29. Gain

After the news of Lu Yangyang's selection by the Longteng team was transmitted back to his original team, his former teammates and coaches fell to the ground, but before they pushed and blocked the main striker of their own team, they gave the green light to Lu Yangyang's release, and Longteng Football School only spent less than 100,000 RMB to buy out Lu Yangyang's ownership, so that they are now bitter and unspeakable. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lu Yangyang, who joined Longteng Football School, was overjoyed, and he happily started his new football journey.

Zhang Sheng, who accepted Lu Yangyang, was also full of smiles in the past few days, because the two injured Lu Zhihui and Xiao Yunfan had almost recovered, and the back line of the Longteng team was once again abundant.

In the home game against Liaoning Hongyun over the weekend, Zhang Sheng put both of them in the team's squad, but did not arrange them to start, one is to protect them and let them have a process of adaptation, and the second is to continue to see Du Zhenyu's performance in this game.

Liaoning Hongyun did not "waste" Du Zhenyu's opportunity to play, and from the beginning of the game, he resolutely hit him in the attack.

However, Du Zhenyu did not receive much test in this game, except for the Liaoning coach Chen Yang, nicknamed "Chen Satisfaction", who arranged the formation very obscenely - the whole field retreated at the beginning, and at the same time, the injury of the main striker James also greatly reduced the frontcourt attack power of Liaoning Hongyun, and Qiu Ka, who was transferred to play the center as a winger, did not have much frontcourt fulcrum ability.

Although Liaoning Hongyun still focuses on Du Zhenyu, Du Zhenyu played very well in this game, he used his strong body to withstand the opponent's striker and completed his defensive task.

When the team defends successfully, the offense is correspondingly easier.

In the first half, the Longteng team relied on the goals of Pato and Ben Alpha to make the score 2:0, and Yao Tian, who came on in the second half, also scored a goal to expand the score to 3:0.

When Zhang Sheng replaced Du Zhenyu off the field, the home fans gave him rare applause. Zhang Sheng also hugged Du Zhenyu on the sidelines and said, "Did you hear the applause, this is everyone's recognition of you." You played well in this game, so keep up playing well. ”

After receiving the drink handed over by assistant coach He Lijun, Du Zhenyu also said to Zhang Sheng: "Thank you coach, I will work harder in the future." ”

In the end, the Longteng team also defeated Liaoning Hongyun 3:1 at their home stadium and continued to consolidate their advantage at the top of the list.

After this match, the next day the Longteng team flew to Thailand, and this time they will take on Thai powerhouse Buriram United.

This team is not located in an economically developed region of Thailand, which can be said to be an outlier in the local area.

The economy here is backward, and young people are rushing to Bangkok to work, but Buriram United is a team that they are particularly proud of.

Every time Buriram United's home game, especially the AFC Champions League, there are many locals who work outside the city to come back to cheer on the team.

As the owner of the team, a local politician, and a billionaire, Tan Nai Win, his investment in the team is very large, unlike other government stadiums that are all on loan, he has invested heavily in building a professional football stadium that can accommodate 24,000 people, and in this regard, Buriram United is more advanced than most teams in the Chinese Super League.

This game is very crucial for Buriram United, although they are now at the bottom of the group with only five points, but there is still hope of qualifying, because in addition to the Longteng team who are top of the group with 11 points, they also have five points against the two teams, but they are only at a disadvantage in goal difference.

As long as the last game is won at home, then it is still possible to qualify.

So in this match, in a completely full stadium, Buriram United attacked aggressively from the first minute of the game to the cheers of the fanatical fans.

Because the team has already qualified first in the group, Zhang Sheng arranged a lineup equivalent to the all-Chinese class to play in this game, in addition to Roque Gill in the back position, Du Zhenyu has become the starting central defender.

In this game, the Longteng team can be regarded as letting go of the play, as the starting center forward, Zou Weijia appeared particularly positive, and used his header to hit the post in the third minute of the opening game and almost scored.

Buriram United, on the other hand, used their two Brazilian foreign players Massena and Diogo to frequently attack Du Zhenyu's position.

These two foreign aides of theirs cannot be underestimated.

Massena was just transferred from Hangzhou Greentown in the Chinese Super League at the end of last year, and before that, he also played for Shandong Luneng, so he is still very familiar with the Longteng team.

As for Diogo, it's even more famous. At the age of 21, he was hailed as the "new Ronaldo" by the Brazilian media, and he joined Greece's most powerful club Olympiacos for 9 million euros.

Historically, when facing Guangzhou R&F, he scored a hat trick in a score of 5:0.

This is a player with excellent physique, speed, technique, and shooting skills, and in terms of player type, he is Du Zhenyu's nemesis.

Obviously, Buriram United had a very in-depth understanding of the Longteng team before the game, and Diogo played Du Zhenyu.

In the 10th minute of the first half, Diogo almost completed his own goal, this time he broke through the ribs of the Longteng team's central defenders and full-backs, and used his technical agility at his feet to almost shake off Du Zhenyu.

Fortunately, Du Zhenyu's experience in the game is much richer than before (of course, this is also due to Zhang Sheng's use of senior player growth accelerators), he used his body to squeeze the opponent at the first time he was thrown away, and did not let the opponent shoot calmly, sure enough, Du Zhenyu's goal was achieved, Diogo did shoot with his feet, but under the interference of Du Zhenyu's body, the ball did not eat the right part and flew high off the crossbar.

Diogo also complained to the referee that Du Zhenyu had fouled him, but the referee ignored Diogo, who had already completed the shot.

Seeing Diogo's shot, Du Zhenyu couldn't help but be afraid, fortunately, he deliberately squeezed the opponent just now to not let the opponent score.

Zhang Sheng added a lot of points to Du Zhenyu's defense, because his squeezing action strength was very appropriate, which not only affected the opponent's shot, but also not too large for the referee to catch the opportunity to blow the penalty, so that the small skills in the game need many times of experience to hone out, which looks inconspicuous, but it is the embodiment of the player's ability.

Buriram United's attack did not make the Dragons players give up attacking, but they attacked even more.

In the twenty-seventh minute of the first half, the Longteng team finally broke the deadlock on the field, Wei Zhimin broke through successfully on the left side, and then stuffed the ball to Yu Bo, who successfully crossed the edge to find Zou Weijia in the middle of the unguarded accurate bottom cross, Zou Weijia avoided Buriram United's tall foreign central defender Andres Tournez this time, and found the soft persimmon - Thai central defender Teng Gelang, who used his height advantage to head the goal successfully, the score became 0:1, and the Longteng team took the lead in the away game.

Zou Weijia was very excited after the goal, as a natural high school striker for the Longteng team in the front line after Wen Kai left, he has now been Nie Jiang's substitute, and most of the time he can only play when it doesn't matter, because compared to the physical advantage of the Thai team players, he is rare to play the main force, following the goal against Buriram United in the last leg, this time he scored again.

Zou Weijia used his performance to tell Zhang Sheng: I am an effective chess piece for your rich offensive tactics!

The backward Buriram United did their best to equalize, and soon they also scored goals, this time it was Diogo who gained an advantage in Du Zhenyu's body, he no longer sought to shoot in the face of Du Zhenyu's defense, but chose to pass, Du Zhenyu's tightness in the defensive position attracted a lot of energy from the Longteng team's backline, Massena's insertion became unguarded, he easily faced Zhou Wei and shot successfully, and the score became 1:1.

Seeing that Du Zhenyu was struggling to defend Diogo, Zhang Sheng had to ask Roque Gildo to come back to help him fill in the position.

Zhang Sheng's choice this time is still very good, with the help of Roque Gill, Du Zhenyu finally stabilized a lot on the defensive line, of course, this has a bad consequence, that is, Roque Gill's energy is more focused on defense, and the attack of the Longteng team has become a lot weaker.

In the end, the two sides also ended in a draw in the first half.

At the start of the second half, Zhang Sheng made a minor adjustment, replacing Zhang Hao, who had poor organizational skills, with Xiong Jian, so that when Roque Gill was distracted by the defense, there were also people who could organize the attack in the midfield.

As Lin Feng's substitute, Xiong Jian is very similar to his characteristics, his offensive and defensive balance is super strong, and his appearance makes the Longteng team's offense alive again.

Once again, the two teams were in equilibrium, and Buriram United fans began to cheer on the team in loud chorus.

Here I have to say that Buriram United is a very distinctive cheering team, because they are "professional" compared to the fans.

In other words, their job is to cheer for the team's chorus, whether it is the team's fans or not, every time Buriram United plays at home, these cheerleaders hired by the club will sing in unison according to the lyrics, and the momentum is very strong.

Of course, this kind of cheerleading choir, which is contrary to the spirit of football, is often complained about by other clubs, because such non-spontaneous cheering is really a failure compared to Buriram United, which has very professional hardware facilities.

Perhaps this choir really has the ability to be "bards", and Buriram United's attack is becoming sharper and sharper.

In the sixteenth minute of the second half, it was Diogo who shook off the Longteng defense, and shot with his feet in the middle of Du Zhenyu and Roque-Gill in the middle of the shot, the ball crossed an obvious arc and flew into the net, and the score became 2:1.

In this game, Zhou Wei sat on the bench as a substitute, and the main goalkeeper was Huang Dawei, although his ability was not bad, but his experience was insufficient after all, and two consecutive goals made him very frustrated.

Zhang Sheng had to stand on the sidelines again and cheer up the players: "It doesn't matter, it's only one ball, everyone work hard and pull it back." ”

Zhang Sheng's encouragement was still very effective, and these young players saw that the manager did not show dissatisfaction, and once again plucked up their energy to devote themselves to the game.

And their efforts soon paid off again, Xiong Jian gave a beautiful assist to the forward midfielder Yao Tian in the midfield, Yao Tian used his skills to continuously dribble the ball horizontally at the edge of the penalty area, dodged the defense of the opposing two players and then shot with his feet, this ball played very beautifully, directly past the Buriram United goalkeeper's save, and flew into the dead corner.

Once again, the Dragons equalised.

With two consecutive leads and equalisers, Buriram United's players are also a little deflated, and with the game already more than 30 minutes into the second half, the hope of getting enough clean sheets from this "Dragon Teng II team" has become slim.

The next game became a bit uneventful because of the previous long and high-intensity games, and the managers of both sides began to make substitutions one after another.

Buriram United is trying to get another goal through substitutions, while the Dragons are more of a newcomer.

Zhang Sheng successively replaced Xiang Tiange and Qi Ming, allowing Roque Gill and Xiao Yunfan to come down to rest, which was also the first AFC Champions League match for the two rookie players.

The commentator in charge of the commentary was also shocked by Zhang Sheng's boldness: "The Longteng team is now a real all-Chinese class on the field, without any foreign aid, and the age of these players is so young that fans dare not imagine." Except for Lu Zhihui, who is 28 years old, few other players are more than 23 years old. Like goalkeeper Huang Dawei and right-back Xiang Tiange, who just came on the field, are only 17 years old, and the average age of the entire team is only 19.8 years old, which is estimated to be the lowest average age team in the history of the AFC Champions League. ”

"To be able to have this level at this age has to be said to be the progress of Chinese football over the years. The commentator quickly reveled in the good expectations for the future, "No matter what the final result of this game is, I am very proud to be able to play such a scene, as a part of the Chinese fans." ”

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the score was fixed at 2:2, and the Longteng team gained a point at the same time, but also greatly exercised the players.

Even Du Zhenyu, who performed very badly in this game, Zhang Sheng didn't have too many complaints, the gap in strength and the compatibility of the style of the ball are sometimes like this, isn't Zou Weijia also the style of the ball to overcome the opponent, so he scored again?

Du Zhenyu has been tested by such a game, and the next time he faces this type of striker, he should look much calmer.