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Why didn't the referee blow the whistle?

This was Minamino Takumi's idea, and it was also Amadou Haidara's idea a few minutes later, and it was also Dabur and Huang Xican's idea a few minutes later.

They were all "taken care of" by De Paul.

At this time, Marco Rose really realized why De Paul appeared in the defensive midfielder position.

"De Paul was very active in this game." Zhan Jun commented, "especially in defense."

"If I didn't know that De Paul played as a front midfielder before, I'm afraid I wouldn't think he had played other positions before." Zhan Jun exaggerated, but Zhang Lu agreed.

From front midfielder to back midfielder, the biggest difference between the two different positions is actually "position". When choosing a position, the front midfielder should insert the opponent's space, but the back midfielder actually has to do the opposite, that is, to fill his own space first.

De Paul actually did a good job in this regard. It seems that De Paul can be seen rushing to grab the ball everywhere in this game. What made Salzburg Red Bull most angry was actually De Paul's very aggressive defensive actions.

A flying tackle shoveled Takumi Minamino out of bounds, and the referee didn't say anything. Takumi Minamino was not sure whether the opponent touched him or the ball first, but the pain was real.

The Japanese player, who was holding his waist and screaming in pain, really encountered a tough nut this time.

After looking at the slightly hesitant referee, De Paul ran back to the defensive position with satisfaction. The performance of the Slovenian referee Vincic has caused great dissatisfaction among Marco Rose and Salzburg Red Bull fans. I am afraid that Vincic's parents have been asked many times at this time.

In any case, Vincic's whistle in this game was indeed too loose.

Anthony Taylor, Atkinson and Darren England came and shook their heads at De Paul's defensive actions.

But Vincic didn't blow the whistle that he should have blown.

It was okay once or twice, but as time came to 20 minutes, the scale of the game became larger and larger, and the collisions between the two sides became more and more intense. The referee showed the first yellow card for the first time in the 25th minute.

It was the yellow card for Huang Xican who knocked down Van de Beek in the midfield.

Huang Xican blushed and ran over to argue with the referee, "They have done it so many times, and you didn't care. This is my first foul, and you gave me a yellow card? Is the home advantage so obvious??"

Vincic actually didn't understand Huang Xican's slightly accented German, but seeing Huang Xican's attitude was very excited, he stepped forward and warned: "If you do this again, I will give you another yellow card!"

Huang Xican was very angry, but seeing Vincic's hand in his chest pocket, he shook his hand and walked away.

"How many times? How many times? It's almost enough! Why hasn't De Paul got a card yet??" Marco Rose roared loudly at the fourth official on the sidelines, while Wei Le stood on the other side and watched it all.

Zickler, Marco Rose's assistant coach, pulled Marco Rose of Red Wen away from the fourth official, first smiled at the fourth official, and then pushed Marco Rose away.

"What are you doing? He's going too far!"

"I know! But the team needs a head coach!" Zikler loudly suppressed Marco Rose's complaints, "Calm down. The referee was not only lenient towards Wolves in this game. Schlager's fouls in the previous few times should have been given a card, but he didn't give it."

"Since this situation has occurred, we should deal with it properly, right? Marco?"

Marco Rose took a deep breath.

"You're right."

Zikler sighed.

He knew that his head coach was very good at tactical arrangements and had a deep understanding of football. Otherwise, he would not have been invited by Rangnick to coach Salzburg Red Bull.

But Zikler felt that the only factor that restricted his head coach from moving forward was his on-the-spot adjustments.

Especially when the situation on the field was out of control, Marco Rose seemed to lose his ability to think immediately. One of Zikler's responsibilities was to pour a basin of cold water on Rose's forehead when he was anxious and help him calm down.

Seeing that the anger on Rose's face disappeared and he returned to his seat with a thoughtful look, Zikler was relieved.

"But what should we do?"

Things will not get better just by calming down.

Marco Rose looked back at what had just happened and realized that the situation on the field was worse than he thought. Now the team's absolute core center Dabur was isolated in the frontcourt, and Huang Xican had to retreat to the midfield line to get the ball.

ThisThis caused the double striker formation of Red Bull Salzburg to completely change to a one-in-one-back position.

The function of pulling in width that the double striker's parallel position could bring was completely lost. The wingers on both sides were even more uncomfortable. They couldn't catch up with Alphonso Davies in speed and couldn't resist Kounde physically.

There was also a crazy De Paul pressing in the middle.

The 4-4-2 formation is a balanced formation, which means balanced offense and defense, not balanced in every part of the lineup.

On the contrary, when attacking, the 4-4-2 formation is very unbalanced.

This is a formation that relies heavily on the performance of the wing.

"Since there are only two people in the middle and Wolves have three people, if Kounde moves inward, then Wolves will even have four people in the middle!" Zhang Lu was also analyzing the situation on the field at this time and mentioned the tactics of Red Bull Salzburg.

"And Salzburg Red Bull has no inherent advantage in the middle. But Salzburg Red Bull's full-backs also pressed forward, and the wingers on both sides pushed forward to the front line. At this time, the frontcourt can form a numerical advantage on the wing."

"This is also the tactic that Salzburg Red Bull tried to play in this game, that is, to create more opportunities to play against fewer through breakthroughs on the wing." Zhang Lu paused, "Imagine, if Minamino Takumi pressed forward to the front line, the left back could move forward and cooperate with Minamino Takumi. If Huang Xican came to this side, the three of them could cooperate, and only Kounde could defend on this side. Isn't the advantage here?"

"But what?" Zhan Jun said at the right time.

"But, hehe, I just didn't do it." Zhang Lu spread his hands innocently, looking very helpless.

"The center is completely suppressed. The ball cannot be passed to the wing. If it is passed to the wing, the wing players cannot completely shake off the two full-backs of the Wolves when they break through. At this time, it is useless to talk about frontcourt attack."

"Because the ball cannot be passed to the frontcourt!"

"If this continues, the Wolves will be able to transform the game into the mode they are best at, that is, using their sharp and fast attacks to break the opponent's defense!" Zhang Lu predicted, "I am afraid that this time will not be too long."

In the 30th minute, when De Paul rushed towards Takumi Minamino again, scaring Takumi Minamino to pass the ball back quickly, De Paul stopped and looked at the opponent's players who seemed to have been suppressed to their own half.

"It's time!" Rodri shouted loudly.

The ball quickly returned to Rodri's feet, and at this time, De Paul seemed to have heard some kind of order, completely abandoned the backcourt, and ran forward quickly!

The ball arrived and the people arrived, Rodri passed the ball forward to De Paul——