The victory of the game not only gave the team a winning streak, but also wiped away the depression of the previous draws. At the same time, Zhang Sheng's points also reached 210 points, and he can be summoned again.
Zhang Sheng plans to recruit an assistant coach this time.
As the granularity of the Long Teng team's tactics becomes more and more detailed, the situation in the past where the head coach alone mastered all the tactical details is no longer suitable for today's teams. This is actually a major trend in modern football - coaching staff
The tasks are becoming more and more heavy.
In this aspect, compared with other Chinese Super League teams, the Longteng team is not only far ahead but also has an absolute advantage.
When Zhang Sheng came back from Germany, he began to take precautions to form a huge coaching team. From old classmates to old teammates, from domestic elites to foreign masters, the Longteng team's coaching team is getting stronger and stronger. Even so,
Zhang Sheng still spared no effort to send domestic coaches like Jiang Peng to Germany for further studies.
Now in the Longteng team, there are local coaches like Jiang Peng who have returned from advanced studies, and foreign coaches like Xuerle who were hired from Germany by Zhang Sheng with a higher salary. Another coach He Lijun who has been following Zhang Sheng has been sent to the team at the beginning of the season.
Germany is studying.
In addition to the assistant coaches, the Longteng team also has a team of assistant coaches who are responsible for the design of offensive tactics, defensive tactics, and pressing tactics to report to them. It can be said that in terms of professionalism, the Longteng team ranks first in the Chinese Super League.
The Longteng team has achieved excellent results in recent years, and the coaching staff is the main contributor.
It is a pity that "blessings and misfortunes are based on blessings." Excellent results bring a lot of attention. When the players of the Longteng team are spied on by other teams, the coach also seems to be very popular.
More importantly, excellent coaches are generally very ambitious. No matter how good an assistant coach is, there is no more attractive position than the head coach. Under the deliberate temptation of other teams, someone was shaken, and this person is
The team's German assistant coach Schuerle was looking for him from Hangzhou Greentown, which was relegated last year.
Although it is only a Chinese League One team, Hangzhou Greentown is very sincere. They like Xuerle's experience in using and training a large number of young players with Zhang Sheng in the Longteng team, and hope that he can make good use of the Greentown team, which is mainly composed of young players.
, to cultivate more good players. For this reason, the club gave him great freedom in using the players, and did not put forward the slogan of surpassing the league, which made him have a lot less pressure on performance.
"Zhang, thank you very much for letting me come to the Chinese Super League. But I think it's time to start a new stage." As early as the third round of the league, Xuerle submitted his resignation application to Zhang Sheng.
Zhang Sheng is very reluctant to part with Xuerle. He can speak English, German, and simple Spanish, which can help Zhang Sheng communicate with foreign aid; long-term cooperation has allowed him to understand Zhang Sheng's various tactical ideas; he has many talents in Europe
A certain network of contacts can help Zhang Sheng provide some of the latest technical and tactical development information in European football. These cannot be replaced by just finding an assistant coach, even if the person you find has a higher salary and more experience.
At the same time, Zhang Sheng also knows the attraction of a head coach position to a coach. After Hong Mingfu dismissed get out of class, Hangzhou Greentown appointed the team's goalkeeper coach Dravko as the head coach. This made it clear that it was a transition process. Xuerle absolutely Won't give up this opportunity.
"Well, I support your idea, but I still hope that you can leave after handing over to the assistant coach who takes over." Zhang Sheng made his request.
Xuerle solemnly promised: "Of course, but I hope it will happen as soon as possible."
After knowing that Xuerle could not be retained, Zhang Sheng had been waiting for the points to summon an assistant coach. After all, he was also happy to see the Longteng team expand its influence in Chinese football.
Just like businesses form consortiums and the stock market forms certain factions, football in most countries will eventually evolve into several large factions or groups after it is fully developed.
For example, multinational sports companies like City Sports Group and Red Bull Group, giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona that have a main-satellite club model with a certain club as the core, or simply giants like Juventus that control thunder and lightning in a country.
This is also the final form of a club after it becomes bigger and stronger. The Longteng Club is actually on this path.
There have been such examples in Chinese football, such as the Shide faction that actually existed before, and the later Jack Ma who obviously wanted to violate the rules and own two Chinese Super League clubs at the same time and was not interested in money, etc.
Zhang Sheng's current practice of sending out players and coaches he has trained is far more subtle and quiet than the examples mentioned above.
As soon as the call for the assistant coach was completed, Zhang Sheng received a call. The phone number showed that it started with 49. Obviously, this was a phone number from abroad and a German phone number that Zhang Sheng was familiar with.
"Hi, Zhang." Because it was a cross-border call, the signal was not very good, and the voice on the phone seemed a bit intermittent.
But Zhang Sheng still recognized who it was. This was Ralf Rangnick, Zhang Sheng's biggest connection in German football.
"Hi, Ralph." Zhang Sheng probably knew the reason why Rangnick called. Ever since Schürrle proposed leaving, Zhang Sheng contacted Rangnick and asked him to help find a new assistant coach.
They are all people who don't like nonsense. Rangnick directly introduced his results: "I have helped you find the person you want, and the information has been sent to you."
As a cooperative club, it is written into the contract to help the Dragons find a suitable coach, so Red Bull Salzburg seems to be very active.
"Thank you very much. Let's come to China to hang out when we have time in the future." Now that things were settled, Zhang Sheng quickly started to say goodbye.
"Don't be so nervous, Zhang." Lannick smiled, "Although you have rejected me countless times, I still want to ask when will Nie come to Europe. We can't wait."
"..." Zhang Sheng was a little speechless, but he still gave the time point for the first time, "Unsurprisingly, it should be after the Chinese national team's World Cup qualifiers."
"Wow. It's not easy to get this answer. Then I have to look forward to that day." Getting the answer from Zhang Sheng's mouth should be Rangnick's biggest gain this time.
Red Bull Salzburg helped the team, and Zhang Sheng had to give a little response this time.
After chatting for a while, the two of them hung up the phone after getting what they wanted.
Just after the call with Rannick, another phone call came, and this phone number also started with 49. What a coincidence!
"Hello, uncle." A magical voice came over.
"Oh, Demi, why did you remember to call me?" Zhang Sheng recognized immediately that it was Martin Demichelis, his Argentinian brother from his time in Germany, and replied happily, "
We haven’t contacted each other for too long.”
"Oh, what a failure, I even suppressed my voice, but you still heard it." Demi said with a smile, "I happened to be free recently and thought about going to China to see you. Forget it, I'll just tell you, our coach
I was fired by the club, I'm unemployed now, and I want to go to your place to relax."
"Come on." Zhang Sheng didn't say much. Friends sometimes say it's better to do it.
"Wait for me, I want to have a good time in China this time." Demichelis didn't waste any time, "I'll be there in a week."
It seems that Demichelis has already made preparations - the visa has been processed long ago.
Although he is looking forward to the upcoming assistant coach and old teammates, Zhang Sheng does not have much energy to take care of these because the team is about to fly to Thailand to challenge Muangthong United away from home.
As a Thai team, Muangthong United can be said to be the biggest dark horse in this year's AFC Champions League. In the first round of the AFC Champions League, they lost 0:4 away to Long Teng. Everyone thought this was the Thai club's loser in the AFC Champions League.
However, in the next three games, they defeated Kashima Antlers 2:1 at home, defeated Ulsan Hyundai 1:0, and drew with Ulsan Hyundai 0:0 away from home, maintaining their unbeaten streak in three rounds with 7 points.
The points immediately put them in a favorable position in second place in Group E, and they were three points ahead of Kashima Antlers, who were third.
Therefore, as long as Muangthong United can remain undefeated in this game, they can advance to the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League one round ahead of schedule and become the only Thai Super League team to reach the top 16 of the AFC Champions League in 2013.
After Linan United, another Thai club has entered the knockout stages of the AFC Champions League.
For this reason, the morale of the entire Muangthong United team was high. As the boss of Thailand's largest real estate company, he even offered a huge winning prize of 5 million baht (1 million yuan), which is rare among Thai Super League clubs.
The Dragons currently rank first in the group with 10 points, and have already qualified due to the tie with Kashima Antlers. However, Zhang Sheng does not want to give up this game casually, even if the coach of Kashima Antlers said before the game that starts at the same time.
He also specifically mentioned that he hoped that the Longteng team would not let go, but Zhang Sheng still sent out a lineup of half the main force and half rotation.
In view of the configuration of Muangtong United with three tall foreign players in the backcourt and a high center forward in the frontcourt, Zhang Sheng let Nie Jiang rest and played the taller 21-year-old young center Tang Jin. This was also his first AFC Champions League game.
experience.
Considering that De Paul had just returned from injury, Zhang Sheng did not want him to continue to fight at high intensity, so he placed him on the bench and used Ni Kai, a fast horse on the left wing.
Huang He replaced Xiang Tiange on the right wing, Tao Wentao was replaced by Fernando in the middle, and Qu Wenming started again because of his outstanding performance in two consecutive games.
It can be said that this lineup is not much worse than the commonly used starting lineup. Zhang Sheng believes that his chance of winning is still very good.
It was only during the game that Zhang Sheng realized something was wrong. Muangthong United was playing too crazy.
Xisco, the former Spanish national youth team forward who participated in the 2009 European U21 Championship, put great pressure on Lu Yangyang. Zhang Sheng originally expected Lu Yangyang to pick up the ball in the backcourt and pass it up. As a result, in the first half
As soon as the game started, Sisko snatched the ball away. Lu Yangyang obviously underestimated the opponent.
For Lu Yangyang's low-level mistake, Qu Wenming, who was filling in, not only received a yellow card, but also gave Mengtong United a free kick with a very good frontcourt position.
Standing in front of the ball is the captain of the Thai national team Thirathong Boonmatan.
This attacking left back who was born in 1990 has been playing for Buriram United, another giant in the Thai Super League. He became the main player of the team at the age of 20 and was selected for the national team. He is especially good at taking set kicks and has directly scored directly on many occasions.
Score a goal or assist a teammate to score.
In May last year, Muangthong United directly poached him with a transfer fee of 35 million baht (approximately 7 million yuan), a record in Thailand. The team also has a weapon for free kick attack.
"The Dragons are very slow to enter the state." Because it is not a focus event, pptv sent the cheapest combination of Shi Qingsheng and Lu Jingming. After all, it is free. Shi Qingsheng is a little dissatisfied with the current situation of the Dragons.
"Yes, I feel like the Dragons players don't pay much attention to this game. Maybe it's because they haven't recovered from the league match a few days ago and the long flight?" Lu Jingming put forward his own guess.
"But you have to be prepared in advance. Wenma Tan can have such a kick. Seoul FC in 2013, Gamba Osaka in 2015, and Kashima Antlers this year were all directly scored by his free kicks and even corner kicks.
Pass the goal." Shi Qingsheng skillfully introduced the historical data.
During Shi Qingsheng's introduction, it turned out to be true. Wen Ma Tan took a free kick from an absolutely blind spot and flew directly to the upper right corner of the goal. Although Huang Dawei tried his best to save, he still could not stop the football from flying into the net.
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"Wen Ma Tan, shot, oh, the ball went in, this goal is really beautiful, Muangtong United is leading 1:0, do they want to maintain a complete victory at home?" Shi Qingsheng shouted, "Focus on defense in the away game, and go all out at home.
Offensively, Muangthong United’s AFC Champions League strategy was executed very successfully.”
After scoring the goal, Wen Ma Tan jumped to the sidelines, a standard Ronaldo celebration with hands on hips after scoring, which attracted crazy roars from the fans at the Huangxiang Cement Stadium.
After losing the ball so early, the players of the Longteng team obviously did not react. After the kick-off again, Fernando on the right was obsessed with dribbling the ball, and the ball was intercepted by the midfielder of Menton United again. In desperation, Fernando took action.
"Beep!" the referee blew the whistle and came over to give Fernando a verbal warning. In order to take care of the emotions of the Dragons players, he did not issue consecutive yellow cards.
After this foul, although the Longteng team defended Muangtong United's attack, the subsequent offense was very impatient. Although there were no low-level mistakes such as passing the ball directly to the sideline in the passing and receiving between the players, the accuracy of the passing was
But it was much worse than before, especially in the last pass forward, when Tao Wentao and Nie Jiang were not on the court, this was obviously not done well.
In addition, the players of Muangtong United playing at home were very active in the cheers of the fans. The Longteng team was severely oppressed. The two forwards had to retreat very deep to catch the ball. Muangtong United suppressed the Longteng team in one fell swoop.
Lived.
Shi Qingsheng shook his head and said: "It's not okay to play like this. It was slow to enter the state at first and too impatient later. The Longteng team's most controlling midfielder in the past has some problems. Coach Zhang Sheng should think about how to adjust it."
