Although this is not a tit-for-tat battle of tactical styles.
The Greek team is extremely defensive, but the England team is not crazy offensive!
Aldrich and Rehagel both understood.
The tactical confrontation in this game is the basis for establishing the overall trend.
This is a confrontation of tactical discipline and psychological quality.
The Greek team absolutely obeys Rehagel's tactical arrangements. If England loses to the Greek team on this point, perhaps all other efforts will be in vain.
At the same time, it is also an invisible psychological war.
Compete on the psychological quality of both parties.
Whoever cannot withstand the pressure first and loses his composure will lose control of the game.
The Greek team will unswervingly defend against counterattacks and always attack with only a few players without leaving the defense exposed to fatal gaps.
Before counterattack, there is still preparation.
That is to use their tenacious and solid defense to shape the game situation!
To put it superficially, both England and Greece are using "control" to seduce and tease their opponents, causing them to lose their cool.
England's temptation is in the frontcourt. They frequently pass the ball across the field to control the ball. They do not hesitate to return the ball in a wide range when the ball may be lost or the pass is deadlocked, and they are unwilling to lose the ball. In this process, it is in
Lure Greece into losing the ball for too long and will they lose their composure and crumble under the pressure? At some point, will a player rush in and expose a tight defensive line that England can exploit?
The Greek team's seduction is that after the defense is successful, when switching from defense to offense, they will not rush to attack immediately. On the back line, they have a numerical advantage, and they can also pass the ball to each other, seducing the opponent to counterattack, and at the same time participating.
The teammates who are counterattacking have time to move into space, and all positions of the offensive system are ready. Then, at this time, if the opponent loses calm and goes crazy to counterattack in the frontcourt, their counterattack will be launched quickly, passing through the midfield like the wind, and advancing.
In the process, the opponent will be panicked, and then he will attack the city!
It not only tests the psychological quality of the two teams, but also the execution of tactics and discipline.
Everyone, we can’t defend ourselves!
The posture of the England team looks very oppressive and aggressive in the situation.
Their player team is stronger, there is no doubt about it.
When the England team retreated 20 yards and gathered heavy troops in midfield waiting for the Greek team to attack, Rehagel was no longer surprised, but shocked!
The Greek team can only fight back!
In a positional battle, they will never create a good opportunity.
First of all, the creativity of the core of the organization is limited, and secondly, the player's individual surprise ability cannot be expected. In order to protect the defense, the positional offense that advances layer by layer requires more teammates to move forward to create passing opportunities. However,
This is not how the Greek team plays.
Therefore, their attack failed only after passing the midfield.
Gary Neville's defense was successful, and the England team regrouped and returned to its previous offensive rhythm.
Short passes, lateral transfers, and occasionally moving forward steadily to intimidate the opponent's defense. When the shooting angle is exposed in front of the penalty area and a teammate is able to take a long shot, they will take a long shot. Although it is outside the penalty area, they have repeatedly shot it.
Long shot threat!
Aldrich supervises the battle from the sidelines with a calm look on his face.
He is very satisfied with England today, for now.
People often say that "one's faults cannot hide one's faults", a word that is absolutely hated by head coaches in the field of football.
What is defective is defective and must be corrected in time. These cannot be ignored just because the results are good.
England qualified early in the group stage. Before that, Aldridge got angry. Now that the England team has reached the knockout stage, Aldridge is satisfied with the professional quality shown by the whole team.
They resolutely implemented Aldrich's tactical arrangements without any slack, and controlled the game perfectly!
Perfect! Absolutely perfect!
Because the Greek team's offense could not advance into the England team's midfield area!
They will always be attacked by England in the midfield area.
The England team has a numerical advantage in the midfield and the density of offense and defense is amazing!
Both teams must be worried.
The English team did not dare to force the front line, and the Greek team did not dare to invest more troops in the attack.
But in this case, England will have an advantage.
Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard, not counting Beckham, just these three.
His long-range shooting ability is top-notch in European football!
This is England's advantage.
England did not forcefully attack the Greek team's penalty area, but instead kicked in the midfield, wearing down the opponent, tearing apart the opponent's midfield line, and then came out of space to take a long shot!
As time goes by, England will have a second advantage that will be activated.
Set piece!
The England team is accumulating advantages, mentally and psychologically suppressing its opponents, and making them panic. When the opponent is exhausted to a certain extent and the transfer frequency cannot keep up with England, they will inevitably resort to fouls. By then, Beckham will have his golden right foot.
Useful place!
The three treasures for breaking through dense defenses are long-range shots, set kicks, and personal breakthroughs.
England is not good at personal breakthroughs, so just don’t do it!
The game lasted for nearly 20 minutes. They took 6 long-range shots and 4 of them hit the goal. The first goal in the penalty area: 0, and the personal breakthrough: 0.
The ball possession rate should set a European Cup record!
Close to 80!
The number of passes, if we continue at this pace, should also set a record!
The Greek team wants to hold England back so that the two sides are on the same level, but now looking at it, who is holding whom down?
The Greek team's offensive ability is actually very average. They pay attention to efficiency and rely on counterattacks.
In the 270 minutes of their three games in the group stage, they only had 30 shots in total, and 10 of them hit the target.
In other words, it takes an average of 9 minutes for them to create a shot, and an average of 27 minutes for them to have a shot that hits the opponent's goal.
And this data was even higher in the game against Russia, because in that 90-minute game, Russia was not strong and they shot 12 shots.
Rehagel was calm on the surface, but his heart was trembling with despair.
If England plays at the current pace for 90 minutes or even 120 minutes, the Greek team can only rely on luck if they want to defeat England!
If luck were on their side, England's threatening long-range shots would all come to nothing!
Even after the game, there will not be a significant gap in physical fitness between the two sides. Not only does the England team wait for work, but it also has an advantage over the Greek team in traveling. With the current style of play, it is obviously the Greek team that consumes more. Even if the Greek team can only play with two or three people
In conjunction with the attack being carried deep into the frontcourt, forcing the entire England team to retreat in a wide range and shuttle vertically, in that case, everyone's physical consumption may not widen the gap, because Greece's offense can also achieve the purpose of consuming the opponent.
However, Aldrich's defensive layout today is interlocking.
Terry will stay behind and Campbell will go forward. Hargreaves will adapt according to the direction of Greece's offensive focus. Even if the Greek team goes wide, only two players can pass at the same time. So England has both full-backs and full-backs.
With Hargreaves, the Greek team has no obvious advantage in the speed competition. The English team's full-backs do not press forward, defend frontally, be alert to the space behind them, and chase back to contain Greece's penetrating side passes, which is very successful!
Greece has few offensive troops and the focus of defense is in the penalty area. Not only did the England team completely occupy the offensive and defensive advantage in the midfield, but they also controlled the situation to consume the Greek team.
To say that the most relaxed person in the England team is definitely goalkeeper Robinson. He played 30 minutes in the first half. Not to mention being tested by the opponent's shots, he never even took a goal kick!
Irving also disappeared from the sight of the audience in front of the TV. However, Irving's presence forced the Greek team's defense to stay in the penalty area!
The Greek team used sweepers, double defenders, and a triangle position to block Irving. The Greek team did not dare to change this defensive system.
3 against 1 may sound exaggerated, but it is not.
First of all, you can’t defend 1 on 1, but what about 2 on 1? Maybe, maybe not, after all, the Greek team’s defenders are not top-notch in Europe. Secondly, if one person is removed to strengthen midfield interception or control, then, England’s
If Gerrard, Lampard, or even Scholes come in from behind, the Greek team's penalty area may be full of dangers.
The principle on the football field is very simple, the closer to the goal, the greater the threat.
This is why England has long had a long-passing style, which is to pursue the fastest attack to the most threatening area to create opportunities.
Therefore, Portugal and Spain did not take advantage of Greece. The big reason is that they are always eager to attack in the most threatening area, which is the Greek team's penalty area, and that is where the Greek team's defense is most stable.
zone!
Portugal does not have a top center, while Spain's forwards are weak. When the offense is repeatedly frustrated, they inevitably lose their psychological balance, or they go crazy into the offense and expose the space in the backcourt.
England not only exploited its strengths and avoided its weaknesses today, but also avoided the Greek team's advantages in terms of tactics.
Repeated long-range shots that hit the target will definitely make the Greek team nervous, but they have no choice.
In terms of strategy for dealing with Greece, Aldrich gave the Greek team no hope of defeating the English team today!
Bang!
The entire stadium in Alvadra screamed.
Scholes walked back with his head in his hands, shook his head and let out a sigh.
His shot shocked the Greek team into a cold sweat. It was a very high-quality long shot, but it lacked some luck and bounced off the crossbar!
The first half ended after Scholes hit the crossbar with a long-range shot. The referee did not allow stoppage time because the game went very smoothly.
When the whistle sounded, Aldridge turned and walked towards the players' tunnel, his expression as usual, while Rehhagel looked worried. Looking at Aldridge's back, the feeling of powerlessness in his heart was very obvious.
"At the end of the first half, England and Greece were temporarily tied at 0:. Neither team created any obvious opportunities, and the first goal in the penalty area was zero. But there is a technical statistic that surprised us and is worth mentioning. England
The team completed 12 shots in the first half, and 7 of them hit the target! This statistic alone has exceeded the statistics of Portugal and Spain in the whole game against Greece. In 90 minutes
In the game, Spain and Portugal were the same. They only completed 11 shots in front of the Greek team, and only 2 shots hit the goal range. England, fans who did not watch the game live, may think that the England team played very fiercely.
But on the contrary, the England team did not send a single pass into the penalty area! This is really an incredible game. What on earth was Sir Hall thinking?" r1152
