The Young Lion

McManaman calmly pushed and scored from the far corner! England scored a goal that seemed to be lucky, but it came from the tenacious fighting spirit of the Three Lions! The process of looking back at this goal originated from Spain Midfielder Xavi turned around under the pressure of Scholes and was intercepted by Lampard. After stealing the ball, Lampard launched a counterattack on the spot and passed a direct pass to Heskey at the front. Heskey then passed to the middle of the central defender. In open space, McManaman turned offside and got a single-handed chance, strike!

Aldridge nodded slightly after learning about the whole process of scoring.

England is not without organizational players, Scholes can do this job, but the position on the field and the original intention of the tactical design are slightly contradictory.

In order to better organize the offense, Scholes must retreat. In the area of ​​​​the attacking avant-garde, the defensive pressure he faces will be extremely huge. Moving Scholes back will weaken his ability to attack. The goal is a threat. Therefore, in the requirements of positional warfare, Aldridge does not expect England to play three passes and two downs. It is unrealistic. Positional warfare and frontal attack are simple and clear. No, it's okay, but what's more important is the rhythm of offensive and defensive transitions.

When switching from offense to defense, the striker retreats to the area between the opponent's defender and the midfielder, harassing the midfielder and waiting for an opportunity to move forward again.

The most important thing is to siege in the midfield and destroy the opponent's counterattack organization. Formation, and then face the attack again.

Six years from now, Xavi might be tough to break the ball from his feet, especially in the midfield area, but right now, he's young and inexperienced.

After a successful counter-robbery, the first priority is to play speed, play the ball decisively, don't hesitate, the goal just now reflects this. In particular, McManaman didn't catch the ball after Lampard intercepted it, but he rushed forward without hesitation. Heskey's assist was just right, and the Spanish defense was almost caught off guard within 3 seconds.

This is Aldridge's tactical arrangement to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses. England is not good at playing patient positional warfare. The key to this tactic is to counterattack, launch a counterattack from the backcourt, block the opponent's offensive from the midfield and quickly counterattack.

The English fans in Mestalla cheered, while the Spanish fans were aggrieved.

Good luck for England!

Camacho looked dignified on the sidelines.

England played very concisely on the field today, and obviously played with speed. The change of attack point is the basis for ensuring speed, otherwise. According to the 442 in the past, the matchup is easily restricted to death.

The half-time whistle blew,

Players from both sides walked towards the player tunnel.

Aldridge and Klinsmann chatted while walking, preparing to mention some players during the intermission.

Did you see a problem?

Ok?

Aldridge looked at Klinsmann, who said thoughtfully: The players are very resolute in their tactical execution on the field today. But they are a bit rigid.

Aldridge nodded and said: Yes, it is true that I am too pursuing the ground pass, some good opportunities are not seized immediately, and I can use the long pass to instigate the offensive, but the players seem to only see the routine of the short pass on the ground. Talk to them later.

At least this point of the national team makes people feel relaxed, and their tactical discipline is stronger than that of club players.

It should be due to the small number of games. It is related to the importance of the game. There are always some games in the club's games that make the players less important.

After returning to the locker room, Aldridge found that almost none of the England internationals were idle, expressing their opinions and discussing the game in a group.

Southgate was communicating with the defenders about the defensive problems in the first half, and it is a fact that he was not scored. But it doesn't mean that there are no problems in defense. Occasionally, players lose their positions and expose gaps, but Spain just didn't seize the opportunity.

Scholes and McManaman are also communicating, although both of them are attacking midfielders. The roles that can be played are different. Most of the time, McManaman pulls to the wing to find space, with a wider range of activities, and Scholes wants to connect the frontcourt to attack.

The most ideal situation is that these two people can switch roles at any time. In a wave of offense, there are assists in series, and some are transformed into shadow strikers. This requires more communication between the two.

Aldridge originally wanted to give them some time to communicate internally. This is a good sign. A successful team must discuss the game more internally, point out the mistakes and shortcomings of teammates, and then solve the problems and create a good team. team atmosphere.

However, he found that the players seemed to have no momentum to stop.

Beckham also gestured the route with his hands to show Neville the route after the side attack, how to cooperate, how to create threats and so on.

Cough cough cough.

After 5 minutes, Aldridge had to speak out to remind them.

The players in the locker room seemed to come back to their senses now, and realized that the game had only been played for halftime. At this time, it was time to listen to the coach.

Everyone immediately sat upright, looking at Aldrich, waiting for his tactical adjustment.

In fact, Aldridge has nothing to adjust. Firstly, it is a friendly match. Secondly, there will definitely be changes in Spain in the second half. Camacho will not sit back and watch the home game play so poorly. The performance of the king of the qualifiers today is really unsatisfactory.

Spain will change, and any targeted deployment made by Aldridge at this time may fail.

45 minutes of the game, how do you feel?

not bad!

Many players immediately answered Aldridge's question.

He pulled the tactical board, drew the basic formation, and briefly described the roadmap for the team's counterattack from the backcourt in the first half. Basically, it was mainly based on ground pass and penetration, but the support point was different in every attack. different.

This kind of offense played well in the first half. However, I hope that the midfielders, especially the players with a guaranteed success rate of long passes, will pay attention. I did not ask you to play short passes point-to-point. After observing the situation in the frontcourt, If we find that there is a better response point in the frontcourt, we should decisively launch a threatening attack with a long pass. In this way, we can sprint at full speed without slowing down to respond, and then start again. In this way, the attack can be further improved speed of advancement.

The players nodded. In fact, to put it bluntly, Aldridge is telling Beckham and Lampard, Ashley Cole and Gary Neville, that the success rate of long passes is not within a guaranteed accuracy range.

But he still said it in front of the team. At the same time, it also reminds the frontcourt players not to think that every attack is a point-to-point forward pass from the backcourt, and they must have the awareness of running without the ball in the first place.

Aldridge again emphasized the key points of counter-grabbing in the midfield, and then asked the players to clean up their jerseys and shoes to prepare for the second half of the game.

Spain, sure enough, the midfielder made a substitution.

Camacho replaced the three attacking players in the midfield at one go.

Xavi was replaced by Belleron, Joaquin was replaced by Mendieta, Vicente was replaced by Enrique.

Belleron. Zinedine Zidane, Mendieta and Enrique, Valencia and Barcelona stars who are known as Spain, look at it now, they are a bit of the king of the qualifiers.

Aldrich looked at Camacho with slight resentment in his eyes.

Before the game starts. You should be so superior.

Now, after halftime, Spain is behind, and the whole England team is in high spirits. Even if we don't count the first half, the halftime dividing line, but this is the person who replaced it. Entering the competition state, can the physical excitement be on the same starting line?

Falling behind in the first half, the resistance encountered in the midfield was huge, and Camacho let Spain's frontcourt formation recede, this time. The confrontation in the midfield is even more intense.

Valeron was expected to improve the Spanish midfielder's offensive organization. However, his weakness was that he was less confrontational. Facing the double-teaming situation between Scholes and Butt, Scholes took the initiative to press. Bart is obedient to Aldrich's decree, wait first, and wait until Belleron gets rid of Scholes before he makes any moves.

Belleron dribbled the ball horizontally, but couldn't get rid of Scholes. Instead, he became Scholes and came to him again, forming two gates with Bart.

Let's play the ball, two sides, Beckham and Lampard are on the way of the ball, Belleron made an overhead ball to the right, the pass is really accurate, unfortunately, Mendieta didn't stop the ball well, I think To stop and pass Lampard, the man turned around and the ball went out of the touchline.

Lampard immediately backed away to distance himself from Mendieta, and Ashley Cole came up to serve the sideline and threw it directly to Lampard.

Mendieta and Valeron immediately came to grab him, Lampard passed back to the wing, Ashley Cole stepped forward and launched a counterattack, at the same time, Lampard retreated to ensure the defensive area on this side The safety of the ball can also provide Ashley Cole with a return point when the advancement is hindered.

Ashley Cole only took two steps before crossing the ball to the midfielder. Beckham, who was striding forward, received the ball, observed the situation in the frontcourt, and then kicked over the top.

Heskey and McManaman seem to have overlapping running positions. Both of them attack the left side of the penalty area. This is also Aldridge's request on the offensive end. The forward and midfielder can press a little at the same time to attack. If the defender does not come to help defend, then 2 on 1 or 2 on 2 has the advantage of going forward. If another central defender of the opponent comes to help defend, then the other side will be free.

This over-the-top through pass was very deep, and Husky couldn't catch up, but McManaman threw off the opponent's central defender and caught the ball just after entering the penalty area line, but because he stopped the ball and slowed down, Obviously unable to start to form a single pole, at the same time, another central defender has rushed to him, McManaman passed the ball to the other side.

Scholes slapped the horse and took a step while catching the ball, but this time he adjusted well, shot with his right foot, and the ball flew into the goal cleanly.

Casillas pounced on the ball, but with too much force, and he didn't change the flight trajectory of the ball too much after his fingers touched it. The ball scored.

Eight minutes into the second half, England led Spain 2-0 away! Beckham launched a quick counterattack in the midfield and found McManaman with a long pass. The latter assisted Scholes to score. Today's England played simply And efficient, both goals reflect the speed of the counterattack. Hall's national team debut is satisfactory so far. At least from the scene, England did not lose to the opponent. The number of shots , and the number of dangerous offenses are all higher than Spain at home, which gives us reason to expect that the England team led by Hall will do something in the future!

The England team members ran to hug Scholes near the corner flag. They laughed unscrupulously. Today's game made them feel at ease and extremely happy.

Aldridge still applauded and clasped his hands behind his back. It was just a friendly match, and there was nothing to be excited about. Besides, the opponent Spain was very disrespectful and messed up.

However, the team's performance is worthy of praise, but there is still a long way to go before it can be fully formed and truly achieve the goal of freely retracting offense and defense.