Tianjiao midfielder

Chapter 106 Another draw?

"Be sure to pay attention to Naby Keita and Forsberg. These are Leipzig's most creative players, especially Forsberg. In the first half, he has created no fewer than five opportunities. If it weren't for Poulsen's poor ability to seize opportunities, we might have fallen behind in the first half! Chen! When necessary, you can go to the wing to mark Forsberg one-on-one, just like you did against Royce in the last game!"

In the locker room, Schroeder took the time to instill in the resting players what the team did not do well in the first half, hoping that the team can solve these problems in the second half.

Chen Feng, as the team's defensive midfielder, bears more pressure on the team's horizontal defense because of speed issues. It is the team's zone defense. Once a player enters Chen Feng's defense range, Chen Feng will defend with a frontal interception instead of following closely. Unless the coach specially arranges to keep an eye on the opponent's core like the previous game, Chen Feng will have a vertical defense.

Fortunately, Chen Feng has Abioteo's help all the time, so he has enough experience to deal with the opponent's offensive line and defensive position. After all, with Abioteo's ten-year defensive experience in midfielders, others do not have it.

After the start of the second half, Chen Feng found the object he needed to defend. The blond Swedish international footballer Forsberg, when talking about the Swedish domestic fans, the most they think of is "God" Ibrahimovic. The big man with the high nose bridge asked: "Is this man the lying puppet Pinocchio?"

But those who are familiar with Ibrahimovic can only respond with a smile: "He is not lying, he is just a football prodigal, a football gypsy."

Although he is extremely arrogant, he always wins championships, has his own championship system, but has no achievements in the Champions League. Compared with his skills, more people may like and hate him because of his personality.

While Chen Feng looked at the Swedish international in front of him, Forsberg observed that when Chen Feng had been staring at him, he shyly smiled at Chen Feng and said something softly.

"Hello."

Uh... Well, Chen Feng really thought that the Swedish international would have the same personality as "God". He didn't expect that Forsberg turned out to be so shy, low-key, and even made Chen Feng, who is still an enemy, feel that he is a friendly person. He feels that he is completely opposite to "God".

After joining the traditional tycoon Malmö in 2013, Forsberg continued to thrive and won the Swedish Super League Championship for two consecutive years with the team.Then, he made a surprising decision: to join the newly promoted Leipzig RB in the Bundesliga.Not only the German media and fans, but even the Swedes know very well that this is a fast-growing upstart by burning money, so they sneered at Forsberg's choice.Forsberg later responded: "People say this club has no tradition and always say they use money to try to create something. But if you have money, you can buy better players, hire better managers. If you want to be successful, that's how modern football works. Look at Paris Saint-Germain and it's not hard to see why they've been so successful."

Although people hate nouveau riche, most fans have to admit that if a local tycoon buys the home team they support, and guarantees that once they settle in, they will buy a large number of stars, renovate the home court, and arrange football plans for the next ten or even a hundred years to make the team become a world giant.

When the game officially started, Chen Feng began to find that Fosberg was not shy and low-key on the pitch. If Royce used his speed and technique to destroy Hoffenheim’s defense, then Forsberg was a model of teamwork. It’s not that Forsberg’s technique is not good. On the contrary, Forsberg’s technique is very good.

However, Chen Feng could barely keep up with Forsberg's rhythm. Forsberg's speed was not fast, and his physical resistance was not as good as that of Royce. Chen Feng kept staring at Forsberg's ball and did not stop Forsberg from taking the ball. It should be said that Chen Feng hoped that Forsberg would get the ball.

After Leipzig's frontcourt core Fosberg was constantly marked by Chen Feng, Leipzig's offensive momentum became much smaller. Hassenhuert immediately made gestures to make the players on the field change after he found out, and began to hand over the ball to Keita, while Fosberg returned to the wing and continued to play the role of winger.

"It seems that Hassenhuert has studied our last game against Dortmund and knows what Chen's weakness is. He deliberately let Forsberg go to the wing. Do we need Chen to go back to the center to defend Keita?" Schroeder discussed with Nagelsmann the change of tactics to deal with Hassenhuert.

Nagelsmann shook his head: "Do you think Leipzig will not suddenly hand over the ball to Forsberg after letting Chen defend Keita? At that time, we will have to adjust at any time to let Chen continue to defend Forsberg? This kind of constant change will easily affect the position and tactical changes of the players on the field. Let Chen continue to return to his defensive position, and Forsberg hand it over to Kadzabek."

After both sides adjusted their tactics, they played a tacit understanding of controlling the ball during the period of six to ten minutes. Both sides deliberately slowed down the pace. The fast-paced offense and defense in the first half consumed a lot of energy. By this time period in the second half, some players had already started to suffer from lack of energy.

And both sides are mainly young teams. The issue of reasonable physical distribution has always been the lack of young players. For example, Amiri does not even have the strength to return to defense at this time.

I originally thought that the second half would continue to be a wonderful battle, but I didn't expect that at the beginning of the second half, both Nagelsmann and Hasenhuert sat firmly on the Diaoyutai to observe the situation on the field, and neither made substitutions or adjustments.

"If the rhythm of the game keeps going like this, then I can announce the result of the game 10 minutes in advance. I don't know if it was too much energy consumed in the first half. Neither Hoffenheim or Leipzig had the wonderful and fast pass and cut cooperation in the first half. They both like to complete the attack with simple and direct crosses and shots directly outside the penalty area."

(End of this chapter)