Chapter 81 The important thing is to score a few goals
"We have to make some changes for the match against Japan."
On the training ground, before the day's training began, head coach Dong Jianhai gathered the players into a two-tiered circle to listen to his speech.
Others stood in the circle and kept turning their bodies to ensure that they could see the players in every direction.
"We are playing against the Japanese team."
As soon as he said this, the Chinese team players surrounding him couldn't help but let out a low cry.
They really didn't expect that Director Dong would make such a risky move.
Dong Jianhai saw the reaction of the team members and knew why they were so surprised.
They probably didn't expect that they would choose to take risks...
After all, he is a coach who doesn't even dare to adjust his predecessor's tactics and personnel arrangements without authorization, and can only follow suit.
"After the group stage, I think everyone can see that offense is what we are best at. Therefore, in the game against the Japanese team, we must maximize what we are good at. Only in this way can we compete with them. In the game
Don’t think about how many goals we conceded, how many goals we conceded...it doesn’t matter how many goals we conceded! What matters is how many goals we scored!”
Dong Jianhai got a little excited when he said it, and his voice became louder.
When Hu Lai in the crowd saw Coach Dong like this, he thought of his club's head coach, Tony Clark.
He almost thought Director Dong was possessed by Clark...
It is normal for him to have such doubts. After all, the previous Director Dong could not say such a thing.
What did he say the most?
"When defending, pay attention to your teammates and keep your formation intact..."
"Pay attention to your position, pay attention to observation..."
"When you are in the middle, distribute the football to the wings, and then you must penetrate from the back to the front... When you penetrate forward, don't simply go to the wing, there is a little change and go to the ribs..."
Such professional but not unusual content.
Any coach would say these things.
Therefore, Director Dong did not leave a deep impression on Hu Lai, and his sense of presence was seriously lacking.
As a result, Coach Dong today said, "It doesn't matter how many goals we concede! What matters is how many goals we score!" Such explosive words...
This is not his character!
The outside world is criticizing the Chinese team's poor defense, and Director Dong has also noticed it.
Therefore, in the summary after each game, he would spend a lot of space talking about the problems that the team's defense had in the game, as well as what needs to be paid attention to defensively in the next game, and how to improve...
Today was a good day. Coach Dong flipped the table and said, "Fuck the defense, we want to score!"
This really has something in common with Hulay’s boss Clark. As long as we score more goals than we concede, won’t we win the game?
As shocked as Hu Lai were other Chinese team players.
If Director Dong Jianhai and Dong Jianhai said they wanted to attack the Japanese team, they were just a little surprised. After all, offense is indeed the only weapon that the Chinese team can use at present.
But after Director Dong said the following words, everyone's eyes changed.
Dong Jianhai could feel the shocking performance of the players, but he didn't care: "...So all our training content in the next two days will be focused on various offensive routines. From now on, everyone must do a good job and
The Japanese team’s psychological preparation for a decisive battle.”
After saying that, he waved his hand: "Start training!"
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Dong Jianhai really means it this time and does what he says.
The training content is all about offense.
Various offensive routines, various set-piece offensive tactics...
In short, apart from penalty kicks, which are a fixed training item in the knockout stages, I really haven't practiced defense specifically.
If anything, it would probably be to practice the team's defense during the team's offensive routine...
When it came to the ball training stage, captain Yao Huasheng, who had said in the gym that his injury was not serious, did not appear on the training ground.
The coaching staff explained this as "on the safe side."
Anyway, the Chinese team practices all offensive tactics. Even if Yao Huasheng does not practice with the team, it will not have any impact.
The offensive routines designed by Dong Jianhai for the Chinese team are all simple and direct.
This is because the Japanese team's strongest player is the midfield, so the Chinese team has no way to compete with the Japanese team in this area.
Even having Zhang Qinghuan and Xia Xiaoyu is not enough.
Not to mention Xia Xiaoyu is still in Alvara's reserve team, Zhang Qinghuan has not even become the main player in Sarria.
Japan's four midfielders are all main players in the five major European leagues.
In addition, Japanese football pays attention to passing and control, and has produced many first-class players in the midfield over the years. Therefore, if the Chinese team and the Japanese team start to compete and tangle in the midfield, they are actually hitting Japan's advantageous items.
Therefore, what the Chinese team should do is to quickly pass through the midfield and not fall into the quagmire of the Japanese team's careful preparation here.
Then use the speed on the front line to directly attack the Japanese team's defense.
The overall strength of the Japanese team is the best in Asia, but it does not mean that they have no weaknesses.
On the three lines, the Japanese team's back line is relatively weak.
Both full-backs focus on offense. The center-back is not tall enough and has average air defense capabilities. Japanese team captain Kengo Yamayama, who is 1.86 meters tall, is already the highest altitude on their defense line, but he is only six centimeters taller than Hu Lai.
Only one centimeter taller than Luo Kai...
In view of the Japanese team's two full-backs frequently attacking, Dong Jianhai requested that the Chinese team's offense be launched from the two wings and the ribs.
Xia Xiaoyu and Jiang Wanqing form a double midfielder, mainly using the former's long pass to dispatch and launch attacks. Jiang Wanqing is responsible for protection beside him.
Zhang Qinghuan, on the other hand, needs to penetrate more into the penalty area to shoot, and try to increase the number of contact points for the Chinese team in the Japanese team's penalty area.
He also asked the Chinese team to increase their speed in the game, give full play to the Chinese team's advantage of being faster than the Japanese team, and constantly attack the Japanese team's defense. Use speed to disrupt the Japanese team's ball control advantage.
In short, the offensive routines designed by Dong Jianhai for the Chinese team are all based on how they are played. They are so simple and crude that they have no technical content.
During training, the players of the Chinese team all felt a sense of dissonance from these offensive routines. This is not Coach Dong’s style... How could he be so radical?
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"I always feel that something is not right with Director Dong..."
After the training, Hu Lai and the others returned to the hotel room to chat and relax. This sentence was said by Wang Guangwei.
"Old Wang, have you noticed it too?" Chen Xingyi expressed surprise at the side.
"How fresh. Is there anyone in the team who hasn't noticed it?" Hu Lai sneered at Chen Xingyi's fuss.
"Maybe I was scolded too much and thought about it..." Xia Xiaoyu guessed.
Since losing to Iraq in the first round of the Asian Cup group stage, criticism of Dong Jianhai has been overwhelming on the Internet. Netizens also gave full play to their "ingenuity" and made up various jokes to ridicule Dong Jianhai.
The most famous one is "For such an important event as the Asian Cup, I thought the Football Association would send a tiger general. If it couldn't send a tiger general, it would send a dog, but it ended up sending a pig."
The most amazing thing is that the 66-year-old Dong Jianhai is indeed a little fat, and he fits the image of a "pig", so now netizens call Dong Jianhai "the handsome pig of the national football team".
"I think netizens are a little harsh. We lost in the first game of the Asian Cup. It's not just Director Dong's responsibility. Our performance was also not good." Zhang Qinghuan said. "It's normal to criticize when we lose, but we also criticize when we win."
...I think as long as we win the ball, it's fine. There's no need to worry about conceding the ball..."
"They are worried that we will lose goals when we play against a team like Palestine, but we will lose even more goals against a strong team like Japan..."
Zhang Qinghuan interrupted Chen Xingyi: "Oh, forget it. It's like if we don't concede a goal against Palestine, we won't concede a goal against the Japanese team. Conceding a goal against the Japanese team is the same as conceding a goal against Palestine."
What does it matter? I think what Coach Dong said today is right, 'It doesn't matter how many goals we concede! What matters is how many goals we score!'"
"Director Dong must have figured it out. We are indeed not good at defense. In this case, we might as well just attack directly. Besides, in our current state when we fight against Japan, Director Dong probably doesn't want to leave a way out for himself. He knows the danger is high.
Less. If you are bound to lose, you might as well act bravely, that way it can be regarded as 'glory in spite of defeat'..."
Zhang Qinghuan finally said this. "I quite like Director Dong's arrangement. This is the Japanese team. What do you want to do so much? I don't care about life and death. If you don't accept it, just do it!"
Hu Lai nodded in agreement: "Well said, Brother Huan! Let Motegi Hiroto know what a big mistake he made in not recruiting Morikawa!"
"That's right, let's avenge Morikawa!" Zhang Qinghuan said angrily.
"That's right. The Japanese team didn't recruit Morikawa just because he played in Shining Star. This is also looking down on Shining Star!" Chen Xingyi nodded in agreement.
The atmosphere in the room became warm.
At this time, Hu Lai imitated Zhang Qinghuan's tone, stood up and posed and said: "I think the Japanese team's midfielder without Junpei Morikawa is like a chicken with tile ears!"
Zhang Qinghuan was stunned for a moment before reacting: "Fuck!"
