Characteristics of European football formation——Top 8 Teams in the 2008 European Cup play as an example

In order to study the world's most advanced features of soccer defensive tactics, learning and understanding of football in today's world of advanced theory and the law of high-level competitions. In this paper, the European Cup in 2008 in the top 8 of the 36 teams games as the research object, the top 8 teams in the game features the basic formation, changes in the characteristics of offensive and defensive formations, defensive action in the implementation of field observation and data Statistics show that focuses on the 2008 European Cup top 8 teams tactics in the overall arrangement of the formation, formation changes and the implementation of different regions of the characteristics of defensive opera- tions, and part of the data and comparative analysis of the previous games, European Cup in 2008 found that top 8 teams during the match the characteristics of the defensive strategy is:1. The main use of the race to four back and defensive midfield player for the defensive barriers of 442 and 451 core formation. 2. The game seeks to Balance of Offensive and defensive, attention to defensive players a clear division of responsibilities, the rapid formation of the conversion.