This huge victory of the Longteng team made all fans and Chinese Super League teams see the horror of 3-5-2 plus mad dog tactics. Changchun Yatai set up a bus and couldn't stop it at all.
Including the fierce and hierarchical pressing of the two frontcourts and five midfielders, the unhesitating commitment to the attack after the press, the immediate counterattack after the frontcourt players lost the ball, and the non-stop actions of the three players in the middle.
The entire Longteng team was like a pack of wolves preying on each other, advancing and retreating in a well-organized and orderly manner, completely destroying Changchun Yatai's confidence.
After winning a hearty victory, the whole team of the Longteng team ushered in the AFC Champions League with a relaxed mentality. And after this AFC Champions League game, the schedule of the Chinese national team will continue. They will complete the last two games of the top 40 of the World Preliminaries.
The matches were against the Maldives and Qatar.
There is a world of difference between the current Chinese team and the Chinese team in history. With a complete victory record and a good result of ranking first in the group, qualifying has basically been determined. Therefore, in these two games, the outside world has been calling to see whether the national team can give
More opportunities for players to find players who can enrich the national team's tactics and help the national team.
Among them, many of the current young players of the Longteng team have high hopes, especially the group of national junior team players who won the championship in the World Junior Championships. Everyone has always believed that they should be given some opportunities and that they should be in the national junior team.
There is a place for the team.
This time, Peilan has agreed to everyone's appeal-three former players from the national youth team, including Nie Jiang, Xiang Tiange, and Huang Dawei, have been recruited into the national team, and many "old national team players" in the Chinese Super League teams
"Players have been excluded from the national team roster this time, including "old men" in the Chinese Super League such as Ren Hang and Cai Huikang.
Nie Jiang will not talk about the call to the national team. After all, he has been selected for the national team many times and has scored goals. However, Xiang Tiange and Huang Dawei are different. Both of them have just completed their careers.
An 18-year-old player jumped from the National Youth Team to the National Youth Team and directly entered the National Team from the Olympic Team. Such a one-step operation is extremely rare in China.
When Perlan and Zhang Sheng communicated about the selection of Longteng players for the national team, the outside world also mentioned Xiang Tiange and Huang Dawei many times. However, because the final list has not been confirmed, everyone's opinions are just speculation after all, including Xiang Tiange and Huang Dawei.
The family members are also worried about gains and losses, and are uneasy.
Now that the list has been finalized, their parents made a special trip to Zhang Sheng to express their gratitude.
Especially Huang Dawei's parents. When Huang Dawei entered Longteng Football School, they thought of bribing the coach of Longteng Football School. After Zhang Sheng designated Huang Dawei to play goalkeeper, his father came to Zhang Sheng to express that he did not want to play goalkeeper.
Not a cost-effective location.
But in this phone call, Huang Dawei's father not only expressed a series of endless words of thanks, but also expressed his intention to leave Huang Dawei to Zhang Sheng: "I can rest assured that my family Dawei is in your team."
, if he is disobedient, you should discipline him severely. He is still young and not sensible yet, so please bear with me more."
Zhang Sheng really had nothing to say to Huang Dawei's father, but after all, he meant well, so Zhang Sheng could only respond by praising Huang Dawei a few words, saying that he trained seriously and played hard.
Of course, what Zhang Sheng said is indeed true. Huang Dawei is talented, but he may have been coerced and controlled by his parents at home for a long time, forming a submissive character. He "listens" too much to the words of his elders and leaders. This is why the previous
The reason why Zhang Sheng in the AFC Champions League final and later in the Club World Cup was Zhou Wei was because Zhou Wei's character was even more dissatisfied with Zhou Wei.
As for Xiang Tiange, the situation is different. Zhang Sheng spent a lot of effort to convince his parents to recruit Xiang Tiange into the team.
Unlike Huang Dawei's parents who were small businessmen, Xiang Tiange's parents were both intellectuals, a doctor and an employee of a state-owned enterprise. In addition, Xiang Tiange's academic performance was good. Although Xiang Tiange's enlightened father and mother gave Xiang Tiange
Ge has a lot of room for cultivating his own interests and self-development, but he didn't agree to play football for Xiang Tiange at first.
The change in the attitude of Xiang's parents began in the World Junior Championships. As the main player, Xiang Tiange helped the team win the championship. With a wider source of information and a higher level of contact with the people, the couple knew it keenly.
Xiang Tiange should take this path. Although the national junior team is not a high-level team, those who can achieve Xiang Tiange's level are definitely the best among the best.
This time after Xiang Tiange was selected for the national team, Xiang's parents also expressed gratitude. They also know that it is not easy to be the top no matter what industry in China, in addition to having talent and hard work,
It was really difficult without anyone to lend a helping hand, and Zhang Sheng did exactly that.
Amid the gratitude of the players’ parents, the Dragons welcomed their AFC Champions League rivals, the J-League team Urawa Red Diamonds. As the champions of the first stage of the J-League last season with an undefeated record, their strength is still very good.
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As a frequent visitor to the AFC Champions League, Urawa Red Diamonds won their first AFC Champions League title after the restructuring of the J-League. In the timeline when Zhang Sheng was here, in the 2016 season they eliminated Guangzhou Evergrande and entered the AFC Champions League knockout stage.
In 2017, they won the AFC Champions League again, and they are still one of the few "rich" clubs in the J-League.
There is a reason why Urawa Red Diamonds still insists on being a "rich player" when the J-League is generally reducing team budgets.
When it comes to professional sports leagues, football is not actually number one in Japan. In Japan, baseball and Koshien are the most coveted things for all teenagers. However, in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, where the Urawa Red Diamonds are located.
A big city like Japan does not have a professional baseball team, so it has the most enthusiastic football fans in Japan and an extremely strong football atmosphere.
Of course, if you want to be a local tycoon, you cannot rely solely on fans. It is very likely that the rise and fall of the company will affect the survival of the club. But here in Urawa Red Diamonds, this kind of thing will not happen, because the sponsors behind them, the football team
The original founder of the team was Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Anyone familiar with Japan knows that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, as the core company of Japan's Mitsui Consortium and an aircraft carrier-level enterprise, has always been rich in money.
Moreover, Urawa Red Diamonds has one thing that all Chinese Super League teams cannot match, that is, they have two football stadiums of their own, one is Saitama City Komaba Stadium, and the other was built to hold the 2002 World Cup.
Saitama 2002 Stadium, which can accommodate more than 63,000 people, is the largest football stadium in Japan.
With Japan's top business operation capabilities, powerful sponsors, and fanatical fan support - historically, the game they defeated Gamba Osaka to win the J-League championship in 2006 attracted more than 62,000 spectators Coming to watch the game makes Urawa Red Diamonds' finances very loose. The team's salary cap ranks first in the J-League all year round. Many players in the team are paid high salaries, and even some players who don't play much are also paid high salaries.
However, Urawa Red Diamonds, as the "uncrowned king" of the J-League, are often criticized by Japanese fans, that is, they spend money to recruit people but fail to produce corresponding results - they always fail to win the championship. This is different from some domestic Chinese Super League. The clubs are very similar.
At the beginning of this season, all Urawa's main players stayed on the team, and there was no loss of personnel. At the same time, Urawa Red Diamonds continued their habit of poaching players from other J-League teams every year, and also introduced foreign players. They introduced the U23 national team captain from Shonan. Fujihang introduced the outstanding core offensive player Komai Zenge from Kyoto Phoenix to strengthen his offensive line, and introduced Astoria player Blanc Yelic to increase the team's defensive thickness. The cost is indescribable. Not much, but the ambition is not small.
When it comes to Urawa Red Diamonds, we have to mention their head coach Petrovic. This head coach is a typical "Japan expert". He has been coaching the J-League team Hiroshima Sanfrecce since 2006. , helping the team win the Japan Emperor's Cup (same as the Chinese Football Association Cup), Japan League Cup, and Japan Super Cup. Since 2011, it has been five years since he came to Urawa Red Diamonds to coach.
There is always only one formation for the team coached by Petrovic - 3-6-1. All 3421 or 3412, or switching from offense to defense to 541 are just the flexible use of the 3-6-1 formation on the court. , In Petrovic's tactics, except for Yuki Abe, who became a full-time defensive midfielder because of his age, the other positions are relatively vague, and there are no specific functional players like Komai Zenge who dribbles. He is a good wide player and has also played as a defensive midfielder. Central defender Tomoaki Shinno will frequently provide assists. Forward Yuki Muto will also play back to participate in defense.
The playing style of Urawa Red Diamonds is a typical Japanese team. They are not tall overall, have good foot skills, and their ability to pass and control the ball is good from the backcourt to the midfield and frontcourt. With this smart overall movement, the ball The team's counterattack is very sharp, and when defending, it is emphasized that after the ball is lost in the frontcourt, the frontcourt quickly counterattacks, presses the ball holder, and buys time for the transition from offense to defense to position 541.
It can be said that Urawa Red Diamonds' technical application and tactical quality are unparalleled by few teams in the Chinese Super League, and the game is pleasing to the eye.
Ever since Zhang Sheng learned about the AFC Champions League group groupings, he has been paying close attention to the situation of Urawa Red Diamonds because the playing style of this team is so similar to that of the Dragons.
The Dragons only started to officially play three defenders this season, while Urawa Red Diamonds have been playing for four seasons. No matter how they play against them, it is undeniable that they can learn from this team. Got a lot of things.
Not only did the Longteng team attach great importance to this game, but the opponent also regarded it as a top priority.
As the core of the team's midfield attack, Japanese international Yosuke Kashiwagi said bluntly: "When we were in the AFC Champions League grouping, I wanted to be in a group with the Dragons because we wanted to compete directly with strong teams. In fact, this In the opening game of the AFC Champions League this season, I also hope that the opponent is not Sydney FC but the Dragons, and I want to defeat them with my own strength."
The same idea expressed by Yosuke Kashiwagi was their head coach Petrovic: "The strength of the Chinese Super League team is now famous all over the world, but like the early J-League teams, the investment may not necessarily bring a return.
With a star like Ben Alpha in the Dragons, this game will be a very difficult one, but I believe Urawa Red Diamonds are a strong team and we will try our best to win."
In fact, Zhang Sheng didn't quite believe what Petrovic said. When it comes to investment, Urawa Red Diamonds are also famous for their "explosion purchases" in Japan, and because they play three defenders, their defense has never been very good.
Stable, they conceded a total of 40 goals after 34 league rounds last season, which is more than Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Gamba Osaka, and FC Tokyo, who are ranked 1st, 3rd, and 4th overall, especially in away games.
There are especially many balls.
Let's look at the Longteng team's performance at home. They have never lost in the AFC Champions League. It is simply a fantasy to rely on pure offense to defeat the Longteng team at the Jiangcheng Sports Center. They are not Barcelona.
If Zhang Sheng's guess is correct, 5-4-1 waiting for opportunities to counterattack should be the most likely tactical idea that Urawa Red Diamonds will use.
So when Zhang Sheng answered reporters at the press conference before the game about how he saw the game, he gave a very concise answer: "It is a very ordinary game. We will play with the mentality of facing any other team."
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When the game started, as Zhang Sheng expected, Urawa Red Diamonds did not even start their core striker Shinzo Kougai, but sat on the bench. His replacement was high center forward Liubi.
Yankic, and this season's new aid Zengei Komai, who has stronger offensive power, are also substitutes, and the starting one is Yuya Uga, who has a more balanced offense and defense.
Of course, there are reasons why Urawa Red Diamonds arranged this way. The team's veteran defender Nagata Mitsuru accumulated two yellow cards and was absent. Forward Naoki Ishihara elbowed his opponent in the game against Pohang Steelers. His bad behavior this time
Although the foul escaped the referee's penalty, the AFC Disciplinary Committee still suspended him for 2 games. He was unable to play in the two back-to-back games against the Dragons.
In this case, it is definitely a top priority to stabilize the away game first.
What Petrovich and his disciples did not expect was that even though they were prepared to strengthen their defense, the Dragons broke through their door only six minutes into the game.
The main reason for this goal loss was that they were extremely unsuitable to the Longteng team's frontcourt pressing tactics.
As an Asian team, the slow pace of the game is a stubborn problem. The Asian team here does not only refer to the Chinese Super League teams, but also includes the J League and the K League.
There are many factors that restrict the pace of Asian teams' games, the most important one being environmental factors.
Even at the level of the AFC Champions League, many teams intentionally speed up the pace of the game, but compared with the five major European leagues, it is far behind. When everyone plays in this environment, the pace on the field is slow.
They gradually got used to it.
The current pressing style of play of the Dragons has too many traces of European clubs. Zhang Sheng's unique tactical skills and the blessing of an offensive-specialized coach immediately dragged the rhythm of this game to a completely unknown level for Urawa Red Diamonds.
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When you don't adapt to the opponent's high rhythm, conceding the ball is often doomed.
