"So in response to their strategy, we have to try to delay the time for their first goal. The bottom line is not to let them score in the first half. If there is no good chance, we will launch a counterattack in the last thirty minutes of the game.
." Zhang Sheng gave the strategic direction for the match against Real Madrid.
Next is the specific tactical execution.
"Our focus is to be stable on the wing defense and not give them too many opportunities to send good balls into the penalty area. In this way, Ronaldo and Benzema will have fewer shooting threats. As for their wingers, we
It can be released, but breakthroughs into the penalty area must be avoided."
"Our two full-backs and two full-backs should not be stingy with their physical strength, especially the two full-backs. We will definitely make substitutions in the 30 minutes after the second half."
“In the last game between Real Madrid and Sevilla, Real Madrid was able to score five goals, relying on the two attacking midfielders to cooperate with the full-backs to frequently create threats on the wing without the ball, allowing the forwards to receive too many passes.
Chance to shoot."
"The players in the frontcourt must participate in defense, and more importantly, they must attack and press. As long as they pass our half, especially Modric, they must attack or give him a chance to pass through. We mainly
The border defense strategy is ineffective."
Zhang Sheng was operating the tactical analysis team on his computer. The data sent by the video analysis team were displayed on the big screen, and he kept making general tactical arrangements. The coaching team next to him kept recording.
Focus on the key points and prepare to communicate with the players in specific positions after breaking it down.
After talking about defense, Zhang Sheng turned the topic to offense.
"In terms of offense, my core requirement is two words 'efficiency'. Real Madrid will not give us too many opportunities in this game. Maybe in the whole game, we will only have three or four counterattack opportunities at most. Therefore, there is a counterattack
, we must grasp it."
"To seize the opportunity, the offensive players must be resolute, and we must fight harder than them. You know? They are more afraid of taking cards than us. For many of their players, they would rather let you go than take cards.
The Club World Cup is very important, but El Clasico is more important to them. I remember there is a rule that red cards received in the Club World Cup will be taken back to the next game, right?" Zhang Sheng turned to assistant coach Michael
Er Henck said.
Michael Genk nodded: "It is indeed true. FIFA's disciplinary regulations stipulate that if a player receives a red card in an event, and after the game, the team is eliminated or
If this event is declared over, the player's suspension will be carried out in the team's next official game."
"Have you heard that if Real Madrid players do not miss the game of the century, they must ensure that they do not get a red card in the last game of the Club World Cup. After the meeting, everyone must convey this to the players and give them confidence.
It’s not that we are afraid of Real Madrid, it’s that the Real Madrid players are afraid of us.” Zhang Sheng issued the brainwashing request.
The coaches and staff present nodded in agreement.
"Finally, we will arrange the lineup for the game against Real Madrid. In this game, we will switch between 4-5-1 and 4-3-3. 4-5-1 for defense and 4-3-3 for offense.
"
"The center is still Chavez, with Nie Jiang and Fernando on both sides. They can switch positions during the game. DePaul plays the attacking midfielder position, standing in the middle. With double midfielders, we play Qi Ming and Cao Jinghao. The two full-backs are the same.
--Shen Jun and Huang He, center backs Liming and Ma Yongli remain unchanged, goalkeeper Da Wei is injured, let Wang Junlei come on, he defended very well in the last game."
"On the bench, Peng Langjun and Tian Qijie are ready to play in the second half, Chen Yinuo will take over as central defender depending on the situation, and Tao Wentao and Qu Wenming are ready to take over as midfielder."
The strategy and tactics were finalized at the meeting, and the entire Longteng team began to move. Zhang Sheng's simulated game tickets also began to be used accordingly.
Three nights before the game, every time Zhang Sheng went to bed, he would use three simulated game tickets. In his dream, the Longteng team had almost no chance of winning against Real Madrid, who was waiting hard, but when Real Madrid adjusted its offensive and defensive ratio and replaced them with substitutes,
After simulating the lineup, the Longteng team still has a chance of winning, and the further back in the simulation, the greater the team's winning rate.
"This is strange." Zhang Sheng thought about the reason with confusion.
Zhang Sheng soon discovered the key. During the training, the new Longteng players, including Wang Junlei, Peng Langjun, Tian Qijie, Cao Jinghao, etc., became more and more skilled in cooperating with each other.
Compared with simply using advanced tactics to form acceleration symbols, using simulated game tickets, the experience of the game is actually fed back to the players.
"The product produced by the system must be a high-quality product." Zhang Sheng secretly rejoiced, "No wonder a simple simulated match ticket costs 100 points, and winning three league games only costs 90 points. It's worth every penny!"
On December 20, the semi-finals of the 2017 Club World Cup started, and Long Teng and Real Madrid each announced their rosters.
In the Longteng team's locker room, the players looked at their head coach as if he was the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang.
Because judging from Real Madrid's starting lineup, the forwards are Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema. As expected, three of the four midfielders were also picked by Zhang Sheng, namely Modric, Isco and Kovacic, and the other one.
As for the defensive midfielder, as Zhang Sheng said, Kroos did not start Casemiro, and Zidane made adjustments.
As for the defense, Ramos and Carvajal did not appear, but Varane and Ashraf were on the list, just as Zhang Sheng guessed.
"Boss is so awesome." Nie Jiang's eyes were full of admiration for his mentor.
Zhang Sheng thought in his heart: "Don't do six basic things!"
When playing against a team like Real Madrid, Zhang Sheng is afraid that the players will lose confidence due to fear. All the actions before the game are to let the players find the motivation to win.
"Just as we predicted, Real Madrid wants to win this game easily." Zhang Shengzhi looked around the locker room with satisfaction, "Will we let them succeed?"
"No!" Everyone in the locker room expressed their attitude.
"Yes. We will never let them succeed." Zhang Sheng waved his clenched fist, "If the enemy despises us, we will fight back."
"However, we must be clear about our position. The stronger the opponent, the more careful we must be. Is Real Madrid strong? They are really strong." Zhang Sheng did not deliberately belittle his opponent.
"So, as long as we can hold on as planned, it will be our victory. The longer we hold on, the more anxious they will be. When they can't bear it anymore, it's our chance." At this point, Zhang Sheng became excited.
"We have to believe in our teammates and ourselves. We can beat them."
In the Longteng team's locker room, everyone was cheering each other on, while the Real Madrid locker room was peaceful.
Real Madrid players chatted with each other, and many topics had nothing to do with this game.
When Zidane began his pre-match briefing, he emphasized the team's purpose of coming here - for the championship and the record-breaking Club World Cup.
It was as if this game was not the semi-finals of the Club World Cup against the Dragons, but the Club World Cup final against Gremio as they expected.
The only one mentioned by Zidane was Longteng team forward Nie Jiang: "He is the most threatening player of the Longteng team and is very capable. You must pay attention to his position in the offense."
In fact, Zidane's Real Madrid coaching staff is not a no-nonsense team. They fully understood the Dragons before the game.
We have conducted investigations into the Longteng team’s past results, commonly used tactics, and player characteristics.
However, the investigation of the weak opponents in the impression is often superficial. It is enough to understand the tactics used by the opponents the most, and the players can just pay attention to the most famous ones.
Another reason is that the mainstream football world does not pay much attention to Asian football and Chinese football. Even if it wants to pay attention, there are few people in the European football circle who understand Chinese football and Chinese. When it comes to a club, it wants to satisfy these two. There are fewer conditions.
Therefore, a lot of the information about the Dragons that Real Madrid obtained was second-hand, or even information that had been transferred to n hands.
After the game officially started, just as Zhang Sheng expected, Real Madrid launched a stormy attack. The 4-4-2 formation originally arranged at the beginning quickly became a 3-5-2.
The two central defenders Nacho and Varane were at the back, Casemiro was the holding midfielder, and the rest of the players were all over the half.
Zhang Sheng was still very nervous on the sidelines. In the last Club World Cup, Barcelona's suppression of the Dragons was still vivid in his mind.
However, Zhang Sheng soon felt relieved because Real Madrid's style of play relies too much on personal ability.
And the Longteng team, which was given four intermediate ability stimulation coupons to Cao Jinghao, Shen Jun, Huang He and Liming at the beginning, was very solid in defense.
Although Real Madrid's offensive players all have ability values of 110, 120 or even 130, 140, the Dragons are not bad either.
Several capable defensive players, Cao Jinghao 103/103, Liming 103/103, Shen Jun 105/105, Huang He 108/108, if coupled with Qi Ming 115/120, the entire defensive lineup of the Longteng team is definitely one of the top five. The level of teams above the middle of the league.
If it weren't for Zhang Sheng's tactic of retreating completely in the first half, coupled with Nie Jiang's 116/120 in the frontcourt, DePaul's 115/117, Chavez's 112/112, and Fernando's 105/113, the Longteng team would be completely You can also start attacking.
What's more, the Longteng team, which was united in defense, faced Real Madrid's star players who were fighting alone, and they couldn't make more concessions.
But in order to paralyze Real Madrid, Zhang Sheng chose to endure it.
In the third minute of the first half, Kovacic on the left did a trick - he tried to pass the ball into the penalty area with one foot, but under Huang He's pressure, the pass was completely lost. On target, Cristiano Ronaldo fought his way into the penalty area, but the football had already been confiscated by Wang Junlei who was attacking.
Although Kovacic's pass was useless, this pass with a performance quality attracted warm applause from the Real Madrid fans in the stands.
Yes, although many Longteng fans flew to Abu Dhabi to watch their team play Real Madrid, everyone subconsciously believed that this game was a battle of glory for the Longteng team-it could actually compete with Real Madrid. The strongest team on the planet is now playing official matches.
Therefore, almost everyone in the stands came with the mood of watching the fun.
Even He Wei, who was responsible for commentating the game, told Liu Jiayuan: "It seems that the mentality of the Real Madrid players is very relaxed. It is so rare to see Real Madrid and our Chinese Super League team in an official game."
"I hope the Longteng team can perform well," Liu Jiayuan said.
He Wei laughed: "The year before last, I also participated in the commentary when the Longteng team participated in the Club World Cup. At that time, they eliminated the Mexican American team. It was a rare high-level competition in the history of Chinese football. But later in the game against Barcelona,
The Longteng team lost and the situation was very passive. I hope the Longteng team can improve today."
While the fans and commentators were watching the excitement, Zhang Sheng was thinking about the situation on the field.
Real Madrid's current formation on the field gave Zhang Sheng a sense of familiarity, because they were completely different from the last game against Sevilla, changing from a parallel position to a diamond midfield configuration.
Thinking of the Real Madrid game videos that everyone had studied during this period, Zhang Sheng immediately recalled it. Not long ago, when Real Madrid played against APOEL at home in the Champions League group stage, Zidane used Kovacic to replace Kroos on the left.
Midfield.
It can be said that it should be a mature routine for Real Madrid to use this tactic to beat what they consider to be a weak team.
Judging from Real Madrid's match process and everyone's analysis of them after the game, Zidane's idea is very straightforward: simplify the complex, reduce the passing of small balls in the midfield, and increase the number of passes and threatening balls in the frontcourt.
Although Kovacic was injured and ended up in that game, using Kovacic's explosive power and positional assault ability to break the dense defense should be one of Zidane's methods, which is exactly the same as it is now against the Dragons.
At this time, Zhang Sheng thought of the possibility of scoring a counterattack in the first half.
Because Real Madrid's style of play is too single.
Kovacic passed the ball after breaking through, and now Isco is also breaking through, looking for opportunities to pass.
Isco may have been stimulated by Kovacic's trick pass, and he also let go of the ball.
Speaking of breakthrough ability, Isco is really strong. His two short legs are like being possessed by a god. He sways left and right as if he is in no one's land. He kills seven in and seven out on the right side of the Dragons.
Then the problem is that the scene is beautiful but the effect is not good.
The fans in the stands were very happy to see Isco in such a crazy dribbling mode in an official game.
Every time Isco makes a pass or a beautiful fake move, there will be a burst of exclamations of "Oh!" "Ah!" "Oops" and "Yikku" from the stands.
Liu Jiayuan also kept praising: "Although Isco is Spanish, it is really a pleasure to watch a South American-style player like him play."
Everyone was praising Real Madrid for teasing the Dragons with their gorgeous playing style, but Zhang Sheng was laughing in his heart.
Because Isco continued to dribble from the right, but fell into the defense of Cao Jinghao and Shen Jun again and again. In the process of entanglement, there were often beautiful breakthroughs, but the final outcome was not to take the ball out.
On the sideline, the ball is taken out of the baseline or destroyed by a kick, and you can't even get a free kick in the frontcourt.
In the eighth minute of the first half, Isco finally took advantage of the dribbling and was poked out of the baseline by Shen Jun, giving Real Madrid their first corner kick.
