When the game whistle blew, Chen Zhuo had completely entered football mode. All the messy things, worries, and things that might cause his depression were all thrown away. At this time, what was on his mind was what Baggio had arranged before the game.
His tactics and position on the field are constant running and directing by shouting to his teammates.
Baggio's understanding of the UAE team before the game was through the videos of two warm-up matches, namely in September in Zibo, Shandong, China, against the Chinese National Youth Team where Su Maozhen was the head coach, and in October against the Chinese National Olympic Team.
This is the Chinese team with Sun Wei as the head coach in this Asian Games.
In those two games, the UAE team won one and drew one, beating the National Youth Team 1:0 and drawing 1:1 with the Olympic Games. The purpose of these two warm-up matches was obviously to adapt to Hong Kong, which is also an East Asian team.
Team.
There are 14 Olympic-age players in the UAE Olympic team. They basically use this Asian Games as a practical training ground for the 2012 London Olympics. This is consistent with the purpose of most countries.
The UAE football team also continues the typical delicate style of West Asian football. According to Baggio's evaluation, the personal technical abilities of the players in this UAE team are more delicate than the Korean players participating in the Asian Games.
Loose discipline, poor tactical execution, and poor confrontation are obvious shortcomings of West Asian football. However, judging from those two warm-up matches, this UAE team has a stronger tactical awareness than other West Asian teams. This is also the case in recent years.
A change in West Asian football, the technical stream led by Saudi Arabia, has also begun to strengthen strength and confrontation exercises.
In the two games against the Chinese National Youth and National Olympic Games, the Chinese team also used long-pass attacks to speed up the tempo, and strengthened the pressure in the frontcourt. However, this UAE team is facing
This "Specialized West Asia" style of play has shown strong ability in terms of overall positioning and systematic defense of mutual defense.
In the warm-up match, whether it was a one-goal victory over the National Youth Team or a one-on-one draw with the National Olympics, the UAE team used its overall defense to block the opponent's indiscriminate bombardment, and then started to control the ball from the backcourt, and through patient
Passing and short passing penetration win opportunities.
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"Beep~~~" the referee blew the whistle and called a foul on Garson. Garson looked at the referee innocently, thinking that his action was completely a steal under a reasonable collision situation. Chen Zhuo also ran over to communicate with the Australian referee in English.
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After all, the Hong Kong team is considered half of their home court. Although it is only a small stadium with 20,000 people, the atmosphere of the stadium is still very good. The Australian referee only gave a verbal warning and did not show a yellow card.
This was the Hong Kong team's third foul in the second minute of the game and also Gasson's second personal foul.
This was Baggio's tactical requirement. He asked Gasson and Chen Zhuo to make slightly larger movements in the first five minutes of the game to "test" the referee's penalty scale.
The Hong Kong team is not a power-based team. This is a style that almost everyone agrees with. Like the southern style of Guangdong, the Hong Kong team also prefers small-scale cooperation or personal dribbling breakthroughs. In a small space,
Escape and advancement are achieved through beautiful and delicate technical movements in the space.
However, after watching the UAE's warm-up match, the players admitted that the technical sophistication of most players is not as good as that of the UAE players. After all, the UAE is also one of the second-rate teams in Asia, at the same level as the Chinese team...
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Here I will briefly mention Baggio's classification of Asian football, and also compare and contrast the differences between Baggio's classification and Chen Zhuo's classification.
Baggio's criteria for a top team in Asia are that they have entered at least two World Cups, reached at least two Asian Cup finals and won at least one Asian Cup.
After sorting it out, the only four teams that meet the conditions are Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Japan, plus Australia, which has just joined the AFC. Baggio believes that these five teams are the first in Asia. So,
FIFA's World Cup quota for Asia is 4.5, which makes sense. Chen Zhuo also agrees with this.
For a second-rate team, Baggio's standard is very simple, that is, in the last three World Cup qualifiers, at least two have entered the Asian finals, three World Cup qualifiers, and two consecutive qualifying finals.
If you haven't even entered, what qualifications do you have to say you are a "first-class team"?
According to Baggio's standards, in the top ten in 2002, the quarterfinals in 2006 and
In the top ten competition in 2010, in addition to the five first-class teams, there are six teams that have reached this stage twice or more, namely Bahrain (3 times), Uzbekistan (3 times), and Iraq (2 times)
), North Korea (2 times), UAE (2 times), Qatar (2 times), strictly speaking, these six teams are Asia's "second-rate teams"! And among them, there is no Chinese team at all!
In this regard, Chen Zhuo believes that from a historical and fundamental perspective, both Kuwait and China have had the experience of participating in the main stage of the World Cup, and in the Asian Cup, both countries have entered the finals twice. Kuwait
After winning the championship once, the Chinese team has no championship experience. From this perspective, these two countries can also be included in the "second-rate" ranks...
Of course, this was just an indicator for Baggio's overall review of Asian football and a reasonable positioning of the Hong Kong team, and it was not an authoritative ranking, so the two did not discuss it further.
For Hong Kong, the next effort is to move themselves up a level and enter the ranks of the "second-rate teams", just like moving from the C-level to the B-level.
It has reached the top ten stage twice in three World Cup qualifiers, reached at least two finals in the Asian Cup, and won at least one championship... It is not easy to be second-rate in Asia.
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The UAE national team is second-rate in Asia, but this UAE Asian Games team is not. There are only 7 players among them who have participated in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. So from this perspective, the Hong Kong team faces in this Asian Games
The UAE team is only at the level of a third-rate team in Asia.
However, after adding five players who played in the European League, the Hong Kong team can already consider impacting Asia's "Second Division" ranking!
The reason why many superstars came to Guangzhou Huadu to watch the game so enthusiastically is because the Hong Kong team's three warm-up matches in Europe ignited their enthusiasm and gave them hope. Although they can't imagine that this team will be like
The miracle of winning the championship at the East Asian Games reappears, but there are already expectations for victory!
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The test of the referee's law enforcement standards at the beginning is a kind of experience. The referee did not show a yellow card within 5 minutes, which basically shows that the referee's law enforcement standards in this game are still relatively loose... This kind of standard is very important for a team with five players.
Players competing in European competitions are undoubtedly a good thing.
And this kind of test is very necessary, otherwise both sides will be polite at the beginning, and the referee will gradually know the scale of both sides. After a while, the opponent will use delicate footwork to rush left and right in the Hong Kong team's formation.
Suddenly, he screamed in pain and rolled in his vagina... It’s not like West Asian teams have never used this trick before!
After all, the members of this UAE team are all young players, all of whom are playing in domestic leagues. 7 of the 11 players on the field were born after **, and there are only 3 overage players. Young players are still relatively angry.
Damn, after being violated many times by Hong Kong team players, their actions inevitably became louder...
In this case, they were fooled. When they started to block and tackle when they didn't have the ball instead of relying on the overall formation to squeeze, they fell into Baggio's tactical trap!
The formation arranged by Baggio is 3-5-2, with Liang Xingjie as goalkeeper, and the starting three defenders are Rong Aping, Zhai Tingfeng, and Xie Jiaqiang. Rong Aping is still behind, and Zhai Tingfeng and Xie Jiaqiang serve as sweeping man-marking central defenders.
The double defensive midfielders are Lin Zhijian and Xu Deshuai. The two of them have a tacit understanding of cooperation, including the triangle counterattack tactics with the left and right midfielders and attacking midfielder Chen Zhuo.
Left midfielder Guo Jianbang and right midfielder Ouyang Yaochong. After the game against Hamburg, Ouyang Yaochong showed more and more confidence, and his dribbling and breakthroughs from the wing became more and more determined.
The starting forwards are Chen Zhaoqi and Gasson. Baggio named Gasson a "sweeping forward". In addition to serving as a tactical support point in offense, he is also responsible for implementing the slow UAE defense line in defense.
Counter-grab and sweep to disrupt their rhythm.
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Following Baggio's gesture, Guo Jianbang and Ouyang Yaochong continued to lob passes into the penalty area from 45 degrees. Gasson and Chen Zhaoqi used their physical advantages to jostle their opponents and strive for opportunities to score.
The tactics of the UAE team were very strange. It was completely different from the 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 they adopted in the warm-up match. After the match went on for a while, Baggio saw clearly that the UAE actually adopted 5-4-1.
In a dense defensive formation, the single arrow is their 21-year-old forward Ahmed Hariri. Their team's number one star, 'year-old Imesl Matar, was placed in the defensive midfielder position by their local coach
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But is this an attempt to play a defensive counterattack? Defensive counterattacks require players with speed. The UAE team does not seem to have such a counterattack forward. The 2003 World Youth Championships of the year-old Imesl Matar
The "star of hope"
The hero of the West Asian Football Association's "Gulf Cup" championship in 2007, he is also the winner of the Golden Ball and Golden Boot. He is known as the "Gulf Maradona". Matar, who is 1.68 meters tall and weighs 68 kilograms, is known for his delicate skills and dribbling.
Speed is not his strong point.
Ahmed Hariri, who is 1.80 meters tall and weighs 74 kilograms, is considered tall among the technical teams in the Gulf countries. However, due to the style and characteristics of the UAE's steady and steady advancement, at least what Baggio saw
In the warm-up match data, we did not see the UAE using defensive counterattack tactics, nor did we find that Hariri had amazing speed potential.
Sure enough, when several offenses and defenses came together, Baggio discovered that the UAE was indeed intensively defensive, but they were not in a hurry to launch a quick counterattack and played very cautiously. (To be continued.)
