During the halftime break, Zhang Sheng reminded Ma Yongli: "You should be more flexible. The opponent has two forwards and someone retreats. You should use Lima from the center back position to defend. If they have two forwards,
If you press forward, you have to be responsible for retreating, letting your two teammates spread their positions, and try to fill the opportunity for them to cut in from the ribs."
"Remember, you who play on the field should react faster than me." Since the beginning of this season, Zhang Sheng has been instilling this concept into his players, which is to give them more autonomy on the field.
Make your choices and don't stick to one position, especially the key players connecting the forwards, midfielders and defenders.
In the first half, when Guangzhou Evergrande began to change formations, Ma Yongli remained stationary in the defensive midfielder position, which gave Guangzhou Evergrande several opportunities to cut in from the wing.
Zhang Sheng saw the situation on the field, but did not give a clear reminder. He just wanted Ma Yongli to experience it himself. Unfortunately, his execution was not very good. For this reason, Zhang Sheng had to
Give him a heads up.
Ma Yongli, who had been listening to Zhang Sheng's words, nodded thoughtfully and said: "I understand what you mean. Is it like if Guangzhou Evergrande brought Paulinho and Goulart together to play?
For the front waist, I have to adjust the position like a real back waist?"
"That's right." Zhang Sheng snapped his fingers and said happily, "Your task is to connect the back line and the midfield, so these positions are the places you must observe. You are responsible for directing the defense. Everyone
We all need to respond quickly under your command."
At this time, Ma Yongli finally understood Zhang Sheng's thoughts.
At the same time, Tao Wentao and Qi Ming also understood Zhang Sheng's meaning. As two extremely flexible flags in the midfield, they were constantly wandering around in shooting, assisting, involving, assisting defense, supplementary defense, interception and
During the sweep, it can be said that whether the Dragons played well or not was closely related to their performance.
Zhang Sheng's advice to Ma Yongli, coupled with the training since the start of the season, made them deeply understand what "water has no constant potential, and soldiers have no constant shape."
Compared with the fixed tactical requirements in fixed positions of the old tactics, it is now difficult to describe them with the type of player in a specific position.
Seeing the expressions of deep understanding on Qi Ming and Tao Wentao's faces, Zhang Sheng also knew that they understood.
While Zhang Sheng was giving instructions to the players, Guangzhou Evergrande was also making some tactical and personnel changes.
The first thing Scolari made was personnel adjustments. He replaced Huang Bowen with Lin Feng.
This substitution means that Paulinho's forward penetration will be even greater in the second half, because compared to Huang Bowen, although Lin Feng's breakthrough ability is not as good, his ability to sweep, intercept, and organize and connect is much better.
What Scolari wants is for Lin Feng to attract the Dragons' defensive attention on the right and give Paulinho more space.
After the start of the second half, Liu Jianhong felt a little strange about Guangzhou Evergrande's substitution: "Huang Bowen didn't play badly in the first half, why did he replace him with Lin Feng?"
"Normally speaking, Lin Feng should start. However, Guangzhou Evergrande did not let Zheng Zhi play in the AFC Champions League before, so he reserved his energy specifically for this game, so it is appropriate for Lin Feng to play half-time." Huang Jianxiang said on the side.
Talk, "When it comes to strength, Lin Feng started his career on the right wing, so he should be familiar with it."
"But he hasn't played the right midfield position for a year or two, right?" Liu Jianhong still had some doubts about this substitution, "Let's take a look at his performance on the right."
After the start of the game, Lin Feng showed his strength. His ability to fight on the right is really strong. When Huang Bowen was there, Qi Ming could often provide offensive help to Ben Alpha. Now that Lin Feng is here, Qi Ming is
Ming could only get entangled with him more.
At the same time, Lin Feng's passing organization forced Qi Ming to distract himself from defending the left wing, while Paulinho had more opportunities to gain the ball in the middle.
In the eighth minute of the second half, Lin Feng, Zheng Zhi and Gao Lin, who retreated very deep, played a beautiful cooperation. The three of them continued to pass the ball without stopping, and Qi Ming and Rock Gill were
They were all attracted.
Next, Lin Feng made another extremely beautiful through ball, sending the ball to Paulinho's feet.
At this time, the center of the Longteng team should be vacated due to the departure of Roque Gil. Fortunately, Ma Yongli's prerequisites were very deep. Although he could not stop Paulinho's advancement, he at least delayed it for a lot of time.
Rock Gill hurried back to defend, and he and Ma Yongli teamed up to knock Paulinho down.
"Lin Feng's continuous touches of the ball passed to Zheng Zhi, and then he took the ball to Gao Lin. He ran to catch the ball and passed it to Paulinho, which was beautiful." Liu Jianhong had to sigh at Lin Feng's series connection this time.
"Paulinho dribbled the ball forward. There were only three defensive players behind the Longteng team. Ma Yongli followed up in time. Roque Gill fouled from behind and knocked down Paulinho."
"Roque Gill has a yellow card." Huang Jianxiang said worriedly, "To be honest, this foul could have earned him a yellow card. Fan Qi showed mercy and gave him a warning."
Seeing that Roque Gil did not get a card this time, the players of Guangzhou Evergrande gave Fan Qi loud boos. The words "Fan Qi S.B" and "Change Fan Qi" that had finally stopped before resounded throughout the audience again.
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Zhang Sheng was also worried at this time. If Roque Gill received another yellow card, the game would be really difficult. It seemed that he had to make adjustments.
Guangzhou Evergrande's free kick this time was still taken by Paulinho.
"Paulinho is really the engine of Guangzhou Evergrande now, the real core." Liu Jianhong had to sigh again, "He is strong one-on-one defensively, and he has good physical skills offensively. He can't even block him when he rushes.
He is also a good player at free kicks, his ability is much higher than others."
Amid Liu Jianhong's praise, Paulinho wanted to repeat his old trick this time with a big-footed volley to see if it could be refracted like last time. Unfortunately, because he didn't grasp the angle well, he kicked the ball directly into the Longteng player's face.
The body did not penetrate the human wall.
And it was Long Teng player Tao Wentao who grabbed the first spot. After he got the ball, he immediately sent the ball to the feet of Rock Gill. The latter rushed up with the ball. This time it was Long Teng's turn.
The team fought back.
"Danger, the Longteng team counterattacked with the ball in the midfield." Liu Jianhong exclaimed, "Zheng Zhi is coming over. This is an action similar to Roque Gill's before. This is a foul, and it is a tactical foul. Let's see what the referee does.
Judgment.”
As a result, Fan Qi chose balance this time. Regarding the culprit who interrupted the Dragon Team this time, Fan Qi only gave Zheng Zhi a verbal warning.
This time it was the Longteng fans' turn to be dissatisfied. Although there were few of them, the boos were still very sharp. Immediately, the voices of "Fan Qi S.B" and "Fan Qi get out" rang out on the court again.
"This is really not a human being inside and outside." Huang Jianxiang was also dumbfounded. "If we had played our cards earlier in the game, there would not have been such foul actions later."
What made Zhang Sheng even more angry was that Roque Gil was injured after being pinned down by Zheng Zhi this time. After the team doctor Li Xiang checked, he made a gesture to the sidelines to make a substitution.
Zhang Sheng's mind was racing at this moment. The team was now at a disadvantage in the middle. Zhang Sheng had to choose whether to strengthen defense or use offense to suppress the opponent.
After urgent discussions with two assistant coaches, Zhang Sheng chose to play offensive foreign aid DePaul.
Qi Ming now wants to take care of both offense and protection. The gap left by Alpha is no longer realistic. It is better to do addition than subtraction. Let Qi Ming simply return to the defensive midfielder position to concentrate on defense, allowing De.
Paul came on the scene to suppress Lin Feng's tandem organization.
"De Paul is on the field. Hey, this substitution is very risky." Liu Jianhong was a little puzzled for a moment, "Now the Longteng team's midfield is showing signs of collapse, but they play a defensive midfielder. The organization of the previous midfielder is even
It can be said that he is a wing offensive player, which is too risky."
"It's hard to say." Huang Jianxiang shook his head and said, "After Lin Feng came on the field, his effect was very obvious, that is, he was able to withstand Qi Ming's offense and was able to free up his hands to play for Paulinho. After De Paul came up, Lin Feng was probably
It’s not that easy anymore.”
Huang Jianxiang's guess was very accurate. After De Paul came up, Ben Alpha, who had lost support at first, had strong support from the former. Lin Feng suddenly seemed to be in a hurry when facing the wing attack combination composed of these two powerful foreign players.
When Rock Gill was here before, he had great freedom of tactical maneuver and could go up and down. Although he gave the Longteng team strong offensive support, the gap behind the center was also very obvious.
Paulinho specifically targets this weakness.
Now that Qi Ming is concentrating on defending in the midfielder, and Ma Yongli is very clever in swinging in the center back midfielder position, the Longteng team is much tougher in defense in the middle.
"You're really right." Liu Jianhong praised Huang Jianxiang, "With De Paul coming up, the situation in the middle of the Longteng team has improved a lot."
"I actually believe that Director Zhang Sheng made this guess." Huang Jianxiang said modestly, "Director Zhang Sheng rarely makes such unnecessary risks. His substitutions have repeatedly helped the team in the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League.
When the situation was reversed, I also subconsciously thought about Zhang Sheng's deep meaning in guiding the substitution."
In fact, Zhang Sheng's substitution did not completely solve the current on-field situation of the Longteng team.
Qi Ming certainly made the Longteng team's defense much stronger in the middle, but he lacked the help that Roque Gill had previously provided in the offense.
The Long Teng team does not have many disadvantages on the two wings, but it often gains advantages on the wings, but it is very monotonous due to the lack of support in the middle.
At the 13th minute of the second half, Ben Arfa received a pass from De Paul and once again challenged Shu Jun's defense. De Paul used his skills and abilities to crush Lin Feng's pass.
Chance.
After getting the ball, Ben Alpha kept shaking, and then suddenly cut inside, trying to get a chance to shoot from the front of the penalty area. Unfortunately, one of the two forwards of the Longteng team was in the penalty area, and the other was blocked by Zheng Zhi.
At the same time, Tao Wentao was also stared at by Goulart who was returning to defense.
In this way, Shu Jun and Paulinho, who came back to defend, formed a double attack on Ben Arfa. Ben Arfa's hasty shot did not pose much of a threat to Guangzhou Evergrande's goal.
Ben Alpha, who seemed a bit alone, regretfully spread his hands to his teammates behind him, indicating that they should come up to respond.
In the next twenty minutes, De Paul again cooperated with Ben Alpha in the midfield. This time Zou Weijia came out of the penalty area to take over. Unfortunately, Jin Yingquan followed closely and did not give Zou Weijia a good response.
When he had the chance to get the ball, he had no choice but to pass it back after holding the ball for half a day.
The offensive opportunities created by the Longteng team relying on De Paul and Ben Alpha turned into a slow positional offense.
On the contrary, in the 25th minute of the second half, De Paul chose to risk his way into the penalty area and tried to connect with Ben Alpha and then shoot. This too obvious offensive routine was seen through by Zheng Zhi, who called out to Feng Xiaoting.
Blocking De Paul's shooting path, he took out De Paul's ball from behind, and then he drove the ball to Lin Feng's feet with a big kick.
Guangzhou Evergrande got a coveted counterattack opportunity on the right.
Because of De Paul's departure, the Longteng team's defense on the left is now very empty. Only Qi Ming came to fill the position. After Lin Feng saw Qi Ming leaving his position, he decisively knocked the ball to Paulinho who came up from the front court.
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Paulinho no longer insisted on personal advancement when facing Ma Yongli's defense this time, but sent the ball to Goulart's feet. Goulart made a beautiful through ball in front of the penalty area, passing through Xiang Tiange and
Du Zhenyu's defense, Alan broke into the penalty area along the defensive connection area between the two of them.
Du Zhenyu's turn was already a bit slow at this time. His speed was obviously not as fast as Alan's. His outstretched tackle did not reach the ball, but brought Alan down.
This obvious foul allowed Fan Qi to decisively call a penalty kick, and Du Zhenyu also received a yellow card.
"Guangzhou Evergrande's counterattack." When Zheng Zhi's big foot came out, Liu Jianhong saw a large open space in the backcourt of the Longteng team. "Lin Feng's pass, Paulinho's ball, Goulart's through ball, Alan
Entering the penalty area, hey, Du Zhenyu's foul should be a penalty kick. Guangzhou Evergrande won a penalty kick, and the Brazilian Trident's connection this time was so beautiful."
"The Dragons don't have many ways to attack now, so they can only choose to take risks, and this time it's the price of taking risks." Huang Jianxiang pointed out the current weakness of the Dragons sharply - there are not enough people in the frontcourt and middle who can change the offensive rhythm, and they cannot form an effective formation.
A continuous attack of levels.
Zhang Sheng also discovered this problem at this time, but unfortunately the measures he took were a bit slow, and the corresponding penalty was this penalty kick.
