Judging from the technical statistics after the game, the Longteng team took the absolute initiative, controlling 61% of the ball, 11 shots, and 6 shots on target. Compared with Jeonbuk Hyundai's 39%
Controlling the ball, three shots, and two shots on target, I don’t know how much higher. At the same time, the Longteng team also had far more free kicks in the front and backcourt than the opponent. In terms of fouls, it was much less than the opponent. The yellow card was 0:4.
comparison.
It can be said that the Longteng team's luck is really not very good. Coupled with the referee's biased whistle, it was inevitable to be tied.
But no matter what, the Longteng team successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League and the East Asia finals. Their opponent will be their biggest challenger in the league, Guangzhou Evergrande.
Yes, Zhang Sheng regards Guangzhou Evergrande as a challenger to his team. He has put himself at a higher level to view Guangzhou Evergrande.
This game is not only the focus of this round of competition, but also the season node battle of the 2015 Chinese Super League.
Now the Longteng team leads Guangzhou Evergrande by 12 points. At the same time, they won 0:1 away from home in the first round. According to the ranking rules of the Chinese Super League teams, with the same points, the two teams must first be compared with each other.
The game points are then compared to the goal difference between the two teams in each other's games, then the number of away goals in each other's games, then the goal difference between the two teams in the entire season, and finally the number of goals scored by the two teams in the entire season.
With five rounds left in the league, in addition to expecting the Longteng team to make mistakes in subsequent games, Guangzhou Evergrande must win this game, and the goal difference must be more than two goals.
Because now the total number of goals scored by the Longteng team is 67 and the number of goals conceded is 20. The number of goals scored by Guangzhou Evergrande is 52 and the number of goals conceded is 22. Calculated in this way, regardless of whether Guangzhou Evergrande is
Both the total goal difference and the total number of goals scored are far less than the Longteng team.
Once the Longteng team wins this game, it goes without saying that the Longteng team has won the championship. Even if the two teams are tied, even if the Longteng team loses all the subsequent games, Guangzhou Evergrande has won the last four games and finally won the championship.
It’s still the Dragon Team.
Because both Longteng and Guangzhou Evergrande had firmly grasped the initiative to advance in the first round of the AFC Champions League, both sides consciously made adjustments to their main players in the second round.
Like the Longteng team, Guangzhou Evergrande used up three substitutions just after the 70 minutes of the second round. This was obviously for the ultimate league challenge three days later - the away game against the Longteng team.
However, it is a pity that the team's main right back Shu Jun was injured and the place that was originally planned to be replaced by captain Zheng Zhi was used on Shu Jun. As a result, Shu Jun could not play in this game. At the same time, captain Zheng Zhi's physical fitness was also far behind.
Far from enough.
In the pre-match interview, Guangzhou Evergrande head coach Luiz Felipe Scolari seemed confident: "I know the Dragons are a very strong team. But our current state is very good. In this game our
The goal is three points. Although we are a little behind in points, I think we still have a chance to win the league championship."
Scolari was able to say such words when he was only 12 points behind the Dragons in only five rounds. He actually had the confidence to do so. Since Scolari took over the team, whether it is the league or the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Hengzheng
They have yet to lose. In the Chinese Super League, they maintained an unbeaten record with eight wins and four draws. In the AFC Champions League, they also successfully advanced to the AFC Champions League semi-finals with two wins and two draws.
While the team won the victory, most of the injured players in the early stages of the league returned to the team in a healthy state. Even if Shu Jun was injured this time, they still have national-level players like Li Xuepeng and Liu Jian on their strong bench.
Players can replace him, so the strength is not reduced much.
Considering that in the last round of the league, they easily defeated their AFC Champions League rivals Shanghai SIPG 3:0 away from home, it can be said that Guangzhou Evergrande has now returned to its previous control of the Chinese Super League. Even their rival Shandong Luneng is located in
Lu media also exclaimed: "Guangzhou Evergrande has regained its dominance in the 2013 season."
However, compared to Scolari’s confidence, Zhang Sheng seemed more confident. He said in an interview: “Since the beginning of the league, we have never lost, and I think we will not lose again this season.
, there has never been a team in the Chinese Super League that has won the championship with an undefeated record, so let’s start with us.”
In fact, as early as the first few rounds, the Longteng team, which has remained undefeated in the league, has given fans a great shock, because since the A-A was changed to the Chinese Super League, no team has been able to achieve an undefeated record.
Won the championship.
During the A-A period, in the 1996 season, Dalian Wanda won the league championship that year with an unbeaten record of 12 wins and 10 draws. This was also the only time that the Chinese Football League has won the championship since the professionalization of the Chinese Football League.
The team won the championship that season with an unbeaten record. Moreover, Dalian Wanda's 55-game unbeaten record from 1995 to 1997 was difficult for latecomers to match.
Since the Chinese Super League, this unbeaten number has never reached the heights of Dalian Wanda.
The longest unbeaten record in the league was achieved by Guangzhou Evergrande, who had just entered the Chinese Super League in the 2011 season. They had 16 wins and 7 draws in the first 23 rounds of the league, but in the 24th round, Evergrande lost
They lost 1-2 away to Yatai and suffered their first defeat of the season; after that, Guangzhou Evergrande also achieved 23 unbeaten games in the Chinese Super League, AFC Champions League and FA Cup in the 2013 season.
The Longteng team, which has been in great shape this year, has given everyone a lot of confidence. Since the beginning of this season, the Longteng team has remained undefeated in the three-tier competition of the Chinese Super League, AFC Champions League and FA Cup.
Among them, the league has nineteen wins and six draws, the AFC Champions League has seven wins and three draws, and the Football Association Cup has three consecutive wins. This means that the Longteng team has reached 38 unbeaten games, and it is very likely that it will end with an unbeaten record.
Won the Chinese Super League championship.
When Zhang Sheng's words were reported by the media, it caused an uproar among the fan community.
Not only the fans of Guangzhou Evergrande sneered at Zhang Sheng's arrogance, but even the old fans of Dalian Wanda were very dissatisfied with Zhang Sheng's words. They mocked: "There are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains to be kings, and there are still five rounds of competition."
, the higher the flag is raised, the more embarrassing it will be."
In fact, Zhang Sheng had his own ideas in answering this question.
Judging from the team's situation during this period, the players are obviously a little slack.
Since the team's points lead the second place by a large margin, the players have obviously lost their passion for the league. Although many players have not said it, it can be seen from their usual training and game performance that there is always a sense of inadequacy.
The feeling of being energetic.
Zhang Sheng had foreseen this situation, because in those years in Europe, Zhang Sheng saw too many top players in small leagues, such as Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian League, and Sager in the Croatian League.
Dinamo Loeb and Olympiacos of the Greek Super League, basically every year the league championship and cup championship are won by these teams.
These teams all have the same characteristics - including most of the main players of their country's national team, the team has the top foreign players in their country's league, and has a stable source of funds behind them.
But do these help the team and the national team of the country too much? In fact, not really.
These top players in small European leagues have a lot of success in their own country's leagues. Once they reach the Champions League or Europa League, their competitiveness becomes extremely weak.
At the same time, the level of the national teams of these countries is correspondingly worse than that of countries with the five major leagues. When you are lucky, a group of high-level players are produced, and the team can achieve good results. When you are unlucky, it cannot enter the European Cup or
The finals of the World Cup are all in danger.
On the contrary, countries with five major leagues are strong contenders for the championship when there are many top players; when times are bad and there are no top players, they are guaranteed to qualify for the European Cup or World Cup finals almost every time.
In other words, countries with a highly competitive domestic league can guarantee the lower limit of the national team, while the opposite can only depend on luck.
A large part of the reason for this is that the competitiveness of the domestic league is too low.
Those players in the dominant team can win by just playing casually in the league, and of course they will not put all their effort into the game. When they really encounter a more competitive game in the Champions League or Europa League, they will lose.
The ball is completely predictable.
In fact, if the Longteng team continues to develop like this, it is following the old path of these teams.
Now the Longteng team basically includes most of the best players in the country, has the league's top foreign players, and has a parent company like the Longteng Group behind it. In addition, Zhang Sheng has a system in place. When Guangzhou Evergrande is like this
The good domestic players in the old rival team are slowly getting older, and the Longteng team will definitely dominate the domestic league by then.
Therefore, Zhang Sheng must use higher requirements to urge his players. Only by allowing them to always have a goal can they be motivated to put all their efforts forward.
At the same time, Zhang Sheng's requirements can also eliminate those players who are not enterprising in the team and maintain the atmosphere in the team.
In this game, Zhang Sheng still insisted on his old tactics. The only thing to remind the players was the new foreign aid introduced by Guangzhou Evergrande in the second half of the season-Paulinho.
When Paulinho joined Guangzhou Evergrande for 1,400,000 euros during the second transfer period, many people were skeptical of the deal. After all, this player was called a parallel import at Tottenham and has become a marginal figure in the team.
Now that nearly half a season has passed, those who doubted it at the beginning have long been conquered by Paulinho's superstar performance.
As a player appointed by Scolari, Paulinho joined to solve the team's defensive problem. Whether it is the league or the AFC Champions League, the team's defense has been significantly improved after Paulinho joined. League
The average number of goals conceded per game dropped from 1 to 0.8, and the average number of goals conceded per game in the AFC Champions League dropped from 1.4 to 0.5. It can be said that Paulinho is the last and most important piece of Scolari's tactical puzzle.
In the game against Shanghai SIPG, another strong contender for the Chinese Super League championship, this game was a collective outbreak of Evergrande’s Brazilian gang. Robinho, Goulart and Elkerson took over the team.
3 goals. However, in a strong dialogue, defense is the key to winning. Evergrande was able to win the game without a fight, and Paulinho took the greatest credit. In this game, Paulinho successfully froze the core hole of SIPG.
Card, and without the help of Kongka, SIPG almost did not play a threatening offense. It can also be seen from the statistics that SIPG only had 8 shots, and only 3 shots in the penalty area, which was far less than SIPG.
This season he averaged 9.6 shots in the penalty area per game, which shows Paulinho's success in restricting Conca.
On the offensive end, Paulinho also showed his role. As a defensive midfielder, Paulinho's offensive ability cannot be underestimated. Long-range shots and set kicks are Paulinho's two greatest weapons.
In the first leg of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals, Paulinho scored his first goal since joining Evergrande. At that time, Kashiwa Reysol, which was trailing 0-1, was aggressively attacking, causing Guangzhou Evergrande's backcourt to suffer.
A strong impact, and Paulinho extinguished the flames of Kashiwa Reysol's counterattack with a kick that shocked everyone. In the end, the team won the game 3-1.
As a reborn person, Zhang Sheng also knows that in the history of the AFC Champions League finals, Paulinho contributed a total of 13 steals in the two rounds (6 away games and 7 home games), and other players did not have as many steals as him in the two rounds.
After more than one game, the midfield guarded by him became an insurmountable gap for Al Ahli.
In the game against Barcelona, Paulinho was the only player in the Evergrande team who could compete with Barcelona players. In that game, Paulinho passed the ball 32 times, with a passing success rate of 81.3% and 3 steals.
Both are the highest in the team. When playing against a super first-class team like Barcelona, the gap between Paulinho and local players is even more obvious.
At the same time, the more critical games are, the more critical Paulinho’s goals become. Historically, in the last four rounds of the league, Paulinho scored 2 league goals, bringing 6 points to the team.
In the first game of the Club World Cup against America in Mexico, when everyone thought the game was going into overtime, Paulinho played the role of a hero again, killing the opponent with a header and leading the team.
Here comes the chance to play against Barcelona.
In the 3rd and 4th place finals of the Club World Cup against Sanfrecce Hiroshima, he helped the team open the scoring in the first 3 minutes. Unfortunately, the team eventually lost the game because of exhaustion. This was the only game in which Paulinho scored but
A game in which the team lost.
And in the 2016 season, Paulinho has become a barometer for Guangzhou Evergrande. If he performs well, Guangzhou Evergrande performs well, but if his form is poor, Guangzhou Evergrande will lose nine out of ten times.
At the same time, in the Brazilian national team, Paulinho's performance shocked the fans outside. In the two games of the South American preliminaries of the World Cup, he completed a hat trick in one game and sent two goals in the other.
An assist, this kind of performance can be said to be the best in the world for a defensive midfielder.
Later, in the 2017 season, Barcelona didn't just say that they wanted to introduce him, but they actually wanted him to play a role in the team.
