Women's 1-1 draw with Australia: The new manager failed to get off to a good start, and Milicic showed a style of detail control

Li Peng Peng Sports

2024-05-31 20:09Posted in Hebei Sports Creators

The performance of the Chinese women's football team in 2023 can be called disastrous, all the inaccuracies of the three major competitions (World Cup, Asian Games, Olympic preliminaries), so that the women's football world is forced to change the world, the dismissal of Shui Qingxia's guidance, the replacement of the coaching team and the thinking of various practitioners have become hot topics, of course, the first focus must be the coach candidate.

After the interim coach led the team to take over, the senior leadership finally negotiated the new coach Milicic. The former Australian striker has experience in coaching women's football and the selection of the national team reflects his desire to produce well and to conform to the world model. Milicic certainly knows what he has to do, so this first game is particularly important.

Interestingly, the first game happened to be his old club, the Australian women's football team. This is a "welcome gift" for him to the leadership. Combined with Milicic's design and the performance of the women's team, this debut can score a good score.

First of all, judging by Milicic's line-up, he continues his relatively familiar 4-2-3-1 tradition, which is part of his reservation. The two midfielders have a protective role in the midfield, which is particularly similar to Milicic, Zhang Rui and Gao Chen in this game can be regarded as a relatively good completion of this task, forcing the Australian team to make many mistakes, and the 4-4-2 diamond position did not play the overall advantage. The connection between the three central midfielders and the protection of the midfielders and defenders are also quite distinctive. It can be seen that Milicic still has requirements for them to retreat; Even a star of Wang Shuang's level must come back many times to help defend, and the integrity can be known.

Moreover, Milicic's characteristic is "detail control", and his arrangement of the middle in the game can be said to be very detailed, how to run in the back, who to cooperate with, and which side to divide. This is indeed a worthy praise point for the new coach to take office.

Of course, the encouragement of key people is also a characteristic of Milicic. As a center forward, he knows how to encourage the shooters, so he reused Wuri Gumula, coupled with Zhang Linyan's assault, coupled with Wang Yanwen's command and transmission, the overall efficiency is still good. Zhang Linyan's goal, and the maneuvering between Wuri Gumula and the enemy's defenders are all very standard. This was indeed very rare in the past.

In addition, the ability of the Chinese team to create chances and the restriction of the opponent's opportunities are also a commendable advantage. He led the way in shots on goal for most of the game, and it was not bad to force the opponent to have only one shot on goal before making a substitution. Although the Australian women's football team is trying to find space for physical confrontation, Milicic has a good solution to this problem, and the rapid transition, coupled with the lack of space for the midfield to accelerate the transmission, combined with the autonomous retreat mentioned above, is really effective.

However, after the substitutions at the end of the game, the disadvantage of the women's football team began to appear. It is true that dropping points before the end of the game is not well deserved, which mainly shows the old problem of lack of talent in women's football. Milicic is a coach who is very good at developing young people, and if he can solve this problem, it will be a huge help to the continued development of women's football.

On the whole, there may be no answer to the question of what Milicic's ability is, but his thinking is indeed very new, and the reform of women's football is relatively thorough. If the traditional advantages of women's football in the past can be maintained, coupled with the various cognitive indoctrination of new women's football, especially in Europe and the United States, then there is still a chance for women's football to "return to the top".

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