After this series of fouls, the pace of the game finally slowed down, and there was not much time left in the first half. The Longteng players could no longer maintain a high-intensity offense. In the end, the score in the first half
It also became 0:0.
During the halftime break, Zhang Sheng did not make any substitutions in tactics or personnel. He just asked about Nie Jiang's situation with concern. Fortunately, although Nie Jiang was violated many times, most of them were minor injuries.
It seems that these veterans from Guangzhou Evergrande have a very good grasp of the scale.
When Zhang Sheng asked Nie Jiang if he wanted to rest in the second half, Nie Jiang, who was holding his breath, obviously disagreed. He said: "It doesn't matter, I will be more flexible in the second half."
Zhang Sheng could only pat him on the shoulder comfortingly and said, "Then be careful, don't get hurt."
Like Zhang Sheng, Cannavaro is also thinking about players' health, but Zhang Sheng is thinking about how to protect the players' bodies, while Cannavaro is thinking about how to save players' physical energy and save energy for the next AFC Champions League game.
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In the end, Cannavaro chose to rotate. He replaced captain Zheng Zhi with Zhang Jiaqi, who was introduced at the beginning of the season. After all, Zheng Zhi's role in the team is too important. If this game allows the veteran to completely improve his physical fitness,
Once it’s all consumed, the next round of the AFC Champions League will really be a mess.
Cannavaro's substitution intention is also very clear, which is to let Zhang Jiaqi use his super strong body to be responsible for sweeping the midfield, and Huang Bowen will take Zheng Zhi's place to take charge of the ball.
Before, Cannavaro replaced Zhang Jiaqi at the last moment of the game, and when Evergrande maintained a one-goal lead, he would remove a midfielder and frontcourt player and replace him with Zhang Jiaqi, adding more midfielders and backcourt players.
Field hardness and height.
Now replacing him at halftime shows that Cannavaro has only one idea in the second half - to defend.
When the second half started, various commentators could easily see what Cannavaro was thinking. Some commentators even began to criticize his approach. For example, Dong Lu, who has always been extremely sharp-tongued, said: "Cannavaro
Navarro's substitution is too demoralizing. As a team that has won four consecutive Chinese Super League titles, it chooses to show weakness and defend against challengers at its home court. This is not the temperament a championship team should have."
Dong Lu's words are still very reasonable. For example, Lin Feng, the current captain of the Longteng team, said to his teammates after completing an attack: "Guangzhou Evergrande is afraid of us now. They want to maintain a tie at their home court.
We can’t let them succeed easily, everyone will continue to charge later!”
With the encouragement of the captain on the field, the young players of the Longteng team seemed to be more motivated, and the assists from the two full-backs on the wing became more and more sharp.
As a last resort, Guangzhou Evergrande once again resorted to the midfield foul tactic, and Zhang Jiaqi, who was responsible for the sweep, was particularly conspicuous.
As a defensive midfielder with a height of 1.92 meters and a very strong body, Zhang Jiaqi has good defensive abilities in the pit, but his weaknesses are also extremely obvious.
First, his turn was too slow.
In the ninth minute of the second half, Lin Feng passed the ball to Nie Jiang, who was retreating to respond. Zhang Jiaqi chose to hold Nie Jiang from behind. His physical fitness was indeed far superior to Nie Jiang's, making it impossible for Nie Jiang to turn around. However, Nie Jiang couldn't turn around.
Jiang passed the ball back to Lin Feng very lightly, and then immediately started to turn around.
Lin Feng also accurately passed the ball to Nie Jiang again. At this time, the difference in the turning speed of the two people was reflected. Nie Jiang had already turned around to get the ball, and Zhang Jiaqi had just turned around successfully. Seeing that Nie Jiang was about to accelerate to dribble the ball.
At this time, Zhang Jiaqi could only choose to foul. Fortunately, this place was far away from the penalty area, and the referee was merciful and only gave him a warning and gave the Longteng team a free kick in the frontcourt.
Secondly, another weakness of Zhang Jiaqi is that she has a very poor sense of position. Her defensive ability in mobile battles is completely different from that in a static state.
At the 13th minute of the second half, Lin Feng got the ball in the midfield. Zhang Jiaqi immediately came over to get close to him. It should be said that his choice was the right one, that is, to prevent Lin Feng from passing the ball easily, but Lin Feng wisely chose to pass the ball.
The ball was knocked back to Rock Gill. Originally, the best choice as a defensive midfielder at this time was to follow Lin Feng after passing the ball. However, after seeing Lin Feng running away laterally, he chose to stick to the center.
As a result, Rock Gill passed the ball to Lin Feng again, allowing Lin Feng to cooperate with Wei Zhimin on the left. Fortunately, Evergrande's right back Shu Jun was extremely focused and shoveled Wei Zhimin's dribbling out of the sideline.
The biggest difference between Guangzhou Evergrande this season and its history is that right back Zhang Linpeng successfully studied abroad, and then hired captain Shu Jun from the Longteng team. Compared with Zhang Linpeng, Shu Jun is not a very eye-catching player. He cannot be like him on the court.
Like Zhang Linpeng, he uses super long-range shots to attract attention, but at the same time, he does not often use excessive force and have rough defensive moves that lead to various fouls like Zhang Linpeng.
What makes Shu Jun strong is not his skills or body, but his extremely high mental strength. He is extremely stable on both ends of the offense and defense. When he is required to attack, he can rush forward with all his strength. When he is required to defend, he does not care about the attacker.
Who is it? He can cling to the opponent, unless the strength gap between him and the opponent is too big.
According to Zhang Sheng's previous observation, Shu Jun has an ability value of 71. He can reflect this ability of 71 in every minute of every game, rather than like other players who have the ability when they are in good condition.
The value can be exerted 100%, but it will be greatly reduced when the condition is not good.
Therefore, such players are extremely difficult to deal with. In this game, the Longteng team rarely caused big trouble from the right side of Shu Jun's defense.
After getting familiar with Zhang Jiaqi's technical characteristics, the players on the Longteng team began to target him. Nie Jiang and Tao Wentao kept retreating to attack his defensive area. Even Pato and Ben.
Alpha also often changes positions here.
Under the attack of these highly skilled players, Zhang Jiaqi finally made a major mistake.
At the 16th minute of the second half, Ben Alpha, who was super active in this game, came to the middle. When facing Zhang Jiaqi's defense, Ben Alpha completely stunned him with continuous changes of direction and shaking. In the end, Ben Alpha easily
walked around him.
There is a huge difference between defensive mistakes in the middle of the midfield and those on the wings. After Ben Alpha's successful breakthrough, he has a huge space. He can choose to continue to break through to the penalty area, or he can choose to distribute the ball to the left and right.
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Zhang Jiaqi obviously knew the stakes. Without thinking, he turned around and hit Ben Alpha from behind with a sweeping kick.
This foul action made Zhang Sheng furious on the sidelines. You must know that Ben Alpha has broken his leg. His knees and tibia are much more fragile than ordinary players, so the sweeping leg behind him is extremely dangerous.
However, all Zhang Sheng waited for was a yellow card and a warning from the referee.
Such a penalty obviously did not satisfy Zhang Sheng. Even the commentators felt that the referee was too merciful. Dong Lu said: "Zhang Jiaqi's tackle, this action was completely based on the legs, right? Or was it behind him?
If it's a foul, we'll see how the referee decides."
Dong Lu's partner Li Xin was very dissatisfied when he saw that the referee only issued a yellow card: "A yellow card, it's just a yellow card. Maybe he didn't see the foul clearly? In European leagues, such an action would be a red card.
Definitely. I don’t know if the Football Association will impose additional penalties after the game.”
Lin Feng, the captain of the Long Teng team on the field, immediately rushed over to protect Ben Alpha, and then began to complain to the referee: "This action is too dangerous. It is a useless action and should be given a red card."
Then Lin Feng leaned down and asked Ben Alpha: "Are you okay?"
Ben Alpha covered his feet in great pain and did not give an answer at all.
Lin Feng quickly asked the team doctor to come in, and Li Xiang also ran towards the court holding the medical kit.
After Li Xiang's careful inspection, he slowly helped Ben Alpha up. Seeing Li Xiang's action, Zhang Sheng felt relieved and was able to stand up, which meant that at least the bones were definitely fine.
Check to see if the ligaments are strained.
Then Li wanted to help the limping Ben Alpha to the sidelines for treatment, and other players of the Longteng team began to arrange the free kick tactics.
Because Ben Arfa was not on the court, only Pato and Lin Feng were standing in front of the free kick this time. In the end, Pato's shot went a bit wide and did not pose any threat to Zeng Cheng.
After the free kick, Ben Arfa also returned to the field, but less than five minutes later, he took the initiative to make a substitution gesture to the sidelines, indicating that he wanted to take a rest.
Zhang Sheng had to replace him with Ivo.
Seeing Ben Alpha's movements, He Wei said worriedly: "It seems that Ben Alpha can't hold on anymore. I hope the problem is not serious."
Xu Yang shook his head and said: "Ben Alpha is off the field. I don't know who will play on the wing of the Longteng team. However, the two defensive midfielders on Evergrande's side have yellow cards. Ivo is still very threatening when he comes up to play in the middle."
Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, was full of resentment towards the referee's decision just now, because such a decision would have a huge impact on the technical players of the Super League.
In China, we often hear so-called experts say that the penalty standards in Chinese Super League games are different from the international standards. In fact, in Zhang Sheng’s view, the international referee standards are the only one. There is no such thing as a scale, only loose and tight, but not
Off scale.
For example, if our referee standards deviate from the international referee standards by two degrees, then the use of ball control skills, especially dribbling skills, will be restricted and reduced by 20. If you use superior skills, I will foul and intercept, which will be more serious.
For a long time, our players can only play football with 20 lower technical standards. In international competitions, when the referee allows you to use 20 skills, and you are allowed to kick, we will not use it.
It can be said that the scale of domestic referees is so large that it stifles the technically superior sides and renders the skills of those skilled players useless.
Unfortunately, this matter cannot be solved in a day or two, nor is Zhang Sheng capable of solving it.
Ben Alpha's dismissal caused the Longteng team's formation to change again. After Ivo came on, he stood in the midfielder position, Tao Wentao returned to the familiar right midfielder position, Pato moved to the center position, and Nie Jiang
Came to the left road.
Different from Ben Arfa, Ivo uses his stronger body to play very aggressively after coming on the court. His comprehensive ability is stronger than the previous attacking midfielder Tao Wentao. Guangzhou Evergrande’s two defensive midfielders are just like Xu Yang
As I said, carrying a yellow card makes you even more intimidated.
Cannavaro had to make another substitution. He replaced Huang Bowen with the more defensive Liu Jian. Now Guangzhou Evergrande has two purely defensive midfielders in the midfielder position.
Liu Jian's appearance has stabilized Guangzhou Evergrande's defense in the middle, but he is far less aggressive than Huang Bowen, and Guangzhou Evergrande has completely changed into a defensive posture.
When Guangzhou Evergrande's defense finally stabilized, they encountered another problem, which was lack of physical fitness.
Especially after 70 minutes, Evergrande's players obviously couldn't run anymore, and many of their technical moves began to change.
In particular, Li Xuepeng on the left was attacked heavily by the Longteng team, and now he has reached the limit of his body.
In the 75th minute, Tao Wentao cooperated with Lin Feng and Xiao Yunfan to attack Guangzhou Evergrande's left wing again. Several players, including Gao Lin, Yu Hanchao, and Liu Jian, all came to help Li Xuepeng attack and defend.
In the first half, there were often 3-3 or 4-4 confrontations between the Longteng team and Guangzhou Evergrande in this area. Before, Guangzhou Evergrande could rely on non-stop running to cut off the Longteng team's small-scale rapid attack.
Pass the ball quickly, but now physical fitness has become their bottleneck. Almost all Evergrande defensive players pass the ball a beat slower than the Longteng players.
When Lin Feng's last pass was handed to Xiao Yunfan, Xiao Yunfan suddenly accelerated and rushed out from Li Xuepeng. Li Xuepeng, who was facing him, could not pick up his speed. He could only raise his hand to the referee to signal that Xiao Yunfan was offside, but the linesman did not do anything.
With an expression on his face, he followed Xiao Yunfan all the way to the bottom line, and the Longteng team once again got a good opportunity.
The first person in the Guangzhou Evergrande team to react was Feng Xiaoting. He quickly ran over to cover for Li Xuepeng, while Liu Jian retreated to the center back position to cover for Feng Xiaoting.
Xiao Yunfan decisively passed the ball when Feng Xiaoting was running halfway, because Liu Jian retreated from the midfielder position. Zhang Jiaqi should have been in the midfielder position, but he actually vacated this position.
It was Pato who came back to catch the ball. After receiving the pass from Xiao Yunfan, Pato accelerated into the penalty area. Faced with Mei Fang's outstretched leg, he decisively hit his crotch. Zeng Cheng was caught by his sight.
Mei Fang blocked it. When the ball came, he was no longer anxious to save it. The ball quickly passed through Zeng Cheng's armpit and into the goal.
The Longteng team finally seized the opportunity when Guangzhou Evergrande's physical fitness declined and changed the score.
