Because the Dragons gathered late for this winter training, the training time was shorter than others, so they must determine the main lineup for next season earlier than others.
While the outside world is still discussing who will be the next world star to come to the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team has completed physical training and started tactical training.
First of all, the team strengthened the foundation of tactics-fast passing.
The smart serving system that the team has been using has been upgraded again, adding many real court environments and emergencies. Such difficult passing training allows the players to quickly enter a high-intensity training state.
Secondly, the entire coaching staff of the Longteng team also worked hard on the various details of the 3-5-2 and the formation changes.
Among them, the coach who specializes in offensive tactics given in the AFC Champions League gift package is a big hit.
This 32-year-old coach has played for many clubs in Europe, even clubs like Juventus in Serie A, but he has always worked as a helper to the assistant coach and participated in many tactics. The design has never been reused.
Soon after coming to the Longteng team, his analysis of the 3-5-2 offensive tactics, the offensive evolution routines in the 3-5-2 formation, and the cooperation between the players in the frontcourt were all impressed by the entire coach. The group was of great help.
As someone who has played for many European teams and has always been a marginal player, he can be said to have found a place for himself after returning to China. With the attention of the club and the cooperation of local players, he has finally found a place to use his talents despite being discriminated against in Europe.
While Zhang Sheng lamented the advancement of European tactics, he was also looking forward to the player rewards from the last AFC Champions League gift package. In addition, after the opponent was eliminated in the last Club World Cup, Zhang Sheng summoned a central defender again. Now he has Both players are still waiting to accept it.
During the waiting process this time, the Chinese Super League's recruitment of foreign players became even more crazy. First, Inter Milan's defensive midfielder, Colombian international Guarin joined Shanghai Shenhua for 12 million euros, and then Cameroon's international player, who has been there for two consecutive seasons. Mbia, the absolute main force who helped Serbia win the Europa League with outstanding performance, joined China Fortune Land Development for 4 million euros.
Finally, Zhang Sheng's long-awaited transfer of Jackson Martinez to Guangzhou Evergrande took place. The transfer fee of 42 million not only greatly increased the transfer fee record that has been constantly refreshed in Chinese football, but also greatly increased the transfer fee record in Chinese football. It became the highest transfer fee in world football during this winter window.
And then, as if money was worthless, Jiangsu Suning once again broke the winter window transfer record just "held" by Guangzhou Evergrande. The Brazilian demon Teixeira joined Jiangsu Suning with a transfer fee of 50 million euros. The transfer of Teixeira is not that easy. In the battle for this player, there are Chelsea, who have been making secret glances, and Liverpool, who have been raising prices. The transfer price of up to 30 million yuan proves that Teixeira He really has the ability to play for a European giant, and Jiangsu Suning's 50 million euros proves that money can speak louder than words.
Next, although there are Turkish international main strikers like Yilmaz, and players like Lavezzi who earns the world's highest annual salary to join Hebei China Fortune, no matter whether it is Zhang Sheng who has experienced it once, he is still watching the excitement for a whole Fans in winter are already numb.
Even if some people now say that Ronaldo and Messi are coming to the Chinese Super League, some people probably believe it.
Of course, the coming of the Spring Festival also makes everyone turn their attention to eating and drinking, because this is the theme of the Spring Festival.
After the four-day holiday during the Spring Festival, the Longteng team once again gathered all the personnel and flew to Spain for pre-season warm-up training. For this warm-up match, every player in the team was gearing up and preparing for the game.
Work hard to get a stable position in the team next season.
In the first phase of domestic training, although the Longteng team also found a lot of opponents for warm-up matches, given that these teams were not strong enough, the 3-5-2 formation has always been able to defeat opponents without fighting back.
Now that I have gone to Europe and met European teams during the winter break, I can best test the results of my tactics.
After the Dragons arrived in Spain, the first opponent they found was Sporting Lisbon. It was just Team B. The game with the Sporting Lisbon first team would not arrive until a week later. Aurelio Pereira, as a player who has always been playing against the Dragons
The club boss I contacted attaches great importance to the current status of the Longteng team. After all, not everyone has the opportunity to compete with Barcelona in official competitions, and they even played brilliantly. At the same time, several little monsters in the Longteng team who were from the World Junior Championships,
He has been coveted by Sporting Lisbon for a long time. Even if Xu Mingyu leaves Sporting Lisbon now, it is not a matter of player strength. It is entirely because Xu Mingyu wants a core position and has differences with the club's expectations.
Now only 21 years old, Xu Mingyu has already become the absolute main force in the Rexol team he transferred to. At least at the level of the Portuguese League, Xu Mingyu has proved that he is capable.
Looking at Xu Mingyu's performance in the World Youth Championship, he was far from as good as several Longteng players in this World Youth Championship. Especially compared with Nie Jiang, there is a huge gap.
In the match against Sporting Lisbon B team, Aurelio Pereira made a special trip to watch Nie Jiang's performance. In the first half, the Longteng team, which played with its full lineup, even had an advantage over Sporting Lisbon.
Among them, Nie Jiang kept switching between the shadow forward and center positions, and performed extremely well. In the 23rd minute of the first half, Nie Jiang used his beautiful running position and astute header to turn the score into 1
:0.
Aurelio Pereira on the sidelines also applauded Nie Jiang in a very gentlemanly manner.
This season's Sporting Lisbon B team is indeed not strong. Some of the little monsters they are optimistic about are either out of form or seriously injured. Historically, they only ranked tenth in the Portuguese Liga this season, with points higher than the third.
A Porto B team was missing a full thirty-one points.
Therefore, after the game started, the requirements of the Longteng team were very clear, which was to use high-position pressing tactics and layer-by-layer pressing tactics in the frontcourt that were very energy-consuming but very effective.
Zhang Sheng's approach was based on the tactics of former Dortmund head coach Klopp.
Klopp is a coach who can really be called a master tactician. Under his leadership, Dortmund is a team that does not have many top stars, but makes the game very beautiful, with great passion, and excellent results.
's team.
It is very difficult to do this.
Klopp's coaching philosophy is based on the cohesion of the team. He believes more than any other team in the belief that "the weakest point of the team determines the team's strength."
Unlike other players who aim to win the championship and therefore buy a large number of top stars and pursue the players with the best performance in the season, Klopp always chooses the most suitable player as a piece on his tactical platter.
Therefore, unlike Bayern, which relies heavily on the performance of stars, Dortmund, under the coaching of Klopp, emphasizes team strength, creates team goals, and relies on the team as a whole whether they win or lose.
Back then, Dortmund's core midfielder Noone Sahin was pried away by Real Madrid at a high price, losing the midfield metronome. They also lost the team's most famous talent - Gotze due to injury, and the team's top scorer Barrios.
Even though he was sidelined due to injury at the beginning of the season, he still defended the Bundesliga title with a record-high 81 points, and finally won the German Cup, achieving the reputation of double champion.
Zhang Sheng's choice to use Klopp's tactics is closely related to his club's conditions.
The current Chinese Super League is the same as in history. The arrival of a bunch of foreign players who are completely beyond the level of the Chinese Super League has turned the game into a competition between the foreign players from both sides. However, the previous situation of stacking forwards in the frontcourt has become slightly better-knowing how to play in the defensive midfielder.
Put a defensive midfielder who is one of the top players in Europe.
But in the final analysis, it is still necessary to buy players at a price that far exceeds the player's own worth and crush other Chinese Super League teams.
And this is exactly what the Dragon Team has a hard time doing and what they don’t want to do.
If Longteng Group is willing to invest a lot of resources in the club, it will not be without money, but the development of other businesses of the group will be restricted accordingly. This is not Zhang Sheng’s original intention of returning from Europe, and it also goes against Zhang Sheng’s expectations.
A military order issued by his father.
At the same time, the most important point is that this style of play really does not help much in improving the level of domestic players.
Many fans have always said that high-level foreign players can drive the rapid growth of domestic players, which does make sense.
But professional football clubs are so professional - the team needs good results, and of course, this can also be said to be eager for quick success.
Therefore, when domestic players make running mistakes, passing and receiving mistakes, and defensive mistakes again and again, both the head coach and the foreign players will most likely choose to go it alone.
Therefore, we see a lot of clubs in China such as Jiangsu Suning playing a 7-0-3 formation, and teams that can better integrate the cooperation between domestic players and foreign players can win the championship, such as Guangzhou
Evergrande.
It can be said that this style of play is of limited help to the growth of domestic players.
In particular, it has had side effects on the growth of offensive players in the frontcourt.
Since the Longteng team led by Zhang Sheng does not want to be like these clubs, it must integrate foreign players and local players into a whole. Of course, choosing this style of play also means that foreign players can help their players grow faster.
In addition, as the most powerful contender for the championship, Zhang Sheng did not want his team to play extremely ugly, and the fans did not allow last season's double champion to play so ugly, so he chose Klopp to play like this.
An attacking style of high pressure and frequent running became the first choice.
Of course, both Zhang Sheng and Klopp's style of play has its basis, because modern football increasingly means "returning to nature".
When football first came out, and even in today's low-level amateur football, players were always running with the ball. Wherever the ball went, people flocked to it like a tide. But at the professional level, players are required to be present.
To maintain the formation, the defender's task is to defend, the midfielder stays in the middle, and the forward rushes in front, everyone performs their duties.
But what about today's football? More and more emphasis is placed on the flow and change of formations, requiring players to be able to take on multiple roles. It also requires compact formations and local numerical advantages.
As a top coach, Guardiola once explained when he first took office that he hoped that the distance between his offense and defense would not exceed 30 meters at any moment, which means that the team is on both offense and defense.
as a whole.
In fact, this meaning is the same as Klopp's.
Judging from the playing styles of Klopp and Guardiola, they have something very similar, that is, squeezing the space on the court as much as possible, and raising the defense line very high. The forwards press the opponent's defenders, and the midfielders also
Help, and the defender's further pressure almost makes the opponent feel claustrophobic.
The difference between them is that after getting the ball, Guardiola requires players to pass the ball back and forth on both sides to open up space while controlling the ball, while Klopp requires launching an attack as quickly as possible, which is simpler.
Direct and efficient.
Moreover, both tactics have their inherent weaknesses, which is the fear of being counterattacked, especially Klopp's team.
Their more direct style of play caused them to lose the ball quickly. Although they immediately started to press on the spot, the court also seemed very busy.
The result is that their games are fast-paced and require a lot of running, but they still lose the game.
The most typical example is that when Dortmund faced Marseille in the Champions League group stage, it set a record for the most running distance in a single game in the history of the Champions League. In the end, it was Marseille who won because the latter's counterattack was surprisingly efficient in that game.
The current 3-5-2 formation played by the Longteng team, which is very demanding on players, soon made the team suffer a bitter pill. In the 31st minute of the first half, Xiang Tiange was responsible for supplementing Xiang Tiange in the midfield.
Qi Ming made a mistake in position, and Xiang Tiange himself assisted too far forward, giving the opponent a chance. The left winger of Sporting Lisbon B team counterattacked with the ball and cut inside, then shot and tied the score to 1:1.
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At the same time, Sporting Lisbon B team also adjusted its tactics, changing the formation from 4-4-2 to 4-1-4-1. Zhang Sheng also used his own change of formation, using Ma Yongli as a drag
Using the defensive midfielder, the Longteng team's formation also changed to 4-2-2-2.
The transformation from five defenders to four defenders and one defensive midfielder is the key training tactic of the Longteng team this winter, because after a series of explosive purchases in the current Chinese Super League, basically every strong team has one or two super capable players in front of them.
A forward, but also a defensive midfielder who can rush up and attack.
The main responsibility of the Longteng team when arranging a deep-lying midfielder is to cut off the connection between the opponent's midfielder and forward, and at the same time prevent the opponent's midfielder from advancing forward.
Zhang Sheng is very bold in adjusting the Longteng team's formation this season. In his opinion, formation does not represent tactics. Adhering to full-court high pressure is the basis of tactics, and choosing to control the ball or directly fast break is a change of tactics.
As for whether to play 3-5-2 or 4-2-3-1 or something else, it is purely a means to achieve the above two tactical goals.
Zhang Sheng's ultimate goal is to achieve the same effect that many coaches want--paying attention to tactics does not mean telling others what to do. It is more about where not to tell them what to do--that is, the team
The only thing required is for the players to use their brains and make their own decisions.
This approach is to get rid of the "core" and the ultimate goal of being the "team leader".
