In early winter, England fans focus on the national team's friendly matches, and the Football Association's propaganda has spread all over the streets.
In 2000, in this special year, the finale of the year at Wembley was England VS Brazil!
When choosing opponents for friendly matches, Aldridge gave advice to the FA to choose strong teams as much as possible!
In the qualifying round itself, only Germany is considered a strong team in the group. The other opponents are all weak teams of different levels. England does not need to use weak teams in friendly matches to gain experience. It is in the name of building confidence and adjusting the formation.
Friendly matches are also image projects after all, especially if they are played locally. The FA does not want to lose face, nor does it want to go against Aldridge's suggestions. The two are in the honeymoon period, and the coach's words still have a certain weight.
The FA looked at the top international teams and finally selected Brazil. They generously gave the Brazilian Football Association a large appearance fee. The FA seemed generous and generous. They had just signed a sponsorship agreement with a new sponsor and the national team needed to polish it up.
A signature, of course, requires a significant supporting cast. Otherwise, if England finds a team like Iceland or Andorra to play a friendly match, the sponsors may not be happy.
This friendly match is full of gimmicks.
In the past three years, Brazil has been the winner of two continental competitions. They have won the America's Cup in 1997 and 1999, and they were the runner-up in the 1998 World Cup. Just looking at their record, they are more influential than England.
But after Aldridge received the notice from the FA to finalize the friendly match, he felt that the FA was too cunning.
Not to mention the disadvantages of the Brazilian team playing away games, after all, many of their players are playing in Europe. For example, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho Carlos, Cafu and so on.
Not to mention that the most famous alien, Ronaldo, is still recovering from injury at Inter Milan, which has weakened the team's combat effectiveness.
Just because of Brazil's recent chaos, the fighting ability of this national team is really unflattering.
The 1998 World Cup runner-up shocked the whole country of Brazil, and even held a hearing to investigate the game. Legendary coach Zagallo resigned and Luxenberg took over.
Rosenborg led Brazil to defend the America's Cup, and for a while he had all the power in the Brazilian national team. He was regarded as a mythical figure by Brazilian fans, but after passing the peak of defending the America's Cup, Rosenborg fell into one scandal after another.
, the affair with the secretary, recruiting members of the national team to ask for black money, illegal transactions, etc., at the same time. The World Cup South American qualifiers begin.
Earlier, the Brazilian national team suffered a six-game losing streak in the World Cup qualifiers, and the hope of participating in the World Cup became increasingly slim. The voice of Rosenborg's dismissal was heard. In order to restore trust, he personally led the Brazilian Olympic team three months ago.
Olympic Games. As a result, Cameroon was humiliatingly blocked from the top four. Rosenborg was ordered to step down and Leo took over.
After losing consecutive games in the qualifiers and facing a change of coach, such a disorganized Brazilian national team that may not even have a tactical system can be best described in four words: strong on the outside but dry on the inside.
On paper, they are very strong, but their actual combat effectiveness is just the opposite.
The opponent chosen by the FA really made Aldridge dumbfounded, but after comforting himself from another angle, he felt that it was pretty good.
The growing England meets the chaotic Brazil. No matter what happens, at least this opponent can arouse the desire of the entire England team to fight.
In the pre-match interview, Aldridge still said that "friendly matches don't matter the outcome."
It was originally planned to close Wembley last month, but Aldridge requested a one-month delay to allow the England national team to complete the national team games this year and then move to other stadiums for home games.
During the renovation of Wembley, the national team's home stadium can be hosted through bidding. Old Trafford, Lion King Stadium, etc. are all powerful alternative stadiums.
The fans who came to Wembley today not only brought cameras, but many also brought simple tools, intending to dismantle the seats in the stands and take them home as souvenirs after the game...
When the national team held its first training camp in the Aldridge era last month, the team focused on trying to get in touch. More than a month later, the players gathered again, and they were full of confidence and high morale.
Today, the performance was slightly stable. At least the technical and tactical framework of the team was clear and clear. The football IQ and experience of these players allowed them to integrate into the tactical system as quickly as possible.
Aldrich sat on the coach's bench and watched the game with a tepid expression. The 22 players on the field were fighting fiercely. The scene was exciting because both teams had their own characteristics.
Brazilian players are very, very strong!
The unpredictable Rivaldo, Ronaldinho who dances like a football on his toes, and Carlos who has explosive power with a rocket launcher on his back...
When Brazilian players touch the ball on the court, it brings people enjoyment.
But they are only strong as individuals. The individual players are extremely capable, playing samba football on the field, free and romantic and full of poetic rhythm, but they fail to integrate into a team or a whole.
England does not have players with outstanding individual dribbling and ball control abilities, but they play very holistically, and the speed of their offensive advancement is also a highlight on the field.
The reason why the scene is wonderful and exciting is because the two teams are attacking each other and can quickly advance the offense into the frontcourt. The back and forth between them makes the fans' heartbeats rise and fall.
Brazil relies on individual ability to lead the way with points, while England relies on the overall rapid advancement. Brazil cannot prevent England's unexpected attack point and then inserts the opponent's advancement strategy. England takes the initiative to retreat the defense zone and does not dare to press forward too much. Otherwise, it will be beaten by the opponent.
Scenarios of people making breakthroughs one after another are likely to happen frequently.
"Rivaldo passed Butt again! Fortunately, Southgate intercepted him at the right time. Otherwise, if he had passed, England's gate would have been in danger! Today, although England's defense was broken one-on-one, the number of times
Very much, but they relied on teamwork and zone defense to very well limit Brazil's fatal passes or fatal blows in dangerous areas. Southgate repeatedly resolved dangerous situations, and Beckham and Lampard's supplementary defense on the midfielder line
It’s also very critical.”
One-on-one defense wants to completely restrict Brazil. This is a fantasy. In other words, England's defensive players basically have no advantage when facing the strikers of the top national team one-on-one. Without relying on the team's strategic zone defense, defense
It's just a flaw.
Aldridge took out his notebook and recorded the problems he discovered during the game.
Irving was on the bench today, and instead of using Heskey, he started Smith. Judging from the effect, it was almost a waste of a starting spot.
Brazil's offense will quickly hand the ball to the frontcourt players. Even if Smith works hard on defense, he can't rush back from the front to the backcourt, right?
During the attack, after the speed came out, Smith's ability to hit the front line and threaten the goal was dissatisfactory. In other words, it was the huge gap between his running ability and Owen's that led to this phenomenon. England's threatening offense all came from the midfield. Insertion
The upper back waist or the two front waists are inserted forward.
Although there are also some problems in the execution of other tactics, these can be solved by further grinding by the players, rather than defects that cannot be improved.
In the 36th minute of the first half, England counterattacked, and Lampard made a long diagonal pass to the left side of the Brazilian defense. That was the place where Carlos couldn't get back in time when he assisted. McManaman made a special move when switching from defense to offense.
Run this point to prepare for the response.
He stopped the ball on the sideline, then dribbled the ball down to the bottom. When he was approaching the baseline and attracted the Brazilian defense to retreat deeper, he suddenly passed the ball back. Beckham, who followed up from behind, stopped the ball and made an adjustment in one step. Golden right
Foot cross.
Why is Beckham's Full Moon Scimitar called a stunt? Is it unique?
In addition to his high efficiency in scoring goals from set kicks, there is another point, that is, the arc of his cross is weird.
In many of his passes and assists, you can often see an incredible phenomenon.
The ball was obviously very close to the goalkeeper, so why didn't the goalkeeper immediately expand his defensive range and rush out to catch the ball or punch it out?
It is because of the large arc and fast speed of Beckham's cross, especially the visual impact caused by the sudden drop, that it is most likely for the goalkeeper to make mistakes in judgment. When he first sees the flight path of the ball, he feels that the ball may go out of bounds.
, or fall to the back point, but as the arc becomes more and more obvious, and it spins and falls extremely fast, the goalkeeper becomes in a dilemma. If he rushes out again, the timing is wrong, he does not rush, and the defense becomes more difficult.
This time, the same thing happened. When Becks' cross flew out, it seemed that it would land in the small penalty area in front of the goalkeeper. However, after the ball fell in an arc, it passed through the area between the Brazilian center back and the goalkeeper.
It went around and landed behind the goal, near the small penalty area line.
This kind of ball not only puts the goalkeeper in a dilemma, but also interferes with the defender. The defender immediately thought that it was the ball that the goalkeeper was holding, and his awareness of protection was lax. However, the result was that a ghostly figure appeared at the back point, and the defender did not stop the ball.
With a volley shot, the ball went from the near corner into the top corner of the Brazilian goal.
"Beckham passed the ball, Scholes shot from behind, a beautiful goal! England 1:0 Brazil, who else questions the lack of wing attack in England coached by Hall? Lampard's long pass placement
On the right wing, McManaman went down and knocked the ball back to Beckham. He passed the ball from the wing and assisted Scholes to score. This is a familiar English scoring pattern."
There were loud cheers at Wembley, and Beckham and Scholes were running around the sidelines with their arms around each other, laughing wildly.
Aldridge stood up to applaud the team's goal, then sat back.
He is very happy that the players can understand his tactical layout. In his tactics, the midfielders and backfielders need to use their brains to play football and increase their vision of the ball.
In every attack, the only fixed point is Scholes in the middle. So when advancing from back to front, the ball selection must require players to consciously observe the situation in the frontcourt. Just now, Lampard made a long pass from the backcourt to instigate the attack.
Reflecting this, McManaman ran to the place with the largest space, Lampard
The effect of the long pass is actually only average, forcing McManaman to get the ball on the sideline, which wastes time. If the pass can be better, McManaman can directly cut inside, and then he can only go down to attract the opponent's defense.
, when Carlos ran back to double-team him, he passed the ball back to Beckham.
When Beckham passed the ball, McManaman slanted into the penalty area to grab the front point, and Smith was also in the middle of the goal. The two of them simultaneously created space for Scholes to outflank the back point. In the mobile attack, this time the cooperation was very good.
Wonderful, every player on the offensive end played an important role.
