When Xu Mingyu was in the desperate position of Kadenisov, Li Yun stepped up to defend without hesitation and knocked Denisov's ball out of the sideline with one kick, turning the Uzbekistan team's counterattack into a
A side kick that doesn't pose much of a threat.
Lippi and his team also conducted a detailed analysis of the Uzbekistan team's sideline ball tactics.
Denisov is known as the key offensive figure of the Uzbekistan team. Not only does he have the characteristics before, he also has a unique "hand" - the record of the longest distance of his powerful hand throw is 41 meters!
It can be said that as long as the sideline kick between the front edge of the penalty area and the bottom line is handled by the Uzbekistan team, it is treated as a corner kick. This is why Lippi requires players to keep the area that disrupts the opponent's offense as far away from the 30-meter defensive zone as possible.
Like this time, Li Yun's wrecking ball was just past the center line. No matter how powerful Denisov's unicorn arm was, he couldn't throw the ball into the penalty area here.
Even if he reluctantly throws it into the penalty area, it is at the end of his game - he is too weak to penetrate Lu Zhen - and there is no threat.
After the Chinese team returned to defense across the board and took up its position, Uzbekistan had lost the suddenness of its counterattack. Positional warfare was not their strong point. In the end, the football was gradually forced back to its own second half.
Defender Klimets passed the ball to the Chinese team's half with a big kick. After Du Zhenyu easily grabbed the header, the ball returned to the Chinese team's feet again.
Uzbekistan head coach Babayan stood on the sidelines with a cold face and began to find a solution to the predicament on the court.
Before the game, he also analyzed the current situation of the Chinese team with his team. The Chinese team now has a very advantageous position in the group. They are 7 points more than themselves, 3 points more than South Korea, and have a greater goal difference advantage.
It stands to reason that the Chinese team can play a more stable game in this game. Even if the Chinese team plays like Otto in this game, Babayan doesn't think there is anything surprising.
But Lippi was uncharacteristically, with three midfielders with strong technical advantages, the formation moved very forward, and the high-position press has not lost any intensity from the beginning to now.
This is completely a last-ditch approach.
On the contrary, he is now 4 points behind South Korea, so winning this game is the top priority.
Could it be that the Chinese team got the script wrong? He doubted himself a little.
In fact, according to the pre-match tactical arrangements, it should be a high-position press. After all, the team still has experts in defense.
The team's veteran Deparov is old and strong. His rich experience allows him to keenly grasp the team's offensive and defensive transition points and direct his teammates to deploy defense. Needless to say, captain Akhmedov has long been in Russia.
The Super League and Chinese Super League have proven themselves to be both offensive and defensive.
Uzbekistan has not fallen behind yet, and still has hope of playing in the play-offs. The top 12 teams rank second, and they contribute 48 steals and interceptions per game.
After observing the Chinese team's playing style for a few more minutes, Babayan made his own judgment: "The Chinese team obviously has a plan of scoring as early as possible. There are 90 minutes in the game. This is our chance."
, you can completely use the defensive counterattack tactics to the extreme, focus on defense, wait until they have physical problems, and immediately counterattack."
"Deparov." Babayan thought of a key figure. "This veteran has a keen sense of smell on the court. He can catch the opponent's physical bottleneck in time, and the opportunity to attack will come."
Thinking of this, he shouted a few words to Jeparov on the court, and then made a gesture - this was discussed by the Uzbekistan coaching staff before the game, allowing Jeparov to decide when to play.
The code for counterattack.
How the opponent adjusts his tactics has no impact on Lippi for the time being. The coach is very confident in his tactics. When the media interviewed him before the game, he emphasized many times: "No matter what the opponent is, we will adopt our own tactics."
The Lord’s tactics.”
In fact, the performance of the players on the field was also very good. For example, in the 19th minute of the first half, China played another extremely beautiful offense.
It was midfielder Xu Mingyu who initiated this attack.
As the midfielder of the Chinese team in this game, Xu Mingyu followed the team's formation and pushed higher up. With his good foot skills and passing and receiving abilities, he observed the real-time situation of the Uzbekistan team's defensive formation.
He kept passing the ball horizontally with the left and right midfielders and Li Yun who was not far behind him.
His purpose in doing this is to pull the opponent's defensive center of gravity through constant passing and disrupt the opponent's overall defensive formation.
The game was less than 20 minutes old, and the Uzbekistan players were at their peak in terms of concentration and physical fitness. Xu Mingyu’s pulling effect was not great.
Just when Xu Mingyu was a little disturbed by the opponent's conservative playing style, Ding Huaiyi took the initiative and ran over to ask for the ball.
After all, they were old teammates and they both played football in Europe. Xu Mingyu immediately understood and started to press towards the left wing where Ding Huaiyi was.
The Chinese team's starting left wingers are Li Xuepeng, Ding Huaiyi and Qin Minghao.
The latter two are Chinese players who play in Europe and often play in Europa League and Champions League competitions. Uzbekistan has long believed that the Chinese team will attack the left wing, and Li Xuepeng came up to let Uzbekistan know.
What does it mean to be reckless and unstoppable?
So when Xu Mingyu also started to press forward to the left, Uzbekistan thought that the Chinese team was going to attack the left. However, the actual situation was that after Xu Mingyu took away Deparov who had been harassing him, Ding Huaiyi suddenly stepped forward.
He stabbed towards the middle.
The territory Xu Mingyu and Deparov gave way gave Ding Huaiyi room to perform. His speed immediately picked up, and one of the opponent's midfielders, Bikmayev, came up not at all slower.
The problem is, he didn't expect Ding Huaiyi's next move. The latter dribbled the ball forward with his right foot and turned it horizontally. Then his body dexterously avoided Bikmayev's collision, and then with his left foot
Seamlessly connected with the passed football, he successfully broke through forward sideways.
This is a beautiful and practical move to pass the fried meatballs.
Ding Huaiyi, who had passed the pass, before the surprise on Bikmayev's face disappeared, he made an unexpected pass towards the penalty area. Qin Minghao had already turned around and entered the penalty area.
As early as Ding Huaiyi started to pass, Qin Minghao had already moved to the rib position between the Uzbekistan right back and right center back.
In the 4-back defensive system, the defense of the ribs has always been a big problem. The defense of the two ribs usually relies on two midfielders to fill the positions. Otherwise, if these two loopholes are poked, it will be really bad.
It's as satisfying as it is.
Now that Uzbekistan's midfielder and frontcourt player on the right wing has been attracted by Xu Mingyu and Li Xuepeng, and midfielder Bikmayev has been robbed and passed by him again, Qin Minghao's threat to the ribs is greater.
Qin Minghao's movement is also very bad. He does not stand still in this position, but turns sideways and starts to rush into the penalty area. When Uzbekistan's right back and right center back press forward to prepare for offside, he
Suddenly running back, Uzbekistan failed to commit offside.
At this moment, Ding Huaiyi keenly seized the opportunity. Instead of taking another step with the ball, he lightly passed the ball into the penalty area. Qin Minghao also ran back and turned forward again.
This is a beautiful anti-offside attack.
"Qin Minghao, open the door!" Huang Jianxiang and Su Dong shouted almost at the same time.
"Oh! This was all saved." Huang Jianxiang wished he could go up and kick the ball in.
Babayan was shocked at this time on the sidelines. It can be said that the team's goalkeeper saved himself once.
He was in a bit of trouble.
Babayan gave detailed instructions to all players about the degree to which players should move on the field. The reason is that many of the players on the team now have accumulated yellow cards. This is not the case in the top 12 of Uzbekistan.
The last game, the last home game against South Korea is the final decisive battle.
But now it seems that the players' fouls should be more aggressive. We can no longer let extraordinary situations like Ding Huaiyi's happen easily. Necessary fouls are necessary.
With Babayan's big wave of his hand, the players on the field became more engaged, the game became more confrontational, and the Chinese team's offensive rhythm was repeatedly interrupted.
As the captain, Li Yun had to remind the referee time and time again, which achieved certain results.
For example, in the 27th minute, the referee determined that the visiting team's goalkeeper Nesterov was suspected of delaying time and immediately showed him a yellow card.
Especially in the 31st minute, Ding Huaiyi got the ball from the baseline. When he was picking the ball with his left foot, he suddenly changed his move and turned into an inside instep like a kickback on the right side. In a flash, he completed the outside instep and inside instep.
With two touches of the ball, he got rid of the opponent's frontal defense.
This was Ding Huaiyi's signature cow-tail flicking move. The fans in the audience burst into cheers, especially some female fans, such as Chen Jiangfeng's girlfriend, who screamed: "Ding Luo!!"
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Ding Luo belongs to the nickname given to Ding Huaiyi by Longteng fans.
But then, when Ding Huaiyi was about to rush into the penalty area amidst the cheers of the fans, the cheers suddenly stopped. Uzbekistan's supplementary right midfielder Shukurov came over and blocked Ding Huaiyi fiercely.
forward.
After all, Ding Huaiyi's physical confrontation was not his advantage, and he was knocked down by his opponent.
Li Yun will not be so easy to talk to this time. As the captain, how can he not go up to fight for the interests of his teammates and the team at this time?
"This is a foul. It's a penalty kick." Li Yun complained to the referee with an excited expression. Of course, a large part of this emotion was fake.
He could see that although Ding Huaiyi was grinning, he knew that the foul was purely a blocking foul and did not hurt him.
The referee saw it clearly and said directly: "No, outside the penalty area."
Often, if you seek the top, you will get the middle, and if you seek the middle, you will get the bottom. Li Yun didn't get the penalty kick, but the referee gave Shukurov a yellow card.
As a wheelchair worshiper of flowers and flowers for Wei Shihao in later generations, Shukurov pleaded for mercy for a long time to no avail. Instead, he was warned by the referee that if he committed such a foul again, he would take out the card again without hesitation. Shukurov had no choice but to accept it.
Shukurov's yellow card seemed to have become a node. After more than thirty minutes of high-position pressing, the Chinese team's physical fitness was somewhat unable to maintain such a rhythm, and the game also slowed down a little.
After all, although it has entered early autumn, the temperature in Jiangcheng is still high due to the influence of the autumn tiger. For example, the training of the national football team these days has been carried out at a high temperature of 35 degrees.
Most of the national football players were already sweating profusely.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Uzbekistan slightly relaxed its formation and organized several attacks. The problem is that the Chinese team's offensive intensity has decreased, but the defensive intensity is still there. Most of the former's offenses are based on the perimeter of the long-distance attack.
Shooting is over.
The only time they posed a threat to the Chinese team's goal was in a corner kick, when forward Sergeyev's header went far wide of the post.
Several consecutive attacks, although not threatening, gave the Uzbek players the illusion that the Chinese team was no longer physically fit at the end of the first half.
The actual situation is that Lippi specifically warned during the tactical training in the past few days to take advantage of the relatively young average age of the Chinese team's starting players in this game to launch a wave of strong attacks in the last five minutes of the first and second halves.
, the advantage of playing at home should be used as much as possible.
Starting from the 40th minute of the first half, the Chinese team suddenly picked up the pace again.
In the 41st minute, Zhang Linpeng exerted his strength on the right.
In view of Uzbekistan's serious "left-leaning" offense, the Chinese team prepared a tactical drill to attack behind them on the left before the game, using the space behind their left back Denisov to make a fuss.
After the triangle defensive formation of Zhang Linpeng, Xu Mingyu and Du Zhenyu intercepted the pass of the opponent's left midfielder Shomurodov, Zhang Moss rushed forward.
There are differences between Zhang Linpeng in this time and space and reality.
Although he has played in low-level leagues such as Serie C and Serie B, it is not easy to gain a foothold abroad. He has always maintained good condition.
Head coach Lippi gave orders. In the previous period of this game, he had not been deeply involved in the offense many times. Now it is finally his time to have fun.
Shomurodov and Denisov both attacked. After seeing Zhang Linpeng's counterattack, veteran Jeparov quickly came over to take over. However, the 35-year-old, after more than 40 minutes of high-intensity confrontation, had already caught up.
No more Zhang Linpeng.
Akhmedov, who acts as the backbone of the defensive midfielder, came to fight with all his strength.
The problem is, Zhang Linpeng also knows how powerful Akhmedov is defensively. He doesn't give him a chance to get close to him at all, and directly sends the ball to Wu Lei's feet, while he rushes down the sideline, forcing the opponent to have someone.
Follow up on yourself and reduce Wu Lei's defensive pressure.
Akhmedov was a little desperate at this time. As a club teammate who got along day and night, he knew how explosive Wu Lei was the moment after he first touched the ball. If he wanted to run over to defend him, he probably wouldn't have much chance. His only option was
The opportunity is to quickly return to the inside to block Wu Lei's shot, hoping to curb Wu Lei's shooting percentage by reducing Wu Lei's shooting angle.
