The Young Lion

When a player on the court is suddenly counterattacked, players on the court will subconsciously withdraw their defenses, no matter how far they are from the football, retreat and take a defensive posture, at least a professional performance.

This will cause the formation to move backward. After defending the counterattack, the advancement of the offensive will re-think the threat.

When the Greece team made a strong counterattack against England in 41 minutes, England's frontcourt players did not return to defense for the first time, and the position did not move back.

Irving, Scholes, McManaman, remembering Aldridge’s pre-match advice, their position is pressing the Greek midfielder.

It is risky to do so, because if the Greek team seems to have a big pressure on breaking through the wreck, the pressure on England’s defense will suddenly increase.

However, the counterattack of the Greek team does not rely on excessive investment of troops, but concentrates on playing the weak links, relying on the player's flexible running position, and playing less and more.

After the successful defense in England, he turned around and England launched another counterattack on the spot. This forward attack was more powerful than any of the previous 40 minutes.

The reason is that the Greek team is advancing quickly in counterattacks. The formation will be slightly premised, providing a pass response point, tearing the defensive formation of England, creating opportunities to ensure the success rate of the pass.

Greece's counterattacks are by no means relying on simple long passes, but extremely terrifying tactical discipline.

Although England’s wave of counterattacks after defeating Greece’s counterattack failed, the offensive space is still not as wide as the previous game of playing Germany, but the victory is stronger in the player’s ability. The strength of the Greek team’s players cannot be compared with the German team’s players. The space is not too big, but it is enough!

This was a risky counterattack in Greece. As a result, three seconds passed after the fatal pass. England's counterattack passed the Greek half!

The situation on the court suddenly reversed and the Greek team was at a loss.

It is conceivable that they saved their strength and waited for the opportunity, just about to explode, full of thought that they can surprise the England team, beat the opponent by surprise, but the reality is a picture of a complete reversal. Their counterattack hit a certain threat, but they failed to form a goal. There is not even a shot. Even so, the England team should be scared. The result? The England team seemed to be prepared for a long time, but also suddenly exerted their strength, and turned to beat them as a godless master!

The left defender Fissas and the midfielder Sagramis hurriedly grabbed in a panic. The midfielder moved and the middle was opened wide. Beckham was just right to transfer the ball. McManaman dribble forward quickly after taking the ball in the middle. .

Irving ran straight into the middle of the opponent's penalty area, attracting central defenders Dabizas and Scavenger Dras, and another central defender, George Chiotis, had to come up to defend McManaman with the ball.

But at the moment he just moved, an alarm sounded in his heart, and afterglow in the corner of his eyes saw someone slanting behind him from the middle of the restricted area.

McManaman straight into the penalty area and the right side of the penalty area was empty. Owen pinned the Greek guards to the left and center of the penalty area. After the right side grabbed Beckham on the full-back and the top defender, there was an English player running into the position. The area is like a sharp knife, hitting the weakest part of the enemy!

"Scholes! Scholes got a good chance to shoot, stop the ball, move the ball to his usual foot, volley! Beautiful! Scholes set the first record for the England team! This goal was more than we expected It’s going to be late, but it’s still here. For England, there is no suspense for the team’s top place to advance to the World Cup finals!"

After Ginger broke the door, he turned and pointed to McManaman with a smile on his face.

Old Trafford remained silent for a long time, and finally burst into overwhelming jubilation.

The first 40 minutes of the game really made the fans sleepy, but this goal process really made the fans' ups and downs and exciting.

The Greek team suddenly kicked a sharp counterattack at a fast pace. Just when people were worried about England's defense, they blinked. Seven seconds later, England turned to break the goal of Greece!

This reverse drama on the green field, from Greece to fight back to England to break the goal, the total may be less than 15 seconds, but this is what happened in 15 seconds, so that fans are hooked.

In the stands, many fans patted their chests, but they were still feeling palpitated with joy.

Aldridge slammed his fist fiercely, and many players on the field looked at him, and the admiration for Aldridge in his heart could not be described by words.

Rehagel saw the team's shortcomings in this goal drop.

But he was not discouraged.

He has coached the team for only half a year, and the Greek team has a poor foundation. It will take longer to complete.

And this time of shaping, Audric is more clear than Rei Hagel.

Many people later said that the myth created by the Greek team in 2004 has a lot of luck and chance.

Aldrich doesn't think so.

Especially after immersing in the football circle in this life, it is difficult to describe it with luck or accident by recalling Greece's record of success.

A game can be lucky or accidental, but a series of games that outsiders said to be lucky and accidental appear continuously in a period of time, then this is not lucky!

The Greek team really takes shape and will be at the end of next year!

When the European Cup qualifiers officially opened in 2004, the Greek team lost to Spain at home and lost to Ukraine on the road. Both games lost a 0:2.

At that time, everyone thought that Greece would be eliminated early, but in the next six games, the Greek team won 6 games! No goals missed!

4 games 1: 0, 2 games 2: 0.

In 8 games, scoring 8 goals and losing 4 goals, the data is shabby, but the results are brilliant.

Forced Spain to directly enter the European Cup, Ukraine was kicked out!

To say luck, the only luck for the Greek team may be the group stage of the European Cup, with 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss, relying on more goals than Spain and sending Spain back to their hometown.

However, in the quarterfinals, France was eliminated, and the strongest Czech team after the independence was defeated in the semi-finals. The final host was Portugal, and Greece won the three games 1: 0 into the temple of green mythology!

This is by no means lucky!

Fleet Street often describes Audridge and Wenger as Skywalkers. Both of them have their own pursuits on the field, and they have successfully caused a football style to set off huge waves in the English mainland. The storm will affect Far-reaching.

But in Aldrich's opinion, Rehagel is the skywalker on this thorny and difficult road to seek the road!

The game in Greece is based on training, and the outcome is not important.

Aldridge will not have any sense of accomplishment because the team temporarily took the lead, or even if he finally defeated Greece, it would be sad if he was proud.

After the goal was lost, the Greek team's original plan was disrupted. No further offensive attacks broke out in the last few minutes of the first half. England took a one-ball lead to the locker room.

Aldrich did not praise the players after returning to the locker room, but instead focused on the performance of the Greek team. He actually hoped that from the perspective of the Greek team, the players of the England team would understand how to deal with the game in such an environment.

International competitions, especially major competitions, are cautious and must be stable!

Especially when it comes to the World Cup, masters are overstretched, and whoever is suffocated will have a higher chance of winning.

During the intermission, Aldridge leaves players with some digestion time.

In today's game, fighting is not bravery, fighting is ingenuity, who is calmer on the field, who is more able to lead by the situation, who can have the upper hand, and blindly rush, only fall into the opponent's plan, but equal to expose his life Door to opponent.

Aldridge went out and smoked a cigarette with Jenson at the corner of the passage.

Jenson spewed out smoke and suddenly laughed: "Audridge, you are going to practice this England team's counterattack ability to the peak, it is almost fascinating."

Aldridge bowed his head and smiled, saying, "There are thousands of ways to win, and the one that suits you best is correct."

Jenson pondered it and nodded in agreement.

The coaching staff did not spend any effort on the position battle in England. This has a profit and loss consideration. How much is invested and how much is returned? Even if the potential of the England team is fully stimulated, it may be at best European level. Why? Because England have no Zidane, no Pirlo, no Harvey, no 3R...

But England has players who are absolutely suitable for counterattacks, Owen’s running position and speed, McManaman’s breakthrough and dribbling, Beckham’s long pass, Scholes’ precise kick and goal consciousness. Coupled with Lampard's long-range threat, England itself has the potential to play a superb counterattack. It is the characteristics of the player's ability that determine the tactical design, not the tactics that Aldridge suddenly wants to play and then let the player adapt to it, or transform the player.

"What if Greece is determined today? Or will the opponents we face in the future also be determined?"

Jansen asked leisurely with his head held high.

Aldridge pointed at him with a smile, and said, "I deliberately find fault to tease me?"

Jenson laughed, they all knew that this would not happen.

In the league, there are indeed teams that will only want to draw a tie because they have too much difference in strength, because there are points in a tie.

But in the national team, especially in international competitions, this situation is very difficult to happen. If you do not win in the group stage, you will face the possibility of being eliminated. Rely on promotion? Is there a penalty roulette?

There are certain factors behind the success of the Greek team’s anti-counterfeiting, which is the contempt of the strong team, but there are also factors that make their mentality more stable and grasp the opponent’s psychology. The opponent is unable to score because of the delay, and then the mentality is anxious, constantly investing in offensive forces, thus It gave Greece a chance to make a fatal blow.

Although Aldrich felt that he could not compare with Rehagel, and the other party was like a god, he only relied on better resources to stand on top of mortals, but Aldridge did not respect Rehagel's tactical system.

People will study such successful tactical systems as 442, 433, 352, 4321, Christmas tree, Tiki-Taka, Mourinho's winger attack group 433 and so on.

However, few people will study the successful 5-guard tactical system of the Greek team. Under the background of encouraging offense, Rehagel’s tactical system in the Greek team itself is unpopular. It is understandable to play in the international competition. Defensive victory It's also an old saying.

Can not always form the mainstream, because even the relegation team of the top league will not adopt this tactical system that will force the fans to leave the court to watch the ball, which can neither cater to the market nor succeed by imitating. The Greek team itself Perhaps the team with a little money in the team can form a lineup of almost grades, but not every team that wants to imitate can have a coach named Rehagel.

This Greek team training campaign, England's life and death battle, remained unsettled in the second half, but when the game came back in the 80th minute, Greece made a comeback, but the England team copied the first half of the goal, but the goal was twisted. , Irving shot was blocked by goalkeeper Nicopolidis, followed by Lampard in the outer long-range shot to make up the ball.

In the cheers of Old Trafford, Aldridge sent the expressionless Rehagel behind the loss.

The World Cup preliminaries of the England team ended. The England team ranked first in the group with 6 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss and 19 points, and directly advanced to the World Cup finals next year.

The German team is going to play in the playoffs, which is unpredictable.

England’s plan before the World Cup, in addition to studying the opponents in the group stage after the results of the World Cup group draw at the end of the year, other FIFA game days will be a drill lineup to further blend in the team and improve its strength.