When the group match between the German and Japanese teams finished, the media around the world seemed to be like the festival, and they almost set off firecrackers to celebrate, because this 4-0 victory can definitely be regarded as the best game in this World Cup so far.

The sharp and fierce attack, the smooth and skillful pass and reception cooperation, and the whole game was completed in a fast pace of offense and defense conversion, which gave people the pleasure of watching Hollywood blockbusters.

If we use a short comment posted by Martin Samuel on Weibo after the game, he said, "A qualified popcorn game!", his adjective is obviously from those popcorn commercial blockbusters in Hollywood.

As a head coach, Yang Cheng has a clear understanding of the player's condition. He can grasp the player's condition through training, psychology, and a series of means. He can clearly and intuitively feel it. Through the running-in and mobilization of the first two games, the player's psychology and state have reached a node.

The German team won both games in the first two games, but it was obvious that they did not play happily. Or it could be said that they were not the kind of game that the German team was best at. The results and goals were achieved under the pressure of the opponent step by step. This made the German players feel unhappy even if they won the ball, and they felt that something was holding it back and blocking it.

From a psychological point of view, they need to vent!

Therefore, when facing Japan and the German team played a refreshing situation that was not in the first two games, all the players performed at a high level. They almost suppressed the Japanese team in half and beaten them up.

Thomas Muller, Philip Ram, Mario Gomez, and Reus, who added the icing on the cake to the German team in the last moment, the German team's four goals were completed by four different players, and the whole team performed very well, which undoubtedly made everyone see the strong side of the German team.

The game process was full of passion and exciting. After the game was over, everyone was still immersed in the atmosphere of the game, but when the group of professional football judges calmed down and began to think about and reflect on the game, they couldn't help but analyze the game from other aspects.

The Times published a column of Martin Samuel, and he used four words to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses!

"When Klose was injured, the whole world felt that the German team's offense would be affected, but the German team we have seen did not decline at all. They scored a total of 9 goals in the group stage and did not concede, which is definitely an impressive record."

"Unbreakable defense and extremely sharp attacks are the most impressive thing for the German team, but looking at the three games of the German team's group stage, you can find a very interesting thing, that is, this German team always arranges its own tactics according to the characteristics of the opponent."

"Faced with Colombia and Japan, which have stronger ball control ability and stronger control ability, but have weaker physical ability to fight against Colombia and Japan, the German team can play a strong impact and run-and-bombing tactic without any scruples. They can use their physical, technical and overall speed advantages to completely crush their opponents, and face Croatia, they can adopt control tactics with better control ability."

"After all, the core of tactics is actually to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses. This principle seems simple, but how many can be done in today's football world? And Yang Cheng is undoubtedly the best one. He always uses highly targeted tactics to suppress his opponents."

"I once had an exchange with Ferguson, Wenger, Mourinho, and later Redondo and others. They all said to me one thing at the same time. The one who plays the best targeted tactics in today's football world must be Yang Cheng, because there is a targeted master, Rafa Benitez, by his side!"

"Of course, this does not mean that Yang Cheng's achievements in targeted tactics are not as good as Benitez. Both are the world's top tactical masters, but Yang Cheng has to coordinate the overall situation and take into account offense and defense. Benitez is targeting the details. The two complement each other, divide the labor and cooperate, and cooperate tacitly, which has resulted in a series of brilliant achievements."

"So we can see that Yang Cheng's team is always so targeted in terms of tactics. He can always play his own advantages on the basis of curbing the opponents, and play a role in playing to the strengths and avoiding weaknesses. In this game, we can find that the pitiful four shots of the Japanese team were completely caused by a complete defeat at the tactical level!"

"Looking at the three games in the group stage, we can find that the German team's condition has been adjusted well and getting better and better. Without Klose, the integration of Gomez and the team's offense is getting better and better. We have absolutely reason to believe that such a German team is definitely the number one favorite of this World Cup!"

Compared with Martin Samuel's comment on the German team at the tactical level, German Photo News also gave a very high evaluation of the German team's tactics, believing that Yang Cheng adopted three different offensive modes in three games. The key is to make the German team skillfully use it. Obviously, he was prepared for it, reflecting his strength as a world-class coach.

"But when the team performs well, we should not ignore personal performance. For example, in this game of Japan, Gomez's performance surprised us all, because we rarely see Super Mario having such a fierce and brave side. He even singled out two central defenders in the frontcourt!"

"Yang Cheng's team was very clear from the beginning. To freeze a team like the Japanese team that likes to control the ball under his feet, he has to start pressing from the front line. Therefore, Gomez was in the frontcourt from the beginning, always like a beast foraging. As long as the opponent's central defender, even the full-back and back midfielder get the ball under his feet, as long as his distance is not far away, he will choose to rush forward."

"This kind of scene is rarely seen on weekdays, especially with a body like Gomez. Even if you get a little closer, it will put pressure on the short Japanese players, which also makes them panic. The pass loses its usual accuracy."

"There was a scene in the game. Thomas Muller made a mistake when he dribbled the ball in the left side. The ball was cut by the Japanese team and moved to the middle. They were originally planning to launch a counterattack, but Gomez rushed back quickly from the front like a rocket. While intercepting the ball, he also threw the opponent to the ground and successfully handed the ball to Tony Klos's feet. This time the snatchback won him a warm applause from the whole audience."

"We all know. When watching the German team's game, you never want to see a scene where the opponent's entire defense is fucked over by one single hand. You will never see any player standing in the opponent's penalty area without any scruples waiting for his teammates to pass the ball. When watching the German team's game, what you can see is a group of players who lower their posture and fight with the opponent to the end of each ball, and win a game together!"

"Perhaps, the talent of German players is not the best, maybe, the skills of German players are not the best, and maybe the personal strength of German players is definitely not the best, but German players always have the fighting spirit that their opponents do not have, and always have the high fighting spirit that their opponents can't sigh!"

"In the past, Gomez could not integrate into the team's offensive system and could not replace Klose, but in this game, we saw hope. Perhaps Gomez could never replace Klose, but as long as he insisted on his attitude in this game and as long as he insisted on moving in this direction, he would become the new benchmark on the German forward after Klose!"

In three group matches, Gomez played two starters, scored 3 goals and won two best on the spot. He can be said to be one of the best players in the German team. He also became the best scorer in this World Cup. Although he was tied, this was enough to make him feel proud.

Coincidentally, so far, the player with the most goals in this World Cup group stage has scored 3 goals, and 4 players have done it, and the German team has two of them, namely Gomez and Thomas Muller. They both scored three goals and tied for the first place in the scorer list.

Before the game, Samed Yehill, who was valued by Yang Cheng, had consecutive chances to play as a substitute, but unfortunately, although the young player had many opportunities to perform, he never got a convincing report card. At least as a striker, Samed Yehill never scored his first goal in the World Cup with Gomez and Thomas Muller scoring consecutive goals, which has to be said to be a big regret.

Now, after three games in the group stage, when German Kickers Magazine commented on this German national team, the most mentioned word is maturity and comprehensive maturity, among which Thomas Mueller is the most obvious.

This player has always been relatively low-key. Although he did not score in the first game of the group, he got assists and performed well. He was only covered up by the dazzling Gomez. However, facing Croatia in the second game of the group, his two goals helped the team defeat the opponent smoothly and won the first place in the group in advance.

In the third game of the group stage, Thomas Muller scored and assisted again. Although his performance was not as conspicuous as Gomez, he was always stable. He belonged to the kind of person you might not care too much, but when you deliberately pay attention to him, you will find that he has achieved a surprising performance.

According to the practice of the World Cup top scorer, if the number of goals is the same, the player with the most assists will get the Golden Boot. If we look at this scoring standard, Thomas Mueller is undoubtedly the Golden Boot, because his assists are the most of all players who scored 3 goals.

Many people cannot locate players like Thomas Mueller. His skills are flawed. He cannot be as skilled as a normal wing player, or as skilled as Reus and Gotze. However, he has an extremely keen sense of scoring and outstanding movement awareness. He can always move to the most threatening place anytime, anywhere.

As for what a scorer needs most, stopping the ball, shooting, and Thomas Muller are all very solid, and he is not as unique as a shooter criticized. He has the sense of cooperation and team spirit that many shooters do not have. In addition, his tactical role has enabled him to start in all three games in the group stage.

"Some people may say that after Klose was absent, Gomez performed very well, but what we should see is that in terms of playing time and performance, the current national team, Riram, Schweinsteiger, Badstuber and Neuer are indispensable, but after Klose was absent, Thomas Mueller's performance was the most stable and contributing player in the team."

"After this World Cup, we will completely lose Klose, but we have absolutely reason to look forward to our future. Because we have ushered in a comprehensive and mature Thomas Mueller!"

"Thomas Muller, Ozil, Tony Klos, Reus, Sven Bend, Badstuber, Hummels, Jerome Boateng... Our backbone core is so young. This is a treasure house that Yang Cheng brings to German football, and it also lays a solid foundation for us!"

"Maybe. A player like Thomas Mueller, you will never be able to see his name at the forefront of the Fifa Golden Globes roster, but any opponent will always regard him as the most threatening player in defense. At least this World Cup has been perfect so far, and even the most picky fans can't blame him!"

After the German team won Japan, all the games in Group C were officially over.

Japan lost to Germany, but Colombia narrowly defeated Croatia 3:2. At the critical moment, Falcao showed his ability to be the world's top scorer and scored a winning goal, helping Colombia kill Croatia.

In this way, the German team won 9 points in three games. Anran advanced to the first place in the group. Colombia lost to the German team in the first game in the group, but in the next two games, he won one win and one draw, ranking second in the group with 4 points. He also stood out from this group.

The Japanese team scored 2 points and ranked third in the group, while Croatia ranked last in the group with a record of 1 point. The biggest problem for this team is the midfield's ball path, so the tragedy of Croatia was destined from the beginning.

As the German team defeated Japan, the other groups were in full swing. Among them, what interested Yang Cheng the most was the D group where his opponent was. The French team scored 7 points with a record of 2 wins and 1 draw in 3 games, qualifying as the first place in the group, while the Chile team won the second place in the group.

According to the draw rules before the World Cup, Yang Cheng's team will face Chile in the round of 16 knockout match.

In the following days, other games were decided one after another, and the top 16 teams were born one after another. One very obvious boundary was that the Asian teams were wiped out this time, and all failed in the group stage. No team could stand out from the group stage.

If the qualifying between Japan and South Korea during the South African World Cup made people feel that Asia seems to have already had the ranks of second-rate strong teams, then the Brazilian World Cup was wiped out by the Asian team, especially the Japanese team was slaughtered by the German team 0:4, which made everyone realize that they were just second-rate.

Of course, compared with Yang Cheng's motherland, this is already an amazing achievement.

The situation in this World Cup is still the double act of European and South American teams, and will continue to confront and compete between Europe and South America in the future. However, European teams still have obvious advantages, such as Germany, Spain, France, Portugal, England, Italy and other traditional teams have successfully advanced.

Brazil, Argentina and other teams in South America also entered the knockout stage, among which Argentina and Germany were all divided into the same zone. If the German team can successfully surpass Chile, they may face Argentina in the quarterfinals. Then, it may be another battle.

Long before the World Cup group stage started, Yang Cheng had asked the think tank to collect all the information from the four teams in Group D. When the last opponent determined that it was Chile, the think tank handed over a 300-page piece of information to the coaching team that night. The German team's coaching system also included some videos and highlights of the Chile team's game over the past two years.

Yang Cheng also conducted an in-depth analysis of Chile as soon as his opponent was released.

You should know that in the 2010 World Cup, Chile played football that countless fans highly praised under the leadership of Bielsa. It was welcomed and recognized by countless fans and won a huge response. Although after Bielsa left, Chile almost lost its results so that it could not stand out from the World Cup qualifiers, the Chilean Football Association soon invited another Argentine, Jorge Sanbaoli, to coach the national team.

This Argentinian claims to be Bielsa's most loyal follower. He led Chile to complete redemption in the shortest time, successfully got the ticket to the World Cup finals, and brought Chile to the top 16 again.

The bare Argentinian has completed his goal for this World Cup, and the Chilean Football Association has announced that he will renew his contract with Jorge Sanbaoli after the World Cup, allowing the latter to continue to stay in the national team.

Facing such an opponent, the German team is also facing a considerable challenge, especially in defense.

But Yang Cheng also knew in his heart that Chile has maintained its current style since the Bielsa period. Although there have been some ups and downs in the middle, the Chilean team also has some problems with South American teams, that is, focus on offense and down defense.

Facing such a team, if you deal well, you can win it smoothly, just like Brazil easily defeating Chile in the South African World Cup. But if there is a mistake, it will capsize in the gutter anytime and anywhere!

The French team was at a disadvantage for a long time in the group stage and almost lost to Chile, which is a big example!
Chapter completed!