Tyrant of green giants, signed Guardiola at the beginning

Chapter 499: Cute and innocent opponent!

"Robben outflanked and pushed into the empty goal to give the Dutch team the first victory! This goal seemed to be scored too easily!"

"Yeah, a quick counterattack. Sneijder made a through ball, Kuyt was offside, and he chose to pass the ball when he could shoot. The team awareness was full, and Robben was outflanked and scored. It was like passing the ball into Slovakia. Inside the goal!"

"How should I put it? Slovakia has great courage, but obviously Vladimir Weiss knows nothing about the strength of the Dutch team!"

"The competition will make him fully aware of the gap."

After Robben scored, he smiled and pointed at Kuyt. He took the initiative to run to the opponent and looked at each other, laughed, and then rushed to the sidelines to celebrate the goal.

Old Weiss was petrified in situ.

The Dutch goal was like a punch to the heart.

The same goes for counterattacks.

Italy's counterattack speed is not at the same level as that of the Netherlands.

Pirlo delayed the organization, and the speed of reaching the frontcourt was not as lethal as Sneijder's original starting position was further forward.

And Robben's speed at the front can bring about the effect of penetrating the defense.

As long as Slovakia's defense is given space, the Dutch team does not need to invest too many troops, and the regular three-man team will be enough to break their defense.

Slovak fans may have realized the gap between the two teams earlier and more clearly than Weiss.

But now Slovakia is in a difficult position.

With the score behind, it seems that strengthening defense is not a good option.

But if Shen Hao is the head coach of Slovakia, he will definitely strengthen his defense.

Play patiently with the Dutch team, if there is no chance of equalizing the score through set pieces or creating chaos.

Then before the end of the game, the entire army will attack to determine the winner and decide life and death.

If the strength gap between the two teams cannot be objectively recognized, then all technical and tactical arrangements will be wrong.

The joy and excitement of scoring a goal and taking the lead in the knockout round is completely different from that in the group stage.

Because the knockout round means 90 minutes of life or death.

Shen Hao couldn't help but feel agitated, but he still controlled his emotions.

After the team celebrated, he gestured to the crowd.

The defensive aggressiveness is improved to another level!

Now it depends on Slovakia's response.

When Slovakia kicked off, Hamsik did not blindly attack. Instead, he retreated from the attacking midfielder to a central midfielder. The aggressiveness of the winger's assists also decreased slightly.

Slovakia intended to make the offense more delicate, but after all, it was limited by its ability. Both forwards actively retreated to support and connect, but the ball was repeatedly intercepted by the Dutch team's fierce defensive moves.

The Dutch team's quick counterattack was also stifled with fouls by the Slovak defenders.

Although the Dutch team's actions were aggressive, there were no flagrant fouls or tactical fouls.

So at best, he was given a verbal warning by the referee.

If a person refuses to change despite repeated admonishment, then the referee may be asked to take out the card.

On the other hand, the fouls committed by Slovak players are not big, but tactical fouls occur.

For example, Robben was tripped or pulled by someone stretching his leg from behind when he had successfully smashed the ball and changed direction.

This will give Slovak players a high probability of receiving yellow cards.

After 30 minutes of the game, Slovakia may not even realize that they are a little confused on the court.

There is no way to break the door.

I don't know whether to pick up the pace and play frequent fast breaks, or to organize slowly and slowly to achieve the effect of slow work and careful work.

The Dutch team's backcourt defense is interlocking. In the absence of Slovakia's super capable players who can play a local advantage, the Dutch team's defense is tightly integrated and impregnable.

The Dutch team, which tried fast breaks one after another, launched another fast break from the right in the 36th minute of the game.

After receiving the response, Robben quickly dribbled forward from the right wing.

The Slovak defense line tilted towards his side during the retreat, compressing the space and starting a blockade.

Robben came to the wing area outside the penalty area to control the ball and slow down.

The Slovak defense line tilted heavily to his side. Robben controlled the ball and took a step back, then adjusted to his left foot and sent a cross ball to the left rib area of ​​the penalty area.

Kuyt went forward to confront Skrtel.

The ball passed by Robben was not very fast, so both of them arrived early. Skrtel reluctantly headed the ball to clear the ball after struggling with Kuyt.

But before the football flew out and landed outside the penalty area, Sneijder, who was inserted from behind, unloaded the ball from his chest and dribbled into the penalty area.

Kuka, who turned back from approaching Robben, was still slow.

The middle road is almost wide open.

As soon as Sneijder entered the penalty area, he spiked the ball with his left foot and adjusted it to his right foot.

Shoot furiously!

The football flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal like a cannonball!

Slovak goalkeeper Mucha made a flying save but failed.

The Durban International Stadium burst into cheers.

Dutch fans shouted passionately!

"Sneijder! Another victory for the Dutch team! It seems that this goal was a mistake by Skrtel in clearing the ball, but in fact it was a quick counterattack by the Dutch team with the minimum number of troops to contain and tear Slovakia to full effect!"

"Yes, Skrtel defended Kuyt, but the header passed outside the penalty area and no teammate could control the ball again, even if it was a clearance or a header, but no, they were in the area There are big problems with control.”

"Old Weis put together an aggressive lineup, which of course led to deficiencies and deficiencies in defense."

"The Dutch team 2:0 Slovakia. Although the game is still long, no matter how you look at it, it makes people feel that the Dutch team will be very stable in advancing to the quarterfinals."

Flamdel Weiss was very anxious.

It was at this moment that I realized how wrong I was.

Denmark, Japan, and Cameroon do not have the courage to risk their lives, but they know that charging blindly is just to die.

Old Weiss shook his head slightly, full of self-blame.

His misjudgment, or narrow-mindedness, ruined the team's efforts to advance to the knockout rounds after eliminating Italy.

They could have performed better, at least they would not have been so easily penetrated twice by the Dutch team, completely unbalancing the game in favor of the Netherlands.

But it's too late to say anything now.

Old Weiss gave signs to the team and made adjustments as best he could.

Shen Hao high-fived Stam and De Boer and returned to the sideline with a smile.

After Slovakia kicked off again, they obviously changed their offensive mode.

The teams of the former Yugoslavia once had a shining and short-lived glory in European football.

But now on the World Cup stage, Slovakia began to play long passes when facing the Netherlands.

Shen Hao, who stood with his hands behind his back, sneered in his heart: Did he learn to behave after being beaten in pain?

Slovakia, who started with 442, only made long passes from one side or the midfield.

Where does hope for robot cows come from?

Let the two forwards, Vitek and Jandriszek, go make waves in the Dutch team's penalty area.

Whether you can succeed or not depends on your ability and luck.

The Dutch team has more defense and less defense, and can naturally deal with the opponent's offense without any creativity.

Slovakia stepped up its defense.

Hamsik can form a double attack on Sneijder.

The wide midfielders will also have at least one person to supplement the defensive intensity when returning to defense.

The Dutch team already has a two-goal lead.

So there is nothing to fear.

Fast breaks no longer go deep into the opponent's penalty area, but create long-range shot threats at the front of the penalty area.

With Kuyt's active support and tactical cooperation as a fulcrum, Sneijder and Robben hit long-range shots crisply, and occasionally a threatening shot appeared.

However, it failed to expand the lead before the end of the first half.

Halftime is over.

Old Weiss looked very worried, as if he had no clue about the second half of the game.

Shen Hao strode into the players tunnel.

It was a mental wake-up call for the team at halftime.

It's not difficult to predict Slovakia's reaction in the second half.

Having rich coaching experience means being able to accurately predict the opponent's actions with a high probability.

In the second half of the game, the two teams changed sides and fought again.

The Dutch defense remains unbreakable.

Slovakia still threatened the Dutch team's defense with seemingly lucky attacks.

Compared with their performance in the last 10 minutes of the first half, Slovakia only interspersed occasional surprise attacks with poor results.

Since the start of the competition, every defensive success of the Dutch team will lead to an improvement in the overall performance of the defense line.

Coming to the knockout stage, the team's overall status and strength are steadily strengthening and their status has improved.

It can only be said that due to intensive defense, the defense focuses on the overall situation, and no one player will always steal the spotlight.

Unless the opponent has top stars who can relentlessly focus on a certain local area of ​​​​the Netherlands.

The Dutch team patiently relied on long-range shots to create threats in the offense.

The quality of the shot varies from high to low, depending on the environment and position of the kick.

Time keeps passing away in this tug-of-war of mutual restraint.

Shen Hao was calm and relaxed.

The Dutch fans were elated, even though the excitement of the game began to decline after the Dutch team 2:0 Slovakia.

But Dutch fans can at least have some leisure time to entertain themselves and enjoy their time immersed in the World Cup atmosphere.

But the Slovak fans were depressed, wandering repeatedly between expectations and disappointment.

The Slovak players on the field were of course heavy-hearted and struggling.

After 70 minutes of the game, Slovakia began to actively attack.

Shen Hao was too familiar with this rhythm.

In other words, this is the normal development of the game.

Not to mention his accumulated experience in coaching the team, even old fans who have watched the game for a long enough time can accurately judge that Slovakia needs to break the boat at this time!

Two goals behind.

No matter how late it is, there won't be enough time.

Even if the bet on life starts at 70 minutes, the time is actually very tight.

Don't look at the game with 20 minutes left.

For almost half of the 20 minutes, the ball was definitely at the opponent's feet.

So how many attacks can they launch in about 10 minutes?

Take away in one wave? You're pregnant right away?

how is this possible.

Unless they are extremely defensive teams, other teams' goals basically rely on a large number of attacks to develop into threatening attacks to create enough threats, and then these threatening balls are turned into goals.

Without continuous support on the scene, even scoring goals would be accidental, not inevitable due to strength.

Wittek ran in the penalty area to receive Weiss Jr.'s pass to the deep area.

But he barely managed a header and failed to create a threat.

I could only watch as Stekelenberg confiscated the ball, and then he gave a thumbs up in the direction of Weiss.

Then Hamsik stepped in and got a chance to take a long shot in front of the penalty area, but it was too hasty.

He failed to control his footwork well, and the football rolled against the turf toward the center of the goal to the right. Stekelenberg moved and scooped the ball from the ground into his arms.

Seeing that the game time is getting shorter and shorter, Slovakia's formation pressure is obviously greater.

Shen Hao chose to make substitutions at this time.

Robben and Kuyt were substituted.

Van Persie and Elia both appeared.

Slovakia has no time to care about the substitution adjustments of the Dutch team.

They have no choice.

After the substitutions, the Dutch team's style of play was simpler and rougher.

Just hit behind the Slovak defense!

Just after the 80th minute of the game, Slovakia attacked from the left side of the frontcourt, and the full-back also assisted. Perhaps because Robben was replaced, there was no pressure on the defense on the left side.

But Storch was successfully intercepted by De Jong while cooperating with his teammates!

He was overwhelmed by De Jong's defense from the start and things got worse as the game went on.

At the critical stage of Slovakia's fight, he still failed to break free from the shadow of De Jong's fierce defense.

After stealing the ball, De Jong quickly passed the ball forward.

Sneijder ran diagonally in front of him to receive the ball. He passed the ball forward past half-court and then directly sent an overhead diagonal pass.

The football flew towards the left half of the forward zone of the Slovak penalty area.

Elia cut inside at a crazy speed, and saw that before the football hit the ground, he could touch the ball just before Skrtel returned to defend. The moment the football bounced to the ground, Elia used the outside instep of his right foot to pad the ball towards the center.

Van Persie followed up in the next step, and when Durica changed direction to press, he stopped and stepped forward to get rid of it. He entered the right rib area of ​​the penalty area. Van Persie adjusted his left foot and swung his leg to blast a powerful shot!

The football flew into the lower left corner of the goal like a stream of light!

Goalkeeper Mucha made a hasty save and did not use enough force. He looked weak and weak. He looked back at the goal. Mucha then looked back at his teammates. His eyes were full of complicated despair and helplessness.

Dutch fans cheered!

"Van Persie! The two Dutch forwards who came off the bench soon completed a cooperation. Sneijder's instigation showed a very high level, and Van Persie's shot was impeccable.

3:0! The Netherlands beat Slovakia! "

“Slovakia only showed courage for a short period of time today, but was quickly suppressed and shocked by the Dutch team.

Vladimir Weiss failed to live up to his pre-game rhetoric and was about to take his team home. "

"The Dutch team that has advanced to the quarter-finals is definitely qualified to win the championship, but... if the winner of the next 1/8 finals is the Brazilian team, then there will be a battle between the Netherlands and the favorite Brazilian team!"

Slovak fans finally ushered in an ending that was not unexpected in their depression.

Some fans shed tears of regret.

Vladimir Weiss remained motionless on the sidelines, his expression unchanged for a long time.

Self-blame and regret filled my heart.

He failed the team!

It was his arrogance that caused the contest between the Slovak and Dutch teams to be almost one-sided and destroyed!

Not to mention how much unrealistic confidence their elimination of Italy brought.

As long as you enter the knockout rounds, be cautious.

Even world-class teams may die because they think too highly of themselves.

Slovakia's strength will never be able to support them in taking the lead in launching a strong attack when facing the Netherlands.

Shen Hao smiled and clapped.

This battle was much easier than expected.

But after reaching the quarter-finals, I'm afraid there will never be such a cute and innocent opponent again.