Chapter 597 Volume Five Red Fenglin Volcano
From the first second, the two sides entered the game state directly.
There was no warm-up, no probing, and no pretentious feints. From the first second, both sides were fully in the mood, and every attack was aimed at the goal of scoring.
Gerrard tried a long-range shot and almost scored. Fortunately, Van der Sar's concentration was very concentrated, and he hit the football with both fists-in the face of Gerrard's long-range shot, he didn't dare to hug it with both hands directly, for fear of letting go.
This powerful long-range shot instantly ignited the atmosphere at the Louis II Stadium.
Tang En was sitting on the coach's bench. Behind him was a stand of Red Army Liverpool fans. Huge cheers filled every inch of space around him, stirring his eardrums. He was used to this for a long time, he didn't even turn his head, he was just thinking about his own problems.
It seems that Liverpool really can't wait to beat themselves. The only question now is-is this what Benitez meant, or the Liverpool players' own ideas?
He turned to look at Liverpool's dugout next door. Benitez was sitting in his seat, surrounded by his assistants, Dunn could not see his expression, nor could he hear what they were saying.
The Forest team has never been afraid of encountering a team that can't wait to win, or the Forest team likes to encounter such a team the most. They will launch a fierce attack as soon as they come up, bombarding the Forest team's goal, wishing for two Three shots went through the gate and took the lead.
In that case, the defensive counterattack that the Forest team is best at will come into play.
Dunn decided to wait for a few minutes to see Liverpool's true intentions before making a decision.
In the opening five minutes, Liverpool took advantage of their kick-off and launched a siege to Forest's goal. And Nottingham Forest also cooperated to shrink the defensive line, allowing the opponent to press up and attack.
Judging from the scene alone, anyone would come to the conclusion that "Nottingham Forest is in a passive situation and is embarrassed by Liverpool's powerful offense". But real experts don't see it that way.
For those who are familiar with the Forest team, this is the most dangerous time for the Forest team's opponents.
Have you all seen springs? Before it rebounds with force, it must be compressed into a ball by an external force. The strength of its rebound is related to the degree of compression before. If you install a sharp knife on the top of this spring, when it bounces out...
The three lines of the Forest team shrunk very tightly. Except for Eastwood, everyone else came back to participate in the defense. No matter how fierce Liverpool's offensive is, these three lines have remained very intact.
Like a spring compressed to the extreme...
"Liverpool's offensive is very fierce, but we look at Coach Tony Twain, he doesn't seem to be worried. Of course, Forest's football always has a solid defense first, and then needs a chance to attack. It's not good to be beaten by others like this. Once or twice." The commentator's tone was slightly ironic, no one would like a team that puts defense more important than offense. Tang En was right, the Forest team was not popular.
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Look for offensive opportunities while solid defense. There was no need for Tang En to stand on the sidelines and use gestures to remind the players of such things. Most of the forest team players know what to do, and those who don't know must be newcomers who joined the team this summer. In today's forest team's starting list, the only newcomer to the team is Beckham.
Whether in Manchester United or Real Madrid, the football Beckham has been exposed to is all about attacking and advocating offensive football. Except for the last season in Real Madrid, he rarely thought of putting so much emphasis on defense in the game.
After coming to the Forest team, the defensive part of the training accounted for a large proportion, and he needs to adapt from the beginning.
Fortunately, he has played as a defensive midfielder in Real Madrid. Even if he plays as a right midfielder, he will actively participate in defense. Although his defensive level is average, his mentality is right. that's enough.
In this game, Twain let Beckham start. In addition to his tireless running and professionalism, he needed to rely more on his set-pieces and wide crosses.
Van der Sar slammed down Torres' close-range shot. He kept the ball firmly under him and did not give the opponent's other players a chance to shoot. Although Akinfeev returned to the team from Russia this season, Russia's top goal may need to sit on the bench to adapt to the Premier League for a period of time.
Van der Sar got up and threw the football in his hand to Beckham who came back to meet him, and all the offensive players of the Forest team rushed up. Ribery, Van Nistelrooy, van der Vaart, Eastwood... are all in the frontcourt. Only Beckham ran back to the front of the penalty area to receive the ball.
This is a new set of offensive tactics for the Forest team. It uses Beckham's precise long pass to help the team get rid of the opponent's crazy interception in the midfield and directly hit the opponent's defense line. Offside trap...everything else is fine.
After receiving the ball, Beckham turned around and prepared to pass a long pass. But as soon as he turned around, he was pushed down by Gerald.
The referee's whistle sounded, signaling a foul by Liverpool. But such a foul would neither allow Gerrard to receive a yellow card, nor would there be any verbal warnings. Instead, a counterattack by the Forest team was terminated in the cradle.
Forest team took a free kick in the backcourt. Pepe's long pass was pushed back by Liverpool's Danish central defender Daniel_Agger. Forest team had no chance to counterattack. At this time, Liverpool's 30-meter zone It's full of people. The Forest team has no other good way to break through Liverpool's defense except to look for opportunities outside.
Tang En frowned. He thought he had an idea of what Benitez was going to do.
It seems that Liverpool people have not been dazzled by anger...
Press up when it's time to attack, and recover very quickly when it's time to defend. If the Forest team wants to play a fast break, they will try to delay it, even if it is a foul.
The tactics are clear and the players execute decisively.
It seems that this game is not easy to play.
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The harder the spring is compressed, the greater the attack power caused by the rebounding force, which is common sense. This is the principle of defensive counterattack.
But what if the force applied to the spring is suddenly greater than what the spring itself can withstand? What if this exerted force is not simply a top-down force?
What will be the result?
"Click!"
"Fernando Torres!!" The commentator shouted the name of the Spanish striker, and Liverpool's number nine was opening his arms to accept the congratulations of his teammates.
Eleven minutes into the game, when Twain was racking his brains to figure out how to deal with Liverpool's tactics, the Forest team lost their goal.
A beautiful frontcourt cooperation, after Gerrard got the ball, he attracted Wood's attention, and then he successfully brought Wood out of his defense zone, and then made a long-range shot. Just when all the Forest players were paying attention to him, he pushed the football under his feet in a straight line. Torres stepped in from the front of the defense and made a small-scale anti-offside. After receiving the ball behind his back, the next thing was easy. Before Van der Sar could block the shooting angle, he pushed the far corner and the football rolled into the goal easily.
Liverpool led 1-0 in the eleventh minute. This made the Red Army fans cheer at the Louis II Stadium, while the Forest fans were temporarily silent.
Tang En sat on the coach's bench and scratched his head. This was the only action he made after seeing the ball lost. He didn't jump up from his seat angrily, and then dropped the water bottle in his hand. The opponent's tactical coordination was very subtle, and one's own defense made inertial mistakes. At that moment, the defensive players only cared about who was at the foot of the ball. There is really no need for him to be too angry about this conceded goal.
Besides, the game has only started eleven minutes, and the forest team still has plenty of time, so he is not in a hurry.
Thinking of this, Tang En adjusted his sitting posture, and he raised his legs again.
If the spring is compressed too hard, it may be broken and deformed. But to Tang En, it was nothing more than one spring becoming two, two becoming four, four becoming eight, eight becoming sixteen... that's all.
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The leading Liverpool continued to strengthen their offensive against the Forest team in the first half. They were not satisfied with one goal, and Benitez also knew that a one-goal lead was the least insurance.
Nottingham Forest is completely at a disadvantage in front of the strong Liverpool. Of course, this is an outsider's opinion. Tang En didn't think it was as simple as "being at a disadvantage". He still remembers that when he was a fan of martial arts novels in high school, he read Jin Yong's "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji", and there is a sentence in it that is very applicable to the current situation, and it is also very suitable for summarizing the football tactical style of the Forest team:
He is strong and he is strong, and the breeze blows the hills;
No matter how strong and vicious the enemy is, I can treat him as the breeze blowing the mountain and the moon reflecting the river, even though he can inflict on me, he won't hurt me at all. But how can I do it without harming my body?
He is self-righteous, he is evil, and I am full of sincerity.
Putting it in the football world means that as long as we are strong enough, we will not be led by the nose by our opponents. No matter how fiercely they attack, our defensive formation remains intact, our discipline is strict, and our thinking is unified. The opponent's offense is nothing more than the breeze blowing over the hills and the projection of the bright moon on the river. There is no threat at all.
This is the temperament of a strong team, and this is the performance of self-confidence.
Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the besieged Forest team is in danger and may lose the ball again at any time, but the Foresters themselves know how safe they are now.
That conceded goal was just an accident. One accident is enough.
The Liverpool players on the field have now deeply experienced Nottingham Forest's "immobile as a mountain" football style. It seems that they attack around the opponent, and the chances are several times that of the opponent, but how many times can they really threaten the opponent's goal? There are only a handful of them.
Moreover, everyone knows that the Forest team is good at defensive counterattacks, which will make Liverpool players unconsciously think of what is behind them after they attack-although Benitez's tactics are aimed at this point. Arrangements have been made, but people's psychological inertia is terrible. Nottingham Forest has repeatedly staged a quick sneak attack to kill the opponent in various competitions. If you don't let them think about it, won't they think about it?
The long-term result is that the Liverpool players are obviously tired before the first half is finished. Except for the goal in the frontcourt, there is no way to start the situation anymore, and there is the possibility of being attacked by the opponent at any time later. Can you not be tired?
As we all know, Tang En is actually a Chinese through and through. He has a very strong Chinese background. These things are not only reflected in the relatively superficial aspects of speaking Chinese and liking Chinese food.
After he became the head coach of the Forest team, he slowly thought about how to integrate oriental wisdom and modern football.
This set of tactics of the forest team incorporates the wisdom of "Sun Tzu's Art of War".
"Fenglin Volcano", due to the influence of Japanese animation and games, many people think it is from Japan. In fact it is purely "Made in China".
In order to fool Yang Yan, there were many books related to China on the bookshelf at Tang En's house. Tang En often reads very few of them, such as "×× Travel Notes" and put them on the shelf, but "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is a book that Tang En often reads and studies.
There is a saying in "Sun Tzu's Art of War: Military Struggle": "Therefore, it is as swift as the wind, as slow as the forest, as invading as fire, as immovable as a mountain, as difficult to know as cloud, as moving as thunder."
This sentence is a high-level summary of the Forest team's tactics:
When you attack, you are as fast as a gust of wind, when you wait for an opportunity, you are like a well-ordered forest, when you attack, you are as swift and merciless as a raging fire, but when you defend, you must be as calm and calm as a mountain, so that it is difficult for the enemy to guess your intentions. It will move like thunder and shake, unstoppable.
Staying still is defending, attacking is moving. Stillness is the root of movement, and movement is the minister of stillness, and offense is based on defense. In a game, most of the time the two sides are confrontational and defensive, and the attack to solve the problem is often a matter of an instant. It was as if the Forest team settled the battle with a sneak attack that was as fast as lightning and made the opponent unexpected after defending for 89 minutes.
Of course, Dunn didn't read "The Art of War" to his team members. Although there was a translation from the British Museum, he didn't have to worry about his translation being bad. He just thinks that telling these words to his subordinates is a proof of the low level of the leader, because they don't have their own understanding and can only copy the books. He himself integrated many wisdoms of Sun Tzu's Art of War into daily training and competition command.
The things of the Chinese ancestors have gone through the test of more than two thousand years, have not been eliminated, and are still being carried forward, which proves that it is indeed unique, and indeed has something that makes modern people sigh. Although the level of Chinese football is extremely low, Tang En never thinks that everything in China is low. At least he thinks that the ancient wisdom of the East can also lead the team to victory.
I love Chinese culture, and that's not just a vulgar excuse for me to speak Chinese in the future. I really love the culture of this country because they never go out of style and are beyond the times.
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Unmoved like a mountain, Xu Rulin's Nottingham Forest team finally found a good opportunity at the last moment of the first half. Three passes were made by three Forest players at the front of the Liverpool penalty area, and the football flew into Liverpool's gate.
After George Wood cut off Liverpool's counterattack, he launched a counterattack against the counterattack on the spot. He passed the ball to Ribery, and Ribery passed it to Ruud van Nistelrooy. Ruud van Nistelrooy shot forward.
Reina was blocked by his own people, and his reaction was delayed by half a beat, and he only had time to watch the ball enter the net.
This is a sneak attack, a sneak attack as fast as the wind and fierce as fire.
Benitez knew that Nottingham Forest had been defending like this and must counterattack, but he didn't know when the Forest team would counterattack-if someone knew it, it would not be called a sneak attack.
He did not expect that Nottingham Forest chose to counterattack at the last moment of the first half, when Liverpool players were generally exhausted physically and mentally after 45 minutes of nervous fighting.
Being surrounded and beaten is not necessarily the most embarrassing, and being beaten around others is not necessarily the easiest.
As fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, as plundering as fire, as immovable as a mountain, as difficult to know as yin, as moving as thunder.
The ancestors are sincere and do not deceive me.