After conceding two goals, Zhang Sheng was thinking of a way, and the players of the Longteng team were also trying their best to recover.
Team captain Lu Zhihui first went to comfort Liming: "I don't blame you for this ball. I moved too slowly. Let's focus more on it next."
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have stretched out my feet carelessly." Huang He was also explaining to Li Ming, "I will definitely keep an eye on him later."
The encouragement from his teammates comforted Li Ming. He nodded gratefully: "I will pay more attention next time."
At the same time, Qi Ming was still making amends. He first pulled Tang Jin over and said, "It was my problem just now. If they still play three central defenders later, according to the pre-match requirements, then you have to retreat more and defend Uga Shen."
Tomomi, don't let him hit the ball easily."
Qi Ming, the people in the team were still very convinced, Tang Jin nodded quickly: "Okay, okay."
Then Qi Ming walked to Cao Jinghao: "We were a little careless just now. I shouldn't have followed Kashiwagi Yosuke, and you should also be optimistic about Shinya Yajima. The goal was lost because both of us lost our positions defensively in the middle.
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Cao Jinghao nodded quickly in response.
Sure enough, after Tang Jin returned to defense more actively and Qi Ming and Cao Jinghao cooperated more closely, Urawa's attack from the left also stopped.
Urawa's side is calming down, but the Dragon Team will not be calming down.
Facing Urawa Ruby Issui's midfield and frontcourt lineup with average physical fitness and average defensive ability, the Dragons began to counterattack.
The complete collapse of the Longteng team that domestic commentators and Zhang Sheng were worried about did not happen.
In the last few minutes of the first half, Endo Hang's single defensive midfielder obviously couldn't keep up with the defensive coverage area, and the Japanese team's usual late-game effort couldn't be used at all.
Yuya Uga even paid the price of a yellow card in order to defend Fernando, who wanted to avenge his shame.
In the last minute or two of the game, the Longteng team had continuous shooting opportunities. Urawa relied on the defense of all members to barely hold on to the goal.
When the referee blew the half-time whistle, although the score was 0:2 behind, the Longteng team did slowly regain its vitality.
In the midfield lounge, before Zhang Sheng could speak, captain Lu Zhihui took the initiative to stand up: "Coach, I'm sorry, it was our fault for falling behind in the first half. We know what to do."
Zhang Shengyi, who originally wanted to teach the players a lesson, raised his eyebrows: "Oh, tell me, where did you go wrong?"
"We underestimated the enemy and were too careless." Lu Zhihui expressed sincerely, "Wingzhi lacked experience in the game, so I should be the one to direct the defense, but I did not remind them in time, and I was not attentive enough, which resulted in two goals conceded.
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"Team Lu has helped me." Seeing the captain take the blame, Liming blushed and stood up quickly, "I cheated twice. The main responsibility lies with me. I didn't take my opponent seriously before the game.
, I was mentally unprepared, and I definitely wouldn’t be able to do it in the second half.”
"I also have the responsibility." Qi Ming pulled Li Ming, who was a little excited, "Yosuke Kashiwagi retreated so deep to catch the ball. I followed him without thinking. It was a bit too natural."
Zhang Sheng looked at Qi Ming with interest: "Then do you think you should follow him or not? What are your reasons?"
Qi Ming cautiously answered the head coach's question: "You shouldn't follow, the reason is very clear. Kashiwagi Yosuke's characteristics are his superb left foot, strong organizational ability, ability to pass overhead, and he is very threatening from free kicks and corner kicks.
Big. But his physical confrontation ability is average, his speed is average, his dribbling ability is not strong, and he doesn’t have many long passing habits.”
Glancing at Zhang Sheng's expectant gaze, Qi Ming was encouraged to continue his analysis: "He retreated so deep, it doesn't matter if he gets the ball. If he really gets the ball and wants to dribble, I, Jing Hao,
Even Tang Jin can guard him. Even if he gets the ball and plays a long pass, our defenders are much better at heading the ball than their forwards, so we are not afraid."
"Everything. Instead, I recklessly followed him back so deep, giving Urawa more space in the midfield." Qi Ming expressed his judgment.
I saw that some players wanted to stand up and admit their mistakes.
Zhang Sheng leaned against the table in the center of the dressing room, holding down his hand to signal that everyone did not have to stand up to explain one by one. He nodded at the same time: "Originally, I was prepared to tell you well. But now it seems that you all know your mistakes."
"Everyone has made so many preparations before the game. Not only you, but also the coaching staff and the entire team are running for you before and after. I just want to try not to disturb your training and preparations." Zhang Sheng looked around the locker room for a week.
To all the staff, "I don't want the good environment that everyone has worked hard to create to become your absent-minded reliance on the court."
"If there is more, I won't repeat it. Now that everyone knows what the problem is, take your actual actions and I want to see the results." Zhang Sheng stared at everyone seriously.
Lu Zhihui immediately responded: "We will."
Unlike the Dragons, Urawa's locker room was lively. Hori Takashi kept encouraging everyone, emphasizing that they were only two goals behind and that there was still a full half of the game to change the result.
In the end, he even promoted the elimination of the Longteng team to the level of giving Chinese football a bit of color and saving the face of the J-League.
When the second half of the game started, both Urawa Ruby and Dragons came on the field with a confident and hard-working mentality.
And both sides did perform well.
Urawa's two wingers constantly switched between three central defenders and four defenders according to the focus of the offense. The Longteng team used their physical advantages to proactively seek confrontation and squeeze the opponent's defense.
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Under the strict supervision of Shen Jun and Huang He, Rafael Silva and Takagi Toshiyuki had less and less space to display, while Urawa was losing ground in the physical confrontation in the midfield and backcourt.
Qi Ming, Cao Jinghao, Chavez and Tang Jin are each over 1.8 meters tall. Chavez and Tang Jin are both over 1.85 meters. And for Urawa Ruby, Endo Hang and Abe Isamu
Both Shu and Moriwaki Ryota are only 1.77 meters tall, and the highest point of the defense is goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa, who is only 1.83 meters tall.
Whether it was physical confrontation or headers in the penalty area, Urawa suffered greatly. If they had not had the advantage of home court, their defense would have been overwhelmed long ago.
When the second half of the game reached about 30 minutes, Urawa's hoped-for goal had not yet arrived, but his own goal was in chaos.
At the 35th minute of the second half, Endo Hang, who was single as a defensive midfielder, could not withstand it. In order to help Uga Kamiya to defend Huang He from the back row, he received a yellow card for his tackle.
The only defensive midfielder on the field received a yellow card, and the game situation was already very dangerous.
At this time, the consequences of the suspensions of Tomoaki Makino, Takuya Aoki and Yuki Muto were completely exposed.
Takashi Hori looked at his bench. The only central defenders were Tamura Yu and Komai Zenge who could play as defensive midfielders. However, the latter was only 1.68 meters tall and was not a candidate to defend the defensive midfielder.
But the position of the midfielder is really important. To win the game, the waist must be strong.
After Endo received a yellow card, Hori Takashi began to make substitutions. He played Tamura Yu. After all, this is a 1.86-meter central defender, which can be said to be rare in Japanese football.
At the same time, Tamura Yuki can free up Yuki Abe, who can return to his old position as a defensive midfielder.
If you just look at the above idea, you can kill two birds with one stone, which is very good, but the actual situation is not like this.
Being 1.86 meters tall does not mean that the team's header defense ability will become stronger.
Just in the second minute after the substitution, the Longteng team got a corner kick.
In the penalty area, Mauricio followed Chavez as usual, and the previous task of guarding against Tang Jin was handed over from Yuki Abe to Yu Tamura.
As a result, when Ni Kai's corner kick was taken, there was a problem with Tamura Yu's positioning and he missed Tang Jin's point. The latter shook his head powerfully and knocked the football into the net.
"The goal is in!" Liu Jiayuan shouted excitedly, "After gradually gaining the advantage on the field, the Longteng team finally scored. This away goal is of decisive significance."
"Indeed. For one away goal, Urawa has to score two goals to make up for it. It's so important." Xu Yang was also very happy. Long Teng's excellent performance in the second half made him put aside the unhappiness and worries he had in the first half.
Behind the head.
After scoring the goal, Tang Jin celebrated his hard-won achievement crazily.
"I have to say that the players of the Longteng team are too strong. In this game, foreign aid De Paul did not play, and forward Nie Jiang did not play. However, the performance of the starting striker Tang Jin was remarkable."
Xu Yang smiled.
Liu Jiayuan retorted: "Compared to the young general Tang Jin, Nie Jiang is even more of a young general."
In his excitement, Xu Yang didn't care: "Yes. Nie Jiang was born in 1998, Tang Jin was born in 1996, and he is bigger."
Our commentator was happy, but the situation was reversed, and it was the Japanese commentator's turn to be happy.
"Although we lost a goal, we still have hope." The Japanese commentator was still insisting, "We were able to score two goals in the first half, which shows that they have defensive problems."
"I hope Hori Takashi can be able to save it." Another Japanese commentator almost gave up.
He was right. Hori Takashi quickly made another personnel adjustment. Shinya Yajima, who was already a little unable to run, was replaced and replaced by the team's high center Zlatan Ljubijankic.
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Like the other Zlatan, Ljubijankic is 1.86 meters tall and has very good header ability, so he is called Slovenian Ibrahimovic.
Also a veteran born in the 1980s, Ljubijankic in 1983 was even 2 years younger than Ibrahimovic, but his ability and state maintenance are not the same.
Seeing a high center forward coming up, Li Ming, who had been looking forward to redeeming himself with outstanding performance, seemed to see a beautiful woman, and the time to perform has come.
Sure enough, Ljubjankic didn't get even the slightest advantage in the ensuing header fight.
It seems that the fake Ibrahimovic cannot be compared with the real Ibrahimovic at all. It can even be said that Li Gui meets Li Kui.
When the game came to the last few minutes, Hori Takashi gave up completely. He replaced Komai Zenzo with Komai Zenzo and began to prepare for the next league game.
The Longteng team also started orderly substitutions. Zeng Wenming, Qu Wenming and Peng Langjun successively replaced Chavez, Cao Jinghao and Huang He, and began to reserve their strength for the league four days later.
After each team played well for half a game, although they lost the away game 1:2, the Dragons finally eliminated Urawa Ruby with a total score of 5:2 and entered the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League, which is also the final of the East Asia region.
In the review after the game, Zhang Sheng had mixed emotions.
What's worrying is that the team is now generally underestimating their opponents and being complacent. What's good is that everyone is aware of their own problems and has quickly made changes.
From this game, Zhang Sheng also saw that the strength and investment of J-League clubs are increasing.
For example, Rafael Silva, who scored twice in this game, is definitely a capable foreign aid, and Mauricio, who performed steadily, is also a main-level player in the Portuguese Super League. In the past, J-League clubs rarely had players of this level.
Signings.
Zhang Sheng, who had lost the advantage of traveling through time, didn't know that if he hadn't stood in the way, Urawa Ruby would have become more and more eye-catching in the future. In the end, they even won the AFC Champions League trophy this season.
After the Chinese team qualified for the World Cup, not only online fans, but even some people in the industry were dazzled by the temporary results. For a time, the entire Chinese football world was filled with the idea that Chinese football was catching up with Japan and South Korea.
, Huang Jianxiang and Su Dong's remarks about treating qualifying more rationally were even criticized.
But Zhang Sheng saw the depth of the J-League from this game.
Regarding the strength of Chinese football, Zhang Sheng has a clear mind: If it were not for cheats, relying solely on the accumulation of previous domestic football, let alone easily qualifying for the World Cup, no matter how much money the Longteng team invested, as a latecomer club, it would be able to compete in Asia.
There are not enough domestic players to win the championship.
A few years ago, Guangzhou Evergrande hoarded international football players and introduced over-class foreign players. Taking advantage of the fact that Japanese and Korean clubs did not pay attention to it, it sent a breath of fresh air to the Chinese football world that had been languishing for a long time. The further back, the more Japan and South Korea paid attention to the AFC Champions League.
, the K-League and J-League gradually overtook the Chinese Super League clubs.
In real history, Evergrande won the last AFC Champions League in the 15th season. From the 16th to the 18th season, Korean and Japanese teams won the championship. In the 19th season, the J-League also reached the finals.
Take Urawa Ruby, who played against the Dragons this time, as an example. They were able to defeat the Dragons even though they were missing three generals, which shows the reserve of their players.
Compared with the three leagues in East Asia, the one with the worst foundation and the biggest bubble is the Chinese Super League. By 2020, more than 15 clubs from the Chinese Second Division to the Chinese Super League have withdrawn from the league because of "poverty".
League copyrights are also sold at huge prices, and the Chinese teams cannot survive, but the Japanese teams are getting better and better.
In 2017, the broadcaster dazn spent 210 billion yen (13.6 billion yuan) to purchase the broadcast rights of Japan's third-level professional league for the next 10 years, increasing the distribution of bonuses to the top four teams, prompting the unreasonable cancellation of the J1 League
The competition system of the league championship will be determined through the "play-offs", and a bonus of 80 million called "AFC Champions League Support Fund" will be added to the Emperor's Cup champion team.
The high copyright fees also bring the basic income of the Japanese J1 League team to 350 million yen (23 million yuan), and the champion can get 2.2 billion (140 million yuan).
So many.
In addition, Japan's youth training has achieved remarkable results, and its player reserve is extremely sufficient. The club has enough room for negotiation, and player salaries can be controlled at a relatively reasonable position. For example, Kashima Antlers, the traditional strong team that ranks first in the J-League, even if they do not take
The championship bonus also has an income of 4 billion yen, and the salary of the entire first team is less than 1 billion.
Apart from these, in this game, the quality of the turf at Saitama 2002 Stadium was nothing to say. Even so, during the halftime break, the home team made up for the turf that was injured in the first half.
If you look at the atmosphere created by Urawa fans at home, aside from the bright spot of the Longteng team led by Zhang Sheng, the current overall backwardness of the Chinese Super League is in all aspects.
