Fox in the Penalty Area

"For the game against the Japanese team, we have to make some changes."

On the training ground, before starting a day of training, head coach Dong Jianhai gathered the players into a double circle and listened to him speak.

Others stand in the circle and keep turning their bodies to make sure they can see the players in every direction.

"We played against the Japanese team."

As soon as this remark came out, the players of the Chinese team surrounding him couldn't help but let out a low cry.

They really didn't expect Director Dong to make such a risky move.

Dong Jianhai saw the reaction of the team members and knew why they were so surprised.

They probably didn't expect that they would choose to take risks...

After all, I am a coach who dare not even adjust his predecessor's tactics and personnel arrangements without authorization, and can only follow suit.

"After the group stage, I think everyone can see that offense is what we are best at. Therefore, in the game against the Japanese team, we must give full play to what we are good at. Only in this way can we compete with them. In the game Don't think about how many goals we conceded, how many goals we conceded...don't care how many goals we concede! The important thing is how many goals we score!"

Dong Jianhai was a little excited after speaking, and his voice raised a little.

When Hu Lai in the crowd saw Dong Guidance like this, he thought of his club head coach Tony Clark.

He almost thought Director Dong was possessed by Clark...

It's normal for him to have such doubts. After all, Director Dong in the past couldn't say such a thing at all.

What did he talk about the most?

"When defending, pay attention to the teammates around you and keep the formation intact..."

"Pay attention to the position, pay attention to observation..."

"When you are in the middle, divide the football to the side, and then you must go forward from the back... When you go forward, don't simply go to the side, a little change, go to the ribs..."

Professional but not unusual content like this.

Any coach would say those words.

So Director Dong didn't leave a deep impression on Hu Lai,

The sense of presence is also seriously lacking.

As a result, Director Dong today said, "It doesn't matter how many goals we concede! The important thing is how many goals we score!" Such a burst of words...

This is not his character design!

The outside world is criticizing the Chinese team's poor defense, and Director Dong has also noticed it.

So in the summary after each game, he will spend a lot of space talking about the problems of the team's defense in the game, as well as what needs to be paid attention to in the defense in the next game, and how to improve...

It's a good day today, Director Dong directly turned the table - "Fuck the defense, we want to score!"

This really has a common language with Hu Lai's boss Clark-as long as we score more goals than we concede, don't we win the game?

There were other Chinese players who were as shocked as Hu Lai.

They were just a little surprised when Director Dong Jianhai said they would play against the Japanese team. After all, offense is indeed the only weapon that the Chinese team can handle at present.

But after Director Dong said the following words, everyone's eyes changed.

Dong Jianhai could feel the shocking performance of the players, but he didn't care: "...So all our training content in the next two days will focus on various offensive routine drills. From now on, everyone must do a good job with each other. Mentally prepare for the Japanese team's fight to the death."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand: "Start training!"

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Dong Jianhai really meant it this time, and he did what he said.

The training content is all about offense.

Various offensive routines, various positioning ball offensive tactics...

In short, apart from penalty kicks, which is a fixed training program in the knockout stage, I really haven't practiced defense specifically.

If there is something to say, I am afraid that it is to practice the team's defense by the way in the team's offensive routine...

In the stage of training with the ball, the captain Yao Huasheng, who said in the gym before that his injury was not serious, did not appear on the training ground.

The coaching staff explained this as "just to be on the safe side."

Anyway, the Chinese team practiced all offensive tactics, even if Yao Huasheng did not practice with the team, it would not have any effect.

The offensive routines that Dong Jianhai designed for the Chinese team are all simple and direct.

This is because the strongest part of the Japanese team is the midfielder, so the Chinese team has no way to compete with the Japanese team in this area.

Even having Zhang Qinghuan and Xia Xiaoyu is far from enough.

Not to mention that Xia Xiaoyu was still in the Alvala reserve team, and Zhang Qinghuan didn't even become the main player in Sarria.

And Japan's four midfielders are all the main players in the five major European leagues.

In addition, Japanese football pays attention to pass control, and has played many first-class players in the midfield over the years. Therefore, if the Chinese team and the Japanese team compete and entangle in the midfield, they will actually hit Japan's superior project.

So what the Chinese team should do is to pass through the midfield quickly and not fall into the quagmire that the Japanese team carefully prepared here.

Then use the speed on the front line to directly hit the Japanese team's defense.

The overall strength of the Japanese team ranks No. 1 in Asia, but it does not mean that they have no weaknesses.

The defense line of the Japanese team on the three lines is relatively weak.

Both full-backs focus on offense, the center back is not tall enough, and the air defense ability is average-the Japanese team captain Kengo Yamagami, who is 1.86 meters tall, is already the highest altitude on their defense line, but he is only six taller than Hu Lai Centimeters, only one centimeter taller than Luo Kai...

In view of the fact that the Japanese team's two full-backs frequently attack, Dong Jianhai asked the Chinese team to launch more offensives from the two sides and ribs.

Xia Xiaoyu and Jiang Wanqing form a double midfielder, mainly using the former's long pass to dispatch and launch attacks. Jiang Wanqing was in charge of protecting him.

On the other hand, Zhang Qinghuan needs to insert more into the penalty area to shoot, and increase the Chinese team's support points in the Japanese team's penalty area as much as possible.

He also asked the Chinese team to increase their speed during the game, give full play to the advantage that the Chinese team is faster than the Japanese team, and constantly attack the Japanese team's defense. Use speed to mess up the Japanese team's possession advantage.

In short, the offensive routines that Dong Jianhai designed for the Chinese team are all about how to come directly. It's so simple and crude that it doesn't have any technical content.

In training, the players of the Chinese team can feel a sense of disobedience from these offensive routines-this is not Dong's style...how could he be so aggressive?

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"I always feel that Director Dong is not quite right..."

After training, back in the hotel room, Hu Lai and the others gathered together to chat and relax. This sentence was said by Wang Guangwei.

"Old Wang, you also found out?" Chen Xingyi expressed surprise beside him.

"How fresh, is there anyone in the team who hasn't noticed it?" Hu Lai sneered at Chen Xingyi's fuss.

"Maybe it's because I've been scolded too much, think about it..." Xia Xiaoyu guessed.

Since losing to Iraq in the first round of the Asian Cup group stage, criticisms about Dong Jianhai on the Internet have been overwhelming. Netizens also gave full play to their "intelligence" and made up various jokes to satirize Dong Jianhai.

The most famous one is "For such an important event as the Asian Cup, I thought that the Football Association would send a tiger to the future, but if they couldn't send a tiger to the future, they would also send a dog, but in the end they sent a pig."

The most amazing thing is that the 66-year-old Dong Jianhai is indeed a bit blessed, which fits the image of a "pig" a little bit, so now netizens call Dong Jianhai "National Football Pig Handsome".

"I think the netizens are a bit harsh. We lost the first game in the Asian Cup, and it's not just Dong's responsibility. Our performance is also not good." Zhang Qinghuan said. "It's normal to scold when you lose the ball, but you can also scold if you win the ball... I think it's fine as long as you win the ball. There's really no need to worry about losing the ball..."

"They are worried that we will concede goals against a team like Palestine. Isn't it even more conceded against a strong team like the Japanese team..."

Zhang Qinghuan interrupted Chen Xingyi: "Oh, forget it. It's like if we don't concede the ball against Palestine, we won't concede the ball against the Japanese team. Conceding the ball against the Japanese team is different from conceding the ball against Palestine. What does it matter? I think Director Dong is right in what he said today, 'It doesn't matter how many goals we concede! The important thing is how many goals we score!'”

"Director Dong should have figured it out too. We are really not good at defense. In this case, we might as well attack directly. Besides, we are playing against Japan in our current state. Director Dong probably didn't want to leave a way out for himself. He knew that it was bad luck. Not much. If you are bound to lose, you might as well act bravely, that can be regarded as 'defeat is glorious'..."

Zhang Qinghuan finally said so. "I quite like the arrangement directed by Dong. This is the Japanese team. What do you want to do so much? Life and death are bearish. If you don't accept it, just do it!"

Hu Lai nodded in agreement: "Well said, Brother Huan! Let Hiroto Motegi know what a big mistake he made in not recruiting Morikawa!"

"That's right, let's take revenge for Morikawa!" Zhang Qinghuan said proudly.

"That's right, the Japanese team didn't recruit Morikawa just because he played in Xingxing. This is also looking down on Xingxing!" Chen Xingyi nodded in agreement.

The atmosphere in the room warmed up.

At this time, Hu Lai imitated Zhang Qinghuan's tone, stood up and posed and said, "I don't think the Japanese midfielder without Junpei Morikawa is like a chicken with dog ears!"

Zhang Qinghuan was stunned for a moment before realizing: "Fuck!"

Everyone laughed.