Muzi watching the tiger fight | The striker couldn't score, the defender couldn't defend, and the National Olympic Games missed Paris in an atypical way

After losing to Japan in the first leg, the 01 National Olympic Games in the U23 Asian Cup became the target of public criticism.

In the game, although the 01 National Olympic team conceded the goal early, it also gained the advantage of playing one more person early, but in the subsequent games, the 01 national Olympic team lacked the goal and did not convert the numerical advantage into a good result in the score.

Including Cheng Yaodong's choice to guide the substitute goalkeeper to play as a center forward and score goals, it has also become the focus of heated discussions in the outside world.

In fact, this red card saved the first game of the 01 National Olympic Games, otherwise they would have lost the game by a bigger score. However, there is such a difference in strength against Japan in the 01 national Olympic team, and it will be different against the South Korean team.

However, these slight differences are not enough to change the final result.

In order to do well in this U23 Asian Cup and qualify for this year's Paris Olympics, as a long-term head coach of the 01 age group, Cheng Yaodong is still prepared.

Since the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers in September last year, Cheng Yaodong began to consciously learn from the tactical system of the 03 national youth in last year's Asian Youth Championships, and before the U23 Asian Cup, the 03 national youth players including Baihelam, Mutalifu, Eiffelding and other 03 national youth players have joined the 01 national Olympic team.

Obviously, the meaning of learning has become stronger, but Cheng Yaodong did not completely "copy".

After the opening, the 03 National Olympic still stood in the 442 position without the ball, and Bai Helamu and Tao Qianglong formed a double striker:

When necessary, Xie Wenneng of the right winger will immediately fall into the back line, thus forming a defensive system of five defenders:

Such a switch between four and five defenders is exactly the tactical characteristic of Antonio when he coached the 03 national youth.

After regaining the ball through positioning and defense, the 01 National Olympic Games have no ability to advance from the ground layer by layer, which is certainly not surprising, so in the case of a big striker like Baihelam, the way the National Olympic team establishes an attack is usually quite simple, and directly takes a long pass to the top of Baihelam's head:

From this point on, the difference between Cheng Yaodong and Antonio became extremely obvious.

Friends who have an impression should remember that in the tactical system in which Antonio led the 03 national youth to play an outstanding performance in the Asian Youth Championship, Baihelam was the right winger who needed to fall into the back line and help the back line defend, while the first person to attack was Eiffelding, who was of average height and had good ball skills.

Eiffelding uses his own confrontation and technique, after stabilizing the ball in the left half and pushing forward, the right winger inserts forward from the weak side, at this time, the strong and weak sides form a link, so as to complete the pressure and attack on the opponent.

Baihelam's performance in the Asian Youth Championship, including Mutalifu's crucial goal at a crucial moment, came from this:

The small striker pulls the side and feints, and the big striker inserts in the back row, supports each other with technology and body, and then uses running ability to maintain the balance of attack and defense, which is the key to the high intensity of the 03 national youth.

Even so, the 03 national youth team at that time was also one step away from the World Youth Championships, and there was a situation where Baihelam was suspended, and the team collapsed due to physical overdraft, thus losing to the South Korean team.

However, under Cheng Yaodong's hands, Baihelamu changed from a winger who went up and down to a genuine center, from the situation where there was an impact force inserted in the back as a help, to a player who was hard to carry with the opponent's central defender.

This certainly wouldn't be much of a good usage.

However, even so, Bai Helamu and Xie Wenneng, who has already played in the Chinese Super League, and Tao Qianglong, the leading player of the National Olympic team, still created a lot of opportunities in the first 30 minutes of the first half through large confrontations, running and technical ability:

Most of these offensive scenes do not have the participation of the midfield and backfield players of the 03 National Olympic Games, and almost completely do not use the line to create a good environment for the frontcourt players, so that they can use their physical fitness on the basis of the offensive link. Every opportunity to attack the goal almost requires Bai Helamu, Tao Qianglong and Xie Wen to spell it out in various ways.

It's a pity that they didn't score in the end, which shows that they still have obvious room for improvement, but it is actually a good performance to be able to spell these opportunities in front of the South Korean team.

Especially for Baihelam, who missed the opportunity, playing the U23 game at the age of 21 is still in front of the South Korean players, and it is not surprising that the players are not easy to score.

From a higher perspective, it was under the cover of the attacking players that the national Olympic team was able to play a momentum in the first 30 minutes of the game, playing a way that could wrestle with the South Korean team.

This South Korean team is actually average, not only reflected in the fact that they can be choked enough by Bai Helamu, Tao Qianglong and Xie Wen, but also in the case of being choked enough, the Korean team actually does not lack opportunities to convert, this is the environment that Korean football is best at playing, and their technical ability is like this:

The coordination of local positions, the solidity of the technique after continuous passing, and the accuracy of the final pass are actually quite average.

And in the offensive part, the South Korean Olympic team also recruited Lee Yongjun, a high school striker in the 03 age group who performed brilliantly at last year's World Youth Championships.

is similar to Cheng Yaodong's thinking, with a high school striker, then start a cross:

But just like Baihelamu, Li Yongjun is not a high school striker in the standard sense, they are all tall, and the skills of aerial work are not skilled, and if you want to give full play to their characteristics, you actually have to walk on your feet.

So after the intensity of the Chinese team's front court decreased, in the 34th minute of the game, the South Korean team played a ground cooperation on the right side, and Lee Yongjun completed the goal:

The whole process can be seen that there is also a certain amount of chance, if it is not for the ball on the way to change the line, the South Korean team's last pass may not have come in smoothly.

Of course, the failure of the 01 National Olympic offside and the failure to fill the position are all manifestations of the lack of defenders.

This was also reflected in the 38th minute: the South Korean team played the ball all the way to the bottom line, and the left central defender did not look back the whole time when no one was around, so it fell all the way to the line of the small penalty area:

As a result, the South Korean team hit the ball back before it went out of bounds, and the left central defender started back again, almost forming a five-five scramble with Lee Yongjun, and if he was not careful, he would give the opponent a chance to win a penalty:

Therefore, the 01 National Olympic team, the midfield and backfield ability are quite average.

When you have the ball, you can't support the front court, and when you don't have the ball, you have a lot of awareness. The start of the 01 National Olympic Games looks like a good game, in fact, most of the credit goes to the trio in the front court, it is they who maintain the strength of the team, and when their physical strength declines and they can't hold on, the midfield and backfield should be scattered.

A clear example of this is the left side of the South Korean team, which made a lot of mistakes in the opening game, and produced this shot near the end of the first half:

The difference between before and after is actually obvious.

So, the plot of the second half is the same. At the beginning of the game, the 01 National Olympic Games, driven by the frontcourt players, seemed to be rejuvenated:

But as soon as the trio's physical fitness drops, the places that should leak in the backcourt will leak out.

So around the 69th minute, the Chinese team forced the South Korean team to make a mistake, but failed to catch it:

The South Korean team turned around and made a conversion, scoring the second goal of the game in the scattered third line of the 01 National Olympic Games:

So, there's not much to say, it's a typical loss, but in an atypical way.

In terms of maintaining the intensity, the 01 national Olympic team could not reach the height of the South Korean team, so the start of the first and second halves could play well, but as time went by, the decline in physical fitness would eventually be exposed, and the South Korean team would be taken away by two goals.

This is a very typical manifestation of a lack of strength.

But what is atypical is that the 01 National Olympic Games have several good players, who can put a lot of pressure on the South Korean team through their individual ability and fighting spirit.

It's just that these players don't have the strong ability to fight together, so they can fight the game, but they can't score goals. Antonio understands the truth of relay attack, so he uses Baihelam and Mutalifu to relay to play the right winger, so as to maintain his tactical strength, and Cheng Yaodong uses Baihelam to play the center, the consumption has become larger, and there is no Mutalifu to relay, and it is normal to collapse in the later stage.

Losing two games in a row and missing the Olympic Games, the 01 National Olympic Games completely ended its historical mission.

The foundation of players in this age group is quite weak, and while their ability is average, they can't gain an early foothold in the league, and even Tao Qianglong doesn't have a stable playing time in the club, let alone others.

When it comes to this critical game, it is necessary to use the players of the 03 national youth to support, not to mention the weakness of the strength.

So from this point of view, this result is not surprising, but a few years later, when this group of players will inevitably become the backbone of the national football team, the problems encountered by this group of children in the enlightenment and improvement stage of 01 will become new problems that the national football team will face at that time.

This is the causal cycle, where retribution is retribution.