In fact, when Yao Huasheng called the Chinese team players together for a meeting, Dong Jianhai also made adjustments on the sidelines.
It's just that everyone's attention was on the players on the field at that time and they didn't notice it immediately.
It wasn't until they ran back to their own half and the TV broadcast cut to the Chinese team's coaching bench that everyone discovered that Mao Jun was standing next to head coach Dong Jianhai, who was giving him instructions.
"The Chinese team is about to make a substitution!" He Feng praised, "Director Dong's response was very quick. In other words, he was actually planning to make such a substitution early in the morning, just waiting for the goal to come. As long as the Chinese team scores a goal, it will be
Substitute immediately! After Mao Jun comes on the field, he should replace an offensive player and strengthen the defense... Now the Chinese team has a two-goal lead, and there are still twenty minutes left in the game..."
"Who do you think he will replace?" Dillon asked in a relaxed tone in front of the TV.
Yu Jintao frowned and thought: "Jiang Wanqing should not be replaced, because we must have someone in the midfield defense... Will Zhang Qinghuan be replaced? Luo Kai and Zhou Zijing are centers, and Hu Lai cannot be replaced... In
In the case of counterattack, Zhang Qinghuan actually has little effect... Well, Zhang Qinghuan should be replaced."
After listening to Yu Jintao's analysis with a smile on his face, Dillon shook his head and said, "No, I think he will replace Qu."
"Qu Lu?" Yu Jintao was a little surprised. "Qu Lu is a full-back. He needs to strengthen his defense..."
"But Qu is a full-back who is stronger in offense than defense, and now he has moved to the full-back position. It is obvious that Dong is going to play a three-back formation, and it is impossible for him to let Qu come back and change to a four-back formation."
Long analyzed.
"Then why not replace Luo Kai or Chen Xingyi?"
"Because he needs the two of them to contain the Japanese team's offense on the wing, he must ensure the speed of the Chinese team on the wing."
As soon as Dilong finished speaking, Mao Junzheng walked towards the fourth official and handed over his participation certificate.
The fourth official took one look at the substitution arrangement and then lowered his head and started inputting the number on the electronic number plate.
When he lifted it up, it clearly read No. 4 up and No. 3 down.
No. 4 is Mao Junzheng, and No. 3 is Qu Lu!
"Aha!" Dillon laughed excitedly and clapped his hands vigorously, "I thought of going with Dong again! So, I think you, the media and the fans, have all said it too early to belittle and criticize Dong.
!He is definitely not the incompetent person you say!"
Yu Jintao was speechless: "I have never evaluated him that way..."
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After Mao Junzheng came on stage, he handed a note to Zhang Qinghuan: "Director Dong asked me to give it to you."
After saying that, he ran straight to his position.
Zhang Qinghuan lowered his head to read the contents on the note.
He finished reading it quickly and stuffed the note into the back pocket of his pants.
Then he shouted towards the frontcourt: "Chen Xingyi! Left midfielder!! Luo Kai! Right midfielder!!"
This tells them the new location.
With Mao Jun coming on to replace Qu Lu, the Chinese team made another adjustment to its formation.
Soon everyone saw the Chinese team’s new formation 352 through the perspective of television broadcasts.
The three defenders are Yao Huasheng, Wang Guangwei and Mao Junzheng. Among the five midfielders, Jiang Wanqing and Xia Xiaoyu play as deep midfielders, Zhang Qinghuan is in the middle and plays as offensive midfielder, Chen Xingyi is the left midfielder, and Luo Kai is the right midfielder. The front line is
Hu Lai and Zhou Zijing were partners.
"Beautiful, Dong..." Jorge Dillon said with emotion when he saw the position of the Chinese team players. "The Japanese team is in big trouble."
He was right. The three defenders of the Chinese team were not at a disadvantage against the two forwards of the Japanese team. After Mao Junzheng comes on the court, he can help Yao Huasheng defend, so that the pressure on Yao Huasheng, who is playing injured, will be much less.
In the midfield, the Chinese team with up to five players is enough to counter the Japanese team's four midfielders.
Striker Zhou Zijing uses his body to compete for the first point, and Hu Lai controls the second point next to him. The combination of the two can harass the Japanese team's defense, making Kengo Yamayama and Takehiro Nakaoka afraid.
Press on easily.
The Japanese team also made substitution adjustments, with Hiroto Motegi replacing two players at once.
Substituting striker Daisuke Yoshida for Hirokawa Masato Motegi also showed that Masato Hirokawa did not have an advantage when dealing with Yao Huasheng.
Then he replaced Kazuya Kudo with Tatsuya Sugiyama's.
Both of these substitutions are matchup substitutions.
If this were a normal game, it would be a very common substitution.
But when it comes to risking one's life, these two substitutions are really... ordinary.
Because the number of attackers has not changed, the offensive tactics have not changed, and they are still the same as before. The Chinese team is very familiar with the Japanese team's offensive routines in the game, and it is much easier to deal with it.
But Motegi Hiroto couldn't replace a defender, add a forward, and play 343 like Dong Jianhai did. He could only maintain 442 unchanged.
Because he didn't dare.
Zhou Zijing and Hu Lai can contain the Japanese team's defenders with just long passes from the backcourt. How dare Motegi Hiroto casually replace a defender?
Besides, the Japanese team has never practiced a three-back formation...
So the Japanese team, which was supposed to give it a try, was tied up by the Chinese team, which also played an unfamiliar formation...
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After Tatsuya Sugiyama got the ball in the frontcourt, he let the ball stay at his feet for a few seconds, trying to observe the situation in the Chinese team's penalty area, but was bumped into by Jiang Wanqing from the side. He quickly used his left foot
Hook the football to the right and try to turn around to protect the football.
As a result, as soon as he turned around, he saw Xia Xiaoyu appearing in front of him, stretching out his foot and stabbing...
The ball was lost!
Sugiyama Tatsuya was worried that the Chinese team would launch a counterattack, so he could only reach out and pull Xia Xiaoyu to the ground.
The referee blew the whistle for a foul and awarded the Chinese team a free kick in the backcourt.
Xia Xiaoyu was still lying on the ground and Hu Lai was squatting next to him and talking to him...
Seeing this, Sugiyama Tatsuya showed a painful expression. He did not complain to the referee that the Chinese team deliberately delayed the time. He just put his hands on his hips, raised his head and sighed.
Before the game, he never imagined that the game would turn out like this...
They are the defending champions!
In fact, in this Asian Cup, Sugiyama Tatsuya himself felt a little frustrated.
This season, he was loaned to Arminia in the Bundesliga by Blue and White Munich. In this newly promoted team, Tatsuya Sugiyama finally got his wish and played in the core of the midfield and performed well.
But in the Japanese national team, he could only serve as a substitute for the original four-man team.
There are very few opportunities to play, and most of them can only play in some garbage time.
This game was called upon at a critical moment, but faced with a two-goal deficit, Sugiyama Tatsuya was somewhat helpless.
As someone who has played against Hu Lai since the East Asian Cup, he certainly knows how good Hu Lai is. After losing to the Chinese U23 team in the U23 Asian Cup final, he also knows the capabilities of Chen Xingyi, Wang Guangwei, and Luo Kai.
But now it's the Asian Cup, and the Japanese team wants to defend the title with its strongest attitude.
However, they were beaten 1:3 by the Chinese team in this game, and now they are even more helpless in the face of being two goals behind...
Sugiyama Tatsuya suddenly thought of Morikawa Junpei.
When I first learned that Junpei Morikawa could not participate in the Asian Cup, I felt sorry for him.
But now it seems that maybe not participating in the Asian Cup is actually a blessing.
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Amid the boos of the Japanese fans, Xia Xiaoyu was finally pulled up by Hu Lai, and the timing was just right. It was not enough for the referee to show him a yellow card.
Because it actually didn’t waste much time.
It's just that Sugiyama Tatsuya's foul was not serious. He just pulled Xia Xiaoyu down, not tackled him. Japanese fans thought that Xia Xiaoyu could just stand up after falling to the ground, and there was no need to lie on the ground for a while.
Xia Xiaoyu actually planned to get up from the beginning, but was pushed to the ground by Hu Lai who arrived.
So this is deliberately delaying time, but it just didn't delay long enough...
Chinese fans can completely argue that Hu Lai did not want Xia Xiaoyu to deliberately delay, but wanted Xia Xiaoyu to take this opportunity to take a rest.
So it actually doesn't matter whether it really delayed the time. What matters is that both the players and the fans of the Japanese team were disgusted.
When Tatsuya Sugiyama looked up at the sky and lamented the fate of himself and the national team, his teammates ran around the referee and pointed at Hu Lai and Xia Xiaoyu in protest.
Unfortunately, the protest was ineffective, and the referee had no intention of judging the Chinese team for delaying the game.
This makes the Japanese players even more disgusted.
In their minds, all members of the Chinese team are probably despicable people...
But in the minds of Chinese fans, this is a group of anti-Japanese heroes.
Hu Lai's witty performance was unanimously praised by Chinese fans.
Yan Yan pointed at Hu Lai on the screen and shouted excitedly: "As expected of Hu Lai! Well done, you have the mentality of a little Japanese!"
Then he said to the uncle next to him: "Let me tell you, uncle, Hu Lai is good at doing this. I remember when we were still in high school, we participated in the national competition and faced Chongwen Middle School in the semi-finals..."
