football career from scratch

Chapter 747 Changes in the Chinese Team

After coming out against the opponent, Gao Yuan is preparing for the game against Italy.

Like England, Italy has a strong background. Even if their league is no longer the glory of the World Cup, it is still one of the top leagues in Europe. Under such circumstances, their national team is not strong enough Not bad.

Similar to England, the Italian team also does not have quite top players. They are basically composed of powerful factions. There are not many outstanding local players, which also affects their combat effectiveness.

Most of their players are still playing for Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan, the top three in the north, as well as Rome, Fiorentina, Lazio, Naples and other outstanding teams in Serie A. Being able to gain a foothold in such a team is enough to prove their level. But like England, they don't have any core players in these strong teams...

There are many capable factions, but there is a lack of top players.

Both England and Italy have problems with their youth training. Although this problem has been alleviated to a certain extent after they also started using the youth training camp, the youth training camp is not a panacea, and it cannot make them immediately emerge talents.

Of course, as a traditional strong team, there are still many good players in Italy.

Goalkeeper Donnama, left back Dan Busini, right back Conte Jr., central defenders Borga and Chillini, midfielder Pellet is an excellent defensive midfielder, and Gallini's performance is also quite good. As the saying goes, attacking midfielder Villa is considered the best player in Italy right now, and he is also the player closest to world-class level. In addition to side assaulters like Candre and Bernardo, the technically comprehensive forwards Beratti and Eyre Germany, they still have a lot of good players, and they also have excellent fighting spirit.

"Italy's lineup generally changes between [-] and [-]. If it is [-], their attack power in the center will be better. If it is [-], they will attack more from the side. , For this point, we don’t actually need to work too much on defense, we always lose the ball anyway.”

Gao Yuan's words caused a burst of booing from the defenders, and Gao Yuan chuckled: "But what we really need to consider is how to break through their defense. Although Italy does not have the kind of defender who appears to be the best in the world, their line The back line is still very good. Borga is tall, steady and decisive, and Killini is not short, brave and tenacious. The defensive skills of these two people are quite good. They have cooperated together for more than five years, and they complement each other quite well. Excellent! At the front of the penalty area, Pellet and Gallini also complement each other quite well. Gallini pounces forward and Pellet fills in. Their defensive level is very high. Although they seem to perform poorly in this World Cup, they So far they haven't conceded a single goal! They are the only ones who can do this in the entire World Cup. Now, we have to face such a team. Now do you know how difficult this game is? "

"What's the matter, aren't we the strongest offensive team in the World Cup?" Bu Qingyun dug his ears and replied.

His words made the players of the Chinese team laugh—yes, Italy is the best defensive team in this World Cup, and we are the best offensive team in this World Cup!

Although Bu Qingyun's words sounded like disrespecting his opponent, but in the case of an opponent, why should he take the opponent's feelings into consideration?

Besides, it's just talk in the team...

"Well, what we should know is that we have scored [-] goals now, but we are no longer the team with the most goals in the World Cup." Gao Yuan said.

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then they remembered that after scoring five goals in the previous game, the Netherlands had already scored [-] goals in this World Cup—they showed a good attacking power in the group stage, Ten goals were scored, and three more were scored in the first round of the knockout round. In addition to the five goals in the quarter-finals, they have indeed surpassed the Chinese team...

"Tch, it's just one more game than us. We will surpass them immediately and beat them in a head-to-head contest!"

Jin Shucheng waved his fist and shouted, which resonated with the players.

You must know that if the Chinese team can pass the level of Italy, the next game will be against the Netherlands. Under such circumstances, the competitive sentiment against the Netherlands can also stimulate the fighting spirit of the players.

If the Chinese team can reach the final, there will only be four games in the World Cup. At this time, of course, it is necessary to mobilize the emotions of the players and let them start to gradually move up.

Until you can't walk, or reach the peak.

All the teams that can enter the top sixteen have this idea.

For the Italian head coach Ventura, leading the team to the top [-] is not a failure for him to lead the team this time, but even if Italy does not have the strength of a strong team, the strong team still has goals and airs—Sixteen Strong can only be regarded as qualified, they need to have higher goals!

As the national team that has won the second most World Cups in Europe, Italy will attack for the championship every time in the World Cup—even if they know that they do not have the strength to compete for the championship, they will take this goal as their own task.

This is the spirit of a strong team.

Italian football doesn't care much about the scene. It is one of their characteristics that they can win while playing ugly. Of course, it doesn't matter if they play ugly or not. Winning is the most important thing.

All Ventra thinks about is how to win.

Theoretically speaking, the Chinese team, which has excellent offense but not too solid defense, is a favorite of Italy. They can always block the opponent's offense very well, and then complete the goal through continuous counterattacks— —They now have such abilities. The defensive capabilities of the two central defenders and the two defensive midfielders are quite strong, and the full-backs can be regarded as both offensive and defensive. The most important thing is that in the frontcourt, they have excellent forwards. the second striker.

Villa can act as a passer, while Berrati is a very complete striker, he can create opportunities by himself and then score the ball.Although he is not as good as a top player like Metz Rolande, he can be regarded as a second-level top striker. The most important thing is that he often only needs to seize such an opportunity once in a game to help the team. win.

Therefore, although Italy does not have the top players, they still have some outstanding players. Coupled with those experienced and capable players, they can often show better abilities in games than on paper.

This is Ventra's biggest reliance.

However, facing the offensive lineup of the Chinese team, he still seemed quite afraid.

This is a team whose offensive ability is stronger than other teams in the World Cup-maybe it is not a terrible thing to play five goals against Sweden and Tunisia and four goals against England, but against France They can still score three goals abruptly, which makes people feel a little scary-after all, the French team is now one of the top teams in the world. Although their kneading is a bit bad, just looking at them The names of the players on the back line show how good their back line is.

Faced with such an excellent defense, the Chinese team can still score three goals in the game, which really makes people feel a little scary.

This is one of the things that bothers Ventra the most.

The offensive combination of the Chinese team in the last knockout match should be their main offensive combination. Sun Chuci is obviously Gao Yuan's secret weapon in the group stage. He and Su Yuze's striker partner, behind him are Bu Qingyun and Zhu Yucheng With the support of this team, this offensive line will not be inferior to any top team.

Therefore, Ventra thinks that the first thing is to keep the defense stable, and then counterattack-he is not very worried about the counterattack. Italy's counterattack is very sharp, while the defense of the Chinese team...is relatively weak.

At least compared with the defenses of those top teams, they seem to be somewhat inferior. Italy will definitely have enough counterattack opportunities in the game, it depends on whether they can grasp them.

So in the training these days, Ventra has been emphasizing defense, and the Italian players are also used to this kind of defense, and they are all in good condition.

This also made Ventra feel relieved, feeling that this game still has great expectations.

When the day of the game came, Ventra led his team to the La Plata Municipal Stadium and got the starting list of the Chinese team.

It was only reported two hours before the game. All teams will take advantage of this condition, so Ventella was not surprised by it.

After getting the starting lineup of the Chinese team, he looked up immediately-this is a good opportunity to judge the opponent's intentions.

In other positions, the Chinese team has not changed much. However, in the position of the midfielder, the changes of the Chinese team have made Ventra frown.

As for the position of the defensive midfielder, the Chinese team's starting lineup has been very stable before. Although Wang Qinian and Shen Wei both have the opportunity to play, but generally speaking, Zhong Bo and Yu Yingrui partnering as a defensive midfielder is the most common way.

Zhong Bo has excellent frontal defensive ability, and Yu Yingrui has both offense and defense. With such a midfielder behind him, Yu Yingrui can better play his level-in the evaluation of many people, Yu Yingrui is better than the national team. He performed well in Liverpool, because when he was in Liverpool, he was more of a full-time defender, and his offensive talent was not brought into play.

However, what Wentra looked at at this time was not Yu Yingrui's name, but his midfielder partner.

In the defensive midfielder position, it is not Zhong Bo who has been playing the main force before, nor Shen Wei who has played in the Confederations Cup, but a young midfielder Wang Qinian who was only selected for the Chinese national team in this World Cup!

Wentra frowned. Wang Qinian had only come off the bench in the previous game. His most eye-catching performance was stealing Stell's pass in the last game against England, helping the Chinese team complete their fourth goal. ball!

The speed he showed in that tackle...

Thinking of this, Wentra's brows never relaxed.