Fox in the Penalty Area

After seeing the Chinese team replace a full-back with a center forward, Motegi Hiroto in front of the coach of the Japanese team was stunned for a while, as if he didn't want to understand why Dong Jianhai made such an adjustment.

When the team needed to defend, they replaced a guard and added a center forward.

It's impossible for him to let Zhou Zijing play as a central defender, right?

It's not that they don't have a central defender substitute-Mao Junzheng is sitting on the Chinese team's bench.

Later, when Hiroto Motegi saw the players changing positions on the Chinese team, he finally understood what the Chinese coach who was five years older than him was thinking.

"He actually wants to use offense instead of defense, and use offense to suppress our offense?" Hiroto Motegi said to himself from the sidelines. "I admit that the Chinese team's offense is good, but their defense is even worse. Nine times out of ten, they will concede the ball before scoring..."

The assistant coach next to him said: "I heard that Dong Jianhai has been criticized in China, and such an adjustment is not his style at all. Maybe he is eager to respond to those criticisms of him in this way?"

Hiroto Motegi curled his lips: "No matter what he thinks, he is just seeking his own death. Let the players take advantage of the opportunity that the Chinese team has just made such a large formation adjustment, step up their offensive, and catch them by surprise. I don’t believe they practiced in advance for such a drastic change of personnel, there must be a lot of mistakes in them!”

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Hiroto Motegi is right, the Chinese team did not practice the current formation and tactics before this game.

But they are not at a loss, completely unfamiliar with the new position and new formation.

First of all, Luo Kai itself is relatively comprehensive, he can play on the side or in the middle. There is no problem with his physical fitness to play a center forward. If there is no Hu Lai, he may be the Zhengyin center of the Chinese team.

In the national team and the Olympic team, he also played as a center forward.

It doesn't matter if Chen Xingyi switches to the right side, because he is a player who can play both left and right. Few people know that Chen Xingyi's right foot is actually his right foot, but his inverse foot ability is also good.

In the past in the Olympic team and the national team, he often switched positions with Luo Kai, so going to the right is no problem for him. It's just that this time Dong Jianhai asked him to drop his position a little further, changing from a winger to a full-back, which happened to form the wings of the midfield with Qu Lu who was raised to the left.

Qu Lu is a full-back but has stronger offensive attributes.

In the game, he often plays from the full-back position all the way to the frontcourt, playing as a full-back. Let him play the left midfielder now, and he has nothing to adapt to.

The only hidden danger is Jiang Wanqing. He played as a defensive midfielder in Shanhai Sailor and a defensive midfielder in the national team. He has no experience as a central defender.

Both the defensive midfielder and the central defender are responsible for defense, but the specific requirements for defense are different. So we can't simply think that if he can play a defensive midfielder, he can definitely adapt to the position of central defender.

But there is no way, it is impossible for everything to go well.

So even though he knew there were hidden dangers in this position, Dong Jianhai still resolutely made such an adjustment.

Because he needs to prioritize offense, not defense.

This is a gamble in the first place. How can one wait until one is sure and prepare countermeasures for all possible situations before placing a bet?

Buy it and let it go, and it's up to God whether you win or lose.

A close-up shot of Dong Jianhai appeared in the TV broadcast. He was still standing expressionlessly on the sidelines, with his mouth slightly open, staring intently at the field.

Just looking at this honest face, it is absolutely impossible to imagine that he just made a crazy gamble that no one thought of.

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After Zhou Zijing played, he and Luo Kai formed a double center forward, which gave the Chinese team two points in the frontcourt to compete for the header.

As a result, the Chinese team's offensive method became simpler-directly kick up the high ball from the backcourt to find Zhou Zijing and Luo Kai.

In this way, they don't have to worry too much about being seized and used by the Japanese team after they attack.

Soon they used this pattern to play a threatening attack - Xia Xiaoyu found Luo Kai with a long pass from the backcourt, and Luo Kai headed the football to Chen Xingyi on the right flank.

After receiving the ball, Chen Xingyi did not take advantage of his speed to force a breakthrough, but quickly made a cross at a 45-degree angle, passing the football to the Japanese team's penalty area.

There, Zhou Zijing leaped high with acceleration during the sprint, and rushed to the top of the ball!

It was very difficult for Kengo Yamagami to clear the siege with a header in the process of chasing back, so he could only interfere with Zhou Zijing as much as possible. But the ball still put Zhou Zijing within the range of the goal frame.

If it weren't for Nobuo Nishiguchi's wonderful save, maybe the goal would have been scored!

Seeing the ball, Dillon said to Jin Tao: "Actually, Dong can definitely let Zhou start. After all, his header ability is a huge threat to the Japanese team. But I understand him, because without making a big change in tactics and formation In the case of adjustments, let Zhou start, then who will be removed from the starting lineup?"

Yu Jintao nodded in agreement. Zhou Zijing has always served as Hu Lai's substitute in the national team. If he is to start, wouldn't he have to replace Hu Lai?

How dare Dong Jianhai... Hu Lai is the top scorer of the Chinese team. He put the top scorer on the bench first in the life-and-death match against the Japanese team. Isn't that crazy?

So Dillon is right, Zhou Zijing's position is actually very embarrassing without making adjustments to the team's formation and tactics...

This post-style center forward, who scored nine goals and assisted five times in the Chinese Super League last season, can only serve as a substitute in the national team, which has to be said to be a "waste" in a certain sense.

But there is no way, there is really no place for Zhou Zijing in the offensive system created by Shi Wuyin. After all, this system is based on the trident composed of Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai, and it pays attention to speed and flexibility. Among them, Hu Lai is the core of the Trident, and his position is unshakable.

Zhou Zijing wants to compete with the Premier League Golden Boot and the World Cup Golden Boot for the starting position, and he has no chance of winning.

No head coach would give up Hu Lai and choose Zhou Zijing as long as his brain is not in the water.

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Hu Lai withdrew his position back, because after Zhou Zijing came on the field, he no longer had to stand at the front to attract the Japanese team's defensive force as before.

He thought that he could try a few long-range shots, maybe he could get a miraculous effect.

Don't look at the fighting spirit of the Chinese team players being aroused by the bloody guidance of the head coach Dong, but Hu Lai is very clear that in general, the Chinese team is at a disadvantage.

And after changing the formation, no matter how you analyze that everyone can adapt to multiple positions, after all, this 343 formation has never been played by the Chinese team before, and there are still some cases where the cooperation is not tacit enough and does not adapt to the new formation.

If you can't score again as soon as possible. This big gamble directed by Dong will lose even his pants...

So score goals as soon as possible, the sooner the better!

So when the Chinese team once again made a long pass from the backcourt to the frontcourt, Hu Lai did not rush forward—some forwards would run forward when they were in a hurry, and then expected their teammates to pass the football to the frontcourt. Come here, rub here... No matter how you look for it, get the football to him anyway.

But in fact, doing so is useless, it can only waste energy again and again. It's not that the closer to the goal, the greater the threat.

Hu Lai did the opposite this time, he retreated from the middle.

Luo Kai jumped up in front and hit the ball, and also chose to push the football back instead of rubbing forward.

The football was pushed back to Zhang Qinghuan's feet.

As soon as Zhang Qinghuan received the ball, Kazuya Fuji, the Japanese midfielder, rushed up from behind and stretched out his feet to try to steal the ball.

And Zhang Qinghuan pulled the ball in a beautiful V shape, and Kudou Kazuo, who stretched out his foot to steal the ball, also missed the ball.

He couldn't stop the car and rushed to the front, while Zhang Qinghuan passed the football diagonally forward and pulled it back to meet his own Zhou Zijing.

Zhou Zijing swung his head left and right to observe before catching the ball. He first pretended to turn to the side, which attracted the full back Kiyota Yoshitoki, who was right next to him, to come forward and try to break his ball. Even if you can't break it, you can stick to him and prevent him from easily taking the ball in the frontcourt.

But Zhou Zijing quickly turned back. He gently knocked the football to his left side with the inside of his right foot, and turned around at the same time!

Just like that, Kiyoda Yoshitoki stood behind him.

It is impossible for Kiyota Yoshitoki to steal the ball again. More importantly...he made Zhou Zijing complete his turn!

The defensive player makes the center turn around, and that's a big problem!

Zhou Zijing turned to face the attacking direction, and he moved the football forward!

Central defender Takehiro Nakaoka is right in front of Zhou Zijing's dribbling assault. At this time, he must go up and try to steal the ball. He cannot let Zhou Zijing continue to lead it down—if he takes two more steps forward, he might be able to enter The opponent's shooting range made him shoot directly!

Hu Lai, who retreated before, turned around and ran forward when Zhang Qinghuan passed the ball to Zhou Zijing, but he didn't run fast, and he didn't let himself steal Zhou Zijing's limelight.

So now even Kengo Yamagami turned his attention to Zhou Zijing, turned his body sideways in that direction, and watched closely the duel between Nakaoka Takehiro and Zhou Zijing.

Be ready at any time, if Takehiro Nakaoka fails to stop the opponent, he will immediately go up to help.

As for the space behind him, Kengo Yamagami safely left it to the left back Kawasaki Eiji who received the center.

Of course, when Kengo Yamagami turned to Zhou Zijing, he didn't forget to glance at the middle to confirm Hu Lai's position.

He found that Hu Lai hadn't pressed up yet, and was still standing a certain distance in front of him in a leisurely manner...

But when Qian Wuban on the mountain turned around and looked away, he didn't see Hu Lai who was walking slowly and suddenly accelerated forward!

Zhou Zijing is also about to meet Takehiro Nakaoka.

I saw him lightly flicking the football to the right with his left foot, while moving his body sideways, as if he wanted to try to outdo others.

Nakaoka Takehiro quickly moved laterally, continued to get stuck on the inside of Zhou Zijing, and took another step forward, intending to steal the ball!

At this moment, Zhou Zijing suddenly sent a straight kick!

Passed to the space behind Takehiro Nakaoka, the football quickly passed in front of Kengo Yamagami, and he didn't even have time to reach out to destroy it!

At the same time, behind him, Hu Lai accelerated and ran towards the penalty area like a gust of wind!

"Zhou Zijing... Straight plug! Great shot!!"

The Chinese fans in the stands cheered loudly.

"Hoola!!"

When Kengo Yamagami turned around, he saw the back of No. 14 of the Chinese team, which was already about two meters in front of him...

Even if he wanted to foul and shovel... it was too late!

He could only watch Hu Lai run into the penalty area, catch up with Zhou Zijing's pass, and then face the attacking goalkeeper Nobuo Nishiguchi and raise his right foot...

Nobuo Nishiguchi threw himself to his left and Hole's right.

But Hu Lai didn't shoot, but flicked his ankle and buckled the football to the other side!

Immediately afterwards, the person jumped up and passed over the legs of Nobuo Nishiguchi's sweep!

"Holley!! Holly!! Holly——!"

Amid He Feng's elongated roar, Hu Lai became the player closest to the goal.

He caught up with the football and chose to push flat with his left foot facing the huge empty goal.

The scene that the Japanese are least willing to see happened...

The football rolls into the goal!

Hu Lai scored twice and made another victory. The Chinese team re-extended the lead to two goals!

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