The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 121 Atypical Center

At 8:24 on the evening of July 20th.

There are still 15 minutes until the start of the UEFA Super Cup.

Ajax sat in the locker room of the home team. Ye Qiu kept emphasizing to the players the tactics to be used in this game against Bayern Munich, because the current Bayern Munich team can be described as strong and strong. .

The starting lineup has come out, the goalkeeper is Kahn, the defense is Lizarazu, Kufuor, Roberto Kovac and Sagnol, and the four midfielders are Salihamidzic and Jereme Si, Effenberg and Sauer, the double forwards are Elber and Pizarro.

In this powerful green Hollywood team, if any star is selected, they are all top-notch in Europe. No matter how good Ajax is, it is impossible to underestimate such an opponent, because with the strong strength of Bayern Munich, coupled with With Hitzfeld's tactics and adjustments, it would be a breeze to defeat Ajax.

But this does not mean that Ye Qiu and his team will be willing to be slaughtered.

In Ye Qiu's analysis, Bayern Munich is not completely without disadvantages. For example, the Bundesliga has already ignited the flames of war at the end of July this season. Now Bayern Munich is coming to Monaco after playing multiple rounds of the league in a row. This is possible. Leading to poor form of Bayern Munich players.

Ajax's situation is relatively better, because Ye Qiu has rotated many players in the team in the second round of the league to ensure that the team can have better physical fitness and better state to participate in this game Super Bowl.

But compared to this insignificant disadvantage, Bayern Munich's advantages are too obvious. The strong player lineup and strong spiritual will make Bayern Munich enough to sweep the entire Europa League.

"There is no doubt that Bayern is very strong!"

Ye Qiu was in the locker room, watching the big game coming soon, the serious player said seriously.

"But as we said before, the strength of Bayern is based on the strength of the whole, so we must rely on the whole if we want to beat them. In the 90 minutes of the game, we have always maintained 100% investment, and we can only use hard work and sweat to fill the gap in strength!"

"Wesley, Seydoux!" Ye Qiu pointed to Sneijder and Keita, "Bayern Munich's two central midfielders, Jeremys and Effenberg, must be under strict supervision, you must firmly suppress them , entangle them, can't let them get the ball and organize easily, understand?"

Ye Qiu's serious question made both Sneijder and Keita nod in agreement.

"Bayern Munich has a very strong offensive power on the wing. Lizarazu and Angel Wing Salihamidzic are on the left. I don't need to say more about the strength of this combination with strong assault ability. It’s the combination of Sagnol and Sauer, which belongs to the control organization type, and it’s also very dangerous!”

"We must pay attention when defending. When Bayern Munich completes the wing breakthrough, our full-backs will take the initiative to retract into the penalty area, blocking their inward cut and participating in the support route, forcing them to stay on the sideline, while ours The two central defenders and our goalkeeper must pay attention, the cross will be handed over to you!"

In this game, Hitzfeld put his German high center Jankel, known as the Gestapo, on the bench and chose Pizarro, who was just introduced this season, which undoubtedly gave Ye Qiu a Confidence, that is, let them cross.

When any head coach arranges defense, it is impossible to completely block the opponent's offense.

If a player makes a mistake, no matter how good the head coach's tactics are, there is nothing he can do about it.

Elber and Pizarro are not high. Although both players have good header ability, as long as Ajax kills the connection between the two sides and the middle of the penalty area, Bayern Munich will be forced to pass from the side. If they are in the middle, then their threat will be reduced to the minimum, because Ajax has Lucio and Kivu in the penalty area, as well as Van der Sar!
"The two central defenders of Bayern Munich are both short in height, Zlatan, you know what to do!" Ye Qiu looked at Ibrahimovic, and the Swede smiled arrogantly and confidently, and nodded in agreement.

This is a relatively obvious weakness in Bayern Munich's entire tactical system. Kufuor is 1 meters tall, Robert Kovac is 78 meters tall, and Thomas Link is also 1 meters tall. The overall height level is among the central defenders. Not tall, even a little on the short side, but they are more agile and faster.

As the head coach, Ye Qiu could also understand the difficulty in Heathfield's heart.

Tall central defenders often lack flexibility. The frontal defensive confrontation is very good, but the problem is that the defense behind them is a big weakness, and a team like Bayern Munich is destined to press the offensive. In this case , A central defender who lacks the ability to defend behind will be fatal, as long as he encounters a flexible and fast forward, it is almost a dead end.

As long as you think about it again, Bayern Munich's central defender combination, whether it is Demichelis, Van Buyten, or Lucio, has height, but the overall flexibility has declined, which directly led to Bayern Munich's rear. The line of defense is always unsettling.

This is a question of choice, height or flexibility, so generally speaking, a good central defender combination is usually one high and one fast, one front and one defense. For example, Chelsea's Terriga Carvalho is such a combination. Ye Qiu's current Lucio Jakifu is also following the same route.

After emphasizing and arranging the specific tactical details, Ye Qiu had nothing to say. He just looked at the players in front of him and smiled, "For tonight's game, I have already boasted a lot before the game. , don’t forget, at the UEFA award ceremony last night, I signed the challenge book!”

"If we fail to win Bayern tonight, then I will become the laughing stock of the whole of Europe tomorrow. I can assure you, everyone, your life will be very, very difficult, so you can figure it out yourself!"

Faced with Ye Qiu's underworld-style intimidation, the Ajax players couldn't help laughing, but they knew very well that they had no choice but to go all out in this game.

"Boss, don't worry, your embarrassment is our embarrassment, we will definitely not do this!" Ibrahimovic said with a smile.

"Yes, boss, we must kill Bayern!" Lucio said confidently.

Ye Qiu smiled, "Listen first!"

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Hitzfeld and Bayern Munich have been almost invincible in Europe in the past few years. Even when they met Bosque's Real Madrid in 2000, the latter also adopted a defensive attitude of 5 defenders, with a tight defense. The defense ultimately knocked out Bayern Munich.

This makes many people feel, even Bayern Munich themselves feel that in the current European football world, there are very few teams that dare to play against Bayern Munich, and those who can retreat in a confrontation, then There are only a handful of them.

But in any case, the weak Ajax is definitely not one of them, because they don't deserve it!
But at the beginning of the game, Ajax used its serve advantage to attack Bayern Munich.

This is a typical offensive strategy of Ajax. Using the rush after the start, they played their devastating and very impactful offensive, dismantling the opponent's defense line in one fell swoop, suppressing the opponent's morale, and controlling the game situation.

Hitzfeld predicted that Ajax might play like this, and he also reminded his players, but obviously, there are some things they still can't predict, or predict, but they can't do anything about it.

Just one minute into the game, after van der Vaart cooperated with Maicon on the right, he cut in with the ball and stuffed it straight to the feet of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who suppressed Robert Kovac with his back. The Swede turned his back to the goal , suppressing Robert Kovacs with his back.

The shortcomings of height and strength prevent Robert Kovac from grabbing the ball at Ibrahimovic's feet, and the Swede's delicate technique that is completely inconsistent with his height allows him to control his feet skillfully The ball, flexible and flexible body allows him to successfully complete the next technical action while suppressing Robert Kovac.

Jeremys retreated immediately and wanted to pinch Ibrahimovic. When Heathfield arranged tactics, he must remind his players more than once that he must be careful about excellent skills, but height and physical confrontation All very good Swedes, he even believes that Ibrahimovic is an atypical difficult center forward.

But when Jeremiah returned the grab, Ibrahimovic picked the ball deftly, picked Jeremiah, and turned around while suppressing Robert Kovac. , just after pulling out half of the body, the right foot faced the ball and it was an angry shot near the penalty spot.

This powerful shot in the penalty area was very fast and powerful, but it went slightly wide.

But this shot made everyone break out in a cold sweat. Hitzfeld also realized for the first time that his team's defense had encountered an unprecedented test, because when Ajax's defense line pressed forward, Bayern Munich's When the defense is suppressed in the penalty area, facing Ibrahimovic, the height defect of Bayern's double central defender will be very obvious.

"Press out, Stefan, don't shrink back so far, press forward, and push them back!" Hitzfeld walked to the sidelines and shouted loudly at Effenberg.

It was just a shot, but the experienced Heathfield has already realized the danger of the team.

But Ajax is obviously not going to back down. They launched a strong attack and oppression against Bayern Munich in the frontcourt. They spared no effort to fight to ensure their high defense, while Bayern Munich lacks the fulcrum of frontcourt tactics. , There is no player who can hold the ball in the frontcourt, which is very disadvantageous.

Just like this time, when Effenberg made a long pass and wanted to find Elber in front, Lucio stole the ball first and gave it to Kivu, who made a long pass and went straight to Bayern Munich Behind him, Van der Vaart quickly inserted on the right. After getting the ball, he wanted to find an opportunity to enter the penalty area, but was firmly blocked by Kufuor, and finally wasted a good opportunity to attack.

Compared with Ajax's proactive attack, Bayern Munich's first shot appeared in the 8th minute. Effenberg shot a high and wide long shot about 20 meters from the front of the penalty area. There was no threat, but in the 10th minute, Robert Kovac, who was entangled by Ibrahimovic, brought down the Swede.

Kivu's direct free kick was taken by Kahn. Although the angle was right, the strength was weak.

"Judging from the beginning of the game, Ajax's offense was more active, but Bayern Munich seemed a little hesitant, and Bayern's defense did not have a very good and effective way to limit Ibrahimovic. The Swede Very active, very threatening, Robert Kovac can hardly restrain this player by himself!"

"Speaking of this, we have to think of Capello's evaluation of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He believes that the Swedish center is a very special center, with the physical fitness and confrontation ability of a traditional center, but his head The ball is a weakness, and his shooting ability has improved a lot, but his skills and flexibility are not lost to those small forwards at all."

"Such an alternative center is indeed enough to cause headaches for all central defenders, because his control surface is too big!"

While the on-site commentator was analyzing, Gilberto Silva successfully intercepted the ball and handed it to Sneijder, who passed the ball steadily to Zlatan Ibrahimovic with a through ball. feet.

The advantage of a large control area is that when Ibrahimovic, who is pulling the ball to the right, leans against Kufuor with his body, the latter has nothing to do, but the Swede is able to use his left foot lightly and skillfully. The ball stops to Kufuor's left.

During the whole process, Ibrahimovic did not give Kufuor any chance. The Ghanaian could only watch Ibrahimovic make a breakthrough. Fortunately, the Ghanaian was very fast. , not tall, but very flexible, turned around and chased after him.

Ibrahimovic also knew that he was inferior to Kufuor in terms of speed, so he didn't intend to kick himself, but after forming a breakthrough on the right side of the penalty area, he passed the ball to the left with one kick.

I saw that Robben quickly cut into the penalty area from the left without knowing when, Sagnol was left behind by him, and Robert Kovac, who was behind Kufuor to help defend, wanted to turn around and chase the ball, but the Netherlands The winger had already used his left foot to meet the incoming ball with a kick, and the ball went straight through the goal guarded by Kahn.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"

"In the 18th minute, in the 18th minute, Ajax finally took the lead in breaking the deadlock on the field!"

"It was a very, very unexpected situation. After the game started, Ajax, who was at a disadvantage, actively pressed the attack and completely suppressed Bayern Munich. The Champions League champion obviously has no effective way to take Ajax."

After scoring the goal, Robben rushed out of Bayern Munich's penalty area excitedly, but just halfway through the rush, he was thrown to the ground by Ibrahimovic, and then Keita and other teammates rushed one after another. come up.

"It's amazing. This young Ajax team completely suppressed Bayern Munich. They used their best high defense and strong pressing tactics in the midfield to almost completely control the field. In the current situation, Bayern Munich is very uncomfortable with their tactics."

After the team scored a goal, Ye Qiu quickly rushed to the sidelines, raised his arms in celebration, but soon kept calling on the players, "Don't be careless, keep pressing, keep pressing me, don't slack off!"

The Ajax players are completely convinced by Ye Qiu. They will do what the head coach says on the field, so that Ye Qiu can control and command the team as easily as possible without any hindrance. .

In the 32nd minute, Keita sent the ball to the left side and gave it to Robben. Robben faced Sagnol one-on-one. Movic, who put his body on Roberto Kovac, got the ball, turned around, once again swayed past Kufuor who was on the attack, and volleyed a strong kick in the penalty area, piercing the goal guarded by Kahn again. .

This was a heavy, hearty and powerful shot. Although Kahn responded, he was powerless. He could only complain to his teammates angrily when he fished the ball out of the net, thinking that the two The central defender gave Ibrahimo too many scoring opportunities, especially in the penalty area.

"Obviously, Bayern Munich's central defenders have nothing to do with Ibrahimovic. The Swedish center performed very well in this game. Ye Qiu's tactics were also very resolute and decisive in the game. Bayern Munich completely Subject to people!"

In the 43rd minute, Zlatan Ibrahimovic pulled out of the penalty area, and immediately pulled Kufuor and Robert Kovac out of the penalty area. Se, penetrated Bayern Munich's defense line, passed directly behind, van der Vaart on the right quickly threw away Lizarazu, and went straight into the penalty area.

As a left-footer, Van der Vaart's right foot has always been a weakness, but he has been paying attention to strengthening his right foot in the past year. Although he can't be as flexible as his left foot, stopping the ball is a must. No problem.

I saw Van der Vaart lift his right foot and park the ball firmly under his feet. Facing the goalkeeper Kahn who had already attacked, Van der Vaart pulled the ball to the left with his right foot, and then used his own Push the ball with his left foot to the goal behind Kahn.

The ball went around from the right side of Kahn. Although the German goalkeeper made a judgment, it was too late to block the ball. The ball slanted towards the goal behind him, almost rubbing against the post and crashing into the goal, 3:0!

Not only the Ajax fans and players were overjoyed, even the head coach Ye Qiu couldn't believe it. He had already judged that Bayern Munich's central defenders were not good at fighting in the penalty area. Because of the lack of height, I didn't expect that after a little use, Bayern Munich would be defeated like a mountain.

What made him even more puzzled was that when the team's overall performance was not good and many players were obviously in a sluggish state, Hitzfeld didn't make any adjustments. This is so weird!
If Ye Qiu hadn't guessed Heathfield's thoughts before, he would have understood when he watched the Ajax players walk off the pitch during the intermission, panting like cows!
(End of this chapter)