Among the five major European football leagues in the old time and space, the German Football League had the shortest history, which was officially established in 1963. Before that, the German Football Championship had always been the highest-level football event in Germany. Its history lasted for 60 years and was not much shorter than the German Football League.

The German Football Championship is a tournament-based competition, divided into two stages: regional competition and finals. It has been held for 11 sessions so far. The German Football Association arranged for the four teams to compete with the East China Government Football Team. All of them are very strong. Stuttgart was the runner-up in 1908, Berlin Victoria was the runner-up in 1907, the champion in 1908, Nuremberg was the runner-up in 1906, and Leipzig was the champion in 1903 and 1906. Sending four such teams to compete with the East China Government Football Team also expressed the importance of the German Football Association for this visit to the East China Government Football Team.

The game schedule for the club is to 5 days later against Stuttgart on September 10, Berlin Victoria on September 13, Nuremberg on September 17, and Leipzig on September 22. The Four-National Games officially started on September 25, and all competitions were held in Berlin. Qiu Yi was very satisfied with the arrangement of these four games and believed that such a schedule would also help the team to practice instead of training, promote competition and gradually restore its state.

So the football team immediately carried out restorative training because the players kept training on the ship. The players' physical condition and ball sense were not bad. The main thing to recover was the discomfort caused by going ashore after long-term navigation, followed by the overall playing style.

However, in 5 days, although the players basically adapted to the activities after getting ashore, at least they stopped floating, the team had not had enough time to restore their overall playing style in the past few days. After all, they had been training in a small range on the boat for more than 40 days, and the whole team was a little uncomfortable with the stadium.

Of course Qiu Yi also understood the problems of his team, and the first game was of great importance and there was no loss. Therefore, he decisively adopted a 541 formation, first based on defense and not conceded the ball, and then waited for an opportunity to counterattack.

Therefore, in the first game against Stuttgart, the overall performance of the East China Government football team was average. The main manifestation was that the team size of the whole team was tighter, and the three lines were not fully expanded when they should be expanded, and the game was smaller. There were more short passes in small ranges and few long passes between the players. From the large range of horizontal long passes, there was almost no transfer of the distance between the majority of the passes within 10 meters. From the scene, it was quite a bit like a South American team.

However, despite this, the East China Government Football Team still showed good technical level and small-scale cooperation ability, but the offensive speed did not play. However, the East China Government Football Team's possession rate was extremely high throughout the game, exceeding 70%. Stuttgart team members were often fooled by the passing cooperation of the East China Government. They also won a lot of applause. On the one hand, it was for the wonderful performance of the East China Government Football Team; on the other hand, it was also promoted by German public opinion. The German people had a good impression of the East China Government and did not discriminate.

Of course, this has a great relationship with the victory of the East China Government in the Far East battlefield. Germany was a country established in countless iron-blooded wars. The people had a very fanatical worship of military wars. By respecting the strong in the war, the East China Government defeated Britain, France, Russia and Japan in the Far East War, and naturally won the respect of Germany. Otherwise, no matter how Germany promotes it, it would not be possible to change the people's view of the East China Government.

In the first half, neither side scored a goal and ended 0:0. In fact, although the East China Government Football Team did not perform well, they still got some goals. It was just because of various factors and poor luck, so they were not sure. Two of them hit the posts, and one shot was too straight and was saved by the goalkeeper. On the one hand, this is because the East China Government Football Team has a clear advantage in both ball control and scenes; on the other hand, the football skills and tactics of this era are still very primitive and backward.

After all, professional football teams are not compared with the military teams that played against the East China government before. They still have certain technical and tactical structures, and are not random and random. Stuttgart adopts the most popular 235 tactics in this era, namely, the lineup style of 2 defenders, 3 midfielders, and 5 forwards.

From the perspective of the old time and space, the 235 formation is a tactic that is extremely unbalanced offense and defense. It is typical of being top-heavy, and it attaches too much importance to offense and extremely despises defense. However, in this era, this is actually a formation that is both offense and defense, because with the football skills and tactics of this era, two defenders are completely sufficient for 5 forwards, because the "offside" rule.

In an era without the "offside" rule, football has basically no tactics. It is basically a big foot in the backcourt to the frontcourt, allowing the players in the frontcourt to compete for the ball and attack. There are only forwards and defenders on the court, and there is no concept of midfield. Often, when attacking, they often pile up 7 or 8 people in the frontcourt, leaving only 2 or 3 people in the backcourt, and the opposite is true when defense.

However, in the "Football Rules" formulated by the UK in 1874, the offside rules determined were: when there are three opponents (including goalkeepers) between the opponent's goal line, they can pass the ball forward. Later, the offside rules were continuously improved, including in the half of the team, there were no offside, when sending out the outskirts, corner kicks, free kicks, etc.

The introduction of offside rules immediately invented the "offside" tactic, making it possible for a few defensive players to fight against most offensive players. Therefore, when defending, there is no need to pile up too many defensive players in the backcourt. Two people are enough. Just a defensive player presses forward and passes over the offensive player to complete offside. Even if the timing of forward pressure is not mastered properly, the offside tactic fails, because there is a defensive player behind him, he still has a certain defensive ability and will not directly send a single shot to the opponent.

For the offensive side, the tactic of directly kicking off the backcourt to the frontcourt is obviously not feasible. The offensive side has changed from the previous single-handed battle, and local cooperation is required. The importance of passing has increased significantly in the game, and it also needs to be transitioned in the midfield, so that the midfield position and midfield players appear. However, at this time, the midfield players mainly assume the transition and defensive responsibilities, and are not the organizers on the court.

In this way, the 235 formation came into being, with 2 defenders + 1 goalkeeper staying in the backcourt to defend, using offside rules to deal with the opponent's forward; 3 midfielders are responsible for the midfield transition during offense, and are responsible for preventing the opponent's midfield transition during defense; the offense is completed by 5 forwards relying on local passes and cuts, and they hardly participate in the defense.

This tactic is very rigorous and relatively simple. The roles and responsibilities of each position are single and clear, and the activity area is relatively fixed. Therefore, under the football skills and tactic rules of this era, this is indeed a balanced formation, and it quickly became the mainstream formation.

However, this tactic led to the abuse of offside tactics, which seriously restricted the development of offense. Therefore, in 1925, the offside rule was changed to: when there were two opponents (including goalkeepers) between the opponent's goal line and the opponent's goal line, they could pass the ball forward. This is the core content of the offside rule in later generations, but it was continuously improved later, allowing offside players to be on the same line as the second defensive player and not be punished; if the player who got the ball was not in the offside position, even if a teammate who did not actually affect the game was in the offside position at the same time, he would not be punished for offside.

The modification of offside rules restricted the over-use use of offside tactics, which completely ended the dominance of the 235 formation over the football world. Instead, it was replaced by the WM formation invented by the legendary British Arsenal coach Herbert Chapman, but this was already in the 1930s in the old time and space.

Of course, the tactics of breaking the 235 formation are not difficult for the East China Government football team, because in the old time and space, there were too many anti-offside tactics. In fact, the anti-offside tactics are not complicated. Simply put, it is to pass the ball first, then go up, and chase the ball. What are the back row inserts, diagonal passes, straight passes, straight passes, diagonal inserts, etc. are all effective anti-offside tactics. The East China Government football team has also conducted special training on this.

Although Stuttgart has five forwards, which seems to be quite large, the positions of the five forwards are relatively fixed. Because there is also an inner forward, which has been cancelled in later generations, the offensive tactics are very simple. First, the winger crosses from the bottom, the center and the inner forward grab the goal in front of the goal, and second, the inner forward or the winger slid into the penalty area 45 degrees near the corner of the penalty area, the center forward grabs the ball header or ferry, and the winger on the other side grabs the second landing point to attack the goal. Of course, there will be some passing cooperation between the center and the inner forward, the inner forward and the winger, or the center forward forcefully breaks through with personal skills. Sometimes midfielders will also insert long shots.

However, the East China government football team has five defenders to defend, and the midfielder will also retreat to assist in defense when defending, so it is not at a disadvantage in terms of number of players; when choosing defensive tactics, Qiu Yi adopted the free central defender tactic that had been eliminated in the old time and space, that is, divided the central defender into the free central defender and the target center guard. The position of the target center guard is slightly forward, mainly responsible for guarding the opponent's most threatening striker, and the position of the free central defender is slightly behind, also known as the drag-back center guard. The responsibility is that there is a loophole on the position on the back line, so he is responsible for going forward to make up for the position, so this position is also called the scavenger.

The advantage of this tactic is that it increases the level and thickness of defense, so it is quickly widely used. However, because the scavenger is too far behind, it does not play much role in most of the time. In a strong team, the opponent has few opportunities to attack the penalty area, which is invisibly a waste of a player. Therefore, in the 1970s in the old time and space, German legendary player Beckenbauer pioneered the tactic of dragging back the central defender into the front assist, which is called the libero tactic, and the central defender who participates in the assist task is also called the libero.
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