Chapter 1966 Midfield Substitution

"1:1, we drew with them, it looked like everything was back to square one, but actually 1:1 and 0:0 are still different, and very different."

In the locker room of the Chinese team, Yu Jintao is expressively cooperating with Dillon's body movements, which are highly in tune with Dillon, translating Dillon's words to the players.

"0:0 means total unknown, we don't know what's going to happen next, what we can do. But 1:1 means we know what we can do... We can score their goals! We can score goals. They can score more goals with one goal! It is difficult to go from zero to one, but it is not so difficult to go from one to ten!"

Dillon's own tone was impassioned, and Yu Jintao followed suit.

The players of the Chinese team in the locker room seemed to be watching a dubbed film with out-of-sync sound and picture.

But this did not affect the effect of Dillon's remarks.

Almost everyone couldn't help but get excited after hearing the head coach say that.

Yes!

Our performance in the first half was not at all inferior to the world-class strong team England. If we have the ability to score one goal for them, we will be able to score more goals for them!

1:1 will definitely not be the final score of this game!

In fact, the Chinese team has already played against world-class teams such as Spain and Italy in this World Cup.

But compared with the aging Spain and Italy, the current England team is still younger and more energetic. The pressure that can be produced on the court is also more sufficient.

Being able to draw with a world-class team at the peak of their state, and there are back and forth, really boosted the confidence of the Chinese players.

In a football game, the importance of confidence even exceeds the correctness of tactics.

After all, a football game is a sport in which the coach arranges tactics and then the eleven players on the field execute them.

Any tactic, good or bad, needs specific people to execute it.

If people can't do it, then they really can't do it.

But whether people can do it or not is a very complicated question.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for players who can be selected for the national team and participate in the World Cup in terms of personal ability.

But in the World Cup, some people performed very badly, even quite amateurishly, which was completely different from their usual performance in the club.

There may be reasons for injuries, or reasons for status, or reasons for confidence.

The ability of professional players does not guarantee that they can play their true level in every game. Confidence is a very important factor in it.

Confident players tend to perform better, which is also recognized.

Take the striker as an example, why do you care so much about various scoring statistics? How many consecutive games are scored, what is the average number of minutes to score a goal, what is the conversion rate of field goals...

Isn't it because these data can reflect the confidence of a striker?

A striker who can score goals in consecutive games and has a high scoring efficiency, has a lot of confidence during this period, and it is easy to play brilliantly in the game.

And a striker who misses good opportunities continuously and falls into a scoring drought will also fall into a vicious circle because of loss of confidence, unless there is some external force to help him break this "dead loop".

Dillon is an experienced old coach. He naturally knows that in a single game like the World Cup knockout match, improving the confidence of the players can greatly affect the final result of the game.

He continuously strengthened the confidence of the Chinese team players through his performance in the first half, telling them repeatedly that they are strong and fully capable of wrestling with world-class teams.

Of course, this must be because the players of the Chinese team performed really well in the first half.

Otherwise, if he let someone pour three goals in the first half, then everything he is doing now will only make him look like a clown...

After fully mobilizing the players' self-confidence, Dillon began to arrange specific tactics.

All in all, the biggest tactical adjustment in the second half was to replace Luo Kai.

Strengthen the Chinese team's offensive on the right.

When Luo Kai didn't play before, the Chinese team, which was supposed to fly with both wings, actually walked with a limp all the time, and Chen Xingyi relied more on Chen Xingyi's attack on the left.

Cui Zexu can make no mistakes, but he dare not take risks.

The defense needs to make no mistakes, but the offense needs to dare to take risks.

So the Chinese team's right attack is basically useless.

This offensive tendency was so obvious that England consciously strengthened its defense against Chen Xingyi when defending.

Don't look at Chen Xingyi's speed advantage when facing Johnson Law.

But apart from those two counterattacks in the first half, he didn't have much room to play.

It is because the center of gravity of England's defense has shifted to the right.

With Luo Kai playing in the second half, this situation will be improved.

Of course, this is not to say that Chen Xingyi's performance in the first half was not good. On the contrary, under the circumstances that the England team took care of him, Chen Xingyi could still have those two high-profile performances and create two murderous intentions. Very powerful.

Therefore, when Dillon arranged specific tasks, he did not blame Chen Xingyi for spending most of the first half competing with England's defensive system. Instead, he followed the previous practice of building players' confidence and praised Chen Xingyi Xing Yi, in particular, mentioned his speed advantage over Johnson Law:

"Johnson Law still had speed when he was young, but in recent years, with age and more injuries, his speed has begun to decline. You have proved this unreasonable behavior with practical actions in the first half. Breakthrough in speed is useful, so in the second half we have to make the most of it, and we don’t need so many twists and turns to deal with him.”

When translating Dilong's words, Yu Jintao used a term that is more in line with the way Chinese people understand it.

Chen Xingyi nodded, expressing that he understood everything.

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Ryan Jackson is also arranging the adjustments for the second half. In response to the biggest problem in the first half, he made his own deployment:

"Brad, you have to go back more in the second half to help defend."

Brad Pate, the team's right midfielder, nodded: "Okay, boss."

Johnson Law, who was sitting in his seat, couldn't help but squeezed his fist.

While the manager didn't criticize his first-half performance, the arrangement spoke for itself.

He was dissatisfied and worried about being forced to break through twice by Chen Xingyi with speed in the first half.

That's why it is necessary to arrange for Brad Pate to strengthen the defense.

This is helping him and distrusting him.

Thirty-three-year-old Johnson Law feels that he is not very old, but he has gradually lost his speed due to multiple minor injuries and illnesses in the past two years.

Now he is in the club, and he uses his rich experience to defend more, and it happens from time to time that he can't come back after attacking, so he gradually doesn't go up to participate in the attack. And you must know that the former Johnson Law was all-around offensive and defensive.

Kaiser played until he was thirty-eight years old and still scored goals in the World Cup, but Law must admit that he did not have the long career of Kaiser.

So even if he was dissatisfied with the head coach's arrangement, Johnson Law didn't say anything, and behaved... even a little cute.

He knows he is old, but he still wants to prove to the coach in the second half of the game that he is not that old yet.

He knows the game of football well and actions speak louder than words.

Ryan Jackson is still scheduling tasks, and the major adjustments he's made have all come from defense.

On the one hand, it is because the team's offensive tactics are very mature, and the specific performance is also good-scoring a goal-he has nothing to say, and on the other hand, he also feels the pressure from the Chinese team on offense.

At the end of the first half, he saw Luo Kai walking into the player tunnel with Dillon.

What does that mean? As a qualified head coach, if you can't see it, you can resign on the spot.

Luo Kai is indeed a player he pays more attention to.

Because he played in Tramed in the Premier League, he performed well last season.

If such a player does not pay more attention, then Ryan Jackson can also resign in place.

In fact, when he saw that the Chinese team did not have Luo Kai in the starting list~lightnovelpub.net~ but he was in the big roster again, Ryan Jackson was wary of Dillon, an old fox, who replaced Luo Kai in the middle of the game up.

It's just that he himself didn't expect that Dillon would be so decisive that a substitution would be made at halftime.

Originally, he thought that Dillon would replace Luo Kai with 20 or 30 minutes left in the game, depending on the situation, to make a final fight or something.

Now it seems that Dillon wanted to win from the beginning!

this old man...

Ryan Jackson sighed in his heart.

When he left Europe to coach in China in despair, many people laughed at him for retirement.

In the end, who would have thought that after going around for a while, he brought the Chinese team back and killed his own country in the World Cup.

The Chinese team, Hu Lai... really let him pick it up!

Where is this going to China to teach?

This is a treasure hunt in the far east, right?

Although it was inappropriate, Jackson still thought sourly.

(end of this chapter)