After the official competition started, because both parties knew each other very well, there was no foreplay and they went straight to the real thing.
The Longteng team, which returned with the honor of Asia, played with great momentum and gave Shanghai SIPG a disastrous start.
In the second minute, Fernando intercepted the ball in the midfield with the help of Huang He, passed three people in a row, and reached the right side of the penalty area. In the end, his volley was confiscated by Yan Junling.
Two minutes later, Shanghai SIPG retaliated. This time it was Hulk who ran all the way on the right, passing DePaul continuously, and then used his body to squeeze out Shen Jun, and even entered the penalty area at a very small angle.
With Ma Yongli away, Huang Dawei barely saved the ball with a powerful shot from the bottom line.
It can be seen that Hulk, who has had a period of rest, is full of energy, full of firepower, and his personal ability is absolutely crushing in the Super League.
After fighting all the way but failing to score in the end, Hulk looked unhappy. Shen Jun, who was easily squeezed away, was certainly not happy either. He was a little anxious after playing steadily in the AFC Champions League final.
Next, Shanghai SIPG, who mainly focused on Hulk, kept organizing attacks on the left side of the Longteng team.
Hulk was constantly fighting against Shen Jun. Shen Jun used all his energy to get entangled with Hulk. If his strength was not enough, he had to rely on hard work.
Being constantly disturbed by Shen Jun, Hulk's temper grew. Especially when there was no ball, Shen Jun's closeness made Hulk particularly annoying.
In the eighth minute of the first half, Hulk was running without the ball, and Shen Jun followed him closely, leaning against him with his body from time to time.
Hulk, who had a strong desire for this championship, couldn't hold back his anger, and he and Shen Jun quarreled on the spot.
Hulk originally thought that Shen Jun could not understand Portuguese, but to his surprise, Shen Jun actually understood it, and the two sides actually started to exchange insults in Portuguese and Spanish.
Under normal circumstances, in Chinese Super League games, when local players and foreign players who don’t speak Chinese have conflicts on the field, they are more likely to start directly. Even if they quarrel, it is just a few silenced English words.
Long-term confrontations like Hulk and Shen Jun are extremely rare.
This is due to the strong "foreign style" in the Longteng club. Within the Longteng team, there are many people who make great efforts to learn English, Spanish and German.
Especially those players who Zhang Sheng thinks may go to Europe to study abroad, they will even be forced by Zhang Sheng to study.
The Japanese referee Junpei Iida, who was specially invited by the Chinese Football Association to officiate this game, is very good. He paid attention to the key points of the game from the beginning, and immediately ran over and separated the excited two people.
The two men successfully received a verbal warning from the referee.
It can be predicted that there will be a lot of drama between the two of them in the rest of this game.
As the game progressed, the two sides entered a familiar pattern. The Longteng team relied on overall cooperation, while Shanghai SIPG focused on a few foreign players as the hot spots.
Hulk was looked down upon by the Dragons, and Oscar began to become more active. Yan Xiaoyu, who gradually became the main player at the end of the season, kept creating space for Oscar in the frontcourt. Of course, he also gave up all shooting opportunities to Oscar.
At the 12th minute of the first half, Oscar got a chance to kick off with the help of Yan Xiaoyu's running. Qi Ming's judgment was accurate and blocked Oscar's long shot.
It should be said that Villas-Boas did slowly begin to trust the local player Yan Xiaoyu, but he still did not delegate enough power and did not give Yan Xiaoyu too many shooting rights outside the penalty area. Instead, he told him to create more shooting opportunities for Oscar.
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This completely wastes the advantage of Yan Xiaoyu’s long-range shooting. Of course, this is also a common problem among foreign teachers who come to China to teach.
The Dragon Team will never be in such a situation.
In the 18th minute of the first half, again in front of the penalty area, it was DePaul who created a shooting opportunity for Tao Wentao. After the former attracted enough defenders from SIPG, he wisely passed the ball to the one in a better position.
Tao Wentao.
Tao Wentao's shot from the unguarded penalty area required Yan Junling to save the ball with great effort. Fortunately, the second hit was at He Yao's feet, and he quickly kicked the ball out of the baseline.
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These two attacks are the difference between SIPG and Longteng.
Therefore, when the Longteng team needs to defend SIPG's offense, their defensive players only need to focus on those few foreign players, and at most add Wu Lei.
However, SIPG's offense against the Longteng team was impossible to guard against.
At the 27th minute of the first half, SIPG relied on a series of cooperation from Oscar, Yan Xiaoyu and Hulk in the frontcourt to finally open up the gap again. This time it was Akhmedov's turn to take a long shot.
Huang Dawei had been staring at Akhmedov for a long time. He knew this distance before the game. If SIPG wanted to take a long shot, it would only be Akhmedov, so he took the long shot very steadily.
Shortly after Ahmedov's shot, the Longteng team scored.
This time, Fernando passed the ball into the penalty area. After receiving the ball, Chavez had no good chance to shoot. He returned the ball in the penalty area, but instead of giving it to Fernando, who was not in an ideal position, he gave the ball to assists.
Huang He came up. When Huang He got the ball, he was completely unguarded.
Huang He even had time to take one more step, adjust his posture before shooting, and shot directly through Yan Junling's fingers.
That's the difference between the two teams.
The 1:0 score gave the Longteng team a psychological advantage in the away game, and they could play the next game with a more calm attitude.
SIPG is not too discouraged. After all, they are playing at home and have had a lot of offense so far, so they still have chances to score goals.
Next, Hulk and Oscar performed more actively. Unfortunately, the Longteng team's defense against them was very targeted, especially when SIPG lacked a center in the penalty area and was unable to gain a fulcrum in the penalty area.
In this game, Villas-Boas used Hulk as a center forward, but Hulk didn't like to stand between the two central defenders for physical combat, and mostly played on the wing.
Why is there no center in SIPG? Because Luo Ba is suspended.
Of course, some people ask, doesn't SIPG still have Elkeson? Unfortunately, Villas-Boas would rather let Hulk play center under the premise that Lüroba is suspended, and the substitute forward would rather bring Li Gewang and
Wei Guoguo also refused to let Elkeson into the squad.
The conflict between Elkson and Villas-Boas has been made clear. Rumors about Elkson being unhappy at Shanghai SIPG and wanting to transfer are now known to everyone from Chinese football to Brazilian football.
Don't know.
Throughout the first half, although Shanghai SIPG had a lot of shots, most of them were shots from outside the penalty area. Although Hulk's super-heavy cannon or Oscar's clever shots that specifically pursued angles were very threatening, they were all very threatening.
The Longteng team, which had a plan in advance, defended it very well.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, the Longteng team easily returned to the locker room with a score of 1:0.
SIPG made a substitution in the second half, with Wei Guoguo replacing Yu Hai. This was a signal that Villas-Boas wanted to strengthen his attack.
Wei Guoguo, who came on the field, did pose a threat. He was not like other players in the country who just charge regardless of the strength of your opponent.
Just three minutes into the second half, he took the ball from the left and stabbed diagonally towards the Longteng team's penalty area. After taking two horizontal steps to get past Fernando's interference, he took a shot directly.
Wei Guoguo's shot was very sudden. The football directly hit the goal post of the Longteng team and bounced off the baseline.
This is SIPG's most threatening shot so far, because Huang Dawei did move to make a save after Wei Guoguo shot. The success rate of this kind of save is very low.
Zhang Sheng yelled twice at the court, and then made a gesture of concentration.
Marking Wei Guoguo is actually very easy to do. He does have a lot of drive when playing football, but the bad thing is that he has a lot of drive. That is, he rushes too much, almost recklessly. He often dribbles the ball to death by himself. He doesn't know how to do it.
Consider passing the ball at the right time.
Every time Wei Guoguo passes the ball, it's the time when he can't carry him.
If he doesn't get rid of this problem of his, he won't have much development. Of course, this is determined by a player's intelligence, and it is difficult to change.
Sure enough, after Huang He and Fernando stepped up their personal interference against him, Shanghai SIPG's offensive from the left seemed to have fallen into a muddy quagmire.
SIPG's attack was more thunderous than raindrops, and the Longteng team was much more threatening.
In the next 20 to 30 minutes, the Longteng team scored four or five consecutive goals. Most of these goals were in the penalty area, which was very different from the threat of SIPG's long-range shots outside the penalty area.
By this time, the mentality of SIPG's players, who had been unable to score goals for a long time, had changed. Coupled with the gradual loss of physical fitness, fouls began to increase.
In particular, Villas-Boas's tactics were to play offensive football at home, so Akhmedov became a defensive midfielder, and their front and backcourt began to slowly become disconnected.
At the 35th minute of the second half, the Longteng team stole the ball in the backcourt. Qi Ming stole the ball and advanced quickly, then passed the ball to DePaul who entered the center from the wing. DePaul's kick in front of the penalty area was very imaginative.
After passing the ball, Chavez countered offside and entered the penalty area.
Yan Junling hurriedly abandoned the goal. Chavez's shot from the far corner was saved by him and landed in the center of the penalty area. This time SIPG was not as lucky as last time to grab the second point. Nie Jiang appeared.
On the spot, facing the empty goal, he pushed the ball easily.
The score became 2:0.
This score in the away game severely damaged the morale of Shanghai SIPG.
In the last ten minutes of the game, SIPG's offense completely turned into a one-on-one fight, with both Hulk and Oscar dribbling the ball directly into the penalty area.
The players in the midfield and backcourt began to frequently use fouls to interrupt the Longteng team's counterattack. In just a few minutes, Cai Huikang, who came on the subway, Wei Guoguo, who became more and more unsatisfactory as he played, and Ahmedo, whose physical fitness could not keep up.
The husband received consecutive yellow cards.
Of course, the same was true for the Longteng team. Shen Jun and Tao Wentao were also upset after being violated, couldn't suppress their emotions, and got themselves yellow cards.
In the 40th minute of the second half, Oscar entered the penalty area and fell to the ground. He did not get a penalty kick, but was shown a yellow card by the referee. The confrontation between the two sides reached its peak.
Oscar argued with the referee emotionally. Fortunately, SIPG's captain Wang Necklace was more sensible. He quickly pulled Oscar away, allowing the latter to avoid being ejected.
The home fans booed and the game entered a grudge stage.
In order to buffer this unhealthy game rhythm, Zhang Sheng made continuous substitutions, including Shen Jun and others who had been struggling with Hulk.
When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Longteng team defeated their opponent Shanghai SIPG 2-0 in the first round of the FA Cup final.
Team Longteng, who returned to Jiangcheng, is very busy now.
Although the score of 2:0 in the first round of the FA Cup final has confirmed a great advantage, the Longteng team's current goal is not only the FA Cup championship, Zhang Sheng has already set his sights on the Club World Cup two weeks later.
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The 2017 FIFA Club World Cup will be held in the United Arab Emirates on December 13, 2017, and the second leg of the FA Cup final will be on December 9, so the departure time is very close. However, the Longteng team does not need to start on the 13th.
competition, their first game is scheduled for December 16th.
That's because there are a total of 7 teams participating in this cup, which are the championship teams from the six continental football confederations and the championship team of the host country's domestic football league - if the championship team of the national football league happens to be the AFC Champions League
champion team, then this spot will be deferred to the AFC Champions League runner-up. The first game of the opening game is the host's local championship team against the Oceania Champions League champion. This is a play-off.
Considering that the Oceania Champions League, except New Zealand, is a small Pacific island country - of course New Zealand's clubs are also relatively weak, this game is actually just to let the organizer's team enter the main draw.
In addition to the New Zealand team, several teams selected this time are the host UAE's Abu Dhabi Peninsula, Champions League champion Real Madrid, South American Copa Libertadores champion Gremio, AFC Champions League Urawa Red Diamonds, and African champion Casablancavi.
Dad, CONCACAF champion Pachuca.
According to the previous draw ceremony held in October, the Longteng team will meet the Abu Dhabi Peninsula team, the UAE league champion last season, in their first game.
As the host, the best choice is to play the AFC Champions League, because theoretically speaking, the Asian champion is the team with the lowest strength except Oceania.
Of course, Zhang Sheng didn't think so.
This is not the first time that the Longteng team has participated in the Club World Cup. In 2015, the Longteng team won the AFC Champions League and participated in the Club World Cup that year. And in that Club World Cup, the Longteng team also eliminated the recognized
The top team from Mexico is the CONCACAF Champions League champions, América Mexico.
They only lost in the match against Barcelona. At that time, Barcelona was recognized as the "Cosmic Team" by fans all over the world. There was no regret in losing to them.
On the contrary, this year's Club World Cup gave Zhang Sheng an uncontrollable crazy idea - he wanted to win the Club World Cup.
This will be a five-time crown that is more terrifying than the four-time crown.
