ball to Ibagaza in front.

This pass made a mistake, Rakitic intercepted the ball in front of Ibagaza, and then made a straight pass, Zhang Yuan received the ball smoothly.

This time it was Schalke 04's frontcourt steal. Asamoah and Farfan failed to keep up on the wing, so Zhang Yuan had to do it alone.

After taking a few steps, let alone about 30 meters away from the gate, Zhang Yuan made an unexpected decision to shoot. This was a sneak attack. Zhang Yuan himself was definitely not aimless. Standing very forward.

According to Zhang Yuan's habits, Diego Lopez obviously doesn't think that Zhang Yuan will choose long-range shots. What Pellegrini instilled in everyone is that the arrow character Zhang Yuan is very fast and dribbles very fast, so be careful to counterattack.

In such a short period of time, he didn't realize for a moment that he should retreat a little into the door. As a result, Zhang Yuan started a long shot a few meters away from the two central defenders Fuentes and Bruno.

The leaves fell on the outside of the instep, and they seemed to be flying high. Diego Lopez took two steps back, the ball was already very close, and he could only try his best to dial it.

(End of this chapter)