After saying goodbye to Lannick, Li Yun, Qin Minghao and Weigel went to the hotel where Zhang Sheng was staying again in the evening.
There is still a big difference in the emotions of the three people.
Weigel may have known that he had decided to transfer to Leipzig and stay in the Bundesliga, so he seemed very happy. Li Yun still had a playful smile, and only Qin Minghao looked a little dull.
Zhang Sheng probably knows the reason.
Needless to say, Weigel is now the absolute main force of the team. After a period of ups and downs, Li Yun has once again established his position, while Qin Minghao is now slowly being squeezed from the main force to the rotation position. Although Leipzig is a team
For a team that regards rotation as a daily routine, Qin Minghao had many opportunities to play, but his position as the absolute main force was not kept, which still made Qin Minghao a little unhappy.
Professional football is so cruel. If you have the ability, you have to go up. If you don't have the ability, you have to go down. Zhang Sheng can't give much comfort. It all depends on Qin Minghao's own choice.
After the match against Red Bull Leipzig, the Dragons' next warm-up match opponent is Nice in Ligue 1.
Like Red Bull Leipzig, Nice is also the biggest dark horse in the league this season. Before the winter break, Nice occupied the first place in the league. Below it, there are traditional giants such as Paris Saint-Germain, Lyon and Morocco, among which Ben Alfa
His performance was really outstanding, and the "bad boy" striker formed by him and Balotelli made the entire Ligue 1 fearful.
The head coach of the Nice team is Lucien Favre. This is a low-key coach, but his ability is definitely the best choice. Before coming to Nice in the middle of last year, he took over mid-tier Bundesliga teams like Borussia Monchengladbach.
Entering the Champions League, his commanding ability is evident.
Very similar to the famous coach Klopp, this is also a head coach who likes a pressing style of play, advocates the use of young players to strengthen running, focuses on ground skills and ball control, and studies and analyzes tactical details to the extreme. Historically, he
After achieving success in Nice, he later took over Dortmund and once again brought Dortmund to a new height.
This game was the same as the last game against Red Bull Leipzig. The Dragons played very hard. Compared to Leipzig's overall strength, Nice's striker personal ability was outstanding. Ben Arfa, a former Dragons player, did not give the former player any advantage.
His teammates saved face, and it was his two goals in the first half that put Nice ahead of the Dragons.
In the second half, due to Favre's dislike of changing formations and always playing 4-2-3-1, Zhang Sheng made appropriate adjustments to the formation. Ma Yongli played as a deep midfielder, while Qi Ming was pushed further forward.
Moreover, when he came to the position behind the winger Ben Alpha, Nie Jiang scored a goal by relying on Ben Alpha's great attack opportunity.
But then Balotelli easily broke through the Dragons' goal twice, allowing Nice to defeat the Dragons 4:1.
After the game, Ben Arfa ran over and hugged Zhang Sheng affectionately, and the two talked for a long time. This "bad boy" with a weird personality is now very happy in Nice, and he can defeat several previous enemy teams.
At the feet, it suits his taste very well.
"I think you can give Balotelli a try. If he goes to the Chinese Super League, he will definitely be successful. I think he is better than Diego Costa." Obviously Ben Arfa is paying attention to the situation of the Longteng team and knows that the Longteng team won the AFC Champions League last season.
He was bullied so much by Diego Costa that he even started promoting his teammates.
Of course Zhang Sheng knew that Ben Alpha was joking. After the two chatted for a while, they left separately because Zhang Sheng had too many things to do.
For the players of the Longteng team, these two games were a time to compete against strong teams, gain experience and grow, and this also applies to Zhang Sheng.
Zhang Sheng has a lot to learn from two powerful European coaches, Hasenhuttl and Lucien Favre.
In particular, Lucien Favre's tactics had a great impact on Zhang Sheng.
From the games he directed, it is not difficult to see that he likes dynamic offensive football, but not at the expense of defense. His team is very targeted when pressing, and at the same time has the ability to focus on possession of the ball under certain conditions.
ability.
Zhang Sheng's original 3-5-2 full-court pressing and running tactics was learned from Klopp, but judging from the actual game situation, there are still many weaknesses.
Relying on a higher pace and intensity than their opponents, the Longteng team can always quickly defeat their opponents with a wave of attacks. However, the pressing style of play also has some flaws that cannot be eliminated. The midfield control ability is lower than before and lacks
With limited offensive methods in positional warfare, the team is operating at high speed from beginning to end, and players cannot obtain physical buffer time through rhythm switching. When physical fitness enters a bottleneck period, it is difficult for the defense to survive a sharp drop in pressure intensity.
Withstanding the opponent's crazy counterattack and without a stable low-post defense, the team can easily lose the lead it has worked so hard to build at this stage.
The Longteng team was able to achieve good results despite obvious flaws in their tactics, mainly relying on their physical advantages and tactical execution ability established through years of high-level training. A large number of outstanding summoned players gave Zhang Sheng the confidence to use this tactic.
Now Zhang Sheng must upgrade his tactics again to be able to fight against the Chinese Super League teams that will buy a large number of high-level foreign players next season. Blindly charging and attacking will only be tough and easy to break.
Use large-scale running around the ball to establish a local numerical advantage, use the double midfielder system as a support to build a defense to defend the enemy from outside the country, rely on pressing counter-attacks to gain opportunities for ball possession conversion, steal the ball and quickly pass through the midfield directly to the penalty area
Launch an attack, and at the same time improve the team's control by strengthening ball control and passing and cutting, and also reduce the defensive risks caused by too many transitions between offense and defense. This is the new tactic that Zhang Sheng will instill in the team during this winter training.
idea.
In terms of details, Lucien Favre's conducting inspired Zhang Sheng a lot.
Unlike Zhang Sheng who places too much emphasis on pressure and pressing, Favre's team has stronger defensive capabilities in positional warfare. The defenders and midfielders can maintain a compact position when defending in the backcourt, luring the enemy deep into the midfield and implementing steals.
The strategy is smarter than blindly counterattacking and applying pressure; Favre also appears to be more clever in the distribution of physical energy. His trap-style defense prolongs the opponent's offensive line, which can not only consume a lot of the opponent's physical energy, but also
Give yourself more means to take advantage of the situation...
It can be said that Zhang Sheng gained more from these two games during the European winter training than from playing twenty games in the Chinese Super League.
The Dragons' previous tactics focused on controlling the ball, and over the next year or so they emphasized high-position pressing and speed. Now Zhang Sheng's goal is to slowly fuse these two styles together. Think about the world like Guardiola
Top coaches are moving closer to this tactical direction, which shows that this is a major trend in football tactics in the future.
Compared with Lucien Favre who can have a lot of high-level games to hone his tactics, Zhang Sheng also has his own advantage, that is, he has a system.
At the end of last season, the 7 advanced tactical shaping acceleration symbols given to Zhang Sheng by the system became a trump card.
In the next game, Zhang Sheng chose to experiment with tactics at the Portuguese national base with two low-level Nordic teams. Judging from the game process, it was still difficult for the young players to master the speed of pressing, and they could not control themselves once they let go.
Zhang Sheng had to remind the players on the sidelines many times.
From the time he experimented with this tactic, Zhang Sheng discovered the fact that it was necessary to give players more initiative on the court and let them use their own brains to know when to speed up the pressure and when to control the ball and pass it on. In the ever-changing environment,
On the court, players always react more promptly than coaches on the sidelines.
However, such a change requires players to have high golf intelligence and rich game experience, and it also requires the coaching staff to do complicated work to hone tactics.
Under the influence of the tactical accelerator, the success rate of the Longteng team's tactical details increased at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye. After defeating two small teams with a big score in a row, the Longteng team played a warm-up match with Zenit St. Petersburg, the giant of the Russian Super League.
Zenit's situation this season is not very good. In terms of their positioning and investment, they were eliminated early in the Europa League group stage. They are now ranked outside the European competition zone. Their head coach, legendary coach Lucescu, is not in charge.
Instability, Zenit attaches great importance to this winter break.
However, it is not difficult to find from the game that Zenit's players are obviously out of shape. This former Europa League champion team has many international players from Brazil, Italy, and Belgium, but the strange thing is that they have no relationship with each other.
Cooperation is very unfamiliar.
The Longteng team relied on the whole body to constantly switch between pressing and controlling the ball. Although the individual players were not as strong as the opponent, the rhythm was firmly grasped by the Longteng team. In the end, the Longteng team drew with the Russian Super League giant 2:2.
After the game, Lucescu came over to chat with Zhang Sheng. He was surprised that there were so many outstanding young players in China, and asked some questions about the Chinese Super League carefully. Maybe it was because of Petlescu's experience in the Chinese Super League.
The high income attracted him.
The game against Zenit was the last warm-up match for all the main players of the Longteng team in Europe. After this game, Huang Dawei, Nie Jiang, Ma Yongli, Qi Ming, Tao Wentao and Xiang Tiange of the Longteng team all wanted to
Leave the team to report for the national team.
In order to prepare for the home match between the Chinese team and the South Korean team on March 22, the Chinese Football Association dispatched the national football team to conduct a flight training camp during the winter training period of all Chinese Super League teams. The time was from February 10 to February 12.
It only lasted three days. In order to ensure the physical fitness of the players and avoid the fatigue of the team members, the Chinese Football Association rarely provided the national team members with round-trip business class treatment, and all the expenses were paid by the Football Association.
This kind of training method was something Lippi fought hard for. In fact, all clubs don’t want to release them. For example, the Longteng team doesn’t want these players to return to China now. The Longteng team, which is in the period of tactical adjustment and running-in, needs too much time. Considering that China
Due to the importance of the national team competing against the South Korean team, Zhang Sheng finally chose to support it. Several national team players all returned to China early, and the remaining players continued to familiarize themselves with the new tactics.
In fact, from another perspective, this can be regarded as a rotation experiment for the new season in advance.
In the new season, the Longteng team will continue to fight on three fronts as always, and rotation is a certainty, especially the two points of center back and goalkeeper that Zhang Sheng focuses on.
After Ma Yongli left, the former substitute Lu Yangyang officially came to the central defender position. He will be a free man in the backcourt, a deep midfielder, and a chasing central defender to adapt to his position on the field. Compared to Ma Yongli,
He is not without advantages. First of all, he is a forward. He trained with the Longteng team for more than a year and was loaned out for a year. His foot skills can be said to be excellent among central defenders, better than Ma Yongli; secondly, he is fast.
, in the Longteng team's forward-moving pressing style, a fast central defender is still very useful; in the end, even though he is only 1.72 meters, his jumping and heading abilities are very good. If he is in the penalty area,
No matter how strong your positioning ability is, the weakness of short stature is not something that cannot be overcome.
As for the goalkeeper position, among the three non-call players in the substitute echelon, 21-year-old Jiang Mingzhi currently has the highest ability value, which is nearly 70; Song Dongdong has the highest potential value, reaching 135, but his ability value is now very poor.
Only less than 40, after all, he is still recovering after major surgery for an old injury; the newly summoned Wang Junlei's ability value and potential value are moderate 51/105, but after more than a year of irregular training, he also needs to adapt and recover
.
It can be said that Zhang Sheng is not worried about anyone as the substitute goalkeeper. In the end, Jiang Mingzhi's actual performance prevailed.
The most important thing about the next warm-up match is a warm-up match with Red Bull Salzburg. This will also be the last game of the Longteng team's winter training.
After playing against two teams in the second level of Switzerland and the second level of Norway, the game for the Longteng team to summarize the results finally arrived. Red Bull Salzburg gave them enough face and played with all the main players. Unfortunately, Ding Huaiyi just
Recovered from injury and failed to start.
In this game, Jiang Mingzhi, Lu Yangyang, Lu Zhihui, Liming, Zhang Hao, Qu Wenming, Cao Jinghao, De Paul, Fernando, Tang Jin, and Chavez formed the starting lineup. If nothing else, several regulars of the Longteng team in the new season
All rotation players are on the field.
Salzburg still showed the strength of the Roton team's rotation, but it is also the Red Bull team. Their ability to resist pressing and the arrangement of tactical details are far inferior to Leipzig. Maybe this is a common problem of small league teams, so what about the Roten team?
Not so.
Salzburg, which was superior in the first half, easily led the Longteng team 2:0. In the second half, they relaxed a little. The Longteng team scored two goals in a row to equalize the score. After the two sides made large-scale substitutions, Salzburg
Fort's rotation players basically suppressed all the Longteng team's substitutes. If their substitutes hadn't been too eager to express themselves, the final score would definitely not have been 5:2.
Zhang Sheng was very satisfied with this score. After all, this was a score achieved when the main force was rotated and the substitutes were substitutes. If it was the main force, Zhang Sheng believed that he would still be able to fight.
Even though Red Bull Salzburg has been eliminated from the Champions League for the tenth time in a row, they are still a very competitive team in the Europa League. Zhang Sheng is already very happy that the Dragons can reach this level.
On February 14th, the Longteng team completed the high-intensity winter training in Europe and flew back to China. The new season is about to begin!
