With more than 20 years of working habits, Riley Vinson has already dismantled and analyzed the Hamburg team's attack in detail in his mind. Riley Vinson also made some speculations about the Hamburg team's offensive ideas.
Van Nistelrooy attracted two defensive midfielders at the top of the penalty area in the middle and then pushed the ball backwards. The vertical distance between the top of the penalty area and the center of the goal was .15m. After the ball was played backwards, the player in the back row got the ball.
That's a distance of more than thirty to forty meters.
Under normal circumstances, few teams regard long shots from this distance as tactics, so when the double defensive midfielders shrink the defense line, they will not go so far forward.
The parallel positioning of the two defenders effectively limits the opponent's breakthroughs on the wing to a certain extent, but it also sacrifices the level and depth of the center. Therefore, the defensive line of double midfielders in the center is indispensable.
Riley Vinson saw it very clearly. Hoffenheim adopted a double defensive midfielder position to strengthen the defense on the central axis, and then quickly returned to the defense with two forwards to establish the first defensive barrier. This routine was Fulham's last game.
A replica of the game against Hamburg.
But obviously, compared with the Fulham game, in this game against Hoffenheim, the Chinese player's position was further forward, and he was more than thirty or even forty meters away.
Long shots are also an offensive method that the Hamburg team can use well.
From this game, we can feel that this is how Hamburg used Hoffenheim to practice their offensive routines, and Chen Zhuo's sudden explosive performance under the guard of the opponent's players was so outstanding that it also shocked Riley Vinson!
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The offensive routine designed by Moniz and the coaching staff was originally proposed by Chen Zhuo, and Chen Zhuo also told them some relatively Chinese elements of this offensive idea, such as the use of a word called "junction."
In any regional defense, there will be "junctions" and "overlapping parts" between regions. The "Chinese elements" Chen Zhuo told Moniz and the coaching staff were some wars and defense zones in a certain era in China.
The story of the junction.
It is said that there was a white army with strong soldiers and horses, and a defense zone was set up to surround another red army. However, the red army used a clever method and often appeared and passed through the "junction" of the two defense zones.
No matter which defense zone mobilizes a large number of troops to the joint, there will be a gap in the defense zone where troops are mobilized...
Although they don't quite understand what color they are, everyone understands what Chen Zhuo means. According to this idea, the coaching staff will determine the passing point of Roberto or Teshe, and the placement point of Ruud van Nistelrooy's backward pass.
Made a plan specific to the surname.
Regarding how Chen Zhuo can suddenly start and get rid of it within three or four steps, in addition to speed, there are also some "protective" actions to avoid being entangled by the opponent at the moment of starting. Although the training time is only a few days, but
The cooperation between Teshe, Ze Roberto, Fanny and Chen Zhuo already has a foundation, and this type of drill for surnames is not that complicated.
In another place, London, England, Elia, Trokhovsky, Berg, etc. are also doing this kind of cooperation drill. Everyone's cooperation has a basis.
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Conceding the goal too early still had a slight impact on the mood of the Hoffenheim players. After conceding the ball, Rangnick also made slight adjustments to the deployment in response to the problem just now. Obasi withdrew to the left midfielder position to replace Eduardo. Eduardo
His position is between the double defensive midfielders and forward Ibisevic, like a shadow striker or an attacking midfielder.
Rangnick also used this adjustment to prevent Hamburg from using the "junction" between the forward and the defensive midfielder as a gap.
Riley Vinson in the stands disagreed. If it were him and Hodgson, they would rather adjust the four midfielders from parallel positions to diamond positions rather than reduce the strength of one striker!
Just watch, as the strength of the forwards decreases, the Chinese players who serve as central defenders in Hamburg will be more unscrupulous in assisting!
Indeed, as Riley Vinson thought, Chen Zhuo, who was listed at the center back position before the game, was further forward than the defensive midfielder, and Ruud Ruud was on the forward line. Hamburg's current formation is 3-
5-2 or even 3-4-3, because occasionally Chen Zhuo even rushed into the opponent's penalty area. He, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Peter were very much like Hamburg's three forwards cooperating in the opponent's half!
Hoffenheim's area defense in its own half is quite good. Midfielder Gustavo is marking Ruud van Nistelrooy, attacking midfielder Eduardo is fighting against Chen Zhuo, Weiss is running back and forth to fill in, and center back Simunic is in charge.
The defense lured Pietroipa into the "offside trap" time and time again, and Hoffenheim played with ease.
Hamburg's defense seems to be centered on the Chinese player. The young defensive players on the left and right wings did not play in the last game against Fulham. Now it seems that although their skills and experience are not special.
Seasoned, but good awareness and physical fitness make up for lack of experience.
The two young defensive players Riley Vinson mentioned, namely Spannell and Best, the Czech teenager and the German guy played very openly in this game without too much restraint.
Eduardo, one of the main sources of Hoffenheim's offense, is now entangled with Chen Zhuo. Although the "Bundesli second assists king" Salihovich and "Copycat Eto'o" Obasi frequently change positions, they can't get rid of him.
Pannell or Best are entangled like "sticking plasters", unable to launch a fast break before the opponent can all return to defense. They often finally get rid of these two guys through cooperation. When they look up, all Hamburg players have retreated.
In place.
As a result, Ibisevic, who was in front of Hoffenheim, could not receive the pass for a long time and virtually disappeared.
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In the first half of the game, the two sides fought very actively, but the scene was a bit dull. At the halftime period, the two sides still maintained a score of 1 to 0. The two teams only shot three and two times respectively. Except for Chen Zhuo, the Hamburg team
After that free kick, only Peter and Teshe each had one shot that was far away from the goal, and for Hoffenheim, only two non-threatening long shots from Obasi near the midfield.
In terms of corner kicks, the two sides were actually zero to zero. No one had any corner kicks. There were more throw-ins and free kicks near the sideline away from the goal. An offensive and defensive strangled battle near the midfield made the Hoffenheim fans dizzy.
Drowsy.
This kind of dullness and dullness is quite valuable in the eyes of Fulham assistant coach Riley Vinson, who was spying on the scene.
Obviously, throughout the first half, Hamburg was repeatedly testing the offensive routines around Ruud van Nistelrooy and Chen Zhuo, especially Ruud van Nistelrooy's two defensive midfielders to head back.
Four times, except for the one that caused a free kick, two of them resulted in a pass, that is, two shots from Peter and Teshe in the penalty area. Only once did Eduardo get ahead of Chen Zhuo and destroy it.
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Riley Vinson had an idea in his mind. If the one who headed the ball was not Ruud van Nistelrooy, but their Swedish forward named "Little Ibrahimovic", and then it was Ruud van Nistelrooy who was fighting for the top in the penalty area, how rich would it be?
Doesn't Lem's dangerousness need to be improved a lot? Obviously, the offensive Eduardo still has some difficulty in dealing with the Chinese player. I wonder if coach Rangnick will make any adjustments in the second half.
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During the halftime break, the first to make adjustments was the Hamburg team, which was leading by one goal.
From Chen Zhuo's point of view, the outcome of this game is an important aspect, but the offensive drills for the parallel positioning of the two defenders and the regional defense system are even more important, so he did not think about how to keep this game.
A one-to-zero victory, but continued to practice the offensive routine through adjustments.
It was Pietroipa who was replaced and replaced by Korean youngster Son Heung-min. It seemed that this was a matchup substitution between forwards.
Hoffenheim head coach Rangnick's first judgment is that compared to Pietroipa and Son Heung-min, African players prefer dribbling and improvisation, and Korean players may be better in executing tactical coordination.
From a personal style point of view, Son Heung-min is actually not a point-grabbing player, but rather a shadow forward type. Regarding Hamburg's matchup substitutions, Rangnick obviously did not feel too much of a threat.
However, the performance of the Hamburg team after this substitution was far beyond Rangnick's expectations. Riley Vinson in the stands also had an unspeakable worry. For a while, Riley Vinson couldn't sum up the specific reason why.
