As a time traveler, Zhang Sheng certainly knows the reasons for this situation.
It’s not that these Chinese Super League clubs have no money, but that there are no good players in the entire Chinese Super League. To put it bluntly, China is short of players.
It is very funny to talk about this matter. As the most populous country in the world, and football is the sport that attracts the most attention and has the greatest influence in China, there is actually a shortage of players.
There is no lack of population base and no lack of attention. The lack of people can only mean one thing, that is, the atmosphere of Chinese football in the past few years was too bad, which drove most people out of the football industry.
This is a typical example of bad money driving out good money.
Before time travel, Zhang Sheng was not in the football circle. He could only intuitively see that the performance of the Chinese national team was not good. The performance of the Chinese national youth team also plummeted. The Chinese national junior team failed in the international arena. He more
Some will complain that these players are paid high salaries and do useless work.
Only when I traveled back in time and joined the football circle did I realize how desolate China’s youth training had become.
Nowadays, all the players in the Chinese Super League who can be sold have basically been sold out. The remaining players are either lacking in ability and no one cares about them, or they are held in the palm of their hands like treasures, and they are not affected by life or death.
Be willing to let go.
There are very few international-level players still circulating in the market.
For a player like Sun Ke to leave Jiangsu Sainty, it can only be said that the management staff of Jiangsu Sainty are dizzy.
Of course, the lack of major transfers during this break is also related to the fact that the Dragons did not let anyone go.
In fact, in these short twenty days, the Longteng team received countless player inquiries, and several wealthy Chinese Super League clubs waved their checkbooks to contact the clubs and privately contacted the players.
Among them, teams such as Guangzhou Evergrande and Beijing Guoan, which are seriously short of players, have sent letters to Longteng Club, hoping to buy players. Guangzhou Evergrande, in particular, offered 8,000 yuan to a certain key player in the team.
The quotation is RMB 10,000, and this is not the final quotation.
However, Zhang Sheng, who is determined to win the championship this season, said: "No domestic players are allowed to let go before the end of the season."
Although Zhang Sheng has stated in the club that he will not interfere with matters other than team management, when he decides on the team's competitive affairs, it is like a final order, and no one will question his words.
Zhang Sheng's only thought now is to win, so that he can not only ensure that the team gets good results, but also ensure that he accumulates enough points to summon players.
So in the following home game against Shandong Luneng, Zhang Sheng gave the team a fatal order, which was to win.
This match between the first team in the league and the third team in the league is one of the two focus matches in this round of the league. The other one is Beijing Guoan facing Shanghai SIPG at home.
The head coach of the national team, Perrin, chose this one among the two focus games. After all, the Longteng team is now the club with the most players in the national team, and they are still the absolute main force.
Therefore, even if Zhang Sheng does not give the death order in this game, the players on the team will work hard to perform.
Looking back at the opponents, because in the first round of the game against Shandong Luneng, the Longteng team defeated the opponent 1:3 in the away game, so Shandong Luneng played very cautiously in the game this time. In the heavy rain, they played more
In the defensive counterattack, use Hao Junmin's ball in the backcourt to find high center Yang Xu on the front line, and use Uso's sweep to delay the Longteng team's attack.
However, this game of the Longteng team is not like the one against Shanghai SIPG. Because of Ma Yongli's comeback, the Longteng team's defense has undergone qualitative changes.
In that game, Longteng goalkeeper Zhou Wei could not leave the penalty area too far, because firstly, Du Zhenyu and Liming did not have enough ability to protect their defense line, and secondly, they did not have much ability to pass and receive the ball, so they had to stay away from the goalkeeper.
Being closer can better handle passing and receiving.
But now that Ma Yongli is on the court, his defensive position and ability to pass and receive are much higher than the previous two, so Zhou Wei can safely and boldly stay away from the small penalty area and pass the ball to Ma Yongli on the sideline of the large penalty area.
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Therefore, after the opening game, the Longteng team easily pushed their formation to half court.
After Ma Yongli got the ball, he passed several good balls to the midfield players. In the eighth minute of the first half, he took advantage of his team's smart running position and made a beautiful long pass to pass the ball.
The ball was handed to Nie Jiang, who switched to the left. Nie Jiang made a pass near the baseline, then moved his right foot, handed the ball to his left foot, and passed the ball from the baseline to the penalty area.
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In the penalty area, the Longteng team had people outflanking them at the front, middle and back points.
Pato, who was in the forward position, saw that the pass was not easy to receive, so he made a feint. He ran to the forward position and pretended to receive the ball, but he ran out of the penalty area halfway.
As the target of Shandong Luneng's focus, Pato's feint gave their defense a great illusion. At least two Shandong Luneng defensive players followed Pato to move.
Pato's movement not only allowed the ball to fly, but also allowed two Luneng players to follow suit. The football ran directly from the front point to the center of the penalty area.
Wang Dalei did not expect that two of his teammates would pile up at the front point, and the ball would pass smoothly to the middle. By the time he saw Tao Wentao grabbing the point in the middle, it was already too late to save.
However, Luneng's luck was quite good. Tao Wentao's shovel shot did not touch the ball, and the ball passed in front of his toes. Luneng's goal was safe at that moment.
However, after the ball flew to the back point, there were still players from the Long Teng team outflanking it. This time it was Lin Feng who was in place to outflank the ball.
He faced the incoming ball and pushed the ball towards the goal.
Wang Dalei, who had already fallen to the ground, showed his ability to be a strong contender for the national team's No. 1 goalkeeper. He stood up quickly and barely reached the ball with his hand. The ball hit his hand and slightly went over the crossbar.
Lin Feng did not expect that Wang Dalei would make such an operation and save the ball that he was bound to score.
He held his head regretfully, extremely unwilling.
Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, also thought that this shot was a must-goal. He jumped up to celebrate. When he saw the ball flying over the crossbar, he turned around with regret.
The Longteng coaching staff, including Schürrle, ran out of the coaching bench and stood awkwardly halfway.
Shen Fangjian, who was in charge of the commentary, was also amazed by Wang Dalei's save: "Lin Feng's shot. Oops. The shot was so close that it was saved by Wang Dalei. This save was so wonderful. During this period, Wang Dalei's
His condition has been poor, and he has made extremely low-level mistakes in the club and national team. Unexpectedly, it broke out in this game. It seems that Da Lei is a strong contender for the main goalkeeper in the East Asian Cup that is about to be played."
"The national team's head coach Perlan was watching this game on the sidelines. Longteng team's goalkeeper Zhou Wei is also a big threat to Wang Dalei's goalkeeper position. You must know that until now, the Longteng team has only conceded 14 goals, compared with Beijing.
Like Guoan, it is one of the teams that conceded the fewest goals in the entire league. Wang Dalei's performance this time should make Perrin very satisfied." Shen Fangjian said in a tone that I knew why Wang Dalei performed so well.
The Shandong Luneng players who escaped the disaster were very frightened. The newly transferred former Longteng defender McGowan also hugged Wang Dalei excitedly to celebrate their narrow escape.
Then the Long Teng team took a corner kick, and Wang Dalei jumped up high and hugged the ball as he roared "Mine!"
After two consecutive beautiful saves, Wang Dalei's face showed an extremely confident expression.
Wang Dalei, who held the ball firmly, asked his teammates to press forward with high spirits. Shandong Luneng, who was pressed after the start, rarely got the ball. It was time to organize a wave of attacks.
When Shandong Luneng's back line pressed forward, Wang Dalei took the kick.
Unfortunately, there was an extremely funny scene on the court. After the tee shot, Wang Dalei, who was full of confidence, used too much force with his big kick, and the turf was slippery in the heavy rain. He failed to master his balance and slipped directly.
On the turf.
Affected by the slip, Wang Dalei "falled to the ground" and his big kick lacked height and strength. The ball was picked up by Longteng's midfielder Tao Wentao before halftime.
After the latter got the ball, he broke through directly into Shandong Luneng's penalty area. Several Luneng defenders focused entirely on their forward attack and were completely unprepared. Center defender Dai Lin faced Tao Wentao's rapid breakthrough.
, he grabbed it very hastily, and was easily passed over. Tao Wentao directly faced Wang Dalei single-handedly.
This time Tao Wentao did not miss the opportunity. Seeing Wang Dalei's attack, he had enough time and space to choose whether to play on the left or the right. In the end, he easily pushed the shot into the far corner on the left, breaking the deadlock on the court. The Longteng team won 1 at home.
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Shen Fangjian, who was praising Wang Dalei just now, also seemed extremely embarrassed: "Wang Dalei's goal kick was really... such bad luck."
Shen Fangjian had to leave the pot to luck, but he quickly made his own criticism: "But as a goalkeeper, such a situation shows that he is extremely unfocused and did not observe himself before serving.
The environment under our feet is so inappropriate.”
After scoring the goal, Tao Wentao happily ran to the sidelines to celebrate with his teammates.
Zhang Sheng, who had just regretted missing the must-goal, was also overjoyed.
Although he shouldn't be gloating at this time, he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.
This time Xuerle was also overjoyed and ran to Zhang Sheng's side, and said excitedly to Zhang Sheng: "This ball was returned to us by God."
But in Zhang Sheng's view, Wang Dalei's loss of the ball should be regarded as a microcosm of his state this season.
Wang Dalei performed extremely well last season, and he won the award for the best goalkeeper in the Chinese Super League. After the award ceremony, he even had the award message tattooed on his body as a medal.
In the subsequent Asian Cup, Wang Dalei became even more popular with his heroic performance, especially the penalty he saved from the Saudi team, which made him seem to be the savior of the national football team.
Just when everyone thought Wang Dalei had finally matured, entering this season, Wang Dalei made frequent mistakes.
In the AFC Champions League match against Kashiwa Reysol, Wang Dalei missed the free kick and saw the ball leak into the goal; against R&F at home in the league, he suddenly fell down while saving the free kick and once again saw the ball go into the goal; in the away challenge against Sainty, he took the ball straight from the backcourt
A mistake in the clearance when passing the ball directly gave Ge Wei the opportunity to score an empty goal. In the last round against the Longteng team, he also made a low-level mistake and gave the Longteng team a goal.
When Wang Dalei was in hot form in the national football warm-up match at the beginning of the year, facing Haiti's attack, Wang Dalei's "careless goal" was widely regarded as an "accident."
As the season progressed, he gradually began to make habitual mistakes and was questioned a lot. As far as his own low-level mistakes resulted in conceding goals, coupled with this mistake in this game, Wang Dalei has already made six mistakes in multi-line combat this season.
A mistake resulted in the ball being conceded.
And this mistake happened right under the nose of the national football coach Perrin, which is so embarrassing.
So when Xuerle attributed the Longteng team's goal to luck and an accidental event, Zhang Sheng knew that Wang Dalei's loss of the ball was inevitable, with an impatient goalkeeper and a tofu-like back line.
Line of Defense, that picture is simply too beautiful to look at.
Shandong Luneng, who unexpectedly fell behind, had to give up its previous defensive counterattack style and began to strengthen the frontcourt press.
Although the goal of the Longteng team came suddenly, the previous offense of the Longteng team was not sudden, but always existed. Even if Shandong Luneng does not concede the ball now, it is highly likely that the goal will be conceded if they are pressed like this.
In the final analysis, the Longteng team's formation is too oppressive, and the defense line's ball-organizing attack threat is also too great. The opportunity that the Longteng team missed just now was Ma Yongli's pass.
With a big wave from Kuka, Shandong Luneng's frontcourt players began to contain Ma Yongli.
This idea is good, and the players put it into action, but the effect is very average.
As center Yang Xu, although he tried to steal the ball from Ma Yongli several times, he was easily diverted by the opponent with a pass. When Aloisio and even Tardelli, known as the "Water Tower", started to
After pressing the ball, it actually gave the Longteng team a chance to play a fast break.
At the 16th minute of the first half, the three players in the frontcourt began to interfere with the Longteng team's backline pass.
However, the ball passed extremely smoothly at the feet of several defenders of the Long Teng team. Zhou Zhou handed the ball to Du Zhenyu, and Du Zhenyu returned the ball to Zhou Zhou. After attracting Wang Yongpo and Aloisio, Zhou Zhou passed the ball to
He handed it over to Ma Yongli, who came to take care of him.
Seeing Ma Yongli receiving the ball, Aloisio rushed over aggressively, but Ma Yongli's next move made him fail. He made a beautiful pass without stopping the ball and handed the ball to Lin Feng.
Underfoot.
At this time, Rock Gill cleverly attracted Tardelli, the only player in Shandong Luneng's frontcourt, away. Lin Feng retreated to catch the ball and no one followed him.
Coupled with Ma Yongli's extremely fast passing speed, there was a disconnect between Shandong Luneng's frontcourt and midfielder.
The Longteng team once again got a chance to attack.
