amazing coach

Chapter 73 Evenly matched

At the beginning of the game, Alkmaar, which had the home advantage, played very smoothly uncharacteristically, and did not launch an indiscriminate bombardment at the beginning like the previous six games.

When Jiang Mu first took over Alkmaar, he advocated winning football. In the fourth-level amateur team Oriental Dragons, he played an intensive defense with three midfielders. But when he came to Alkmaar, he played a historic game.

Attacking football that neither Ajax nor Barcelona had, they scored 35 goals in six games, massacred every game, and only four goals were missing, which surprised everyone.

Just after the fans got used to Alkmaar-style massacres, in this crucial game, when Alkmaar needed victory the most, Jiang Mu's team played very steadily.

"Defense is safer than offense, but Alkmaar has one point less than Cambre. They need to win. How can they score goals without attacking? The Chinese people's minds are really unpredictable."

Commentator Rijkaard expressed different opinions when he saw Alkmaar playing so steadily.

"I just said that in such a crucial game, it is the coach's character that determines the outcome." Van Basten was very proud of his foresight.

Van Blondt was also dumbfounded. He originally thought that Alkmaar was lagging behind in points. Jiang Mu would definitely take advantage of the home court to bombard the goal first. Alkmaar had the largest goal difference. As long as the score was tied, Alkmaar would be the winner.

League champion. And his plan is to defend and counterattack in the away game. If he can draw a draw, it will be a draw. If he can counterattack and score goals, it is better. He has studied Alkmaar in detail and thinks that he can block Alkmaar's attack. But now Alkmaar

Kemar is so steady, his iron barrel formation is almost in vain.

"It doesn't matter what tactics he uses, as long as they don't score, even if everyone stays in their own half, Kamble is in the lead now anyway. If you don't want to lose face, just ignore him, it's just for these ninety minutes."

Although he didn't guess Jiang Mu's thoughts correctly, Van Blount comforted himself, thinking that his team would be safer this way.

But in fact, Alkmaar's offensive power is not bad. The reason why everyone thinks it is stable and defensive counterattack is because their attack was too fierce before. This is a question of comparison.

In this game, Jiang Mu arranged a 433 formation. The only defensive midfielder was Enke. When attacking, the frontcourt is basically guaranteed to have more than five people. It's just that the full-backs are no longer assisting as frequently as before.

Suleiman basically never went back and was equivalent to an avant-garde.

The game lasted for five minutes. The offensive was basically on Alkmaar's side. Kamble was mostly defensive. The offense was just sporadic guerrilla warfare and counterattacks. In these five minutes, the best offensive performance was Kuy.

Specially, it was not Cambour who performed best on the defensive end, but Martens, who had just been released from the ban by Jiang Mu and returned to the back line. As the most powerful player in the backcourt, Martens showed his mainstay style as soon as he came back.

, he made his teammates feel a lot more at ease in the defense, and even Enke intervened in the offense from time to time.

Seeing Martens's performance, Jiang Mu nodded secretly. This central defender can still hold his own even in the Eredivisie. In this way, he can save a lot of transfer funds next season.

In this game, Kuyt was unexpectedly placed at the center position by Jiang Mu. Im and Adrian were placed at the winger positions. Jiang Mu needed a high center forward. Im's technical shooting skills were sufficient, but his physical condition was not good.

, Benshop was good physically, but his technique was rough and his turns were too slow. Jiang Mu compromised and moved Kuyt to the center. This was also to prepare for future center tactics. Jiang Mu's ideal state is that the center is DeRoro.

Damn it, Zhao Guangming has already contacted him, and Drogba wrote back saying that he will wait until Alkmaar enters the Eredivisie. With this sentence, Jiang Mu is still confident that he can recruit Drogba, a super monster.

Although Kuyt is not as good as Drogba and rarely plays the center position, no matter where he is, Kuyt is extremely active and diligent, never letting go of a chance to get the ball, and never giving up once.

When he had a chance to press, he harassed the goalkeeper to take the kick and attacked Brammer, the core of Cambourne's midfielder, from behind. In the eyes of Cambourne fans, Kuyt was like a shit stirrer, the sand in their shoes and a thorn in their flesh.

Deadly, but very uncomfortable.

In the sixth minute of the game, Cambour midfielder Brammer got the ball and got rid of Altidore's defense. He was about to dribble the ball forward when center Kuyt ran over very "untimely".

There was a violent collision behind Bramer. Bramer was knocked forward involuntarily and ran a few steps forward, almost losing his center of gravity. He was forced to slow down and control his center of gravity. Just like this, Enke in front of him and Enke in the back

Altidore and Kuyt surrounded him.

Seeing that Brammer couldn't even reach the opponent's back line, he had no choice but to pass the ball across to his partner and bypass Enke to advance forward. He hated Kuyt who was not doing his job to the extreme, so he became the center forward.

Well, your center forward, run to the midfield to grab the ball, aren't you bullying someone!

Kuyt didn't care what Brammer was thinking. He had already run to the wing and surrounded the midfielder who was receiving the ball.

Cambour's No. 6 midfielder was not in a good position to receive the ball. Kuyt actively grabbed the ball and immediately lost the ball. Im got the ball and quickly took it to the right side of Cambour's penalty area.

Seeing that the robbery was completed, Kuyt turned around without hesitation and ran to the front of the penalty area to meet Im.

Kuyt's performance drew applause from the Alkmaar fans.

Guest Van Basten also shook his head helplessly and said: "This guy is equivalent to two people. The current center is really tired."

Rijkaard laughed loudly and said: "If you had been so diligent back then, we could have won more championships."

Van Basten said speechlessly: "I was kicked like this even if I wasn't so diligent. If I were like Kuyt, I would have to retire before the age of thirty."

Rijkaard sighed sadly and said: "Centers are always the worst. I wish Kuyt good luck."

Seeing the opportunity to attack, after the opponent's midfielder was intercepted, before he had time to go back, full-back Suleiman immediately assisted to the frontcourt to meet Im.

Im struggling with Cambour's No. 5 full-back.

Van Blount studied Alkmaar very thoroughly, and Cambour's players are not weak. Im failed to break through the No. 5 full-back in the previous two times, and his cross was also cleared. This time he attacked with anger.

Cambour's No. 5 successfully defended Immu twice, but this time he was a little careless. Seeing Immu make a forced pass, he rushed forward aggressively, trying to block the pass.

Im just made a fake move. He gently moved the football to the outside, trying to get closer to the penalty area from No. 5.

No. 5 has a lot of defensive experience. He rushed forward but did not take off his feet. When he saw Im moving the ball, he immediately moved sideways and blocked Im in front of him.

But after he dialed the ball, Im saw that he had not deceived his opponent, so he was very flexible and dunked the ball back.

No. 5 has a taller body and started to rush forward a bit fiercely. He changed direction twice and couldn't keep up. He watched the football roll past his feet but couldn't stop it. His teammates in the midfield didn't come back. He wanted to just follow the trend.

Forget about knocking over Im, no matter what method you use, you have to stop the opponent's attack.

.Im fell down, the whistle sounded, free kick!

This is Alkmaar's first free kick. The position is not very good, it is equivalent to a short corner kick.

Altidore walked up to the ball and made a gesture to his teammates in the penalty area, telling them to position themselves according to the free kick tactics trained before the game. The ball would not hit the goal directly.

In such a game, both sides will be extremely cautious. It is difficult to score goals through sports battles. Jiang Mu attaches great importance to angle kicks and free kick tactics, and has also specially practiced several different combinations before the game. Now the players are following the tactics practiced before the game to seize positions.

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Players from both sides wanted to seize advantageous ground, pushing and quarreling, but no one showed any weakness, and the referee had to come over to maintain order.

Half a minute later, both sides barely stood up and waited for the referee's whistle.

force!

Altidore served the ball out and hit the front spot.

At such a close distance, Altidore's footwork was able to hit wherever he pointed. Im, who was standing in the front, grabbed the point without moving. However, he had no chance to attack, and he had no intention of attacking.

It's about heading the ball backwards and passing the ball backwards.

Heading from the front and back, inserting a header in the middle, and being outflanked by multiple players from the back, this is the essence of the tactical coordination of this free kick designed by Jiang Mu.

Cambre's tactics were very thorough, but due to mental calculations and unintentional calculations, they still failed to overtake Alkmaar at the back point.

Adrian was guarded, Altidore was guarded, but center back Martens was missed. The experienced Martens headed the ball towards the lower right corner of the goal from a very small angle.

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The Kamble defender standing in front of the goal post moved his body to block the ball, but the ball bounced and flew from between his legs into the net.

Martens got up excitedly and ran to celebrate. But when he ran to the sidelines, he found that the fans stood up and then sat down, and even let out loud boos. He turned his head in surprise and found Cambour's goalkeeper.

Nally is ready to take the goal kick.

It turned out that when Martens headed the ball, Alkmaar's center Kuyt blocked the path of goalkeeper Nali, and the goal was canceled by the referee.

"Hold!"

Jiang Mu couldn't help but uttered a curse word, because even if Alkmaar's players did not block the movement of goalkeeper Nali, Nali was too late to block Morris' shot.

When Martens headed the goal, Van Blount was shocked and his face changed. It wasn't until he saw the referee blowing the whistle to cancel the goal that Van Blount stroked his head and was in shock.

After Martens' goal was called, Cambre played more cautiously. The forwards circled around the center circle and did not dare to attack easily. Even if they did attack, they would only rely on three or four players.

Make small coordination and play with the attitude of scoring goals if you can, and not conceding if you can't.

Alkmaar did not invest as much offensive force as in the previous games, and the forward pressure was not as great as before, but their offense still gave Cambour a huge headache, because Alkmaar's players were always able to seize their flaws and weaknesses.

Fierce attack. This feeling of seizing a weak point and attacking the vital point even more uncomfortable than a full-scale attack.