For this game, not only the Longteng team and Guangzhou Evergrande are facing serious enemies, but also the media and fans from all walks of life are full of expectations.
Before the game, in major domestic sports forums and sports apps, the game posts and hotlines were filled with a lot of fans. There were fans of the two teams, and there were also fans of other teams watching the excitement.
In view of the current huge advantage of the Longteng team, and also because the two teams have very frequent personnel exchanges, although there are many fans from both sides, the atmosphere is generally very good, and few people get angry.
Many fans like Guangzhou Evergrande would have said in the post: "The Longteng team is too strong, I beg for light abuse."
Otherwise, the focus is on several core players of the Longteng team: "Pato is too strong now. Even if he goes to the five major European leagues, he can still play the main force. I am in danger."
"Ben Arfa is a Premier League player who plays in the Chinese Super League. He is extraordinary."
Fans of the Longteng team mostly focused on several foreign players from Guangzhou Evergrande: "The violent birds are too bad. It will be difficult to break through Evergrande's defense in this game!"
"Little Bear (Elkerson) is a key player. The more critical the game, the more intense it becomes. I curled up in a ball and shivered."
As for the various media, they analyzed the game from various angles.
Some compare the players of the two teams, some compare the groups behind the two teams, and some even extend it to a historic moment in the Chinese Super League.
What's even more exciting are the fans who come to watch the game.
Tickets for this game were sold out as soon as they went on sale a week ago.
As the Longteng team's performance gets better and better this season, trying to buy a Longteng team ticket in Jiangcheng, a traditionally popular football market, has become a problem for many fans in Jiangcheng and Hubei Province.
As a large stadium that can accommodate 56,000 spectators, every game in recent rounds has been basically full. Many fans have long broken the 80% maximum attendance requirement stipulated by the Chinese Super League through various channels.
In today's game, which determines the team's championship, it is even harder to get a vote.
Although the game only started at 7:35 in the evening, as early as around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the outside of the stadium was already crowded with fans from all over the country.
The fans who belong to the major fan groups of the Long Teng team are all full of excitement. These fans are basically the team's package ticket holders. They already had tickets for this game as early as the beginning of the season.
With tickets, there is no need to worry about entering the stadium. All they want is to discuss in advance how to cheer for the players in this game.
As for those fans who were lucky enough to buy individual tickets, they also followed the big fan groups, hoping to keep up with the cheering rhythm.
As for those fans who had not bought a ticket, they began to think about how to buy a ticket or simply how to sneak into the venue.
Of course, there are also countless scalpers among these fans.
After the Longteng Club previously rectified its ticket sales channels and ticket sales team, it was rare for scalpers to obtain Longteng team tickets in large quantities.
The vast majority of scalpers only have one or two tickets in their hands. Most of these tickets are obtained by queuing up all night and browsing ticket sales websites. To put it bluntly, they buy tickets at the original price and then sell them at a higher price.
Fans in need, this is a bit of hard-earned money.
When this game came, even ticket scalpers became nervous, because even some scalpers gave up the "business opportunity" of transferring their tickets at a high price. According to their words: "It is rare for Jiangcheng Football to win the Chinese Super League championship. This day
Just treat it as a loss this time, and it will be worth the money to witness a moment of history.”
This results in many fans who want to spend a lot of money to buy game tickets to have money but nowhere to spend it.
By 6:30, most of the fans had already entered the venue. Although the scalper tickets had basically been sold out, there were still a large number of fans who had not bought tickets outside the venue.
In order to prevent accidents, Jiangcheng Economic Development Zone specially arranged police forces to maintain security outside the site.
At this time, the Jiangcheng Sports Center was already filled with people.
On the sidelines of the stadium, dozens of media outlets, including CCTV, were conducting pre-match interviews and introductions. Because of the special nature of this match, CCTV specially sent two on-site reporters.
In the broadcast room, Duan Xuan, who was rumored to be leaving CCTV soon, began to prepare for the broadcast of the game. His partner was Xu Yang, which shows the importance CCTV attaches to this game.
At this time, Xuan and Xu Yang were doing some pre-game introductions.
"Does this game make you feel novel?" Duan Xuan asked Xu Yang.
"Novelty?" Xu Yang was also surprised by Duan Xuan's words, "Why do you say that?"
Duan Xuan's expression was obviously a little eager to try: "Since Guangzhou Evergrande entered the Chinese Super League, this is the first time that another team can determine the league champion in a game with them, and the champion is not Guangzhou Evergrande itself."
"Listening to what you said, I also think it's quite exciting." Xu Yang said with a smile, "But I am looking forward to more games like this. It proves that the competition in our Chinese Super League will be more intense and the fans and audiences will like it more.
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After arousing the fans' excitement, Duan Xuan began to comment on the starting lineups of the two teams today: "The home team Longteng has their strongest lineup, and several foreign players are on board except Chavez.
Evergrande's side is quite unexpected. Elkeson did not play, but Robinho did. Gao Lin started immediately after returning from suspension. Captain Zheng Zhi also started, even though he played in the last game
The whole game has been played.”
Xu Yang concluded: "This should be a confrontation between the two teams with the strongest strength and the highest value in the Chinese Super League. Let us look forward to the next game."
Soon the game started with a long whistle from Ma Ning, the famous iron whistle of the Chinese Super League.
Guangzhou Evergrande, who was more eager for points, launched a determined attack immediately after the kick-off.
Different from the first round, Guangzhou Evergrande’s midfield dispatch in this game was handed over to Paulinho instead of Zheng Zhi, who had been in charge before. It seems that Guangzhou Evergrande head coach Luiz Felipe Scolari
He still trusts his Brazilian disciples more, maybe he also wants to preserve more of Zheng Zhi's physical ability.
Paulinho's role is still very obvious.
In the third minute of the first half, it was Paulinho who escaped Tao Wentao's interception in the midfield and then rushed forward with the ball. Faced with Lin Feng's constant follow-up, Paulinho relied on his strong body to firmly
He caught the ball and then handed it to Goulart in the frontcourt. Goulart used his running position to avoid Rock Gill's defense and stuffed the ball from the ribs into the Longteng team's penalty area. Fortunately,
Ma Yongli was very focused and kept an eye on Robinho, forcing the latter to shoot from a very small angle. In the end, he shot the ball on the side netting.
Zhang Sheng was very dissatisfied with the attitude of the players on the field just now, especially the midfielders Tao Wentao and Lin Feng. The former's shots were too casual, and the latter allowed Paulinho to take the ball too easily.
The Longteng team's tactics have always been to start defense from the frontcourt. Once the players in the frontcourt are not 100% committed, the defensive pressure in the backcourt will be unprecedentedly high.
Faced with this situation, Zhang Sheng shouted loudly to the court: "Put in, invest in! Don't relax!"
In fact, Zhang Sheng didn't need to shout, the players on the Longteng team also knew their mistake. After all, this is their home court. If they really conceded the goal in the first three minutes, they knew what the consequences were waiting for them.
Duan Xuan, the commentator, was also dissatisfied with the Longteng team's performance: "After the game started, Guangzhou Evergrande obviously entered the state faster than the Longteng team. The ball just made Paulinho take it too easy."
Xu Yang guessed the mentality of the Longteng team players: "I guess the big lead in points made the Longteng team players a little careless. During this period of time, the Longteng team had consecutive draws, and the players' condition is indeed not as good as that of Guangzhou Evergrande."
However, the players of the Longteng team were soon inspired by Guangzhou Evergrande's offense. Tao Wentao and Lin Feng in the frontcourt started their usual pressing tactics. At the same time, Pato, Ben Arfa and Nie Jiang also joined forces to participate.
Go in.
The following performance of the Longteng team quickly proved why they can dominate the Chinese Super League.
When faced with the Long Teng team's high-position pressure, other Chinese Super League teams could only choose to panic and look for forwards in front of them. Although Guangzhou Evergrande was not so embarrassed at this time, they had to use their offensive
The starting point was to retreat back, hoping to use the depth of the court to influence the Longteng team's tactics.
This is exactly what Zhang Sheng hopes, which is to make the opponent's attack launch point further away from his own goal.
Seeing the situation on the field, Scolari made a tactical change. Paulinho, who had been more forward before, retreated slightly and got closer to his defense line, allowing him to organize the attack from the backcourt.
When Paulinho started to retreat to get the ball, Tao Wentao, who was the attacking midfielder, immediately transformed into a defensive midfielder, and he quickly approached the opponent.
After Paulinho failed to get rid of Tao Wentao in consecutive attempts, he distributed the ball to the right.
In this game, due to Shu Jun's injury, Liu Jian came to the right back position, but Liu Jian is not the kind of fast wing player. His defense is very stable, and he also has the skills to organize passes, but
When high-speed counterattacks are needed, there is not much help.
Like this time, after he received the pass from Paulinho, he wanted to rush up the right wing. Unfortunately, Ben Alpha was much faster than him. Under Ben Alpha's personal marking, Liu Jian had to slow down.
, after seeing that he could not accurately pass the ball to the frontcourt, he could only hand the ball to Zheng Zhi again, who came to respond.
After Zheng Zhi got the ball, he was quickly interfered by Nie Jiang who was retreating, and he could only hand the ball to Paulinho further behind.
After a complete circle, Guangzhou Evergrande's offense returned to its starting point.
Seeing the confrontation between the Longteng team and Guangzhou Evergrande in these few minutes, Duan Xuan said with satisfaction: "The Longteng team finally started to exert its strength. The game will be better."
Paulinho, who received the pass, also knew that it was unrealistic to rely on passing the ball to open up the Dragons' defense and attack in position, so he decided to do it himself.
As soon as he received the ball, Paulinho started to accelerate and sprint.
Regarding Paulinho's solo effort, Tao Wentao reacted immediately. He pressed closely against the opponent to prevent him from speeding up, while Lin Feng leaned in from the front and flanked Paulinho.
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Under the double attack of Tao Wentao and Lin Feng, Paulinho showed his star ability and the football was firmly under his control.
However, Paulinho is also very hard-working when dribbling the ball at high speed. He knows that if he does not pass the ball, it will be a big hidden danger if he loses the ball.
Sure enough, after seeing Zheng Long on the right, he passed the ball.
Because the ball was passed under the interference of two defensive players, the ball was not passed very well. Zheng Long was very awkward when receiving the ball. When he finally stabilized the ball, Xiao Yunfan had already come up to defend.
In this kind of positional battle, Zheng Long did not have the confidence to go it alone. He handed the ball to Paulinho, who came over to assist, and the latter was flanked by Lin Feng, who was defending to the end.
Faced with the Long Teng team's full-court pressing tactics, Paulinho didn't have much to do. He could only pass the ball back to Liu Jian, who came up with an assist.
It was not easy for Liu Jian to catch the ball, because Ben Alpha kept interfering with him, so he could only pass the ball back to midfielder Zheng Zhi.
After Zheng Zhi got the ball, he moved the ball to the left. Evergrande's left back Zou Zheng grabbed the ball from Nie Jiang and handed it to Robinho.
Robinho faltered several times in the face of Zhou Zhou's defense without much opportunity to break through, and behind him was Pato's return defense. Then he saw Goulart being stared at by Roque Gill.
Under the circumstances, he had to reluctantly lob the ball into the penalty area.
Although there are Gao Lin and Goulart who penetrated from outside the penalty area in the penalty area, Robinho's non-threatening pass was controlled by the frontal defense of Ma Yongli and Lu Zhihui.
Especially when facing Lu Zhihui, who has great header ability, he likes this kind of high-flying pass. He jumped high and pushed the ball out of the penalty area, and he still had time to find a spot in the air. The ball was passed by him
It reached the place where Rock Gill was standing.
At this time, the Guangzhou Evergrande team is in a state of attacking forward, so Roque Gill is particularly threatening after getting the ball, because the defensive position of the Evergrande players is not very good!
The first moment Roque Gil got the ball, Lin Feng started sprinting forward with all his strength, and at this time Roque Gil's pass arrived.
Guangzhou Evergrande's players tried their best to defend at this time, while Paulinho approached Lin Feng immediately.
Adhering to the Longteng team's quick passing tactics, Lin Feng did not let the ball stay at his feet for too long, and passed the ball to Tao Wentao in front with a beautiful pass.
Lin Feng's choice was right. As soon as he passed the ball, Paulinho's leg stretched out.
After Tao Wentao got the ball, he faced Zheng Zhi's attack and split the ball without stopping, finding Ben Alpha on the left.
