One afternoon later, the Argentina National Youth Team training ground.
There was a strong wind on the court, and Argentinian players wearing training uniforms were running around on the court. Many reporters and media were watching and taking pictures on the sidelines, and the focus of their attention was naturally Messi and Chen Mo, who were running circles.
"You feel a little nervous?"
Ignoring the reporter and looking at Messi beside him, Chen Mo raised his eyebrows and snickered. The former's face was straight: "This is playing on behalf of Argentina!"
"Okay, okay, why are you pretending to be serious?"
Chen Mo rolled his eyes. The World Youth Championship is also called the FIFA U-20 World Cup, but in terms of influence and intensity of competition, it is completely different from the World Cup. He was able to shine in this kind of competition when he was fourteen years old. performance, let alone now.
Soon, the warm-up was over, and all the players gathered together amidst the shouts of head coach Ferraro.
He glanced at Chen Mo and smiled: "To be honest, when I was the coach of the National Youth Team two years ago, I never thought that there would be a Champions League champion player in my team. Congratulations, you have a fantastic career start. .”
Ferraro clapped his hands, and beside him, his teammates were all smiling and saying congratulations, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
To be honest, before Chen Mo arrived, these players from the Argentina National Youth Team were a little nervous.
Chen Mo's strength is obvious to all, and the Argentina national team has always had the habit of ranking according to seniority. Some big-name players will ask less-known newcomers to serve tea and water, or even shine shoes.
However, after Chen Mo personally cooked a meal for his teammates last night, everyone relaxed.
This big guy has a great personality!
The most excited people here are undoubtedly Aguero and Di Maria. The former is a pure person who has a strong desire to express himself and make friends. He is not shy at all when eating, and he murmured to Chen Mo for a long time.
Di Maria is excited because he can be teammates with Chen Mo in advance. Wenger has contacted him some time ago. If nothing unexpected happens, he will return to Arsenal as a right winger this summer.
It is not easy for Argentines to get along well in the UK. Even Chen Mo had many reporters, media and fans badmouthing him when he first landed in the Premier League, let alone him.
In this situation, it would definitely be much more comfortable to have a big boss to protect him. What's more, during the few days he stayed in the UK, he found that Chen Mo had a really good personality and was a friend worth making friends with.
Everyone had different reactions, and the congratulations didn't last long. Soon, after a simple greeting, Ferraro picked up the tactical board.
"I'll read the names below to get the red vests: Chen Mo, Messi, Aguero, Di Maria, Entus, Gomez."
It seems that the coach wants to try the formation.
Almost all the starting players were assigned to the red team. After hearing Ferraro's personnel arrangements, Chen Mo walked to the sidelines and put on a red vest, thinking in his mind.
Ferraro is a coach who strongly advocates offensive football, and just like Pekerman would talk to the players he likes in advance, after the Champions League ended, Ferraro also talked to Chen Mo once, and it turned out that his football philosophy Chen Mo was stunned for a while.
In Ferraro's idea, this Argentina team will play a 433 formation. Well, 433, a very normal formation, but this guy's tactics are just two words - you will operate!
Left winger Gomez, center Aguero, right winger Di Maria.
Free agent Messi and playmaker Chen Mo.
——Defensive midfielder Entus——
The back four lined up.
Ferraro's tactics are very simple. Let Chen Mo, who has strong ball protection and organizational skills, control the ball in the frontcourt, and then let Messi move freely with Chen Mo as the axis.
What Chen Mo has to do is rely on his top-notch football intelligence to lead his teammates to use passing and cutting to create one-on-one opportunities for Messi.
Of course, this tactic works both ways.
When the opponent uses intensive defense and wants to counterattack, Chen Mo, who has stronger defensive and organizational skills, is the one who delays to get the ball, and Messi is the blaster.
But once the opponent rushes out to play a fast-paced attack, Messi will be the first to take the ball.
Messi's organization and guidance ability is not as strong as Chen Mo's, but in many situations when playing against each other, there is no need to organize passes and cuts. What matters is the timing of the transition between offense and defense, and whether he can send a scalpel to penetrate the ball and find the player in front.
Messi is top-notch in terms of getting rid of the defense one-on-one and delivering penetrating balls. At the same time, this can also completely liberate Chen Mo's running ability.
When he first heard Ferraro's idea, Chen Mo was indeed stunned for a long time.
"In fact, to put it bluntly, it means using personal strength to crush them."
Standing on the green field to stretch his body, Chen Mo secretly complained that there was nothing complicated about this tactic, and the purpose was to maximize the strengths of Chen Mo and Messi.
Soon, as the assistant coach blew a whistle, Aguero passed the ball back to Chen Mo in the right midfield position in the center circle.
As soon as the ball rolled to his feet, the midfielder of the blue team immediately touched it, but before he could stretch his foot, Chen Mo had already kicked the ball and passed the ball to Messi on the left, while looking up to observe.
433, the blue team also has a 433 formation with a single midfielder.
"Single midfielder, how dare you"
Directly behind the opponent's midfielder was Aguero, and behind him on the right was Di Maria. In an instant, Chen Mo made a judgment, immediately turned around and called the red team's right back to step up, and at the same time moved towards the blue team's midfielder on the left front.
The moment he saw Chen Mo make a move, Messi understood it and immediately passed the ball back to the midfielder. At the same time, he ran to the right without the ball to fill the gap left by Chen Mo.
"This is?"
On the sidelines, head coach Ferraro frowned as he watched this scene, but soon the confusion on his brows turned into excitement, and his eyes were full of appreciation.
"clever!"
Under Ferraro's gaze, the right back of the red team stepped forward to attract the defense of the left midfielder of the blue team. At the same time, Aguero and Di Maria completely held down the center back and fullback of the blue team in front!
A big gap appeared in the entire right midfield! Only Messi and the blue team's midfielder were left, and just a second before the red team's full-back stepped forward, Chen Mo had already relied on his running position to catch the ball in the center circle!
Chen Mo's close-range starting step escape ability is not very strong, but this depends on the opponent.
In the previous games, they faced either Gattuso, a full-time defensive "butcher", or Lampard Gerrard, a strong all-around midfielder.
Facing players of this level, it is easy to make mistakes when facing a strong attack, but it is different now. This is only the U20 World Youth Championship.
Without hesitation, facing the blue team's right midfielder, Chen Mo directly moved his right foot, and instantly kicked off the ground with his left leg, directly passing his opponent in one step!
"So fast!"
The pupils of the blue team's right midfielder shrank. At this time, Chen Mo had already rushed towards his left shoulder. However, because it was in the densely populated center, Chen Mo did not go too far with this ball and did not pick up the speed.
Seeing this, the blue team's right midfielder immediately chased sideways, trying to get in front of Chen Mo from the side. At this moment, Chen Mo directly raised his left arm and stood up. The right midfielder was directly isolated, and he was squeezed no matter how hard he squeezed. Do not move!
"Damn it!"
Watching Chen Mo dribbling the ball towards the top of the arc, the blue team's midfielder could only give up on Messi. But just before the containment was about to be in place, Chen Mo swung his right toe and the ball went through the crowd and was sent to Messi's feet.
At this time, the blue team's defensive midfielder was attracted by Chen Mo, the defenders were restrained by Di Maria and Aguero, and there was a full-back on the wing who was quickly clad, leaving Messi completely empty!
Without any hesitation, he drove the ball directly to the right side of the blue team's penalty area. At the same time, Di Maria, who had been on the right side, started to cross!
Cross-shaped movement!
"With Messi or against Di Maria?!"
For a moment, the full-back of the blue team was confused, and at the moment he hesitated, Messi had already dribbled the ball in front of him. He could no longer hesitate, and the full-back immediately cooperated with the central defender to guard Messi.
At this moment, Messi swings his right leg and directly knocks the ball back to the top of the arc with an inverted triangle. The next second, Di Maria rushes over and shoots directly!
You can always trust the left foot of an angel!
Under Messi's gaze, the ball made an arc and hit the upper left corner of the goal.
"Nice arc!"
"Hahaha, good pass, good pass."
Of course, no fool would rush to celebrate during the training match. Di Maria jogged back to the field while everyone was talking and laughing, but he didn't see that Ferraro on the sidelines was so excited that he was about to fly!
"My tactics were so successful!"
Chen Mo and Messi's offensive capabilities are too strong. It is impossible for the opponent to defend them one-on-one. They must double-team.
When one of them is double-teamed, the other person's space becomes available, and when the other person takes the ball forward, he will welcome other defensive players. This is a chain reaction!
And this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is Chen Mo’s brain!
Whether it is the World Cup or the World Youth Championship, the team training time is only one or two months.
Unless it is a team where almost all the players are in the local leagues, such as Germany, England, Spain, France and Italy, where the five major leagues are located, and some are even club teammates themselves, it is impossible to develop exquisite coordination in such a short period of time. .
Therefore, most teams play defensive counterattacks and practice their defense well. Then on the offensive end, they make all kinds of rushes, all kinds of long passes, and headers. But Argentina has never had a strong high center. There is also no high school linebacker.
It's okay not to have a high center, but if it doesn't work, you can pass and cut on the ground, but the key is that there is no high center!
Without a high school defender, headers cannot be prevented, so Argentina is destined to not be able to put its defense in its own half. Otherwise, they will have no choice but to suppress their opponents in the midfield.
Therefore, the most suitable offensive method for Argentina is to put the position in the frontcourt and rely on the individual talents of the players to complete the offense.
The premise of all this is that the midfielder must be able to control the ball in the opponent's half, and at the same time, he must be able to create space for the blaster.
The ability to protect the ball!
The ability to organize the ball!
On-the-spot command ability!
Chen Mo is perfectly adapted to all of this, and can even act as a defensive player at the moment of transition between offense and defense!
Excited, Ferraro was excited to death, but he wanted to see more!
Soon, under his command, the blue team changed from a single defensive midfielder to a double defensive midfielder.
It's useless. Whether it's a single midfielder or double midfielders, there are only three people in the midfield. The strength gap is too big. The blue team still needs more people to guard Chen Mo.
After Messi scored two goals in a row again, Ferraro directly adjusted the formation to 451!
5 midfielders!
The dumplings were placed directly in the midfield, but Chen Mo did not hesitate and immediately asked Messi and Di Maria to switch positions, letting Messi play as the right winger and Di Maria as the attacking midfielder.
Di Maria has speed, but he is not a winger with absolute speed like Bell. His style is more of a midfielder attribute, and his organizational skills are not bad.
After Di Maria came to the midfield, Chen Mo began to move to the left. His left foot is not bad, but he is more familiar with his right foot, and as the saying goes [follow the foot and cut inside].
Facing Chen Mo who could cut inside and had a [Full Moon Scimitar] kick, the blue team did not dare to neglect at all, and could only passively be pulled to the left by Chen Mo relying on passing and cutting cooperation.
The width of the football field is about 70 meters, and it is impossible for the four defenders to take care of both sides. This also gives Messi, who is on the right wing, more one-on-one opportunities.
And Di Maria is the hub of passing. He is responsible for sending Chen Mo's short pass to Messi on the right. At the same time, his long-range shooting ability with his left foot is not bad. Once Messi and Chen Mo open the blue team's formation to both sides, , giving him some space in the middle, he can directly take a long shot, or look for Aguero wandering in the penalty area.
The game is still going on. Although it can be seen that the cooperation between Chen Mo, Di Maria, Aguero and Messi is not yet tacit, the framework has clearly emerged!
Ferraro was so excited that his crotch felt wet, but he wanted to see more, so he directly changed the blue team's formation from 451 to 541 with a bigger ass!
With 5 defenders, Messi's living space as a right winger was squeezed, but in the end, with Chen Mo and Di Maria shooting long-range shots from the left and right from the front of the penalty area, the training match ended with a score of 13-0. .
After this training match, Gomez, the extremely fast starting left winger, was replaced by Ferraro, who was not strong in offensive attributes, but could pass passes from the wing, had stronger defensive ability, and could also play a guest midfield role. Tiger Balm Blessing.
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The training days are a bit like military training. It is boring, but not boring. After all, I have a group of friends around me, and it is to cultivate the tacit understanding of the attacking foursome of Chen Mo, Messi, Aguero and Di Maria.
Ferraro specially arranged door-to-door dormitories for the four of them.
Outstanding effect.
Mainly because the growth experiences of several people were very bumpy, and they resonated very much when chatting with each other.
In this way, we train hard during the day, and after dinner at night, the four of us sit in the room and play live football. Every weekend, we go out to see Wolji Kaoru and Antonella, go shopping, visit tourist attractions, and finally end up in the red light district. On the crossroads, the two sides parted ways.
One party goes to a nightclub to kill everyone, and the other party goes to a luxury hotel to set up a giant Pampas cannon.
The two girls disagreed with Aguero and Di Maria's behavior, but didn't say much.
Argentinian boys can get married at the age of 14. In addition, as Chen Mo and Messi become more and more famous, they have gradually come into contact with more people in the rich circle. They all know how exaggerated the private lives of rich people are.
However, I understand. Whether I accept it or not is another matter. Plus, we can only meet once a week.
That night, all the Dutch people in the city seemed to hear a huge cannon roaring over the Netherlands!
The days passed day by day, and soon the match day of the World Youth Championship arrived.
Argentina will face their first opponent in the group stage, the United States.
(End of chapter)
