After scoring the goal, the Chinese team's morale was boosted and they organized several waves of offensives in succession, which made the fans on the sidelines extremely happy. Several oversized five-star red flags also shone brightly in the waving of the fans.
It should be said that the choice of home court this time also gave the Chinese team a great help.
The city selected for the East Asian Cup this time is Jiangcheng, and the home court is the home court of the Longteng team - Jiangcheng Sports Center. Therefore, the Longteng players in the national team are very familiar with this venue. Of course, the fans who come to cheer are
Therefore, Longteng fans are first-come-first-served, and they are also very happy to see the players of the club they support win glory for the country.
So under such comprehensive conditions, the Chinese team played a beautiful game that is rare in recent years.
Especially midfielder Lin Feng, whose up-and-down running has become the most eye-catching player on the court.
Defensively, he can press for the first time, and at the same time, he can retreat with the overall defensive formation; offensively, he can attack forward and use his stronger body than the Japanese players to organize attacks in the midfield.
Sometimes he can also threaten the opponent's goal with one or two long shots from outside the penalty area.
Teams like the Japanese midfielder who adopt zone defense are very embarrassed for such players. One person cannot grab the ball, but two people try to grab it and reveal flaws in other places. In addition, Lin Feng is not the kind of player who likes to dribble the ball.
, he can always pass the ball out as soon as possible, allowing his teammates to get better opportunities.
Faced with such a situation, Perrin was happy, but the Japanese team's head coach Halilhodzic was depressed. How to guard Lin Feng became a problem that he had to solve in this game.
In fact, there is a player similar to Lin Feng in the Japanese team, and that is their midfielder Hotaru Yamaguchi.
This player is also a typical B2B midfielder. Compared with Lin Feng, his height of 1.75 meters is slightly shorter, but his ball protection ability, ball control ability, and passing ability are much higher than Lin Feng.
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Historically, as the best player of the East Asian Cup in 2013, after the end of this season, he was bought by the Bundesliga team Hannover 96 for 1.5 million euros. Although he played very little in the Bundesliga due to injury, he still
Can prove his ability.
Seeing the huge pressure on his defense, Halilhodzic had to ask Hotaru Yamaguchi to temporarily give up his forward play, focus on defense first, and stabilize the midfield.
When Hotaru Yamaguchi focused on defense, the defensive pressure on the Japanese midfielder was reduced a lot. His effective interception in the midfield allowed the Japanese team to finally stabilize.
When Japan's midfield stabilized, the power of their passing and ball-control style became apparent.
Different from the different tactical play requirements and national team selection methods of various domestic clubs in China, the Japanese national team has always selected players with good skills and good passing skills, and their consistent playing style over the years has made them better than the Chinese team.
It takes a lot of skill.
Gradually, the Japanese team began to take the initiative in the midfield.
At this time, Lin Feng's lack of ability to break through with the ball became obvious. He was indeed running, passing and receiving, but under the overall defense of the Japanese team, his passing was more horizontal.
and backward passes, there are really not many opportunities to move forward.
Cai Huikang is even worse offensively than Lin Feng, so we can't expect him to take over Lin Feng's job.
Towards the end of the first half, the Japanese team habitually launched several waves of high-intensity attacks.
In the 38th minute, Usami Takashi received a pass from Yamaguchi Hotaru and broke through Xiao Yunfan on the wing. After attracting Ma Yongli, he passed the ball. Fortunately, Lin Feng desperately returned to defend to make up for Ma Yongli.
The ball was blocked from the baseline and the Japanese team received a corner kick.
After Wang Dalei got the opponent's corner kick, he drove to the frontcourt with a big kick. The ball was snatched by the Japanese midfielder and defender, and the Japanese team got the ball again.
In the 41st minute, it was Usami Takashi who received the ball from the Japanese team in the midfield through a pass. He swayed Feng Xiaoting at the edge of the penalty area to get an angle for shooting. His shot hit Ma Yongli slightly.
It missed the goal post, and the Japanese team won another corner kick.
The next Japanese team's corner kick was pushed out of the penalty area by Zhou Zhou. The ball was taken by Yuki Muto. He handed the ball to Hotaru Yamaguchi. Hotaru Yamaguchi made a beautiful through pass to Tsuneki Yonekura, who then
The ball swept across the goal without stopping, and Yuki Muto quickly outflanked the ball and pushed the ball forward.
China, which had just recovered from the chaotic corner kick defensive position, faced such a fast and non-stop pass from the Japanese team. The defensive formation was in chaos. Wang Dalei was helpless in the face of such a shot. The Japanese team relied on this ball to win.
The score was evened before the end of the first half.
In general, the signs of the Chinese team conceding goals started when the midfield was suppressed before. The current conceding of goals is a true manifestation of the contrast between the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides on the court.
Lin Feng was also powerless against losing the ball. When he was in the Longteng team, he had the help of a high-level foreign aid like Roque Gill in the midfielder. He could not only defend, but also pass the ball to help him draw firepower. Now it all depends on
Lin Feng is really powerless to fight alone in the midfield.
Fortunately, the first half ended soon after the goal was conceded, and the Chinese team could make personnel adjustments in the midfield.
Perrin also showed his determination to win this game. He asked veteran Zheng Zhi to replace Cai Huikang. The double midfielder combination that won the last game reappeared again.
After Zheng Zhi came on the scene in the second half, he had an immediate effect in the Chinese team's midfield. With Zheng Zhi there, Lin Feng was no longer the only one running up and down the Chinese team's midfield.
Zheng Zhi was experienced on defense, and he was able to help Lin Feng share a lot of pressure on offense. The Chinese team immediately regained the advantage in the game.
At the eleventh minute of the second half, the Chinese team organized a wave of attacks. This time, Lin Feng stayed behind and Zheng Zhi stepped forward. Such a substitution of offensive organizers made the Japanese team a little uncomfortable. Zheng Zhi's pass
Midfielder Wu Xi got it easily, and the latter made a beautiful through pass to Nie Jiang, who retreated from the penalty area and then turned forward.
Nie Jiang's beautiful shot forced the Japanese team's goalkeeper Higashiguchi Junaki to make a save. The latter threw the ball to the baseline, and the Chinese team won a corner kick.
Wu Xi's corner kick found Gao Lin, whose header slightly missed the crossbar.
The Chinese team immediately formed a siege on the Japanese team.
At this time, the Japanese team also started to make substitution adjustments. Kawamata Kenji, who performed very average, was replaced by Shinzo Kougai. As a new force, the latter was very imaginative in running and playing the ball, and he was very fast.
It makes the Japanese team's frontcourt seem a lot more flexible.
The two teams also let go and began to attack. However, at this time, the light rain before the game slowly turned into heavy rain, and the ground ball began to change. Both sides began to play long passes in unison.
In the 28th minute of the second half, Zheng Zhi passed a beautiful long pass in the midfield and found it on the wing. Gao Lin used his physical advantage to grab the header. He faced the defense of two players of the Japanese team.
He got the ball from the baseline, but suddenly he stepped on it, pulled it, turned around and passed through the gap between the two people.
This action was not only beautiful, but also very effective. The opponent's defender had to pull Gao Lin behind him. Gao Lin fell to the ground and the opponent also received a yellow card.
The Chinese team won a very valuable free kick in the frontcourt.
When positional offense is difficult to penetrate, free kicks in the frontcourt are too important.
This set kick was taken by Lin Feng. After observing the positions of both sides in the penalty area, he winked with Nie Jiang and Ma Yongli, and the latter two nodded in understanding.
Lin Feng directly sent the ball to the back point. Nie Jiang was originally in the middle, but the moment Lin Feng released the ball, he went straight to the back point. Ma Yongli was very smart to guard against Nie Jiang's Japanese players.
When the ball was opened, Nie Jiang looked back beautifully and looked at the moon. The ball changed direction on Nie Jiang's head and flew straight to the upper left corner of the goal.
Higashiguchi Junzhao also didn't expect that Nie Jiang would grab the ball at the back point and head the header with such difficulty. By the time he started to save, the ball had already flown into the net.
The Chinese team took advantage of a set-piece opportunity to score a goal and take the lead.
After Nie Jiang scored, he ran to the side of the stands.
The audience, mainly Longteng fans, waved their hands crazily and shouted Nie Jiang's name. Their favorite player scored twice for the national team to help the team take the lead. What could make the fans happier than this.
Regarding Nie Jiang's goal, He Wei was even more excited than Nie Jiang who scored the goal: "Nie Jiang scored again! He proved his strength by scoring twice in his first start. It is really Chinese football.
A gem.”
"I haven't seen such a talented young player for a long time." Xu Yang also said, "The opponent is the Japanese team. To be honest, I can't even imagine his height in the future."
After scoring the goal, the Chinese team quickly began to experiment with another set of tactics, which was defensive counterattack.
Moreover, the defensive counterattack played by the Chinese team is very threatening. Lin Feng and Zheng Zhi take turns participating in the counterattack organization or forward penetration, which makes the Chinese team's defense appear very flexible.
The Japanese team, which was eager to attack, was counterattacked twice by the Chinese team and almost lost the ball again.
About thirty minutes into the second half of the game, the Chinese team made a substitution. Nie Jiang was replaced by Wu Lei. The Chinese team continued to retain a fast forward in the frontcourt.
A few minutes before the end of the game, Gao Lin was also replaced by Yang Xu. This ensured that the Chinese team had a high point in the frontcourt and could grab the header.
From these substitutions, we can see that Perrin is very confident now and dares to continue to exert pressure in the frontcourt instead of defending defensive players.
When the referee blew the final whistle of the game, the Chinese team won the victory 2:1.
At the same time, the three points in this game also allowed the Chinese team to win the East Asian Cup again after five years.
This East Asian Cup is not of great significance to the Chinese team, but it is of great significance to Zhang Sheng. Because this is the first championship won by the Chinese adult football team under his influence since Zhang Sheng was reborn.
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Players trained by Zhang Sheng have also won championships such as the World Junior Championships before, but after all, it was a youth team competition, and the actual significance was not great.
Compared with the runner-up in history, this championship is a qualitative leap.
Zhang Sheng believes that as long as he persists in working hard, more and more valuable champions will follow.
After the game, the Chinese team won unanimous praise from the media and fans. At the beginning of the year, although the Chinese team lost in the Asian Cup, it was an honor, but a defeat was a defeat. This honor was just a comfort given to myself.
The current champion is the champion, and the game process is not the kind of luck that a blind cat encounters a dead mouse, nor is it a wretched situation where the whole audience cowers and steals the chicken. In several games, except for the Chinese team's absent-mindedness in the first game, the other two
Every game was played with great vigor.
This performance makes fans full of hope for the 2018 World Cup in the near future.
As the biggest discovery of the national team this time, Nie Jiang has been praised as "Chinese Ronaldo" by fans and the media. The Longteng team has contributed several good players and played a decisive role in the championship. He has also been praised by the media and the media.
The fans praised the game, and some media people even publicly claimed that they were already fans of the Dragons.
The Long Teng team was in the limelight this time, but Zhang Sheng had to pay for the limelight, because the day after these national team players returned to the team, the Chinese Super League started again, and Zhang Sheng had to face
to the problem of staff shortage.
Fortunately, the Olympic team's training camp this time only played two internal teaching games with domestic teams. The players still had two days of rest before returning to the team. Otherwise, the team's injured players plus players with insufficient physical fitness would
, the full list of eighteen people could not be assembled.
Of course, this time the East Asian Cup is placed in Jiangcheng, it can be regarded as the national team considering that there are many Longteng players in the team, which can save them from traveling.
In addition, this round of Chinese Super League Longteng team is at home, which can be said to give the players a breath of relief. Even in this way, the strength of Zhang Sheng's lineup is greatly reduced.
However, during the training before the game, Ben Alpha said that his muscles were a little tight, which frightened Zhang Sheng and quickly asked the team doctor to check. At the team doctor's suggestion, he sat on the bench.
On the forward line, Zhang Sheng simply put Chavez in front, while Pato and Yu Bo played on the wing.
Because Tao Wentao was injured and could not play, Yao Tian, who did not play in the last game of the East Asian Cup, was assigned as an attacking midfielder. Although Roque Gill had recovered from his injury in the defensive midfielder position, it would definitely be inconvenient to start. After some consideration, Zhang Sheng
, fucked Zhang Hao and Xiong Jian.
As for the defender, Zhang Sheng is more troubled. Lu Zhihui has just returned from injury. He must be safer and cannot start. Ma Yongli has played three more games and his physical fitness is simply not enough. So only Du Zhen can start.
Yu He Liming, and the substitutes can only be used by 16-year-old young players like Lu Yangyang.
The two full-backs are Xiang Tiange and Wei Zhimin, and the two returning players from the national team are substitutes.
As for the goalkeeper position, Zhang Sheng insisted on taking Huang Dawei, which made Zhou Wei very depressed.
