Zhang Sheng and everyone's confidence was soon confirmed.
On February 23, 2016, the first round of the AFC Champions League group stage started. The four Chinese Super League teams that participated were laughed at, because except for the Longteng team, they easily defeated the strong team 3:1 at their home court.
Except for the weak Pohang Steelers, the other three Chinese Super League teams have two draws and one loss.
Among them, Jiangsu Suning, which shocked the entire Asian football world by spending money before the season, was tied 1:1 by Vietnam's Binh Duong in an away game. Shanghai SIPG went to Japan to challenge Sanfrecce Hiroshima, both sides failed to achieve anything and the score was 0:0. Huahua
Guangzhou Evergrande, who paid a huge sum to buy a player, was upset by Melbourne Victory in an away game and lost 1:0.
During the game, it is a common phenomenon that Chinese and foreign players do not get along well, and foreign players fight alone.
Especially before the game, Jiangsu Suning, which made the fans very excited because of the big-name stars coming to pitch, failed to get back 3 points in the away game in Vietnam even with three super foreign players on the field during the game. For a time, there was a lot of verbal criticism and rumors were flying.
For example, Teixeira, who is the highest bidder in the Chinese Super League this season and was transferred for tens of millions of euros, has recently reported that "he just wants to make enough money in the Chinese Super League as soon as possible and then return to the European League."
The statement that super "purchasing power" does not mean to be transformed into immediate combat effectiveness suddenly gained a large market in China.
Zhang Sheng has no energy to care about this now, because the two players summoned at the end of the season have finally joined the team.
These two players are the goalkeeper summoned in the AFC Champions League final and a central defender summoned after the Club World Cup.
The goalkeeper that Zhang Sheng had been waiting for gave Zhang Sheng a big surprise. This boy named Song Dongdong was born on January 31, 2000. Like his name, Song Dongdong's hometown is Harbin in the north.
Football in Harbin is not developed, but they also have a sport with its own characteristics and advantages - ice hockey.
Song Dongdong's parents were both athletes in the sports team. As their son, he naturally inherited their genes - good physical fitness and strong athletic talent.
When he was very young, just four years old, Song Dongdong participated in ice hockey training. This sport that requires extremely high physical balance and reaction ability laid a very good sports foundation for Song Dongdong, especially professional sports training.
, which makes him far better than others.
However, ice hockey, as a highly dangerous sport, also left bad memories for Song Dongdong.
You must know that ice hockey ranks second in the ESPN competitive sports technical difficulty ranking list, second only to boxing and ahead of rugby. Extremely strong physical confrontation, allowing "one-on-one" on the field, sticks poking in the face or messing up when grabbing the ball.
Injuries to players due to seemingly barbaric rules such as being cut by skates during a battle have become commonplace.
In games where high-speed skating and collisions are ubiquitous, player injuries are generally concentrated in joint sprains and concussions of the hands and feet. Even Song Dongdong, who is tall and strong, has suffered from such injuries.
Especially when Song Dongdong was ten years old, he suffered a concussion in a collision that left him comatose for nearly twenty minutes. This was already the limit reference time for brain contusion and laceration.
Fortunately, subsequent head CT scans did not reveal any major problems, but Song Dongdong's ice hockey career was over.
After that, at a height of 1.96 meters, he chose the relatively safer position of goalkeeper on the football field. The scouts from Longteng Football School who went to Harbin to inspect the establishment of a branch took a fancy to his potential.
What worries him is the injuries he has suffered at a young age.
After seeing the report submitted by the scout, Zhang Sheng knew that this must be the goalkeeper he had been waiting for.
After Song Dongdong came to the team, the first thing Zhang Sheng did was to arrange for him to go to the hospital for a careful and comprehensive physical examination.
The results of the examination were very shocking. In addition to some minor hidden dangers caused by previous injuries, the nerve problem in his left arm was very serious.
The electromyogram generated by the active EMG sensor showed that his nerves were damaged, the auxiliary nerve was partially torn, and the nerve on the shoulder blade was partially torn, which indicated that Song Dongdong's left hand would be paralyzed.
In response to this situation, Longteng Club contacted European motor nerve injury experts, quickly arranged surgery, and prescribed him a physical conditioning plan that lasted for more than a year.
Song Dongdong's parents were extremely touched by the choice of Longteng Club. You must know that the cost of such a diagnosis and physical therapy process is not a small amount, and they can only do simple training for more than a year. How the state and competitive level will be after that is completely
Unpredictable.
In this regard, Zhang Sheng gave the system 200% trust. Since the system sent this player to his name, how could he let it go.
Zhang Sheng, who has experience in training Tao Wentao, is looking forward to another outstanding talented player returning to the court.
As for the other central defender calling players, the calling process is relatively simple. Gao Yiyan, who is also from Harbin, was recruited into the team together with Song Dongdong.
The main reason why we can easily recruit two players in Harbin is that the current Longteng Football School has formed a brand in China.
The endless emergence of young talents not only attracts players, but also makes local governments treat them as guests. Moreover, Longteng Football School is generous and handles government relations very well - for competitions such as the National Games, Longteng
The team has always been supportive and supportive.
Of course, it is not just the Longteng Club that joins the Longteng Football School. The Longteng Group often also enters as a sponsor at this time. The local government has a sudden rise from a local real estate developer in recent years.
Expanding into a large nationwide developer is also very welcome.
When Longteng Club established a football school branch in Harbin, a vast training base and a large piece of commercial development land were also won by the Longteng Group.
Longteng Group and Longteng Club finally established a foothold in the north.
In addition to dealing with the player calling issue this time, Zhang Sheng also made a key analysis of the goal conceded in the AFC Champions League.
In the game against Pohang Steelers, the Longteng team completely controlled the situation on the court. The 3-5-2 and full-court pressing style made the Korean team extremely uncomfortable.
The score became 2:0 thanks to goals from Ben Arfa and Chavez.
However, the opponent is the Pohang Steelers, which is known as the weakest team in history. The team has no foreign players and the players are mainly young players. Even so, they have been publicly recommended over the years as the team that best embodies the tenacious spirit of Korean football.
The team worked extremely hard on the court.
The goal conceded by the Longteng team was precisely because they caught Ben. Alpha attacked to the front, and Zhou Zhou was unable to follow up in time, which exposed a huge space in the midfield, allowing the opponent's forward Li Chanhe to seize the opportunity and shoot long distance from outside the penalty area.
Scored a goal.
If Ben Arfa hadn't scored another goal, the score would soon have expanded to 3:1. Once the young Pohang Steelers gained confidence, it would have been hard to say how the game would have gone.
Judging from this game, the Longteng team did not do a good job in protecting the front of the penalty area during the transition from offense to defense in the 3-5-2 formation.
It was also very difficult for Zhou Zhou to adapt from the position of full-back to midfielder. In fact, Zhang Sheng had used the system’s ubiquitous skills and wanted to add Zhou Zhou’s position, but unfortunately the system did not respond. It seems that Zhou Zhou was
There is a reason why Zhou plays from the midfielder to the defender.
After Zhang Sheng thought for a long time, he decided to send Qi Ming to replace Zhou Zhou in the next game.
The next game is also a game that Zhang Sheng attaches great importance to, because this is the first championship that the Longteng team may win in the 2016 season - the 2016 Super Cup, and the opponent Jiangsu Suning has a very strong frontcourt, which is very important to him.
The new tactics are a great test.
This year's Super Cup is scheduled to be held at the Olympic Sports Center in the mountainous city of Chongqing. Although Chongqing has its own Chinese Super League team, Chongqing Lifan, there is little competition between the Dragons and high-level teams like Jiangsu Suning.
In addition, Jiangsu Suning made some harsh words before the game, saying that they would definitely win the championship, which made the atmosphere of the game even more exciting.
Considering that Suning has Ramirez, Teixeira, and such strong foreign players as Ruo, everyone agreed before the game that this would be a battle between dragon and tiger.
When it came to the competition, it was completely different.
Jiangsu Suning's performance here was simply horrible. The tactical system was in chaos. There was no stable tactical structure at either the offensive or defensive level.
Head coach Petrescu did not allow foreign players to integrate with domestic players at all. The foreign players Teixeira, Ramirez and Samir in the frontcourt chose to play alone.
Among them, as the core foreign aid left over from last season, Samir obviously could not get along well with the new foreign aid. The Longteng team used the sweeping ability of Qi Ming and Tao Wentao in the midfield, coupled with Roque Gill's interception, allowing
Jiangsu Suning's midfielder and forwards are completely out of touch.
Teixeira was suppressed on the wing and could not face the Longteng team head-on. Ramirez rushed forward and could not get back. Samir wanted to find someone to cooperate, but there was no tacit understanding at all.
Among the players in the backcourt, except for Xiao Yunfan, who transferred from the Longteng team before the season and can provide assists, the other players in the backcourt only have one trick - to drive to the frontcourt to reach foreign aid.
Among all the players, Xiao Yunfan should be said to be the most unhappy.
In the past, when I was in the Longteng team, as long as I wanted to assist, when I started running, my teammates would always be running to find a gap, ready to receive my pass. This kind of operation would make my offense worse even if I couldn't achieve a breakthrough.
The defensive pressure faced is much less.
But now, when I rush forward and want to pass the ball, all my teammates are standing there to watch. There is a two-poster who is in a very bad position. He is either standing next to the Dragons players or standing in his own passing route.
Behind the players of the Longteng team, there is no good way now except to use personal ability to break through.
In the 14th minute of the first half, seeing Teixeira alone and helpless in the frontcourt, Xiao Yunfan assisted, but because there was no support from his teammates, the ball was intercepted by Roque Gill and Tao Wentao.
Then the Longteng team's quick counterattack was like lightning, which stretched Jiangsu Suning's defense to pieces. Finally, Nie Jiang's back shot made the score 1:0.
After losing the ball, Xiao Yunfan wanted to grab his teammates and ask: "Do you still want to play? If you don't want to play, let's take a shower and go home to sleep."
As the team's number one domestic player this season, his worth of 100 million yuan is valued by all Jiangsu Suning fans, and has also become a thorn in the side of Suning's internal players - since you are worth such a high price and receive such a high salary, you
You should pay more.
Now it was Xiao Yunfan who came up, but he lost the ball on his own defense. His assist turned out to be a wrong choice.
Xiao Yunfan completely felt that domestic players were not motivated.
After this goal, the Longteng team's full-court pressing tactics came into play again. The Longteng team, whose overall formation moved forward, relied on the advantage of up to seven players in the 3-5-2 frontcourt to completely suppress Jiangsu Suning's formation.
halftime.
Unadaptation to this high-position pressure resulted in the second goal conceded.
In the 35th minute of the first half, Jiangsu Suning, which had already made many passing mistakes, once again made a low-level mistake in the backcourt. Ji Xiang made a very simple pass back in the backcourt. Under the pressure of Qi Ming, it was passed directly to the goalkeeper.
Instead of Ben Alpha, how could the latter waste such a great gift?
Ben Alpha broke into the penalty area and made a beautiful push shot. The ball bypassed the outstretched foot of goalkeeper Zhang Sipeng and went into the net.
The Longteng team expanded the score to 2:0 with great ease.
With two goals in hand, the Longteng team chose to slow down the pace, and Jiangsu Suning finally had some offensive shots. However, Teixeira's two shots under the watchful eye of the Longteng team players were either high or missed.
Ramirez's two long-range shots from more than 20 meters away were easily confiscated by Zhou Wei.
The Longteng team, which entered the second half with a two-goal lead, looked extremely relaxed, while Jiangsu Suning was helpless.
After the start of the second half, the Longteng team continued its pressing style of play throughout the game. Even though Jiangsu Suning made personnel adjustments in the midfield and Jixiang was replaced, the situation on the field still did not change. As soon as football arrived, domestic players
The feet are not mixed with garlic, but one meter away is the xjb pass.
At the 65th minute of the game, Ben Alpha changed his position to the middle. After receiving a pass from Roque Gill, he easily scored the second goal from a long distance without any defense in front of the penalty area, changing the score.
It became 3:0.
After scoring the goal, Ben Alpha was replaced by Zhang Sheng not long after, and De Paul came on. A few minutes later, Nie Jiang, another goal scorer, took a rest. Xiong Jian, who had just come back from serious injury, came on to play midfield. Tao Wentao
He was pushed to the position of Shadow Front.
Jiangsu Suning replaced Teixeira and replaced high center forward Ruo, and simply played big shots in the backcourt and ignored it.
Even the commentator in charge of the commentary felt heartbroken for Jiangsu Suning: "The gap between the domestic players of the two teams is too big. In terms of foreign players, Suning is no worse than the Longteng team. But now the Longteng team has replaced the main players.
, let the substitute players come up to gain experience. But the game is only seventy minutes now."
Until the end of the game, the Longteng team completely controlled the initiative on the court. The all-China midfielder composed of Xiong Jian and another midfielder Zhang Hao and Qi Ming suppressed Suning's frontcourt players.
Deadly.
The final game ended with 3:0, and the Longteng team won the first championship of the season.
