Regarding Shanghai SIPG's lineup, Zhang Sheng chose very directly. Didn't you say that the referee is biased towards you? Then I will use pressing tactics against you and cut off your two wings like Wu Lei and Hulk.
Attack your weakly defended center.
Such tactics emphasize physical contact and rely on physical confrontation. It depends on whether Shanghai SIPG can withstand this kind of organized overall pressure.
However, from the words of Shanghai SIPG head coach Villas-Boas, one can still hear his confidence in this game.
At the press conference before the game, when answering reporters' questions, he said: "During the league break, we completed a great game. The Chinese team's qualifying also gave many of our players very strong opportunities.
Help. We have a defender who cannot play, and Ahmedov cannot participate in tomorrow's game due to suspension, but we still have many options and the entire team is very strong."
Finally, he added: "In the last round of the game, we were able to win on the away road, but in the end we were not lucky enough. Today is at our home court, and we will definitely break the record (referring to the record-breaking victory against the Longteng team).
Record)."
Boas is not boasting.
What he meant by "a great game" was that before the national team game, Shanghai SIPG defeated Guangzhou Evergrande 4-0 at home, which was missing Paulinho and other main players.
What I said later about not being lucky enough is also well-founded.
In the last round of the game, Longteng team captain and center back Lu Zhihui was forced to foul and was sent off midway. In the next 20 minutes or so, the team's united efforts allowed them to maintain the victory in that game.
Bickering is a favorite thing for fans to see before the game, but it is just entertainment. The real thing is to watch the game.
In the match between Longteng and Shanghai SIPG, the situation was a little different from what Villas-Boas said.
"Boo!", just three minutes into the game, the 80,000-person stadium was filled with boos from SIPG fans, because at this time Fernando and Chavez were high-fiving each other to celebrate the former winning a penalty kick.
Zhang Sheng on the sidelines also had a smile on his face and applauded softly.
When Yan Junling misjudged the direction of Fernando's shot and the ball flew into the net, the cheers of the few Longteng fans on the field even suppressed the more than 20,000 home fans.
Lou Yicheng, who was responsible for commentating the game, raised questions about Villas-Boas's formation: "SIPG was beaten through the middle by the Longteng team as soon as they came up. This is not a good thing. Villas-Boas's defensive arrangement in the middle
Too weak."
Lou Yicheng's partner Liu Yue expressed his views on the players: "Cai Huikang's state during this period is very average. He was the only barrier in the midfield of SIPG in this game. He was too easily dumped by Tao Wentao.
A breakthrough has occurred.”
"But the game has just started, and SIPG still has a lot of time to adjust." Lou Yicheng expressed his expectations for Villas-Boas.
What puzzled Lou Yicheng and Liu Yue was that Shanghai SIPG did not make any adjustments in the next game. Instead, Villas-Boas just shouted a few words to the court to make the players on the court more focused.
The game did slowly change, because Oscar's position moved back a bit, and Yan Xiaoyu stepped up his interference in the frontcourt, preventing the Longteng team from making trouble in the middle so easily.
Obviously, the previous conceding of the ball was indeed caused by the lack of concentration of SIPG players.
This is also related to Villas-Boas's consistent tactics.
Since this season, Shanghai SIPG's offense is indeed very strong, but their strength is more due to the strength of several superstars and the explosion of Wu Lei. The actual situation is that the team's overall participation in the offense is not ideal.
, the four foreign players plus Wu Lei’s goals accounted for more than 90% of the team’s total goals.
At the beginning of the season, with the support of well-organized players and strong troops, Shanghai SIPG did play a few games of overall high-pressure tactics. However, from the middle of the season, with the onset of injuries and suspensions, the team began to adopt overall pressure tactics.
There are only a handful of times, but most of them rely on a few foreign players to rush up front.
After the game started, SIPG did have the intention of using high pressure in the frontcourt to prevent the flames of war from burning out, but there was an obvious mistake in the actual implementation of this tactic - they were pushed back by the Longteng team instead.
Obviously, in order for a tactic to operate freely on the playing field, it requires long-term training and more practice in actual games to gradually become effective. After all, it is not like Zhang Sheng of the Dragon Team who has advanced tactics to accelerate the formation of
This kind of cheating method is not suitable.
After Villas' reminder on the court, Shanghai SIPG's frontcourt press became more determined.
In the sixth minute of the first half, Oscar teamed up with Yan Xiaoyu and even formed a steal in the frontcourt and intercepted Tao Wentao's ball. Afterwards, Oscar decisively chose to take a long shot. This sudden shot of Lengjian was a test.
Jiang Mingzhi, he obviously didn't respect Oscar's shot and was a step too slow to save.
Fortunately, Oscar's long shot missed the goal post slightly.
Things have turned around, and this time it was Zhang Sheng's turn to yell loudly at the players on the sidelines.
Jiang Mingzhi is better. Oscar has strong personal ability. It is understandable that he did not save in time. Tao Wentao's mistake is a bit eye-catching.
Knowing that he had made a big mistake, Tao Wentao quickly raised his hands to indicate that it was his fault. It was obvious that he had broken through in the midfield and helped his teammates create a penalty kick, which made him relax.
After both players were yelled at by the head coach, the game finally began to heat up.
In the eleventh minute of the first half, Shanghai SIPG made a comeback, but the main attacker of the offense was changed. "Hulk" Hulk was like a tank on the right, running rampant and relying on his body and skills to pass Nie.
Jiang and De Paul, and then he had a beautiful two-on-one with Yan Xiaoyu. He just went to the edge of the penalty area and fired a powerful shot against Qu Wenming who was defending him.
After receiving the education last time, Jiang Mingzhi learned the lesson this time. He quickly dived sideways and saved the ball out of the baseline.
On the surface, Jiang Mingzhi looked like he was performing a routine operation after making the save. In fact, if it weren't for the actual game, he would have waved his hands a few times to cushion the save. He was still rejoicing in his heart at this time: "Hu
Erke's shot was too powerful, but luckily it was relatively straight. If he had chosen the angle, I wouldn't have been able to save it."
Faced with Hulk's unreasonable playing style, Qu Wenming, one of the defensive midfielders, began to use his brain.
Qu Wenming is a very special being in the Longteng team. Although every player in the Longteng team has his own sad story, no one is as different as Qu Wenming because he is an orphan.
At first, all his teammates always wanted to think about him, but soon Qu Wenming successfully made all his teammates forget that he was an orphan.
Because he is very good at being a person.
I think that when Qu Wenming joined the Longteng Team, he lied to the admissions staff that he was a relative of Zhang Sheng, and used the information about the Longteng Team and Zhang Sheng that he had collected online in advance to tell the truth and force the staff to
He was stunned for a moment.
Even Zhang Sheng had to admire Qu Wenming's meticulous thinking and clever methods.
After arriving at Longteng Football School, Qu Wenming got along very well with his teammates, and he was thoughtful and independent.
The most typical example is the 2015 Toulon Cup. Due to dissatisfaction with the tactical arrangements of head coach Fu Bo, the players of the National Youth Team, mainly the Longteng Team, complained. As a result, Qu Wenming, who took the lead in resisting, did not come forward, but instead
The captain at the time, Zhu Xuhe, was encouraged to go his own way and changed his tactics midway through the game, ousting the head coach.
In the end, Zhu Xuhe's transfer and departure from the Longteng team was due to his own lack of ability, which was also related to this incident.
In this game, he was placed in the midfielder position and shouldered the heavy responsibility of defense. After Oscar and Hulk made consecutive shots, he began to think about his defensive methods.
Before the game, the coaching staff of the Longteng team told Qu Wenming how to defend Hulk and conducted targeted training. However, it is impossible to fully understand something like a football match without actually going out on the field to play against your opponent.
of the other party’s ability.
Qu Wenming, who faced Hulk for the first time, was defeated.
He now thought of the instructions given to him by the team's assistant coach Michael Genk before the game: "Hulk was very emotionally unstable during the game. If he is harassed, let him keep complaining to the referee.
If you complain again, your goal will be achieved. Therefore, the key point of defending him is to let him get more of the ball and try to cut off the ball path between him and others. To complete this method, it requires the cooperation of many people, so as a midfielder's defense
Commander, it is not advisable to go it alone, you need to set up a defensive position."
Michael Genk's defensive arrangement against Hulk was exactly the same as the real-life tactics used by Urawa Ruby and Shanghai Shenhua against Hulk against SIPG.
Historically, in the two rounds of the 2017 AFC Champions League semi-finals, Urawa Ruby sent Japanese international Tomoaki Makino to play as a left back to defend Hulk. At the same time, left midfielder Yuki Muto retreated significantly during defense, forming a good protection for Tomoaki Makino.
If Hulk chooses to cut inside, midfielder Kazuki Nagasawa on the left and left center back Mauricio must also help defend.
It was precisely because of this multi-player defense that Hulk only scored one goal in the two rounds. Urawa won with a total score of 2-1 and advanced.
Later, domestic teams followed suit. In the FA Cup final, Shanghai Shenhua sent Bai Jiajun to defend Hulk, with two defensive midfielders Guarin and Qin Sheng, central defender Bi Jinhao, and free agent Moreno to help defend at any time.
Using the same trick, Shenhua also restricted Hulk and won 1:0 in the first round.
After making up his mind to conduct a nuoxidang encirclement and suppression defense, Qu Wenming began to perform.
In the 15th minute of the first half, Hulk was preparing to make a breakthrough from near the midfield again. This time, left midfielder De Paul got up early and just as Hulk was about to start, he knocked him towards the sideline. Unexpectedly,
Give him a chance to cut to the left.
At the same time, Shin Jun, who was on the left back, blocked the front with a clear conscience, and would rather let Hulk knock him down than take advantage of his bicycle movement.
Seeing that there was no hope of a frontal breakthrough along the wing, Hulk chose to cut inwards to the left.
Qu Wenming, who was responsible for directing the defense, came up in time to help De Paul defend. When Hulk turned inside and needed to change his focus, he poked the football out of the sideline.
A successful assist defense gave the Longteng team great confidence in their defense on the left.
In the next ten minutes, Hulk's intention to cut inward to the left many times was seen through by Qu Wenming. The three to four-man defensive formation he commanded was as stable as a mountain.
Hulk was weak on the left, but his weight in holding the ball in SIPG's formation was particularly high, which led to SIPG's attacks often returning in vain.
SIPG's attack on the left was silent, while the Longteng team's attack on the right was difficult to defend. The right-side attack combination of Huang He, Fernando and Tao Wentao kept attacking SIPG's left, making SIPG's defense line full of dangers.
Lou Yicheng was also very interested when he saw the lame play of the two teams on the left, "Come on, hurt each other": "The head coaches of both sides have placed heavy bets on the offense on the right
Ah. Now it seems that the Dragons are slowly gaining a foothold, but SIPG has some problems."
Liu Yue agreed with Lou Yicheng: "Hulk has always been the focus of SIPG's offense. Behind him, Fu Huan is destined to be just a cover. On the other hand, on the Longteng team, whether it is Fernando, Tao Wentao or Huang He
, in addition to good skills and strong impact, they are all characters who can pass and shoot. It is difficult to say who to guard, and the Longteng team's left attack will be ineffective. SIPG's domestic players must have better performances.
ah."
"So, now it depends on whether Hulk can pass the ball." Lou Yicheng concluded.
What Lou Yicheng knows, as an excellent coach from Europe, Villas-Boas also knows that the problem is that it is very difficult for a player to change his playing habits, especially for a player like Hulk who has been completely stereotyped.
"It's easy to change a country, but it's hard to change a person's temperament" is an appropriate description.
Hulk, who was restricted, continued to play in his own way. The most Villas-Boas could do was ask Oscar to come over to help Hulk more, and at the same time, Yan Xiaoyu moved more to the right.
Players from both sides leaned to the right, and the result was that ten people were crowded here, making it impossible to properly handle the ball.
A large number of SIPG's technical players are trapped on the crowded right wing, which increasingly makes it impossible to launch the other attack. Wu Lei can be said to be isolated and helpless, having to attack alone and help defend.
The first half only lasted for more than 30 minutes, and Wu Lei was already out of breath. Wang Liange, the left back, even had to receive a yellow card early in order to defend Fernando.
After getting lost in dribbling again and again, Hulk gradually became impatient and started taking long-range shots. His emotions naturally affected his team.
In this game, Hulk played awkwardly, and another player Yan Xiaoyu played even more awkwardly.
As an attacking midfielder who is strong in offense and weak in defense, Villas-Boas placed his attacking midfielder in the hope that he could take on the task of connecting the back line and the midfield. However, now Yan Xiaoyu's energy is completely focused on
Defensively, the shortcomings of the already almost non-existent defensive ability are particularly prominent.
Even Zhang Sheng, who was watching from the sidelines, shook his head silently in his mind. After all, this is a player with 81/83 ability value/potential value, an absolute top ball player in the Chinese Super League. It is such a waste to be used like this.
