After this AFC Champions League game, the Longteng team, which had won all three games, scored 9 points, 5 points higher than the second-ranked Buriram United. With the current strength and state of the Longteng team, it is unlikely that they will qualify.
What a big problem.
In the other three groups, Beijing Guoan and Guangzhou Evergrande also ranked first in the group with a record of winning three games. Except for Shandong Luneng, they maintained their reputation as the "tragedy team"-Home 1
-4 lost to Jeonbuk Hyundai. The strength shown by the three teams in the Chinese Super League now makes the entire East Asia region fearful.
However, this time the fans and media did not set up flags for the Chinese Super League teams. You must know that in last year’s AFC Champions League group stage, the Chinese Super League teams also performed vigorously in the first three rounds. In the four groups, all four teams maintained the same level.
Undefeated.
At that time, the fans and the media were all shouting that the situation was great, and some even claimed that the era of Chinese Super League dominance in Asian football had arrived. Unexpectedly, the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse, with Shandong Luneng and Beijing Guoan neither in the end.
Can qualify.
This time the media and fans seemed to be much more low-key. Everyone was more discussing the shortcomings of the team and how they should be strengthened. Of course, these discussions had nothing to do with Shandong Luneng, because another tragedy made them gloriously ignored.
No one even bothers to mention them.
The media was praising his team, but Zhang Sheng had a headache because the Longteng team, which had just gone through a fierce AFC Champions League match, was going to challenge Shanghai SIPG away from home. Shanghai SIPG this season was different from last season.
Similarly, they have upgraded their head coach and foreign players. Whether it is Eriksen or Konka, they are both top-notch players in the Chinese Super League. Konka even made the outside world marvel, "Whoever wins Konka wins the Super League."
” performance.
Coupled with a group of domestic players whose strength has greatly increased due to the league upgrade, it can be said to be even more powerful for SIPG this season.
Zhang Sheng is not afraid of SIPG. After all, his foreign aid strength and domestic player strength are even better than SIPG, but fighting on two fronts is a very troublesome problem. In addition, he is still playing away from home this time, U16 national
The players of the team will not return until the 23rd, and the players of the Olympic team will not return until April, which is even worse. How to deal with this game is an issue that Zhang Sheng must consider.
Zhang Sheng knew that historically SIPG had finished second in the Chinese Super League. Since he was aiming for the Chinese Super League championship, he must score points in this game.
Zhang Sheng was very troubled in terms of ranking and formation. Tao Wentao suffered a slight injury in the AFC Champions League in mid-week and needed a week to recover. In this position, Zhang Sheng could only let Lin Feng fill in. As for
Lin Feng's defensive midfielder position will be handed over to Zhang Hao, and Rock Gill will take on many ball-distribution tasks.
As for Ivo, he has become Zhang Sheng's backup plan. Once the team's situation is not good, letting him replace Roque Gill as the attacking midfielder and letting Lin Feng retreat is another way.
At the game preparation meeting before the game, Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff analyzed Shanghai SIPG's current tactics.
After the league ended last year, Shanghai SIPG was dissatisfied with the team's results and stepped directly from behind the scenes to the front. They did a lot of tricks. They poached Eriksen and David, then poached Conca, and then bought
Yu Hai, on paper the team's strength has greatly increased, but there are indeed many embarrassing aspects.
Yu Hai can make up for the leaks everywhere because of his vitality attributes, but Dawei and Konka really collided - because both of them are organizational midfielders.
As a player that SIPG has made great efforts to introduce, Konka is better than Dawei in terms of strength. He will never play a supporting role. However, Dawei was brought here personally by the head coach, so it is impossible to let him do it.
As a substitute, there is only one choice. That is Kongka in the front and Dawe in the back, one as the core and the other as the support.
But this raises a big question, who will defend?
Judging from the previous rounds of games, Shanghai SIPG regards Cai Huikang as their defensive core in the midfield. This choice seems to have no problem in defense, because Cai Huikang's interception ability, sweeping range and defensive hardness in the midfield are all good.
Enough, but they also ignored a problem, that is, his ability to transfer the ball is too poor and he cannot afford the function of handing the ball from the defense to the frontcourt.
Of course, SIPG can use Kongka's personal ability to break through, pass the ball, and divide the sides, but if the ball cannot be passed from behind, the threat will be greatly reduced. As long as the Longteng team limits Cai Huikang's passing route to Dawei, SIPG's
The threat of a positional attack is greatly reduced. After all, David is the only one who can deliver artillery shells to Conca.
Next, what the Dragons discussed most was how to limit Kong Ka.
There is no doubt about Conca's ability, and his midfielder's escape and organizational skills are indeed strong. However, after discussion with the Longteng coaching staff and analysis of the game video before SIPG, everyone agreed that there is no need to send someone to mark him.
Everyone decided to adopt the strategy of regional defense and cut off Conca's passing line. As long as the target of his pass is restricted, Conca can decide the game by himself. The Longteng team's defense is not a piece of paper.
Before the game, Eriksson talked to reporters: "The opponent is a very strong team. They have many excellent players. Of course, our team still has many outstanding young people. Their head coach is
It is a rare high-level coach I have encountered in my coaching career, but this is our home court and we will win."
It should be said that Eriksson is a very good person. Historically, since he came to China to coach, from the Chinese Super League to the Chinese League One, from R&F to Shanghai SIPG and then to Shenzhen, few people said bad things about him. This time he said something bad about the Longteng team.
It has been given high praise from top to bottom, which makes people feel refreshed after hearing it.
When being interviewed by a reporter, Zhang Sheng also boasted to Eriksson: "Eriksson is the world's top coach. He has successfully coached many countries around the world."
The top team, I believe he is also very good at Shanghai SIPG, but working hard to win is our only goal."
Eriksson and Zhang Sheng were indeed not exaggerating. After the game started, the two technical teams played very entertaining games.
Shanghai SIPG, who kicked off first, took advantage of the ball in hand and played a very beautiful cooperation. After Conca received the return pass from Hessen, he passed a very beautiful pass to Wu Lei on the right.
Wu Lei found Kongka who came over to respond, and Kongka passed the ball to Yu Hai on the left. Finally, Yu Hai's pass hit the penalty area, and Heisen completed a shot.
Compared with other Chinese Super League teams that start looking for frontcourt players, SIPG insists on playing on the ground and cooperates very smoothly. It can be seen that they have good tactical literacy and good footwork.
The Longteng team was not to be outdone. Zhou Wei also passed the ball to the defender after the kick-off, and then slowly moved from the backcourt to the midfield through reverse kicks, and then through Lin Feng's up and down series, he found the players in the frontcourt.
A long shot from Ben Alpha.
Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of the commentary for LeTV Sports, said: "We can see from the offense of both sides at the beginning that these are two very technically sophisticated teams. The players' movements and passing are very methodical. I believe the fans will also
I love seeing games like this.”
As the game progressed, the gap between the two sides in the midfielder position became apparent.
In addition to being responsible for connecting on the line, Lin Feng also had the task of pressing Cai Huikang in the frontcourt to prevent him from passing the ball calmly. At the beginning, Cai Huikang's ability has improved with the league upgrade this season.
He could still pass one or two balls, but gradually as Lin Feng's pressing intensity increased, his shortcomings of low passing accuracy were fully exposed. Several consecutive passes made the players in the frontcourt uncomfortable.
got the ball.
On the other hand, Zhang Hao, who was responsible for playing the defensive midfielder in this game, although he looks stronger than Cai Huikang, his ability to pass and receive is actually much better. Eriksson obviously adopted the same tactics as Zhang Sheng, allowing Da
Weihe Kongka took turns to press Zhang Hao, preventing him from passing the ball smoothly, but Zhang Hao resolved them one by one.
The Longteng team's long-term training using the intelligent serving system has shown results.
At the 15th minute of the first half, Nie Jiang, who had withdrawn from the front line, was involved in a double attack on Cai Huikang. In the end, Lin Feng intercepted the ball from Cai Huikang's feet. This kind of interception in the frontcourt was detrimental to the opponent's defense.
The threat is very great, SIPG's goal is in danger.
Although Cai Huikang immediately counterattacked after being intercepted, Lin Feng's ability to transfer the ball under confrontation still has certain advantages in the Super League. He still passed the ball smoothly under Cai Huikang's close pressure. The person who got the ball was
Pato on the right.
Because Shanghai SIPG was in a team-wide offensive state when Cai Huikang got the ball, its defensive position was very loose. Yu Hai on the left had already started running to prepare to move forward, and left back Sun Xiang was also preparing to move in.
Assists, so Pato does not receive much defensive pressure when he takes the ball.
Letting a player like Pato easily get the ball in the frontcourt would have very bad consequences. Sure enough, when Pato faced veteran Sun Xiang who was about to adjust his focus to defend him, he easily changed the line and formed a breakthrough. SIPG's defense line
It's urgent.
Pato, who succeeded in breaking through, entered the penalty area without hesitation, and then faced Yan Junling's block and decisively shot.
Yan Junling took advantage of his height and long arms, and made a diagonal jump to push Pato's ball toward the upper right corner of the goal out of the baseline. Shanghai SIPG escaped the disaster.
After losing the ball, Cai Huikang extended his hand to Yan Junling apologetically, saying that the ball was his mistake, and then obediently ran to the penalty area, preparing to defend the second corner kick.
Although in the end, Ben Alpha's corner kick was too close to the small penalty area and was picked off by Yan Junling, but Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of the commentary, still keenly discovered the Longteng team's tactics: "The Longteng team pressed Cai Huikang very fiercely, SIPG.
It’s a bit difficult to play the ball from the side, let’s see how coach Eriksson breaks the game.”
Eriksson was obviously aware of Cai Huikang's weakness. He waved Dawei to get closer to Cai Huikang, giving Cai Huikang an extra connecting point in the middle.
Although SIPG's move had a certain effect - Cai Huikang was able to pass the ball to Dawei who was very close to him, but Dawei was further away from Conca.
On the football field, the farther the passing distance, the easier it is to make a passing error. This is directly proportional. At the same time, the further away the receiving player is, the easier it is for the defensive player because he has enough time to defend.
Prepare.
When Dawei was far away from Conca, although Conca kept running in the frontcourt to catch Dawei's ball, no matter which defensive area of the Longteng team, such long-distance passes made Conca
Unable to easily turn around or organize an attack, SIPG's offensive system was gradually suppressed.
In desperation, Konka had to move his position slightly deeper to better receive Dawei's pass. However, as the core of the midfielder, he retreated, and SIPG's frontcourt offensive line also began to move away from the Longteng team.
correspondingly, SIPG’s goal threat to the Longteng team also began to decline significantly.
On the contrary, the Longteng team's defensive formation was able to move forward, gradually overpowering SIPG's formation past half-court, and the Longteng team's offense became more threatening.
In the 32nd minute of the first half, the Longteng team once again got a good opportunity.
This time it was Rock Gill who passed the ball to Lin Feng in the midfield. Lin Feng used the short passing tactics he had used in games and training over the past two months to quickly pass the ball to SIPG's penalty area.
Ben Alpha, who switched positions with Nie Jiang in the middle, used his skills to get past the defensive center back Jin Zhourong, and then gave the ball to Nie Jiang who crossed into the penalty area. Nie Jiang faced the interference of Wang Shenchao and passed the ball
At the back point, the SIPG team, which could not shift its defensive focus from the right to the left in time, missed a man. Pato, who was at the back point, took a shot without being marked. This time, Yan Junling could not do anything anymore and could only watch.
The ball flew into the net, and the Longteng team took a 0:1 lead in the away game.
Liu Jianhong also shouted excitedly: "Go in, go in, go in! Pato's beautiful back-point shot. The Longteng team's beautiful passing and coordination, this time the overall offense played smoothly, SIPG's defense was a little preoccupied with one thing and the other."
Already."
Indeed, as Liu Jianhong said, this time the Longteng team scored a goal through a classic teamwork and overall attack.
Because of the large number of people involved in the attack, the Longteng team was able to burn the flames of war to the SIPG penalty area through skilled short passing in the midfield. Then several players in the frontcourt changed positions, affecting the SIPG defense.
Attention, then came the embodiment of Ben Arfa's personal ability - a sudden breakthrough, which caused a hole in SIPG's defense, and then Nie Jiang's smart pass, which allowed Pato to shoot.
It seems that when Pato shot in the end, SIPG missed someone, but the previous series of cooperation was the main reason why Pato was undefended. As long as Pato can run in place and shoot within his own level, SIPG will lose the ball.
