Is the head coach important to a team on the field?
The common view within the circle is that it is both important and not important.
It is not important because the head coach’s value to a team is more reflected in daily training, player development and guidance, and pre-match tactical arrangements, which are long-term tasks.
As for on-field command, in fact, several assistant coaches can also be responsible, and even the head coach himself can watch the live broadcast of the match and call the assistant coach to remotely control the assistant coach to make various decisions, so it doesn't matter if the head coach is on the spot or not.
But this is an extremely important matter, because with the head coach present, the morale of the entire team is present, and the most important role of the head coach on the spot is actually to stabilize the hearts of all the players, like a stabilizing needle.
And this is also why Boss Huang is sitting here, because when it comes to a stabilizing needle, the entire A
Next, the team only needs to use long passes and movements to completely exhaust the Chinese players’ stamina, and then the match can be easily won.
Under the command of this strategy, the British were very successful in consuming Am team’s stamina, so even though both sides were tied 0-0 in the first half, the British team did not become more anxious.
But when Messi found that all his players were drenched in sweat, their steps towards the locker room becoming somewhat unsteady, Messi knew that the Am team might be facing a huge crisis.
“Drag it out, drag it to a penalty shootout.” This was Messi’s helpless move after analyzing the remaining stamina of all the players.
After the high-energy match in the first half, the entire Am team’s physical condition had reached an extremely desperate state, capable of holding on for only about 30 more minutes. However, there were still 45 minutes left in the second half. If the British continued to exhaust them in the second half, there would be no way to play.
So Messi made the decision to require all players except the forwards to stay within their own half, minimizing their running range and stamina consumption.
After all, as long as they could drag it past 90 minutes and then through extra time, victory would definitely belong to the Am team.
This was Messi’s decision, but he also knew it was a very dangerous one. Although this strategy had achieved victory once before, the opponent was the Polish team, which was not good at attacking.
But this time they were facing the British team, whose offense was not as soft and weak as the Polish team. Once the enemy scored a goal while the entire team was defending, the impact would be almost fatal.
But Messi had no other choice.
Thus, the second half entered what all fans angrily called garbage time. The Am team defended with all their might. During this period, Han Zi’ang showed astonishing individual strength, single-handedly stopping more than a dozen enemy attacks. Coupled with the cooperation of other players, the match was indeed dragged past 90 minutes and entered extra time.
In extra time, the British attack became more fierce. However, Han Zi’ang continued his brave performance. Liu Xu even directly gave up the captain’s position on the field, allowing Han Zi’ang to command, and they just dragged it out.
Heaven seemed to intend to give the Am team a chance, as the British team’s three shots all hit the goalpost. If even one of these three goals had gone in, the Am team would have been eliminated.
Fortunately, none of this happened. The Am team successfully dragged through extra time and reached the penalty shootout, which made all the British despair.
It was evident that the British were not as desperate as the Poles. They all tried to break the Am team’s myth of being undefeated in penalty shootouts.
First, the British goalkeeper was extremely heroic, saving all three of the first three penalty kicks in a row, triggering rounds of cheers from the crowd, as if two gods of the goal were about to be born.
Unfortunately, Wang Fanfan also saved all three of the first three penalty kicks. In the fourth penalty kick, the young player from the Am team finally shot the ball into the goal, and Wang Fanfan expressionlessly collected the opponent’s fourth penalty.
At this time, the broadcast screen began to inform all the viewers that this was the first time the Am team had encountered a penalty shootout that went the full distance since Wang Fanfan joined the Am team. Previously, it usually only took three or four goals for the Am team to win the penalty shootout. The British had achieved this unprecedented feat, breaking history.
It was just a pity that Wang Fanfan himself did not manage to save five consecutive penalty kicks in a single penalty shootout, because the Am team’s players also scored in the fifth penalty kick, and the match ended early.