Football No. 10: God's Perspective - Chapter 296: Confrontation with the Netherlands
De Ligt, the auction house, Van der Beck, these are all Wang Po’s teammates in the Ajax team of the Dutch League.
The core of the team, Van Dijk, is Wang Po’s old opponent in the Premier League.
Wang Po is not unfamiliar with the Dutch team.
Of course, the head coach of this Dutch team is also a well-known existence, that is, the star De Boer who was famous in the player era.
The Dutch team in the past always gave people an impression of gorgeous scenes, and the all-out attack and defense in the early years left a deep impression.
Today’s Dutch team is more like a team with strong defense and weak offense.
In this country, Cruyff, Van Bast, Kluivert, Van Nistelrooy and other world-class strikers were born.
Unfortunately, the current striker talent is withering, but the back line led by Van Dijk and De Ligt has become the most stable link of the Dutch team.
This set of defense combination is also first-class among all the participating teams in the World Cup.
Facing his teammates who had fought side by side with him in his Ajax team, Wang Po’s thoughts returned to that summer.
“Long time no see, my God.” Seeing Wang Po, De Ligt had a warm and innocent smile, just like the 19-year-old him, without any change.
Even though they haven’t seen each other for many years, the two of them don’t feel strange at all.
Talking about the appearance of fighting side by side in the past, 4 years have passed in a flash.
For De Ligt, although Wang Po and them have only been teammates for one year, this memory is immortal, and they are grateful for it.
It is because of Wang Po’s arrival that they have completed a complete transformation.
This is true for De Ligt, Van der Beck, De Jong and others.
“Boss!”
A group of young people on the Dutch team shouted in unison.
As soon as these words came out, Wang Po’s Portuguese teammates were all stunned, and they looked at Wang Po in confusion.
“Perform well, but don’t embarrass our Ajax team.” Wang Po smiled with relief, “Be careful, you know me, I won’t show mercy on the court.”
“Of course, we will also look for you.”
De Ligt covered his mouth and looked at his big brother Van Dijk, saying with a smirk.
Let’s fight, brother.
“Beep”
The referee blew the whistle, and the World Cup knockout match officially started.
For this game, Dutch coach De Boer did enough homework before the game, especially on the defensive end.
In this game, their only priority is to ensure that they don’t lose the ball first and defend against the Portuguese team’s attack. This is their advantage, and their strengths attack the enemy’s weaknesses.
With the existing personnel matching, defense is precisely the strongest point of the Dutch team. Using the matching of players and the team’s tactical system, they carefully deploy their own back line. For this, they even sacrificed the sharpness of the counterattack, so that the game has basically been a half-court offensive drill for the Portuguese team since the beginning of the game.
The situation was extremely passive, but there was no doubt that the tactics of the Dutch coach De Boer were successful. At least the attack of the Portuguese team basically did not pose any threat to the Dutch team.
On the high-altitude ball, the 41-year-old old man Cristiano Ronaldo, facing the strong Van Dijk and De Ligt, has lived up to his courage of jumping against the sky in the past. The repeated high-altitude ball competition consumed Cristiano Ronaldo’s physical energy in vain.
Without the containment of the middle road, under the dense defense, the breakthrough on the side was not smooth. Even if there were a few occasional flashes of inspiration, the person who broke into the penalty area was a person, and there was no space for passing and shooting.
In this case, B Fee’s creativity was obviously not up to par, and the weakness of Qi’s poor dribbling was infinitely magnified. There was no way. Another midfielder B-Silva used his dribbling and footwork to carry out local small-scale blasting tasks, creating sporadic vitality for the team, but it was still far from scoring.
“Beep”
The sleepy first half of the game finally ended.
The fans of both teams were trapped by this boring game.
Is this the rhythm of the knockout stage? It was not intense at all. On the contrary, it was extremely conservative and the game was extremely ugly.
“When did the Dutch team start playing this kind of “ugly football”?”
“The Dutch team parked the bus.”
“What a coward!”
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Although various voices disdained De Boer’s tactics, football ultimately spoke with results. It takes courage to change tactics in such a stalemate.
After all, this is a knockout match in the World Cup. One game determines the outcome. The margin of error is only within a short 90 minutes. It is always right to be cautious and conservative in such a game.
“We must play more patiently on the offensive end. We have the ability and opportunities to score goals. Brothers, stay focused.”
Even though he is old and no longer useful, Cristiano Ronaldo still has undisputed leadership in this team.
Just a few words brought all the players together.
“Fight, Portugal.”
Wang Po was the first to step forward and hugged Ronaldo’s neck and shouted.
All the Portuguese teammates responded in response.
“Beep”
The final 45 minutes of the decisive battle is here.
At the beginning of the second half, the Dutch team continued the main defense strategy of the first half, and still heavily defended.
Defense bus.
This is still a headache for Portugal.
At the same time, Portugal coach Santos made personnel changes, and B Fee was replaced.
This is a player with both advantages and disadvantages. In this kind of dead-end positional battle, his advantages are not easy to play out. On the contrary, his disadvantages will be infinitely magnified. Various high-risk passes will give the Dutch team the opportunity to counterattack. This hidden danger must be eliminated.
After the start of the second half, Wang Po took over the game more, and the control and handling of the ball seemed very reasonable under his feet.
B-Silva, Guedes, and Ronaldo played more as wingmen, cuts, and assists.
It must be said that the Dutch team’s defense is very strong, and Wang Po has failed several times.
However, for an offensive player, he can make countless mistakes, but as long as he succeeds once, it is enough.
Yes, this opportunity finally let Wang Po find it. In the 79th minute of the game, the scene was ordinary. Just when everyone was about to fall asleep, a thunder suddenly sounded.
Facing the regional encirclement of 4 defensive players in the local area of the Dutch team on the wing, he suddenly started, broke through the encirclement with continuous changes of direction, and entered the penalty area. De Ligt came to make up for it.
Wang Po was very familiar with Fat De, and the latter was also familiar with him. The two of them exchanged glances for a moment, and actually began to compete with each other.
Wang Po made a fake spike, but Fat De didn’t take it at all. The corners of his mouth inadvertently rose, looking a little proud.
Wang Po couldn’t help but smile.
