Six Hundred and Seventy-Five Counterattack Counterattack!

"The Greek team will be strong in the future!"

After Aldridge said this with a serious expression in the locker room, the players in England looked puzzled. watermark ad test watermark ad test

future?

What does the future have to do with today?

Aldridge continued in a deep voice: "Six months ago, the Greek team changed coaches. You must have heard his name as the current coach, Rehhagel."

Xiaobei and the others nodded.

This is a well-known coach in European football. He has won the European Cup Winners' Cup as far as he is, and he has created the Kaiser myth recently.

However, the Greek team itself is limited in strength, so what's the use of relying on the coach alone?

If you want to quantify the strength of the Greek team, you can roughly locate the level of the team from the historical record.

The number of promotions to international competitions is pitifully small. In the finals of the European Cup and the World Cup, the Greek team has never won a single victory!

In front of the top teams, the Greek team can't even count as the role of accompanying the prince to study, at best they are playing soy sauce.

It is also because of this that the outside world is not optimistic that the Greek team can cause trouble for England. The game was not played, and there is no suspense for England to qualify for the top spot in the group.

"We can no longer look at today's game from the perspective of Greece half a year ago. As I said just now, the variables that exist today are different for the same opponent. The Greek team is in the construction of the new phase. First of all, they led Greece to a draw with Germany. At this time, their morale was greatly boosted. Although the technical and tactical system has not yet been fully formed, and the new national team lineup needs more time to adapt, if we take it lightly, we will definitely suffer a big loss! I I don’t want to see anything else today, and I don’t ask you to win. The only thing I want to see is your tactical discipline. How to play the game, I already said at the pre-match preparation meeting yesterday, if you have any questions, ask now. If any of you on the field dissatisfies me. I don't care how many minutes the game has started, I will just make a substitution."

The players looked solemn. They nodded in unison.

In fact, the stronger the players are, the more they like to insist on a "self-centered" game mentality, naively thinking that as long as they play above the normal level of strength, their performance will meet the standard or even score higher. At the same time can contribute to the team.

What Aldrich said before was to give them a psychological foreshadowing.

The head coach is not crazy,

Every game has to make some adjustments to have a sense of presence. Since targeted adjustments are made, there must be a reason. As for whether players can understand it, it varies from person to person.

Regarding the arrangement of Aldridge at the pre-match preparation meeting yesterday. Many players have doubts in their hearts. Their attitude is similar to that of the media, and they think that Aldridge is too cautious.

In other words, after England's five-game winning streak, the mentality of the players was inevitably affected. In the final match of the World Preliminaries, I had a little desire to show the prestige of the British Empire.

But amid Aldridge's warning, the players suppressed the messy thoughts in their hearts, cleared their heads, and carried out everything according to the head coach's pre-match arrangement.

When Aldridge appeared in the Old Trafford stadium, the game was about to start in 3 minutes, he went to shake hands with Rehhagel to say hello, for some reason, seeing Rehhagel, Aldridge There is a demon in my heart.

Obviously, the number of championships he has won has established his status as a world-class coach, but in front of Rehhagel, he always subconsciously feels that he is inferior to the opponent.

This kind of thought, I have had it before, for example, when he first confronted Ferguson, Wenger, Lippi and other famous coaches, Aldridge would have such a thought, which is normal and true at the time, but with Millwall The champion was soft, and when he saw the famous coach again, he was very calm from the inside out.

Even when Mourinho, who became the coach on his own, appeared in front of him, Aldridge's mood did not have any ups and downs.

But facing Rehhagel, this kind of mood swing reappeared.

He knew that Rehhagel was an insurmountable mountain in his memory and impression.

No matter how many championships he won at Millwall, he couldn't have the confidence to surpass the other side.

Because of his ability, he surpassed the champion.

Rehhagel's ability to create a myth with offensive football in Kaiserslautern is actually not enough to make people jaw-dropping. Although Kaiserslautern was newly promoted back then, its lineup was not weak.

And Rehhagel was able to lead Greece to create the myth of the Aegean Sea. How can it simply use a European Cup champion to measure its credit and ability?

Ferguson, Wenger, Ancelotti, Lippi, Mourinho, Guardiola and other contemporary or future famous coaches, which one can be crowned king with two completely different football styles like Rehhagel? What's more, Greece, the last second-rate team in Europe, created a myth!

Aldrich never thinks that he is different. 99% of his achievements are due to his own hard work, and 1% is due to his innate advantages.

He also inevitably drifts with the tide, just as many fans in the future will ridicule Mourinho for needing huge sums of money to win the championship, Guardiola only dares to coach top teams, etc., Aldridge is also unavoidable.

In this England national team, if there is no player team such as Beckham, Scholes, Owen, Lampard, Ashley Cole, etc., which makes him feel confident, or the time will be pushed back by about six years , Aldridge would not dare to take over the England national team even if he was killed.

To put it bluntly, let the top coaches in the contemporary world walk up to the position of coach of the Greek national team to make a choice. It is estimated that more than 70% of them will shake their heads and turn away. Those who dare to take over may not be able to achieve the miracle created by Rehhagel. .

Aldridge didn't dare in his heart at first, he could admit it in his heart, and he didn't feel ashamed, because he still didn't practice well.

"The final round of Group I of the European World Preliminaries is about to begin. The England team with 16 points sits at Old Trafford to face the Greek team, which has no hope of qualifying in this group. As long as the England team does not lose in this game, they will Definitely qualify for next year's World Cup finals as the top of the group! The FA invited Hall to be the coach of the England team at the end of last year. This wise decision has received unexpected results. Going out, in one year, he went from second to last in the group to the first in the group. Last month, the 6:0 bloodbath of the German team in Munich was recorded in history. It became a classic battle for the England team. From the relaxed atmosphere created by the fans in the stands today, it can be seen that they are not worried about the challenge of the Greek team. In Athens, the England team beat Greece. Today, maybe it is just a routine game."

Game start. Aldridge stood on the sidelines to supervise the battle.

The scene confuses and irritates the audience.

The Greek team retreated in the second half, and the England team did not press up. They just shot long shots from the outside and fought hard for a second attack. No, then go back to defense.

The fans in the stands originally thought that England would make persistent efforts today, taking advantage of the 6:0 slaughter of Germany to clean up Greece with ease, but looking at this scene, England is really petty, determined to keep the tie and qualify?

Seeing England's posture, Rehhagel found it difficult.

England has won 5 consecutive victories in this wave. He has studied it carefully, and there is no doubt that Aldridge uses different tactics against different opponents. The opponent is a master tactician!

But England is stronger than Greece. How much courage and will is needed to hold back the draw?

Only with courage can you play conservatively under the witness of more than 60,000 local fans, and with willpower, you can stick to your ideals without wavering!

If the strong beat the weak, if it is conservative, even if it wins, the external criticism will come like a tide. This is the practice in the football circle.

Aldridge was able to withstand such pressure from public opinion and order the three armed forces to unswervingly implement conservative tactics, which also reflected his control over the England team on the other hand.

Due to their strength, the Greek team can only play defensive counterattacks.

But defensive counterattack is by no means as simple as it sounds. To play defensive counterattack well and achieve results requires the coach to have a very strong tactical foundation.

Defense is the foundation, counterattack, how to play, when to exert force within 90 minutes, key offensive areas, etc., all of which require the coach to study the opponent before the game and make changes based on on-the-spot observation.

The Greek team frequently adopted foul strategies in the midfield to limit England's positional attack, which is not powerful.

The scene became even more dull.

Originally, the two teams did not play well, and the game was frequently interrupted by fouls. How could the fans like it?

However, considering whether the England team can qualify for the group stage today, the local fans in the stands were still very restrained and only booed after the Greek team fouled.

For the Greek team to take foul tactics, Aldridge is not surprised.

In terms of defense alone, the strength of the Greek players has no advantage in one-on-one, and they can only rely on fouls.

The Greek team's 5-3-2 formation with four backs and sweepers limited England's offensive space. Coupled with foul tactics, the England team was not good at playing positional warfare.

In the first 40 minutes of the first half, the pace of the game was tepid. The players on the field also felt tortured in this game, especially the England players. The opponent did not attack, and the head coach did not allow them to press hard , this game was a grind.

After 40 minutes, entering the final stage of the first half, the Greek team successfully defended Scholes' penetrating ball. Scavenger Dellas quickly launched a counterattack after controlling the ball. The frontcourt formation of the Greek team began to press forward.

Aldridge narrowed his eyes slightly.

It seems that Greece's counterattack is to seize the last moment, which is usually the time period of the game when the player's concentration may decline.

At the beginning of the kick-off and at the end of the game, the former is suitable for blitz, and the latter is suitable for sudden changes in rhythm to achieve unexpected effects.

Aldrich couldn't help clenching his fists, thinking in his heart: It's a dragon or a worm, show it to the world in just 5 minutes!

When the counterattack rhythm of the Greek team suddenly accelerated and the offensive players began to move flexibly, the players of the England team were shocked at first, and then their blood boiled!

Oh shit!

Sure enough, the coach hit the mark!

The Greek team is here with ambitions!

Saglakis, Nicolandis, Gianacopoulos, after the three passed a fast and smooth pass, a deadly pass was passed from the foot of Gianacopoulos, and the man who was looking for was from Neville Charisteas ran diagonally to the middle with Ferdinand!

The drowsy fans in the stands were all awakened by Greece's sharp counterattack!

What are the Greeks doing?

Everyone couldn't help but worry.

At the critical moment, Southgate broke the ball in front of Charisteas!

The linesman didn't raise the flag, if Charisteas gets the ball, it's one-handed!

Rehagel's fiery eyes instantly dimmed.

At this moment, Aldrich did not show a look of gratitude for surviving a catastrophe. On the contrary, it was his turn that his eyes became extremely sharp.

After Southgate steals the ball, he immediately passes the ball straight to the front right and gives it to Beckham.

Two seconds before, the ball was in the England penalty area.

Two seconds later, the ball is on the halfway line.

Owen, McManaman, and Scholes started running, Beckham took the ball forward, and Ashley Cole on the other side also rushed forward.

Seeing this, Rehhagel opened his mouth slightly and looked shocked.

Aldrich raised his chin and smiled coldly.

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