"Close him, press him! Kick your butt! A-Jian, A-Jian! Okay!"
Chen Zhuo was running around, observing the situation, and shouting commands.
As Chen Zhuo shouted, Porto midfielder Gu Alin made a step and turned around, avoiding Lin Zhijian's fierce tackle, and passed the ball laterally with a flick of his ankle.
At this time, Chen Zhaoqi, the only single arrow, had already returned to the defense near the top of the penalty area. One of his tackles swept the ball to the side. Marking center defender Zhai Tingfeng quickly came up to protect the ball with his body and knocked it back gently.
Chen Zhuo has already moved over.
"Good shot! Well done Xiaoqi! Fengzi, hold on! Right, right! Orange is running!"
Chen Zhuo kept giving instructions through shouting, glanced left and right, and then swung the ball to the corner flag area on the right. Ju Yingzhi's starting speed and position were better than Garson on the left...
Armero, the left back from Udinese, ran over quickly, bumped into Ju Yingzhi with his body, and used his body to cover the ball as it went out of the sideline, disrupting the Hong Kong team's counterattack.
After the opening fifteen minutes, the Colombian team had an average of one shot per minute, three corner kicks and a frontcourt free kick. However, the Hong Kong team's only two counterattacks, one went out of the sideline and one went out of the baseline, failed to form a goal.
A real threat.
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"From the beginning to the present, this Chinese player who performed well in the Italian league launched two attacks, but his teammates obviously failed to match his rhythm..." Regarding the performance of the Hong Kong team, the South American commentator of the cup also said
They politely expressed their dissatisfaction. As South Americans who are accustomed to offensive football and delicate coordination, they found it incomprehensible and unreasonable to the Hong Kong team's style of play.
The live TV camera showed Baggio standing on the sidelines with his arms folded. Baggio was not too anxious about the current situation of being passively beaten. As a third-rate team in Asia, there is a huge gap with any of the ten South American teams.
Baggio is very clear about this gap. If you use these strong teams as warm-up opponents to see the world, and then return to Asia to deal with those strong Asian teams, you will have more confidence and less worries!
As for this 5-4-1 formation, Baggio also made special emphasis on it. Baggio even asked someone to translate a professional textbook on chain defense called "Marking". During Baggio's break in plateau physical training,
, which uses this set of teaching materials and a large number of chain defense videos to allow players to learn theoretical knowledge.
The book "Marking" is written by the meritorious coach who created the era of Inter Milan, Heleno Herrera, an Argentinian. He developed the "horizontal and vertical cross chain defense" based on the chain defense.
In the book "Marking", the Argentinian claimed that this tactic "can bleed from the stone"!
Relying on this set of defensive tactics, Inter Milan in the old Herrera era won the Serie A championship in the 196465 and 196566 seasons. Starting from the 196364 season, it reached the finals for three consecutive years and won the championship again in the 196364 and 196465 seasons.
Inter Milan has won a total of three Champions League championships. Except for Mourinho's 10 years, the previous two were brought to Inter Milan by Herrera Sr., who coached from 1960 to 1969.
The ten years of this decade are also the only period known as the "Great Inter Milan Era". The foundation of the giants was laid in those ten years. Inter Milan, which has a history of hundreds of years, even Mourinho has not surpassed this deceased man.
legend.
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During his time in Hamburg, Chen Zhuo, with the assistance of his assistant coach, also engaged in a chain defense for a period of time, and combined himself and Ruud van Nistelrooy to come up with hinges, files, double free men and other transformations. However, during this plateau training
After listening to Baggio's systematic explanation of "Marking" for a month, Chen Zhuo realized that he only knew the surface of the chain defense!
The basic "horizontal and vertical cross chain defense" is a 4-4-2 formation, with two full-backs, a marking center back and a sweeper, and four midfielders positioned in a diamond shape to form a deep and intersecting defensive formation.
In terms of tactical play, the midfielder has a huge area of activity and needs to return to the back line or even defend in the penalty area, forming a deep, complex and strong defensive network. Tactically, players will be required to actively defend at all costs, and
Fierce and timely use of tactical fouls.
This manuscript of "Marking" has only 41 verses, but it is equipped with a large number of tactical diagrams. It has detailed descriptions of the styles of various teams at the time, including the tactics of strong teams such as Real Madrid and Juventus at the time.
Weakness analysis and detailed explanations of targeted defenses are very, very detailed.
Combining the theory of Herrera Sr. and on the basis of the "horizontal and vertical cross chain defense", Baggio made modifications and adjustments according to the characteristics of the Hong Kong team, positioning the style of the Hong Kong team in the next 4 to 8 years.
In Baggio's tailor-made tactics for the Hong Kong team, it is actually a "cross position" of 1-4-4-1.
Deep-lying central defender Rong Aping, sweeping double-marking central defenders Zhai Tingfeng and Xie Jiaqiang, and left and right full-backs Luo Gangwei and Chen Weihao. The range of activity of these five players does not exceed half the court. In order to strengthen the intensive defense, the tactic of full-back assists is completely abandoned.
Routines.
The range of activities of the double defensive midfielders Chen Zhuo and Lin Zhijian is from their own penalty area to the opponent's penalty area, but the prerequisite is that only one player is allowed to attack at a time. When defending, Chen Zhuo directs Lin Zhijian to use two sweeping patterns.
When double-marking the central defender, a sweeping press will be conducted first, and the left and right midfielders are responsible for blocking the position and forcing the opponent to the sideline.
The requirements for the forward's single arrow are also very high. In sports battles, the single arrow is required to retreat as deep as the top of the penalty area. When a "sweeping midfielder" moves to the side, the forward must retreat deeply to prevent the opponent's cross.
Passing and returning passes.
The description of "being able to squeeze blood from a stone" may also mean that the players who implement this tactic have extremely high physical requirements.
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In fact, the chain defense has already withdrawn from the stage of history in the 21st century. On the one hand, after the international football rules were changed from the 2-point system to the 3-point system, the score of three draws is the same as one win and two losses.
This method stimulates the team to pay more attention to offense. The second is the offside rule and the rule that does not allow the goalkeeper to return the pass with his hands, which are adjustments that are beneficial to the offense. Both of these rules strengthen the defensive aspect.
Difficulty.
From another perspective, the chain defense itself also has two major weaknesses. The first is that this tactic pays too much attention to defense and invests too many troops in defense. Only two or three players are actually involved in the offense, so during the offense
It is even more important to seize the opportunity and score a fatal goal. Therefore, the chain defense generally waits for the opponent's troops to press forward, steals the ball, and directly passes it to the two or three offensive players in front to take advantage of the opponent's lack of foothold to counterattack, thus posing a limited threat to the opponent.
The second weakness of the chain defense is that this tactic focuses too much on man-to-man defense, which can easily lead to loss of position, and loss of position can lead to confusion in the transition between offense and defense.
For example, if a player on the right wing runs to the center to mark someone, and his team happens to have the ball at this time, and if he wants to attack from the right wing, he will find that no one is available, which is the inability to switch from defense to offense; similarly, when a player is in
If the left side participates in the attack but fails, when turning to defense, you will often find that your marking target has moved to the right, resulting in a missed situation. This is a disorderly transition from offense to defense.
Therefore, when a team uses cross-positioning and movement in response to the man-to-man tactics of the chain defense, there is a chance that the opponent's three lines will be confused. This is also a common method to break the chain defense. Of course, it is necessary to
If you want to break the chain defense and adopt cross-position substitutions, it also requires players to perform a lot of off-ball running and cross-position substitutions. The physical requirements for the players are also very high, which is "squeezing blood from the stone."
Another meaning of!
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In response to the "chain defense cracking method" that has been discovered for a long time, Baggio designed an enhanced version that combines regional defense and man-to-man defense to check and balance the "cross-positioning" tactics that the opponent may adopt.
The combination of zone defense and man-to-man defense requires the four wide players to adopt a zone defense mode. They will intercept anyone who passes by them.
Also adopting the regional defense mode are sweeper Rong Aping and core commander Chen Zhuo. They have no man-marking tasks. This is Baggio's reference to the "double free man" mode used by Chen Zhuo in Hamburg. For the two of them,
The activity area is unlimited.
The other four players, two sweeping man-marking central defenders and a sweeping defensive midfielder, each have their own man-marking tasks and complement each other's positions under Chen Zhuo's command. As for the single-arrow center player, one of his responsibilities is
The first is to return to defense and cover the opponent's offensive players under Chen Zhuo's command. In addition, he will launch counterattacks and sabotage in the opponent's half to disrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm.
Baggio has conducted a lot of simulations and believes that this defensive counterattack tactic is extremely effective for the current Hong Kong team. As for the long-term, it depends on the current training system of Hong Kong youth players aged 6-12 years old.
After 10 years of systematic training, can a large number of players with good technical skills, solid basic skills and sufficient physical fitness emerge? Only such players can truly be called professional players. The current Hong Kong team is semi-professional at best!
The mission of this semi-professional team is only 5 to 8 years. During this period, they will use an unadvanced but practical tactic and adapt to this tactic by improving their physical fitness. Through tactics,
Combined with physical fitness, they can maximize their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
This choice is very objective and practical. For the players of this Hong Kong team, the possibility of improving their physical fitness is greater than the possibility of improving their technical and basic skills. And "strengthening physical fitness + defensive counterattack" is obviously for the Hong Kong team.
It is more reliable.
Through this transformation, they can further awaken Hong Kong people's love for football through some victories during this "transition period", so that more young people can devote themselves to football, including Chen Zhuo. Baggio believes that they
This generation of Hong Kong players is destined to be a stepping stone on the road to Hong Kong football's take-off!
This is their mission and their destiny. (To be continued.)
