33. In the spotlight
The two away goals made Zhang Sheng completely relieved, and the players on the field played more freely. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Faced with such a situation, Choi Yong-so also felt that he had given it a go, and he replaced central defender Kim Nam-chun with veteran Molina to strengthen the control of the midfield, and at the same time replaced Yoon Il-lu, who had a mess in the second half, with this season's rookie Yoon Joo-tae.
It's a pity that the Longteng team that played the state reached the point where how to play, and the Longteng team scored again through a quick counterattack, and it was Nie Jiang who scored, and the score became 0:3, and Seoul FC was completely blown up by the Longteng team in their home stadium.
However, a slight difference from the previous two goals is that this time the Dragons' attack came from the left side.
During this time, after McGovern's injury, Du Zhenyu did become the target of Zhang Sheng's key training, but his ability was still insufficient after all, so when Lu Zhihui returned from injury, he became the main central defender who could play both left back and central defender, and the substitute Wei Zhimin successfully became the main left back in the start.
The 19-year-old is also a typical attacking and defensive full-back, with excellent technique and forward penetration.
After Xiao Yunfan shined in this game, Wei Zhimin was also stimulated, and he held his breath and wanted to say goodbye to Xiao Yunfan.
Before, Wei Zhimin was afraid that Ben Alpha would attack too fiercely and didn't dare to go up to assist, but when the team was leading 2:0, Wei Zhimin also felt that he could let go.
In the case of another assist to the front, but did not help the team score, Wei Zhimin was still a little worried to look at Zhang Sheng on the sidelines, he was also afraid that the coach would think that he was playing too aggressively.
However, Zhang Sheng on the sidelines strongly agrees with Wei Zhimin's current style of play, the team is in an advantageous state, it is to continue to put pressure on the opponent, seeing Wei Zhimin's gaze towards him, Zhang Sheng gave him a thumbs up encouragingly.
In the face of Zhang Sheng's encouragement, Wei Zhimin completely put aside that timid mentality, and devoted himself to the assist, and soon achieved results.
In the thirty-third minute of the second half, Wei Zhimin used his speed to break through the right central defender Jin Zhiyou, who had been tortured by Ben Alpha for most of the half, and Jin Zhiyou, who had a great decline in physical fitness, couldn't pull in the face of Wei Zhimin's strong burst, so that Wei Zhimin rushed into the penalty area, and then Wei Zhimin played an inverted triangle pass very smartly, Nie Jiang, who had just entered the penalty area, faced the close pressure of two defenders to grab a left-footed shot, and the ball flew into the lower right corner of the goal, which was Nie Jiang's second brace in the AFC Champions League this season.
The score of 3:0 made Seoul FC head coach Choi Yong-so on the sidelines disappointed, and Jang Seung looked overjoyed, Seoul FC is a veteran powerhouse in the AFC Champions League, so what is there to be dissatisfied with such a score.
As for Xu Yang, who commented, he was completely crazy: "Wei Zhimin's beautiful breakthrough is completely unreasonable, this newborn calf's momentum of not being afraid of tigers can't be stopped at all, and the last calm pass reflects his thick and fine senior ball quotient." Nie Jiang is also worthy of being a genius valued by Coach Zhang Sheng, he is only 17 years old, he entered the first team for the first time, participated in the AFC Champions League for the first time, and has already scored eight goals. β
Then Xu Yang raised the Longteng team to a new level: "If the game continues according to this situation, it is very likely that it will really be like the 2012 season Guangzhou Evergrande vs. Jeonbuk Hyundai." However, all of Evergrande's goals in that game were completed by foreign aids, and most of the assists came from foreign aids. In this game, two of the three goals so far are from our local players, and the three assists are all from our local players, which shows that it is our local players from China who are the main players in this Longteng team. I think the gold content of this win is much higher than that game. β
In Xu Yang's praise, Zhang Sheng also began to make substitutions, first of all, Nie Jiang, the hero of the two goals, was replaced, and Zou Weijia was replaced, and then Zhang Sheng replaced Lin Feng who controlled the situation in the midfield with Zhang Hao, Lin Feng was only eighty-eight minutes when he got off the field, but his running distance was more than 1,000 meters more than the average running distance of the whole team, which shows his running ability.
Even if Zhang Sheng replaced the two absolute main players, the beaten Seoul FC was still completely unable to organize an effective attack, and the players of the Longteng team, who had too much physical consumption, began to pass slowly in the midfield, and the final score was fixed at 0:3.
The Longteng team won the opponent away from home with an absolute advantage, and this score also means that the Longteng team has basically advanced to the next round of the game, and the second leg of the game at the home of the Longteng team is also likely to become a playful game.
In the post-match interview, Zhang Sheng did not pretend to say anything, but said with high spirits: "Our players performed very well today, maintained a good rhythm from beginning to end, and they deserved this victory." And a lot of Chinese fans came here with the home team, special thanks to these away fans who created the atmosphere of the home stadium!"
Jang Seung's words were actually a provocation to Choi Yong-so.
As a head coach who likes to use the score to prove (play) (face), Zhang Sheng was very calm in the interview before the game, and now after the game, he has enough confidence to brag about himself.
In the final analysis, it was because he was unhappy with a lot of Choi Yong-so's previous words.
Choi Yong-so is definitely a coach with a personality, and he often has very exaggerated commanding and celebratory movements on the sidelines. In the first leg of the 2013 AFC Champions League final, after Seoul scored, Choi Yong-so rushed in the direction of Lippi to celebrate excitedly, but fortunately the fourth official stopped him at the halfway line, otherwise he would have rushed to Lippi's side. Choi Yong-so also likes to engage in verbal battles with opponents before and after matches, and his traits are somewhat similar to those of Portuguese madman Jose Mourinho.
Many of his words and deeds also made Zhang Sheng very uncomfortable.
For example, before the 2013 AFC Champions League final, he once claimed that he would pay the price for Lippi's insult and disdain for South Korean football.
Fans familiar with the World Cup are of course familiar with this feud - how the Italian team was hacked by the South Korean team in the 2002 World Cup is a household name. Lippi, of course, as an Italian, is not used to the South Korean team.
And Cui Yongsu has said more than once: "Chinese football has no technology, the players are very rude, and they are vulnerable in the face of pressure." β
Especially in history, in the 2015 season, Jiangsu Shuntian sent a coaching invitation to Choi Yong-so, offering a two-and-a-half-year fat contract with a total value of 6 billion won, he pretended to be fresh and refined: "I have never been a person who lives only for money, and money can never buy my heart." I can't have betrayed my football and my life just to make money. β
Of course, Jang Sheng, who crossed over in May 2016, did not know that in the end, Choi Yong-so still broke his promise - in June of the 2016 season, he agreed to Jiangsu Shuntian's pursuit and came to China to coach.
Now my own team is beating each other, and if you don't pretend to be forced to go back, wouldn't you be sorry for yourself.
After returning to China, Zhang Sheng, who pretended to be a big success in South Korea, naturally received great cheers from the fans.
Of course, the media did not let go of such a good reporting opportunity, and some media went to visit South Korea's sports reports, with "0:3 defeat, Korean media call shame!", "Longteng team 3:0 Seoul FC, South Korean commentary collapsed roar" and other reports specifically to set off the strength of the Longteng team, and some are all the scores of the Chinese Super League team against the Korean team "From Evergrande's 5:1 to Longteng's 3:0, the growth of Chinese football".
The Longteng team once again used their excellent results to swipe the screen in the football circle.
can get this score, Zhang Sheng has a clear enough understanding.
So far this season, it has been able to lead the second place in the league by 5 points and the third place in the league Guangzhou Evergrande by 7 points, and at the same time, it can easily defeat the strong opponent of the AFC Champions League away from home, which shows that the team has the ability to fight on both fronts.
This is due to three aspects of tremendous growth.
The first is further familiarization with tactics.
Last season, because of the large changes in personnel, the team has always been in the adjustment period, coupled with the first time to participate in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, it is inevitable that the understanding and preparation are insufficient, resulting in the tactics changing again and again, and failing to have a fixed style of play;
The second is the growth of bench players.
For example, several fullbacks this season, Zhou Zhou and Xiao Yunfan only had an ability value of 67 and 68 last season, and Wei Zhimin was just over 60, the three of them were rotation and substitute players last season, and this ability value was not enough to play a big role when the team needed them, and now Xiao Yunfan, who is a substitute, even has the ability value to grab the main position with Zhou Zhou - 74, and Wei Zhimin has also reached 72.
Although this season, with the promotion of the league and the growth of the ability value of the national team players, the requirements for the players are higher, but with Wei Zhimin's ability, it is fully in line with the level of being selected for the national team squad.
After the main players were injured last season, the substitutes on the top did not play very well, and this season, for example, McGovern, Lu Zhihui, and Xiao Yunfan were injured one after another some time ago, and Wei Zhimin, who came up on top, made a seamless connection, and even Du Zhenyu performed unsatisfactory.
This is also the reason why Zhang Sheng dared to transfer captain Shu Jun away before the season, because someone can top up, and more powerful.
Finally, there is the strong recovery of those core players, especially foreign players.
For example, Pato's ability value this season has broken through 110, such a level is second to none in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, from his 10 league games 11 goals, AFC Champions League 2 goals, when the title of the star, and another player who was reborn from the trough Ben Alfa is from the first team when the ability value of more than 80 to more than 100, and is still rising further, so far, although he has only scored 3 goals in the league, but the number of goals in the AFC Champions League is as high as 4, and many of his goals are the kind of decisive goals when breaking the deadlock.
Of course, if you want to talk about who is the hottest in the Longteng team now, it must be Nie Jiang.
With another brace in the last game, Nie Jiang has scored a total of 8 goals in the AFC Champions League, plus 4 goals in the league, this data looks even more shining against the backdrop of his just over 17 years old.
He can now be said to firmly occupy the top scorer list in the AFC Champions League, not only domestically, but also in the AFC is very concerned about this talented player, after the last game, the official website of the AFC named him the best player of the round, and also interviewed him.
Everyone agrees that as long as the Longteng team can go further, Nie Jiang is likely to become the youngest top scorer in the history of the AFC Champions League, and may even break the previous record of 13 AFC Champions League goals set by Guangzhou Evergrande's foreign player Muric.
And with the current state of the Dragon Teng team, this is not a small probability event.
In the history of the AFC Champions League, the number of goals scored by the top scorers each year has mostly remained between 6-13.
The record holder for 13 goals is none other than the aforementioned Guangzhou Evergrande's Brazilian foreign player Muric, who scored 13 goals in the 2013 season, setting a record for the highest goal in the history of the AFC Champions League, helping Guangzhou Evergrande win the AFC Champions League that season, and he was also the AFC best foreign player of the year.
In real history, it wasn't until the 2016 season that Seoul FC's foreign player Adriano equalled this record, but what made him inferior to Muric was that he failed to help the team win the AFC Champions League that season.
The reason why the AFC attaches so much importance to Nie Jiang has a certain background.
Because over the years, the top scorer of the AFC Champions League has been controlled by foreign aid, since the AFC Champions League was restructured in 2002, only four local players in Asia have won the title of top scorer, including the top scorer in the group stage like Nantawa - he scored four goals in a game against North Kyung Guoan in the group stage, such a goal did not help the team much, such as Nantawa's Thai Krung Bank did not even qualify from the group.
If Nie Jiang can really get the top scorer, the AFC can boast about his political achievements again, for example, in history, they frantically touted Omar, who only scored 3 goals in the AFC Champions League in a season, and the team failed to win the AFC Champions League.
Of course, Nie Jiang's goals are still very important to Chinese football, and there is also a Chinese player in the history of the AFC Champions League who has won the title of top scorer, that is, Hao Dapao who played in Dalian Shide in the 2002-2003 season, he scored 9 goals in the AFC Champions League that year, bringing the team to the semi-finals of that year, although the final total score was 6-7 to lose to the final champion, Al Ain from the United Arab Emirates, but it is worth mentioning that Hao Dacang scored in the last four knockout games, which can be called Mr. Big Sceneγ
And Nie Jiang is likely to become another Chinese player to win the top scorer of the AFC Champions League in 12 years, which is a great honor for Chinese football.