The two away goals made Zhang Sheng completely relieved, and the players on the field played more freely.
Faced with this situation, Choi Yong-soo felt that it was time to give it a try. He replaced center back Kim Nam-chun with veteran Molina in order to strengthen the control of the midfield. At the same time, he replaced Yoon Il-rok, who performed badly in the second half, with rookie Yoon Ju-tae this season.
It's a pity that the Longteng team, which was playing in good condition, has reached the point where it can do whatever it wants. The Longteng team scored again through a quick counterattack. It was Nie Jiang who scored the goal. The score became 0:3. Seoul FC was defeated by Longteng at their home court.
The team was completely blown away.
However, what is slightly different from the previous two goals is that this time the Longteng team's attack came from the left.
During this period, after McGowan was injured, Du Zhenyu did become Zhang Sheng's key training target, but after all, his ability was still insufficient. Therefore, when Lu Zhihui returned from injury, he became able to play both left back and center back.
Instead of the main central defender, substitute Wei Zhimin successfully took over and became the main left back in the starting lineup.
This 19-year-old youngster is also a typical full-back who is strong in offense and weak in defense. His technique and forward ability are very good.
After Xiao Yunfan shined in this game, Wei Zhimin was also stimulated. He held back his breath and wanted to break up with Xiao Yunfan.
Before, Wei Zhimin was afraid of Ben. Alpha's attack was too fierce and he didn't dare to go up to assist. However, with the team leading 2:0, Wei Zhimin felt that he could let go.
After another assist to the frontcourt, but failed to help the team score a goal, Wei Zhimin looked at Zhang Sheng on the sidelines with a little worry. He was also afraid that the coach would think he was playing too aggressively.
However, Zhang Sheng on the sidelines strongly agrees with Wei Zhimin's current style of play. When the team is in a dominant position, it must continue to put pressure on its opponents. Seeing Wei Zhimin's gaze towards him, Zhang Sheng raised his eyebrows at him in encouragement.
Thumbs up.
Facing Zhang Sheng's encouragement, Wei Zhimin completely put aside his timid mentality and devoted all his energy to assisting, and quickly achieved results.
In the 33rd minute of the second half, Wei Zhimin used his speed to forcefully attack the right center back Jin Zhiyou, who had been tortured by Ben Alpha for most of the game. Jin Zhiyou, whose physical fitness had declined greatly, could not hold back Wei Zhimin's strong force.
, allowing Wei Zhimin to rush into the penalty area, and then Wei Zhimin cleverly played an inverted triangle pass. Nie Jiang, who had just entered the penalty area, faced the close pressure of two defensive players and shot with his left foot. The ball flew into the lower right corner of the goal.
This is Nie Jiang's second brace in the AFC Champions League this season.
The 3:0 score made Seoul FC head coach Choi Yong-soo on the sidelines extremely disappointed, while Zhang Sheng seemed overjoyed. Seoul FC is a veteran team in the AFC Champions League, so there is nothing dissatisfied with such a score.
As for the commentator, Xu Yang was completely crazy: "Wei Zhimin's beautiful breakthrough is completely unreasonable. This newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. The momentum is completely unstoppable. The calm pass in the end reflects his roughness."
He is a high-level football savvy. Nie Jiang is worthy of being the talent that coach Zhang Sheng values. He is only 17 years old. He has entered the first team for the first time and participated in the AFC Champions League for the first time. He has already scored eight goals. Such a report card can be said to be
It’s unprecedented.”
Then Xu Yang raised the Longteng team to a new height: "If the game continues according to this situation, it is very likely that it will be like the game between Guangzhou Evergrande and Jeonbuk Hyundai in the 2012 season. However, Evergrande's progress in that game
All the goals were scored by foreign players, and most of the assists came from foreign players. In this game, two of the three goals so far came from our local young players, and all three assists came from our local players. This is
It shows that it is our Chinese local players who play the leading role in this Dragon Team. I think the gold content of this victory is far greater than that game."
Amid Xu Yang's praise, Zhang Sheng also started to make substitutions. First, Nie Jiang, the hero of two goals, was replaced, and he was replaced by Zou Weijia. Then Zhang Sheng replaced Zhang Hao, who was in charge of the midfield.
Lin Feng was in a situation where Lin Feng had only played for 88 minutes, but his running distance was more than a thousand meters longer than the average running distance of the team, which shows his running ability.
Even if Zhang Sheng replaced two absolute main players, the overwhelmed Seoul FC was still unable to organize an effective attack. The Longteng players, who had consumed too much physical energy, also began to slowly pass the ball in the midfield, and the final score was also
Fixed at 0:3.
The Longteng team easily defeated their opponents in the away game with an absolute advantage. This score also means that the Longteng team has basically advanced to the next round of competition. The second round of the game at the Longteng team's home court will most likely become a formality game.
In an interview after the game, Zhang Sheng did not pretend to say any clichés, but said with high spirits: "Our players performed very well today and maintained a good rhythm from beginning to end. They deserve it."
This victory. And many Chinese fans came here with the home team. Special thanks to these away fans who created the home atmosphere!"
Zhang Sheng’s words were actually a provocation to Cui Yongsu.
As a head coach who likes to use scores to prove his points, Zhang Sheng was very calm during the interview before the game. Now after the game, he has enough confidence to brag.
In the final analysis, it was because he was unhappy with many of Choi Yong-soo's previous words.
Choi Yong-soo is definitely a personality coach. He often has very exaggerated command and celebration actions on the sidelines. In the first round of the 2013 AFC Champions League final, after Seoul scored, Choi Yong-soo rushed towards Lippi to celebrate excitedly. Fortunately, the fourth
The officials stopped him at the midline, otherwise he would rush to Lippi. Choi Yong-soo also likes to have verbal wars with his opponents before and after the game. These characteristics of his are somewhat similar to the Portuguese madman Mourinho.
Many of his words and deeds also made Zhang Sheng very uncomfortable.
For example, he once claimed before the 2013 AFC Champions League final that he would repay Lippi's insults and disdain for Korean football and make him pay the price.
Fans who are familiar with the World Cup are of course aware of this grudge - how the Italian team was hacked by the Korean team in the 2002 World Cup is a household name. As an Italian, Lippi certainly can't stand the Korean team.
And Cui Yongzhu has said more than once: "Chinese football has no skills, the players are very rough, and they are vulnerable to pressure."
Especially in history, when Jiangsu Sainty issued a coaching invitation to Choi Yong-soo in the 2015 season, offering a two-and-a-half-year lucrative contract with a total value of 6 billion won, he pretended to be fresh and refined: "I
I have never been a person who only lived for money. Money can never buy my heart. There is no way I would betray my football and life just to make money."
Of course, Zhang Sheng, who traveled through time in May 2016, didn't know that Cui Yongzhu broke his promise in the end - in June of the 2016 season, he agreed to Jiangsu Sainty's pursuit and came to China to coach.
Now that your team is beating the other team, if you don't pretend, then if you have to pretend to go back, wouldn't you be sorry for yourself?
Zhang Sheng, who had great success in pretending to be gay in South Korea, naturally received huge cheers from the fans after returning to China.
Of course, various media outlets did not let go of such a good reporting opportunity. Some media specifically went to look at Korean sports reports and reported on "0:3 complete defeat, Korean media called it a shame!" "Longteng 3:0 Seoul FC"
", Korean commentator collapsed and screamed" and other reports were specifically used to highlight the strength of the Longteng team, and some even reported all the scores of the Chinese Super League teams against the Korean teams, "From Evergrande's 5:1 to the Longteng team's 3:0, Chinese football's
growing up".
The Longteng team once again used its excellent results to dazzle the football circle.
To achieve this score, Zhang Sheng had a clear enough understanding.
So far this season, we can lead the second place in the league by 5 points and lead the third place Guangzhou Evergrande by 7 points. At the same time, we can still easily defeat the strong enemy of the AFC Champions League away from home, which shows that the team
It is fully capable of two-front operations.
This is due to the huge growth in three aspects.
The first is to become more familiar with tactics.
Last season, due to major personnel changes, the team was always in a period of adjustment. In addition, it was participating in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League for the first time, so it lacked understanding and preparation. As a result, the tactics changed again and again, and there was no fixed style of play.
; After a season of training, the players gradually became familiar with the rhythm of the game, and with the intensive training at the beginning of the season, the team's tactics finally improved qualitatively.
The second is the growth of substitute bench players.
For example, several full-backs this season, Zhou Zhou and Xiao Yunfan only had 67 or 68 ability values last season, and Wei Zhimin just passed 60. The three of them were rotation and substitute players last season, and their ability values are not
It is not enough to play a big role when the team needs them, and Xiao Yunfan, who is now a substitute, even has the ability value of 74 to compete with Zhou Zhou for the main position, and Wei Zhimin also reached 72.
Although this season with the upgrade of the league, the ability value of the national team players has increased, and the requirements for players are higher, but Wei Zhimin's ability is fully consistent with the level of being selected for the national team roster.
After the main players were injured last season, the substitutes who came on top did not perform well. But this season, for example, when McGowan, Lu Zhihui, and Xiao Yunfan were injured one after another some time ago, Wei Zhimin, who came on top, made a seamless connection, even if
Du Zhenyu also performed unsatisfactorily.
This is also the reason why Zhang Sheng dared to transfer captain Shu Jun before the season, because there was someone who could step up and be more powerful.
Finally, there is the strong recovery of those core players, especially foreign players.
For example, Pato's ability value this season has exceeded 110. This level is second to none in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League. Judging from his 11 goals in 10 league games and 2 goals in the AFC Champions League, he can be regarded as a star.
title, and another player who was reborn from the trough, Ben Alpha, has recovered his ability value from more than 80 when he first came to the team to more than 100, and it is still rising further. So far, although he has scored goals in the league
There are only 3 goals, but the number of goals in the AFC Champions League is as high as 4, and many of his goals are decisive goals that break the deadlock.
Of course, when it comes to who is the most popular member of Team Dragon right now, it has to be Nie Jiang.
With another brace in the last game, Nie Jiang has scored a total of 8 goals in the AFC Champions League, plus 4 goals in the league. This statistic is even more shining when he has just turned 17 years old.
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He can now be said to firmly occupy the top spot in the AFC Champions League's scorer list. Not only the country, but also the AFC are paying close attention to this talented player. After the last game, the AFC's official website rated him as the top scorer for this round.
best player, and even conducted an exclusive interview with him.
Everyone agrees that as long as the Dragons can make further progress, Nie Jiang is likely to become the youngest top scorer in the history of the AFC Champions League, and may even break the 13 goals set by Guangzhou Evergrande's foreign aid Muric.
Crown goalscoring record.
And with the current state of the Dragon Team, this is not a small probability event.
In the history of the AFC Champions League, the number of goals scored by the top scorer every year has mostly remained between 6-13.
The record holder of 13 goals is the previously mentioned Brazilian foreign aid Muric of Guangzhou Evergrande. He scored 13 goals in the 2013 season, setting the highest scoring record in the history of the AFC Champions League and helping Guangzhou.
Evergrande won the AFC Champions League that season, and he was also the AFC's Best Foreign Player that year.
In real history, it was not until the 2016 season that Seoul FC's foreign aid Adriano tied this record, but where he was inferior to Muric was that he failed to help the team win the AFC Champions League that season.
The reason why the AFC attaches so much importance to Nie Jiang has a certain background.
Because over the years, the top scorer in the AFC Champions League has always been controlled by foreign players. Since the reorganization of the AFC Champions League in 2002, only four local Asian players have won the title of top scorer, including Nantawa.
Such a top scorer in the group stage - he scored four crazy goals in a game against Beijing Guoan in the group stage. Such goals did not help the team much. For example, Nantava's team
Thai King Bank did not even qualify for the group stage.
If Nie Jiang can really win the top scorer, the AFC can brag about his political achievements. For example, in history, they have wildly praised Omar, and only scored 3 goals in the AFC Champions League in a season, and the team failed to do so.
Won the AFC Champions League.
Of course, Nie Jiang's goals are still very important to Chinese football. In the history of the AFC Champions League, a Chinese player has won the title of top scorer, that is Hao Dapao, who played for Dalian Shide in the 2002-2003 season.
AFC Champions League scored 9 goals, taking the team into the semi-finals of that year. Although they lost to the final champion, Al Ain from the United Arab Emirates, with a total score of 6 to 7, it is worth mentioning that
Hao Dapao scored goals in the last four knockout games and can be called Mr. Big Scene.
And Nie Jiang is likely to become another Chinese player to win the AFC Champions League top scorer in the past 12 years. This is a great honor for Chinese football.
