The opponent of the Longteng team in this game was Changchun Yatai. This is a team with a very tenacious style. Facing the incomplete formation of the Longteng team, they fought very fiercely, especially Morello on the forward line against the Longteng team.
The team's defense is extremely threatening.
The reason for this, in addition to Morello's own strength, is that the average age of the Dragons' defense is too low.
From 17-year-old goalkeeper Huang Dawei, to 19-year-old center back Du Zhenyu and 17-year-old center back Liming, to 19-year-old right back Wei Zhimin and 17-year-old left back Xiang Tiange, such a young defense line is not to mention in the Chinese Super League.
It is unique among professional leagues around the world.
Among these players, except Wei Zhimin and Du Zhenyu, who have gradually become the main players this season and played many games, the other three players have played as substitutes most of the time.
Both Huang Dawei and Liming Geng made their second start in the Super League.
Even Liu Jiayuan, who was in charge of the commentary, was surprised by the overall age of the Dragons: "When I first got the Dragons' starting lineup for this game, I was shocked. This average age is probably the lowest in the history of the Chinese Super League.
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Hearing Liu Jiayuan's question, Zhu Xiaoyu, who was responsible for the commentary of his partner, gave an affirmative answer: "It is indeed true. The average age of the Longteng team in this game is just over 20 years old. The name of the youth army is really worthy of its name. Although
Basically, these players have been selected for the National Youth Team and the National Olympic Team, but we just don’t know whether they can perform at a high level in the game.”
As soon as Zhu Xiaoyu finished speaking, Changchun Yatai launched an extremely threatening counterattack.
This time it was Xiong Jian who assisted in the frontcourt, but seeing that Changchun Yatai's defensive lineup was very neatly arranged, there was no chance, so he let the ball stay at his feet for a while, but Yatai's foreign midfielder Ma Zu intercepted the ball.
, and then he passed a long pass to Du Zhenyu on the left, who made a beautiful emergency stop and turned around to pass Xiang Tiange.
After that, Du Zhenyu's pass was passed into the penalty area, and Morello was completely free at the back point. Fortunately, center back Du Zhenyu jumped up high, and the ball flying in the air was rubbed by him and flew out of the baseline.
Otherwise, Morello would have missed an empty goal.
Liu Jiayuan also exclaimed: "Du Zhenyu's pass was passed by little Du Zhenyu. It's okay, not bad. In the last round of the game, old Du Zhenyu scored a goal against little Du Zhenyu, and this time the latter made a contribution.
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After hitting the ball, Du Zhenyu turned to Tiange and shouted: "Don't be anxious, stand firm."
Du Zhenyu is now the oldest and most experienced in the defense line. Before the game, Zhang Sheng told him to direct the defense of his teammates more, and now he has shown his performance with his actual actions.
In the next game, the Longteng team took the initiative on the court through the ability of the frontcourt players, but they did not have many good ways to face Yatai's iron barrel formation.
Because Ben Arfa, Nie Jiang and Tao Wentao are not here, the only players in the Longteng team's frontcourt who can break through are Chavez and Pato.
However, Chavez, who just joined the team not long ago, is not so skilled in cooperating with his teammates. He now relies more on his personal ability to play football.
Therefore, Pato, the only threat on the front line, became the focus of attention.
The Longteng team can only rely more on long-range shots and set kicks to threaten the opponent's goal.
When the first half of the game ended, both sides had no achievements.
After the start of the second half, the Longteng team strengthened their attack on the two wings. Wei Zhimin and Xiang Tiange began to frequently provide assists. Their inside cuts and crosses finally brought a level of improvement to the team's offense.
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In the 16th minute of the second half, Wei Zhimin cut inside and passed the ball to the goal. The opponent's right back Jiang Zhe knocked the ball out of the baseline, and the Longteng team got a corner kick.
After that, Yao Tian's pass accurately found Chavez, who headed the ball powerfully and finally broke through the opponent's goal.
After dozens of minutes of wild bombing, the Longteng team finally took the lead.
Liu Jiayuan said excitedly: "This is already Chavez's third goal since coming to the Longteng team. This signing for the Longteng team during the break is really a good deal."
"Chavez's three goals were all headers. He has already shown us his header ability. I don't know if he can show us anything else in the future." Zhu Xiaoyu obviously likes to look up information. He said accurately
Here's Chavez's scoring history.
Liu Jiayuan praised the overall strength of the Longteng team: "To be honest, I didn't expect that the Longteng team, which played with a rotation and substitute lineup, could also suppress Yatai. It seems that their bench depth is indeed strong."
"Of course." Zhu Xiaoyu said, "Although these substitute players are very young, they are the absolute core of the National Youth Team and the National Olympic Team. Even players like Yu Bo and Yao Tian have been selected for the national team.
Experience. Speaking of which, they are all nationally renowned players, so they must have some strength."
After scoring the goal, the Longteng team continued to test the opponent's pressure and created many shooting opportunities. Although they did not score a goal to expand the score, the two commentators continued to praise their performance.
Unfortunately, the Longteng team's consecutive attacks failed to score, which gave Changchun Yatai a chance to counterattack.
In the 33rd minute of the second half, Changchun Yatai passed the ball from the backcourt to Mazu on the right. The latter used his body and speed to eat Wei Zhimin alive, and then passed the ball to the center. Moreiro was nearly twenty years away from the goal.
A long shot from a distance of 10 meters without stopping the ball flew straight into the blind corner of the goal.
Huang Dawei was very focused and immediately made a save, but the angle of the ball was too tricky, and the ball bounced into the goal after hitting the inside of the goalpost.
"This world wave is so beautiful." Liu Jiayuan shouted loudly, "At this distance, he can still hit a blind spot. Morello is worthy of being the silver boot of the former Brazilian League."
Zhu Xiaoyu shook his head and said: "This is a magic kick. Huang Dawei's performance in this game is still good. It's a pity."
Also shaking his head on the sidelines was Zhang Sheng. He knew the characteristics of Huang Dawei. He was very stable and could save 9 out of 10 balls within his ability, but when he encountered a shot like Morello's, he was very stable.
A helpless player.
Zhou Wei is better than Huang Dawei in this aspect. If he is in excellent condition, he can even save the fairy ball. Unfortunately, most of the time he is not so reliable.
After equalizing the score, and seeing that there was not much time left in the game, Changchun Yatai began to return to defense across the board and replaced two defensive players in a row. Their attitude of wanting to defend this point couldn't be more obvious.
Zhang Sheng replaced Yao Tian with Lin Feng and Tao Wentao, and replaced Liming with Lu Zhihui, hoping to use their skills and headers to score goals.
In the 38th minute of the second half, Tao Wentao passed two people into the penalty area and was knocked to the ground by the opponent's defender Ismailov. However, the referee did not award a penalty kick. The replay afterwards showed that this was a very obvious decision.
Penalty kick, because the movement of Ismailov's hands was very obvious.
Then in stoppage time, Lu Zhihui's header hit the crossbar and bounced off the baseline, missing the chance to win again.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the Longteng team had to accept the score of 1:1. This was the team's second consecutive draw.
Fortunately, in the game held at the same time, Guangzhou Evergrande was also tied 2-2 by Shanghai Shenhua at their home court.
However, after this game, many media began to be pessimistic about the performance of the Longteng team in the next few months. In particular, the words of a Cantonese media are very representative: "The Longteng team is undoubtedly the dominant team in the Chinese Super League this season. Guangzhou Evergrande
Due to the lack of personnel and coaching adjustments in the early stage, we fell far behind them, but I believe that with the intensity of the Dragons' next games, they are likely to be overturned."
What they said is indeed correct, because the Dragon Team will face an extremely difficult time next.
In the middle of next week, the Longteng team will play a Football Association Cup match, and they will go to Xinjiang to challenge their opponents. Although Zhang Sheng has decided to send a substitute lineup to participate in this game, these substitute players will definitely affect
Weekend league.
Next, the 97 and 98-year-old players in the team will participate in the training camp of the U19 national team.
Originally, according to the arrangements of the Football Association, these players of the appropriate age will start to participate in the competition from August 29th. They will also participate in the "China Team" Four Nations Invitational Tournament in Qingdao in early September, then continue to participate in training camps, and finally start from September 28th.
I will go to Huai'an, Jiangsu Province on October 7th to participate in the preliminaries of the Asian U19 Youth Championship.
However, Zhang Sheng did not fully agree with the Football Association's arrangement, because according to their request, as many as nine players in the team will miss the game for more than a month.
In addition, the U16 national team also needs to mobilize players. They will train from September to early October, so the 99-year-old players in the team will also have to leave the team for nearly a month.
By the end of September, the national Olympic team's age-appropriate players (23 years old and below) will have to participate in the crucial finals of the Olympic budget competition until mid-October.
At the beginning of October, the World Junior Championships will begin again. All U17 players in the team will definitely participate. Once the team performs well, it will continue until early November.
In addition, the national team's World Cup preliminaries are also interspersed in the middle, so the players of the Longteng team will be too tired.
If players are transferred according to the requirements of the Football Association, then the Dragons will not play any subsequent games.
What's more, starting from August 26, the AFC Champions League games will begin, and the team must be 100% prepared.
Even if the AFC Champions League is not considered, in the last eight games of the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team will face Guangzhou Evergrande at home, Beijing Guoan away, and Guangzhou R&F away. These three opponents all want to compete for the championship.
Or it may be a team that has qualified for the AFC Champions League, but in other games, it will have to face teams like Tianjin TEDA, Liaoning Hongyun, and Chongqing Lifan who are fighting for relegation.
In the two months from the end of August to November, if something goes wrong, it is very likely that the team's advantage will be completely dissipated. Not to mention the FA Cup that is already ready to give up, it is very likely that the AFC Champions League will be eliminated.
, even the league championship may not be guaranteed.
If the 14-point lead in the last eight rounds is reversed, the club will really lose face.
Therefore, how to coordinate the player selection time with the Football Association is the most critical issue for the club now.
Soon in the next round of the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team relied on Pato and Yu Bo to score a goal each and defeated Liaoning Hongyun 0:2 in the away game, proving that the previous two consecutive draws were just a game played by the team.
Just taking a nap.
By mid-week, when club officials began to argue with the Football Association, assistant coaches He Lijun and Xuerle took the team to Xinjiang to participate in the Football Association Cup.
The Longteng team, which mainly consisted of substitutes and rotation players, relied on goals from Chavez and Zhang Hao to defeat the Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopards 1:2 in the away game.
Compared with the score, the latter was very polite to the Longteng team and did not make any big moves on the field, allowing the players to return to the club safely.
Moreover, the Xinjiang team, which has as many as three Longteng players in the team, is also a victim of this national team selection. Yan Xiaoyu and Qu Wenming will be absent from the Chinese League for a long time, so they also gave up on the Football Association Cup.
manner.
However, there was one match in this round of the FA Cup that was a rare and exciting match in the history of the Chinese Super League. That was the Shanghai Derby between Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG.
In this game, the two sides tied 3-3 in regular time.
It can be said that each of these six goals is extremely exciting.
First, Shanghai Shenhua's Moreno scored the first goal with a beautiful upside-down golden hook in the penalty area. Next, another Shenhua player, Wang Yun, made a non-stop lob shot from outside the penalty area, which hit the dead center of the goal, 2:0.
Ahead.
If Shenhua wins with a big score like this, it can only be a one-sided success. The game is beautiful and the opponents also give a response that is not inferior to them.
First, SIPG's Wu Lei scored a goal from the edge of the penalty area, and then Ji'an's impactful header helped SIPG equalize the score.
Next, Shenhua relied on Demba Ba's hook to take the lead again. Just when everyone thought the game was going to end like this, SIPG's Kongka scored with a direct free kick before the end of the game, making this twists and turns game
It seems more ups and downs.
In the end, it was Shanghai Shenhua who had the last laugh. They defeated Shanghai SIPG 8:7 in a penalty shootout.
It can be said that this game, regardless of the rhythm of the game, the technical and tactical arrangements of both sides, and the excitement of the goals, is one of the most exciting games in the Chinese Super League and even in the history of Chinese professional football.
This also proves from another aspect that in current Chinese Super League games, as long as everyone focuses on the game itself and is willing to put in all their efforts, they can still play at a very high level.
Moreover, the promotion brought by excellent coaches and excellent foreign players, and the league upgrade helped by Zhang Sheng, have made the Chinese Super League more and more exciting.
Zhang Sheng also looks forward to more such exciting games in the future, because such games are unparalleled in terms of improving players and attracting fans.
