Extraordinary coach

Chapter 59 Hard Fight

After falling behind, any team will fight back. Marseille naturally strengthened its attack.

After the restart, Marseille's advancement speed and kicking rhythm have obviously accelerated. And they have also obviously strengthened their attack on Sarr. Fortunately, with Terry's assistance, there is no fatal loophole for the time being.

Marseille's attack rushed towards Nice like a storm. Under their strong pressure, Nice, who was leading, had to focus on defense.

In this way, Marseille took the initiative on the field.

Under the fierce attack of Marseille, danger continued to appear in front of Nice's goal.

This made the Nice fans in the stands nervous. "What should we do? Marseille's attack is so fierce! Can we stop it?"

At this time, Sun Yi also realized that Nice was in a dangerous situation, so he hurried to the technical area.

"Tactic No. 1, execute Tactic No. 1 from now on." Sun Yi stretched out a finger and shouted loudly to the field.

The No. 1 tactic is actually to shrink the defense, absorb the opponent's attack, and counterattack quickly as soon as there is a chance after the opponent presses forward. And the main counterattack starts from the two flanks. This is a set of tactics that Sun Yi formulated for the Nice team based on "Mourinho's Counterattack". In the last game against Lille, he used this trick to help Nice break the deadlock.

He did it on his own initiative in the last game, but this time he was forced to do so.

But in Sun Yi's opinion, this tactic is the best way to deal with the current situation.

Under Sun Yi's command, the Nice team began to shrink its defense. Balotelli, who was originally at the forefront, also retreated to the half court, and even his position was slightly further back than Salah and Pléa on the two flanks.

Marseille itself plays a control-shaped style and likes to use the width of the court. After Nice shrank back to the half court, Marseille's offense encountered great difficulties.

This allowed Nice to gradually stabilize its position in the face of Marseille's powerful offensive. And their occasional counterattacks from the two flanks are also quite threatening.

The threat Marseille posed to Nice's goal began to decrease.

But Marseille is indeed a strong team, and their head coach Garcia was not slow to react. He soon asked Marseille to strengthen the use of crosses and set-piece tactics.

It was said before that Marseille has a strong ability to defend high-altitude balls. High-altitude balls are something that can be defended and naturally attacked.

When Marseille changed its tactics, their high-altitude and set-piece abilities immediately posed a great threat to Nice.

Fortunately, Nice still has a legendary defender like Terry. Under his command, Nice's defense line still survived several ball-losing crises.

Seeing Terry's role in the defense, Sun Yi was secretly relieved. Fortunately, there are veterans like Terry in the family. It is true that an old man is like a treasure in the family.

However, the good times did not last long. When the game was about to reach 40 minutes, due to the decline in physical strength, Terry failed to make up in time after Sarr made another mistake. This gave Marseille striker Gomis the opportunity, and his violent shot in the penalty area blasted open the goalkeeper Cardinale's gate.

1:1.

"Alas! It's tied."

"Sar made another fatal mistake. He is still too young."

"Such an important game should be replaced by an older player. Sar is too young and can't bear the pressure."

After seeing the score tied, many people in the Nice team began to think that Sar was too eager to grow.

Sun Yi was also a little disappointed that the score was tied. But he didn't mean to blame Sar. In his opinion, mistakes are inevitable in the game, and it is even more inevitable that the opponent will score. This is the price to pay for the growth of young players.

If there is a better choice, Sun Yi will naturally not let Sar bear these pressures. He will arrange a more relaxed growth environment for him.

In the next game, neither side scored again. Then the first half of the game ended with a score of 1:1.

At the end of the first half, the lead was lost, which was indeed a blow to the Nice team. The one who was hit the hardest was naturally Sarr.

Although Terry was comforting Sarr on the way back to the locker room, Sarr still had a guilty and frustrated expression on his face. When he met Sun Yi's gaze, he dodged and lowered his head.

Seeing this, Sun Yi went over and patted Sarr on the shoulder, and kept him before entering the locker room.

After everyone entered the locker room, he said to Sarr: "You made two mistakes in the first half."

"Yes." Sarr's head was almost touching his chest.

"Remember your two mistakes. Don't make them again in the second half."

"Okay." Sarr raised his head slightly. What Sun Yi meant by this was that he still trusted him in the second half.

"Mistakes and errors are unavoidable for anyone. For a defender, the key is to remember the lesson and try not to make them again in the future. Raise your head and play well in the second half. I believe you will play better." Sun Yi smiled and patted Sarr's shoulder hard with his hand.

Sarr raised his head obediently, and seeing Sun Yi's trusting expression, he felt warm in his heart. Then he nodded heavily. "Coach, I understand. I will perform well."

"Okay. Let's go in." Sun Yi smiled and hugged Sarr and walked into the locker room together.

Seeing Sun Yi hugging Sarr back to the locker room, many people breathed a sigh of relief.

Sal is the youngest in the team, but he is usually studious and polite to everyone. He is very popular among the big brothers in the team. Like Terry even kind of treated him like a disciple.

When Sun Yi left Sal outside, everyone thought Sun Yi was going to get angry with Sal. All very worried.

Looking at the situation now, everyone knows that Thrall should not be blamed too much.

After Sun Yi came in, he cleared his throat and began to summarize: "In the first half, everyone played well. We basically completed the tasks assigned by the coaching staff before the game. However, everyone needs to pay attention to mistakes and fouls."

"In the second half, Marseille should continue to maintain the same style of play in the second half of the first half. Therefore, after the kick-off, everyone should be more cautious in the early stage. We will still implement the No. 1 tactic in the second half. However, we need to strengthen it. Press.

Especially the pressing after midfield. Everyone should press fast, but don't take the ball easily. Less fouls, less opportunities for them to set the ball.

It may not be easy to play early in the second half. Therefore, everyone must be mentally prepared, as it will be harder. And after seventy minutes, when our physical fitness dropped, we took advantage of our better physical fitness to launch a counterattack..."

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