The Young Lion

Fans who like Beckham must be deeply impressed by Beckham's unparalleled free kick in 2001.

It was the last round of the World Cup preliminaries. England scored a tie against Greece at the last minute at home, thus beating Germany to advance to the World Cup finals with the same points.

At that time, the head coach of Greece was named Rehhagel, and it was the famous coach who created the myth of Kaiserslautern and led Greece to write the myth again in Portugal in 2004.

Beckham's shocking free kick scored the goal, even though it was amazing, the question behind it is: why England, who can easily beat Greece in the away game, will be forced to the end when they return to the home court and are absolutely qualified after a tie On the edge of a cliff where Beckham is trying to turn the tide?

Aldrich looked back on Greece during this period with the eyes of someone who has experienced it, and the answer is simple: Rehhagel.

Now, Rehhagel is not yet the coach of the Greek national team, but it is not far from the day when he takes office. The Greek national team has skyrocketed under his hands and started a legendary journey. England defeated Greece in an away game and returned home. Unexpectedly, they will meet a Greek team with a completely new look in terms of skills, tactics and morale. They thought they could easily win the opponent, but they were almost cornered.

Now Aldridge will no longer compare himself with other famous coaches. As the leader of a dynastic team, he should have the confidence to never question himself, and the ambition to overcome all detached people.

Eriksson led England to take all 3 points in Greece, and Aldridge never doubted whether he could do it.

But victory does not depend solely on confidence and fighting spirit. Down-to-earth work is the guarantee of victory.

Command the team from the sidelines. Aldrich carefully observed Greece's targeted deployment of techniques and tactics today.

Greece played very targeted at home. The offense and defense seem to be balanced, but they are seeking danger in a steady state, which is a strange coincidence.

England was concentrated on the defensive side of Lampard and Ashley Cole from the beginning of the game. Greece took the initiative to attack this side with its frontcourt offensive force. It seems that it has made in-depth research on England's past three games.

With England's three defensive midfielders, it is extremely difficult for the offense to advance from the center, because there is also Scholes who retreats half-court when defending.

Go sideways, choose one of left and right.

On one side is little Bega Neville. Lampard and Ashley Cole on the other.

Greece believes that Beckham's side, no matter from the tacit cooperation,

The strength and experience are far stronger than Lampard's side, so their offense wants to open the wing gap from the right.

Lampard and Ashley Cole went to Charlton on loan in January, and now they have become the main force at the Valley Stadium, helping Charlton not only stabilize the ranking in the middle, but also step by step Climbing up, the two have significantly improved in their stable Premier League playing time.

But today it was premeditated and targeted by Greece. The defense zone they are in charge of is frequently in emergency.

Ashley Cole was pissed off, and his opponents bullied him for being young. On the side of the attack, he is not as guaranteed as Lampard with long passes, and the full-backs must be cautious when crossing from the backcourt. As a result, even if he is forced to the sideline after a successful steal, he can only clear the ball with his feet. Give it back to the opponent.

He knew that this was not the situation Aldridge wanted to see.

Successful defense is only the basic requirement of a defender. Then, stable ball delivery is the first criterion in offense. In addition, England must play fast, and his big foot clearance is a kind of damage to the team's offensive system.

Southgate saw Ashley Cole's dilemma, so he took the initiative to retreat in a defense to ensure that he had enough space to receive the ball and adjust, and then Ashley Cole cut off the opponent's wing Ashley Cole saw that Southgate was safe and passed the ball to the captain who was almost close to the bottom line.

Southgate stopped the ball, passed it cleanly to the right and handed it to Neville, and England moved forward to build the attack.

Aldridge frowned on the sidelines, and the opponent pressed hard on the right, which led to another problem: Lampard and Ashley Cole seemed to be afraid of the opponent's heavy attack on this side, and did not dare to press rashly in the counterattack.

In a short period of time, the England team had only three players attacking in the frontcourt, and only Beckham or Neville supported in the backcourt. There were fewer contact points, offensive players were more likely to be marked, and the width of the field was not used enough.

Aldrich lowered his head in thought and sighed softly.

I thought that these players could fully understand the essence of his tactics by drawing inferences from one instance. It seems that in actual combat, they still lack the ability to adapt flexibly. This has always been a chronic disease of the England national team. Lack of flexibility.

During the fierce competition on the field, Aldridge walked to the coach's bench, supported the ceiling with one hand, and said to Jansen: Bart's position is too tight, draw me a simple tactical map, pass it on the field, let him understand What to do, if he can't flexibly adapt to this tactic, I'd better help Hargreaves up as soon as possible, anyway, Hargreaves started to get a lot of opportunities in Bayern this season.

As an assistant coach, Jenson has followed Aldridge for many years. He basically knows Aldridge's tactical setup, and he can also find problems by observing the game.

Since Aldrich himself pointed it out, he immediately got busy, raised his head and asked, Is it only based on the current situation?

No, let him understand the highest requirement directly.

After Aldridge finished speaking, he looked back to the court, with his other hand on his hip.

Butt, as a defensive midfielder in the middle of the field, has helpers on both sides, but this does not mean that Lampard + Beckham are purely helping him defend, but compressing his space. In the final analysis, this is what he is The key point of releasing Lampard and Beckham, without him as the foundation, perhaps the hidden attack point from the back to the front would lack support and it would be impossible to talk about it.

Jansen drew up the tactical map and showed it to Aldridge. Aldridge looked at it and nodded, and then said to Jansen: To prevent me from being caught by the camera and causing trouble, just find a chance for the players to drink water and put this Pass a piece of paper on the field and hand it to Bart by name.

Jansen nodded, tore off the page from the notepad, and folded it several times. It became only the size of a fingernail. He got up and walked over to Joe Cole. Said to him: Go to the sidelines to warm up, take this, find a chance to pass it to Gary, let him pass it to Nicky.

Joe Cole's expression changed from incredulous to enlightened.

Just to put it bluntly, the game lasted only 20 minutes, England and Greece were evenly divided, and no players were injured, how could I be asked to warm up.

turn out to be. It was for me to deliver the letter!

These days, being a courier requires a cover.

Joe Cole felt amused in his heart, put on his training shirt, clutching the folded note that Jenson had given him, and ran to the sidelines slowly, quite eye-catching at first.

Eh? It's only halfway through the first half, and there are players from England warming up on the sidelines! England hasn't scored for a long time. In this life-and-death battle, Hall can't seem to sit still!

Joe Cole warmed up for three minutes, he was depressed, Neville was very active on the pitch. Either shrinking the defense in the middle or bravely assisting up until 3 minutes later. Greece suddenly shifted their offense and tried to catch England by surprise. Unfortunately, Neville didn't let them succeed. He froze the opponent on the wing and caused the opponent to take the ball out of bounds.

Joe Cole enthusiastically went to pick up the ball. Neville came to the sidelines and reached out to Joe Cole for the ball, but Joe Cole did not throw the ball to him immediately. Neville was furious and scolded: Hurry up! Give me the ball, waste our fast break, you're making trouble!

Joe Cole said in his heart: Brother, I really gave you the ball. If you run away after serving the ball, that is causing trouble!

He ran to Neville with the ball in his arms, gave the ball to the opponent and said loudly: The boss asked me to give it to you. You go back to the field and give it to Nicky. This is the boss's order, and I didn't mess with it!

Neville took the ball from Joe Cole, and at the same time glanced at the paper folded in his hand, then turned his head and looked at the coach's bench, but saw Aldridge nodded slightly at him, Neville understood, and without saying anything else, he served the sideline first.

The fast break was not successful, but it also made all the Greeks retreat to set up a defensive line. Neville quickly ran to Bart, handed the note to the opponent, and then ran back to his position, shouting loudly while running: The coach asked me to give it to you.

Bart first looked up at the situation in front of him. Scholes passed the ball to McManaman. The latter broke through the bottom beautifully on the left, but Owen was only one point in the middle, so McManaman put the ball first. Slow down, waiting for players from the backcourt to respond.

Bart took this opportunity to open the note, which was only the size of a palm, with a simple position-occupancy map drawn on it, and at the same time, there were dotted and solid lines to mark offense and defense. At the England tactical meeting, everyone understood that this was Aldrich's usual practice.

There is no problem with the formation position, 4321. However, Bart’s central defensive midfielder’s position area is very large. A rectangle almost covers the entire area from the back line to the center line. What’s even more strange is that Beckham, Lampard, inside The position arrows of Weir, Cole, and the four are all solid lines with shoulders forward, representing offense.

crazy?

Two full-backs, all assists from the midfielders?

wrong!

Bart looked again carefully. The arrow at his position has three directions, left and right, and all are dotted lines, representing defense.

Combined with the situation on the court and the marked area on the note, Bart finally understood what the note was reminding him of.

Initially he misunderstood Aldridge's request.

Big mistake.

He thought that he was defending in the central midfielder, and the protection of the key area was vertical, that is, retreating to the penalty area, and once the defense area between Lampard and Beckham was tight, then he should assist.

assist?

No, this note has already made him understand that he should not be an assistant, and the defense there is his own!

England's 4321 is just an illusion to confuse the opponent. In offense, it can be said to be 41212 or 4231.

The key point, Bart's position is the single midfielder!

Lampard and Beckham, in the offense, one will rush forward to the front waist area, and the other will move forward slightly to become a midfielder, so as to maintain the layered sense of offense and provide a connection point.

As for Bart, he guards the entire lower back area, and he protects the other two false back midfielders!

Don't really regard Lampard and Beckham as midfielders!

Butt made such a mistake before, which caused Lampard's side to dare not rush forward because of the defense zone when being pressed.

This is also understandable. Spain and Brazil are both strong teams. The offensive points of the strong teams are relatively evenly distributed, and the offense is opened up. Albania is weak and cannot create much pressure. It is a second-rate European team like Greece. , It is impossible to be too scattered in the offense like a strong team, otherwise the players will not be able to contact each other, and they can only concentrate their forces to fight partly.

Bart thought the defense was okay before, so he didn't think much about it. Now that he thinks about it, he thinks that he has done a good job in defense. That is just one aspect of restricting the opponent's offense. He is completely unqualified in terms of providing the team's offense protection. (To be continued..)