Sometimes, for a game, the role of the head coach is actually limited!

It was like in this game against Croatia. Yang Cheng knew that his opponent used aggressive tactics after the start of the game, with the purpose of shocking the German team. He also saw the problem and made adjustments. Unfortunately, the German team still seemed to be unable to open the situation in the entire first half.

It’s not that the German team wants to be conservative, but that Croatia forces the German team to be conservative!

After slowing down the pace, the German team's ball possession advantage became even more obvious. The German team's ball possession rate was as high as 72% in the first half, which also allowed Croatia to only get one shot in the 45 minutes of the first half. In the 23rd minute, Serner made a cross from the right and Mandzukic shot from the penalty area, but it was outrageously high. After that, Croatia did not threaten the German team's goal again.

But ironically, the German team has never been able to threaten Croatia's goal.

Throughout the first half, Croatia always maintained at least 8 players to participate in the defense, leaving Modric and Mandzukic to support him. What's more, Modric often retreated to participate in midfield defense and frontcourt pressing. It can be imagined how solid Croatia's defense is and invested huge forces.

Sometimes we have to admit that input is proportional to output, especially for a team like Croatia, which has not been bad at strength. After investing 8 players to defend the goal, their defense in the 32-meter area is very solid. It is difficult for the German team to find a better chance to score.

But there is something that the German team has done poorly, that is, their shots only 5 times and 2 shots are aimed at the goal, but none of them pose a threat. On the contrary, the passing success rate and ball possession rate are both good, which also allowed the German team to firmly grasp the initiative of the game in the first half.

"Yang Cheng's team obviously lacks the ability to break the situation. If they had the arrow character Gomez who could stand in front of the game in the last game against Colombia, then in this game, we can find that the German team's forward obviously lacks a benchmark player!"

"Thomas Muller and Reus are more likely to get the ball on the wing. Under Croatia's encirclement tactics, it is difficult to effectively transfer the ball from the wing to the middle. This is a huge problem, and it also causes the German team to lack the opportunity to turn the ball into a threat once it advances to the opponent's 32-meter area!"

"We don't know why Yang Cheng refused to play Gomez, but we definitely have reason to believe that in this case, the striker can achieve better results. At least Gomez's impact and scoring ability are a deterrent to Croatia."

"It seems that many fans have the same view as us. They are shouting Gomez's name. It is obvious that after seeing the team's weak goal, they are calling on Gomez, who scored twice in the last game, to be able to play on the bench and continue to lead the German team to knock on the Croatian goal."

"I just don't know if Yang Cheng will adjust the team's lineup during the halftime break, or if he will let Gomez come on as a substitute. After all, this forward is currently tied for the first place in the World Cup scorer list."

The striker who scored the most goals so far in the group stage was 2 goals. There were 4 players in total, and Gomez was one of them.

Since scoring twice in the first group stage, Gomez was quickly exaggerated by the media as the German team's forward hope, believing that after Klose was absent or retired directly, Gomez already had the hope of taking on the German team's forward attack, so some fans called on Yang Cheng to replace Gomez during the game.

However, as the team's head coach, Yang Cheng must also have his own considerations, that is, after replacing Gomez, the team's offensive method must be adjusted, which may cause players on the court to be at a loss. And once replacing Gomez, it means that one person will be missing in the midfield, and the subsequent changes are also what Yang Cheng must consider.

Besides, Gomez has never been an offensive striker, especially in this situation where he faces the opponent's intensive defense, his effect is always minimal. If he doesn't play well, his goal momentum and psychology may be affected.

You know, Gomez is a player who is more easily affected. He played well in the first game of the group. After that, Yang Cheng specially talked to him to understand the intention of letting him sit on the bench in the second game, comforting Gomez. If he was allowed to go up now and perform poorly, it might hit the players.

Sometimes, the fans are blind, but the head coach must remain calm and rational... The locker room is quiet, everyone is sitting in the seat, some are receiving the service of a masseur, and some are simply sitting there casually resting, no one speaks, and there is more or less confusion in his expression.

They didn't play well in the first half, but they were not bad either, because they controlled the situation.

If we ignore the Croatian penalty area, the German team's performance is definitely not inferior to usual, but the problem lies in the passing and infiltration of the area near the penalty area. It is difficult for the German team to pass the ball smoothly into the threatening area. Croatia has simply laid a net at the front of the penalty area. Once they enter this area, it will be difficult for them to play their advantages.

"Those grandsons are too rough, with many small moves and very ruthless pressing. Sometimes I really want to beat them up!" Ozil clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and cursed.

"The referee's whistle is soft, and they obviously like this, so it further boosts their arrogance!"

Some actions are considered fouls in some referees and they have to give cards, but in other referees, they are considered normal and reasonable collisions and confrontations, so they do not give cards, and sometimes they don’t even even fouls.

This cannot be said to be who the referee is biased towards, but it should be said that the referee has different law enforcement judgments.

For example, the referee who enforces the law and the referee who enforces the law will definitely have different judgments, because the Premier League has more physical confrontations. If they are all bragging according to La Liga standards, the game may have to stop all day long, which is a taboo in football games.

When the German team wants to control the ball, the players arranged generally have poor physical confrontation, which makes Croatia immediately decide to strengthen physical confrontation against the German team after testing the referee's law enforcement standards. At the same time, it also makes more small moves to tighten the midfield and backcourt, and squeeze the German team's passing and running space.

This strategy has to be said to be very effective. The German team's ball control is more in the middle circle and the half-court. Once they enter the half-court of Croatia, the ball control rate will be much less, and it will be a huge challenge and loss to the players' psychological quality and physical fitness.

Yang Cheng pushed open the door of the locker room and walked in. Everyone immediately looked at their head coach. They all looked at Yang Cheng. Because the first half was like this, they had obviously deviated from Yang Cheng's plan for the game. The key now is to see how Yang Cheng adjusts and makes changes.

For many of them, winning the game is the most important thing, and it doesn’t matter who replaces or who replaces it!

So at this moment, Yang Cheng walked into the locker room and saw these pairs of eyes that could almost be said to be heart-wrenching. Looking at the players who trusted him extremely, he felt a sense of pride and a sense of confidence, because for him, no matter what team it is, the most powerful weapon is definitely not from skills and tactics, but from the players.

And the most powerful player's strength is unity and dedication!

Only a team composed of players who are extremely united and willing to contribute all their strength to the team is the strongest!

"We played well in the first half!" Yang Cheng slowly walked into the locker room and said lightly, his tone was plain, without any panic. It seemed as if he was not surprised by all this, although everyone knew that the game he planned was obviously not like this.

"But we have not done well in two aspects. The first is our offensive depth!"

Yang Cheng used the tablet computer he carried in his hand to show everyone the first half pass route and ball control area through the screen in the locker room. From these two pictures, all players can see that the German team's ball control is more in the middle and backcourt, while the ball route is more cross-passing and back-passing.

"I know you played hard in the first half, but you must also be clear that your opponents are not easy at all than us. The more physical energy we lose, they will lose, even more than us. The more stress we are, they will be equally greater, or even greater. And the problem we are facing now is also facing this problem!"

"Did we tie the game? We scored 3 points in the first round, and we had 4 points, but they only scored 2 points after they tied. Who has the advantage? We will still qualify for the next game of Japan, but they still have to be wary of the game between Colombia and Japan. No matter who wins the opponent, as long as the winner is decided, they will immediately fall from the ranking!"

"So, we have more chips to compete with our opponents, and we should be more confident in attacking our opponents, without worrying about gains and losses, nor fearing mistakes. This is what I ask you. In the second half, we need to improve our deep passes more, especially our deep passes to both wings!"

After listening to Yang Cheng's analysis, all the players accepted the first point because when they encountered crazy pressing from their opponents at the beginning, they began to be reluctant to take the risk of passing the ball into the opponent's defensive area.

This is the World Cup, and no one wants their own mistakes to cause the opponent's attack or even score goals.

"The second thing I didn't do well with you is shooting!"

"Compared with our possession rate, we have too few shots. I know that the game is very tense and very difficult. The opponent is pushing too tightly, and our passing route is curbed by the opponent. This makes you all feel a lot of pressure, but I need each of you to give me a decisive shot as soon as you get the chance!"

"No matter whether it is a long-range shot or no matter whether you miss the shot, it's all good. As long as you have the chance, you will kick me. Thomas Muller and Reus are all famous killers in the Bundesliga. Schweinsteiger and Tony Klos have good long-range shot skills, why don't you dare to kick me?"

"You must remember that as long as you step on, you will have a chance to cause a threat. The other party is afraid and can shock the other party!"

After hearing this, all the players nodded together. Yang Cheng didn't need to say much. They all knew how to improve these two problems.

After playing football under Yang Cheng for so many years, they all know what Yang Cheng means and what he thinks, and they understand it as soon as they say it.

"We need to make some adjustments in the second half. Schweinsteiger should pay more attention to the left, Ram's position is pressed up, and Ozil will come back to help organize the midfield. Tony Klos should pay attention to supporting and cooperating with Ozil and Schweinsteiger!"

"Thomas Muller, in the second half, you should insert more from the left wing into the penalty area when you are out of the ball, drive the opponent's wing defender, and at the same time pull the opponent's defense line to create opportunities for Ram's back insertion and attack, and it is best to create opportunities for teammates to insert in the back row."

"Central defender Sildenfield has excellent defense ability on the front. But speed and turn are weak points. Right back Serner is already 32 years old. Make a fuss from the area of ​​the two. Eat them!" Yang Cheng pointed to the area on the right side of the Croatian penalty area on the screen, signaling Thomas Mueller to cut into the penalty area from here.

Serna is the captain of Croatia and the captain of the Donetsk Miners. He is a seriously underrated player, but he has always played in the Ukrainian league. He once attracted the attention of Premier League teams including Ferguson and Mourinho, but the Croatian right-back was unmoved.

The real reason is not that he is not strong enough, but because of money issues.

Ferguson once wanted Shrner to take over Gary Neville and was willing to pay him a transfer fee. However, in terms of salary, they could not meet Shrner's after-tax salary when he was a Donetsk miner. So they hoped that Shrner could join the salary cut, just like Ashavin who joined Arsenal back then, but this was rejected by Shrner.

This is not because Serna is greedy for money, but because his brother suffers from Down syndrome, so he has to devote every goal to his brother. He himself once said that he couldn't make much money while playing football in Croatia. His family worked very hard to earn money to support and take care of his brother. Now he has to work hard to earn money to support his family and cure his brothers.

Youdao is that the poor children are already in their homes. This is a very respectable player, but unfortunately, he is Yang Cheng's opponent in this game... With the adjustment of the German team's tactics, especially Yang Cheng's request for the team, hoping that they will make more in-depth passes, so the rhythm of the game will inevitably accelerate. As the pace of the game will be faster, there will be more running, and there will be more loopholes and space.

For players like Thomas Muller and Ozil who are born to find loopholes and space, the pace accelerates, allowing them to exert their abilities more, so they start to create opportunities through more off-ball runs, especially Ozil. After the position retracement, he gained more freedom.

After the start of the German team, the midfielder actively suppressed Croatia's midfielder, especially the restrictions on Modric. Sven Bend paid great attention to the defense of this player. Once Modric got the ball, he always posted it as soon as possible.

After strangling Modric to death, Croatia's attack lost more than half of its threat!

"Intercepted the ball, Sven Bend cut off Modric's foot ball near the center circle, a beautiful steal!!!"

With the exclamation of the commentator on the scene, everyone noticed that the ball was transferred from Croatia to the German team in an instant, and Sven Bend also transferred the ball to Tony Klos as soon as possible.

This is his duty as a midfielder. Since he does not have excellent passing ability, he will leave it to a player with passing ability.

Croatia's pressing was very fierce. As soon as Tony Klos got the ball, he saw the opponent Rakitic pounce on him like a wolf. He poked the ball forward and saw Ozil quickly pull out from the middle and retreat to respond.

Ozil got the ball, turned around, rushed forward quickly, led the ball forward, and directly rushed into the Croatian penalty area. The speed was very fast, and Croatia's midfielder followed step by step, but it might not be able to stop the player. This immediately allowed Korluca to fill it up to avoid Ozil driving straight into the penalty area.

After intercepting the ball, Ram rushed forward quickly to the baseline as soon as possible, attracting the attention of the opponent's right defender Serner, while Thomas Muller ran to the middle, looking as if he was preparing to receive a pass from Ozil at the front of the penalty area, which forced Sildenfield to follow him.

The area at the front of the penalty area is very dangerous. Once a scorer like Thomas Mueller gets the ball in this area, it is very dangerous, so he has to look at the German player.

Just when everyone thought Ozil would quickly dribble into the penalty area, he suddenly divided the ball to the right, but he quickly stepped forward. His run immediately brought the entire defense line of Croatia to the right side of the goal. If you look at it at this time, you can find that Croatian defensive players were brought to the right side of the penalty area by Ozil.

This is also a subconscious reaction, because they have to block the connection between Ozil on the right side of the penalty area and Reus on the right side of the penalty area to avoid the two of them from cooperating, because once the ball enters the penalty area, it will be dangerous.

The court was changing rapidly, and they didn't give them any more time to consider, and no one noticed that after Reus got the ball, Thomas Mueller suddenly threw away Sildenfield from the left side of the penalty area arc and rushed forward quickly.

Reus on the right stopped the ball and glanced at Thomas Muller. At this time, everyone was on the right side of the penalty area, and there was a Schildenfield at the back point, but Thomas Muller had already been thrown away, so he almost started at the same time as Thomas Muller. Reus also used his speed to shake off Strenic, broke through one position, and swung his right foot and made a cross.

This cross hit the ball and rolled the ball to the left!
Chapter completed!