A ball well strategy stopped from Belgium

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St. Petersburg.- The Belgian coach, Roberto Martínez, tried to cancel the match by the French groups and he did it, with some movements that came from the 39, absence of defender Thomas Meunier. And he was close to finding the way to a better destination for his team, until something appeared that he might not have considered in the initial plan: the play [19659003] Belgium makes a hybrid of his tactical design Marouane Fellaini and Eden Hazard, who served in a position where he blocked the right side Benjamin Pavard

When he had the ball, the Belgian team s 39; is found with three in the background: Nacer Chadli as a kind of way or extreme by right and Hazard by left, although in the case of "10", without too much defensive work. This position was one that did not allow the Frenchman to leave his area, since he neglected his back. The only time he did it came to the goal defended by Thibaut Courtois and he shot at the goal, but he tried not to do it.

Fellaini then behaved like a joker. When Belgium attacked, he rejoined the center or reloaded on the left with Hazard, although in the second period he made it right, along with Kevin de Bruyne.

When they did not have the ball, they formed a line of four defenders and Moussa Dembélé between the central defenders to close the space; the one who remained remained in the containment zone with Axel Witsel. Then Hazard, Romelu Lukaku and De Bruyne formed a line of three in the attack to be ready in counterattack, something that they could never get, because they could not steal the ball.

So changed their drawing Belgium, according to the exploitation of the ball, but without being able to hurt a France that remained in its cold and calculating game. In the end, the goal in corner has weakened the strategy of the Spaniard, who towards the last minutes of the game and with the need to at least equalize the score, broke the initial pattern and then confirmed that when A team fails to realize the options generated with good initial tactics, overall negligence can throw all the work into the sea.