The Young Lion

The players of the England team understood Aldridge's words, and through verbal analysis, Argentina was no longer mysterious in their eyes.

Beckham raised his hand and asked: Coach, you said that offensive football pursues a kind of grand creation. We can't do it. I won't argue this point. I believe we all agree. Who can do it? Only the national team, not the club, if the club, Millwall should have done this in the past few years.

People are realistic, and it is meaningless to stubbornly fight for the advantage of tongue.

England is lacking in talent. Apart from its reputation, it really has no advantage over other teams. What Argentina is pursuing seems to be that there are many teams in Europe that can pursue it, such as Italy and Spain, which are full of talents.

Aldridge pondered for a few seconds, shook his head and said, These have nothing to do with our game tomorrow, and the discussion is meaningless.

But a team emerged in his mind, a national team with three championships in the next four years: Spain.

A World Cup champion will be born once every four years.

But to say that with a style that overturned the football world and won the championship sensationally, only Spain in the first ten years and the next ten years, this is a kind of atmospheric creativity, which revolutionized football aesthetics and created an era. Before that , who would repeatedly talk about the boring data of possession rate as if it were a law of physics? The impact behind this has caused the whole world to discuss, research, imitate, and target, as if detonating a war, and few other World Cup champions can do this.

Fans will love Argentina because Argentina is attacking, attacking like crazy. Or. Any team that plays offensive football recklessly. It's hard to be short of suitors.

But why does there still exist something like Italy? Can the defense be pursued as an art, even if the whole world is saying that Italy is anti-football and negative football, they still go on without changing their faces, even if they have a large number of talented offensive players, defense is still their first consideration?

This is the gap between fantasy and reality, between the dreamer and the sane.

Aldridge turned sideways, fingers projecting the formation on the map. Said: Argentina's tactics are based on offensive football. In order to pursue speed, Bielsa gave up the amazing creative talent of Riquelme. Oh, maybe some of you have never heard of him. He was once the champion of the World Youth Championship. It is also the Argentine Footballer of the past two years, and the South American Footballer of last year. Also, Bielsa is firmly on the front line, allowing Batty and Crespo to rotate. It is also for the pursuit of speed. However, there is a big premise. If you are now If you think about it, you will be able to guess what it is.

As an offensive player, Irving blurted out: Space!

Aldrich snapped his fingers,

Said: Yes, space. If there is space, speed is the biggest advantage. Without space, the speed advantage will not be used. They take the initiative to attack, and we will defend based on our position. We will not give them space to attack, and will reduce their speed advantage to lowest!

In fact, this is also the key problem that Argentina encountered in this World Cup. Aldridge combined the video of the game and said to the players: Look, in the last game, Argentina played against Nigeria. Before Batty scored with a header from a set ball, Argentina’s speed advantage did not come into play at all, because Nigeria was conservative. Argentina only had two sports shots in the penalty area in the whole game. Going up, Argentina’s speed advantage came into play during the counterattack, and they scored the second shot in the penalty area in the whole game. It was a counterattack that completely threw off the defender and then went in. This is what I want to tell you Yes, techniques and tactics, we restrain them!

Aldridge instilled tactical arrangements in the players, and he never targeted them aimlessly. To convince the players, he had to speak to the point, and what he said made sense. Isn’t it just nonsense to fight with enthusiasm.

This is also a flaw in Argentina. Bielsa is still too ideal, 3313, theoretically point-to-point, this formation has a lot of changes, break through each line one by one with confidence, but no opponent will compete with you on a balanced level, Nigeria is like this, Sweden In this way, England can do the same without the face of a strong team, and a classic midfielder like Riquelme who breaks through dense defenses may have a wonderful pass, but Bielsa does not want him. European players, Veron, Aimar.

The refusal to play Zhengyin double striker also reduces the way of a positional battle to break the dense defensive center's personal partial crushing.

Our tactical basis is exactly the same as that of Argentina. As long as we defend their offense and turn around, our offense will also have an advantage. The reason is simple. Argentina is using three defenders, and they do not have a world-class team. In other words, a defender who is used to the central defender position is not enough to protect the flanks, and a full-back who is used to playing a central defender has flaws in his defensive habits at the central defender position. This will be the most critical point that our offense can use!

As the old saying goes, to play a three-back defense, the personal strength of the three backs must stand out from the crowd, especially the requirements for defensive awareness, which are the top.

It is conceivable that those who play full-backs will play the three-backs on the side, the defensive area will expand, and the defensive consciousness will fluctuate in the center of the side, which will have an impact on key defensive moments. , is also different in defense.

The national team is by no means a place to change the playing habits of players. In this regard, Italy sometimes plays a three-back system. At least those players are no strangers to the three-back system in the club, but Argentina does not have this confidence, so in many cases You will see Argentina's backcourt defense, the defense line will be chaotic, teammates in the area will crash, and there will be a lot of space, but the opponent is not strong and has not withstood the test. Since then, there have been few three-back formations in international football that can shine. Influenced by various factors, such as encouraging offense, there must be a breakthrough in the upper limit of the defender's ability requirements, such as the modern winger becoming the mainstream.

Just as Aldridge was carefully arranging the tactical arrangements for tomorrow's game, the World Cup battles became more and more intense.

Stadium in Busan, South Korea.

When the game progressed to the 24th minute, a huge change occurred on the field.

Henry, who aspired to the Golden Ball at Millwall and won the title of Europe's top striker, was unable to turn the tide in the absence of Zidane. Instead, the referee showed a red card that seemed to be stained with the blood of a Gallic rooster!

Henry left the field sadly, and stood for a few seconds when he walked into the player tunnel, as if thinking of something, and when he looked back at the field, his desperate eyes were filled with a hint of pleading.

He doesn't want to leave, he can only hope that the French team can create a miracle, and then, keep going...

In the end, the French team shook hands with Uruguay with 10 people. Uruguay seemed to lack ambitions for the World Cup.

Then, the two teams heard the news that Senegal and Denmark also shook hands. Before the final round, Denmark and Senegal held 4 points, 3 points more than the other two opponents.

The German team in Group E encountered Ireland in the second game, and the strength of the first show could not be continued. The German team seemed to be the unfavorable German team. Klose could hardly be compared with Henry in the club, but in the World Cup, his The limelight far overwhelmed Henry. In this battle, he scored again. However, the hero was Kahn the Lion King, who blocked Duff and Keane's shots in a row. Without Kahn, the German team might not be the same. It was as simple as being tied before the finale.

Saudi Arabia continued the nightmare. After being crushed by the German chariot, they were defeated by the African lion Cameroon. They still did not score a goal and became the first team to be officially eliminated from the World Cup.

From the opening on May 31st to Saudi Arabia’s defeat by Cameroon on June 6th, only one week has passed, no more, no less, just 7 days, and then, there are teams that can officially book tickets to go home. The cruelty of the World Cup, It also started to come to my mind.

After waking up, the England team didn’t care about Saudi Arabia, where they could go home after packing their bags and playing the last game. When the day broke, the England team left the hotel, went to the airport, and boarded a plane to Sapporo. Spend more than an hour on the plane, then spend half a day resting and preparing, and at night, fight against the old enemy Argentina.

The England team traveled low-key, but the power of the media is powerful. When the England team left the hotel and got on the plane, the news spread to Sapporo. Countless England teams, or most of them were Beckham fans, came to greet them, even if they were far away. Looking at it from a distance, it seems that they are also satisfied.

Calmly preparing for the game, the players adjusted their mentality. When the sun went down, they took the bus to the stadium: Sapporo Dome Stadium.

Outside the stadium, there were already countless fans waiting, and inside the stadium, fans entered the stadium early.

England vs Argentina, the battle of old enemies is imminent.

Both teams have won the game before. In fact, shaking hands in this game is the best strategic choice and result for qualifying. However, the new and old hatreds of the two teams, I am afraid that no one will really imagine a draw in their minds. Argentina No, Argentina has a feeling of revenge for the weak, because the scars of the war are not enough to be healed with one or two football field victories. The people of Argentina will hope to trample England under their feet again and again forever.

England fans are not reconciled, 86 years, 98 years of arena grievances they can not forget.

That's what's so special about this game, it's way beyond competitive.

But Aldridge didn’t care about that. When he walked into the Sapporo Dome, he looked at the packed stands. England’s red and white, Argentina’s blue and white made the stadium look like half flames and half sea water. (to be continued..) ()