Chapter 121 Atypical Center

At 20:30 on the evening of August 24th.

There are still 15 minutes left before the start of the European Super Cup.

Everyone in Ajax was sitting in the home team's locker room. Ye Qiu kept emphasizing to the players the tactics to be used in this game against Bayern Munich, because the current Bayern Munich team is very strong. .

The starting lineup has come out. The goalkeeper is Kahn, the defense is Lizarazu, Kufuor, Roberto Kovac and Sagnol. The four midfielders are Salihamidzic and Jeremy. Si, Effenberg and Sauer, the double forwards are Elber and Pizarro.

In this powerful green Hollywood, if you pick any star, they are all top-notch in Europe. No matter how awesome and arrogant Ajax is, they cannot despise such an opponent, because with Bayern Munich's strong strength, coupled with With Hitzfield's tactics and adjustments, it would be easy to defeat Ajax.

But this does not mean that Ye Qiu and his team will be willing to lead the way.

In Ye Qiu's analysis, Bayern Munich is not completely without disadvantages. For example, the Bundesliga has already started at the end of July this season. Now Bayern Munich has played multiple rounds of the league before coming to Monaco. This is possible. As a result, Bayern Munich players were in poor condition.

Ajax's situation is relatively better, because Ye Qiu rotated many players in the team in the second round of the league to ensure that the team can have better physical fitness and better condition to participate in this game. Super Bowl.

But compared to this not obvious disadvantage, Bayern Munich's advantages are too obvious. A strong lineup of players and a strong mental will allow Bayern Munich to sweep the entire Europa League.

"There is no doubt that Bayern is very strong!"

Ye Qiu was in the locker room, watching the serious players as the big game was about to begin, and said seriously.

"But as we said before, Bayern's strength is based on the strength of the whole, so if we want to defeat them, we must also rely on the whole. I ask every player to go all out in the game and to During the 90-minute game, we always maintained 100% commitment. We can only fill the gap in strength with hard work and sweat!”

"Wesley, Seydoux!" Ye Qiu pointed at Sneijder and Keita, "Bayern Munich's two central midfielders, Jeremys and Effenberg, must be closely monitored. You must suppress them. , entangled them, can not let them easily get the ball and organize, understand? "

Ye Qiu asked seriously, causing both Sneijder and Keita to nod in agreement.

"Bayern Munich's wing attack is very strong. On the left is Lizarazu and Angel Wing Salihamidzic. I don't need to say more about the strength of this pair of strong offensive combinations. On the right is It’s the combination of Sagnol and Sauer. It’s a control-organizing combination, and it’s also very dangerous!”

"We must pay attention when defending. When Bayern Munich completes a wing breakthrough, our full-backs will take the initiative to retract into the penalty area, blocking their route to cut in and participate in support, forcing them to stay on the sideline, while our The two central defenders and our goalkeeper must pay attention, the pass will be left to you!”

In this game, Hitzfeld put his German high center forward Jankel, known as the Gestapo, on the bench, and instead chose Pizarro, who had just been introduced this season. This undoubtedly gave Ye Qiu a job. Confidence, that's letting them cross.

When any head coach arranges defense, it is impossible to completely block the opponent's offense. That is impossible, so he can always choose the defensive strategy that poses the least threat to himself and is the most confident.

If a player makes a mistake, there is nothing the head coach can do, no matter how excellent his tactics are.

Neither Elber nor Pizarro are tall. Although both players have good header ability, as long as Ajax blocks the connection between the two wings and the center of the penalty area, forcing Bayern Munich to pass the ball from the wing. If they win, then their threat will be reduced to a minimum, because Ajax has Lucio, Kivu, and Van der Sar in the penalty area!

"Bayern Munich's two central defenders are both short, Zlatan, you know what to do!" Ye Qiu looked at Ibrahimovic. The Swede smiled arrogantly and confidently and nodded in agreement.

This is an obvious weakness in Bayern Munich's entire tactical system. Kufuor is 1.78 meters tall, Robert Kovac is 1.82 meters tall, and Thomas Link is also 1.82 meters tall. The overall height level is among the center backs. Not too tall, even a bit short, but they are more agile and faster.

As the head coach, Ye Qiu could also understand the difficulties in Heathfield's heart.

Central defenders with height often lack flexibility and are excellent in frontal defensive confrontations. However, the problem is that the defense behind them is a big weakness, and a team like Bayern Munich is destined to press forward. In this case, , A central defender who lacks the ability to defend behind him will be fatal. As long as he encounters a flexible and fast forward, it will be almost a dead end.

Just think about it again. Later, Bayern Munich's central defender combination, whether it was Demichelis, Van Buyten, or Lucio, all had height, but the overall flexibility decreased, which directly led to Bayern Munich's back line. The defensive line is always worrying.

This is a question of trade-off, height or flexibility, so generally speaking, a good central defender combination is usually one tall and one fast, one front and one assisting defense, such as Chelsea's Trija Carvalho, is such a combination, and Ye Qiu's current Lucio Gakiv is also taking this route.

After emphasizing and arranging the specific tactical details, Ye Qiu had nothing to say, just looking at the players in front of him, grinning, "For tonight's game, I have already boasted before the game. Don't forget that I issued a challenge letter at the UEFA awards ceremony last night!"

"If we can't beat Bayern tonight, I will definitely become the laughing stock of all of Europe tomorrow. I can guarantee that everyone, your life will definitely be very, very difficult, so you can do whatever you want!"

Faced with Ye Qiu's gangster-style intimidation, the Ajax players couldn't help laughing, but they also knew that they had no choice in this game, so they had to fight hard.

"Boss, don't worry. If you are embarrassed, we will be embarrassed. We will never do that!" Ibrahimovic said with a smile.

"Yes, boss, we will definitely beat Bayern!" Lucio said confidently.

Ye Qiu smiled, "Listen first!"

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In the past few years, Hitzfeld and Bayern Munich have been almost invincible in Europe. Even when they met Bosque's Real Madrid in 2000, the latter adopted a 5-back defensive attitude and finally eliminated Bayern Munich with strict defense.

This made many people feel that even Bayern Munich themselves felt that in the current European football world, there are very few teams that dare to play against Bayern Munich, and there are even fewer teams that can escape from the offensive battle.

But in any case, the weak Ajax is definitely not one of them, because they don't deserve it!

But at the beginning of the game, Ajax took advantage of its serve advantage to attack Bayern Munich.

This is a typical offensive strategy of Ajax. They used the rush after the start to exert their overwhelming and powerful offensive, which disintegrated the opponent's defense in one fell swoop, suppressed the opponent's morale, and controlled the game situation.

Hitzfeld expected that Ajax might play like this, and he also reminded his players, but it was obvious that there were some things they could not predict, or they predicted it but had no way to do it.

Just one minute after the start, after Van der Vaart cooperated with Maicon on the right, he took the ball and cut inside and passed it directly to Ibrahimovic, who was suppressing Robert Kovac with his back. The Swede turned his back to the goal and suppressed Robert Kovac with his back.

The defects in height and strength confrontation made Robert Kovac unable to grab the ball at Ibrahimovic's feet, and the Swede's delicate skills that were completely inconsistent with his height allowed him to skillfully control the ball under his feet. His flexible and flexible body allowed him to suppress Robert Kovac while successfully completing the next technical moves.

Jeremiah retreated immediately to double-team Ibrahimovic. When Hitzfeld was arranging tactics, he must have reminded his players more than once that they must be careful of the Swede who has excellent skills but excellent height and physical confrontation. He even thought that Ibrahimovic was an atypical difficult center forward.

But just when Jeremiah was grabbing the ball back, Ibrahimovic cleverly picked up the ball and passed Jeremiah. While suppressing Robert Kovac, he turned around and just pulled out half a body. He met the ball with his right foot and shot it near the penalty spot.

This powerful shot in the penalty area was very fast and powerful, but it was slightly off.

But this shot made everyone sweat. Hitzfeld also realized for the first time that his team's defense had encountered an unprecedented test, because when Ajax's defense pressed forward and suppressed Bayern Munich's defense in the penalty area, facing Ibrahimovic, Bayern's double center backs' height defects would be exposed very clearly.

"Press forward, Stefan, don't stay so far back, push forward and push them back!" Hitzfeld walked to the sidelines and shouted loudly to Effenberg.

Just one shot, but the experienced Hitzfeld has already realized the danger of the team.

But Ajax obviously did not intend to retreat. They launched a strong midfield siege and pressure on Bayern Munich, and used their physical strength to firmly ensure their high defense. Bayern Munich lacked a tactical fulcrum in the frontcourt. There was no player who could hold the ball in the frontcourt, which was a great disadvantage.

Just like this time, when Effenberg made a long pass and wanted to go to the front to find Elber, Lucio took the lead to steal the ball and gave it to Kivu. The latter made a long pass and went straight behind Bayern Munich. Van der Vaart quickly inserted on the right. After getting the ball, he wanted to find an opportunity to enter the penalty area, but Kuffour blocked the way to cut in steadily, and finally wasted a good opportunity to attack.

Compared with Ajax's proactive and aggressive attack, Bayern Munich's first shot came in the 8th minute. Effenberg made a high and off-center long shot about 20 meters in front of the penalty area, which posed no threat at all. On the contrary, in the 10th minute, Robert Kovac, who was entangled by Ibrahimovic, knocked down the Swede.

Kivu's direct free kick was taken by Kahn. Although the angle was correct, the force was weak.

"Judging from the start of the game, Ajax's offense was more active, but Bayern Munich seemed a little hesitant, and Bayern's defense did not have a very effective way to restrict Ibrahimovic. The Swede He is very active and very threatening. It is difficult for Robert Kovac to restrain this player by himself!”

"Speaking of this, we have to think of Capello's evaluation of Ibrahimovic. He believes that the Swedish center is a very special center. He has the physical fitness and confrontation ability of a traditional center, but his head The ball is his weakness, and his shooting ability has improved a lot, but his foot skills and flexibility are not inferior to those of smaller forwards.”

"Such an alternative center is really enough to give all center backs a headache, because his control surface is too large!"

While the on-site commentator was analyzing, Gilberto Silva successfully intercepted the ball and handed it to Sneijder, who passed the ball through and steadily passed the ball to Ibrahimovic. feet.

The advantage of a large control area is that when Ibrahimovic pulls to the right to get the ball, he leans on Kufuor. The latter has nothing to do, but the Swede is able to use his left foot lightly and skillfully The ball stopped to Kufuor's left side.

Stopping the ball, turning around, catching up, and crossing the ball, Ibrahimovic did not give Kufuor any chance during the entire process. The Ghanaians could only watch helplessly as Ibrahimovic formed a breakthrough. Fortunately, the Ghanaians were very fast. , not tall, but very nimble, he turned around and caught up.

Ibrahimovic also knew that he was not as fast as Kufuor, so he did not plan to kick off by himself. Instead, after forming a breakthrough on the right side of the penalty area, he passed the ball to the left with one kick.

I saw Robben cutting into the penalty area quickly from the left without knowing when. Sagnol was left behind by him, and Robert Kovac, who was helping to defend behind Kufuor, wanted to turn around and chase the ball, but the Dutch However, the winger had already used his left foot to hit the ball in advance, and the ball went straight through the goal guarded by Kahn.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"

"In the 18th minute, in the 18th minute, Ajax finally took the lead to break the deadlock on the field!"

"A very, very unexpected situation. After the game started, Ajax, who was at a disadvantage, actively attacked and completely suppressed Bayern Munich. The Champions League champion obviously had no effective way to defeat Ajax."

After Robben scored, he excitedly rushed out of Bayern Munich's penalty area, but as soon as he was halfway through, Ibrahimovic threw him to the ground, followed by Keita and other teammates one after another. Come up.

"It's so surprising. This young Ajax team completely suppressed Bayern Munich without any resistance. They used their best high-post defense and strong pressing tactics in the midfield and frontcourt to almost completely control the field. Bayern Munich is very uncomfortable with their tactics."

After the team scored, Ye Qiu quickly rushed to the sidelines and raised his arms in celebration, but soon he kept calling on the players, "Don't let your guard down, keep pressing, keep pressing me, don't slack off!"

The Ajax players are sincerely convinced by Ye Qiu. They do whatever the coach says on the playing field, allowing Ye Qiu to control and direct the team with ease without any hindrance. .

In the 32nd minute, Keita passed the ball to the left side and passed it to Robben. Robben faced Sagnol one-on-one. After flexibly pulling out of the gap, he passed the ball to Ibrahi who pulled to the left side of the penalty area to meet him. Movic, who used his body to hold up Robert Kovac, turned around after getting the ball, passed Kufuor again, and volleyed powerfully in the penalty area, once again piercing the goal guarded by Kahn. .

This was a powerful and hearty shot. Although Kahn responded, he was unable to do anything. When he took the ball out of the net, he complained angrily to his teammates, thinking that the two The central defender gave Ibrahimo a plethora of scoring opportunities, especially in the penalty area.

"Obviously, Bayern Munich's center back has nothing to do with Ibrahimovic. The Swedish center performed very well in this game. Ye Qiu's tactics were also implemented very resolutely and decisively in the game. Bayern Munich completely Subject to others!”

In the 43rd minute, Ibrahimovic pulled out of the penalty area and immediately pulled Kufuor and Robert Kovac out of the penalty area. Sneijder got the ball outside the penalty area and hit it with a precise shot. The pass penetrated Bayern Munich's defense and passed directly behind. Van der Vaart on the right quickly shook off Lizarazu and went straight into the penalty area.

As a left-footed player, Van der Vaart's right foot has always been a weakness, but in the past year, he has always paid attention to strengthening the training of his right foot. Although he cannot be as flexible as his left foot, he is good at stopping the ball. No problem.

I saw Van der Vaart lift his right foot and stop the ball firmly at his feet. Facing the goalkeeper Kahn who had already attacked, Van der Vaart pulled the ball to the left with his right foot, and then used his own He pushed the ball towards the goal behind Kahn with his left foot.

The ball passed by Kahn's right side. Although the German goalkeeper made a judgment, it was too late to block it with his foot. The ball was slanted towards the goal behind him, almost grazing the post and hitting the goal. 3:0!

This time, not only the fans and players of Ajax were overjoyed, but even the head coach Ye Qiu on the sidelines couldn't believe it. He had long judged that Bayern Munich's central defenders were not good at positional warfare in the penalty area because of their lack of height, but he didn't expect that after a little use, Bayern Munich would be in such a situation of defeat.

What made him even more puzzled was that when the team's overall performance was poor and many players were obviously in a low state, Hitzfeld didn't make any adjustments. This was too weird!

If Ye Qiu hadn't guessed Hitzfeld's idea before, when he saw the Ajax players walking off the court at halftime, panting, he understood!