The United Arab Emirates did not appear too anxious after conceding the ball. They still continued to take steps according to their slow pace, and the players did not seem to have any psychological impact from conceding the ball.
Pressure, from this point of view, the psychological quality of this UAE team, with most of them under the age of 21, is still very good.
Another reason is that when the UAE conceded a goal, it was only in the first fifteen or six minutes, and they still had a lot of time.
If it were their home stadium in West Asia, with the accompaniment of their Islamic-style West Asian background music, they could indeed play slowly according to this rhythm. However, the current background music obviously does not match what they are doing.
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The melody of the Chinese song that was sung by 20,000 people in the stands was adapted from the ancient song "General's Order". It is a song used by war drums to urge troops to march, which made the Hong Kong players who are very familiar with this melody and song feel extremely excited!
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In the UAE's offensive and defensive system, ball control tactics are the core of its tactics.
Ball possession tactics believe that, in terms of physical exertion, the physical exertion of a side running without the ball is nearly twice as high as that of a side playing possession tactics.
For teams in West Asia, except for Iran, which is the northernmost geographically, and plays with power, the other countries along the Gulf coast all use this kind of physical-saving ball control tactics based on delicate footwork and superb skills.
The style of football is actually closely related to the geographical environment of the country. For example, the Nordic style is completely different from the style of Spain and Portugal, which is located at the southern tip of the European continent.
By the way, modern football theory has done a scientific analysis based on the football styles of various countries and the geographical environment of the countries where they are located, and found that countries in the cold, temperate and tropical zones have certain scientific rules for their football styles.
As we all know, exercise will intensify the work of people's circulatory system, leading to an increase in body temperature. The human body must activate the heat dissipation function for thermal balance to maintain a constant body temperature and maintain normal metabolism and physiological functions. This heat dissipation function mainly relies on the evaporation of sweat.
Completed, and also closely related to the external environment temperature, humidity, wind speed, etc.
Therefore, playing football in these climate conditions, running in a wide range of cold and temperate zones, and long-distance passing and hanging tactics are physically difficult for athletes to withstand. In order to control the body temperature within the range of 39-40 degrees Celsius, the only effective way is
That is to increase the time for individuals to dribble and control the ball, put most players in a standby state, and minimize large-scale fast running. At the same time, football in tropical areas does not advocate long shots, because long shots consume the greatest amount of instant physical energy.
Over time, countries under these climatic conditions have gradually formed a football style adapted to the tropical climate: superb personal basic skills, delicate footwork, good physical flexibility, skillful short passing coordination, mainly ground attack, flexible
Changeable. Facing the strong defensive systems of cold and temperate teams, only by relying on superb ball control skills can we burrow like loaches among giants. This is how South American teams, especially Brazil, deal with Europeans.
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Guangzhou is located on the Tropic of Cancer and is also a tropical city. In November, the temperature north of the Yellow River in China has even reached below zero. However, in the absence of cold air, the lowest temperature in Guangzhou is still around 10 degrees Celsius, and the highest temperature during the day is still
It will be over 30 degrees, which is not particularly different from the climate conditions in the Bay Area.
After analyzing the Hong Kong team's opponents in the group stage and the situation in the entire half of the zone, Baggio believes that it is very likely that the Hong Kong team will enter the top 16 as second in the group or third with the best results, and the opponents in the group stage,
It is a West Asian team, two Central Asian and South Asian teams. If they pass the group stage, they will probably have to deal with West Asian teams until they reach the semi-finals!
From this perspective, in the days before the Asian Games, Baggio spent a lot of energy on preparing the players to reserve their physical fitness. This is also the reason.
Baggio also formulated a series of specific measures, including how to reserve physical fitness in training and how to distribute it in the game, how to increase the opponent's physical exertion through changes in rhythm, and how to adjust the rhythm to keep players on the court.
Rest on rotation...
The three elements of football in modern football theory are strength, technology and speed. In Baggio's view, technology includes two aspects. Basic skills such as dribbling, control, delivery and shooting are of course important, but the proper use of strength, speed and physical fitness are of course important.
Reasonable distribution, these scientific technologies are also technologies!
Those basic skills improve a lot overnight, but through scientific and technical means, power and speed can be rationally used and distributed, and tactics can be used to suppress the opponent's strengths, give full play to one's own strengths, exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses, and focus on those that can be improved in a short period of time.
To improve, start from the little things!
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Regarding Matar, this point was the focus of Baggio's defense against the Hong Kong team. Compared with their two warm-up matches against the National Youth Team and the National Olympic Team, in this game, the Hong Kong team targeted Matar.
Your defense can be described as "unceremonious"!
UAE Olympic coach Riha Mahdi has coached national youth teams at all levels in the past, and has also participated in the Asian Youth Championship and World Youth Championship. He has relatively rich experience in international competitions. Faced with the fierce counterattack of the Hong Kong team, he continued to
He made a hand-down gesture to the players, signaling them not to be impatient and that there was still time.
In Mahdi's view, the Hong Kong team's style of play cannot last. According to the weather forecast he has learned, the current temperature of the stadium is about 10 degrees Celsius, and the relative air humidity is 80%. It is relatively sultry, and the players' sweat evaporation and heat dissipation effect is not good.
Calculate it.
Now the players of the Hong Kong team, especially their midfielders and frontcourt players, are indeed running actively, but in just over 30 minutes, their jerseys are already soaked through. With this style of play, it is impossible for these players to support 90
minutes!
Baggio was also watching the time. Gasson had already moved to the right midfielder position. In the three-person pressing team against Matar, Ouyang Yaochong had already switched positions with him, and Chen Zhuo had withdrawn from the attacking midfielder position.
At the midfielder position, Xu Deshuai also took over Chen Zhuo's position in the three-man pressing team, and Chen Zhaoqi's running speed also decreased.
The personnel were rotated on the field, but the high-pressure situation was maintained against Matar.
Under this kind of pressing, the UAE also had to try to reduce the number of times the ball passed through Matar, and let other players in the midfield organize it.
As long as Matar is not in possession of the ball, the Hong Kong team will not adopt this tight-marking strategy. The left and right midfielders and Chen Zhuo will maintain their marking at a distance.
When the United Arab Emirates passed the ball near their own half, the Hong Kong team adopted the strategy of using the wide midfielders and defensive midfielders to close the door and sweep the man-marking central defender to destroy it.
When switching offense and defense, the Hong Kong team's routine is also very clear. First, it creates an opportunity to advance quickly from the side through a pass, driving the UAE team's frontcourt players in the Hong Kong team to collectively sprint towards the rear half.
, and then when the wide players find that the opportunity is not good, they will call it back to the back half and hand it back to Chen Zhuo for organization.
When the ball was handed to Chen Zhuo, the Hong Kong team began to play small-scale cooperation near the midfield, attracting the UAE team to counterattack. Their marking and containment of Chen Zhuo was like the Hong Kong team marking and containing Marta.
You are equally welcome.
After attracting the players of the UAE team, Chen Zhuo will cooperate with his teammates laterally and laterally to further attract the UAE players to surround and attack. Similar to the tactics of the UAE team, the Hong Kong team also uses ball control tactics to attract opponents.
It causes the opponent's physical strength to be exhausted, and both sides are using the same routine.
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With 5 minutes left in the first half, with Baggio's gesture, the Hong Kong team's pressing scope further expanded. It was originally just a three-person team's defense against the UAE's core players, but now it suddenly expanded to the entire defense line in advance.
Press and mark!
The entire defense line of the Hong Kong team moved forward by as much as 15 meters, and the formation also underwent great adjustments.
Rong Aping and Zhai Tingfeng both pushed past halftime to participate in the pressing, with Xie Jiaqiang trailing at the back of the team and goalkeeper Liang Xingjie even standing at the forefront of the penalty area!
If you had not watched the game earlier, you would have thought that this was the last 5 minutes of the game and the Hong Kong team was lagging behind!
This sudden change in rhythm caught the UAE players off guard. At this time, it was no longer the experienced "Gulf Maradona" who controlled the rhythm of the game. The Hong Kong team suddenly launched a violent press.
Under this situation, the UAE team frequently made mistakes!
The coach of the UAE team, Mahdi, shouted eagerly from the sidelines to ask the players to pay attention to their positions and formations. But at this time, he could not solve the problem by shouting twice. He pressed fiercely in the middle and quickly turned to the side after getting the ball.
Guo Jianbang or Ouyang Yaochong pulled widely along the sideline, and the UAE players were forced to run and fill in at the rhythm of the Hong Kong team, constantly destroying the ball out of the sideline through tackles.
This is also a specific arrangement made by Baggio for the UAE team, and at the same time, it fully takes into account the physical limits of the Hong Kong team players.
If it were the German team, it would be a very simple matter to press them for sixty or seventy minutes and tear their defense system to pieces, just like the 8-0 match between Germany and Saudi Arabia in the 2006 World Cup.
This kind of full-court press and marking is achieved.
For the Hong Kong team, although they have gone through a one-day period of intensive physical training in advance and their physical reserves have increased, it is obvious that most of the players are unable to execute this pressing and man-marking tactic throughout the game.
Therefore, Baggio's plan was to press and mark the whole court in the first five minutes of the first half to test the referee's penalty scale and let him get used to this rhythm. This test basically achieved the expected effect.
In the next 15 minutes, it was adjusted to focus on pressing and man-to-man steals, trying to score goals through counterattacks in the frontcourt. This tactical design has also been realized.
In the next few minutes, the Hong Kong team continued to focus on pressing against Matar and blocking and stealing. At the same time, the players were rotated, and gradually slowed down the pace, appropriately returning the defense line to their own half, allowing the players to
In this way, physical strength is distributed and adjusted.
With five minutes left before the end of the first half, Baggio made a gesture to ask the players to speed up again, and this time asked Rong Aping and Zhai Tingfeng, who had not consumed much physical energy in the first half, to go to the front to participate in the press.
Xie Jiaqiang was left alone in the backcourt, and the rest of the players participated in the attack and counterattack in the frontcourt.
Including the 1 minute of stoppage time in the first half, the UAE team experienced six minutes of fear. For them, the referee's half-time whistle was like the sound of nature. Mahdi couldn't help but cover his chest with both hands and thank him.
His Allah has protection for him and the Emirates Team.
For the Hong Kong team, these six minutes were a pity. In the six minutes, the Hong Kong team got 3 corner kicks and a total of 7 shots. But in the end, it was a pity that they did not expand the score. Even Chen Zhuo's long shot was missed by the UAE team.
The goalkeeper made a magical save!
That was Chen Zhuo's shot when he was double-teamed by two UAE players. In the defensive system, preventing Chen Zhuo's long-range shot is an important subject for the UAE. This also led to the fact that although Chen Zhuo grabbed the point, he did not have enough space to adjust his angle and angle.
The strength is relatively weak.
This is also the result of Baggio's reasonable formulation and arrangement of tactics. In the 45 minutes of the first half, the Hong Kong team effectively restricted the UAE team tactically and at the same time played to its own strengths.
CCTV's commentator Duan Shucheng praised the match as if it was a match between the South Korean team and the United Arab Emirates. Netizens who watched the live broadcast complained during the interaction that this Hong Kong team had defeated the Hong Kong team without Chen Zhuo and other five major European players.
The Korean team defeated the Korean team not once but twice in a row in the East Asian Games and the East Asian Cup!
Zhang Jun, who was commentating on this game on Hong Kong TV, did not compare the Hong Kong team to any other team. Instead, he used the commentary to talk about the "Chen and Li Incident" that still has not subsided. Now because Chen Zhuo said "China is the second-rate in Asia"
" and "Hong Kong can win the Asian Games championship" were taken out of context. Chen Zhuo's nickname was also called "Chen Dapao" to cancel the meaning of his nonsense.
Zhang Jun said that the UAE team is the seed team in this group, while the Hong Kong team is the third-tier team. However, judging from the situation on the field, the Hong Kong team is no worse than the UAE team in terms of momentum and situation. If it were not for their
The goalkeeper played bravely. At the end of the first half, the score of the Hong Kong team might be 2:0 or even 3:0!
Zhang Jun objectively commented that in terms of overall strength, although the addition of five major European aids has greatly increased Hong Kong's strength, the thinking of "upstarts" who have reached the pinnacle of Asia overnight is not the thinking mode of Hong Kong people. However,
Through this game, people saw the importance of reasonable tactics.
Compared with the United Arab Emirates, the technical abilities of most players are more than one level behind, and they do not even have the ability to gain a foothold in the top league in the United Arab Emirates. However, as everyone has seen with their own eyes, Coach Baggio has made it possible now through strengthening and blending in just two months.
This Hong Kong team has given all Hong Kong people a bright feeling.
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"Okay, boys! The second half of the game is about to begin. Go ahead and trample your opponents one by one!" Baggio pointed at the door of the locker room and encouraged the players loudly.
There were singing and cheering outside, and they were having a lot of fun during the intermission. (To be continued.)
