Football No. 10: God's Perspective

Chapter 261: First Battle with Italy

The national football team is preparing in an orderly manner. The head coach Yinhu has been looking forward to his ace player, Wang Po.

The World Cup is coming, and Wang Po's arrival can greatly enhance the team's combat effectiveness.

The strongest players in the country are all gathered here, let's fight, national football team!

The beautiful St. Petersburg Stadium, it is said that the cost reached 1.5 billion US dollars. It can accommodate 64,000 spectators. The first battle of the national football team will be fought here, and their opponent is the powerful Italian team.

After the glory of 2006, Italy began to replace the old with the new. The team's record has been ups and downs, but whether in Europe or in the world, the old football power Italy is definitely a team that cannot be ignored.

Now this Italian team, the goalkeeper is the little devil, Donnarumma replaced the young player Buffon, and the central defender position is the three defenders of Xuanming Er Lao, Chiellini, Bonucci and Emerson.

In the midfield, there is a five-man combination of Jorginho, Locatelli, Pellegrini, Barrera and Verratti.

On the front line, Chiesa and Immobile have become important weapons for attacking the city and capturing the stronghold.

The new and the old match, the team must be energetic and experienced.

Not only that, but more importantly, the head coach of this Italian team, Mancini, has trained well and fully integrated these players perfectly, maximizing the combat effectiveness of this group of people.

When it comes to the Italian men's football team, the first thing that comes to mind is words such as male model and defense.

Undoubtedly, the stylish, handsome, suffocating and precise chain defense is deeply imprinted in the bones of every member of this national team.

In the tournament system, defense is particularly important.

After all, the national team and the club are different.

A club can have a wide range of selection. As long as there is money, it can buy back all the best players in each position, and have enough time to run in tactics, adjust formations, and cultivate tacit understanding.

But the national team is different. The training time is counted every year. In a short time, it is difficult to complete the above tasks, and the selection is not as good as the club. Therefore, the quality and rhythm of the game are quite different from the Champions League.

There are only two tactics for a football team, offense or defense.

Attack requires complex coordination, passing and cutting, tacit training, etc. It is difficult to create an extremely sharp offensive tactic at the national team level.

Even if you have the best offensive players in the world.

For example, the uncrowned Dutch team, they once had players of the Golden Ball level such as Rijkaard, Gullit, and Van Basten. Their all-out attack and defense tactics have made them win no championships so far.

Offense wins victory, defense wins championships.

In the tournament system, there are too many accidental factors, which do not give you any chance to try and make mistakes. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as walking on thin ice.

Compared with the practice of offensive tactics, defense is the easiest tactical system to grasp. If you can defend it, you can ensure that you are invincible in such a tournament system. Therefore, relatively speaking, the benefits are greater. Therefore, many national team coaches will first focus on the practice of defensive tactics, surviving first, and then other things.

Mancini almost took Juventus's defensive framework and applied it to the national team's back line.

Bonucci and Chiellini, two great central defenders, are enough to ensure the stability of the Italian team's defense.

Jorginho, the new core of the Italian midfield, is a young player who is sometimes good and sometimes bad. In the frontcourt, there is no doubt that Chiesa has become the core of the striker.

For the head coach of the Chinese national football team, the Silver Fox, he is too familiar with this team.

He once led this team to win the 2006 World Cup championship. It was an era of brilliant heroes.

In which team he used to be, Buffon had the only defender, World Footballer of the Year Cannavaro, Materazzi, Nesta, Zambrotta, Grosso, Barzali, Gattuso, Pirlo, De Rossi, Inzaghi, Piero, Totti, Yakunta, Toni... all are familiar names of players.

And that was the tail end of the Serie A league that was still at its peak.

Unfortunately, time flies. When the old coach Silver Fox returned to the Italian national team in the 2010 World Cup, the glory of the past was gone. As the defending champion, Italy had a serious player gap at the time, and finally it was difficult to win a single game in the group stage. It was eliminated, which made the old coach Silver Fox completely disheartened.

Now, leading the national team to face his own country, which is also the team of the past, he feels mixed emotions.

Of course, even if he has been away from the right and wrong of football for many years, Silver Fox still understands the national team of his motherland.

Based on his understanding of the Italian national team, before the war, Silver Fox formulated a full range of tactics, which can be summed up in one word: fast, using leaping, sprinting, and stealing as many as possible.

In fact, as a head coach, Silver Fox deeply understands the gap between the two national teams. The gap between the two levels is a face-giving statement.

Although Italy has not performed well in recent years, as a country with a football desert, it is impossible to defeat it, and it is a tournament-style competition, so there is no such thing as underestimating the enemy.

Three central defenders, five defenders tactics.

This time, captain Zheng Zhi partnered with Feng Ting and Mei Fang to form three central defenders, and the two wingers were Zhang Moss on the right and Zou Zheng on the left. This is almost the same team as when the Silver Fox led the club in China.

In the midfield, San Ge, Wu Xi, and Wang Po are partners, and Wu Lei and Fei Ji Gao are on the front line.

With the coaching ability of the Silver Fox, if it were a second-rate European country, it would be called a three-center-back system, and in the national team it can only be called a 532 formation.

The reason is simple. The domestic players' acceptance ability is really not satisfactory. They can't adapt to the complicated tactics. After a while, they get confused first.

There is no way. This is also a compromise of the world-class coach.

Feng Ting and Zheng Zhi guarantee the ball out of the back line. San Ge, Wu Xi, and Wang Po will face the stranglehold of the Italian midfield. They need to complete the defense under the opponent's high-intensity attack, and also take into account the offense. The pressure is not small.

Of course, the tactical design is the design, and the real effect still needs to be played on the field.

"Huh"

When arriving at the stadium in St. Petersburg, looking around, it was full of zg red. The enthusiastic fans of the national football team came to the venue from afar and made it the home court of the national football team.

Fans are lovely. Despite facing strong opponents, they still want to give the team the greatest support.

This is the second time that the Chinese national football team has entered the World Cup. It is no longer the joke that all other teams have gone to the World Cup except the national football team.

Wang Po is still a little nervous in his heart because he thinks this is more important than the Champions League final.

It is nothing but the honor of a country.

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