I have to say that Urawa Red Diamond's tenacity is still very strong.

After attacking the Dragons' defense in successive positions could not be effective, they also began the same routine as the Dragons - frontcourt counter-attack.

As a team with a three-center-back system, in order not to ensure that their weak backline is not counterattacked, counter-robbery is something that must be learned, so Urawa Red Diamonds are very experienced in this area, after all, they have been practicing this for more than four years.

is also a three-center defender, the three central defenders of the Longteng team are much more reliable, these are all genuine central defenders, and they are much more reliable than the Urawa Red Diamonds in terms of defensive experience and ability, of course, there is a little bit compared with the Urawa Red Diamonds, and the few defenders on the Longteng team are more inferior to the footwork of the ball.

However, Zhang Sheng's tactical arrangement is much more flexible than Petrovic, the three central defenders are forced by the opponent to grab more powerfully, and when they can't use short passes to play a positional attack, they can directly make long passes to find the fulcrum Chavez and Nie Jiang in the frontcourt.

Among them, Chavez's role in the front court is particularly large, he is 1.87 meters tall, his ability to hold the ball with his back and his header ability is particularly strong, and the long pass sent by the Longteng team from the backfield, the success rate of the confrontation between him and the Urawa Red Diamond defenders is as high as 80%, which makes the Urawa Red Diamonds' defensive line under great pressure.

Especially when Urawa Red Diamonds invested a lot of troops to participate in the counter-attack, their backline was understaffed, giving the Longteng team a lot of opportunities.

In the 39th minute of the first half, the Dragons finally seized a chance.

This time, it was Ma Yongli who dodged the pressure of Urawa Red Diamonds in the backfield, and a long pass directly found Chavez, who jumped high and unloaded the ball with his chest, and then passed the ball back to Nie Jiang.

Nie Jiang, who got the ball, faced Abe's defense and passed the ball to Xiang Tiange on the right side without stopping, Xiang Tiange used his speed to get rid of Aoki Takuya from the backfield at this time, and there was no one around him to defend him.

Such a relaxed environment allowed Xiang Tiange's speed advantage to be brought into full play, and after he inserted between the two central defenders of Urawa Red Diamonds, he knocked the ball horizontally to Nie Jiang.

Nie Jiang kicked the ball from the position where he had just entered the big penalty area, and the ball crossed an arc and drilled into the gate of Urawa Red Diamonds.

The Dragons made another quick counterattack to attack Urawa Red Diamonds' goal and extend the score to 2:0.

Liu Jiayuan shouted happily: "The Longteng team has scored, a shot from Nie Jiang." After that, he focused on Chavez, who did perform extremely well although he did not score, "Just now Ben Alfa showed us how to use breakthroughs to show his individual ability, and now Chavez fully embodies the fulcrum role of the center, taking the ball with his back in the front court, making the ball, turning and pulling forward, and one person suppressed the two central defenders on the side of Urawa Red Diamonds." ”

"Maybe Pato's performance was too dazzling before, and everyone's attention was on him. In fact, the ability of several other foreign aides of the Dragon Teng team is also super strong, and now that Pato is gone, everyone is showing their own brilliance. Liu Jiayuan then sighed, "First Ben Alpha, then Chavez, and of course, our young general Nie Jiang, all showed their fangs. Coach Zhang Sheng's individualized teaching is really targeted. ”

The score of 2:0 made the Longteng fans on the sidelines full of interest, and also made Urawa Red Diamonds' morale extremely low.

Petrovic could only pull his team back and hold on for the last few minutes of the first half.

It should be said that this choice was wise, because in the final minutes of the first half, the morale-boosting Dragons used the usual end-of-half furious tactics of J-League teams to put Urawa Red Diamonds in danger.

Urawa Red Diamonds, on their part, relied entirely on the tactics of piling up defenders to get through these difficult minutes in a way that blocked eye-catching.

Relying on the retracting defense of as many as eight players, the excellent performance of Shusaku Nishikawa, and good luck, Urawa Red Diamonds finally heard the referee's whistle at the end of the first half.

"The first half is over. Without waiting for the Longteng team's goal, Liu Jiayuan also said regretfully, "The Longteng team was not able to expand the score, but if the opponent did not improve significantly in the second half, the game would be very difficult to play." ”

At half-time, Petrovic brought on Ljubyankic and replaced him with the team's pseudo-center Shinzo Hingro.

In the J-League, Ljubyankic's performance is undoubted, because his height of 1.86 meters makes him very special in the J-League, where he generally does not pay attention to physical collisions and ignores headers, and he can always play the role of a fulcrum in the front court in the J-League.

And when facing Chinese Super League teams, especially teams like Longteng, Ljubiyankic is not very bright.

Just look at the three central defenders of the Longteng team, Du Zhenyu is 1.88 meters tall, Lu Zhihui is 1.87 meters tall, and Ma Yongli is 1.84 meters tall.

Since the high school striker is not effective, simply playing a flexible pseudo-center forward to gain an advantage through movement has become Petrovic's first choice.

Shinzo Koro is very similar to Shinji Okazaki, who is currently playing for Leicester City in the Premier League, and he is a-stirring stick with the ability to score goals in the game.

Petrovic was counting on Shinzo to salvage the situation in the second half.

After the start of the second half, Shinzo Koro was indeed much better than Ryubyankic, he said that he was a center, but he switched positions with the two shadow strikers too often, and Yuki Muto and Tsukasa Umezaki behind him kept switching positions, and these three also performed their own duties. Yuki Muto is responsible for the breakthrough, Tsukasa Umezaki is responsible for passing, and Shinzo Koro is passing in tandem, which is extremely tacit.

Although the current 3-5-2 formation of the Longteng team is indeed impressive in attack, it is far from mature in defense, especially in the old problem - the cooperation between the midfielder and the three central defenders, everyone has not formed a tacit understanding, so in the face of the front trident of Urawa Red Diamonds, the Longteng team is a little busy defensively.

As a result, the second half of the game turned into a pressure on Urawa Red Diamonds in the front court, and Urawa Red Diamonds used three forwards and two wingbacks to frequently threaten the Longteng team's backline.

In the 11th minute of the second half, Tsukasa Umezaki switched to the right side, and after forming a combination with Yuya Uga and Yosuke Kashiwagi, he tore apart the defense of the Longteng team on the left side, including Ben Arfa, who was not good at defense, Lu Zhihui at left central defender, Qi Ming in left midfield, Roque Gil at the back, and Ma Yongli at central defender.

Tsukasa Umezaki then passed the ball straight to the back of the Ryuteng penalty area, where Yuki Muto, who had switched positions with Shinzo Koro, was in place, and then a push to meet the ball flew straight to the top left corner of the Ryuteng.

Fortunately, Yuki Muto's ball was too angle-oriented, the ball was a little higher, and finally flew out of the bottom line by grazing the lintel, although Huang Dawei made a save, he finally slid the ball with a happy face.

From this defense of the Longteng team, it can be seen that the team really has problems in defense.

Urawa Red Diamonds only put three people into the attack on the right side, and the Longteng team not only Ben Alpha came to defend, Lu Zhihui and Qi Ming came in as the defenders, Roque Gill came to help defend it, but Ma Yongli as a central defender was also completely attracted over, and the back point of the Longteng team was also vacant because Du Zhenyu went to fill Ma Yongli's position, and Yuki Muto had an easy chance to shoot.

Of course, this is also related to the tactics of Urawa Red Diamonds themselves, they are at the high point of not having the middle, and their favorite tactic is to use the familiar passing at their feet, make full use of the width of the court, open the gap on the side, attract the attention of the opponent's defense, pass the ball through the middle of the defense, and let the other side Xinglu Shinzo and Muto Yuki play their good running characteristics to complete the second wave of attacks or shots, which has a strong lethality in the case of the general weak defensive awareness of Asian teams.

Urawa Red Diamonds played well in attack, and the Dragons played even more beautifully in attack.

In the twentieth minute of the second half, Ben Alfa won the ball on the left side again, this time it was still the pressure of the Longteng team in the front court that caused the Urawa Red Diamonds to be forced into a narrow space on the side, and then Qi Ming took the ball from the opponent's feet, Qi Ming, who got the ball, used his body to jam the opponent, and then gave a beautiful pass to Tao Wentao.

The Dragons' attack was carried out very quickly, although it was no longer an individual rush like Ben Alpha, but the direct and fast passing of the players has always been one of the Dragons' offensive weapons.

After a series of quick passes, Nie Jiang received the ball from Chavez and made a beautiful shot for Nishikawa to save the ball with his best efforts.

Next, the Dragons' corner once again posed a great threat to Urawa Red Diamonds, and Chavez's header smashed into the goal post and flew off the bottom line, startling Nishikawa.

Petrovic watched the situation on the field, made a heart, made adjustments, replaced Takuya Aoki, who was more inclined to defense, with Korean-Japanese player Li Zhongzhong, and then replaced the balanced Uga Kamitomo with Komai Yoshinari who was extremely fast and more capable of breaking through.

Seeing Petrovic's two substitutions, Liu Jiayuan was also surprised: "Is this going to fight?"

"Not to mention, the Dragons' defense is not stable now. Liu Jiayuan also knew the situation on the field as a commentator, "Urawa Red Diamond's crazy style of play has to be guarded against." ”

Li Zhongzhong is a Korean player, Korean is known for his courageous style, this name has given him too much aura, after he came up, he did play crazy, compared to the slightly weaker Japanese players, Li Zhongzhong is particularly fierce in the half of the ball, many times he risks injury to the players of the Longteng team.

The Dragons suddenly became more tight in the defence, and the three players in the midfield looked extremely passive in the face of the front three.

However, Liu Jiayuan also underestimated Zhang Sheng's on-the-spot adaptability, after observing the situation on the field for more than 20 minutes, Zhang Sheng also made changes, he pushed Ma Yongli up from the position of center back, turned into a back back, and then let Lu Zhihui and Du Zhenyu get closer, playing double central defenders, Ben Alpha dragged back to the winger, pseudo fullback pure in, it can be seen that he has strong offensive ability and can suppress the opponent's attack, not to mention Qi Ming to fill in for him.

Petrovic is clinging to 3-6-1, but Zhang Sheng is not a person who eats the past, since the opponent plays pseudo-center tactics, then there is no need to defend the three central defenders.

Sure enough, in the next game, Ma Yongli's promotion supported the positions of Qi Ming and Roque Gill, making the defense of the two wings more powerful, and firmly clamping the three strikers of Urawa Red Diamonds who frequently changed positions in the midfield, and they were far away from the goal, making it difficult to have good scoring opportunities.

There was no chance in the positional battle, but Urawa Red Diamonds scored from a set-piece, this time it was Tao Wentao who fouled Yoshinari Komai 256 meters from the middle of the pitch and gave the opponent a chance to take a free kick in front.

The person in charge of the corner kick was their central defender Tomoaki Makino, who said that when the free kick was issued, he just kicked the ball into the leg of the jumping Roque Gill, and after the ball changed the line, it flew straight to the left side of the goal, and before Huang Dawei had pounced in the direction of the ball - the right, this time he had no choice but to watch the ball fly into the net.

Liu Jiayuan, who had been saying in the commentary that Zhang Sheng's on-court tactical adjustment was very successful this time, was also stunned and said: "This ball, alas, bad luck, Tao Wentao should not have fouled in this position." ”

After scoring the goal, Tomoaki Makino hurriedly beckoned his teammates to take the ball from the net of the Dragons and hurry back, hoping to get another chance to attack.

But such a balloon did not give the tactically backward Urawa Red Diamonds any advantage.

Shortly after conceding the ball, Zhang Sheng saw that Tao Wentao had a problem with his physical fitness, and replaced him with Xiong Jian, allowing the latter to use his advantage of being able to run and run to continue to strengthen the pressing in the front court.

Sure enough, in the 34th minute of the second half, the Longteng team took advantage of Urawa Red Diamonds' eagerness to press the attack to equalize the score and played a beautiful counterattack.

Xiong Jian teamed up with Roque Gill in the midfield to cut off the ball from Tomoaki Makino, who assisted to the frontcourt, and did not give him a chance to foul, and quickly advanced to the frontcourt.

After receiving a pass from Roque Gill, Nie Jiang got rid of the pressing of the inactive Yuki Abe and tucked the ball straight into the box from the left, who didn't make much adjustment after receiving the ball, and resolutely hit the top left corner of the goal, and his powerful shot flew over the hands of Shusaku Nishikawa and drilled into the net.

The Dragons once again extended the gap to two goals.