Football’s First Defender

Advocaat and CSKA Moscow's head coach Gassayev, facing the situation on the field, walked back and forth on the sidelines with some anxiety!

Gasayev is worried about the opponent's offensive firepower, which is the best in the Russian Super League. After all, the more offensive the team is, the higher the probability of scoring goals when they get a chance to defend and counterattack! Now my team, with such a fierce attack, there will inevitably be loopholes in the defense, maybe it's time to adjust the team's rhythm and let the players breathe a sigh of relief!

Advocaat, on the other hand, knows his own affairs, watching the home team attacking his own side, worried about his team's defense, can it really hold up? Before the game, I wanted to give up the ball and let the opponent attack at home, and then my side can use the space behind them, and there is enough room for manipulation! But now, there is space, but there are very few counterattacks from Zenit. The opponent's attack is too fierce, and some of our team members are overwhelmed! Perhaps? Change tactics? Fight against each other?

The football field is changing rapidly. Just as the coaches of both sides are thinking about changing tactics with the passage of time, the game finally ushered in a turning point!

Just now the right winger Milos Krasic's bottom pass successfully caused chaos in the Zenit penalty area. Under the interference of the home team's striker Lowe, Skrtel had to choose a safe method and the ball went directly. Hitting the baseline, CSKA won the third corner of the game!

Zhirkov comes to take the corner kick!

Hurry up!

It's a tactical short corner!

The one who caught the ball was Sergey who came over!

but……

No further complicated tactics!

Sergey Shemak (because the central defender is Sergey Ignashevich, so it is not accurate to simply use Sergey to call Shemak in the previous article) directly kicked the high ball, this ball is...

Later!

Players on both sides in the penalty area are fighting for what they think is an advantageous position!

The ball went to Skrtel!

Russian international, CSKA's main central defender, Ignashevich is in a fierce battle with Skrtel!

Let's jump!

This ball!

Goal! Goal! GOAL... Ignashevich!

In the 23rd minute of the game, CSKA at home relied on a corner kick tactic. The central defender, Ignashevich, who stepped forward to participate in the attack, scored with a header. The score is now 1-0!

but……

Zenit players are obviously dissatisfied with the goal just now, and they are asking the referee for an explanation!

Especially Skrtel who is in charge of defending Ignashevich, he looks very excited now!

Let's watch the playback first...

There is absolutely no offside problem with this ball. While passing the ball, Zenit still has players guarding the goalposts!

Then the ball arrived at the back point, Skrtel and Ignashevich took off at the same time!

We can see that Ignashevich does have a pressing action behind him, and it is possible to use this action to make himself jump higher than Skrtel and limit Skrtel's take-off!

No wonder Skrtel is so excited. Now it seems that he must think that the opponent fouled first! This goal should be invalid!

Then it was Ignashevich who shook his head against the ball and attacked the goal. It was too close to the goal. Malafeyev had already reacted, but he still didn't touch the ball!

Let's see what the referee decides now!

The referee is communicating with the lines referee!

The CSKA Moscow players who were celebrating just now also hurriedly surrounded the referee to put pressure on the referee's decision!

Now Roberto Rossetti from Italy has become the man who decides the fate of both teams on the field!

The finger points to the kick-off point in the middle circle! The ball is valid! CSKA Moscow leads 1-0 at the Luzhniki Stadium!

We can hear huge cheers erupting from the Luzhniki Stadium. The 80,000 fans of the home team once again cheered for their team's goal. This time they can cheer with confidence!

The broadcast footage was also given to the VIP seats. We can see that the number one player in Russia today, like ordinary fans, is cheering for CSKA Moscow's goal, while Mr. Mei beside him is a little helpless. !

And Roberto Rossetti gave Skrtel a yellow card, probably because Skrtel was too excited during the appeal just now!

Zenit not only conceded the first goal in the away game 0-1, the main central defender Skrtel received a yellow card in 25 minutes, and the next game will definitely be timid!

The home team took the lead to break the deadlock. I believe that Zenit must change its tactics in the future. The game is developing in a better and better direction...

Gasayev was extremely happy because of this goal. Being able to take the lead first, not only explained to his own fans, but also completed the most important part of formulating tactics before the game, the first to score a goal! After that, you can continue to give them heavy blows against Zenit's weaknesses!

According to the pre-match tactics, now it's our turn to play defensive counterattack!

Gasayev, calling the players, conveyed his tactical purpose to the field!

The players also know very well that in this level of competition, if you focus on the opponent's weakness and hit hard, you must hit a snake with seven inches! And Zenit's seven inches! It is the defensive line that basically does not exist after they attack!

On the other side of the field, Advocaat obviously felt as if he had been abandoned by the world!

I fell behind in the game again o(╥﹏╥)o

Advocaat feels that he has not enjoyed the treatment of taking the lead in a game for a long time. It is not terrible for those weak opponents to fall behind by one goal, but this is CSKA Moscow, and it is still an away game!

It really gave me a problem!

According to the tactics formulated before the game, limited offense, don't press all of them in the first half, we have plenty of time, don't worry, 0 to 1 is not the end of the world!

The Zenit players on the field finally recovered after receiving specific instructions from the head coach, and they were not as confused as they were when they were just scored!

It is impossible to defend and counterattack with peace of mind, and the CSKA players will not be so stupid as to attack like before regardless of the defense. attack! It is the only choice before Zenit, relying on offense to bring the game back to the same starting line!

We can clearly see that after taking the lead in the score, CSKA did not maintain the offensive posture that they are good at at home as before, but, like other teams, aimed at Zenit's attack when Zenit pressed out. The loopholes in the defense played Zenit's most hated defensive counterattack tactics!

With João and Lowe, two Brazilians who are good at counterattacking and advancing, I believe that Zenit's defense must be careful and careful. The strength of these two Brazilians may be better than the opponent's forward they encountered before. Faster and more powerful!

Although the Zenit team has given up the defensive tactics at the beginning of the game and began to focus on advancing to the opponent's frontcourt, it obviously feels a bit cautious. The two full-backs Anyukov and Jin Dongjin, as well as the backcourt Waist Zilyanov was a little timid and didn't dare to participate in the team's offense too much like in the previous game!

but!

There is Arshavin who is in hot form. Perhaps it is Andvocaat who dares to use so few people to try to break through the defense line of the Russian national team level!

Just now there was a direct connection between Tymoshchuk and Arshavin. After Arshavin took the ball, he broke through directly to the penalty area. Arshavin still hit the goal with one kick before the replacement was successful.

Unfortunately, Russia's No. 1 national goalkeeper Akinfeev is guarding CSKA's goal. Facing Arshavin's angle, which is not a tricky shot, Akinfeev holds it firmly!

………………

Another chance for Zenit to attack!

This time it was the cooperation between Domingos and Arshavin on the wing. Arshavin sent a beautiful through pass, and Domingos successfully got it without any interference from the defenders around him!

Domingsgo adjusted directly and passed to the penalty area!

Pogrebnyak and Denisov outflanked the penalty area at the same time!

Is there a chance?

Pogrebnyak!

Header!

It's so high!

Under the interference of Ignashevich, Pogrebnyak did not seize the opportunity to equalize the score for Zenit!

………………

The game changed to another anxious way. Zenit relied on the excellent state of the offensive combination of several players in the frontcourt. Although they could create some opportunities, they just couldn't get an excellent chance to hit the goal and couldn't successfully equalize the score! As for the home team, CSKA, because Zenit also has enough defensive personnel in the defense, while taking care of its own defense, CSKA's counterattack will not cause too much threat!

It's the last 10 minutes of the first half! Start the general attack of the half! Try to score a goal before the end of the half!

Taking advantage of the opportunity of a throw-in, Advocaat called Timoshchuk, the commander on the field, and asked him to instruct his teammates to launch a more intense offensive for 10 minutes!

Zenit stepped up its attack again!

At the end of the half with 10 minutes left, Zenit finally showed their true offensive strength. The game has opportunities for both sides! Now it depends on whether Zenit's spear is more favorable, or the home team can take the opportunity, Break through Zenit's shield again!

Anyukov is coming up! With Denisov on the side, and Arshavin who is approaching, we played a small-scale cooperation on the side!

Arshavin again!

Successfully took the ball and cut inside, attracting most of the defense! With a flick of the ankle, the ball was given to Denisov who was at the bottom!

It's a gap!

Denisov is not offside!

Did you kick the door directly?

Denisov hit the goal directly from a small angle!

The ball was blocked by Akinfeev, and the ball got a corner kick!

However, Pogrebnyak in front of the goal is obviously dissatisfied with Denisov's direct kick. He is waving to Denisov, shouting something, maybe complaining why he didn't pass the ball!

A corner kick! Zenit's two central defenders also stepped forward to compete for the top!

The corner kick was sent! The ball flew to the front of the penalty area! Yang Feng's position!

But following him was Alexei Berezuzsky

Aleksei Berezuzski, who played right back in this game, has the same strength as his twin brother as a central defender at the international level. The ball was directly pushed out by Alexei Berezzuski Already!

In this game, CSKA also sent the Berezudski brothers in the defense. As twin brothers, both of them are the main players of CSKA and the Russian national team. When they retired, the two clubs played more than 500 times, but compared to Alexei, who is versatile in the backcourt, Vasily played in the The position of central defender is more stable. As the main central defender of the national team and partner with Ignashevich, he has played more than 100 times, while Alexei has only played more than 50 games for the national team. The two brothers announced their retirement from CSKA Moscow at the same time in July 2018, which can be regarded as a good story in football!

Yang Feng's confrontation ability really needs to be improved. In this opportunity just now, Yang Feng still lost the chance to head the ball even though he had a certain advantage in body position, because he was completely at a disadvantage in physical confrontation!

playing field.

You still have some practice! Rookie! Welcome to the Russian Super League!

Perhaps because he was worried that Yang Feng's Russian was not good enough, Alexei Berezuzsky taunted Yang Feng in English after the header!

Sure enough, is the colleague an enemy?

Yang Feng didn't intend to answer the other party's trash talk, so he ran back to defend. Responding with your own performance is much more meaningful than talking trash!