Football’s First Defender

Of course, Advocaat on the sidelines will not allow Villarreal to attack at home!

Let the right back Hill directly attack by a large margin. While enriching his own wing attack system, he can also firmly restrict the visiting team's left back Capdevila to the opponent's defensive end!

And Anyukov was ordered to pay more attention to his defensive position, and he can properly insert in the attack, but when his own midfielder such as Tymoshchuk or Ziryanov has already participated in the attack, Don't move forward blindly! We must ensure that someone puts pressure on Cazorla's defense, instead of allowing him to always find a chance to single out the central defender when he counterattacks!

After some adjustments, Zenit's defensive pressure dropped sharply! Even if one's own offense makes another mistake, there are few scenes as thrilling as the beginning!

Villarreal's subsequent counterattack and organizational offensive opportunities did not pose any threat!

After all, with 3 defensive midfielders, if the defensive engineers can really solve the scoring problem, then the value of those offensive players in football will not be so high!

Pellegrini saw that his offensive system of attacking the right side by surprise at the beginning of the game could no longer play a big role, and Zenit's offense was getting better and better, and the threat was getting bigger and bigger, so he decided not to insist The attack went on. After all, this game was in Russia. The opponent's home court, the right time, the right place, and the right people all decided that this is not an environment suitable for confrontation!

The Pei Gong on the sidelines waved his hand! Villarreal retreated across the board, and the next step depends on Zenit's ability to attack the iron barrel formation!

The opening stage of the match between the two sides was extremely smooth and exciting. The offensive and defensive rhythms of both sides were very fast. Villarreal, who was on an expedition to Russia as a guest, even created better opportunities than the home team!

It's a pity that neither side scored a goal!

Now we can see that after Zenit made adjustments to their own defensive loopholes, Villarreal saw that there was no better offensive opportunity, and they had already started to retract their defense and prepare to defend!

After all, for the two rounds of the knockout round, with the support of the Russian team, which can be called the devil's home court, if they can achieve an unbeaten record, it is absolutely acceptable for Villarreal!

On the contrary, Zenit should hurry up and attack now! In this kind of home game, you must try your best to win your own home game, so that Zenit will have more confidence when they go to Spain a week later. !

As Villarreal retreated, Advocaat naturally directed the team to press up!

When Pellegrini regretted not being able to score an away goal in the early stage, Advocaat might have regretted not scoring the first goal in the offensive against the team!

Now, we can only carry out the tough battle!

Zenit now controls the ball. Due to the retraction of the overall defense of the visiting team, Zenit's inversion in the midfield basically went very smoothly except for Rossi's interference!

But the three defensive midfielders are arranged in a triangle, which makes it extremely difficult for Zenit to penetrate further forward!

Tymoshchuk gave the ball to the right-back Hill, who ran in, and Hill ran forward with the ball! Matias Fernandez of the visiting team stepped forward and interfered!

During the defense, Fernandez is no longer the playmaker in the midfield as he was at the beginning of the game. Instead, he came to the left side of his side and acted as a left forward to assist Capdevila behind him!

Fernandez's contribution on the defensive end is not bad! When Pires was here, because he basically didn't participate in the defense, Fernandez basically took care of the defense on the left and the center at the same time!

It is also handy for Fernandez to be a full-time defensive left midfielder now!

Hill tried to break through, but couldn't get rid of Fernandez's defense at all! He had no choice but to pass back to Yang Feng who was behind him!

Yang Feng repassed to Tymoshchuk and reorganized the attack!

Because Yang Feng and Skrtel basically don't participate in the offense, they can at most catch the return pass, and then hand it over to their own midfielders to reorganize!

Anyukov didn't dare to step forward and participate in the attack because Cazorla's threat was too great. This made Zenit only in the frontcourt and try to rely on personal ability to open the gap!

Arshavin, who was cruising near the penalty area but rarely got a pass, also had to retreat to the midfield to help the players sort out the ball!

Zenit tried to attack for more than 10 minutes, of course to create chances to score! After all, goals are real for a game. Advocaat certainly wants to win at home and take the lead, and even use this game to solve the suspense of the two rounds!

However, Zenit penetrated the center many times, and the two sides also tried to attack one by one. The offensive system of the entire team was still divided by the defense of the visiting team, and they could not fully find the connection between each other!

The destructiveness of the opponent's three midfielders is too strong!

Zenit's new aid Miguel Dani on the wing is indeed excellent in personal ability, but the degree of tacit understanding with other players in the team needs to be improved. Even if he can create some space or opportunities, he cannot effectively provide for his teammates. Fire support!

Change tactics! Just like what we formulated before the game, since they plan to stick to it, then we are not in a hurry to score goals!

After confirming that there might be no result in such an attack, after talking with the assistant coach around him and confirming, Advocaat directly conveyed the next tactics to the captain on the field, Tymoshchuk!

Zenit is going to attack Villarreal's biggest hidden danger as well!

We can clearly feel that the frequency of passing and receiving of the Zenit players on the field has accelerated!

I don't pursue precise passing for the sake of tactics like before, but simply accelerate for speed!

The running of the Zenit players drives the defense line of the visiting team to move together!

This time Miguel Dani and Hill cooperated, Danny forced a pass behind, and Hill and Capdevila fought for speed!

Capdevila was faster and kicked the ball over the touchline

Next came Tymoshchuk, who passed the ball to the retreating Arshavin. Arshavin took the ball and directly made a breakthrough. Senna firmly held his position!

But this time after Arshavin's attempt failed, he chose to move laterally with the ball. Senna had no choice but to follow closely, break through again, make an emergency stop, and turn around!

But Senna deserves to be Villarreal's most reassuring midfielder, and they all followed. Arshavin did a lot of anaerobic exercise after a series of movements, which really consumed a lot. Both of them had difficulty breathing. Yes, Arshavin chose to pass it back to Ziryanov!

After Ziryanov took the ball, he accelerated again and broke through with the ball...

accelerate……

accelerate……

accelerate……

Zenit has been speeding up, taking the ball in the middle, creating space by running quickly, and after taking the ball, they have to use turns, changes of direction, and emergency stops to constantly test the defensive players of the visiting team!

On the left and right sideways, just go straight in without thinking, and go down to the bottom, fighting for speed!

During this process, Zenit made a lot of mistakes and lost a lot of possessions, but the visiting team players who were tired of running only played a few counterattacks without pain. More often, After clearing the siege, try to catch your breath...

I think Mr. Advocaat must be aiming at the visiting team's schedule to deliberately increase the pace of the game and improve everyone's running distance. Instead of relying on complicated tactics, simply relying on running will kill the opponent!

This kind of the simplest physical fitness competition, under the condition of Zenit's sufficient rest time, may really be able to run to death in Villarreal, whose physical fitness is about to be overdrawn by domestic competitions!

(Real Madrid lost so badly today, and the mood is complicated. Maybe Mourinho came back to clean up his spirits, which is the best help for Real Madrid! Continue to stay up late to watch the game... I am sure the game between Porto and Roma, Roma has watched a lot this season The defense is really the younger brother, and in order to compete for the Champions League next season, maybe they have to return to the league, optimistic about Porto's victory and promotion! There is nothing to see in Paris, and Manchester United's comeback is minimal, but this kind of giants will not fight to the death , it is estimated that Paris will win one at most, and there is a high probability of a direct draw, laughing...)