Chapter 424: 111 the duel of offensive football masters
111 the duel of offensive football masters
The German Summer has been going on for ten match days. After the eleventh match day, the two games of the same group in the final round will start at the same time. Therefore, starting from the eleventh match day, every day will be There are four games, at 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm.
At this time, there is still one day before the final round of the group stage between Argentina and the Netherlands. The preparation plan of the Argentine team has been fully integrated into their usual training.
"The Dutch team's style of play is mainly based on defensive counterattacks. They are very fast in counterattacks. If you want to limit their counterattacks, you must limit their first pass." Argentine coach Bielsa circled on the tactical board When the last person's name was listed, the head coach of the Dutch team Van Basten, who was preparing for the last game of the group stage, also circled the person's name with his marker.
Ever since he played football, Van Basten had a premonition of crisis, and after he became a coach, Van Basten's sense of crisis continued. Looking at Van Basten's record of coaching the Dutch team in Leon's previous life, except for the match between the Dutch team and the Portuguese team in the Summer of Germany in 2006 due to the incompetence of the referee, which caused the game to go out of control, Van Basten was always able to win before the game. Through his prediction and this sense of crisis, he found a good way for the Dutch team to defeat the enemy.
The last group match against Argentina is approaching. It stands to reason that the Netherlands and Argentina have already qualified ahead of schedule, and there is no need for both sides to fight. After all, a few days of rest after the group stage is the more critical knockout match. Judging from the schedule this time, because of the strength of the European giants, no matter whether they are first in the group or second in the group, they will definitely encounter strong opponents in the knockout round.
Van Basten doesn't want to die, but he has to know whether the Argentine wants to die. Van Basten can accept a tacit goal, and the Dutch team can be willing to be second in the group. This is no problem, but the Dutch team cannot lose.
Because this Dutch team is very young, losing may cause a series of chain reactions, Van Basten has his own considerations.
Judging from the current news and news from the Argentine team, the Argentine team's preparations are very easy. They even disclosed their training sessions to the media and fans. Moreover, the stars of the team also go shopping frequently. Obviously, this is not the rhythm to die with the Dutch team.
But Van Basten felt that the defending champion might not be as easy as they expressed. "No matter how you look at it, there is no need for the Argentine team to fight us. A tacit game of preserving strength should be acceptable to both sides. However..."
Van Basten's eyes were fixed on the tactical board, and the sense of crisis in his heart made him feel that the Argentine team might try their best in this irrelevant game.
Is it for the fans? Of course not, the Argentines have their own plans.
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Winning the Netherlands is not only Lionwell's own idea, but also Bielsa's. The game against Serbia and Montenegro was too easy. This ease has prevented the Argentine team from being as nervous as it was when they played against Côte d'Ivoire.
If this state is brought to the knockout round, the Argentine team is likely to tighten up in some tense and stressful games. They scored 12 goals in two games. The attacking power of the Argentine team made the whole world feel terrified However, the Argentine team defeated the inexperienced Côte d'Ivoire in the first game, and the Serbia and Montenegro who had no fighting spirit in the second game.
"Although our players are all playing in Europe, we lack the experience of competing with top European teams. The Dutch team plays very fast. If we enter the knockout round as the first in the group, we will have to play in the quarterfinals. Facing the host Germany. But the Dutch team will not expose their strength in front of us..." Bielsa's character is completely different from that of the former Argentine coach Pekerman.
Bielsa is a maniac, he is a coach who uses all kinds of games to conduct horrific football chemistry experiments, and Pekerman is a good old man. Different personalities, different fates.
This is an Argentine team with Lionwell at its core. The goal of the Argentines is very simple, which is to defend the title. Want to defend the title, the Argentine team must do better.
"We need to force out the strength of the Dutch team. No amount of intelligence is the key to an actual battle. The Dutch can accept a draw, but they will not accept defeat willingly. We need to make adequate preparations before playing against the Germans." Bielsa's idea is very simple. On this point, he has reached a consensus with Leon.
On the eleventh match day of the World Cup, when people were looking forward to the appearance of the host Germany team and the battle between England and Sweden, the Argentine team, which had been playing very relaxed before, suddenly announced that they would conduct closed training today.
The strange behavior of the Argentine caught the attention of Dutch coach Van Basten. At this time, he was sure that the Argentine team might not compromise with the Dutch team so easily.
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"Oh, really, I was planning to go shopping, but today I have to practice all day."
"Okay, stop complaining, Tevez, it's the boss's idea."
Cambiasso looked at the somewhat uncomfortable Tevez and said.
At this time, Leon and Bielsa walked in from the other side of the training ground together.
"Hello coach, hello captain." The Argentine team members, who were still a bit lazy at first, immediately gathered together when they saw the head coach and captain.
"Very good. It seems that everyone is in good spirits. I believe that you may all think that we don't need to go all out in the last game of the group stage, so you are a little relaxed." Bielsa said with a smile and looked at his players.
The group of players selected by him and Leon Bielsa knows it all too well.
"I also believe that you have been having doubts about my training arrangements for the past few days. Logically speaking, our opponent in the round of 16, Mexico, has always been a South American-style team. However, in the training these few days, I have been letting You train according to the rhythm of the European teams." Bielsa continued to smile and look at his players.
When Bielsa said this, many quick-response players had already felt the tension on the training ground.
In Cambiasso's book "My National Team Career", he once recalled the training day before the match against the Netherlands in the World Cup in Germany, "Just when we all relaxed thought that the coach would arrange some substitutes to play against the Netherlands. When we let the main players take turns to play, the coach Bielsa ordered us in a tone of affirmation and necessity. God, at that moment I felt like I was in the army, take, take, take Holland! Bielsa The coach repeated it three times, and all the Argentinian players came to mind. I don't know what made Coach Bielsa decide to go with a strong Argentine team when the Argentine team had already qualified The opponents were desperate, but none of the Argentine players dared to question the coach's decision. Because we know that Coach Bielsa will discuss with our captain every decision he makes. When all the Argentine players looked at the captain's firm eyes, we There seems to be a sense of admiration in my heart. Yes, win, win, win the Netherlands! All the Argentine team members seem to have entered the wartime state from the vacation state of Hawaii and Dubai in an instant!"
This is the last training before the game between Argentina and the Netherlands. The Argentina team has made a rigorous combat plan against the Dutch team's fast counterattack style.
The most important point is the person who was in the circle of Bielsa and Van Basten at the same time.
Wesley Sneijder.
He is the most critical point in the Dutch team's counterattack, because the Dutch team's counterattack wants to play fast, then it must rely on Sneijder's first pass.
In the World Cup in Germany in 2006, many people criticized Van Basten for not putting Sneijder in the midfielder position, but they didn't know that Van Basten did not do it out of whimsy.
Looking at the Dutch team's World Cup this time, they did not lose because of Sneijder to play as a midfielder, but because they were too young and lacked experience in major competitions. It can be said that Van Basten is a genius, a genius in the absolute sense!
Because later, when Mourinho built the Triple Crown Inter Milan in the previous life, Sneijder's position was actually not a midfielder in the traditional sense!
At that time, Inter Milan often used a three-back tactic. Both Mourinho and Van Basten saw that Sneijder was too thin, so he couldn't charge forward. Sneijder's biggest advantage was his first pass. That's what's best about him.
In the World Cup in Germany in 2006, Van Basten did not limit Sneijder's advance, but he wanted to reduce the Dutch team's mistakes. Because Sneijder's body is thin, it is easy for Sneijder to lose his opponent once he gets stronger. ball.
Van Basten is a far-sighted head coach. He definitely planned to win the World Cup.
It's just that he lost to the godlike referee and that weird game. Sneijder is the key to the Dutch team's counterattack. Whether his first pass can be in place will directly affect the two sides of the Dutch team. If the Dutch team's offense is like an iron clamp, Sneijder is the iron clamp the fulcrum.
The reason why the Dutch team played very steadily in the World Cup in Germany in 2006 is that Sneijder made few mistakes. In the Mourinho era of Inter Milan, the reason why Inter Milan's counterattack was able to play well , It is precisely because of the protection of Mourinho's three midfielders for Sneijder.
Sneijder is a genius, but his weaknesses are also obvious. Van Basten is an absolute top coach, but the Dutch media don't understand football too much, otherwise the Dutch team would not have been unable to win the World Cup.
The Dutch are still immersed in the joy that Total Defense brings them, but they do not know that Total Defense may not necessarily follow the trend of every era. They hope that the team wins and wins beautifully, but this is not enough for those who want to win. For Van Basten, who has been winning until the end, it is impossible.
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