The Longteng team really suffered a bit in this game. After the game, Roque Gill was fine. His sprained foot injury was not serious and he only needed two weeks of rest before he could play. However, Tao Wentao was a bit serious. After the team doctor and hospital’s examination,
Check, he needs to rest for at least a month before he can play.
In this way, he will most likely miss the East Asian Cup.
Coupled with Lu Zhihui's injury and a month's rest, the Dragons suddenly injured three of their absolute main players.
Fortunately, after this round of games, the Chinese Super League will make way for the East Asian Cup, and the team will have a two-week rest period, by which time Lu Zhihui and Roque Gill will be able to return.
However, most of the Dragons' players did not get a good rest during this league break.
In addition to the national team members in the team going to participate in the national team competition, the Chinese Olympic team also used the intermission period of the league to conduct training camps.
The summons from the two national echelons basically left the Long Teng team empty. Zhang Sheng simply arranged ordinary physical training for the remaining teammates, because the team did not have enough manpower to hold a warm-up match in groups.
Zhang Sheng does not have too many expectations for this East Asian Cup.
First of all, the Chinese Super League is now in full swing. Except for the Longteng team, which is singing all the way and is 14 points ahead of the second-place Guangzhou Evergrande, which is catching up, the other Chinese Super League teams are fighting for their respective positions.
Teams like Shandong Luneng, Beijing Guoan, and Shanghai SIPG are fighting to qualify for the AFC Champions League, while the huge relegation corps behind them are fighting for a spot in the Chinese Super League next year.
Most of the players in the national team come from the top teams. At this time, it is even more difficult for them to perform at 100% in an inconsequential competition like the East Asian Cup.
And because the national team did not recruit overseas players this time, the overall strength has dropped even more dramatically.
Although the South Korean team and the Japanese team have not recruited overseas players, the overall strength of their domestic players is still much higher than that of Chinese domestic players.
The Chinese team, playing at home, does not want to lose the face of the host country, so it must press forward to attack. When the time comes, it is inevitable that the opponent will counterattack.
Sure enough, in the first game against the South Korean team, the non-Longteng players played timidly. Wang Yongpo, who replaced Tao Wentao, lost the ball in the midfield many times and watched his teammates respond very calmly.
Grab, this kind of emotion quickly affected other players.
Even Feng Xiaoting, who has always been very professional, played at a leisurely pace. In the first half, after being passed by the defense, he watched with a smile as the opponent's forward forced his way into the penalty area. Fortunately, Ma Yongli desperately chased the ball back.
The bottom line was shoveled out.
Even the commentator He Wei looked extremely angry: "Why are they still allowed to play in such a state? I think except for the players from the Longteng team who are still fighting on the court, the players from other clubs are just here to make soy sauce."
"The Great Emperor" Li Yi, who is responsible for commentating with He Wei, also asserted: "If the game continues like this, the players will not be unified in thinking, and it will be a matter of time before the ball is lost."
When many fans heard Li Yi's words, they obviously felt that he meant something. After all, he who once shouted "It's dawn" may have been thinking of the situation at the club.
Whether they are fans watching the game in front of the TV or online, they all want to go up and kick those absent-minded players awake.
Originally, in order to fine-tune the tactics and inspect more players, Perrin only called on four Longteng players before the game started. After surviving the 0:0 halftime, the other two Longteng players were summoned at the beginning of the second half. Yao Tian and Nie Jiang were both sent, and both of them played for the national team for the first time.
After the two of them came on the field, the national team's situation got a little better. Although Yao Tian didn't defend much in the frontcourt, he attacked harder. In addition, there was Nie Jiang in the forward line and club teammates like Lin Feng behind him. , someone helped him deliver the ball, and he led the national team to make several beautiful attacks.
But by the last moment of the game, many players in the national team were lacking in physical fitness.
In the 78th minute of the game, the South Korean team took advantage of veteran Zheng Zhi's lack of physical fitness to pass him, and then Kim Seung-dae scored a goal. The Chinese team fell behind 0:1.
In the end, the Chinese team was unable to counterattack and lost the game 0:1.
After the game, except for several players of the Longteng team and Sun Ke, other players received overwhelming criticism and abuse.
The media even used the national team competition regulations previously proposed by various clubs to run against them.
For example, the media and fans compared the performance of several Guangzhou Evergrande players with the terms in the "Eight Rules of Evergrande International Football Team" issued by the Guangzhou Evergrande Club, and finally asked another joking question: " According to the requirements in the regulations, I don’t know how much the players on the field should be fined this time, and how many games should they be suspended from the team?"
Several other clubs were criticized at the same time, because when the Longteng team stole the headlines of Evergrande and issued the international rules of the Longteng club, not only Guangzhou Evergrande issued the same rules, including Dalian Albin, which had not yet been relegated at the time. , now Shandong Luneng, Jiangsu Sainty, and Beijing Guoan have all released similar documents, and this time it is time to give the media and fans a solid foundation.
Only the players of the Longteng team escaped everyone's doubts because of their desperate performance. Of course, Sun Ke, a player that Zhang Sheng likes very much, is not among them. His drive to fight on the court is Zhang Sheng's favorite. If it weren't for the current personnel of the team There are really too many, and Sun Ke himself is worth a lot and is being watched by many people. Zhang Sheng really wants to buy this player.
This defeat of the national team not only made the outside world unhappy, but also made one person unhappy, and that is Cai Pingpong, the current chairman of the Chinese Football Association.
In the second match between the Chinese team and the North Korean team, Cai Ping-pong sat in the audience, which clearly showed that he was supervising the battle on the spot.
Faced with such pressure, the players of the national team were completely different from their first game state, but the players of the Longteng team were the most flattering.
Because Perrin simply started all the Longteng players in this game.
There are Ma Yongli, Zhou Zhou and Xiao Yunfan in the backcourt, Lin Feng and Yao Tian in the midfield, and Nie Jiang in the forward position. This is equivalent to the fact that the central axis of the Chinese national team is all Longteng players. They take advantage of their long-term playing experience in the club. , played very well together, and firmly grasped the initiative on the court from the beginning.
In the 15th minute of the first half, Lin Feng played a one-two in the midfield and handed the ball to Yao Tian. The latter made a beautiful turn and got rid of it, and then passed the ball to Nie Jiang. Nie Jiang broke into the penalty area and formed a penalty. Alone, facing the North Korean team's attack, goalkeeper Lee Mingguo succeeded in pushing the shot into the far corner.
The Chinese team led 1:0.
At this time, Cai Pingpong, who was supervising the battle, also showed a satisfied smile.
After taking the lead, the Chinese team played more relaxedly. Before the end of the first half, Lin Feng's long shot hit the world wave, extending the score to 2:0.
After Wu Lei also scored again through a counterattack in the second half, the Chinese team sealed the victory.
In the end, the Chinese national team defeated their opponent 3:0.
After the game, the international players received a lot of praise, especially the performance of several international players from the Dragon Team, which made everyone feel that they were the key to victory in this game.
Of course, what everyone talks about more is Nie Jiang.
In this game, Nie Jiang broke three records at once. One is the record of the youngest international player to score a goal in the starting lineup; the other is the record of the youngest international player to score a goal;
In history, it was Zhang Yuning, a young player who studied abroad, who broke this record.
The previous holders of these three records were Zhang Linpeng in 2009, Zhao Xuyang in 2003, and Zhou Haibin in 2003. They were 20, 18, and 18 years old respectively at the time.
Nie Jiang raised this record to a level that would be difficult for future generations to reach.
After the game, Cai Pingpong went to the national team hotel to express his opinions and praised the players. Perrin, the "obedient" head coach, followed behind with a smile, which was really a spectacle.
As the host, the Chinese team has an advantage in the schedule. In the last round of games, the two games were not played at the same time. The game between North Korea and South Korea was played in the afternoon, while the Chinese team's game waited until the evening. In this way, the teams
There is more time to arrange corresponding tactics.
Among the two teams that have finished, North Korea has one win, one loss and one draw, and South Korea has one win and two draws. In the last game, if the Chinese team, which had one win and one loss before, can defeat the Japanese team, which had one draw and one loss, then
will win the East Asian Cup.
Facing a special opponent like the Japanese team and hoping to win the championship, the Chinese team showed all its abilities in this game.
At the same time, this game also has a big gimmick, which is the comparison between Nie Jiang and Usami Takashi.
As the most eye-catching players of the two teams, who can perform well in this game has become a big attraction.
Including Usami Takashi himself is very much looking forward to meeting Nie Jiang again.
Their clubs had met twice before. In the end, the stronger Longteng team had one win and one draw and remained undefeated. Moreover, Nie Jiang scored a goal in each of these two games. His performance was far better than
Usami Takashi is better.
Usami Takashi later studied the player who broke his own record as the youngest goal scorer in the AFC Champions League and found that he did have strength. However, the confident Usami Takashi believed that the victory of Nie Jiang's team included his goals, and more
This is all because the Dragons have far more foreign players than their home team Gamba Osaka.
Now in this game, the Chinese team and the Japanese team are both second teams, and neither has recruited overseas players. This is the time to reflect the true capabilities of both sides.
With this belief, Usami Takashi gave the Chinese team a showdown in just five minutes of the opening. During a corner kick attack, he hit the crossbar with a long-range shot from the edge of the penalty area, almost helping the Japanese team open the scoring.
Takashi Usami chose the angle of his shot very well, just at the height that goalkeeper Wang Dalei couldn't save. The subsequent fall was also extremely sudden. Unfortunately, he was too focused on the angle and missed the goal.
In this game, veteran Zheng Zhi sat on the bench to rest because he had played two consecutive games. The midfielder was partnered by Cai Huikang and Lin Fenglai.
There is a huge gap between Cai Huikang and Zheng Zhi in terms of protecting the team's defense and transferring passes. The ball just now was given the opportunity for Takashi Usami to shoot because there was no midfielder to help protect the ball on the edge of the penalty area.
The Chinese team, which almost lost the ball, began to strengthen the interception and fighting in the midfield. At this time, Cai Huikang showed his advantages again. After all, he is younger than Zheng Zhi, can run better, and can grab better. He spared no effort in running and fighting.
After stealing, the midfielder's defense is stronger, and Wu Xi, who replaces Yao Tian in the attacking midfielder position, is obviously more comprehensive than Yao Tian.
The Chinese team has the rare ability to compete with the Japanese team in the midfield.
Coupled with the fact that Gao Lin and Yu Dabao were both players on the Japanese team that defenders couldn't watch, China's offense finally picked up.
In the tenth minute of the first half, Lin Feng handed the ball to Gao Lin on the right in the midfield. Gao Lin protected the ball in the frontcourt and attracted three defensive players from the Japanese team. Even under such circumstances,
He still held the ball firmly, and when he saw Wu Xi coming to respond, he passed the ball to the opponent accurately.
It should be said that the Japanese team's defensive system is still very solid. When Wu Xi received the ball, two more Japanese players came to guard him. Unfortunately, the defensive personnel were limited after all, and too many people were spent guarding Gao Lin and Wu.
Xi, I will definitely miss people in other positions.
Sure enough, Wu Xi did not rush to shoot, but returned the ball to Nie Jiang who came out of the penalty area. The latter was now completely unguarded.
Faced with such an opportunity, Nie Jiang decisively took a shot. The ball flew straight to the upper left corner of the goal at the junction of the goal post and the goal beam, which is the so-called "ten-point corner." Japan goalkeeper Higashiguchi Junaki had no idea about such a shot.
No matter what I do, I can only watch the ball fly into the net.
Nie Jiang's goal made He Wei and Xu Yang, who were responsible for the commentary, also cheer loudly.
He Wei praised the Chinese team's offensive coordination: "Very beautiful frontcourt coordination, from the center to the wing, and then from the wing to the center, completely opening up the opponent's defense and allowing players to come in from behind.
Getting a chance to shoot is what we want to see in this kind of offense. Because it means that the team has a very clear tactical arrangement and it is well executed."
"We also need to see Nie Jiang's personal ability. As a forward, his movement is also intriguing. Seeing the opponent's five-back formation, he first moves in the penalty area, then leaves the penalty area to take away the defensive players, and finally rushes
In front of the penalty area, he completely got rid of the opponent's defensive personnel in the process." Xu Yang analyzed Nie Jiang's ability, "The last shot can also be said to be perfect. From such an angle,
There was no way the goalkeeper could save it."
Usami Takashi was very unwilling to see Nie Jiang's goal. At the same opportunity, he had bad luck and hit the crossbar, but the opponent hit the dead center.
"The game has just begun. I will overtake." Usami Takashi thought silently in his heart.
