The Young Lion

In the early winter, England fans focused on the national team friendly match, and the FA's propaganda has spread all over the streets.

In 2000, in this special year, Wembley finale of the year, England vs Brazil!

To choose opponents for friendly matches, Aldridge suggested to the FA, try to choose strong teams!

In the qualifiers, only Germany is considered a strong team. The other opponents are underdogs of different grades. England can't afford to use weak teams to gain experience in friendly matches.

The friendly match is also an image project, especially in the local area. The FA does not want to lose face, but also does not want to follow Aldridge's suggestion. The two are in the honeymoon period. The words of the coach still have a certain weight.

The FA took a look at the top international teams and finally chose Brazil. They generously gave the Brazilian Football Association a lot of appearance fees. The FA seemed generous and generous. They just signed a sponsorship agreement with a new sponsor. The national team needs to be polished Signatures naturally need important supporting roles, otherwise, if England finds a team like Iceland and Andorra to play a friendly match, the sponsors may not be happy.

This friendly match is full of gimmicks.

In the past three years, Brazil has been the winner of two intercontinental competitions. It won the America's Cup in 1997 and 1999. At the same time, it was the runner-up of the World Cup in 1998. Just looking at the record, they have more influence than England.

But Aldridge felt that the FA was too slippery after being notified by the FA to finalize the friendly match.

Not to mention the unfavorable factors of the Brazilian team playing away games, after all, many of their players are playing in Europe, such as Rivaldo. Ronaldinho. Carlos. Cafu and more.

Not to mention that Ronaldo, the biggest alien, is still recuperating at Inter Milan, which has weakened the team's combat effectiveness.

Just because of the recent chaos in Brazil, the combat effectiveness of this national team is really unsatisfactory.

The World Cup runner-up in 1998 caused a national shock in Brazil, and even held a hearing to investigate the game. The legendary coach Zagallo resigned and Luxenberg took office.

Luxenberg led Brazil to defend the America's Cup, and for a while in the Brazilian national team, he was regarded as a mythical figure by Brazilian fans. But after passing the pinnacle of defending the America's Cup, Luxenberg was involved in one scandal after another, including an affair with his secretary, recruiting members of the national team to ask for black money, illegal transactions, etc. At the same time, the World Cup South American qualifiers began Earlier, the Brazilian national team once suffered a six-game losing streak in the World Cup qualifiers, and the hope of participating in the World Cup became increasingly slim. In order to restore trust, he personally led the Brazilian Olympic team to the Olympics three months ago.

As a result, Cameroon was disgracefully blocked from the top four, Luxenberg was ordered to step down, and Leo took over.

After consecutive defeats in the qualifiers and the change of the coach, such a Brazilian national team with a dispirited army and a tactical system that may not even be able to talk about it can be best described in four words: strong outside but capable inside.

They are very strong on paper, but the actual combat effectiveness is just the opposite.

The opponent chosen by the FA really made Aldridge dumbfounded, but he comforted himself from another angle, and he thought it was not bad.

A growing England meets a chaotic Brazil. No matter what happens, at least this opponent can arouse the enthusiasm of the entire England team.

In an interview before the match, Aldridge was still saying that friendly matches don't focus on winning or losing.

It was originally planned to close Wembley last month, but Aldridge asked for a one-month delay to allow the England national team to finish their national team matches this year before moving to other stadiums for home games.

During the reconstruction of Wembley, the home stadium of the national team can be bid for hosting. Old Trafford, Lion King Stadium, etc. are all powerful alternative stadiums.

The fans who came to Wembley today not only brought cameras, but also many people brought simple tools, planning to remove the seats on the stands after the game and move them home as a souvenir...

During the first training session of the national team in the Aldridge era last month, the team mainly tried to run in. After more than a month, the players assembled again, and they were full of confidence.

Today, the performance is a little stable. At least the team's technical and tactical framework is clear and clear. The football IQ and experience of these players allow them to integrate into the tactical system as quickly as possible.

Aldridge sat on the coach's bench and watched the game with a tepid expression. The 22 players on the field fought fiercely. The scene was very exciting because both teams had their own characteristics.

Brazilian players are strong, very strong!

The unpredictable Rivaldo, like Ronaldinho dancing on tiptoes, like Carlos carrying a bazooka with explosive power...

When Brazilian players touch the ball on the pitch, it brings enjoyment.

But they are only stronger than individuals. A single player is superior in ability, playing samba football on the field, free and romantic, full of poetic rhythm, but they cannot be integrated into a team or a whole.

England does not have players with outstanding personal dribbling and ball-handling abilities, but they play very holistically, and the speed of offensive advancement is also a highlight on the field.

The reason why the scene is exciting and exciting is that the two teams are attacking each other, and they can quickly hit the offensive to the frontcourt. The heartbeat of the fans also fluctuates between you and me.

Brazil relies on individual ability to lead from point to point, while England relies on the overall rapid advancement. Brazil cannot prevent England's unexpected attack point and then inserts a corresponding advancing strategy. Scenarios where people break through one after another are likely to happen frequently.

Rivaldo passed Bart again! Fortunately, Southgate made an interception at the right time. Otherwise, England's gate would be in danger if he passed! England's defense was broken one-on-one today. There are a lot, but they rely on teamwork and joint defense to limit Brazil's fatal passes or fatal blows in dangerous areas. Southgate has repeatedly resolved dangers, and Beckham and Lampard's supplementary defense on the midfielder It's also very important.

One-on-one defense wants to completely limit Brazil, which is a dream, or rather. England's defensive player. Face one-on-one against the strikers of the top teams of the national team. Basically, there is no advantage. Without the team's strategic zone defense, defense is a flaw.

Aldridge took out his notebook to record the problems he found during the game.

Irving was sitting on the bench today, and he didn't use Husky, but let Smith start. From the effect point of view, it was almost a waste of a starting spot.

Brazil's offense will quickly hand the ball to the frontcourt players, even though Smith is hard at work on defense. But you can't rush back from the front line to the backcourt, right?

When attacking, after the speed is played out, Smith's ability to attack the front point and threaten the goal is unsatisfactory. In other words, it is the huge gap between Owen and Owen in running ability that caused this phenomenon. England's threatening offensives all come from the midfield. The upper back waist or the forward penetration of the two front waists.

Although there are some problems in other tactical executions, they can be solved after further training by the players, rather than flaws that cannot be improved.

The 36th minute of the first half. England counterattacked, and Lampard played a long diagonal pass to the left of the Brazilian defense. That's where Carlos couldn't go back in time for an assist, and McManaman ran to prepare for it when he switched from defense to offense.

He stopped the ball on the sideline, and then dribbled the ball to the bottom. When he approached the bottom line and drew Brazil's defense back deeper, he suddenly passed the ball back. Foot cross.

Why is Xiaobei's full moon scimitar called a stunt? unique?

In addition to the high efficiency of set kicks, there is another point, that is, the arc of his cross is weird.

In the pictures of his many passing balls and assists, an unbelievable phenomenon can often be seen.

The ball is obviously very close to the goalkeeper, why didn't the goalkeeper immediately expand the defensive range and rush out to hug the ball or punch it out?

It is because Beckham's pass has a large arc and fast speed, especially the visual impact brought by the sudden drop, which is most likely to make the goalkeeper make a mistake in judgment. When he saw the ball's flight trajectory for the first time, he felt that the ball might go out of bounds , or fall to the back point, but as the arc becomes more and more obvious, and the speed rotates and falls extremely fast, the goalkeeper becomes in a dilemma, and then rushes out, the timing is wrong, if he does not rush, the difficulty of defense will increase.

This time, too, when Beckham's cross flew out from the goalkeeper, it seemed that it would land in the small penalty area in front of the goalkeeper. Going around, the landing point is behind the goal, near the small penalty area line.

This kind of ball not only puts the goalkeeper in a dilemma, but also interferes with the defender. The defender immediately thought that it would be the goalkeeper hugging the ball, and his protection consciousness was lax, but the result was that a ghostly figure appeared in the back point, and the ball went straight With a volley shot, the ball flew into the top corner of Brazil's goal from the near corner.

Beckham crossed, Scholes outflanked the shot from the back point, beautiful goal! England 1:0 Brazil, now who still doubts that Hall's England lacks wing attack? Lampard's long pass landed On the right, McManaman hit the ball back to Beckham and he set up Scholes with a wide cross, which is the familiar pattern of scoring in England.

Shocking cheers sounded at Wembley, and Beckham and Scholes were running side by side laughingly, shoulder to shoulder.

Aldridge stood up and applauded the team's goal, then sat back.

He is very happy that the players can understand his tactical arrangement. In his tactics, the midfielders need to play with their brains to increase the vision of the ball.

In every attack, the only fixed point is Scholes in the middle. Then, in the promotion from the back to the front, the selection of the ball must require the players to consciously observe the situation in the frontcourt. Just now Lampard's long pass from the backcourt instigated the offensive. Reflecting this, McManaman ran to the place with the most space. Lampard's long pass was actually only average, forcing McManaman to take the ball on the sideline, which took time. If he can pass better, McManaman was able to cut inside directly, and then he could only go down to attract the opponent's defense. When Carlos ran back to double-team him, he returned the ball to Beckham.

When Beckham made a pass, McManaman crossed into the penalty area to grab the front point, and Smith was also in the middle of the goal. At the same time, the two created space for Scholes to outflank the back point. Wonderful, every player on the offensive end played an important role. (To be continued..)