Chapter 46: Germany's Slow Attack

“Fight harder!

"

Lucky shouted towards Fan Yi.

This is a problem for young players. Sometimes they are afraid that they cannot grasp the balance, resulting in too soft defense.

At this moment, what matters is hardness.

The German team also made a lot of moves with their hands, even pulling and pulling, and the referees saw it.

The Chinese team also needs to retaliate.

Of course, actions in dangerous areas cannot occur, but outside the penalty area, you must fight fiercely enough.

Hearing Lucai's shouting, Fan Yi nodded quickly.

If his defense had been tougher just now, the German team would not have received this free kick.

The free kick is almost near the penalty area line, and it is on the left side. The right foot will be fully capable of making a wonderful arc.

The Chinese players quickly lined up the human wall.

All the tall ones were on top, and even Chen Xiang ran back from the frontcourt to act as a human wall.

Lucky did not serve as a wall, but instead marked the opponent's aerial players on the outside.

This kind of ball, if it's not good, the German team will take a tactical free kick.

Beep!

The whistle sounded.

Cross, who took the penalty, pushed the ball to the right.

The German team wanted to send the ball to the right side and shoot directly around the wall.

Lucai immediately rushed towards the right side. At the same time, he also paid attention to the position of goalkeeper Tong Lei and helped the opponent block the near corner.

Sure enough, Muller shot the ball straight to the near corner.

This kick was powerful and heavy, and Le Kai quickly held his breath and puffed out his chest.

boom!

The ball hit Lucky's chest hard and bounced near the front.

Fan Yi, with quick eyes and quick feet, immediately caught up with him, destroyed the ball with his big feet, and kicked the ball directly out of the sideline of the opponent's half.

At this time, Lucai covered his chest and squatted on the ground.

When the Chinese players saw this scene, their hearts trembled.

"team leader?"

"Are you hurt?"

One by one, the Chinese team members gathered around and asked eagerly.

Lucky saw that he was surrounded and blinked at them quickly.

"Pretending?" Zhang Chenxi said in shock.

Lucky quickly scolded in a low voice: "Keep your voice down!"

Chen Man couldn't help but laugh; "They don't understand!"

"The referee is here!"

Wang Yi had experience and winked at Lucai.

Lucky clutched his chest, showing pain.

The referee ran over to ask about Lucai's situation, and Lucai waved his hand to indicate that he was distracted.

The referee had no choice in this situation. He could only wait for Lucai to catch his breath.

At the same time, the German players all looked anxious.

They knew Lucky was stalling for time, but they had no choice but to urge the referee again and again.

The referee came over to urge Lucai.

Lucky finally stood up slowly, his movements were very slow, and he still showed pain.

At the same time, he ran to the sidelines and asked for water, took a sip, and then signaled to the referee that he had no problem.

Lucky took more than a minute.

"Lucky~~~"

He Wei also said with a teasing face: "This is experience! In this case, any opportunity to delay time cannot be wasted. If you fall to the ground, you must not get up immediately. You must pretend to be on the ground for a while. As long as the referee does not give Card, then pretend it till the end of time!”

"Of course, Muller's shot is also very powerful, and Lucky probably won't feel that bad either."

While talking, the game in the arena also started again.

When the German team restarted, the time had entered 30 minutes.

The German players were shocked when they saw the time.

How come time flies by so fast?

It felt like they had just conceded the ball, but they conceded a few goals during the period, and 19 minutes were just gone?

There were only 15 minutes left in the first half, and now the German team became anxious.

It’s really impossible not to be in a hurry!

They absolutely cannot go into the second half at a disadvantage, that would be too bad for them.

On the other hand, the Chinese team still adopted the previous tactics.

The German team continued to pass the ball and penetrate.

But it couldn't penetrate.

Seeing the German team's attack, the German commentator screamed in anger.

"Why do we have to kick the ball on the ground? Can't we just go down and pass it in? We have a lot of players competing for the top. No matter what happens, we can still get a corner kick."

The German commentator was also very angry at this time.

It was already at a disadvantage, but the German team was slow to pass the ball.

Don’t know how to drop the ball into the Chinese team’s penalty area?

The closer you are to the goal, the more threatening you are.

Don’t you know this simple truth?

And who is the laggard?

If you just look at the situation on the field, it feels like the German team is in the lead.

"Hang it in! Pass it over! What are you thinking about?"

The German commentator was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Watching the German team grindingly handle the ball, his blood pressure began to soar.

To be honest, he has never wanted to join this group of people as much as he does now.

Likewise, German fans feel the same way.

Seeing the German players slowly passing the ball back and forth, but there was no shot, they were so anxious that they almost vomited blood.

"We need to speed up some offensive tempo!"

said the German assistant coach.

Loew also nodded.

The situation at this time is really no longer optimistic.

Loew immediately turned around and shouted; "Brandt, go warm up!"

In the 35th minute, the German team took the lead in making substitutions.

Goretzka comes off and Brandt comes on.

The German team obviously wants to strengthen its offensive efforts and does not hesitate to sacrifice a midfielder position for this purpose.

After Goretzka came off the field, Royce automatically moved to the defensive midfielder position.

Brandt's position is further forward.

Loew added a ball-holding and passing point in the frontcourt in order to create more threatening balls.

But Loew seems to have missed a question.

The problem for the German team is not passing and holding the ball, but moving forward.

They lack a threatening forward passing point.

Or let Muller run and others pass the threatening ball for him.

But this squeezes Werner's position.

The center became shriveled and useless.

The overall lineup became stiff and uncomfortable.

For this reason, the German team has to continue to play what they call old passing.

"Lew just fell into the trap of passing and controlling. In 2010, Spain amazed the world with their gorgeous passing and controlling. But eight years later, this tactic has been studied by many teams. It cannot be said that it is completely useless. But it definitely doesn’t have the same tactical status as before!”

"Furthermore, German players are not the type with delicate feet. They cannot pass the concise and efficient offensive rhythm like Spain. Moreover, even Spain has begun to place a battering ram in front of the goal under the premise of passing and controlling. This means that when the passing control itself is not going well, the direct threat to the goal will be greatly reduced!”

British commentator Andy Gray shook his head and sighed.

He felt that Loew was really crazy.

They just want to reform the German team's style of play. They clearly have their own mature technical and tactical style of play.

But I want to create other genres.

Andy Gray doesn't know what Loew is thinking, but there is definitely something wrong with his thinking.

Maybe it was the World Cup win that made him arrogant.

Or maybe his passing and control system can really produce results.

But regardless of this, in the current situation, the German team is in an extremely disadvantageous state.

The German team's substitutions still failed to solve the problem.

Brandt has worked hard to penetrate forward and dribble.

But in the opponent's half, where he plays less and more, he cannot get passes from his teammates in dangerous areas.

The most depressing among them is Werner.

Since the beginning of the game, he has received only a handful of support.

And even if there is a pass, it is not in an ideal state.

Sometimes, Werner had to compete physically with the strong Liu Kairui and shoot at the same time.

But when you can't fight against it, shooting is even more ineffective.

When the midfielder is unable to deliver the ball, the center is undoubtedly the most uncomfortable.

"The German team has an enviable midfield lineup, with Royce, Kroos, Khedira, Goretzka, etc."

"But these players are playing the game the wrong way! Their ability is not being used at all."

"Perhaps we need to get to the root of the problems in this game. If the German team loses this game, then Loew has a great responsibility. Even though he is the meritorious coach who won the last World Cup championship for the German team, he still cannot Avoid this responsibility!"

The Italian commentator commented sharply.