In the history of football, I'm afraid there is no team that will be so addicted to el like Argentina.

diez system.

The so-called.

diez, in Spanish, means 10, and in the football field, it represents the No. 10 player who connects the midfield and the striker, which is the traditional midfielder.

As early as 1928, a reporter named Poloctor wrote in a magazine called Sports Illustrated: A child with dirty face, with unruly hair, his eyes reveals intelligence, wandering, cunning, and eloquent eyes, and a glittering stare, which reveals a rogue smile, but there is no change in his mouth, and it is full of small teeth, as if he would fall off with a little bread left yesterday.

He regarded the child he described as a spiritual statue of Argentine football, and the character and characteristics of the child he described were not until later, the emergence of Maradona made all Argentines completely admire him. Naturally, Maradona became a symbol of Argentine's football spirit.

Maybe they are in a quagmire, but they have never lacked the pursuit of this type of player.

From Maradona to Ortega, Dalisandro, Aimal, even Beron, Riquelme and others, the Argentinians have been tirelessly looking for the inheritor of their own football spirit, that is, the new No. 10 player.

However, whether it is Ortega, Dalisandro, or Aimal, or Peron and Riquelme, who have achieved success and certain achievements in Europe, they ultimately cannot satisfy the football spirit in the minds of all Argentinians, because they cannot assume the responsibilities of the No. 10 jersey.

The world of football has changed, and the traditional No. 10 front midfielder can no longer gain a foothold in the current football system.

The style of the Argentine national team is in line with each other. Through the cooperation of the three-man team, the ball is quickly transferred to the frontcourt and then handed over to the frontcourt players to get the ball, to see if they want to complete the last pass and force a breakthrough. This style of play has a high degree of dependence on the core, just like Argentina's dependence on Maradona back then.

The famous Argentine coach Menotti once described the Argentinian football culture in this way.

"Argentine players always want to launch a fatal blow every time they get the ball. Then they win the game, but the football field may not always happen as you wish. Football is like life. Scoring goals is like true love. In life, you cannot get up at 6 o'clock every morning and look for your true love, because love is hard to come by. You can only be prepared to welcome love, and then wait for it to come, but cannot find it!"

"The same is true on the football field. You must always do other links other than goals, such as passing the ball, and then patiently wait for the goal to arrive. But once our players go on the court, they are always impatient to find their true love, so we need a No. 10!"

However, with the transformation of modern football, the traditional No. 10 midfielder has completely withdrawn from the stage. Even players like Riquelme are unable to gain a foothold in the European League, which proves that the decline of the traditional No. 10 is inevitable.

This trend is also affecting the Argentina league. The riverbed of the traditional No. 10 processing plant has been relegated, which also means that the Argentine football No. 10 player has a serious fault, and there is a lack of a connection between their forward and midfield. When the reins on their players are broken, everyone begins to gallop like wild horses.

Maradona does have outstanding football understanding ability. He clearly grasped the problem of Argentine football, so he repeatedly rejected Riquelme. He wanted to transform Argentina and turn this Pampas Eagle against el.

The dependence of the diez system has been completely eliminated, and the traditional front-middle has completely turned into history.

Maradona is definitely worthy of recognition at this point, but the symbol of Argentine football's transformation of the national team failed because he failed to find a organizer who can bring stability and order to the midfielder while giving up the traditional midfielder.

In the end, Maradona had to compromise on this situation. He chose to bet, play a nearly 415 tactic, handed over the midfield to Mascherano, and then let Messi return to the middle, but Messi's responsibility was not the traditional No. 10.

However, such reforms were ultimately declared a failure, because Mascherano could not cover the area as big as the midfield alone, and although Messi was outstanding, he could not assume such a big responsibility alone because he was not Maradona!

After Maradona, both Batista and Savilla wanted to reform Argentina, but the results that have been achieved have been limited. One very important reason is ultimately in the midfield!

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Yang Cheng's research on Argentina has been around for many years. From the World Cup in South Africa, he has mastered a series of problems and disadvantages of Argentina. At that time, the scouts of the German national team also conducted a series of research on Argentina.

In 2010, after Yang Cheng began to take charge of the German national team, he asked the think tank to track and study the top teams around the world. He almost wanted to study every top team as the opponent of the next game, and then study them thoroughly. Once they really encountered it, they would be more confident.

So the German national team has made a conclusion from the beginning about how to play Argentina.

Savilla still played 433 in this game, with goalkeeper Romero and defenses Rojo, Federico Fernandez, Gare and Sabaleta respectively. The three midfielders are Mascherano, Banegas and Di Maria respectively. The front tridents are Aguero, Messi and Lavic.

The offensive ability of the frontcourt Trident is indeed amazing. Among them, Aguero and Messi are both players who ranked high in the number of goals in the European League. In addition, a Lavic, who has already passed the Serie A, makes Argentina's Trident luxurious enough to be mouth-watering. Moreover, there are top strikers like Tevez and Higuain on the bench.

Yang Cheng's arrangements in this game are a bit similar to 433, but they are different in terms of player positions.

Goalkeeper Neuer and his defense are Ram, Badstuber, Hummels and Jerome Boateng. This defense line is the best line of defense so far in this World Cup. He has not lost a single goal so far, so almost all media around the world praise this line of defense.

However, Yang Cheng knew that the German team's defense was overall defense. It relied on the back and forth cutting tactics of the fan-shaped defensive system. Therefore, in this game, he did not directly expose the defense line, but arranged the defense line to be responsible for Argentina's trident.

Argentina does not have a midfielder. Mascherano protects the defense line, and Banéga is responsible for sorting it out, but the position is also relatively backward. Di Maria is more active on the wing, so Yang Cheng arranged three midfielders in this game, and Sven Bend was responsible for garrisoning behind the Argentine Trident, especially in the area behind Messi, and setting up an interception area.

To specifically arrange such a delayed midfielder, Yang Cheng's intention is actually to make Sven Bend stay in line when Messi retreats. He believes that with Sven Bend's ability, he will be able to complete the tasks he assigned well.

Schweinsteiger was responsible for looking at Banegga, and Tony Klos was in a higher position and directly threatened Mascherano.

On the left and right sides, Thomas Muller was on the left, pressing up and pestering Sabaleta, Podolski was in the back and retreating to the midfield to help defend Di Maria, while Gomez was at the front, responsible for targeting the two central defenders, Federico Fernandez and Gare.

In addition to such a one-on-one targeted arrangement, Yang Cheng also made the defense line closer and closer than usual. He knew that as long as Thomas Mueller could entangle Sabaleta, Argentina's wing threats would be lost. Once the defense line contracted, guard the penalty area and forced Argentina to cross, their offensive threats would lose the greatest threat.

Strike Sabaleta to death, suppress Argentina's midfield, force Argentina to take Messi's retreat route, and then let Sven Bend entangle Messi. In this way, the threat of Argentina's front-court offense will be greatly weakened and will become chaotic!

At the same time, Yang Cheng allowed two Argentina central defenders to get the ball, but as soon as the ball came out from the center back, the German team immediately pressed step by step, forcing Argentina's ball path to fail to operate smoothly and to advance effectively.

The situation of the game seemed to be in progress according to Yang Cheng's plan. From the beginning of the game, Argentina was curbed very much, especially their midfielder, who could never effectively transfer the ball, because the German team's three midfielder, coupled with Podolsky, who always retreated to assist the midfield when he was out of the ball, was always able to set up a defensive line between Argentina's midfielder and the trident.

Once the connection between the midfield and the frontcourt is cut off, Argentina has to take the Messi retreat route.

Argentina even had a threatening chance to pass the ball into the German penalty area until the 13th minute. Messi still took the ball after retreating and used his personal ability to break through Sven Bend, under the double-team of German players, he forced the ball into the penalty area. However, Ravic's reception was too late, and Neuer decisively attacked and grabbed the ball.

After the opening, Yang Cheng has been observing the situation very seriously and constantly adjusting the team's defensive layout, especially the containment of the Argentine midfielder, and Sven Bend's position is backward, so when Messi retreats, he must stay away from the goal with a diagonal line and go to both sides to get the ball.

But in this way, Messi's threat was greatly weakened, and the German team's shrinking defense can always effectively ensure the quality of the defense in the middle, thereby stabilizing the situation.

After stabilizing the situation, the German team began to consciously prepare for a counterattack.

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Tony Close is a very smart player, at least everyone who has seen him play football will feel this way.

In this game, Yang Cheng arranged for him as a midfielder, and his defensive task was not serious. He was responsible for harassing Mascherano, the Argentine midfielder's defensive focus, but he also had another responsibility to instigate the offense.

But I have to say that Mascherano is a very outstanding defensive midfielder. Tony Klos failed to take advantage of him even if it was a slight advantage. He suffered losses at Mascherano's feet in several matches, which made the German midfielder sigh in his heart, "No wonder the boss said. This guy is as difficult as a dog skin plaster!"

After conceding the ball, Tony Klos also immediately entangled Mascherano, delaying Argentina's counterattack. Then Argentina's Lavic made a cross from the right, but Hummels in the penalty area steadily cleared the ball out of the baseline and corner kick.

Tony Close ran back quickly, and he looked very stressed when he was sweating. At this moment, Ram leaned over.

"I just said that, seduce Mascherano to the right side!"

Tony Klos was stunned after hearing this. Looking at the sidelines, Yang Cheng made a code word to him, indicating that he would go to the right to get the ball more and let Podolski participate in the defense in the midfield, which was obviously an adjustment change after Yang Cheng observed the situation.

Why?

Tony Close was a little confused because he had always played in the middle, so why did he suddenly ask him to pull to the right?

Soon, Tony Klos noticed a phenomenon, that is, because of the German suppression of Argentina's midfield, Banegga and Di Maria pressed more in a higher position in order to shorten the distance from the frontcourt trident, but Mascherano did not dare to leave his defense line, which led to the distance between the two sides being slightly longer.

Mascherano is the kind of player with excellent personal abilities. Needless to say, it is almost difficult to break through one-on-one, so under normal circumstances, it doesn't matter if the distance is slightly larger.

When Tony Close thought of this, he immediately understood Yang Cheng’s idea. He pulled Mascherano away!

After thinking it through, Tony Klos knew what to do. When the German team launched another attack, Tony Klos ran to Mascherano's right and raised his hand to ask for it. Podolski quickly gave the ball to his feet.

Tony Close's running is smart and the position selection is also interesting. He chose an area that the defender cannot cover, which is closer to Mascherano, but if Mascherano wants to defend, he must leave the middle lane.

But this time the latter seemed a little hesitant and did not leave his position. Tony Klos turned around after getting the ball, and passed the ball to Gomez who pulled from the middle to the right. The German striker was fast. As soon as he stopped and drew, the ball went straight to Argentina's goal like a shell.

Romero's performance this time was very steady and he steadily saved the ball, which made Gomez complain!

When he shot just now, Gare blocked the angle a little. If he could be bigger, he would have this shot!

But this attack also reminded Argentina, that is, if Tony Close is allowed to get the ball here, the danger is not low, but the defender cannot be allowed to rob. Even if left-back Rojo is allowed to rob, if Podolski follows the situation and Tony Close passes to the wing, he will directly cross from the bottom.

Gomez's deterrence in the penalty area is no joke, so Tony Close's threat is quite threatening to get the ball in this area.

Both sides fought back and forth fiercely. After the missed person just now, Mascherano began to realize the threat of the thin German in front of him. So when he saw Tony Klos pulling the blank area on his left to get the ball, he immediately chose to pounce.

If, as usual, as soon as Mascherano leaves his area, Banegas should return to the front of the defense line to protect and fill the gap in Mascherano. However, when their distance is too long, Banegas lacks sufficient awareness of assisting defense and filling the position, resulting in no player filling the vacuum well after Mascherano left the middle, which immediately exposed the loophole in front of the defense line.

After Tony Close got the ball on the right, he did not fight with Mascherano and hit the front of the penalty area.

The ball almost ran against Mascherano. As soon as the latter arrived near Tony Close, the ball passed by him, almost parallel to the penalty area line and directly passed to the top of the arc.

Because Gomez ran to the right to receive the support and almost scored a goal, this time when Gomez ran to receive the support Tony Close again, Gare followed him, leaving only Fernandez defending in the middle.

When Thomas Muller quickly sprinted from the left along the front of the penalty area towards the top of the arc, Fernandez also wanted to grab it, but Thomas Muller took the initiative and was faster. After getting the ball, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area with a slanted body.

This trip was not very fast. After entering the penalty area, his body was just right away from Fernandez who was robbing.

Gare and Mascherano immediately realized something was wrong, because they felt they had been trapped, so they immediately rushed from the right side, but when they noticed Thomas Mueller again, the German powerful scorer had already swung his right foot and shot against the ball!

"Muller!!!"

The live commentator also shouted his name loudly the moment Thomas Mueller raised his feet.

"The ball is in!!!"

Echoing the roar of the commentator on the scene, the cheers and cheers of countless German fans in the audience, and the countless German fans waiting in front of the TV at this moment. They must have been cheering and excited that the German team took the lead in the 24th minute.

The live TV camera kept playing the scene of Thomas Muller throwing away Feldnandez and volleying his right foot. The ball drilled into the goal between Romero and the right post. Except for Fernandez, the Argentinian didn't even come back to assist in defense in time.

"After all, Argentina's overall formation is still too loose, especially in the midfield, it is always easy to get disconnected between Banegas and Mascherano, especially when Banegas is turning from offense to defense, there is not enough time to return to the front of the defense line to help Mascherano!"

"It was played in two consecutive attacks, and Savilla must learn from his lesson!"

But German players ignored so many things. They all rushed out of the stadium excitedly and celebrated on the sidelines that the team finally broke the deadlock on the court, 1:0!
Chapter completed!