Flashing Stars took the lead in threatening the South China Tigers' goal after the opening, with two consecutive shots that were extremely threatening, which gave the Flashing Stars fans in the stands and in front of the TV a misconception.
That is, they feel that the Chinese Super League champion is nothing more than this. The Flash Stars can easily defeat the South China Tigers in the Super Cup, win the Super Cup championship, and become the king of Chinese football.
But the actual progress of the game was not what these Flash Star fans thought.
After being threatened by Flash Star twice in the opening game, the South China Tigers did not panic. On the contrary, they played steadily and appeared to be very patient.
They did not play fast breaks like Flash Star. If the opportunity was not good, they would rather slow down, control the ball in the midfield, and pass the ball back and forth in the backcourt, rather than risk going forward.
This is the South China Tigers’ consistent football style: steady.
Stable as an old dog.
They are certainly qualified to be so stable because their overall strength is very strong and there are basically no shortcomings in the front, middle and back lines.
Whether it is a single game or an entire season, "stability" is the characteristic of the South China Tigers.
Last season, South China Tigers and Golden Arrows competed for the league championship.
Although the Golden Arrow has always maintained the lead, the South China Tiger has been clinging to the Golden Arrow and has not fallen behind. Instead, it has patiently waited for the Golden Arrow to make mistakes.
They are not passively waiting to leave their fate to their opponents. Instead, they use their stable performance and pressing to force the Golden Arrow to make mistakes after being unable to withstand the pressure of leading.
As a result, in the sprint stage of the league, Golden Arrow lost to Hedong Thunder 1:2 in an away game, losing the first place in the league.
After that, the South China tiger never let the golden arrow go back.
Until the end of the league, the South China Tigers firmly occupied the first place in the league with stable performance, and finally regained the league championship.
This kind of stability is often vividly reflected in a single game. There was a statistic last season. In the game, as long as the South China Tigers scored first, they ended up winning more than 70% of the games...
Note, it’s a win, not a loss.
Their head coach, Friedrich Lechmann, was known for his steady coaching style when he was coaching the German giants Blue and White Munich. Under his guidance, Blue and White Munich made all competitors feel desperate and achieved success.
Bundesliga dominance.
After coming to coach the South China Tigers, he naturally continued to use the method he was best at.
Coupled with the hard power of South China Tigers, which has no shortcomings in the three lines, it really brings out the "stability" to the fullest.
Of course, this kind of stability does not mean that the South China Tigers' football is devoid of passion, negative and ugly. As long as the time is right and the opportunity comes, they can also launch a storm-like offensive and destroy the opponent's defense and fighting spirit in a short period of time.
In this Super Cup, although the Flash Stars continuously threatened the South China Tigers' goal in the opening game, they did not launch a fierce attack afterwards in an attempt to regain some face in front of the newly promoted team.
In fact, Zhao Kangming hopes that the South China Tigers will do this. As long as they are eager to attack, they can provide opportunities for Flash Star to counterattack.
When the overall strength of Flash Star is weaker than that of its opponents, they naturally hope that the South China Tigers can fall into their rhythm. Both sides will increase the rhythm, break quickly and defend quickly. After speeding up, the South China Tigers may make mistakes and loopholes. Flash Star
These vulnerabilities can be exploited.
Flash Star has the ability and advantage to play fast. There are many young players in their lineup, and the wing players also have a speed advantage.
Coupled with an efficient shooter, he can always seize limited opportunities to score goals, which is especially suitable for playing against strong teams with few opportunities.
But now what the South China Tiger is doing makes Flashing Star feel like it has been kicked on an iron plate.
Not only are they unable to produce speed, but if they insist on continuing to speed up, it may disrupt their own rhythm, causing them to make mistakes and loopholes first.
After realizing this, Zhao Kangming walked to the sidelines and made gestures, asking his players to slow down the rhythm, not to be anxious, and to shrink appropriately for defensive counterattacks. He still used his speed advantage, but it was not as good as before.
Too aggressive.
"Zhao made the team shrink back." After seeing this scene, Matthews Fisher, assistant coach of the South China Tigers, said to his long-time partner Friedrich Lechmann. "This is really a pity. If they continue
If we continue to attack like this, we will be able to find loopholes..."
Lehman smiled and shook his head: "Matthews, don't think Zhao is too stupid. He led this team to defeat the Golden Arrow. But all this is in our predictions. It's not a big deal. As long as
We stick to our own rhythm, and Zhao’s little thoughts are not important at all.”
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Regarding the Flash Stars' intention to shrink the defense and launch a quick counterattack, Lehman did not make any adjustments. He just sat on the coach's bench and watched the game, letting the players on the field play on their own.
He believes that with the ability and experience of players like the South China Tigers, it is simply trivial to cope with today's situation.
In fact, the players of the South China Tigers did not disappoint their head coach Lehman.
They rely on their strong abilities and rich experience to slowly deal with the flashing star. While consuming their patience and energy, they are also looking for opportunities.
As for Flashing Star, they can only use the pitiful opportunities to fight back.
But because of the South China Tigers' steady style, the Stars' counterattacks rarely really threatened the goal guarded by Lin Zhiyuan.
Hu Lai and Lin Zhiyuan never had a direct conversation with each other after their confrontation at the beginning of the game.
This made the melon-eating people in the Olympic team group who were waiting to watch the excitement quite boring.
“The South China Tigers basically controlled the situation on the field...”
“This is normal, He Feng. After all, there is still a gap in strength between the two teams.”
Yan Kang and He Feng were discussing the ongoing competition. They both saw that the initiative in the competition had basically fallen to the South China Tigers.
This did not make them feel unexpected, but felt it was normal.
Although the Flash Stars can be said to have swept the Chinese League One and performed very well in the Football Association Cup, it is difficult for them to compare with the South China Tigers who have won six Chinese Super League titles in ten years.
Many people even think that it is a great achievement for Flash Star to appear in the Super Bowl.
Perhaps except for the most ardent and die-hard Star Flash fans, no one else thought they could win.
For this newly promoted team, the most important thing is to take advantage of the Super Cup opportunity to play against the strongest team in the Chinese Super League first. What can we learn from this game?
After all, if the goal of Flash Star is to avoid relegation, then even if they are double-killed by the South China Tigers in the league, it will not affect their goal of relegation.
No relegation team will consider taking points against the league leaders, but playing against the leaders may help them understand the gap between themselves and the strongest level in the league. If they can learn from this game
Something that will be very important for their next relegation journey.
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Face the pressure from the South China Tigers, Flashing Star performed very tenaciously, but they still failed to withstand the South China Tigers’ wave after wave of continuous offensives.
At the thirty-fourth minute, the Shining Star City Gate was finally lost.
The South China Tigers launched a cascading attack through the wings, and finally their left back Qu Lu passed the football to the goal of Flash Star.
Wang Guangwei got in front of Brazilian forward Alessandro and pushed the football out.
But the second goal outside the penalty area was controlled by the South China Tigers. This was the result of the South China Tigers' previous pressure, which compressed almost all the Flash Star players to the vicinity of the penalty area. The areas further away were all owned by the South China Tigers.
Player.
So even if Wang Guangwei wins the first point, the South China Tiger can launch a continuous attack on the Flash Star by controlling the second point.
At this time, they don't have to worry about the space behind them being used by Flash Star, because whether it is Chen Xingyi or Li Rong, they have returned to the penalty area to participate in defense, and there is no way to counterattack so quickly. From Flash Star penalty area to South China Tigers
The penalty area and such a long distance are enough to offset the speed advantage of Flash Star. After all, the South China Tigers players are not scarecrows. They will return to defend.
It was South China Tigers midfielder Lou Jiarong who controlled the second goal outside the penalty area. The Chinese national team international first pretended to shoot, dunked Hu Lai who came up to tackle him, and then shot with a flick of his foot!
The football passed through the dense crowd in the penalty area and headed straight for the lower left corner of the goal.
Flash Star goalkeeper Yu Zhiming had people in the penalty area blocking his view. When he saw the football coming out of the crowd, it was too late to pounce on it.
The football skimmed the turf at low altitude and flew into the net!
“Hey? Beautiful!!” He Feng shouted, “Lou Jiarong broke the deadlock with a cold shot from outside the penalty area! The South China Tigers took the lead 1:0!”
The South China Tigers fans in the stadium stands cheered, while the Stars fans opposite them held their heads in pain.
After scoring the goal, Lou Jiarong ran towards the corner flag area of Flash Star and at the same time called on his teammates to come up and celebrate the goal.
The stand in front of him was the area where fans of the South China Tigers gathered. They waved several big flags and wrote: "The tigers are in South China, and the roar is in the Central Plains!"
These flags were waved amidst thunderous cheers, as if a huge wave was set off in the stands, and the cheers of the South China Tigers fans were the roar of a huge wave!
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“It is indeed a South China Tiger...” Zhao Kangming didn’t make much movement after losing the ball. He just raised his eyes and looked at the stands behind the Star Gate.
Chen Mo lowered his head and looked at his watch: "After thirty-four minutes, facing the Chinese Super League champions, the defensive performance was good enough. But we were still compressed too hard by them and overrecovered. We shouldn't have put anything outside the penalty area."
Just give it up..."
“Let’s review things like experience and lessons during the intermission.” Zhao Kangming shook his head, and after saying that, he got up from his seat and walked to the sidelines.
At the same time, Qin Lin also cast his eyes towards the coaching bench on the sidelines, wanting to see if the head coach would have the latest instructions.
Sure enough, he saw Zhao Kangming making a gesture to him:
Stay steady, continue to defend and counterattack, don’t panic!
He looked at Zhao Kangming and nodded, turned around and shouted to his teammates who were hit: "It's just a ball, no big deal! Don't think about it, just defend until the end of the first half! Withstand their attack!"
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After the game restarted, the South China Tigers, who broke the deadlock, launched an even more fierce attack on the Bingxing goal.
The fans in front of the TV were frightened and did not dare to take a breath.
However, even though they lost the ball, Flashing Star still stubbornly withstood all the South China Tigers' attacks.
Or maybe the South China Tigers are looking for stability and see that Flash Star's defense has not collapsed yet, so they don't exert full pressure...
With five minutes left in the first half, W. South China Tigers saw that they could not break through the goal of Bingxing, so they also took the initiative to shrink and gave up the opportunity to continue to besiege Bingxing. They may be worried that Bingxing will take advantage of these last few minutes.
time to launch one or two high-quality counterattacks.
He Feng also marveled: "Take the initiative to give up the advantageous situation... South China Tiger's operation is really stable."
As the South China tiger actively shrinks, Flashing Star naturally has no chance to make a quick counterattack.
Flashing Star naturally did not fight back when they saw this. They were afraid that after they went up, the South China Tiger would seize the opportunity to fight back.
The final minutes of the first half of the game passed in a kind of calm after the storm.
South China Tigers temporarily lead the Stars with a score of 1:0.
Players from both sides walked into the tunnel one after another, substitute players came on to warm up, the TV broadcast went into commercials, fans and spectators went to the toilet, and others checked their mobile phones...
Everyone is waiting for the start of the second half.