Before the weekend league came, a new huge portrait was replaced outside the municipal stadium, and the vacant portrait position after Piqi left the team was replaced by Tang Hong.
European teams basically hang outside the stadium or display the star players in the team through large screens.
There are basically two types of star players in the Portuguese Super League team, either South American players or local players, while the proportion of South American players among the three giants is even higher.
Porto's Hulk, James Rodriguez, Cleber, Benfica's Cardozo, Aimal, etc., their portraits are displayed outside the court.
This also reflects the improvement of Tang Hong's status in Braga from another perspective.
However, Braga did not play at the Municipal Stadium on the weekend, and they challenged Guimares as a guest.
Guimares had a good record last season and won a European spot through the local cup. However, he was doubled by Atletico Madrid in two rounds in the qualifying round before the main season, resulting in missing the main season. After 4 rounds of the new season, they won 1 win and 3 losses in the league, and their ranking has fallen to the relegation zone.
Tang Hong was placed on the bench in this game.
Yartim wants to use Tang Hong more reasonably, and he has other ideas.
The new season has started for more than a month. Except for Tang Hong, other players have basically not performed stably and outstandingly. The forwards are not domineering enough, and they can only rely on Tang Hong to score goals. The midfielder is in a sluggish state and the back line does not have a stable defense configuration.
It will definitely not work if the team suffers from Tang Hong's dependence at this time, then once Tang Hong's condition declines, will the team be unable to make up for the situation?
He hopes that other players can perform better and better, but the tangled reality is that Braga seems to have no one else who can score a stable goal except Tang Hong!
This league was quite fierce, and Guimares naturally had to bottom out and rebound to win the first home victory. Braga's defense performed well, and did not give his opponent many opportunities in the offensive and defensive tug-of-war, but Alan, Lima and Ukara on the front line performed very hard.
Barbosa and Viana did create many opportunities in the midfield.
But the forward just couldn't send the ball into the opponent's goal, which made Yartim sigh at the sidelines, sometimes beat his chest and stamp his feet.
It seems like a substitution is coming again when midfielder is about to be replaced.
But the bad thing is that at the end of the first half, because Braga's continuous offense failed to create a threat, Guimares instead became more aggressive in the offensive. With continuous offenses, forward Edgar scored the goal and broke the deadlock on the court.
Home fans were cheering, and Yartim had the heart to eat people!
He could see that Alan could no longer be the main force, and his condition was so bad that Lima was just not bad. It just depends on his condition. There was no surprise to give him a substitute like Ukara, but it was like training soldiers constantly paying the price!
At the end of the first half, Guimares led Braga 1-0.
Tang Hong stayed in the field to warm up, and the veteran Nuno Gomez was with him.
If it weren't for the goal and trying to make a comeback, I'm afraid Nuno Gomez's pick would be slightly lower. After all, he is already 35 years old, and his future can be seen at a glance, just like a sunset sinking into the horizon.
Although Nuno Gomez had a disdain for Tang Hong before, Tang Hong could fully understand.
If a new forward comes to Braga tomorrow, Tang Hong will treat the other party friendly before the opponent shows enough strength, but will never allow the other party to squander opportunities on the court, and will ask the other party to create opportunities for himself.
This is the most basic ecosystem for team competition.
Tang Hong won the respect of his teammates with his strength and performance, and his relationship with Nuno Gomez has also changed. Tang Hong and Nuno Gomez are the teammates who communicate the most during training, because Nuno Gomez has some experience as a striker that Tang Hong can learn.
After the two fully completed the warm-up exercise, they passed the ball back and forth on the court for a short distance. Nuno Gomez said casually: "Their carelessness and arrogance on the court are really a big deal! Do you know what a problem is that Brazilian players have?"
Tang Hong asked with a smile: "What?"
Nuno Gomez curled his lips and said, "When they kicked the self-righteous football, they had no awe of tactics, and seemed to think that football should be an unrestrained nature, using the joy and freedom of football to cover up their laziness and stupidity.
Players like Alan, if the Portuguese had his skills, they would have become star players long ago. Most of their goals came from free play and accidental play, but for truly top teams, their victory and goals, chance factors will be minimized."
"Is this the experience you have gained in Italy?"
Tang Hongqing couldn't help but become curious.
Nuno Gomez said: "The Italians are also confused. The obsession with tactics has made them regard football as scientific research, which is simply a psychopath!
There is a lot of time for daily training in Italy to listen to the coach explaining tactics and setting tactics to you, from the whole to the individual, and then to dealing with various situations. I was thinking at the time that if football dies one day, Italians can definitely continue to play games in chat, and then they will definitely make the drink sellers rich."
Tang Hong laughed loudly, and then thought of an interesting story. Shevchenko joined AC Milan for the first training class. Shevchenko stood there and listened to the coach for two hours after the team gathering. Then he became impatient and asked Maldini when he started training. Maldini told him that it had been two hours since it started.
Italy used to be a tactical paradise, but it might not be famous without the accumulation of stars. When the stars escaped from Serie A one after another, the so-called Serie A tactical power is now unconvincing in European football.
Before the second half, Tang Hong and Nuno Gomez appeared to replace Ukara and Alan.
Braga fans have confidence again because Tang Hong made his debut.
Not to mention fans, Braga's midfielder and defenders on the field were immediately energetic.
They performed well in the first half, and Yartim hoped to see the team perform better. It was not that they did not appear, but it was impossible to have a soaring effect!
Just like scoring goals can always cover up many problems, concealing goals always makes people habitually make things difficult for a big deal!
Guimares led at home and performed slightly conservatively in the second half.
After Tang Hong appeared, the midfield mainly created opportunities for him, but it was not some excellent opportunities. It was just a similar style of play to Brazil, passing the ball to the forwards, allowing the forwards to complete the final attack cooperation and a fatal blow.
Guimares compressed the defensive space in front of the goal. Tang Hong had just entered the game state and actually could not have an advantage in rhythm, but he got rid of the defense on the outside and created a threat.
Tang Hong was not in a hurry when he made two consecutive long shots in ten minutes of appearance, but failed to score.
In the 61st minute of the game, Barbosa and Viana quickly hit the wall in the middle of the frontcourt to cooperate to attract the opponent's defense force, and then Viana passed the ball diagonally in front of the penalty area to the left.
Tang Hong cut inward quickly, and when he was about to fall into a clamp, he stopped suddenly and then threw the ball and cut in a transverse direction. CHOP changed direction. Then he rubbed the instep inside and shot the ball towards the far corner of the goal.
Guimares goalkeeper rushed over and barely blocked the ball in the penalty area. Nuno Gomez shot in front of the goal and sent the ball into the goal.
Braga equalized away!
After the teammates celebrated briefly, they cheered each other and continued to work hard.
Seeing that the lead was gone, Guimares began to invest more troops in the attack.
Braga's defense line is very stable as long as it is not attacked continuously by the opponent.
The game's offense and defense rhythm became faster again. When the game reached 79 minutes, Braga launched a fast attack in the midfield. Barbosa quickly dribbled to the dangerous area of ​​the offensive and then transferred the ball to the middle of the penalty area. Lima received the ball and hit it across.
Tang Hong followed up with the inward cut and led the ball into the left rib of the penalty area. When the central defender quickly retreated to block his shooting line, Tang Hong stopped and pulled the ball back and turned to the middle, and shot immediately after having an angle.
The soccer ball shot out from the instep of the right foot was rubbed into the upper right corner of the goal!
Guimares fans were stunned!
Braga overtakes the score away!
Tang Hong scored in four consecutive Portuguese Super League games, representing Braga in 6 consecutive games!
Chapter completed!