"McManaman calmly pushes the far corner to score! England scored a goal that looked like a stroke of luck, but it was due to the tenacious fighting spirit of the Three Lions! Looking back at the process of this goal, the Spanish midfielder Xavi turned around in the face of Scholes's pressure to get rid of being tackled by Lampard, Lampard launched a counterattack on the spot after breaking the ball, and passed straight to Heskey at the front point, Heskey then crossed the middle of the defender, McManaman got a single chance against offside, good ball! ”

Aldridge nodded slightly after understanding the whole process of scoring.

England are not without playmakers, and Paul Scholes can do the job, but his position on the pitch is a little contradictory to the original tactical design.

In order to better organize the attack, Scholes must retreat, in the area of the attacking forward, the defensive pressure will be extremely huge, move Scholes's position back, but it will weaken his threat to the goal, therefore, in the requirements of positional warfare, Aldridge does not expect England to play three passes and two downs in a small range of exquisite coordination, that is unrealistic, positional warfare, frontal attack, simple and clear, can play to achieve success, can not play, it doesn't matter, but more important is the rhythm of offensive and defensive conversion.

When switching from attack to defense, the striker retreats to the area between the opposing defender and the midfielder, harassing the midfielder while also waiting for an opportunity to move forward again.

And the most important thing is in the midfield, to carry out the siege, to destroy the opponent's counterattack organization, this is not a dead requirement, once the opponent passes the ball out, the player immediately has to return to the defense, from the spot counter-robbery to the retreat static defensive formation, and then face the attack again.

After six years, Xavi could have a hard time breaking the ball at his feet, especially in the midfield area. But now. He was still a little immature. Lack of experience.

The first priority after a successful counter-attack is to play with speed, decisive and decisive on the ball, don't hesitate, this goal just now showed this, especially McManaman did not receive the ball after Lampard broke the ball, but he did not hesitate to rush forward, Heskey's assist was just right, and the Spanish defence was caught off guard almost within three seconds.

This is Aldrich's tactical arrangement. England plays patient positional warfare, not good at it, the most critical of this set of tactics is to counterattack, launch a counterattack from the back, intercept the opponent from the midfield to organize an offensive and quickly counterattack.

The English fans in the Mestalla cheered, while the Spanish fans were devastated and devastated by the fans.

England are in good luck!

Camacho looked solemn on the sidelines.

England played very concisely on the pitch today, and obviously played with speed, and the change in the attacking point is the basis for ensuring speed, otherwise. According to the 442 as before, the counterpoint marking can easily be limited to death.

The whistle blew at halftime. Players from both sides walk towards the players' tunnel.

Aldridge and Jurgen Klinsmann walked and talked, ready to pick up players at half-time.

"Did you find a problem?"

"Huh?"

Aldridge looked at Klinsmann and said thoughtfully: "Today, the players are very resolute in their tactical execution on the field, but they are a little rigid. ”

Aldridge nodded and said: "Yes, it is true that I am too concerned with ground passes, and some good opportunities are not grasped at the first time, and I can use long passes to instigate the offensive, but the players only seem to have the routine of rapid progress with short passes on the ground, so let's talk to them later." ”

'It's easy for the national team to at least because they're more disciplined than the players at the club.

"It should be related to the small number of games and the importance of the game, there are always some games in the club that make the players pay less attention."

Back in the dressing room, Aldridge found that almost no one in the England squad was idle, discussing the game in small groups.

Southgate was communicating with the defenders about the defensive problems in the first half, it is a fact that he was not scored, but it does not mean that there are no problems in the defense, occasionally there are players out of position, exposing the gap, but Spain did not take the chance.

Scholes and McManaman are also communicating, although they are both midfielders, they can play different roles, most of the time, McManaman pulls to the wing to find openings, the range of movement is larger, Scholes has to tandem attack.

Ideally, these two can switch roles at any time, and in a wave of attack, there are tandem assisters, and there are also shadow strikers, which requires more communication between the two.

Aldridge wanted to give them some time to communicate internally, which is a good phenomenon, and a successful team should discuss the game more internally, point out the mistakes and shortcomings of teammates, and then solve the problems to create a good atmosphere within the team.

However, he found that the players did not seem to be able to stop.

Becky also gestured with his hand to the route after Neville's attack, how to play coordination, how to create a threat, and so on.

"Ahem, ahem."

After five minutes, Aldrich had to speak out to remind them.

The players in the dressing room seemed to have come to their senses and realized that the game had only been played for half time, and it was time to listen to the coach.

Everyone immediately sat upright, looking at Aldridge, waiting for him to adjust his tactics.

In fact, Aldridge has nothing to adjust, first of all, the friendly match, and secondly, there will definitely be changes in Spain in the second half, Camacho will not sit back and watch the home game play so badly, and the performance of the qualifier king today is really unsatisfactory.

Spain will change, and Aldridge's targeted deployment at this time may fail.

"How does it feel to play for 45 minutes?"

"Not bad!"

A number of players immediately answered Aldridge's question.

He pulled the tactical board, drew the basic formation, and briefly described the roadmap of the team's counterattack from the back in the first half, which was basically based on ground passes, cuts and penetrations, but the point of contact was different in each attack.

"This kind of attack, the first half played well, however, I hope that the midfield players, especially the players with a guaranteed success rate of long passes, pay attention, I do not require you to play point-to-point short passes, after observing the situation in the frontcourt, if you find that there is a better connection point in the frontcourt, you should decisively use long passes to launch a threatening attack. Such. We put in the assist and the players can sprint at full speed. Instead of slowing down and restarting, the speed of the offensive can be further increased. ”

The players nodded, in fact, to put it bluntly, Aldridge was telling David Beckham and Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Gary Neville, that the success rate of long passes was not within a guaranteed accuracy range.

But he still said it in front of the whole team. At the same time, it is also a reminder to the frontcourt players not to think that every attack is to pass forward from the backcourt point to point, and to have the awareness of running without the ball at the first time.

Aldridge re-emphasized the key points of the midfield counter-attack, and then asked the players to clean up their shirts and shoes to prepare for the second half of the game.

Spain, sure enough, the midfielder made a substitution.

Camacho replaced three attacking players in midfield in one go.

Xavi was replaced by Belleron, Joaquin was replaced by Mendieta and Vicente was replaced by Enrique.

Belleron. Known as Spain's Zinedine Zidane, Mendieta and Enrique. The stars of Valencia and Barcelona are a bit of the king of qualifiers now.

Aldridge looked at Camacho with a slight resentment in his eyes.

Before the game starts, you should be so good.

Now, after half the game, Spain is behind, and the whole England team is full of momentum, even if we don't count the first half, the half-time dividing line, but the person who has been replaced can enter the game state and be physically excited, can they be on the same starting line?

After falling behind in the first half, the midfield encountered huge resistance, Camacho let the Spanish front line close back, and this time, the confrontation in the midfield was even more intense.

Belleron is expected to improve the Spanish midfield's attack, but his weakness is that he is soft in confrontation, in the face of Scholes and Bart's front and back packing, Scholes took the initiative to press, Bart was in accordance with Aldridge's holy order, waiting, waiting for Belleron to get rid of Scholes before he made a move.

Belleron pulled the ball sideways, but he couldn't shake Scholes, but instead Scholes came to him again, forming two gates with Bart.

Let's get out of the ball, two wings, Xiaobei and Lampard are on the ball route, Belleron goes to the right side with an over-the-top ball, and the pass is really accurate, but unfortunately, Mendieta's ball is not stopped, and he wants to stop and wipe Lampard, but he turned around, and the ball went out of the sideline.

Frank Lampard immediately stepped back to distance Mendieta, and Ashley Cole came up to deliver the ball to Lampard.

Mendieta and Belleron immediately came to grab him, Frank Lampard crossed diagonally back to the wing, Ashley Kortau stepped forward to launch a counter-attack, and at the same time, Lampard dropped back to secure this side of the defence and also provide a return point for Ashley Cole when his advance was blocked.

Ashley Cole took only two steps to cross the ball to midfield, and Becky, who strode forward to receive the ball, observed the situation in the front court, and then stabbed it over the top.

Huskey and McManaman seem to overlap their running positions, both of them attack the left side of the penalty area, which is also the requirement of Aldridge on the offensive end, the striker and the forward can press a little at the same time, strong attack, if the opponent's other central defenders do not come to help defend, then 2 to 1 or 2 to 2 forward has an advantage, if the opponent has another central defender to help defend, then the other side is free.

The ball was over the top and went deep, Husky couldn't catch up, but McManaman shook off the opposing centre-back and picked up the ball just after entering the penalty area, but because he had slowed down the ball, it was obvious that he could not start and form a single knife, and at the same time, another centre-back had rushed towards him, and McManaman passed the ball to the other side.

Scholes got on the slap and took a step to catch the ball, but this time he adjusted well and fired a right-footed shot into the back of the net cleanly.

Casillas pounced on the ball, but the force was too great, and his fingers did not change the trajectory of the ball too much, and the ball went in.

"Eight minutes into the second half, England led Spain 2-0 away! Beckham launched a quick counterattack in the midfield, a long pass found McManaman, who assisted Scholes to score, England played simple and efficient today, both goals reflect the speed of the counterattack, Hall's national team debut has been satisfactory so far, at least from the perspective of the field, England does not lose to the other side, the number of shots, the number of dangerous attacks, are higher than the home Spain, which gives us reason to expect the England team led by Hall to do something in the future! ”

The England players ran to the corner flag and hugged Scholes, laughing uncontrollably, and today's game made them feel reassured and happy.

Aldridge still applauded and put his hands behind his back, just a friendly match, there is nothing to be excited about, and the opponent Spain is very faceless and messed up.

However, the team's performance is commendable, but there is still a long way to go before it can be sharpened and truly achieved in attack and defense. (To be continued......)