84. Lead
As a Japanese commentator, Shoji Cheng looked very proud: "The pre-game information unanimously shows that the Longteng team is a rare team in China that plays skills and plays as a whole, they are also known as 'China's Barcelona', and there are superstars like Pato in the team, but now it seems that their tactics are completely chaotic, but so, compared with our Japanese team, it is useless to buy players like Pato." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Seeing the situation on the field, Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of the Chinese commentary, also said: "It is also a team that mainly plays pass control, Hiroshima Three Arrows is obviously better than the Longteng team, and now the midfield is basically completely controlled by the Hiroshima team. ”
In fact, Zhang Sheng did seem to be in a hurry, the team did not play the proper tactics at all, and looked gloomy on the field, which is not a good phenomenon, he who had been sitting in the coach's seat before came to the sidelines and shouted: "Run, run, don't you feel ashamed of this style of play?"
Maybe it was Naoki Ishihara's shot that woke up the players of the Longteng team, or maybe it was Zhang Sheng's roar on the sidelines that spurred the players, and after this mistake, the players of the Longteng team gradually adapted to the rhythm of the game on the field and began to exert their strength.
Just after Naoki Ishihara's shot missed, the Dragons finally made a qualified attack.
After getting the ball passed by Ma Yongli again, this time Lin Feng played a successful pass with Zhou Zhou and Yu Bo who came to answer, and the players who were responsible for intercepting the Hiroshima Three Arrows did not form an effective defense at all, and the Longteng team advanced the attack to the 30-meter area of Hiroshima Three Arrows for the first time.
However, Hiroshima Sanfrec's defense is indeed very three-dimensional, just when Lin Feng hit the ball to the 30-meter area, Toshihiro Aoyama immediately entangled, and the players in the front court except for Naoki Ishihara ran to Kante to prevent Lin Feng from passing back, the other players returned to their defensive positions.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima's formation is also very rare in Japan, they have always adhered to the style of play of three central defenders, the midfield is very free to slow down, 3-4-3 when you need to attack, 5-4-1 when you need to defend, and 3-6-1 if you need to play positional battles with opponents.
But no matter how they change, their two wingbacks have always been the focus of the team's offensive and defensive transitions, because when they are in a 3-5 back conversion system, the two wingbacks have to attack and return to the defense.
This time is exactly the case, the two wingbacks of this game, Mizumoto Yuki and Bai Haowen, when the Longteng team began to attack, quickly shrunk back, when Lin Feng raised his eyes in the midfield to observe the opponent's situation, Hiroshima Three Arrows became a 5-back formation, and the opportunity for the Longteng team to play a quick counterattack disappeared.
Lin Feng saw that he couldn't get the opportunity to attack quickly, and he became very patient, he used his body to support Toshihiro Aoyama's pressing, and gave the ball to Mahrez on the right side, this time Mahrez did not make the previous mistake, he caught the ball very steadily, and then handed the ball to the fullback Xiao Yunfan who came up to assist.
As a conduction-based team, the more compact the formation is, the higher the success rate of the transmission, and at the same time, when the ball is lost, the more people per unit area, and the higher the success rate of timely counter-robbery, so when the Longteng team begins to talk about the formation becoming compact, it is also the time when the team is the most powerful.
This is the case now, Lin Feng in the midfield, N'Golo Kante, Yu Bo, Mahrez, including the two fullbacks who assisted and Ma Yongli, who is very strong at his feet, basically firmly controlled the ball at his feet.
At this time, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and the Japanese commentators finally knew why the Dragons were called "Chinese Barcelona". Before the 30-meter defensive area of Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the passing of the Longteng team made the opponent completely helpless, and the fast pass express tactics at the feet of the Longteng players played very smoothly, even if the players of Sanfrecce Hiroshima were very active in defense, they still could not grab the ball at the feet of the Longteng team.
When Liu Jianhong lamented that the Longteng team had finally returned to normal, Cheng Zhangji was also shocked by the situation on the field: "I can't believe it, what happened to the Longteng team that was still a mess just now? ”
Of course, the Dragons are only controlling the ball in the midfield now, and the overall formation of Hiroshima Three Arrows is still very stable, as the team that conceded the second fewest goals in the J League last season, as a team that is used to defensive counterattacks, even if Hiroshima Three Arrows is suppressed on the field, they still have enough ability to protect their own penalty area, after all, they have played countless such games in the "boring" complaints of Japanese fans.
After the midfielder slowly controlled the ball, Lin Feng, who was the offensive core of the Longteng team, also began to think of a way.
The first thing he thought of was to use fast transmission to mobilize the opponent's defensive formation, and then find the opponent's defensive loopholes in the sports battle, which can be regarded as in line with Grandpa Mao's sports tactics of "destroying the enemy in sports warfare".
After carefully observing the performance of the Hiroshima Three Arrows team, Lin Feng found that their right wingback Shiotani Tsukasa has a very strong desire to attack, and when he is not facing the defense directly, he always stands higher than the left wing-back Mizumoto Hiroki on the other side.
In fact, this can be regarded as a customary arrangement of Hiroshima Three Arrows on the back line, Yuki Mizumoto on the left side has stronger defensive ability, and Shiotani Tsukasa on the right side has stronger offensive ability, so Shiotani's position is slightly forward.
This season's Sanfrecce Hiroshima's goals in the AFC Champions League can be reflected, as a fullback, Tsukasa Shiotani is actually the team's top scorer in the AFC Champions League, although striker Toshito Sato has scored the most goals in the J-League, but the efficiency of Tsukasa Shiotani, who has scored 6 goals in 12 appearances this season, is much higher than him, and the Japanese media have compared him to the best scoring guard in the J-League, Doukasa Tanaka.
This also provided an opportunity for Lin Feng to find a gap, and he also began to act decisively.
In the 31st minute of the first half, Lin Feng once again took the ball in the midfield, he first organized the players to attack the left side, Yu Bo on the left side made a few passes with Zhou Zhou after taking the ball, and then the offensive triangle composed of the three of them attracted the right wingback Shiotani Division, the right winger Bai Haofumi and the right midfielder Yamagishi Tomo, and at the same time, the entire defensive center of gravity of Hiroshima Sanfrecce also moved to the right.
Yu Bo, who then dribbled a shot, did not entangle on the right side, but distributed the ball to Wen Kai, the center forward who came to answer. It should be said that Wen Kai's response this time is very crucial, he has been in the center forward position, on the edge of the penalty area line to take the initiative to fight with the Hiroshima Three Arrows central defender, his sudden retreat to take the ball made Hiroshima Three Arrows' central defender Kazuhiko Chiba hesitate for a moment, did not follow.
After all, the most noteworthy thing on the front line of the Longteng team is the star Pato, even if Wen Kai withdraws, he does not have the ability to break through the penalty area single-handedly like Pato, and he will naturally have Toshihiro Aoyama as a back to take care of him after he goes out, so when Yu Bo's ball passes, Toshihiro Aoyama, who is in charge of the midfield sweep, is a step slower in his defense, and Wen Kai transitions the ball to Mahrez on the right.
Mahrez began to break through after getting the ball, which is also the usual trick of the Longteng team, which is to use a player with strong breakthrough ability like Mahrez to attract the opponent, if the opponent does not do the help defense, he will force the breakthrough one-on-one, and if the opponent comes to help the defense, he will transfer the ball when the opponent is coming.
This time Hiroshima Sanfrecce chose to take the initiative to help defend and press, in addition to the frontal defense of Mizumoto Yuki, Toshihiro Aoyama, who was still in the middle just now, also came to help, and at the same time, Shibasaki Akimako, as a left central defender, blocked Mahrez's pass to the penalty area, it can be said that Mahrez is attacked on three sides. This is the essence of modern football defense, that is, there is a sense of hierarchy, they will not be slowly pressed by you in front of the big penalty area because of your possession of the ball, his three lines are very good, and it will give you the illusion that there are people in front of the penalty area, let you go to the side, and then quickly surround it, and gain a numerical advantage in the local area, either you rely on your personal ability to force a breakthrough, or you will lose the ball.
At this time, Mahrez's foot technology played a role, he used the change of frequency under the defense of Mizumoto Yuki and Toshihiro Aoyama to flash out of the gap, selected the ball, and smoothly handed it to Xiao Yunfan, who was inserted to assist, this ball Xiao Yunfan received very comfortably, because the rolling direction of the ball was in the direction of his running, he didn't have to make any adjustments and pauses at all, as long as he kept the center of gravity of rushing forward. And Mahrez stepped forward along the sideline while passing the ball, making a two-on-two collision posture with Xiao Yunfan, and Pato came to help at the same time.
In addition to the fixed left defenders, Toshihiro Aoyama, the defender who came to assist the defense just now, even the central defender Kazuhiko Chiba also leaned to the left, after all, Pato is the target of the key defense.
But Xiao Yunfan didn't mean to hand over the ball to Mahrez and Pato at all, he directly distributed the ball to Lin Feng, as a return to the defense back has been following Lin Feng Nozuda Yueren is a front-court player after all, and he is not strong in defensive ability and defensive awareness, Lin Feng handed the ball to Kante before Nozuda Yueren was close, and in the face of Bai Haowen's grabbing, Kante gave the ball to Yu Bo, Yu Bo and Lin Feng again, Zhou Zhou formed an offensive triangle, because these passes were very fast touches and fast passes, when the three of them approached to the edge of the left penalty area, Hiroshima Three Arrows only Shiotani Tsukasa and Bai Haowen who was desperately rushing back, the Dragons formed a local three-on-two advantage on the left side.
This is exactly the situation that the Longteng team wants to see, Yu Bo and Lin Feng easily shook off Shiotani Division's defense with a one-two play, and after receiving the ball, Lin Feng saw that Chiba Kazuhiko began to come over to defend him again and gave the ball to Wen Kai, because of Chiba Kazuhiko's departure, a huge gap was formed in the center of the penalty area of Hiroshima Three Arrows, because Shibasaki Akisei who was supposed to come over to make up for Wen Kai was still on the left side and did not come back.
Wen Kai, who took the ball in the center of the penalty area, did not let go of such an opportunity, he shot directly with his feet, in fact, the quality of Wen Kai's shot was not too high, because he played at a more positive angle, but Hiroshima Three Arrows' goalkeeper Lin Zhuoren failed to stop the shot, and the ball went into the net from his armpit.
This is also a problem that Sanfrecce Hiroshima has been worried about this season, as the anchor of the team's backline in recent seasons, Shusaku Nishikawa has played very well in the goalkeeper position, he has helped the team to keep the goal clean many times, and has made great contributions to Sanfrecce Hiroshima's re-election of the J-League championship.
It's a pity that Sanfrecce Hiroshima, who is a dick (poor) silk (B) team, couldn't keep him, and at the beginning of this season, he chose to leave the team and transfer to the Urawa Red Diamonds Football Club, a veteran powerhouse in the J-League in 2011.
The departure of Shusaku Nishikawa, who was listed as a goalkeeper of the year by the famous German transfer market network for 1.5 million euros, won the Japanese J-League Outstanding Player Award for five consecutive years from 2012 to 2016 and was selected for the Japanese J-League Team of the Year, has reduced the outside strength of Sanfrecce Hiroshima's goalkeeper a lot.
Although Lin Zhuoren, who came off the bench at the beginning of this year, also had highlight moments, such as a clean sheet in the AFC Champions League last year, but there were also many low-level mistakes, such as in the AFC Champions League last year, when he also played for Sendai, he made a serious mistake in the group stage against Seoul FC, resulting in a 1-2 defeat for the team in the home game.
Compared with Nishikawa Shusaku after transferring to Urawa Red Diamonds this year, he kept a clean sheet in 7 consecutive games from the 10th to the 16th round of the league, with a clean sheet time of 630 minutes, setting a new record in the Japanese J1 League for excellent and stable performances without losing consecutive games.
Wenkai was excited after the goal, scoring the deadlock-breaking goal in the away game in the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League, and the importance of such a goal cannot be overstated.
Not only him, but Zhang Sheng on the sidelines also jumped up happily, when there was a goal in the previous game, two assistant coaches ran over to celebrate with him, this time Zhang Sheng took the initiative to turn around and hug Xu Erle, and shouted excitedly: "This is exactly the result I want, my tactics have succeeded." ”
Schurrle also shouted happily: "Great, Wen Zhen is a player with a big heart, and he can always score goals in key games." (To be continued.) )