Football No. 10: God's Perspective

After the game, Wang Po once again grabbed the front page of sports media.

The son of Benfica, resounding throughout Europe.

The most outstanding article is of course the interview with Wang Po by Football Special Report, which is full of dry goods that fans want to know.

With this report, Football Special Report also broke through the siege of sports media because of this interview.

The reporter of the interview, Annie, also jumped into a place in the media circle.

Of course, more importantly, after this outstanding performance, the newspaper saw business opportunities, and Annie and her interview team received huge financial support.

On the third day after the second round of the Champions League knockout match, UEFA announced the winner of this year's Golden Boy Award on its official website, that is, Wang Po, a player from the Bundesliga Dortmund team.

According to internal information disclosed by the media, in terms of the number of votes for the European Golden Boy Award, Wang Po strongly crushed his competitors and was elected without controversy.

Soon, Dortmund's official social software released an announcement congratulating Wang Po on the award.

His former club Benfica followed suit and congratulated Wang Po on his award.

Of course, there were also text messages from former and current teammates such as Gomez, Jim, and Aubameyang.

With the title of the European Golden Boy Award he just won, Wang Po's value has been refreshed again in the latest value announced by Transfermarkt, reaching 95 million euros.

It is conceivable that with the means and ability of Dortmund Club to operate players, as long as Wang Po does not have major injuries, the transfer fee of over 100 million is a sure thing.

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Two games a week, Dortmund will face the challenge of a strong enemy at home at the weekend-Schalke 04.

In Germany, Schalke 04 can be said to be a veteran strong team with a deep foundation. The team has won the league championship 7 times. This season, it has also performed very strongly. Halfway through the schedule, it is second only to Dortmund at the top of the standings and Bayern Munich at the second place.

The team is famous for its strong physical strength, and this name is well known to the outside world. More thanks to a former coach.

Felix Magath, known as the devil coach.

High-intensity training and solid balls are Magath's labels. Raul, a former Real Madrid star, once trained under such a devil coach and was reported by the media to have vomited during training. It is conceivable that the amount of training is huge.

There are even rumors that some players refused to join Schalke 04 because the head coach is Magath.

Once this brand was laid, it became the style of the team and has continued to this day.

Facing Schalke 04, the Dortmund team attaches great importance to it.

Before the game, head coach Tuchel made detailed and careful tactical arrangements.

After continuous video analysis, Schalke 04 often adopts high-pressure tactics, and the gap behind the defender is a point they can use.

In response to this, Tuchel also made some adjustments to the starting lineup, taking the starting striker Immobile and pushing the winger Ousmane Dembele to the second striker position.

Standing in the center position is Gabonese Lightning Aubameyang, with a clear intention to use speed to attack the back of the opponent's defense.

After two games, Wang Po returned to the starting lineup again. This time, Tuchel arranged for him to play as a defensive midfielder, partnering with Gundogan.

Compared with the previous role of the defensive midfielder played by Gundogan, this time, Tuchel gave Wang Po more defensive pressure in a normal way.

Going in the opposite direction?

In fact, this is Tuchel's brilliance. Wang Po and Gundogan's overall view and ability to read the game have reached the top level in Europe, and in this game, Tuchel focused on attacking the back of the opponent's defense.

To achieve such a strategy and tactics, Schalke 04 needs cooperation.

Only when the opponent's formation presses forward can the space behind be created, and the speed-type striker, Aubameyang, Osman-Dembele can play their greatest advantage.

Wang Po's retreat is largely a tactical intention to give up the midfield and open up space for the opponent's formation. Of course, there is another purpose, which is to break Schalke 04's terrifying high-pressure pressing.

Abundant physical strength, tacit team cooperation, and iron will make this Schalke 04 team's high-pressure pressing in the frontcourt quite threatening.

Even Bayern Munich, known as the universe team, has suffered such hardships.

The existence of a player with excellent footwork and the ability to read the game is the secret to resolving the opponent's fierce high-pressure pressing.

Coincidentally, there is such a player in Dortmund, No. 11, Wang Po.

It can be said that Wang Po is the most critical link in Tuchel's entire tactical setting, and everything is centered on him.

At the same time, there needs to be a player who can connect the ball from the back line to the front line, and Wang Po has such ability.

"Beep"

The game started.

Even as a guest at the devil's home stadium in Europe, Schalke 04 still showed no fear and played aggressively and proactively.

As soon as they came up, they implemented high-pressure pressing in the frontcourt, which put great pressure on Dortmund's defense.

Two consecutive defensive-offensive mistakes made them lose the ball, which made Tuchel on the sidelines very dissatisfied.

In the two high-pressure pressings, Schalke 04 created great pressure on the ball holder, causing the ball to not reach his feet, so that the ball was not transferred in time, resulting in the loss of ball possession.

Wang Po realized that in the opponent's high-pressure situation, if he wanted to break through, he needed to hold the ball more and use his personal footwork to solve the problem.

Of course, this means that Wang Po is under tremendous pressure.

A successful ball selection may not necessarily lead to a goal, but a lost ball by the back line will definitely cause danger in front of the goal, and such a mistake will be infinitely magnified after the game.

This requires courage and responsibility.

When the goalkeeper was about to kick the ball, Wang Po took the initiative to withdraw the request. After getting the ball, he felt the defensive pressure from all directions. At least three Schalke 04 defenders had surrounded him. In a flash, he took advantage of the moment when the defender behind him was about to get close to him, and he passed the defender behind him with a heel knock, turned around and accelerated to get rid of the opponent's entanglement. The latter wanted to reach out to foul, but he still underestimated Wang Po's strength and couldn't pull him. Instead, he lost his center of gravity and stumbled to the ground, looking embarrassed.

After breaking the opponent's high-position pressing, what came into view was the Schalke 04 team's riddled defense loopholes.

The ball is always faster than the person. Wang Po knows this very well. He saw Ousmane Dembele and Aubameyang ready to start on the front line. Without any pause, he made a long pass of more than 45 meters to the back of Schalke 04's defense.

The opportunity has come.

Aubameyang's speed far surpassed the Schalke 04's defense players. Facing the goalkeeper alone, he calmly pushed the ball to break the deadlock and ignited the atmosphere of the Wisma Stadium.