"Nie Jiang's shot, oh, the opponent's goalkeeper pounced and it was a corner kick!" Su Dong regretted very much, "This shot was very decisive, with good power and angle. What a pity."
Huang Jianxiang seemed even more excited: "The series of escapes before shooting were really beautiful. He caught the ball in the left corner of the penalty area and pulled the ball with his feet..." At this time, the footage was being replayed and he was also doing a detailed technical analysis.
"Then he faked a half-turn and suddenly changed direction into a horizontal half-step for the ball, and then a real half-turn shot. These actions were done in one go. It was a very standard shooting operation by a center in front of the penalty area."
"This shows that Nie Jiang has made great progress in terms of football intelligence, skills and body." Su Dong analyzed in more detail, "He must have found a shooting route before shooting. There are no people in the penalty area.
If you don't predict it in advance, you won't be able to pose a direct threat to the goal, and the series of actions that follow require not only skills, but also physical endurance."
At this time, Nie Jiang had no time to regret the shot just now. He had already followed the corner kick tactics ordered by the head coach in recent years and stood in the center of the penalty area.
Since taking over the Chinese team, Lippi has put a lot of effort into positioning the ball.
In the past, the Chinese team was also a well-known top team in Asia. For this reason, the domestic football media at that time continued to criticize the Chinese team as the top team in China.
At that time, the Chinese team not only had Fan Zhiyi, Li Bing, Su Maozhen, Xie Hui, Zhang Yuning (big) and other masters of heading the ball at the center, but also had aerial dominance in the defense such as Fan Zhiyi, Zhang Enhua, Li Weifeng, and Dewey.
The center back's header ability is not far behind, not to mention the fact that a bunch of fast horses on the wing who are responsible for delivering cannonballs are extremely accurate in passing the ball, such as Yao Xia, Li Ming, Wu Chengying, Sun Xuhai and other famous players.
After these players retired one after another, even heading, a weapon that could compete with the strong teams in Asia and crush Southeast Asia, was gone.
Of course, this is because strong teams in Asia, such as the Japanese team, generally have stronger physical fitness and better confrontation. Southeast Asian team players are more professional, and their physical fitness is related to better positioning.
In later generations, in national football games, all aspects of headers were lagging behind.
Fans can often see that in the game, the Chinese team faced various failures such as high balls flying in, misjudgment of landing points, being squeezed out of physical confrontations, etc. The most famous case was the 2019 Asian Cup group stage.
The South Korean team and its opponent South Korea have a success rate of 74% in aerial duels, while the Chinese team only has a poor 26% success rate, which means that most of the headers are grabbed by the South Korean team.
When it comes to the more important statistics of headers and goals, the performance is even worse. Crosses from wide players fly directly out of the baseline, offensive personnel in the penalty area frequently miss headers, and even "must be offside" corner kick tactics are repeated one after another.
The result is jaw-dropping.
The Chinese team has also changed from "it only knows headers and its foot skills are too poor" among the media and fans to "how much is the change of the national football team? It only makes people laugh."
However, there was also a phased period of improvement, which was the period when Lippi coached for the first time.
During this period, the Chinese team under his command scored a total of 33 goals, including 8 headers and 3 corner kicks, including a 1:0 home victory over the South Korean team.
A classic moment when Dabao scored with a header from a corner kick.
Some fans once shouted: "Our Chinese top team is back."
The reason why there is such an improvement is the arrival of Lippi.
How to evaluate Lippi's coaching ability is actually a very controversial issue.
In the current timeline, because of the appearance of the man with the cheat--Zhang Sheng, Lippi's national team has better results than in history. But back to the real history, especially when Lippi is in China
After the team's second player entered the palace and resigned in anger, there were many doubts about Lippi's coaching ability.
There are a lot of controversies on high-end user apps with an average income of one million for people who are in Mongolia and just got off the aircraft carrier. On the relatively professional high-speed rail Taihuang app, there are more people who hold this view, and the loudest one
It is the 5% app that has the most debates.
Of course, I firmly believe that a certain football legend who smashed the 45 degrees is a vanguard.
For example: Lippi's top honors - the Champions League, World Cup, and European Cup - were all ten years ago. He has been away from the mainstream European football circle for a long time. He is too old and cannot easily accept new technical and tactical knowledge and cannot adapt to new situations.
Such as high-tech professional equipment, not knowing how to conduct the most popular football big data analysis, etc.
Anyway, it is right to criticize him for his backward tactics.
If someone refutes, "Then why did he come to China instead of returning to Europe to coach? He came to China because money is easy to cheat." The argument will be released immediately.
In fact, in Zhang Sheng's view, no matter how he remains undefeated against Lippi in the league, at least at the level of coaching the national team, he is far inferior. If nothing else, the prestige brought by Lippi's name alone
, and his rich experience in leading the national team to fight tough battles, it is not something that a novice-level coach of the national team can compare with.
In other words, with Lippi here, a team's lower limit can definitely be guaranteed.
The actual situation now is: because of the emergence of Zhang Sheng, the Chinese national team has a lot more good players. For the national team to play in games such as the World Cup preliminaries, it is necessary to make full use of the abilities of these players and maintain their condition.
Being above the standard is far better than rushing all the time.
This is also the fundamental reason why Zhang Sheng himself was not in a hurry to take over when the national team temporarily changed its coach midway.
The person responsible for taking the corner kick was Hao Junmin. He stretched out his hand and flashed his index and middle fingers. This was a tactical signal agreed upon in training before the game. It meant that the forward movement would interfere with the goal, and the landing point would be directly in the middle.
When Hao Junmin's free throw came out, Nie Jiang suddenly ran from the center to the forward point.
The central defender of Uzbekistan, who had made a strong analysis of Nie Jiang before the game, was immediately brought to the front point. There was a certain space in the crowded center, and Li Yun had room to display. He jumped high,
He was the first to stop at the landing point.
There was only a "bang" sound, and Li Yun, who used his strong waist and abdomen ability to stay in the air, hit the header hard against the lintel. Uzbekistan goalkeeper Nesterov did not touch the football.
"Oh, goalpost." Huang Jianxiang's voice was high-pitched and a little out of control. He also noticed it and quickly adjusted his tone, "What a pity, what a pity. Li Yun's header has excellent power and angles."
"A very beautiful header. Although it didn't go in, our momentum at home was already showing. As soon as Nie Jiang completed a threatening shot, Li Yun almost opened the scoring for the Chinese team. Everyone has obviously entered the state of the game."
The two commentators were encouraging the players, but Li Yun was a little unwilling to accept the header. He kept running back to fill his center back position, and at the same time he pulled the corner of his jersey to give it to the referee.
The referee looked and signaled that when he was heading the ball, the opponent pulled him, causing his header to miss.
The referee seemed very gentle and ignored Li Yun's complaint. He just looked at Li Yun, smiled and shook his head. Of course, this referee was not Indian.
Of course, Li Yun knew that his complaints and the opponent's small actions would not cause the referee to give him a penalty kick. However, he was very experienced and took advantage of being the captain and a party involved to take the initiative to communicate with the referee.
The pressure caused the referee to form a psychological impression - the players of the Uzbekistan team made small moves.
As long as there are more and more polite complaints like this, when Uzbek players make hidden moves or fouls again, the referee may really punish the opponent. The lightest one is a warning, the most serious one is to directly draw the card. Once
Appearing in key positions, especially in the penalty area, it is time for the Chinese team to profit.
After all, referees are human beings and are also affected by emotions.
After winning a goal post, the Chinese team's offensive intensity did not weaken in any way, and the offensive-oriented frontcourt combination launched waves of attacks.
In the fifth minute, Li Xuepeng became reckless. After receiving a very imaginative back-heel pass from Ding Huaiyi, he used his speed to rush forward desperately.
The left back has always been a sore point for this Chinese team.
In real history, this position has been criticized the most. Whether it is Zheng Zhen, Jiang Zhipeng, or others, they are either unable to attack or defend. Even in this time and space, with Zhang Sheng, there has not been much improvement until now. Like Zhou Zhou
For pure defense, Wei Zhimin and Xiao Yunfan have big defensive holes. Shen Jun is still growing, and his upper limit is only 88.
The only one who has started to stand out is Peng Langjun. The problem is that he is still too young and inexperienced and has not grown up.
Although Li Xuepeng is also known as "Brother Raising His Hands" and "mlgb, it's so fucking fast, I'm fucked." Such a good job, but among the available players in the country, he has such excellent physical fitness.
Players who can move up and down are considered to be the best among the shortest.
Especially when the Chinese team now has the advantage on the court, Li Xuepeng's impact is really good. He is indeed known as the player with the best physical fitness in the Guangzhou Evergrande team.
This time, he had an obvious advantage in the competition with Uzbekistan's right back Tukhtahujaev. They originally started at the same time and squeezed the opponent to fight. Li Xuepeng immediately blocked the opponent and then lost one position.
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The players of the Chinese team are not very good at passing the ball under interference. After getting rid of the opponent, they can still pass the ball with a certain degree of accuracy. This time Li Xuepeng's pass directly found the back point of the penalty area.
The Uzbekistan defenders, who paid more attention to Nie Jiang and Qin Minghao, did not expect that Li Xuepeng's passing target was Wu Lei, who was not so dazzling at the back point. They almost paid the price of contempt.
Wu Lei hit the ball and shot it. The ball almost missed the near post and the Chinese team almost scored again.
All the fans in the stands first let out huge cheers, and then there were obvious sighs, but the latter was short-lived. Under the leadership of the fan leaders, thunderous applause broke out.
In the stands today, all the fans were dressed in the same uniform. Before the game, the organizing committee placed a jersey on each seat. It was a red national football shirt with the words "Jiangcheng shouts, the whole country responds" printed on it.
Neatly dressed, neatly cheering, and neatly applauding. The three threatening shots of the Chinese team in the opening moment immediately activated the atmosphere of the scene without any warm-up.
"How I hope Wu Lei can keep the shooting feeling he had in the AFC Champions League nine days ago in this game." Huang Jianxiang sighed, "Nine days ago, Wu Lei was in Shanghai SIPG's AFC Champions League match against Guangzhou Evergrande.
Scored twice and scored two very beautiful goals.”
"I hope his next shot can recall the feeling of these two goals." The Chinese team now has a clear advantage on the court, and Su Dong also agreed with a very relaxed smile.
As the game progressed, looking at the Chinese team's advantage, the two commentators picked up the topic at the beginning of the game.
"At the beginning, I said that a midfielder composed of three technical players has advantages and disadvantages. Now it seems that coach Lippi is fully prepared. He gave full play to the advantages of the three of them and used offense to suppress the opponent.
"Huang Jianxiang said, "As for shortcomings, it is not difficult to see from these few minutes of the game that coach Lippi used the frontcourt pressing and high pressure play to prevent the three midfielders from passively defending the opponent.
It is to actively interfere with the opponent's dribbling and passing, and try to nip the opponent's counterattack in the bud."
"This is a very wise approach." Su Dong explained European games for a long time and began to draw inferences. "For example, like Barcelona before, they had mostly technical players on the field and few players who relied purely on physical fitness, so they defended in high positions.
I have put a lot of effort into building my own defensive system in this way."
"Yes, that's right." Huang Jianxiang, who was also afraid of attracting hatred, continued to explain, "It's not that our players' skills are the same as Barcelona's, but that Coach Lippi applied the most suitable tactics to the most suitable player configuration."
In fact, Lippi did more defensive work than the two commentators.
In order to prevent the opponent's counterattack, Lippi specially told Li Yun to position him as far forward as possible, always ready to help Xu Mingyu defend and resolutely stifle the opponent's offense in the midfield.
For example, in the ninth minute, the Chinese team's attack in the frontcourt failed to complete the final tactical step, causing Uzbekistan to stop. After getting the ball, Ahmedov passed the ball decisively.
It was handed over to the left back Denisov, who formed an offensive situation on the left wing.
Since Wu Lei was still in an offensive state at this time and could not return to defense, Xu Mingyu, as a defensive midfielder, quickly came to the right to fill in.
Denisov is one of the key figures in the offensive tactical system of this Uzbekistan team. He has just turned 30 years old and his body, skills and experience are at their peak, whether in the national team or in the club Russian Super League giant Moscow
Lokomotiv, he played every game, and his left-footed pass into the attacking third was extremely efficient.
For this reason, Lippi's instructions to the players were not to give him the chance to face our defensive players alone, and not to let him pass the ball easily.
After all, Uzbekistan ranks among the top 12 teams in the number of dribbles per game, averaging 10, and the left side of the frontcourt handles more than one-third of the total. Denisov's ability is evident.
With Denisov stuck, Uzbekistan's attack was wasted in half.
