Congratulations to R&F on the opening of the AFC Champions League, and R&F played a very good game. Gancha, the young marshal of La Liga is worthy of the name. Number 10, Michelle, bought it right, it was a bug to have an all-round midfielder of this level on the Asian pitch. The above few words are a summary of this game.
The match was a game completely dominated by R&F, and from the time Gancha pressed the highlight of Hohito Endo, it heralded a contest of dominance. I believe that i Evergrande friends who have read my preview of the game will remember: Endo is the operator of Osaka, and he dominates the attack of Osaka. So the point of Gancha, already said at his tournament press conference, is that he is going to abolish Hohito Endo.
In fact, the Japanese started with a formation of 4411, which is also osaka's usual style of play, Osaka today due to the first time to face R&F, I think the preparation is insufficient, the biggest inadequacy is that it is not realized that Endo Yasuhito is really completely frozen. As a result, the Three-Dimensional Offensive of the Japanese was completely paralyzed. Or the Japanese believe that the Japanese big country foot, the asian level of the game can not be frozen, so the Japanese use a beast waist plus a Endo middle road strategy, which is the root cause of the Japanese defeat.
Gancha locked up Hohito Endo at the beginning. The Japanese originally relied on the two wings to play the ball, the center ferry, the middle of the road to make up the knife to score, the core player Endo for the top of the box for the second attack is a very important means of attack, however, today's Japanese are strangled by Fuli, dry check the first step, let the Japanese cross, because with the height of the Japanese, if the middle road does not come, just rely on the two wings of the cross can not play at all. Evergrande also used this trick many times that year to kick the Japanese team to death. R&F does the same. Because the Japanese didn't come from the middle of the road, the ball couldn't be kicked.
In the second step, high-speed strikers such as Hamed, Essen, and Gao Lin are the most feared by Japanese defenders, as long as the front court can break the ball and counterattack, kick the ball to such forwards to solve the problem, most Japanese defenders have to kneel. Hammed's goal broke the deadlock for R&F.
In fact, the Japanese were unable to come up with the response to Endo's blockage throughout the first half, which also highlighted the adaptation of Asian teams to the single-core playing style and the lack of response measures when the single core was locked. In the second half, the Japanese finally thought of putting away a defensive midfield, adding an attacking midfield that can attack at the top of the box, and solving the loss of the middle attack caused by Endo's inability to press, at which time the Japanese mid-range attack was restarted. However, this is also expected by the dry investigation. Gancha turned the 4123 that R&F originally played into a 442 flat horizontal defense line, added an additional blocking line in front of the defender line, and added another defensive line posed by the forwards in the middle of the road, which once again made the advantage of the Japanese in the middle of the road unable to be reflected, and at the same time forced the Japanese to start from both sides, and the middle road still could not receive the ball. At the same time, the use of a high-speed winger such as Chang Feiya to attack the Japanese defenders made the Japanese defenders very jealous. At the same time, in response to the problem that the team's defense line is too far behind, the defense line is pushed near the midfield, so that the team directly interferes with the Japanese in the midfield, resulting in the Japanese even if they can break through the Fuli defense, because they are far away from the penalty area. This is fatal to the Japanese forward who are at a disadvantage in absolute speed, because even if the Japanese break through the Rich defense line with passing cutting technology, they are also far away from the goal and are caught up by the Chinese players who are absolutely faster in the process of running, this defensive technique is indeed very restrained by the Japanese.
The last step, near the end of the game, completely put the bus on the bus, do the defense above to the end, and Fuli laughed to the end.
So I said, Gancha, you are really good, it is a pleasure to meet another coach after Evergrande who makes the Chinese league so beautiful.
In the above tactics of Gancha, I have always emphasized the importance of locking up Hohito Endo, so how does Gancha do it? What I need to introduce is that the "parallel cargo midfield engine" that has been sprayed by a certain host, R&F No. 10, Michelle. You gave me my first glimpse of how sharp an all-round midfielder at the level of a team in La Liga can be in Asia. No one may see how Michel tackles, but if you are familiar with Michels' defensive theory, then you should understand that Spanish defenders have a very high talent for locking up the passing line, because up to the Spanish national team, down to Barca, their defense is based on Michels theory. Although Michel's defense did not see his tackle data, if you look at his confrontation with Endo, you will find that he has always stood on the connection point between the opponent's player and Endo, and as long as the Japanese pass to Endo Hohito, he will definitely break the ball for Michelle. Michel's horror lies in the fact that, in addition to the beast-waist defense defined in our country, he has both organizational ability, as an all-round midfielder, he himself has a strong one-foot ability, if the Japanese risk passing to Hohito Endo, it is easy to be cut off by him and kick a high counterattack on the spot, creating a scene where Hamed singles out the Japanese center-back, which is also the key to the invisibility of Endo Hohito in this game. The appearance of Michel made it impossible for Endo to hold the ball throughout the first half, until after Fuli scored his first goal, Michel changed the way he defended Endo, and Endo was able to take the ball.
Michelle, second-tier defensive technique, which was played when R&F took the lead. The implementation is: if Endo takes the ball in the Japanese backcourt, Michelle does not come out, and only Hamed interferes with Endo's ball. So at this stage, Endo was able to split the ball to the flank. But when Endo held the ball at the back and chose to push forward, Michel always squeezed Endo out of the box, causing Endo to be unable to complete Osaka's usual back-plugged shot, which was the key factor that led to the Japanese being scored by Fuli, all the way to the two sides, the bottom cross, but there was always no one to follow. In other words, Michelle has always let Endo play the ball in vain, and Osaka Flying Foot naturally can't come up with the strength of the J-League 3 champions.
So this game, Guangzhou R&F, won deservedly, better prepared, targeted and for the first time showed how to play in a European-level all-round midfielder. It's really a new experience for Asian teams, with a European foreign-level all-around midfielder locking the core of Asia's top teams in this way. I'm starting to rejoice that no Asian team used this level of player against Conca in 2013, or conca's super-Asian level at the time, or that we still had Zheng Zhi that year.
Michelle, let me see the strength of the European-level all-round midfielder, the ability to attack and defend at both ends of the japanese national team level of the core of the organization completely paralyzed, awesome people, worthy of your no. 10 jersey.
Having said so much about R&F, many fans of i Evergrande have asked me, are you not a fan of turning against R&F? Jacky. No, this is the first time I have worried about Zheng Zhi, the core of Evergrande's backcourt, and Evergrande fans know that Zheng Zhi is The Holding-midfield of Evergrande's attack. If Zheng Zhi can be paralyzed, then Evergrande's backcourt may not be able to play the ball. But fortunately, Zheng Zhi, as the core of the former Premier League team, can lock in his players in Asia is not available.
However, this Michelle made me worry about what to do when Zheng Zhi was locked up for the first time.
Anyway, fortunately with osaka, evergrande coaching staff should have seen and should be aware of this problem. As for the other teams in the Chinese Super League facing R&F, if you still have only one backcourt operator responsible for scheduling the ball, and then a beast waist interception? I think you're going to be sad. At least, at the level of the Chinese Super League, there is not much of an organizational core that this person can't deal with, and you have to be mentally prepared, even if there are three top foreign aides in front, but if the ball does not go in the back court and is always countered by Hamad, you will be sad.
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