our euro cup

Chapter 208 Thomason's Declaration of War
Our game against Denmark will start tomorrow.On this day, when I was shopping in the mall, I met my teammate in Milan, the Danish Thomason.He saw me, laughed, and said, "I never thought we would become rivals so soon, Milo Ibisovic, I've never heard of Bosnia and Herzegovina football before, this time I hope to experience it in front of you." How strong is the football in Bosnia and Herzegovina? On the field, you must not let me down!"

"That's natural, Thomason. Bosnia and Herzegovina football has always been a small player in the European football map, but this time it's different. Can you believe it? In the Bosnia and Herzegovina team, someone better than me is Bibi All of them. If you can’t play [-]% of your strength, you can’t lead the Danish team to defeat us. Your Danish team doesn’t have many other stars besides you. Actually, we have always wanted to score points on you!”

"Hey, the kid has a big tone. Miloy Bisovich, I have seen your performance. Your strength is indeed extraordinary. However, since our Danish team is called the Vikings, it is natural to play football. It's unreasonable, don't think that we will show mercy to you guys. Although we don't have any superstars, everyone's strength is very average, and everyone in our team is very tall. There are very big advantages among them, you have to be careful." Thomason said with a smile.

"It's okay, we have already researched all of these. We have studied your Danish team very carefully. Because you are our main opponent in the group stage and our imaginary enemy for the right to qualify for the group. We respect you His research is the most careful among all the four opponents. We know the characteristics of your football and have a way to deal with you. Tomorrow in the game, you can enjoy the feast of our artistic football!"

Since Thomason declared war on me in this way, I would naturally declare war on him too.As a teammate of the AC Milan team, the relationship between Thomason and I is good, but in the national team, the two of us are our own masters, and it is impossible to have the slightest sympathy for each other.He will fight to protect the name of the Vikings and the glory of the former European Cup champion, while I will create history and create the future for Bosnia and Herzegovina.In terms of football, we each have our own tasks. The friendship of former teammates can only be temporarily put aside. At this time, the first thing we have to consider must be the honor of the football of the motherland!

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Soon, the next day arrived as scheduled.The stadium in Sarajevo was full of people.Since we defeated the Romanian team with a very beautiful performance in the last home game, the attendance rate of this game is even higher. We have set off a football boom in the land of Bosnia and Herzegovina. All this is Miracles created by our players!

In the enthusiastic crowd, the game is about to start.Coach Susic confirmed to us for the last time in the locker room that our tactic today is defensive counterattack. In the defensive counterattack tactic, what we must do is to use a solid defense to resist the Dane's header. When attacking the goal, the key defensive object is my teammate Thomason in Milan, followed by Barcelona striker Larsson.Thomasson is a traditional Nordic striker, tall and big, with good header skills and a strong body.But Larsson is another type of striker: he is a rare technical striker in the Nordic countries. Because of his excellent technique, he can play like a fish in water in the Barcelona team that emphasizes technique and cooperation.But because he was born in a Nordic country like Denmark, his height condition is not bad.It can be said that Larson is a forward with both skills and strong physical fitness. Such a forward is very difficult to defend.Fortunately, our defenders are not short, and Larson's height does not have a great advantage over our defenders.Our captain Spasic's physical condition is similar to Larson's, so he volunteered to apply to defend Larson.

Coach Susic agreed to Spasic's request. His request is actually very reasonable, because we don't have enough manpower to defend Thomason, so we can only rely on Dzeko on the forward line to retreat and defend. At this time , our second defensive position must be able to withstand it, so it is most appropriate to use Spasic, the team's strongest defensive player, to defend Larson.Spasic's active request relieved coach Susic of one annoyance, but in other positions, he still needs to consider a lot.For example, how should the midfielder be deployed, for example, when Dzekola is on the back line, how should Ibisevic on the forward line move and so on.Once Dzekola moved to the back line, we became only a single striker. At this time, even though we have five midfielders, we still lack attack power.

The midfield is the only position where we can completely beat the Danish team. The Danish midfielder has more than enough defensive ability and insufficient creativity. This is our opportunity and our most difficult place.Because their midfielders only have defensive ability and no offensive ability, their midfielders don't want to be aggressive at all. They just want to defend firmly and not counterattack. In this case, it will be difficult for us to attack.Although our midfielder is very creative, when we face tall players, our penetrating ability is insufficient, and because the Danish team is all tall players, our tactic of using a 45-degree cross to find Ibisevic is also difficult. It's useless.So how should our midfield play?How should we play our home court advantage?How can we use offense to overwhelm the opponent's defense?This issue is the most important issue we have to solve in the face of the Danish team!
Coach Sucic has studied the Danish team for many days. He is full of confidence and believes that the tactics he arranged for us will definitely be able to defeat the Danish team.On the issue of midfield, coach Susic said that the only way to break them is to let their midfield dare to attack.It is necessary to lure the enemy to go deep, so that they can fight back and launch an attack that frightens the Danish team!
Therefore, at the beginning of the game, our first tactic was to defend and then defend.Coach Sucic asked us to only defend and not attack in the opening 5 minutes, and to guide the Danish midfielder to pass the center line as a whole, and even come to the front of our big penalty area.In this way, we can find their gaps——

(End of this chapter)