Football’s First Defender

Although Van Gaal was later ridiculed as Chef Fan at Manchester United, he scratched off the lottery tickets and tried various xjbt tactics, using the great method of moving the universe on the players! But after all, Manchester United is not easy to lead a rich team, and there are many constraints that affect the coach's formation!

On the contrary, the Alkmaar team led by Van Gaal at this time, although there are no big-name players, can be said to be united, and everyone is unreservedly implementing the tactics formulated by the coach!

In this kind of non-rich team, it is suitable for the coach to concentrate on studying tactics and show his tactical ability!

Alkmaar's overall strength was originally at the top level in the Netherlands, but this season due to the departure of players and the unfinished chemical reaction between newly introduced players, the record is very bad!

But Advocaat knows that the Dutch team, if you let their offense go crazy, then no team on this planet can stop them!

Yang Feng, who was recuperating from his injuries, only found out that Chef Fan had been the head coach in Alkmaar during the preparatory meeting for this game!

You must know that Chef Fan was in the World Cup in Brazil, but he led the Dutch team to kill his home team Spain 5-1!

General Fan's dive to the top has become a classic goal in the history of the World Cup!

In that game, Van Gaal uncharacteristically chose 5 defenders, and the Dutch team played 5 defenders. You can imagine the pressure on Van Gaal! But it's this kind of formation that the Dutch team doesn't often use, staring at the weakness of the duck and hammering hard. If this Zenit team goes against him, something will happen at home!

Fortunately, the head coach is very afraid of himself, a fellow Dutchman. He didn't blindly choose a full-strength offensive tactic at home, but chose a slightly conservative, but very safe defensive tactic!

With the whistle of the referee! The game has begun!

Zenit, who are playing at home, took the lead in kicking off!

It's the same as I predicted after seeing the starting lineup before the game! Zenit's position in this game is a bit conservative! It didn't like most of the time this season, when it came up, it pressed the whole line and launched a fierce attack!

The two full-backs, Jin Dongjin and Anyukov, are firmly guarding their positions, not daring to go one step further!

The three midfielders are only attacking forward properly, but they are no longer like in the past games. They can directly insert in front of the penalty area, or even in the penalty area, to complete the attack!

For the first attack, Arshavin fell into the encirclement of two defensive players of the visiting team because of insufficient support from his teammates. Although he forced the ball from the wing in the end, Boshen, who was 1 and 3 in the penalty area, was really strong. If you don't catch it, you can't win the ball!

However, the reduction in Zenit's offensive numbers has in turn strengthened Zenit's weak defense recently! The central defender combination, which is on the cusp of the storm, finally has enough teammates to support the defense!

Having a sufficient number of midfielders and the help of speedy fullbacks, Skrtel and Eric Hagen can finally play a serious football game for central defenders!

Alkmaar, who also invested in a small number of offensive players, used a long-range shot that flew into the sky, and hastily ended his first round of offense!

Both teams are famous for their offense, but in this game, due to various factors, it seems that they both want to rely on defensive counterattacks to win the game!

The two teams put on a posture of waiting for the opponent to attack, and they didn't kick together at all!

This game is a bit boring!

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The game has been going on for 20 minutes!

The two sides completed a total of 6 shots. Except for a Boshen header that was missed by the opponent's interference, the other 5 shots were long-range shots, which did not pose too much threat to the goalkeeper!

The two teams rely more on the small-scale cooperation of a few players in the frontcourt, or simply rely on personal ability to shoot long shots!

The two teams that are good at attacking from the side and breaking through the center in front of the penalty area are unable to play the offensive tactics they are familiar with because the full backs are not coming up, and the midfielders are not coming up very much!

Faced with such a boring game, the coach of the visiting team, Van Gaal, simply sat on the bench and watched the game, and didn't bother to direct from the sidelines!

Van Gaal has the capital to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, and being able to take away 1 point from Zenit's away game is absolutely acceptable for Alkmaar!

We saw that Advocaat took the lead, and he finally couldn't bear the rhythm of the game!

Taking advantage of the opportunity of a dead ball, I called the captain Tymoshchuk to whisper to him, perhaps explaining to him what kind of offensive tactics the team will use next!

Although it is enough to keep the tie and win! But at home, winning is definitely Zenit's first choice!

The game restarts!

We can see that the midfielder who only did simple pass scheduling before has started to move forward!

But the two full-backs are still nailed to their defensive positions. Zenit is unblocking its offensive ability little by little, but it still does not intend to exert its full offensive strength. After all, Zenit, which is fully offensive, is really It's hurting others and hurting myself!

With the addition of midfielders to attack, Zenit's offense has finally improved. Although it is not the strong suppressing force shown in the past, the combination of side and center is still very impressive. At least it can finally give the visiting team a certain amount of defense. Stress!

A long pass from Ziryanov landed in front of the penalty area!

Fernando Ricksen, already inserted in front of the penalty area, is ready to fight for the top!

The opponent's midfielder hit the football first!

However, during the confrontation between the two, the power to clear the header was insufficient!

Follow Tymoshchuk!

Don't stop the ball and pass it flat!

The opening on the left!

Arshavin, who switched places with Denisov, is activated!

Beautiful stop!

Take two steps, kick directly! Hit the door?

no!

It's a pass! A ground pass!

The ball quickly flies to the far point along the gap between the goalkeeper and the defender!

The goalkeeper at the front point is just out of reach!

Pogrebnyak!

The Boshen who ordered later will follow up!

ah!

What a pity!

Though the keeper couldn't touch this wonderful pass!

But Boshen's starting speed really can't keep up with this pass!

Half an empty chance! Maybe you only need to touch a football to get in!

But it's still one step away!

Boshen stretched out his long legs as much as possible, but he still couldn't reach the ground ball!

Alkmaar dodged a bullet!

I have to say, Arshavin's pass is really wonderful!

The forward route of the football happens to be the little space that neither the goalkeeper nor the defender can touch! The final ball may be less than 1 meter away from the back post. As long as you touch the ball to change the traveling route, this ball must be scored. of!

It's a pity that Zenit missed this offensive opportunity!

The camera was shown on Van Gaal, the coach of the visiting team who was still sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai before! Now he has also stood up and commanded from the sidelines again!

The first wave of Zenit's enhanced offensive is so threatening. If the visiting team wants to leave Russia with points, it will still have to fight hard!

This time, it's Tymoshchuk's long shot!

Heavy bombardment! But unfortunately the ball was not suppressed and flew to the stands!

Zenit's offense is becoming more and more threatening, but it is always a little short of the last, unable to completely penetrate the visiting team's defense!

Relying on the superiority in defensive numbers, the visiting team can always complete successful replacements and thwart Zenit's offensive!

Now it's time to see if Advocaat is ready to call up the full-backs to participate in the offense!

Perhaps adding another person on the wing to hold back the defender, Zenit's offense can be fully opened up!

But the visiting team did have two chances to counterattack before!

When Skrtel stepped forward to press, he was turned around by Cruyff!

Relying on Anyukov's speed, he successfully chased back! He made a clearance!

Assuming that there was no Anyukov at that time, maybe Zenit's double central defender combination will be blamed again!

If the full-backs are also transferred to participate in the attack, in case Anyukov or Jin Dongjin fails to defend properly and is beaten behind, whether Zenit's central defender combination can hold is the key!

The visiting team is still stabilizing their defense, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack!

As for Advocaat, he didn't plan to show all his offensive cards in the first half. He maintained his current offensive and saw if he could take a cold shot!

The two sides maintained a tacit understanding for 20 minutes!

The referee ended halftime!

The score is still 0 to 0!

Zenit hit the goal with 13 shots in the half, and only 3 shots were on target. Except for Arshavin's beautiful ground-cut pass, which was an excellent opportunity, it did not create any more threatening offensive opportunities!

Although the visiting team only had 4 shots, all of them missed!

But the two counterattack opportunities still caused a huge threat and confusion to Zenit's defense!

In the second half, it will depend on the battle between the two Dutch coaches to see who is the first to restore their team's offensive ability...