Chapter 484 That substitution was unexpected!

Author: Ant who watches football ruthlessly

Chapter 484 That substitution was unexpected!

After a 15-minute intermission, the two teams returned to the court.

After the start of the eastern half, Portugal continued to take the initiative to attack the Swedish team.

Then the goal at the end of the half caused a change.

Santos certainly does not want the Swedish team to take advantage of the morale boost after the equalizer to launch a counterattack against Portugal and further dampen the morale of the Portuguese players.

That goal was too much to beg for your life!

Everyone knows how they would feel if they let the wrong leg score at that moment.

Santos managed to make everyone temporarily forget about the goal in the locker room.

Of course, in that process, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was injured in the east game, also played a big role. He gave a passionate speech to cheer everyone up and get into the game in the east half!

At the beginning of the eastern half, Cristiano Ronaldo also changed into his coat, transformed into the assistant coach of the Portuguese team, and stood on the sidelines to give instructions.

The advice he put forward to Santos was also to strengthen the offensive!

He wants to win!

Cristiano Ronaldo wanted the team more than Santos to break through Sweden's goal again as early as possible and establish an advantage again.

As Pan Yi's old partner, Cristiano Ronaldo has honestly seen Pan Yi's various tricks too many times, especially when the game time is nearing the end.

If it does not take the lead, the probability of Portugal winning will become lower and lower as time goes by!

However, the Swedish team still stood up in a defensive formation calmly after the start, facing Portugal's onslaught.

As a result, the situation on the court looked a bit like a replica of the opening stage of the half, with Portugal attacking and Sweden defending, and there was no decent counterattack.

"If the situation on Ming Dynasty becomes a bit one-sided again, the Swedish team seems to be struggling to support, but their players still stay firmly in front of the goal, preventing Portugal from easily facing the wrong goal. That makes Portugal even though

I can have shooting opportunities, but it’s hard to score.”

"It can be seen that the Swedish team's defensive strategy is also very wrong. For example, when defending Nani, Sweden's two central defenders will often use their bodies to fight against him, which makes Nani's slightly thin

Sometimes my body cannot control the ball well, and I tend to jerk off when shooting."

"When defending Quaresma, Swedish defensive players pay great attention to preventing the use of his signature outside instep, often forcing Quaresma to use his instep to handle the ball, which reduces his accuracy.

It’s hard to pose a threat.”

"Compared to the half-time, the Swedish team's defensive system seems to be more reasonable, and the cooperation among the players is more tacit. It seems that it will be difficult for Portugal to find a way to score for a while..."

The commentators could all see the situation present, and of course Santos and his assistant standing on the sidelines also knew it very well.

If they continue to attack eastward in such an inefficient manner, the Swedish team's defense will become stronger and stronger, and Portugal's morale will become more and more sluggish. In the end, if the Swedish team seizes another opportunity, it is very likely that Portugal will be ruined.

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"They can't continue to attack the east like that!" Assistant coach Valle said next to Santos, "Otherwise it will be very dangerous!"

In world football, there are countless cases that show that it is meaningless to blast with your eyes closed, but it has many hidden dangers.

There is a very classic game in the World Cup. In 1990, Argentina missed Brazil in the quarter-finals.

At that time, Brazil won all three games in the group stage and easily qualified, while Argentina failed to advance thrillingly in third place in the group. As soon as the two teams started playing, the Argentine team was indeed completely suppressed.

It seemed that the two sides were not teams of the same level, and the Argentine team seemed to have no strength at all. Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Selecao, their defense was wavering several times.

When the building was about to collapse, goalkeeper Goyechea and defender Ruggieri and others kept holding on. They were all hoping that something unusual would happen and change the situation of being passively beaten.

Until the 81st minute of the game, they were waiting for something unusual. Of course, it was brought by the world champion Maradona.

61,380 spectators witnessed the magical moment at the Alpi Stadium in Turin.

At that time, Maradona was dribbling the ball in the midfield. He first passed Alemão in the middle circle, then dribbled the ball to avoid Dunga's tackle, and then used a fake move to break through Rocha who was coming from the defense.

When many Brazilian players formed a double-team, Maradona fell down and passed the ball to Caniggia, who had reversed to the left and was unguarded. The son of the wind received the ball and mistook Taffarel to score the goal.

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That pass perfectly reflected Maradona's touch, balance, and overall perspective. It may have been the most incredible assist in the history of the World Cup.

Initially, Argentina relied on Caniggia's goal to eliminate Brazil 1:0 and enter the quarterfinals.

The final shooting ratio was 22:2 for Brazil and Argentina. Brazil hit the lintel twice and the goal post once, but they still lost...

It was a one-sided situation, with a lot of bombardment but no goals. In the end, the wrong leg was attacked by a counterattack, but the dominant side was often too aggressive, blindly trying to attack, and pressing the wrong side too tightly.

, causing the wrong party to enter a defensive state.

The more defensive one side is, the better, but the other side will become more and more anxious, thinking about eating the wrong leg in one go, and it is easy to make omissions in one's own defense.

If there is a star player on the wrong side, such omissions will be more likely to be caught by the wrong leg.

90 Argentina has Maradona, and now Sweden also has Ibrahimovic! So we must not take our mistakes lightly.

Although the Swedish team's goal in the half was not scored by Ibrahimovic, his assist was as good as Maradona's century assist! - Although the reward is not that strong, at least it is not.

He did it with ease, with the style of a general!

The Portuguese team obviously needs to consider how to deal with such a situation now.

After hearing Valle's words, Santos nodded.

Of course he is red.

Once encountering that situation, usually experienced teams will choose to relax their offensive, retreat, and let the wrong team come out to fight.

There is a saying that is very wrong. If I want to hit the wrong leg powerfully, I have to retract my fist first, and then punch it out hard. Then it will be more powerful. Otherwise, the punch will not hurt the wrong leg at all.

But he also understands that Pan Yi's team is like a spring. If I loosen my leg, it will bounce back.

The Swedish team's defense is definitely not about setting the bus in the true sense, but about achieving a dynamic balance through the active movement of the players.

If the Portuguese team loosens control of the wrong ball, Sweden will show their fangs and bite the Portuguese hard.

Just like the counterattack in the half, Sweden obviously took advantage of the Portuguese team's loopholes to fight. If they are allowed to fight like that again, the Portuguese team's defense may be broken.

In fact, as far as Portugal's current back line is concerned, although it may be better than the Swedish players, except for Pepe, none of them can be said to be the best in the world individually.

Moreover, those four people have only gradually come together in this cup and become the current starters. There are also some problems in the tacit understanding of cooperation.

Didn't the Swedish team's defense miss someone when they scored in the half?

Santos chose to focus on offense, which actually concealed the fragility of the defense to a certain extent.

"You can pull the formation back a little, but you must strengthen the intensity of the counterattack on the spot. Don't let their wrong legs control the ball easily!"

Santos said, then glanced at Ronaldo.

At this time, it is obviously not the most appropriate to let the spiritual leader of the Portuguese team convey the latest tactical instructions, and Ronaldo is obviously happy to do so.

Cristiano Ronaldo nodded to Santos, then immediately directed at Han Xuan: "Us! Don't rush to press us, let them come over! If you lose the ball, immediately counterattack, don't let them take the ball more than one goal."

Second!"

As Real Madrid's top striker, Ronaldo obviously understands what a team needs most in a counterattack.

Since the Portuguese team is currently not the main offensive side, the defense line is very close, and a lot of troops are invested in the attack, so the Swedish frontcourt players are also actively participating in the defense, so as not to create a numerical disadvantage.

Once the transition from defense to offense occurs, those frontcourt players will need time to move forward.

At this time, if the Swedish team succeeds in intercepting the ball in the middle and back, then someone needs to dribble the ball forward first. That person is often midfielder Weinblum or Larsson, and if not, he can give it to the front player.

The time when the trident was made.

At that time, if the Portuguese team misplaced Sweden's defensive midfielder and launched a quick and high-intensity counterattack, it would have been possible for the Portuguese team to pass the ball to the east and kill Sweden's counterattack in the cradle.

After all, it is already very difficult to control the ball in a high-pressure situation where the wrong team is intensively counterattacking on the spot;

If you really want to observe the movement of counterattack players in the frontcourt and then pass the ball smoothly, there are too few such players.

It can be said that the players who can do that are definitely masters. Maybe De Bruyne and Modric can do it.

But there are few players in the Swedish team's midfield who can really hold the ball.

Physically, Weinblum is very good, but his ball-handling skills are poor and he easily loses when he is tightly pressed.

Larsson is very capable of running, and his advancement speed is very fast, but he also has the same problem, and his footwork is relatively average.

Forsberg's ball-handling skills are not to mention, and he has enough passing vision, but the problem is that his body is too weak to resist. Once he is closely marked and impacted, he will soon lose the ball.

Therefore, Santos's strategy makes sense.

As a result, Sweden's ball speed was immediately affected, which made the Swedish team's counterattack seem very unsmooth.

Very much more than that.

Because the position where the Swedish team takes the ball and moves forward is often in the midfielder, and being intercepted there will undoubtedly be a test for Sweden's defense.

Although the Swedish team could quickly retreat to form a five-back defensive system and prevent the Portuguese team from further penetrating outside the penalty area, Nani and Quaresma who were on the front line did not get a lot of shooting opportunities.

As the game situation improved, Santos's face also became better.

However, he secretly praised Pan Yidong.
To be continued...