As the top scorer of Guangzhou Evergrande, Goulart stood in front of the penalty spot.
The hustle and bustle in front of Tianhe Sports Square seemed to have stopped. All the fans' eyes and all the camera lenses were focused on Goulart.
After Fan Qi blew the whistle for the free throw, Goulart made a short run-up and shot directly to the center of the goal, and it was a half-high ball.
Huang Dawei immediately chose to pounce to the left. He made the right choice, and he pounced on the ball with his left hand.
Blocked by Huang Dawei, the football flew into the penalty area and he saved Goulart's penalty kick!
However, before Goulart rushed up to take a supplementary shot, another person in the Guangzhou Evergrande team was faster, and that was Paulinho. The latter got the first ball of the ball before everyone else. This time he was super close.
The header from a distance disappointed Huang Dawei, who had just stood up and wanted to make a save.
The football passed Huang Dawei's hand and fell into the net.
Guangzhou Evergrande scored the penalty kick without any danger.
"Goulart is here to take the penalty kick." Liu Jianhong was also very nervous. "Huang Dawei from the Longteng team rarely has the opportunity to save penalty kicks. I don't know if he can turn the tide this time."
"Goulart's shot was too good. Huang Dawei pounced and made a supplementary shot. The supplementary shot from Guangzhou Evergrande was Paulinho. It went in, it went in, it went in!" Liu Jianhong also felt like he was doing something wrong.
It was like a roller coaster, "Paulinho is so experienced. After Goulart shot, he rushed into the penalty area immediately, before everyone else."
"The quality of Goulart's penalty kick is not good." Huang Jianxiang commented, "It was a mid-range shot, and it was still a half-high ball. The goalkeeper likes this kind of penalty kick best. Huang Dawei's save is no problem. The Longteng team obviously has no problem.
Mentally preparing for the opponent's penalty kick to miss, Paulinho was the first to think of this."
"Anyway, Evergrande is now ahead of the Longteng team." Liu Jianhong also said excitedly, "In the past four seasons, Guangzhou Evergrande and the Longteng team have played against each other 12 times, including four in the AFC Champions League and four in the league.
times, the FA Cup three times, and the Super Cup once. No matter when the Longteng team was a second-tier team or a first-tier team, Guangzhou Evergrande has never won, whether at home or away. Now this time it can be said that it is the closest to victory.
This is the first time that the team has the advantage at home, but the main defensive midfielder of the Longteng team has been injured again. Can Guangzhou Evergrande break this curse this time?"
It's pitiful to say that. Although the people of Guangzhou Evergrande have never been merciless in poaching the Longteng team, and they are poaching with the team's captain in mind, no matter how hard they dig, it is difficult to win against the Longteng team in a single game. On the contrary,
I lost a lot of times.
The outside world has been criticizing Guangzhou Evergrande for this, believing that apart from taking money to poach people, they have not contributed at all to the talent cultivation of Chinese football.
Of course Zhang Sheng would not pay attention to these things at this time. What he was thinking about now was how to change the situation on the court. After looking at the players who were warming up, Zhang Sheng decided to let Nie Jiang play.
The starting center in this game is Zou Weijia. He works very hard on the court, running back and forth and constantly helping his teammates with the ball. However, he also has great limitations. He is limited by his average foot skills. Zou Weijia is not in the frontcourt.
The ability to change the offensive rhythm, and his range of activities is relatively small, at most about ten meters outside the penalty area. This causes Chavez to have to run back and forth in order to connect the midfielder and striker. Not only is he inefficient, but he is also often easily caught.
Guangzhou Evergrande's midfielder steals the ball.
"Nie Jiang is about to play." Liu Jianhong also noticed the situation of the Longteng team on the sidelines, "Nie Jiang was injured some time ago and rested for more than half a month. He should be able to recover from his injury now. The Longteng team has chosen to strengthen their offense now.
ah."
Huang Jianxiang is obviously very optimistic about Nie Jiang: "If Nie Jiang is really healthy, Guangzhou Evergrande should be careful. In my opinion, Nie Jiang is the best local forward in the country now, and may even be the most comprehensive in Asia.
, the most capable forward, Guangzhou Evergrande’s defense must pay attention.”
After Nie Jiang came on the court, he stood slightly behind Chavez.
The position he is in makes the Guangzhou Evergrande players very uncomfortable. It is impossible for the central defender to run out of the penalty area to guard him. After all, Chavez, a central defender of Guangzhou Evergrande, cannot completely defend him. Midfielder Zheng Zhi also needs to
Responsible for delivering the ball, it is impossible to retreat and completely become a defensive midfielder. As for Paulinho, Scolari would like to use him as a forward.
After only three minutes on the field, Nie Jiang made Guangzhou Evergrande suffer.
In the 29th minute of the second half, Nie Jiang received a diagonal pass from Xiang Tiange at the shadow forward position. Facing Zheng Zhi who started at the same time, Nie Jiang made a beautiful catch and accelerated the ball, passing Zheng Zhi.
Completely thrown away.
Zheng Zhi, who had already played in a super high-confrontation match for nearly 80 minutes, could no longer support him running at high speed due to his age. As a last resort, Zheng Zhi simply kicked Nie Jiang's supporting leg when he couldn't kick the ball when Nie Jiang changed direction.
, causing Nie Jiang to fall to the ground.
This foul more than 20 meters in front of the penalty area is extremely dangerous for Guangzhou Evergrande.
Not to mention that the Longteng team got an excellent free kick opportunity in the frontcourt, the fact that Guang Zhengzhi had already received a yellow card also made all Evergrande players and fans sweat.
Fortunately, the referee Fan Qi of this game was very stingy with his cards. He came over and just gave Zheng Zhi a warning and let the foul go.
After their protest was ineffective, the Longteng players had no choice but to give up.
In the end, Ben Arfa's free kick ended slightly over the crossbar.
As the game progressed, Scolari frowned with a serious face on the sidelines. This was not a good signal. Nie Jiang was too threatening in the frontcourt. He could contain Zheng Zhi all by himself.
At the same time, Lin Feng had to come from the side to fill in for Zheng Zhi many times.
The right wing, which was already in danger, is now even more dangerous. The powerful impact of Ben Arfa and De Paul completely blinded Guangzhou Evergrande's right back Shu Jun.
In the 32nd minute of the second half, the Longteng team stole the ball from Paulinho in the backcourt.
After Qi Ming got the ball, he found that there were many more points for the ball than before. Not only De Paul but also Tao Wentao, Nie Jiang's running position in the middle was also very smart, and the Longteng team's response point in the middle was
Finally got it.
After pretending to pass to DePaul, Qi Ming's fake move deceived Goulart, who was retreating to defend. He suddenly spiked the ball in the middle, turned around, and passed the ball to Nie Jiang, who was thrown away.
Nie Jiang showed his strength after receiving the ball in the middle. Although Zheng Zhi wanted to interfere with him and kept using his body to carry him, trying to steal the ball from Nie Jiang's feet, the effect was not obvious. Because
Nie Jiang's physical fitness is very good.
In addition, Tao Wentao was also actively pushing forward at this time, trying to distract Nie Jiang, and Guangzhou Evergrande's two wing defenders had to help defend.
Especially Lin Feng on the right also followed De Paul to the middle.
Nie Jiang saw that he had attracted the attention of Zheng Zhi and Lin Feng, and the frequency of his feet suddenly increased. He used his speed to beat Zheng Zhi and gained space to pass the ball. Then he made a beautiful through ball and found Ben.
alpha.
Although Lin Feng was guarding De Paul and Ben Alpha on the left, he had a very good opportunity. After receiving the ball, he took advantage of the situation and entered the penalty area. At the same time, he avoided Shu Jun's defense, and then made a cross pass in the penalty area.
De Paul was found. Because Chavez attracted Jin Yingquan's attention, De Paul faced Feng Xiaoting alone.
At this time, De Paul showed the ability of a high-level foreign aid. A light shot after smashing the ball not only deceived Feng Xiaoting, but also deceived the goalkeeper Zengcheng. His shot passed through Zengcheng's belated side dive.
Flying into the goal.
"The defense of the Longteng team in the middle is better now than before." The two top commentators responsible for the explanation are people who understand the ball after all. Liu Jianhong also noticed the changes of the Longteng team on the field. When Qi Ming and Ma Yongli teamed up to push Paulinho
When the ball was intercepted, he said, "After Qi Ming defended full-time, the effect was still very obvious."
"Beautiful! Qi Ming's skills." While Liu Jianhong was still mumbling, Huang Jianxiang saw Qi Ming's fake moves and passes to Goulart in the midfield. "Nie Jiang caught the ball, and Nie Jiang accelerated the pass.
It was a through ball. Ben Arfa got the ball, reached the penalty area, and passed the ball across the ball! De Paul dunked, shot, and scored! Such coordination! Look at the coordination of the Longteng team!"
"It's in, it's in, it's in!" Liu Jianhong also reacted at this time, "The Long Teng team's series of beautiful cooperation is basically completed by the skills of the feet. It's really beautiful. Nie Jiang's appearance, against Long Teng
The team’s connection in the midfield and frontcourt and the change in offensive rhythm are really huge.”
"Qi Ming's pass was also crucial." Huang Jianxiang nodded with satisfaction. "Although Ben Alpha assisted and De Paul scored the goal, the real attack and the key pass came from both of us.
Two young players. These two players really have a promising future.”
Zhang Sheng on the sidelines was even happier. Nie Jiang wouldn't say it anymore. Since Qi Ming promoted him to the main force this season, his growth can be seen with the naked eye - his ability values have also increased from
From 75 before the season to 80 now.
Watching Qi Ming play, people who don't know better would think that he is a veteran who has been playing football for five or six years. His calmness and decisiveness on the court are completely unlike a 21-year-old young man.
Of course, this goal of the Longteng team can also be said to be a reflection of the team's strength.
In addition to the foreign players who compete with Guangzhou Evergrande, the strength of the domestic players currently on the court of the Longteng team is overall higher than that of Guangzhou Evergrande. Not to mention that Guangzhou Evergrande does not have players with an ability index of over 90 like Nie Jiang, Tao Wentao 86,
Qi Ming 80 plus two central defenders with abilities exceeding 80, this configuration completely overwhelmed Guangzhou Evergrande.
In terms of players' shortcomings, the Longteng team is also better than Guangzhou Evergrande. For example, in Guangzhou Evergrande, Shu Jun only has an ability value of 71, and Zou Zheng has just passed 75. The two of them are better than any player on the Longteng team currently.
They are all low, and Shu Jun has become the breakthrough point for the Dragon Team to "take care of".
In a confrontation between strong teams, what determines a team's victory or defeat is often not a few explosive points - these explosive points will definitely be taken care of - most of the team's losses are caused by a certain weakness.
This is very consistent with the short board theory.
After equalizing the score, the Longteng team's morale became even stronger. Taking advantage of the players' generally young and energetic characteristics, they launched wave after wave of attacks against Guangzhou Evergrande, and they also maintained the same full-court press as at the beginning of the game.
"To be able to maintain such a high-tempo confrontation until the end of the game, the Longteng team's physical preparation is really sufficient." Liu Jianhong looked incredulous, "I used to say that Chinese players have poor physical fitness, but now they are really training
Come out."
Huang Jianxiang insisted on his consistent view: "So I have always said that the Chinese Super League is to introduce good foreign players and top coaches. In the past few years, China's youth training declined, and most players did not pay attention to their foot skills. Now it has been finalized. The only way to
What improves is physical fitness and confrontation. These things can only be improved by top coaching guidance and confrontation with excellent foreign players. This is the only thing we can improve quickly at this stage."
"If you add players with good foot skills like those trained by the Longteng team in recent years, I am optimistic about the future of Chinese football." Liu Jianhong also looked concerned.
Just as the two people were commentating, the Longteng team, which represented a new generation of players, once again played a beautiful offense.
In the 41st minute of the second half, Guangzhou Evergrande, unwilling to accept average, began to make a desperate move.
Paulinho, Goulart and Alan connected again. Relying on Paulinho's extraordinary skills and strength, he broke through the defense of Qi Ming and Ma Yongli and passed the ball to Alan. Goulart was in the penalty area.
After receiving the ball from Alan, he volleyed towards the Longteng team's goal. Huang Dawei's position was very good this time. Facing the incoming ball, he hit the ball out of the penalty area with both fists.
The ball was grabbed by Qi Ming outside the penalty area. After he rubbed it with the back of his head, the ball flew towards the midfield. Near the midfield at this time, it was Nie Jiang and Zheng Zhi who was responsible for defending Nie Jiang.
It was also started from the Longteng team's half. When the ball flew over, the two of them rushed to grab the landing point of the ball at the same time. However, Zheng Zhi's acceleration ability was far inferior to Nie Jiang at this time. Starting at almost the same moment, Zheng Zhi fell behind.
As the captain on the field, Zheng Zhi did not give up his defense. He chased after Nie Jiang desperately, but the distance between the two became wider and wider. Seeing that his physical strength had reached the limit, he had no choice but to stretch out his hand.
Pulled Nie Jiang to the ground.
This tactical foul was so obvious that the referee Fan Qi rushed over and took out the yellow card without any hesitation.
After taking out the cards, Fan Qi was stunned for a moment. He remembered that Zheng Zhi already had a yellow card, so he had no choice but to take out another red card.
"Oh, Zheng Zhi was sent off with a red card. Evergrande is in a bit of danger now." Liu Jianhong said regretfully.
"Zheng Zhi has tried his best. You can't blame him." Huang Jianxiang could only shake his head to excuse Zheng Zhi.
