Lin Hai Ting Tao
Chapter 605 How to Win a Game (First Update, Seeking Monthly Ticket Guarantee!)
If you ask the head coach, senior sports reporters, or die-hard fans, they will tell you that first, you need to understand your position, then analyze your opponents, analyzing each position. If they have star players, then it is even more important to analyze them in detail, and it is best to know the performance and status of the team and those key players in recent games. They will also list a lot of data, such as how many goals your team lost in the first fifteen minutes, and whether the opponent team is good at scoring at the start of the game. They will tell you whether to use 442 or 451, what are the advantages and disadvantages of these two formations, and how to use them... In more detail, they will also tell you that the preparation for a game starts a week in advance, and this goal can only be achieved through countless hard training...
In short, they will bombard you with various professional terms until you are dizzy.
But if you ask Chen Yingxiong this question.
His answer is very simple, so simple that many people will scoff at it, dismiss it, and think that only fake fans can come to such a conclusion.
"Just score more goals than the other team!"
It is simple enough, very crude, and has no technical content. If you continue to ask, "How can you score more goals than the other team?"
Of course, he can't say why, but he will say to you: "I'll show you."
Yes, saying ten million words is not as effective as actually doing it. No matter how much you say, it's just empty talk. Chen Yingxiong won't engage in empty talk because he doesn't understand it, but he can use practical actions to prove his point.
In this world, there are too many loudmouths who are good at empty talk, but there are too few doers who can actually do things.
Chen Yingxiong is one of the few doers.
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While Barcelona was celebrating the goal, Mazzarri called a few core players to the sidelines and quickly gave them instructions.
"...Don't get too entangled with them in the midfield. Their momentum is up, and their control in the midfield will definitely increase. If we fight them head-on in the midfield at this time, we won't get any advantage... So, our strategy is... long passes to the front!"
Hamsik and several other players glanced at Chen Yingxiong, who was also called over.
Chen Yingxiong smiled: "Don't worry, coach! I guarantee they'll be turned upside down and won't have a moment of peace!"
Everyone laughed.
Mazzarri smiled and continued: "Pass to Yingxiong. Arshavin and Cassano should pay special attention to cooperating with him to prevent him from being isolated. Use Yingxiong as a bridgehead to advance... Yingxiong!"
He turned to look at Chen Yingxiong, but there was no smile on his face. His expression was very serious—for him, this was indeed a very important matter, because it was directly related to the life and death of the team.
He said: "Yingxiong, I don't care what method you use, even if it's a handball, as long as the referee doesn't see it, you have to get the football into the goal for me!"
Chen Yingxiong grinned: "Don't worry, coach. I'll just shoot the football in fairly!"
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Hernandez Garcia Perez waved his fist excitedly in the stands, shouting at the stadium with the media from Catalonia beside him: "Did you see that! Napoli! This is Barca! This is Barca!"
Once Barcelona took the lead, the stone in his heart fell to the ground. Based on his understanding of Barcelona, once they took the lead, they were rarely reversed by their opponents, no, it could even be said that it was basically impossible to be reversed.
Barcelona's powerful ball control ability allows them to slowly play their opponents to death when they are in the lead. Because their passing is always difficult to intercept, as time goes by, the losing side will become more and more anxious, and the loopholes in the defense will naturally increase. Barcelona can seize the opportunity to expand the victory, and the overall situation is set.
Now he is really relieved. It is impossible for Napoli to reverse Barcelona. At the same time, under Barcelona's powerful control, Napoli will not have too many opportunities to attack, and it will become very difficult for Chen Yingxiong to score.
Surpass Messi?
Now you are still one goal behind Messi!
Why aren't you arrogant anymore? Keep being arrogant!
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The game restarted, and every Napoli player knew the coach's arrangement—the players who were instructed by coach Mazzarri passed the message to their other teammates.
After the kick-off, Napoli did not directly attack forward, but passed the ball back again and again. It was passed all the way to the feet of center-back Ranocchia. While they were constantly passing the ball back, Chen Yingxiong rushed to the front, stopping almost parallel to Pique.
Then he turned around, looked at the backcourt, and waited for them to pass the ball to him.
Pique glanced at Chen Yingxiong strangely... Napoli's front and back lines are too disjointed, right? What are they planning to do? Giving up?
The answer was revealed soon.
Ranocchia passed the ball to Hamsik, who retreated to meet it. Hamsik turned around and passed the football long to the frontcourt.
The football flew towards Chen Yingxiong!
Damn it!
Pique cursed inwardly. The most troublesome thing had come...
No matter how troublesome it was, as a center-back, he had to head the ball. He jumped up to compete with Chen Yingxiong, and the result was naturally... a complete defeat.
Chen Yingxiong, stuck in front of Pique, headed the football to Cassano, who followed up from behind.
After Cassano stopped the ball, there were no Barcelona defenders coming up to press him yet. Perhaps they didn't expect Napoli's attack to reach the frontcourt so easily, so Cassano took a long shot directly.
Unfortunately, the final shot was off target and failed to quickly equalize the score for the team.
Although this attack failed, the entire Napoli team saw hope in this attack.
Chen Yingxiong's win rate in heading duels in the frontcourt is quite high. Pique is Chen Yingxiong's defeated opponent. Mascherano? When Chen Yingxiong jumps up, you can't see him at all.
It would be really stupid not to use such a big advantage.
So, after that, Napoli's attacks were several times direct long passes to find Chen Yingxiong, and then let Chen Yingxiong compete for the header.
Basically, as long as the football is not passed too ridiculously, Chen Yingxiong can grab the spot. His success rate in grabbing high points in the frontcourt is quite high.
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"Napoli has adjusted their tactics. They have started using long-ball tactics..."
"Although this tactic is very crude, Yingxiong's heading advantage is indeed quite obvious! In the frontcourt, he has almost never failed!"
The Catalan commentator was unhappy: "Napoli should play in the air... This is a very uncreative approach... Using such outdated and backward tactics in the Champions League final, Mazzarri has no choice!"
But in fact, when the commentator said this, he had a vague feeling in his heart—if Napoli continues to play like this, Barcelona will have a headache...
"Ha! Long-ball tactics!" Perez in the media box laughed when he saw the football constantly flying in the air to find Chen Yingxiong. Every word he said revealed a strong disdain. He was really disdainful. He felt that Napoli had exhausted their tricks. Just passing long to find Chen Yingxiong was just letting Chen Yingxiong be a second passer, a transfer station. He was always facing away from the direction of attack. What is the significance of this high ball?
Even if he heads the football down and gives it to his teammates, and then runs into the penalty area, how is this different from the previous tactics?
Mazzarri is really confused. Does he think that because Chen Yingxiong is good at heading, he can rely on heading to win the world?
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The people of Napoli could not hear Perez's ridicule. They were still working hard to pursue goals.
In fact, this tactic is very effective—what Barcelona is good at is midfield control. If you want to pass through the midfield on the ground, I am afraid it will be very difficult. It is better to simply give up this area and pass long from the backcourt to find Chen Yingxiong. Regardless of whether Chen Yingxiong has many scoring opportunities, at least this allows Napoli to have many more opportunities to attack Barcelona's thirty-meter area.
With more opportunities, the chance of scoring will naturally increase.
In the sixty-ninth minute, Napoli passed long from the backcourt. This time, the ball was kicked slightly closer to the wing, but Chen Yingxiong still ran over actively. Even if the position was not good, he had to put pressure on his opponent. As expected, under his pressure, although Mascherano grabbed the ball, he could only head the football directly out of the sideline.
Napoli got a throw-in near the penalty area.
For those players who are good at throwing powerful long throw-ins, this is like a precision-guided corner kick. They can directly throw the football into the goal with both hands. If there is a player in the team who is good at heading, they can create a huge threat to the opponent's goal...
However, there is no such powerful throw-in expert in the Napoli team who can throw the throw-in like a grenade.
So, there is nothing to worry about with Napoli's throw-in. In the final analysis, the football still has to come to the ground. As long as it lands, it must be the old routine. The only thing to pay attention to is that they use crosses from the wing to let Chen Yingxiong head the ball in the middle.
However, you can tell whether he is going to compete for the header in the middle by looking at where Chen Yingxiong is at that time. If so, arrange a few more people to double-team him...
With so many people defending him, will they still let him score?
So, Barcelona's defenders went to find Chen Yingxiong as soon as possible to see where he was.
But when they saw Chen Yingxiong's position, they were all stunned...
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Alves was standing in the penalty area. At this time, in order to prevent Napoli from throwing the football directly into the goal, the defenders had to shrink their defense.
He was standing here just fine when he suddenly felt a little darker beside him.
So, he tilted his head and saw Chen Yingxiong.
Chen Yingxiong looked straight ahead, looking at the side-back Criscito who went to throw the throw-in. He didn't notice Alves next to him at all.
The Brazilian was stunned.
It wasn't just him who was stunned. The other Barcelona players were also stunned.
Chen Yingxiong is a center forward. What is he doing running to such a forward position?
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