From the decline of West Asian clubs, Zhang Sheng deeply realized that improving the level of football is really a systematic project.
China is now a world power and has ensured that the country is not affected by the international environment, so the key is not to act randomly.
Fortunately, Chinese football is now on the right path.
Zhang Sheng's confident attitude also infected his players.
As the captain, Lin Feng was very sure when he was interviewed by the media: "In this game, we are at home. From the first day back to Jiangcheng, all my friends and I believed that we would win the game in Jiangcheng."
When the two teams sent players to be interviewed by the official website of the AFC as usual, the players from both sides even argued with each other and did not show weakness to each other.
In this interview, Al-Ahli Dubai sent their center back Karmin Khamis. When he was asked about the upcoming AFC Champions League final, Khamis expressed his desire for the team to complete the AFC Champions League in Jiangcheng.
The crowning ceremony of the champion: "Because it was our first time to reach the AFC Champions League final, we played a little cautiously in the last game. If we had been more proactive at the beginning, the result might have been different from now. So in this game we
If we let go and play, we will perform better. Being behind by one goal is not the end of the world. We will win the AFC Champions League here."
Ben Alpha, who was sent by the Longteng team for an interview, viewed the championship as if it were something in his pocket: "Any away game in the final is difficult, but in the end we still won. Now it's our home court, and the result can be imagined.
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As for Carmine Khamis's suggestion that he would perform better, Ben Alfa's unruly character came out: "It's impossible. They didn't have any good performance in the last game except for the penalty kick.
The game was under our control from beginning to end. It will be difficult to perform better in the second round."
After this news was reported, Ben Arfa's answer caused all the replies to be 666. After all, the penalty kick he said was the best performance. Everyone knew what it meant. It was such a beautiful slap in the face.
These wars of words before the game made the already highly anticipated game even more heated.
In the locker room before the game, Zhang Sheng continued to express his confidence: "In the last game, we firmly grasped the situation on the field, and we predicted their tactics before the game and restricted them.
Dead. In this game, if it goes as expected, the other party’s major tactical adjustment was only one move. We also had corresponding drills. And our tactics, from beginning to end, they didn’t have a good response.
Method. So as long as we stick to our own style of play, even if the opponent survives the first half, they will not be able to withstand the second half."
"Once it reaches the last twenty minutes of the game, I ask Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin." Under Zhang Sheng's roll call, the two players also concentrated their attention, staring at Zhang Sheng with four eyes, "You two are on the sidelines.
The road is rushing. And it will rush even more fiercely than before."
Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin also nodded quickly, indicating that they understood.
"I won't say much else." After emphasizing these two people, Zhang Sheng said calmly, "Finally, I would like to reiterate my request. In this game, we can score as many goals as we can.
Don't be merciful, and everyone can rest assured about the refereeing issue of the game."
After the last game, the Longteng Club questioned the referee's penalty and appealed to cancel the penalties of He Lijun and Lao Xing. Although as usual, the AFC did not agree to the Longteng Club's request, but in order to take into account China's face
, and give an explanation to the outside media. In this game, the AFC came up with its trump card - Irmatov.
Irmatov's full name is Rafshan Irmatov, an Uzbek head coach. He comes from a family of football coaches, and his father is also a football referee.
He became an international-level referee of FIFA in 2003. As of 2007, he had officiated three consecutive U17 World Cups and one U20 World Cup.
Because of his excellent officiating performance on the field, Irmatov was elected Asia's Best Referee of the Year for four consecutive years from 2008 to 2011. He then won this honor again in 2014 and became the finalist of the 2008 and 2011 Club World Cup.
The chief referee and the fourth official of the 2009 Club World Cup final.
Irmatov also officiated in the 2013 AFC Champions League final when Guangzhou Evergrande won the championship.
His most boastful record is that he officiated 9 games in the two World Cups in 2010 and 2014, becoming the referee with the most officiating games in the history of the World Cup.
At the same time, in 2010, Irmatov won the second place as a dark horse in the selection of the best referee in the world, with 128 votes! Second only to the British referee Webber. In addition to the first place Webb
, the only referee with more than 100 votes.
Irmatov runs actively in law enforcement, is decisive and confident in making judgments, is good at using favorable principles to make the game flow smoothly, and has strong ability to control the game. In addition, the most rare thing about him is that every game is as fair as possible.
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Many people privately believe that if he were a European referee, he would have officiated in the World Cup finals long ago.
In this game, the AFC sent him out as a result of the Longteng Club communicating with the AFC through the Chinese Football Association. Saudi Arabia, the UAE's old rival, helped a lot.
In the visiting team's locker room at this time, Olaroyu was also desperately encouraging his players: "The biggest advantage of the two-round game is that it allows the team that was at a disadvantage in the first round to have a chance to come back. Now
We have to forget about the last game and put all our energy into this game."
"Playing away games is sometimes even our advantage." Olaroyu continued to encourage, "Being a home team, the other team will sometimes be more nervous in order to get better performance, and sometimes they will be more nervous.
This is our opportunity."
"Being behind by one goal is not a big deal." Olaroyu said firmly in the end, "If we try our best, the championship will be our best reward."
When the two teams were doing their final mobilization before the game, the commentators and guests responsible for explaining the game were also having their final discussions before the game.
In order to show the importance it attached to this game, CCTV sent out a luxurious four-man commentary lineup consisting of He Wei, Xu Yang, Liu Jiayuan, and former international player Zhang Enhua.
These four people all believe that in terms of strength, the Longteng team is stronger than their opponents, and they have a high probability of winning the AFC Champions League for the first time.
In addition to competing for the championship, the Longteng team also has a player who will have a high probability of winning another honor - the AFC Champions League Golden Boot. This player is Nie Jiang, who returned to the team in this game.
Because he had to participate in the World Junior Championship, Nie Jiang was unable to participate in the last round of the AFC Champions League. However, his 8 AFC Champions League goals now rank first in the AFC Champions League scorer list. Goulart, who also scored 8 goals, because
The elimination of Guangzhou Evergrande has no possibility of growth.
The threats to Nie Jiang's top scorer are his two teammates. Pato currently has 6 goals, Ben Arfa also has 6 goals, and the opponent in this game is Dubai Al Ahli's forward Khalil.
Also 6 goals.
Amid the discussions among the four commentators, the game officially began.
When He Wei introduced the starting lineup of the Dragons, he first paid attention to Pato: "Pato was injured and left the field midway in the last game, which really worried the fans, but it turned out that everyone was overly worried. Now
Pato playing also shows that he really has no problem."
"But for this game, coach Zhang Sheng deployed double-assist full-backs Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin. How can I describe this move? I think it's a bit risky." He Wei slightly questioned Zhang Sheng's starting lineup.
"I guess coach Zhang Sheng's idea is to use offense instead of defense." Xu Yang said, "In the last game, the Longteng team had absolutely no way to attack the opponent. In this game, Zhou Zhou and Wei Zhimin suppressed the opponent.
Going to your own half is also a good choice."
At this time, the players on the court of the Longteng team kept admiring Zhang Sheng's prediction in their hearts.
As early as after the first round of the game, Zhang Sheng said with great certainty when arranging tactics for the team members: "I bet that Al Ahli in Dubai will definitely change their formation in this game, and it will be
From the 4-2-2 in the last game to 4-2-3-1. In this change, Lima will continue to be at the front, and Khalil should withdraw to play on the left, Ribeiro's position
Then you should completely stand in the midfield position."
As a result, after the game started, Al-Ahli Dubai made adjustments as Zhang Sheng said, and the position of the adjustment was exactly as Zhang Sheng guessed.
In fact, this is the true level of an Asian-level head coach like Olaroyu.
In the 2013 season, the tactics played by Guangzhou Evergrande were actually exactly the same as Al Ahly in Dubai. Conca corresponded to Ribeiro's position, which is the single core of the team.
In the two games of the AFC Champions League finals at that time, Konka's excellent performance made the opponent suffer in the first round. In the second round, Seoul FC strengthened its defense against Konka and kept fighting against him.
The hole cards were cut down, which made the game a bit difficult.
It was just that Lippi, the head coach of Guangzhou Evergrande at the time, played very smoothly with tactics. He had already planned and changed the formation to 4-3-3 on the spot. The players in the frontcourt used off-ball movement to break FC Seoul's goal.
Cutting tactics.
In the last game, Al-Ahli in Dubai used the same tactics as Guangzhou Evergrande, but Zhang Sheng saw through it at a glance, leaving Ribeiro with basically no chance to organize an attack.
After the game, Zhang Sheng guessed that Olaroyu would definitely adjust his tactics, because if the opponent could be so stupid that his core was completely frozen in the last game, and he still played like this this time, it would really be all about this team reaching the finals.
Lucky for you.
Now when it's Olaroiu's turn to make tactical adjustments, the level gap between him and Lippi is immediately apparent.
Because Ahli Dubai has always been accustomed to Ribeiro controlling all games, when Ribeiro is unable to do this, the opponent cannot have an effective attack. Therefore, their possible tactical changes are very limited.
Apart from allowing Ribeiro to switch from a wide attacking midfielder to a true attacking midfielder and move to the center to shorten the distance between him and other backcourt players so that he can receive the ball, there is no actual strategy.
Change.
This approach of changing the soup without changing the medicine can only be said that the level of current Asian-level head coaches is generally very low.
Since I have guessed the opponent's playing style in advance, Zhang Sheng's arrangement for this game is very targeted, that is, since your strongest point is in the middle, I will completely block your offensive ability in the middle.
First of all, the Longteng team, which plays without a forward, can be seen as having no forward, or it can be seen as having three forwards. Then, no matter who of the three forwards switches to the center position, they must come back to participate in the defense of the center.
, at the same time, Tao Wentao also swept more in the middle this time, once again thickening the defense in the midfield.
As for the back line, it moved forward as a whole, accumulating more personnel in the middle of the midfield to suppress the central penetration organized by Ribeiro.
Considering that after Ribeiro moves to the center, the opponent's two defensive midfielders must provide protection behind him, Zhang Sheng unleashed the assist capabilities of the full-backs on both sides in this game, giving the full-backs on both sides deep pressure.
According to the request, the two full-backs not only provided the necessary crosses, but also stretched the entire defense of Al-Ahli in Dubai. The opponent's full-backs were afraid of the assists from the Longteng team's deep full-backs, so they were forced to pull out to defend.
If the defense in the middle is relaxed, the ribs between the full-backs and the center-backs will become the most critical point for the Longteng team to score goals.
This is why Zhang Sheng replaced Zhou Zhou, a full-back with better defense, and Wei Zhimin, who has a stronger assist ability. What he wanted was his forward penetration.
In the first few minutes of the game, Al-Ahli Dubai fell into an unprecedented passivity.
From the first second when the referee blew the whistle to start the game, the Longteng team's no-front formation and usual full-court pressing tactics completely pushed Al Ahli Dubai's formation back to the half court.
It has even developed to the point where even holding the ball firmly in the backcourt has become a luxury.
Because when Al-Ahli in Dubai has four defenders in the backcourt and wants to control the ball in the backcourt, the Longteng team presses three people to press their defenders; if Al-Ahly leaves three people in the midfield and wants to control the ball, the Longteng team
The team pushed two people up.
In short, it is to force them to use high balls and long passes to play forward as much as possible. In this way, the accuracy of passing will be greatly reduced, and the opponent's back line will be unable to control the ball.
When a team can't even control the ball in the backcourt, it becomes natural to play passively.
Seeing the situation on the court, He Wei kept praising the Longteng team for their good performance after the start of the game: "The Longteng team's pressing ability is too strong. The opponent has been emphasizing comebacks and letting go of the burden before the game, but from the beginning
It seems from these few minutes that if you want to play football freely, you need to be able to use your hands and feet freely."
Just when he was praising the Longteng team, Zhang Sheng's wing offensive tactics started. After Ben Alpha on the left made continuous passes with Xiao Yunfan and Tao Wentao, Xiao Yunfan suddenly accelerated and made moves on their right back.
There was an impact.
Because Heiker was sent off in the last game, Olaroyu asked Sankul, who played the main left back in the previous game, to play as the right back in this game, while Walid Abbas started on the left.
guard.
Then Sankul, who is not used to playing right back, became the target of key attacks.
