The current rapid counterattack of the Longteng team is Ben Alpha's favorite offensive method. There is an open space in front of him, and he is running at a faster speed. Plus Tao Wentao's passing is also very comfortable.
For a player like Ben Alpha, at the level of the Chinese Super League, he can create space if there is no offensive space, let alone give him such a good counterattack opportunity. Suddenly, Guangzhou Evergrande’s right wing was greatly affected.
threats.
How to match up with Ben Arfa has always been the biggest headache for players from all Chinese Super League teams, but at this time, Liu Jian, as the right back, had to bite the bullet and defend him.
Facing Ben Alpha's continuous high-speed dribbling and changing of directions, Liu Jian was completely at a loss. Just like a big truck trying to compete with a sports car in turning corners, Liu Jian soon completely lost his center of gravity. The only thing he could do was
Maybe he subconsciously grabbed Ben Alpha's jersey, causing Ben Alpha to fall to the ground as he passed by him.
This tactical foul was extremely obvious. The referee Ma Ning decisively stopped the game and gave Liu Jian a yellow card.
Duan Xuan praised Ma Ning very much: "This penalty is very accurate. Although it was not long after the game started, a yellow card had a great impact on Guangzhou Evergrande's defense. Ma Ning still decisively showed the yellow card. Other players behind him
If you want to commit a foul, you have to think clearly first."
"As long as we are treated fairly, neither the players nor the fans will complain." Xu Yang also added.
Regarding this penalty, the players, including the captain of Guangzhou Evergrande Zheng Zhi, did not make any argument. Instead, they thanked Liu Jian for this crucial foul. Otherwise, Ben Alpha would have been allowed to pass.
A single sword.
Of course, Liu Jian's yellow card also left a very big hidden danger. He was originally at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Ben Alpha, but now he received a yellow card in less than ten minutes after the game started. You can imagine what will happen next.
A few dozen minutes of his hardship.
But now they still have to worry about the upcoming set-piece in the frontcourt, because Evergrande's "nemesis" Lu Zhihui has already jogged all the way to Evergrande's penalty area.
Regarding Lu Zhihui's participation in the frontcourt set-piece attack, Guangzhou Evergrande's players all felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy, because they were so impressed by this player. From the time when the Longteng team was still in the second division league, to now everyone
He is an equal in the Chinese Super League, and Evergrande sheds tears when talking about him.
Therefore, facing the frontcourt free kick of the Longteng team, not only the Guangzhou Evergrande players looked down upon Lu Zhihui, but even the two commentators specifically mentioned him.
Duan Xuan said: "Lu Zhihui is coming up. Evergrande needs to be careful, this player has scored too many goals from set kicks."
"Indeed. Since Fan Zhiyi and Li Weifeng retired, and Dewey's condition has declined sharply, our domestic central defenders with top-notch heading skills have basically disappeared. Lu Zhihui has taken over the guns of these seniors. Coming soon.
In the top 40 and top 12 games, he should play a lot of role in enriching the Chinese team's offensive routine." Xu Yang extended Duan Xuan's words and related them to the national team's games.
As the commentator explained, the Longteng team took a free kick in the frontcourt, and the person who took the penalty was Ben Alpha, who had the best footwork on the team.
While Ben Arfa was still looking for a spot in the penalty area, Lu Zhihui started running in the penalty area. Standing next to Lu Zhihui were Kim Young Kwon and Paulinho.
Jin Yingquan was responsible for blocking the position, while Paulinho was responsible for taking off and competing with Lu Zhihui for the top. When Ben Alpha's ball flew over, Jin Yingquan felt Lu Zhihui's strong strength in physical confrontation. They were both playing center back, and Lu Zhihui had
He is nearly 1.88 meters tall and weighs at least ten kilograms more than Kim Young Kwon, so after the two of them took off at the same time and collided in the air, Kim Young Kwon was completely squeezed away.
Fortunately, Lu Zhihui also had Paulinho beside him. The latter used his forced body to cause great interference to Lu Zhihui's header. Although Lu Zhihui was indeed superior in jumping, under Paulinho's interference, he wanted to
It is still very difficult to form a strong header against Guangzhou Evergrande's goal.
However, in this set-piece attack, Lu Zhihui already had other plans. Before the penalty kick, he used the gestures negotiated within the Longteng team to make his own decision - he would not attack the goal directly, but would be responsible for it.
Ferry the ball out.
For a player, there is a big difference between a header and a header.
In order to form a threatening attack, in addition to jumping to grab the ball, you must also change the trajectory of the ball to the direction facing the goal. At the same time, you must hit the appropriate position on your head. If it is a header,
Any part of the head can achieve the corresponding effect, which is extremely easy for a player with outstanding heading ability like Lu Zhihui.
Sure enough, Guangzhou Evergrande did not expect Lu Zhihui's intention at all. After Lu Zhihui grabbed the ball in the air, he did not go to attack the goal. Instead, he lightly nudged the ball with his head, changing the ball's trajectory and heading the ball.
Come to the back door pillar.
Nie Jiang, who had already understood it by heart, suddenly penetrated to the back end of the penalty area through his agile movement. The Guangzhou Evergrande defensive players who had been following him saw the ball flying to the back post, but by this time it was already too late.
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Facing the flying ball, Nie Jiang made a light kick and the football flew straight to the Guangzhou Evergrande goal.
Only at this time did Zengcheng come over to save in shock. However, on the court, when the opponent shot from close range, the goalkeeper's saves were basically in vain.
Sure enough, when Zengcheng made the save, the ball had already hit the goal frame.
When Zengcheng thought that the ball would definitely go in, he only heard a "bang" sound. The football did not fly into the goal, but hit the goal post.
Zou Zheng, the left back who followed Nie Jiang, kicked the ball out of the sideline with his big kick before Nie Jiang, who had not yet adjusted his center of gravity after finishing the shot, saved Guangzhou Evergrande.
Duan Xuan also shouted excitedly: "The Longteng team's penalty was taken. Lu Zhihui really grabbed the point. It was not a goal, but a ferry. This is Nie Jiang at the back post. He shot! Oops, it hit the goal post. No. 25 Zou
Positive rescue. Guangzhou Evergrande is lucky this time."
"What a pity. The Longteng team's free kick tactics are very beautiful. They use Lu Zhihui's header ability to cause chaos and create opportunities for other players. It's a pity that Nie Jiang's shot hit the goal post." Xu Yang also said with regret.
, and then he praised Lu Zhihui, "Lu Zhihui's header ability is really strong. Two people flanked him, and he was able to accurately top the ball in front of his teammates. Evergrande should really be careful here, in the future.
Try to give the Dragons as few free kick opportunities as possible in the frontcourt."
Nie Jiang, who missed the goal, also looked regretful at this time. His teammates had already brought the cake to his mouth, but he didn't expect that he actually spit it out.
But Nie Jiang quickly adjusted his mentality. He raised his hands and applauded Lu Zhihui, who was running back, and then gave a thumbs up. The latter stepped back and gestured to Nie Jiang for a penalty kick, expressing that he was looking forward to the next one.
of cooperation.
Scolari and Zhang Sheng standing on the sidelines had completely different performances.
Scolari roared loudly on the court, asking Kim Young-Kwon and Paulinho to be more aggressive and not give Lu Zhihui such a chance again.
Zhang Sheng, after seeing the missed opportunity to take the lead, felt a little regretful and applauded the players on the field vigorously, asking them to keep up their efforts.
This offense of the Longteng team also sounded the alarm for Guangzhou Evergrande. The Longteng team has top frontcourt breakthrough experts such as Pato and Ben Arfa. At the same time, they also have strong set-piece offensive capabilities and routines.
, during the opening period, Guangzhou Evergrande's all-out attack seemed to be vigorous, but at the same time it was too dangerous, and you must consider your own rear.
After the Longteng team's counterattack, Guangzhou Evergrande moved its formation back. Except for Paulinho, who pressed forward to attack from time to time, the other defensive players in the backcourt stayed in the backcourt honestly.
, players with certain offensive organizational skills, including captain Zheng Zhi, will never go too far.
When Guangzhou Evergrande resolutely played defensive counterattack, their positional defensive ability was indeed second to none in the Chinese Super League. The contact coaching between Lippi and Cannavaro, the Italian coach, certainly laid the foundation, but more thanks to
Scolari’s training after coming to Guangzhou Evergrande.
Before Scolari came to the Chinese Super League, the reason why Guangzhou Evergrande was able to dominate the Chinese Super League and also demonstrated a dominant performance at the AFC Champions League level was due to the strength of the team's players and the presence of Lippi.
Offensive training, actually speaking of defense, is not very stable.
Since Lippi coached Guangzhou Evergrande, the most profound impression on people is the flexibility of the offensive formation.
The flexibility of the formation here not only refers to the use of different formations when facing different opponents, but also changes in the formation according to different field situations during the ongoing game, so we have seen it time and time again.
Guangzhou Evergrande made great adjustments in the second half.
In the 2013 season when Guangzhou Evergrande won its first AFC Champions League, Lippi's coaching of the team reached its peak.
The Evergrande team he coached was able to play offensive plays such as 433 and 4141, as well as balanced tactics such as 442. Unconventional tactics such as 352 also ran extremely smoothly at critical moments. As for the basic formation such as 4231
Lippi has already played many tricks that others cannot do.
In Lippi's eyes, which formation is not the most critical, the most critical core issue is that after the change of formation, Evergrande was able to gain a local numerical advantage in a short period of time, which made most Asian football teams that only played 4231
The team felt overwhelmed.
During this period, players with certain abilities in multiple positions have become the most dazzling existence. For example, Rong Hao, who is capable of playing multiple positions, played three positions in one game against Kashiwa Reysol. This is also the reason why Rong Hao
The most glorious moment.
But in the 2014 season, since Evergrande swept Asia, several teams began to change their formations, including Kashiwa Reysol, Seoul FC and other Japanese and Korean teams.
This is very normal in the football world, because as long as you play well and can win, you will become the research object of many rival teams, and they will adopt targeted playing methods based on your playing style.
For example, when Evergrande reached the finals under the leadership of Konka in 2013, FC Seoul took the lead in coming up with the idea of dismantling Konka's playing style and succeeded in the first game of the final.
After the 2014 season, Lippi insisted on promoting the training of running without the ball in the 3-midfield formation, and also adjusted the team's foreign aid from Brazilian foreign aid to mainly European foreign aid. Unfortunately, domestic players and traditional European players were unable to move without the ball.
The differences with the concept of passing and receiving were too great to fully integrate. In the end, traditional European players were replaced with more fault-tolerant European-style South American foreign players.
The ups and downs are also the reason why Guangzhou Evergrande's performance in the 2014 season was not very good.
However, tactics such as high-post pressing, space-cutting defense, and trap defense have already taken shape in the 2014 season.
In terms of defensive training, Lippi actually has his own considerations, because he has keenly captured a huge weakness of Asian teams, which is that they cannot change formations and are extremely uncomfortable with the opponent's changes.
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This point was actually mentioned in Lippi's own autobiography.
At the same time, Lippi also analyzed the fundamental reason why these teams are afraid of changing formations, that is, all Asian teams basically have a single core. For example, Sanfrecce Hiroshima relies on Yojiro Takahagi, and Gamba Osaka relies on Yasuhito Endo.
, Seoul FC is Deokyang, Jeonbuk Hyundai is Lee Tong-guk, and Al Ahli is Ribeiro.
In Asia, due to the lack of high-level players (compared to South American teams) and the shortage of funds (compared to European clubs), most teams can only ensure that they can only have one core team in their team. Guangzhou
As long as Evergrande "seems to death" this core player, the opponent team will be completely blind.
Therefore, after Guangzhou Evergrande’s defensive tactics slowly took shape in the 2015 season, in the Chinese Super League, Evergrande prevented Conca from catching the ball and Guoan’s Deyang could not get the ball. In the AFC Champions League, Endo Yasuhito and Takahagi Yojiro
, and even Ribeiro, all have learned Evergrande’s core-killing style of play.
Evergrande's core-killing style of play is different from the traditional popular domestic method of finding someone to guard the so-called core. Instead, they know that you will pass the ball to the so-called "core", so they wait around the core to steal the ball, or
Deliberately isolating the passing lines between core players and other players, preventing the opponent from passing the ball and paralyzing the opponent's offensive organization.
There is a deeply hidden character in this tactic - Goulart.
If we only go by the official arrangement, Goulart is a "front midfielder", but in the current game, his defensive ability in the frontcourt has made many team's playmakers extremely uncomfortable.
The power of the attack is greatly reduced.
Just like the current match between the Longteng team and Evergrande, Goulart's defense against Lin Feng can be said to be very successful. The latter still has difficulty organizing a very effective offense.
