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Chapter 402 Breaking the dense defense

Many coaches complained to FIFA because of the tactics of intensive defense.

The coaches of the major leagues also opened up various brain holes in order to break through the dense defense, such as expanding the goal, such as expanding the scope of the penalty area. (Expanding the penalty area can force the opponent to open the defensive formation, and it can make the offensive players more likely to get penalty kicks!)
In this way, the success rate of long-range shots can be increased. Everyone knows that what many players like most when facing dense defense is to round their feet outside the penalty area and take a shocking long-range shot. It depends on luck to open the opponent's door.

Just like this season's AFC Champions League quarter-finals, when Guangzhou Evergrande played away against Chengnan Yihe, Huang Bowen's shocking long-range shot at the top of the arc is an example.

Seongnam was leading by one goal at that time, and the defensive line was compressed severely. The purpose was to hold the one-goal lead and see if there was a chance to counterattack.

In the end, before the end of the first half, Huang Bowen relied on a long shot to break through the defense of Chengnan Yihe and help Guangzhou Evergrande score a valuable away goal.

This long shot was not accidental, it was a tactical design.

In the current world football tactics, there are about three ways to break the dense defense:

1.Boundary breakthrough.

The dense defensive bus tactics often focus on the frontal pressing of the 30-meter area in front of the goal. At this time, the winger's personal ability (mainly technical advantages, due to positional warfare, high-speed assault is not very useful) is used to attack the line between the penalty area and the bottom line. The area in between, that is, the area of ​​​​the ribs of the penalty area, can then choose an inverted triangle pass to hit the player who is plugged in after the top of the penalty area to help him get a chance to hit the goal from a small angle!
The disadvantage of this tactic is that it is demanding on wingers, and they must have the ability to break through one or even multiple defenses in a small space. Men like Li Yuming and Robben can be said to be born for this kind of wing breakthrough tactic. The two wings of the team are mediocre talents, and they can only do simple crosses. If they hit back... this tactic cannot be implemented.

2. Diagonal long pass at a 45-degree angle.

Similar to the wing breakthrough tactic, this tactic is mainly that the full-back or winger kicks up at a position about 35 meters away from the arc top of the penalty area to send a long oblique pass to the penalty area, and then passes to the penalty spot to find the team's high point. Just like Li Yuming's 45-degree oblique long pass to find the team's high point of 1 meters, Alexander Meyer.

This tactic can also be slightly changed: if there are two or more outflanking players in the penalty area, you can try to let the high point player get the first point with a header, and then ferry the header or rub it back to the back point player. The point player catches the high-point ferry ball and uses the gap of the second landing point to score.

The disadvantage of this tactic is also obvious, that is, the success rate is low, and some data show that the probability of scoring from the side kick is about 8% (well, this data was told by Baidu, and Yuanmou doesn’t know whether it is true or not, Use first), similarly, there are strict requirements for the cross footwork of full-backs or wingers who come in behind, and if the high point in the penalty area is not high enough or the header is not good enough, then this kind of Diagonal long passes are less effective.In addition, this requires a higher ability for the striker to grab the second spot.

3.Set ball and long shot.

First of all, when it comes to long-range shots, here is just like what I just said, Huang Bowen used a long-range shot to break the opponent's dense defense at home in the AFC Champions League quarter-finals, using the opponent's defensive position. negligence, or did not block the gap in time, poked the arc and scored.

Set-kick tactics can be subdivided into three types: free kicks, corner kicks, and throw-ins.

As a giant in La Liga, Atletico Madrid of the Diors team of the Western Super League has made excellent use of set-pieces in recent seasons.

The choice of free kick tactics is relatively wide - you can send the back point, you can send the high point in the middle, you can choose to hit the goal directly, or even make some incredible tactical coordination, because each coach has different tactics in free kick tactics. Each has its own magical touch, and there is not much room to elaborate here.

Speaking of free kicks, let’s take a look at the match between Liaoning and Chongqing in the Chinese Super League this season. Qin Sheng took advantage of the rules and quickly sent free kicks before the opponent’s wall was built. In the end, left back Ding Haifeng responded and scored. Ding Haifeng When the goal was scored, Chongqing goalkeeper Sui Weijie was still drinking water!That's right!Still drinking water!This is not an advertisement for Evergrande Bingquan, this is a pure game.

Liaoning is using the rules, which shows that the opponent's goalkeeper is unprofessional - when the opponent gets a free kick, the goalkeeper must stand firm, command the opponent's wall position, the number of people in the wall, instead of drinking water... (You can find videos online, it’s quite classic~)

The tactics of corner kicks can be similar to wide players passing obliquely at a 45-degree angle in the penalty area, or making a surprise false shot and passing a low flat ball to the striker's feet, but the success rate of the latter is generally very low, and it is usually passed to the back point. The ambush header at the far post was the main goal. Atletico Madrid's two central defenders Godin and Miranda scored a lot of goals by ambush after corner kicks.

The choice of throw-in is relatively monotonous. The player who throws the throw-in can choose the "grenade" tactic to find a high point.

First of all, what is "grenade tactics"?

The grenade tactic refers to an offensive tactic that teams use when throwing a throw-in in a football game.When throwing a throw-in, if the player is strong enough, he can throw it directly into the penalty area, resulting in a goal.In the history of football, outstanding users of grenade tactics include Delap (the most famous expert in grenade tactics in the world), Riise, Milligan and so on.In addition, there is no offside rule for throw-ins.

No offside restriction is the point, the point! ! !A lot of throw-in cooperation is to use this rule to make a fuss - the player throwing the throw-in throws the throw-in to the wide player who has ambushed on the bottom line, so that the wide player can directly pass the ball near the bottom line and send it to the penalty area. Hit the high point and score the goal.

Atletico Madrid has explained this very well this season-the grenade from former Malaga captain James and left-back Siqueira sent directly to the penalty area to find a high point in the penalty area, and then ferry it to Griezmann or It was Saul Niggs who came in behind and shot.

However, the grenade tactics have extremely high requirements on the players who take the throw-in. Not all players who take the throw-in can throw a "grenade" as powerful as a pass.

In China, Qin Sheng can be regarded as a player capable of throwing grenades. Although Qin Sheng has left Evergrande, Zhang Linpeng of Evergrande is also capable of throwing powerful grenades at throw-ins, thanks to him That strong physique.

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