After the game started, Dong Qiudi sat in the stands and watched the game with the Lazio fans around him. [This article comes from]
The Lazio fans around him were quite relaxed.
Because first of all, no matter what the result of this game is, it will not affect Lazio's qualification as the first in the group. They do not believe that Lazio will lose the first place in the group.
Secondly, they don't think Tottenham Hotspur can beat Lazio, even at Tottenham Hotspur's home court.
This relaxed mentality comes from their confidence in the team.
In the past five seasons, the winning teams have used actual results to prove that they have reasons to be optimistic about Lazio. This Lazio is indeed worthy of their high expectations and has never disappointed.
So during the days when they followed Lazio in the north and south, they learned confidence through victory.
Even if they were silenced by Tottenham Hotspur fans at White Hart Lane and could barely make their voices heard, they were not worried.
Many people even crossed their chests with their hands and sat on their chairs with their legs crossed to watch the game.
This is not like watching a passionate game? Dong Qiudi was even more excited than them.
Although Dong Qiudi was excited, he did not forget his work. He wanted to observe whether his analysis was correct by watching the game live - Chang Sheng did not tell him the results after getting his report, so he did not know whether
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After the game started, Tottenham Hotspur really focused on attacking Lazio's two wings because their wing attacks were very sharp.
This is Redknapp's tactic.
The essence of tactics is to use our strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses. To put it bluntly, it means using the strong to bully the weak. Even the so-called defeating the strong with the weak is based on the local key links forming the advantage of our strong enemy and the weak, and constantly exploiting them.
The results expanded to the overall level. From the rationality of tactical arrangements, the commander must hide as much as possible, make up for his own shortcomings and weaknesses, continuously accumulate, expand his own advantages, and try to take the initiative. With our best
Attack the opponent's weakest point with strong force to gain the greatest possibility of victory and pay the smallest risk and cost.
Redknapp's choice is right in Dong Qiudi's opinion, and it is the only choice he can make. Tottenham Hotspur's most powerful offensive weapon is wing attack. Their two wing players have outstanding personal abilities.
On the left is Gareth Bale and on the right is Lennon. They are both players who are fast and good at dribbling.
If you don't use your strengths, you are mentally ill.
As for the organization of the midfield, that is Tottenham Hotspur's weak link.
Neither Hoddlestone nor Jenas are pure organizers.
Tottenham Hotspur only has one attacking midfielder, Van der Vaart.
With Lazio's muscular midfield, it is easy to contain Van der Vaart.
Dong Qiudi thought that Chang Sheng must have seen this.
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Of course Chang Sheng saw this.
In fact, he knows better than Dong Qiudi.
Because there is no Modric in Tottenham Hotspur today, there is only Van der Vaart who came to Tottenham Hotspur from Real Madrid to recover from his injury.
Van der Vaart was originally the absolute core of the midfield in Hamburg, but after going to Real Madrid, he performed well at first. Then he quickly declined. Injuries and ups and downs in form affected his status in Real Madrid.
This summer, with the joining of Ozil and Canales, Real Madrid has completely lost the position of the Dutch midfielder, so he had to switch to Tottenham Hotspur at the last moment before the transfer market closed.
The transfer was successful.
The transfer fee is 10 million euros.
After coming to Tottenham Hotspur, to be honest, Van der Vaart's performance was pretty good.
But injuries still affected his performance.
In the last round, Tottenham Hotspur challenged Lazio on the field, and Van der Vaart was not able to travel with the team to Rome due to a minor injury.
Redknapp obviously thinks this away trip is a bad one.
So I simply gave up on this game and kept the most important cards at home.
Van der Vaart is his trump card, as well as Giroud, the team's top scorer who has scored six goals.
But in the eyes of Chang Sheng, Tottenham Hotspur's offense, which only relies on Van der Vaart, Bale, Lennon and Giroud, still seems to lack layers and is too simple.
He knows Giroud very well, because he has trained him this way.
In the last round of Bale and Lennon, Lazio had also figured out their characteristics.
Van der Vaart is even simpler.
In that time and space, Tottenham Hotspur had Modric. That was their real midfield core. Modric's presence made Tottenham Hotspur's offense more layered and three-dimensional.
Now, Redknapp can only rely on Van der Vaart's organization in the midfield.
But his position is the attacking midfielder. With the current development trend of football, the organizational function of the attacking midfielder has become increasingly weakened. Although many attacking midfielders are named attacking midfielders, they actually do things like shadow forwards, such as the typical trick front
Waist Kaka, what he is best at is dribbling the ball to score points during defensive counterattacks, rather than taking the ball to organize attacks.
Players like Van der Vaart became more and more difficult to get along with in the following days. In the end, he simply returned to Hamburg and rarely appeared in the eyes of mainstream European media. In addition to his frequent injuries, the change in the tactical style of the football environment was also a factor.
reason.
For Van der Vaart, Chang Sheng did not let the three midfielders stand in front of each other in the midfield. Instead, they stood in a line and had three midfielders.
In this way, Ledesma and Meireles can focus on containing Van der Vaart without delaying Modric's attack.
Bale and Lennon relied on Gotze and David Silva to cooperate with the two full-backs Balzaretti and Azpilicueta to suppress them.
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Giroud was very active after the start of the game, but unfortunately he couldn't get the ball, so even if he ran a lot, he was not a threat.
Lazio's targeted defensive arrangement was very effective.
The win in this game sacrificed the offensive ability of the midfielder, strengthened the defense, and contained Van der Vaart.
Especially the crazy tackles by Ledesma and Meireles put a lot of pressure on Van der Vaart...
He has suffered from frequent injuries during his two seasons at Real Madrid, so he is now very afraid of injury. In addition, he has just returned from injury before this game. He is even more afraid of injury.
As long as Ledesma and Meireles fight more fiercely, Van der Vaart will have to focus more on how to protect himself from injury rather than how to organize the offense.
Not long after the game started, Van der Vaart fell into Lazio's muscle jungle.
Even the commentator could see that Van der Vaart was in poor condition today.
"Van der Vaart put too much energy into the physical confrontation with Ledesma and Meireles... while Tottenham Hotspur's offense made no progress..."
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Van der Vaart was restricted, so Tottenham could only rely on two wings.
Especially Bell.
But this time it's different from when we were at home.
Lazio doesn't need to rush to attack.
The tactical idea that always wins this game is defense.
Yes, you read that right, defense.
Lazio, who advocates offensive football, did not choose to attack. They actually chose defense!
Tiki-taka is often used for defense, but Lazio in this game emphasized control.
When the football was at their feet, their speed slowed down and they were not eager to attack forward. This was completely different from Lazio's previous style.
They pass the ball back and forth. Even the offense is advanced layer by layer, trying every means to consume more game time.
This is why Cruyff was unhappy with winning games.
At first, when Chang Sheng played tiki-taka in Valencia, Cruyff was very happy, because it meant that his method was bearing fruit, although it was not what he saw in Barcelona. But he hoped
His tactical ideas can be accepted by more people. If Barcelona fails, other teams can help him teach. He is also very happy.
So at that time, he even wrote a special article to praise Chang Sheng.
As a result, he later found out that Chang Sheng actually used tiki-taka to defend, and he was unhappy.
He felt that such a beautiful tactic was completely desecrated by Chang Sheng.
Since then, Cruyff has transformed into a winning star.
Whenever he had nothing to do, he would criticize Chang Sheng in his newspaper column. This continued until Chang Sheng left Valencia and went to Italy, and the frequency became much less frequent.
However, it also paved the way for the verbal war between Chang Sheng and Cruyff after Lazio eliminated Barcelona.
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Contain Tottenham Hotspur's two wing attacks. The principle is very simple, that is, don't give the opponent space. Then just shrink the defense.
If the opponent counterattacks quickly, destroy their offense immediately, whether it is through normal methods or fouls.
In this way, Bale and Lennon's advantage is gone.
And Lazio also has an advantage in this game. They have already defeated Tottenham Hotspur at home. This game is an away game for them, so they don't need to worry too much about the scene like they do at home.
There is no pressure at all when playing this kind of defensive tactic.
So Tottenham Hotspur, who was full of enthusiasm and planned to fight Lazio at White Hart Lane, was dumbfounded.
They felt that their punch, which was fully charged, hit the cotton and did no harm to Lazio at all.
Originally, Tottenham Hotspur planned to use speed to fight Lazio to the death, because Lazio is also fast.
That is to compete for speed and see who is faster.
But I didn’t expect that Chang Sheng wouldn’t compete with them for speed! Chang Sheng chose Full and used control to curb their speed.
The football is more at Lazio's feet, so Tottenham Hotspur's speed will naturally not be able to play. No team can do without the ball at their feet.
Dong Qiudi's analysis report to Chang Sheng was very accurate. The only difference was that he did not expect Lazio to defend so resolutely, using control of the ball and slowing down the speed to deal with Tottenham Hotspur's fast pace.
He thought Lazio would insist on attacking.
But he underestimated Chang Sheng’s utilitarianism...
