55 The Jedi Strikes Back (Part I)
In Yang Cheng's previous life, he had a special affection for Yugoslav football, because the country's football had a profound impact on Chinese football, and even went down in the history of Chinese football.
Kosa, Peternovic, Forado, and the most memorable Bola, who brought China to the big stage of the World Cup for the first time in history? Milutinovic, they are all from Yugoslavia, and they are all from Red Star Belgrade, among which Petronovic has led Red Star Belgrade to win the Champions League and Toyota Cup.
And the current head coach of the Red Star Belgrade team is Forado, who will be the head coach of the Chinese national team in a few years!
The technical and attacking coach is known for his technical and incisive attacking efforts across Yugoslavia, but last season they were overwhelmed by Partizan Belgrade, losing the title and playing in the European Cup Winners' Cup.
The strength of this Yugoslav team, which is known as the Brazilian team in Europe, should not be underestimated, especially the number one core of the team, Stankovic, who will be a well-known star in Europe in the future, but although the Red Star Belgrade under the coaching of Forado has raised the banner of offensive football, it is difficult to hide the fatal flaw of its strong attack and weak defense.
"In the Yugoslav league last season, Red Star Belgrade conceded 16 goals in 18 games, it was because of poor defense, so they watched the championship fall into the hands of the bitter enemy Guerrilla, and the situation has not improved this season, although they are still maintaining the momentum of going hand in hand with the Guerrillas, but they have conceded 13 goals in 13 league games, on the other hand, the Guerrillas, only 5 goals have been conceded in 13 league games, if they can't change the old problems of defense, Red Star has no chance of winning the championship this season!"
Yang Cheng turned his head sideways to look at Forado, who was a little strange in the distance, but had heard his name for a long time.
When Forado coached the national football team, Yang Cheng had been away from the national football team for a long time, so he had only heard of his name all along, but he had never seen him, but he could see that Forado was a tragic character.
After he took on a big role as an assistant all the year round, he caught up with the strong years of the guerrillas, but he didn't have the iron-fisted means that a head coach should have, and the consistent Huairou policy was useless!
Kaiserslautern's starting lineup for this game is goalkeeper Reynke, the three central defenders are Bremer, Kosch and Rutz, who has returned from injury; Nedved, Veron and Gattuso in midfield, Ballack up front, Denilson on the left wing, Fritz on the right and Ruud van Nistelrooy up front.
Marshall was very tired after the game against Wolfsburg, he is not young, Yang Cheng is worried about his physical condition, so this game arranged for him to rest, Ruud van Nistelrooy started in his place, Pavel? Kuka was on the bench.
Standing on the sidelines, Yang Cheng watched the players of the two teams lined up on the pitch, and Kaiserslautern was satisfied that he had the opportunity to kick off first when he guessed the side.
"Press up as a whole and start the onslaught at the beginning of the game!"
Yang Cheng made a forward gesture to the players from the sidelines, while also reminding them of the tactical strategy that Yang Cheng instilled in them in the locker room, to fight for the initiative from the first minute.
The 11 Kaiserslautern players are all looking ahead of them, and they all have the same goal, which is to win!
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"Beep~"
When the whistle blew for the start of the game, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who was in the front, immediately flicked the ball to Denilson, who immediately chose to knock it back and then run to the left.
Yang Cheng stood on the sidelines, although he was level-eyed and could not see the whole picture of the game, but in the game analysis of the super coach assistance system in his mind, one of them was a panoramic view, which could overlook the entire scene, so that Yang Cheng was more aware of the running of the players on both sides.
At this moment, Denilson, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Fritz were like three sharp arrows, cutting into the Red Star team's backline from the left, middle and right directions, but the ball quickly returned to the backfield, back and forth at the feet of Bremer, Kosch and Rutz, luring the Red Star Belgrade players to grab.
When the opponent stepped forward to press, the ball quickly came to the feet of Nedved, who first stuffed it to the retreating Ballack, who took the ball with his back, and was close to the defender behind him, unable to turn around, and could only choose to knock back to Veron.
The Argentine midfielder is very flexible in Kaiserslautern's tactical map, both can drop back and organize, but also can pass forward, because of the presence of the three midfielders Ballack, Nedved and Gattuso, plus Veron's own running ability, so Kaiserslautern's midfield always seems particularly active and covers a large area.
"Right side!" The moment Yang Cheng got the ball in Belon, the panoramic view in his mind immediately saw that Fritz on the right side was cutting forward at high speed and had already run out of space.
Paul standing next to Yang Cheng? Bayer looked at Yang Cheng in some surprise, because he and Yang Cheng were both standing on the sidelines, the perspective of the two was the same, and the right side was separated from them by most of the court, so it stands to reason that it should not be very real.
But as if he heard Yang Cheng's shout, Belon directly made a precise diagonal long pass and came to the front of Fritz.
Fritz was quick, cut forward in time, stopped the ball with his chest and then crossed with the momentum.
The ball slid through a trajectory in mid-air and hoisted into the box, where Ruud van Nistelrooy, who was inserted in the back row, judged the landing point and was about to rush over, but the main centre-back of Red Star Belgrade jumped high in advance and cleared the box with a header.
Yang Cheng shook his head, if he could take the lead after the opening, then this game would undoubtedly be completely included in Kaiserslautern's rhythm.
Football is competing back and forth on the field, Kaiserslautern pays attention to pressing in front, Fritz, Ruud van Nissen and Denilson press in front of the Red Star defence, Ballack also has a lot of defensive coverage, plus Nedved, Veron and Gattuso behind him, Kaiserslautern's frontcourt pressing tactics make the Red Star team look very uncomfortable.
"Stankovic takes the ball, the Yugoslav youngster is the core of the current Red Star team, and his performance is very eye-catching, especially... Oh, foul! The referee blew the whistle for a foul and it was Kaiserslautern's midfielder Gattuso who tripped Stankovic! ”
"It was a free-kick from the Red Stars in their own half, straight up front, but Kosch made a solid judgment of the first point, cleared the ball and returned it to Kaiserslautern's feet!"
Yang Cheng on the sidelines took into account the two views of the game in reality and his mind at the same time, and a confident smile swayed at the corner of his mouth.