The Young Lion

Seeing that the team lost the ball again, Real Madrid's frontcourt stars couldn't hide their disappointment. Conceding a goal is equal to a blow, which is inevitable, but facing a blow, there are two effects, either being destroyed by the blow, and morale Low, or be stimulated by blows, and inspire the ambition to face difficulties. The reason why the Millwall team doesn't care about conceding goals is because they have cultivated the usual mentality of attacking back and making the opponent pay the price in the face of conceding goals.

This is what Millwall has molded in the successive victories and soft-handed championship journey.

At this stage, it is naturally impossible for Real Madrid to lose morale because of a conceded goal. It is just that the difficulty of the game has increased by another level, from needing to score 3 goals to needing to score 4 goals.

After the re-kick-off, Real Madrid regrouped and organized an attack. Zidane's performance in this game was very average from the beginning. It cannot be said that it is bad, but it can only be said that there are no bright spots.

His organization area starts in the front and back of the midfield, and he will not dribble and break through too much. In terms of explosive power, he is not top-notch when he breaks through. His top skills are stopping the ball, controlling the ball, and protecting the ball. Passing the ball, so it is often seen that he will organize a cross pass and then go forward by himself.

This is his playing style and habit. He avoids his weaknesses. He runs forward, and his teammates pass the ball back to him. Then he can stop the ball, control the ball, protect the ball, and get rid of it in a small area. The advantage of tearing open the opponent's defense to find space.

The advantage lies in his cross-pass instigation, which ensures the success rate of the pass and the stability of the offense. At the same time, he stops the ball and takes the ball to allow the offense to continue. This is an integral part of the offensive system with a guaranteed success rate.

When it comes to field statistics, people always say that the national team's Zidane is better than the club's Zidane. But in the international competition. Zidane's direct assists in sports games and goals in sports games are average. But he is still important. It is conceivable that he is not the role of a deadly pass and a finisher in sports warfare. Even if he has scored some important goals, his role on the field is actually to ensure offensive efficiency, not the most intuitive offensive threat.

Zidane played well in the last game, the reason is that Millwall's midfielder defense is one and a half people. Zidane made a cross pass from the midfielder and advanced by himself. When he came to the defense zone of Pirlo and Gattuso, he then responded. Dane has the space to display his abilities.

But in today's game, Nedved's position was withdrawn. Whenever Zidane organizes an offense and advances forward, Nedved and Pirlo are in front of him. The two did not go out to grab Zidane, which was a point emphasized in Millwall's defensive training.

This makes Zidane feel very tricky in the front waist area.

In the dribbling and breakthrough collections of many superstars we have seen, we often see a similar scene,

For example, the aliens face three or four, and even more defensive players attack the front. The aliens shake continuously, turn around on the spot, pull the ball, change the rhythm and change direction, and then directly penetrate the two defensive lines by one person. , Break through at least three defensive players.

On the other hand, the defensive highlights of some defensive masters, such as Maldini and Nesta, when they are defending, they never rush forward to grab the ball in advance, and they always see the player who breaks through the ball first. The ball leaves the foot, the moment it moves forward, or the moment it changes direction and breaks through, it is precisely blocked by the defensive master, and at the worst, it can destroy the ball with a tackle on the ground. It is clean and wonderful.

This is the essence of frontal defense, and why Italy, where defense can be called an art, has the defensive habit of players not to attack or even cling to the opponent. Whether it's moving your body or kicking your feet, your body's center of gravity is handed over at that moment. A master like Zidane, even if his back is turned to you, and you stretch out your feet to grab, he can gracefully pull the ball and turn around, avoiding the ball. Open your defensive center of gravity, and when your body's center of gravity returns to balance, he has changed from facing you to passing you.

The more you face a player with strong ability to protect and control the ball, the more defensive players cannot lose their focus. Therefore, some screenshots of the game later, such as the scene where Iniesta is double-teamed by 6 or 7 opponents, have two meanings. The first layer is his ability to control the ball. The second layer is that the defensive player is actually doing a good job. In such a situation, the defensive player gets stuck in the position to block the route, and then stands still. Whoever moves rashly first will give the opponent a chance. .

Zidane encountered such a situation today, Nedved, Pirlo, Gattuso will not rush to grab him, just get stuck in the position, Zidane does not have the explosive speed to overwhelm the opponent, so he needs Helpers, only Figo and Raul can play a role in the frontcourt.

But Raul is at the striker position, and he encounters greater defensive pressure than Zidane.

Figo moved from the side to the center, and Millwall's defense was very stable. The more the opponent's offense develops towards the goal, the less space there is for attacking, but Figo can at least ensure that he does not lose the ball. He can only break through. Then develop to the side or open up space on the outside to shoot long shots.

If the ball is given to Solari, it will be dangerous. He comes up to help Zidane share the pressure, but in the face of huge defensive pressure, Pirlo also consciously blocks the passing route between him and Zidane , Solari's creativity made him unable to cope with such a scene, so he was the player who made the most mistakes in Real Madrid's offense. He passed the threatening ball and returned without success, broke through and was intercepted, dribbled the ball to a dead end and then passed it to his teammates. into a mountain of knives.

After 30 minutes of the game, Zidane found it difficult to do anything in the middle, so he began to develop to the side. Seeing this scene, Aldridge felt that the game could rest easy.

In fact, Zidane's outstanding performance in the national team is obvious, and it is also related to the tactical system. Behind him, there are tough double midfielders. The French national team is not the kind of play that oppresses the opponent. Therefore, when switching from offense to defense, The pressure Zidane encountered in organizing the offense and the space he had were very impressive. Bosque's formation in the last game was also an attempt to transplant the French team into Zidane's method, with Makelele and Herguera both The defensive midfielder escorted Zidane, but unfortunately the defense was too unreliable, but in general, Zidane's performance in the last game was still very good. He participated in some important offenses during the period, even if It's a transfer ball, which shows his ability.

But in this game, Real Madrid not only had to attack aggressively, but also weakened the defense. Zidane's performance was limited, and it was also because of Millwall's change of formation.

He pulled to the wing and made a pass to find Morientes, but was cleared by Southgate with a header first, and the center of the frontcourt was wide open.

After Gattuso stopped the ball, he turned around and passed the ball lightly, like a clearance, but also like a pass. There was only Solari left in the midfield. He turned around to chase the ball, and suddenly found that Nedved was very Run alongside him and touch the ball two steps ahead of him!

In an instant, Millwall turned from defense to offense!

The speed of offensive and defensive transitions can be described as blinking.

Makelele will not rush to grab it, and it is definitely not wise to try to break through in front of him.

At this point Makelele is sure to step up and block Nedved's advance area, but Nedved quickly passed the ball to Larsson who ran out of space to meet him.

Larson, who got the ball on the right in front of the penalty area, didn't stop the ball, kicked the ball, and passed it across to Kaka who was heading towards the penalty area.

While Kaka touched the ball, Henry cut from the left to the center of the penalty area. Hierro followed Henry closely. Henry's diagonal running in front of Kaka helped Kaka create a corridor that broke through and drove straight in.

Almost at the moment when Henry moved diagonally to take Hierro away, Kaka unswervingly broke through with the ball from the position behind Henry.

Hierro didn't look back, knowing that Kaka entered the penalty area from behind him, and Salgado returned from the wing, obviously a beat slower.

Hierro turned around to block Kaka, blocking the angle of his shot, but he was about to charge that way when the ball rolled past him.

When Hierro turned around to look for Kaka, he was shocked to find that the ball was gone, and when he turned his head back, he was horrified to see Henry push and shoot the ball. The moment he finished the shot, Elguera slid past Henry. Cesar flew to save, his fingertips were half a meter away from the ball, he could only close his eyes in despair, the ball rolled in from the dead corner of the lower left corner of the goal!

Millwall made another victory, and it was Henry who scored the goal! We saw Kaka pointing to him as soon as he scored the goal. Millwall played really well at home today. From the beginning, Real Madrid was powerless to parry, triangle passing, cross running, this is the excellent quality that Millwall showed in this attack, simple and smooth, one-shot fatal, on the other hand, Real Madrid's offensive routine is cumbersome and inefficient , they can only threaten their opponents by kicking the ball from the wing.

Bosque saw the team concede the second goal of the game, and he knew that a reversal was impossible!

The old man lowered his head, and suddenly said to his assistant weakly: Millwall's tactics are really incomprehensible!

His assistant was also frustrated and said: It looks like this, purely defensive midfielder, they have it, and we also have it, but they also have Pirlo, an organizational midfielder, not only organizes the area away from the dangerous zone, but also has compression when defending. The role of offensive space, to disrupt Millwall's style of play, we must have at least two b2b all-around midfielders like Nedved in the midfield. Every time Millwall switches from defense to offense, it always feels better than us. There is one more person, that is Nedved, who has him in defense and offense, and he did not enter the penalty area today, and stayed in the front midfielder after passing the ball just now. Once the wind direction is wrong, he will definitely turn around and go back to defend. Playing against Millwall has a poor offensive and defensive rhythm, and it is not an opponent at all.

Bosque sighed.

The outside world said that this was a well-matched battle of the century. Perhaps, only players with paper strength were famous.

In terms of competitive ability in real games, what advantage does Real Madrid have?

Overall speed? Team harmony? organizational efficiency? run?

In Bosque's eyes, Aldrich may still be merciful.

If Aldridge is willing, Millwall doesn't need to play too many advantages at all, focusing on the overall defense, coupled with diligent running and speed, Real Madrid will undoubtedly die. (to be continued...) ()