The two rounds of the AFC Champions League are over, and the 2o17 Chinese League is getting closer and closer. The topic that has also become hot is the China-South Korea World Cup preliminaries on March 23. For this reason, after the first two rounds of the Chinese League, Just take a break to make way for him.
Historically, due to the u23 policy, the national team's performance was poor. Only Shandong Luneng and Guizhou Hengfeng submitted bid requests for the opening ceremony of this season, which was very cold compared to previous competitions from several cities.
Now with better results, more spectators and more revenue, as many as six clubs have applied to host the event. In the end, Shandong Luneng, which made a lot of money before the season, won the right to host the event.
In the first round of the Chinese League, Shandong Luneng happened to face Long Teng away from home.
Before the season, Shandong Luneng, like the Longteng Team, became a big exporter of players, and the players they sold were all national-level players. They sold Zhao Mingjian, Wang Yongpo, Yang Xu, Gao Zhunyi, and in terms of foreign aid, Montillo and Yossi. Lei left, and under Magath's instructions, a large number of young players took over.
They are also teams famous for their youth training. Shandong Luneng's young players have top results in all echelons. In recent years, they and the players from the Longteng team have formed the national team's results in each echelon, but they are rare. After appearing in the first team, many players even waste four or five years in the reserve team.
There are good youth training players that are not available, and the performance of the first team is steadily declining. Watching the Longteng team sing all the way relying on their own youth training players, Luneng's management is so anxious. Finally, after learning from the pain, Shandong Luneng this season It also set off a youth storm.
For this launch, Luneng put in a lot of effort. The club specially sent people to Linzi, the birthplace of Cuju, to conduct a ball-receiving ceremony. The whole event was full of flowers and bustling.
After the game started, Luneng, who played at home, played very passionately. The situation of the Shandong Luneng Pacers in the past will never be repeated again.
Since Magath arrived last season, Luneng has indeed run more games, but it is often seen that the players are unable to cope with their abilities. In the end, it is not without reason that the team barely survived relegation.
Now on the Luneng field, except for two or three veterans in the midfield and backcourt, the other positions are all players in the 92-94 age group. Facing the high confrontation and full-court pressure tactics of the Longteng team, they are not at a disadvantage. --Isn't it just a matter of running a few more steps?
The commentator was also very emotional: "The U23 policy has no impact on these two teams at all. In particular, it has become a catalyst for Luneng's rejuvenation. As for the Longteng team, let alone the foreign players and their captain Lu Zhihui, the whole audience is U23 players. This game is probably the game with the lowest average age in the entire league.”
Seeing the high-intensity fighting of players on the field, Zhang Sheng shook his head helplessly. Before the season, the team's tactics class taught countless times about the combination of hardness and softness and the emphasis on rhythm control, but when encountering an opponent, they ran wildly. Everyone just followed suit. It can only be said that the gap between the players in terms of tactical control is not small.
But it soon became apparent who had the better tactical understanding.
Qi Ming, who did not have the highest ability value on the field, reacted immediately. He began to deliberately control the ball in the midfield, frequently asking for the ball and pulling Luneng's overall defensive formation, taking advantage of the Longteng team's stronger foot ability, Qi Ming's performance The ability of the field commander is exceeded.
The Longteng team, which took the game into its own hands, made several successful attacks through constant changes in rhythm. However, the Luneng defense, which often made low-level mistakes before, was very stable. Wang Dalei also made many wonderful saves. Longteng
The team was never able to break through Luneng's door.
Last season, the former Brazilian international forward Tardelli was complained by Luneng fans as a "water tower" and was once demoted to the reserve team. However, now his condition is surprisingly good. The Longteng team cannot break through Luneng's door, but he
It was the two shots that posed a great threat to the Longteng team's goal. One of the shots hit the goal post and made the Longteng team fans break out in a cold sweat.
At the end of the first half, Luneng kept the score at o:o.
"Qi Ming. You performed very well in the first half." Zhang Sheng never hesitated to praise him, and then put forward his own requirements to other players, "In the second half, everyone must control their own rhythm. We ourselves have to decide our game.
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Regarding the arrangement of tactics, the coaching staff has already prepared dozens of responses, and hundreds of local tactics have been refined. Which one to choose on the court still requires the players' own on-the-spot reaction.
Compared with Magath's extremely simple style of play, which relies on Pellet's long pass and two wings flying together, the technical content of the Longteng team is unknown, but sometimes, it is not the tactics with high technical content that can easily win the victory.
, you must have enough patience on the court, and Zhang Sheng does not lack this patience.
In the second half, Luneng still played a routine. After blocking the defensive channel on the wing, the Longteng team repeatedly hit Luneng behind the two wingers. Luneng's midfielder relied on young, strong and physically fit players like Wang Tong.
He came to fill the position and relied on a top central defender like Gill to wipe his ass and protect his defense.
One hundred percent defense has always been a rare thing in football matches. In the 25th minute of the second half, the Longteng team finally relied on Chavez to give Nie Jiang the ball. The latter escaped Wang Tong's entanglement and kicked the ball into the penalty area.
A concealed low shot from the line broke through Luneng's door.
After losing the ball, Luneng was rarely discouraged and took a walk. In the last fifteen minutes of the game, they still sprinted and ran with high intensity. Even the commentator said: "Luneng tried his best. There is nothing to say about the attitude of the players and their physical fitness."
The improvement is obvious to all. This is a good start, and the opposite Longteng team is the target they want to catch up with."
In the end, the Longteng team defeated Shandong Luneng, who hoped to win in the opening ceremony, with a difficult score of 0:1 in the away game.
After the game, Zhang Sheng praised Magath's coaching of Luneng from the bottom of his heart: "This was a difficult game, and I'm glad we won. Mr. Magath will lead Luneng to achieve good results this season. I think
They are one of the strong contenders for the championship this season."
Many people regarded Zhang Sheng's words as a condescending consolation for the winner, but the second round of the Chinese League fulfilled Zhang Sheng's prediction.
In Shandong Luneng's home game against Guangzhou Evergrande, Wang Dalei made a miraculous save, and Gill and Pellet scored with headers from set kicks, causing Guangzhou Evergrande to lose 1:2 to Shandong.
Luneng.
Although Zheng Zhi's red card suspension and Mei Fang's injury have affected the team somewhat, there is still a huge contrast between Evergrande's fatigue and Luneng players' desperate running.
Because they played in the AFC Champions League and FA Cup finals, and then played in the Club World Cup, Evergrande players generally had nearly a month less rest time than other teams in the competition. Continuous competition really made them physically and mentally exhausted.
After the game, a bunch of Shandong Luneng fans in the stands cried with joy. Since Evergrande entered the Chinese Super League in 2011, Luneng has faced Guangzhou Evergrande in 12 league games with 6 draws and 6 losses, without a win. Now they finally won.
The Longteng team's game was equally difficult, but the result was different. They narrowly defeated Jiangsu Suning 1:0 in the away game. Nie Jiang's goal once again saved the Longteng team.
After two rounds of competition, apart from the two teams that SIPG met, which were both weak teams and won by a big score, several teams that were favored before the season had a very difficult time in the dialogue, and it was not until the last minute of the game.
Minutes, the outcome is really unpredictable.
Various media have given their own conclusions: "The introduction of a large number of foreign players from outstanding classes has made every team attach great importance to defense, and a large number of excellent coaches have also formulated reasonable tactics for the team. Now
The strength between the teams is becoming more and more balanced.”
The Chinese team is getting stronger and stronger, and Zhang Sheng is mentally prepared.
Ever since the system launched the "Common Progress" task, Zhang Sheng knew that the more players he sold, the greater the overall strength of the team would improve.
Zhang Sheng has completed the first phase of the "Common Progress" mission. The explanation given by the system at the beginning was that outstanding young players and veteran players who have trained hard will improve in terms of ability and even potential.
This task has been going on for more than two years. Those players who have improved their potential have slowly realized it through the training of high-level competitions in the past two years. In other words, these players have all improved.
The ball is over.
For example, last season, the Longteng team played a mad dog tactic, with high-intensity pressing and pressing that left most Chinese teams at a loss. However, in the second half of the season, they persisted for longer and longer.
This season, in the first two rounds of games, both Shandong Luneng and Jiangsu Suning were not inferior in terms of overall confrontation rhythm. They lost more games because their handling of details was not as good as the Longteng team.
Zhang Sheng looked at the task of "Common Progress" and found that it had reached 19/2o. And among the 19 transferred players, the system's requirements for players with a potential value of more than 8o had already been met. Lin Feng, Yan Xiao
The total number of Yu and Du Zhenyu even exceeds the number specified by the system. In other words, the Longteng team can complete the second stage of the task by randomly transferring a player with an ability value of 7o or above to the Chinese League One or Chinese players.
It is conceivable that in reality, if there are 20 more national football players or even the absolute main players of the national football team scattered among various teams, what will the overall strength of the league look like.
This season, several teams in the middle and lower reaches are selling core players to make money as usual to ensure the normal operation of the team. Longteng and Shandong Luneng have released a large number of players with good level to replace them. It can be said that the strength of several teams in the upper reaches has been greatly improved.
In addition, the bench strength of several teams participating in the AFC Champions League is much higher than in history.
This round of the AFC Champions League is an outpost before all leagues in Asia are suspended and the national team matches. What’s even more amazing is that the four groups in the East Asia region are Dragons vs. Kashima Antlers, Guangzhou Evergrande vs. Kawasaki Frontale, Shanghai
SIPG played against Urawa Ruby, Jiangsu Suning played against Gamba Osaka. The first three were all ranked first in the group against the second in the group. The last one, Jiangsu Suning, which was also ranked first in the group, was ranked third in the group, but it was only the goal difference of the group.
Gamba Osaka, the second Jeju United junior player.
It can be said that this is likely to be a key battle to determine who is the first among the four East Asian groups.
Kashima Antlers were extremely arrogant before the start of the J-League. Their excellent performance in the Club World Cup not only impressed the outside world, but also the team was full of confidence. They are determined to win the league championship in the new season.
They are even more eyeing the AFC Champions League trophy that the team has not touched for many years.
In fact, Kashima Antlers was not the most dominant team in the J-League last season. Urawa Ruby was the most powerful team in the J-League last year. Kashima Antlers won the league championship mainly because of the J-League format.
unreasonable.
Therefore, at the core of the team, after Takeshi Shibasaki, who performed brilliantly in the Club World Cup, transferred to Tenerife in the second division, the club invested the bonuses from the Club World Cup and the league directly into the construction of the lineup.
In order to ensure a two-pronged operation in the new season, Kashima's foreign aid recruitment this offseason ranks first in the J-League.
In terms of foreign aid, Kashima’s original foreign aid only left young central defender Bueno, and four new foreign aids were introduced: Kwon Suntai, Leo Silva, Pedro Junior, and Leandro.
As the first goalkeeper of the South Korean national team, Kwon Suntae has been famous in South Korea for a long time, directly complementing the goalkeeper's shortcomings; Silva and Junior are both the top foreign players in the J-League, and they are both capable of attacking in the league.
The defensive core midfielder and former assist leader can effectively relieve Mitsuo Ogasawara's pressure and make up for the loss of Kaio's departure. More importantly, as the "old men" of the J-League, the two do not need much running-in time.
Even though Takeshi Shibasaki stayed abroad, there is a huge difference compared to the foreign players who were almost useless last year.
In terms of domestic aid, Sangan Yuuto has supplemented the strength of the bench. Takeshi Kanemori is known as one of the top ten most anticipated newcomers in the J-League in the new season. Kashima Antlers is also working hard to compete on two fronts in the AFC Champions League.
Excellent signings coupled with the top defense combination of two national players such as Masazu Gen and Naomichi Ueda, top J-League players such as Suzuki Yuma and Kanazaki Yumeo are at the front, Mitsuo Ogasawara, Ryota Nagaki's midfield duo, and Isao Oda.
With young players such as Hiroki Machida and others, the team is strong enough and young enough.
The reason why Kashima Antlers has so many outstanding young people is related to the tactics advocated by their head coach Ishii Masatada. His tactics are reflected in high rhythm and high pressure in the frontcourt, physical fitness, frontcourt counterattack and fast attack.
as a sign.
It can be said that this is a replica of the Dragon Team.
No team is perfect. If there are advantages, there must be shortcomings. Kashima Antlers performed very well.
The biggest problem first lies with the head coach Ishii Masatada.
Masatada Ishii was with Kashima Antlers as a player. He stayed at the club directly after retiring and gradually reached the position of head coach of the team. In Japan, a society that respects elders, respects teachers and values seniority, his status in the club is
One can imagine.
This led to a discord between Kashima Shikakuri's head coach and the core ace players. Ishii Masatada and Kanazaki Yumeo had a fierce quarrel on the sidelines over the latter's substitution. This was extremely common among Japanese clubs.
Rare.
This also indirectly led to Kanazaki Yumeo being expelled from the national team after being selected.
