Guangzhou Evergrande's danger on the left wing quickly attracted Scolari's attention.
At this time, Zheng Zhi, who was the defensive midfielder, rushed over to help Zou Zheng defend. Pato chose a completely different style of play from Robinho. When he saw Zheng Zhi coming over, he did not take credit for it, but handed the ball over.
It was given to Zhou Zhou who came over to assist. Zhou Zhou also understood Pato's pass and passed the ball to the center of Guangzhou Evergrande.
Because Zheng Zhi left the defensive midfielder position and Paulinho did not have time to come back, Guangzhou Evergrande was now in an open space in the middle, and Tao Wentao, who received the pass from Zhou Zhou, was completely unguarded.
The open space in front of the top of the penalty area is always taken very seriously by any team when defending, but Tao Wentao dribbled the ball to this position unimpeded at this time.
As the team's central defender, Jin Yingquan had to come up to defend and prevent Tao Wentao from shooting directly. Unfortunately, he still underestimated Tao Wentao's determination.
Tao Wentao, who was dribbling the ball at high speed, actually made a fake move like fried meatballs when Jin Yingquan was grabbing the ball. The latter did not expect that Tao Wentao would dare to play tricks in such a game. He was stunned for a moment and was broken by Tao Wentao.
passed.
Even the commentator Duan Xuan was shocked by Tao Wentao's extraordinary performance: "Hengda's center is very empty now. Tao Wentao dribbled the ball straight into the penalty area. It was beautiful and fried. Jin Yingquan did not expect it. Haha, Tao Wentao."
Shot. Zengcheng! Beautiful save. He jumped into the air and threw the ball to the baseline."
Xu Yang also said excitedly: "Tao Wentao had a great time, and the quality of this shot was also very high. Of course, Zengcheng's save was also extremely critical. This goal was attacked with spirit and defended beautifully."
"Evergrande can't play like this." Duan Xuan took over and said, "It's too dangerous to let the opponent break through with the ball in the middle so easily. You can't always count on Zengcheng to have such wonderful saves every time. You see, every game
Scolari next to me is furious now."
Duan Xuan was right. At this time, the coach of Guangzhou Evergrande on the sidelines shouted angrily towards the court, especially Robinho, who seemed very embarrassed because it was him who Scolari was yelling at.
Robinho, who knew he had made a mistake, worked extremely hard in the next game. As soon as he lost the ball, he immediately counterattacked crazily. Although it did not have much effect several times, the last time he made a mistake because of his excessive actions.
Da received a yellow card, but Guangzhou Evergrande’s left wing is no longer exclusive to the Dragons.
Zhang Sheng, aware of the situation on the field, quickly made adjustments, and the team's main attack direction changed from the right to the left.
In this game, Xiao Yunfan was on the left side of the Longteng team. The left side formed by him and Ben Alpha was stronger in attack power than the right side. Of course, it was also slightly weaker defensively.
Guangzhou Evergrande's right side is relatively active because of Gao Lin's counter-attack and return defense. In addition, Liu Jian himself is playing cautiously now and focuses his main energy on defense, so neither Ben Alpha nor Xiao Yunfan
Too many good opportunities.
Of course, if the Longteng team wants to make a fuss here, they have an opportunity to take advantage of it, because Liu Jianjian has a yellow card.
As a player who is also famous for his breakthroughs, Ben Arfa's performance was far better than Robinho. When the Dragons began to attack from the left, Ben Arfa was not only extremely sharp in breakthroughs, but he also
He also has extraordinary organizational abilities, which means he has transformed from a pure winger into a midfielder.
For example, in the 35th minute, Ben Alpha, Xiao Yunfan and Lin Feng cooperated. The one who took the initiative was not Lin Feng, the team's absolute core organizer, but Ben Alpha.
The triangle offensive team composed of three of them used quick passes to destroy the four-man defense of Gao Lin, Goulart, Paulinho and Liu Jian. Finally, Ben Alpha's beautiful heel kick handed the ball to the winger.
Xiao Yunfan, the latter's pass from the bottom found Pato who had switched to the center. Pato's push shot slightly missed the goal.
The Longteng team's attack this time made Scolari more fearful than the last time, because Tao Wentao's last shot came from his players' inactivity in returning to defense and counterattack, but this time the Longteng team relied entirely on advancing layer by layer, using
The positional battle method penetrated Guangzhou Evergrande's right defense.
At the same time, this time the Longteng team's offense is not centered around Lin Feng or Tao Wentao. The person responsible for organizing and dispatching the passes is Ben Alpha. This means that even if the Longteng team has Lin Feng and Tao Wentao killed, they still have other options.
A player can fight to take over the responsibility of the organization.
This is really embarrassing for Guangzhou Evergrande, which plays with a fee-based style. In the offense, who should be the main defender has become an unavoidable and dilemma.
After thinking about it for a while, Scolari gave up the idea of specifically containing the Longteng team's offense, and simply used offense instead of defense and played according to his own offensive tactics.
It should be said that his choice was very wise. Previously, because the Longteng team's offense put too much pressure on Evergrande's defense, Scolari was thinking about how to defend it. But now that he has let go, Guangzhou has been left under too much pressure.
Evergrande's offensive characteristics are fully exposed.
Sure enough, after Guangzhou Evergrande put most of their energy into offense, they put great pressure on the Longteng team's defense.
In the 38th minute of the first half, Paulinho and Goulart made exquisite cooperation in the midfield, in which Gaolin played a big role.
As the domestic player with the strongest sense of cooperation among the Evergrande players, some of his actions in the frontcourt are really "**********". For example, this time, after receiving a pass from Goulart, he faced
Xiao Yunfan's pressing force suddenly stopped when he stepped on the ball.
Defensive players are most afraid of sudden rhythm changes in this kind of high-speed marching coordination, because their own game rhythm will be interrupted.
So when Gao Lin suddenly stopped, Xiao Yunfan was stunned for a moment, but what Gao Lin wanted was Xiao Yunfan's stunned moment. When Xiao Yunfan just stopped his rhythm, Gao Lin suddenly accelerated and changed direction.
Gao Lin accelerated to change direction, and Xiao Yunfan quickly accelerated again. However, when Xiao Yunfan accelerated, Gao Lin passed the ball again. At this time, it was too difficult for Xiao Yunfan to defend.
And when Gaolin passed the ball, Goulart understood it and started running. He ran very fast, just when Gaolin attracted the attention of the Longteng team's defense.
When Gaolin passed the ball, it was when Goulart crossed into the penalty area from the gap between the midfielder and the center back.
Goulart's astute movement successfully reversed the offside and came to the right penalty area of the court.
As a former Brazilian international, Goulart's sudden acceleration and reasonableness of receiving the ball are absolutely top-notch. Gaolin's ball position ensures that the pass is sudden, so the quality is not too high, but Goulart receives the ball smoothly.
Incomparable.
Ma Yongli is a central defender who can turn around very quickly, but when he turned around to block Goulart's shot, Goulart had already started to shoot. Fortunately, Goulart's receiving position was relatively biased, and the angle of the shot was
It was relatively small, and Huang Dawei was very focused. When Goulart advanced into the penalty area to get the ball, Huang Dawei immediately came over to block his shooting angle.
In the end, Goulart's shot hit the side net because the angle of the shot was too small.
But because of the angle of the broadcast, it seemed like the ball was scored.
Even Duan Xuan shouted excitedly: "Goulart!!! Shot, did it go in?"
"Probably not, it hit the side net." Xu Yang explained, and then he put forward his own observations, "But from this attack, we can see that Guangzhou Evergrande's offense has come back to life."
"Indeed!" Duan Xuan said with an expression as though he was just watching the excitement and was not afraid of trouble. "This way the game will be much more exciting. If both sides can attack, it will be a wonderful game."
It's just that Zhang Sheng on the sidelines doesn't think so at this time. The release of Guangzhou Evergrande's offensive ability is not a good thing for his team.
After carefully observing the situation on the court, Zhang Shengxiang made a downward gesture, asking the players to slow down the pace of the game and focus more on midfield defense.
Sure enough, in the next game, the players of the Longteng team were more likely to control the ball in the midfield. Once Guangzhou Evergrande wanted to launch an attack, Tao Wentao, Lin Feng and Rock Gill were in the midfield.
They work together to stifle the opponent's offensive, even if necessary, they will not hesitate to commit a foul.
The confrontation between the two sides that Duan Xuan had always wanted to see did not occur, but instead turned into a lifeless midfield fight.
Not only Duan Xuan was unhappy with this situation, but Scolari was even more unhappy. The fans watching the game in front of TVs and mobile phones also felt bored. The only one who was happy was Zhang Sheng.
Football tactics are like songs, the rhythm can be changed completely, and the head coach is equivalent to the conductor.
Some head coaches like the rhythm of "play, play, play, play", while other head coaches like the rhythm of "medicine, medicine, check, make trouble". If you want to sing well, you have to maintain your own rhythm.
The same goes for football tactics. To be effective, you have to let the game follow your own rhythm. Whoever can disrupt the rhythm of others and control the rhythm on the field will gain the advantage of the game.
The current situation is exactly like this. The rhythm Scolari wanted is gone, but Zhang Sheng's rhythm is about to pick up.
Because Guangzhou Evergrande's strong attack in the middle was blocked in the middle, but the Longteng team's wing attack was flourishing.
Just before the end of the first half, the Longteng team once again used three midfielders to intercept Goulart's pass in the middle, and then launched an attack from Ben Alpha on the left. Ben Alpha used his own
Personal ability broke through Liu Jian's defense.
After Liu Jian was broken through, he originally wanted to pull Ben Alpha away, but a yellow card in the early stages of the game made him worry, and Ben Alpha left.
In the end, Ben Alfa cut inside and hit a high-quality shot from the edge of the penalty area. His shot made the ball take an extremely beautiful arc and flew straight to the far post of the goal. In the end, the ball missed the goal slightly.
It scraped against the goalpost and flew out of the bottom line.
Ben Arfa's shot made the Longteng fans on the sidelines let out a huge sigh. Everyone regretted this shot, but Scolari on the sidelines was shocked.
Scolari originally expected to make adjustments during the halftime break, but the Longteng team's attack almost made him make substitutions, because if he fell behind by two goals in the first half, the game would really be impossible.
Kicked.
Fortunately, Guangzhou Evergrande's players are very experienced. They also know that they are not physically fit enough to attack now, so everyone made the decision to retreat.
After passive defense in the last few minutes of the first half, Guangzhou Evergrande finally defended its goal.
Duan Xuan summarized the first half of the game: "The first half of the game is over. The Longteng team still has the advantage. The 1:0 score is also evidence of the performance of both sides."
"That's true." Xu Yang also said, "If Scolari doesn't make adjustments in the second half, this game will be really difficult to play."
Xu Yang was right. In the visiting team's locker room at this time, Guangzhou Evergrande was making tactical adjustments.
The first adjustment Scolari made was Liu Jian. After all, Liu Jian, who was carrying a yellow card, could not withstand the attack of Ben Alpha.
He replaced Liu Jian with Li Xuepeng, who had stronger offensive ability.
It should be said that Scolari's substitution was very risky. As a player who switched from a forward to a full-back, Li Xuepeng has stronger offensive ability, but his defensive ability is destined to be far inferior to Liu Jian.
Scolari's substitution this time was to use Li Xuepeng to trade with Ben Alpha.
Of course, this is just Scolari's personal wishful thinking. We can only wait and see what the situation will be like in the second half.
At the same time, Scolari warned Robinho to be more active in returning to defense and pay more attention to cooperation.
Robinho did not dare to argue in the face of Scolari's instructions because he also knew that his performance in the first half was not outstanding.
Finally, Scolari made a tactical change.
First, he asked the two forwards and two midfielders to flank the two midfielders, Tao Wentao and Lin Feng, so that they could not play the ball from the center and could only go around to the wings.
Then let the two full-backs press up, and the full-midfielders press the Longteng team's side passes to prevent them from passing to the center. Then the Longteng team is left with the only passing line to the center.
In the end, the central defender was stuck on the flank of the Longteng team's forward in advance, blocking the only passing route.
In this case, the full-backs press forward and the central defenders are extremely dangerous operations.
Because after the full-backs press, there will be a large gap behind them, and the two wingers of the Longteng team, whether it is Ben Alpha or Pato, are first-class in speed and forward ability. As for the central defender's prerequisites
, it becomes even more dangerous. Once the central defender makes a defensive mistake, whether it is Nie Jiang, Tao Wentao who comes in from the back row, or even Lin Feng, they all have a beautiful shot.
Of course, once Guangzhou Evergrande's tactics are successful, the Longteng team's offense will become extremely difficult. Not only is Evergrande expected to equalize, but it is also very possible to win.
At this time in the Longteng team's locker room, Zhang Sheng did not make any changes to the tactics. The advantage in the first half made everyone very confident - we are stronger than our opponents.
