Chapter 129 Experienced

No matter where Zhou Yi goes, there will always be a Valencia player by his side, not necessarily the same person, sometimes it is the striker Soldado or Mata, and sometimes it is the midfielder Albelda or It's Joaquin...

He keeps changing his position on the court, and the defensive players around him are also changing all the time, but what remains the same is that no matter what, someone is guarding him.

It's not man-to-man defense, it's zone defense.

The advantage of this kind of defense is that it can keep the team's overall formation from being chaotic, and there will be no situation where someone follows out, and as a result, no one fills the space behind and is used by the opponent.

For example, in the first game of the Dortmund League, against Leverkusen, Heynckes used man-to-man defense to deal with Zhou Yi. As a result, after Vidal was pulled out, Leverkusen lost the balance in the midfield and was used by Dortmund to cause a loss. ball.

Valencia coach Emery used zone defense in this game to avoid such a situation.

However, zone defense also has weaknesses-the weakness of zone defense is that it is not tight to mark people, and it is easy to give the opponent more space and time.

Emery made some adjustments to the zone defense. He made the team's formation more compact, especially in the middle, so that the sideways looked more empty, but the center was very tight and compact. In this way, the space available to Zhou Yi is greatly reduced.

Although this will leave more space on the wing, Emery cares more about defending the center than restricting the wing. In any case, Zhou Yi cannot easily organize an attack.

From the current point of view, under such a defense, Zhou Yi will pass the football as soon as he receives the ball. In such a tense atmosphere, it is difficult to organize any threatening attack.

"...Valencia should hope to use this shrinking defense to limit Zhou Yi's performance and turn him into a pure passer..." Marcel Leff analyzed. "But I don't think Dortmund necessarily have to rely on Zhou Yilai to organize the offense. Anyone can use this huge wing."

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Although Zhou Yi seemed to be driven around by Valencia's tight defense, he couldn't live in peace and could only ensure that the football was not lost. There is no guarantee that a threatening ball will be passed.

But it was actually in Zhou Yi's mind. Although he was running non-stop, he could clearly see the running positions of both sides on the court, and he created a constantly changing bird's-eye view in his mind, just like looking at the weather with a satellite cloud image. It is clear at a glance, and the future can be predicted according to some laws. Basically, it is almost the same.

Through the overhead view,

It can be clearly seen that Valencia's players are basically concentrated in the area between the two ribs of the court, and there are very few people on the wing. At the same time, in order to keep the three lines or even four lines compact, they compress the front and back very hard. This leads to the fact that there are still many places on the court that Valencia cannot cover.

It's just that those places are a little far away from me. It is difficult to send the football over with the usual short pass.

So don't use the short pass, use the long pass.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yi found himself moving to the right side of the court. A relatively large void appears in the upper left corner.

Because everyone's center of gravity and attention are attracted by the football, that corner is the place farthest from the football. Naturally, it is also the place where the defense forces are weakest.

There is an opportunity there.

All that is needed now is a precise long pass.

In the process of observing and thinking, Zhou Yi continued to run to the right, as if he was going to become a winger.

He does. Squeeze Gross Kreutz to the front and become a winger.

Football was passed over.

The focus of Dortmund's offense seems to be on this side, and everyone thinks so.

But after taking the ball, Zhou Yi suddenly turned around and kicked the football to the completely opposite direction - the upper left corner of the field!

There, Dortmund's left-back Schmelzer had already plugged in at high speed. When he rushed to the space, Zhou Yi's pass also reached the destination.

Schmelzer stopped Zhou Yi's pass by raising his foot, very calmly, because no one came up to force him at all.

"Schmelzer! Beautiful long pass transfer! Zhou Yi!" Marcel Leif shouted excitedly.

The Dortmund fans who were not many with the team also gave out huge cheers, covering the cheers of the Valencia fans over the Mestalla for a while.

After receiving the ball, Schmelzer took a step into the penalty area and sent a cross. Barrios ran forward with a counter run and grabbed the ball before Valencia's defender Mathieu.

But it's a pity that the football he pushed out was higher than the crossbar!

"Ahhh!" Marcel Leif held his head in his hands regretfully. "Barrios! He wasted this great opportunity! Otherwise Dortmund will lead 1-0 in the away game! And the game has just started three minutes! This is Dortmund's first shot of the game, but it is better than That long shot from Alberto Costa was much more threatening!"

At the same time that Barrios headed the ball high, there was a huge exclamation over Mestalla. It was the horrified screams and sighs of the Valencia fans after a narrow escape.

In front of Dortmund's bench and coach's bench, there are also a group of people holding their heads in their hands and sighing. They are not grateful for Valencia's narrow escape, on the contrary, they are regretting that they did not score the first goal!

"Barios! Barrios! Barrios—!" Klopp pulled his hair, repeating Barrios' surname angrily and angrily. "Damn it!"

"Oh! Zhouyi's kick is really beautiful!" In the group, Yang Muge also exclaimed.

"That Barrios is too bad, isn't it? This ball will not be as high as me!" Sun Pan regretted that Zhou Yi's pass was wasted in this way.

"It seems that Zhou Yi's long pass has really been practiced..." Guo Nu said. "His progress is really visible to the naked eye..."

He Ying didn't speak, just stared at the TV screen, the mobile phone was placed beside her, but she didn't pick it up.

Although he didn't see what everyone was talking about, his feelings were the same as Guo Nu's, that is, Zhou Yi's progress was so obvious... Now recalling that rookie high school student who just joined the team, and the current Zhou Yi is fundamentally different. Just two people.

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"Barios! It's a crime!" Zhou Jianliang slapped himself on the thigh in frustration, and Li Cuiyun who was next to him was startled by the slap.

She glared at her husband, but it was obvious that he was completely immersed in the game at this time, and he didn't notice himself at all.

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After the game restarted, Valencia took possession of the ball and used the wing to launch a new round of offensive towards Dortmund's penalty area.

In the end, Joaquin's cross also created a threatening shot. Soldado's shot was thrown down by Weidenfeller and held in his arms.

It can be regarded as paying back to Barrios' header just now.

Then the two sides began a fierce confrontation.

Yes, it is counter attack.

Dortmund did not shrink their defense just because they were playing away, and played very conservatively.

Similarly, Valencia, which is playing at home, has no reason to play conservatively.

The head coaches of the two teams are passionate young representatives. When these two teams meet together, it is very difficult to think that the game will be boring.

So the game went on in a fast-paced high confrontation.

Fast tempo means that the speed of the offensive and defensive transitions between the two sides in the attack is very fast.

And the high confrontation naturally means that this game is not a polite exchange of greetings between gentlemen, but a collision of flesh and flesh, and sweat splashes.

As the core of Dortmund's midfield, Zhou Yi was naturally marked by Valencia.

Emery knows very well that Zhou Yi is someone who must not be let go if the entire Dortmund is to be paralyzed.

So he adopted that kind of zone defense, specifically targeting Zhou Yi's characteristics of constantly changing positions during the game.

It can be seen that Emery has studied Zhouyi and put a lot of effort into it.

But as the game progressed, Emery gradually frowned.

Because he found that Zhou Yi was different from what he expected.

Before this game, Zhou Yi had not participated in any Champions League games, so it is not easy to get the video of Zhou Yi's games in the Champions League. He can only study Zhou Yi's performance in the league.

After research and analysis, he mastered some characteristics of Zhou Yi's playing in the league, and designed his own defensive tactics accordingly.

This defensive tactic has a premise, that is, Zhou Yi's performance is the same as his in the league.

This would have been fine.

But the problem is that the Bundesliga is not the same as the Champions League.

The difference between the Champions League and the Bundesliga can be clearly expressed with just one statistic - in the Champions League, the passing speed is ten to fifteen percent faster than in the Bundesliga.

This is the feeling that Zhou Yi experienced in the virtual game.

Such a substantial speed increase, if it is an inexperienced player, it may not be suitable for it.

Emery believes that Zhou Yi will definitely not adapt. After all, he is very young and only 19 years old this year. He is so young and lacks enough experience. Once he encounters a situation that is different from what he expected, his performance will fluctuate.

Putting some pressure on him at this time is enough to make him collapse.

But after watching the game for ten minutes from the sidelines, Emery felt that Zhou Yi did not show any signs of collapse, but was more like an experienced veteran in the Champions League...

This is not scientific!

What is the background of this kid? (To be continued.) Enable new URL