68. Break again
Under the urging of Takashi Hori, Urawa Ruby's two wingers, Daisuke Kikuchi and Komai Zensei, pressed up.
During the period of Master Pei, he was stubborn and conservative and did not like to rotate very much, and the Urawa club spent a lot of money to buy many young people who had high hopes for themselves could not be promoted, except for Takadai Sekine, who transferred to the Bundesliga in the middle of the season.
Players such as Daisuke Kikuchi, Yoshinari Komai, and Toshiyuki Takagi were miserable, and the main force was injured, so they finally got the opportunity to play, and it was almost impossible to be reused.
Whether it is to value young players or to cultivate his own lineage and remove the imprint of Petrovic in the team, Hori Takashi has used these good players on the wing after taking office.
Toshiyuki Takagi was suspended for accumulating yellow cards, and this game did not come, Daisuke Kikuchi and Zennari Komai started on the left and right.
Previously, the Longteng team's suppression of Urawa Ruby was in place, and the two wingers were completely beaten into wingbacks, and the offensive characteristics were not released.
Now the manager wants them to show their skills, and the Dragons' formation has retracted to give them space, and the time has come to perform.
First of all, the first wave came to Komai, who had excellent dribbling ability.
In the 41st minute of the first half, Yoshinari Komai received a pass from Shinya Yashima on the right side, and used a fast, continuous rhythm change to shake De Paul, which made the expeditionary force of Urawa Ruby, who had suppressed nearly half of the game, very angry.
didn't let the Dragons specialize in the front, and all of a sudden, the song of Komai Yoshinari was broadcast in the stands of the visiting fans.
Although Qu Wenming's second wave of defense squeezed Komai Yoshinari to the sideline and did not give Urawa Ruby a chance to penetrate the left side, after all, Urawa still played his own right side.
After all, Komai Yoshinari is not a pure winger player, he has certain defensive attributes, and he also plays a cameo in the back from time to time, and he slowly stopped after being paid more attention by the left side players of the Longteng team.
But then the more attacking left winger Daisuke Kikuchi stepped up.
When Urawa Ruby signed Daisuke Kikuchi from relegated Shonan Ocean late last year, there were some skepticism – mostly from Master Pei.
With Takadai Sekine leaving for Germany and Kamiya Uga suffering from a long-term injury, Daisuke Kikuchi allowed Urawa to regain his previous speed advantage on the left.
In the 44th minute of the first half, Urawa Ruby also used his usual style of playing by using the width of the court to pull left and right.
After a series of dribbles on the right flank, Komai found himself unable to break through again, and a precise pass was handed to Yuki Abe in the middle, who deflected the ball to Daisuke Kikuchi on the left.
Daisuke Kikuchi used his speed to quickly surpass Tao Wentao, but fortunately, Fernando was active enough, and chased all the way from close to the front court to the sideline of the 30-meter defensive area of his own half, forcing Daisuke Kikuchi to slow down his speed.
"Urawa is attacking here, and the J-League team, which suddenly came out at the end of the two halves, is their traditional art. He Wei was a little nervous, "The Dragon Teng team needs to concentrate here. ”
As he spoke, Daisuke Kikuchi had already reached the left area of the Dragon Teng team's penalty area, including Takuya Aoki, Li Zhongzhong was cooperating with him nearby, pulling for him to run, constantly using short-distance passes to pull out the gap, and a little farther away, center Shinzo Kozaki and even Shin Yajima also pressed to the top of the arc of the penalty area, preparing for the second wave of attacks.
After five or six consecutive passes in the narrow area of the sideline, the defense on the right side of the Longteng team became more and more urgent, as a team that has been playing pressing tactics for a long time, the defensive positions of the players are compact and layered, and the players' defensive action scale is very good, and they do not give the opponent the opportunity to create a free kick in front of the court.
No matter how strong your Urawa Ruby player's foot ability is, how strong the passing and receiving ability is, football always needs space to pass, and seeing that this attack is about to be terminated again, Daisuke Kikuchi made a heart, flashed a little space, and passed the ball into the penalty area with a cross.
However, as a player known for his speed, the quality of his crosses has never been Daisuke Kikuchi's strength, and his passes are weak, tall and floating, which is probably the favorite type of passing for the two tall central defenders of the Dragons when you look at the height difference between the Dragons and Urawa players.
Dawn easily crushed Shinzo Kozaki in the box, and a powerful header pushed Daisuke Kikuchi's pass out of the box, and it was time for the players at the top of the Urawa arc to compete with the Dragons players for the second point.
At this time, Lu Yangyang, who is short but more flexible, and has stronger speed and explosiveness, played a role, and Lu Yangyang, who is defending Aoki Takuya, and the opponent are also starting from the top of the arc of the penalty area, one is facing the football, and the other needs to turn around to chase the football, and the former obviously occupies an absolute advantage.
Got rid of Takuya Aoki's multi-position Lu Yangyang got the football first, and then he turned around in place to get rid of Shinya Yajima, who was killed horizontally, and then he didn't hesitate to play the ball, looking for the right side, here because Daisuke Kikuchi They were all in an offensive state after half the court, and they were completely empty.
It's finally time to fight for speed on the wings.
"Lu Yangyang's escape, beautiful! Divide the ball, oops, the pass is a bit big. He Wei was just about to praise Lu Yangyang, but suddenly found that the pass given by Lu Yangyang was very large in advance, "Hey, no, you can catch up." ”
A very terrifying scene happened on the field at this time, after Lu Yangyang passed the ball, Fernando, who was still more than 20 meters away from the ball, chased after it at a gallop, and at the same time chasing the ball was the opposite left central defender Tomoaki Makino, who was estimated to be about fifteen meters away from the ball.
Then Fernando, who was farther away from the ball, caught up with the ball at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Tomoaki Makino was still more than a meter away from the ball at this time, and after having to do so, the latter could only throw his body out entirely, and a sliding shovel shoveled towards the football, and he didn't care if this defensive action would be fouled.
"Oh my God, this speed. Xu Yang's eyes widened, he couldn't believe this scene on the field, "Pick the ball, beautiful, single knife." ”
Fernando was obviously prepared for Makino's defense, and he lightly raised the ball to a high level, so that Makino Tomoaki's tackle foot missed the football, and then he himself jumped lightly and crossed Makino's body.
The Dragons had another chance on the right flank, and this time Tomoaki Makino didn't even have a chance to stop the attack with a foul.
Makino Tomoaki was beaten, and Mauricio had to move sideways to wipe the butts of his teammates, all of whom were Brazilian fellows, and Mauricio had seen too many Brazilian players like Fernando who relied on speed and ball sense.
If you cut off the line for him to catch the ball, or just make him uncomfortable with the ball and reduce the space for him to start sprinting, his power will be greatly reduced. But once you've given him a chance to sprint, pray that you don't get overcome.
The truth is that many times there are always places you don't think of, Mauricio, who was rushing over to see if he could use physical contact to jam Fernando's one-handed knife, has not yet come close, and Fernando passes the ball out.
Chavez, the centre-forward who had been at the front of the Dragons, received a pass from Fernando in the middle, and this time he faced an empty goal.
"Fernando brought it himself, passed the ball, Chavez, pushed the empty goal, Nishikawa Shusaku couldn't help it, the ball went in. He Wei had long expected this result, three against two in the front court, such a large space, as long as you don't make low-level mistakes, scoring goals is inevitable.
"Actually, Fernando can come by himself, of course, the angle of the shot will be a little smaller, and he still chooses the safest pass. The Dragons took a 2-0 lead in the first half, which was not good news for Urawa Ruby. Xu Yang praised Fernando's generosity.
"Urawa conceded a goal, in the final analysis, it is Yosuke Kashiwagi who can't play, and they can't rely on passing and organizing to play a threatening attack in the positional attack. You see before Urawa lost the ball, Daisuke Kikuchi also had a beautiful breakthrough on the left side, the problem is that Takuya Aoki couldn't organize this attack next, and when the attack speed dropped, the defense of the Longteng team was quickly arranged, and finally Daisuke Kikuchi's reluctant cross gave the Longteng team a chance to counterattack. While watching the replay of the Longteng team's goal, He Wei analyzed the Longteng team's goal.
Xu Yang also added: "There is still a problem on the Urawa side, their back is too old for Yuki Abe. The 81-year-old veteran is 36 years old this year, and when the Longteng team counterattacked, he couldn't run at all. Also starting near the centre circle, Chavez had already dumped him half a street before the penalty area. ”
Urawa Ruby's conceded goal made their head coach Takashi Hori realize that they had been deceived, and the Dragons did not have the physical strength to continue to press themselves, but gave themselves an illusion and set up a defensive trap, just waiting for their team to poke their heads out and blow their dogheads at any time.
Looking at the final counterattack, Fernando, Chavez, Nie Jiang and De Paul on the left, the second wave started with a volley of speed, which was obviously faster than the players on Urawa's side, and the sprint distance was longer.
The most obvious deceptive tactic to lure the snake out of the hole.
The two-goal lead not only shattered Urawa Ruby expectations for an equaliser, but more importantly a morale blow to them, and after conceding the second goal, Urawa's players clearly had a problem with their mentality.
In the first minute of stoppage time, the Dragons almost doubled their lead again, this time when De Paul's breakthrough on the left caused a foul on Yuki Abe, and then the Dragons won a free-kick in a very good position.
Urawa put out a four-man human wall, on the left side of the human wall there is Qi Ming of the Longteng team standing, when De Paul sent this free kick out with a short pass, Qi Ming actually had no defenders around, let him easily take the ball, turn, take a step, and then shoot, if it weren't for Nishikawa Shusaku as a veteran experience, has not relaxed his nerves, made an extremely beautiful save, it is very likely that Urawa Ruby will be washed by three goals in the first half.
In the end, it was referee Hassan's half-time whistle that gave Urawa Ruby a chance to breathe, and the Dragons comfortably returned to the home break with a 2-0 advantage at their home stadium.
"Urawa must make personnel adjustments, defense is their old problem, maybe there will be less room for adjustment, but the offense can't play, this is unacceptable, Hori Takashi will definitely replace the frontcourt personnel. He Wei speculated in the halftime comment in the live broadcast room.
"Yosuke Kashiwagi's pre-match injury was too big a blow to Urawa's side. Whether it is Takuya Aoki's B2B style of play prepared by Takashi Hori, or Lee Zhongzhong's defensive pseudo-forward style of play, it will not help Urawa attack at all. In the second half, Hori Takashi still had cards in his hand, not to mention that they had an old opponent of the Chinese Super League team like Yuki Muto on the bench, and their other striker Rafael Silva was also very strong in his personal ability. ”
Really as He Wei analyzed, the first thing Hori Takashi did at halftime was to announce a substitution, and it can be said that there was no camera in the first half, and Li Zhongzhong, the forward who basically disappeared, was replaced by Yuki Muto.
The home team's side is very relaxed, Zhang Sheng's only requirement is that after the start of the second half, the first wave of attack, consume the opponent's physical energy, regardless of whether there is a goal or not, after 20 minutes, the team withdraws to play a counterattack.
After the start of the second half, although He Wei did not say it explicitly, his smug tone was still overflowing: "Coach Hori Takashi really replaced Yuki Muto, this is a frontcourt player who plays very hard and can stir up, shooting, breaking through, running and receiving passes, Urawa Ruby let such players play as substitutes, it can only be said that their bench thickness is indeed okay." ”
As a thing that can be thought of by the commentary, the coaching staff of the Longteng team was prepared before the game, watching the person who passed the ball to him, once he got the ball, it was the most effective defensive means to be close to him immediately, and the Longteng team also did a good job.
There is no imaginative passing like Yosuke Kashiwagi, Aoki Takuya's pass always seems more "hard", it is easy for the players of the Longteng team to see his intentions, Yuki Muto is very active, constantly running to respond, but the ball passed to him is very difficult to take, even if he gets the ball, it is under the close fit of the two central defenders of the Longteng team, Lu Zhihui and Liming, unable to turn around.
On the contrary, it was the Longteng team's frontcourt pressing in the second half that had an effect.
In the seventh minute of the second half, De Paul combined with Qi Ming on the left flank, causing Endo to make a mistake in passing, and he and Komai did not agree on the idea, and the latter did not activate when the former passed, allowing the ball to pass in front of him.
Facing Qu Wenming coming over to grab this half ball, Komai Yoshinari took a step slow and kicked Qu Wenming's calf, sweeping the latter to the ground.
The referee decisively blew for a foul on Urawa Ruby and gave Komai a yellow card.
"Endo's form this season is really hard to describe. He Wei obviously paid attention to the situation before Urawa Ruby, "Before Mauricio came, the middle of the three central defenders he was in was the biggest hole, and now he is on the right side, and his condition is also average." ”
"So let's take a look at the free-kick. Seeing that the Longteng team had set the ball, Xu Yang also took over the topic.