37. Control the rhythm

When Lu Zhihui ran to head the goal, so the commentary was improved. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xu Yang also shouted: "Lu Zhihui's header is really dangerous. It's really strange, as long as it is a game with Guangzhou Evergrande, Lu Zhihui's set-piece header attack is particularly sharp. ”

He Wei took over the conversation at the same time and said: "I also think it's very strange that some players can always score goals when facing certain opponents, which is really a very mysterious thing. ”

It is difficult to explain this phenomenon, but it is a very common situation in football, that is, some players are always scoring goals against the same opponents, or scoring goals on the same field.

For example, Guangzhou Evergrande has been very strong in China in history, but Xiao Zhi, as a domestic player who is not too strong, always scores goals in the face of Evergrande.

He even scored twice against Evergrande in 2014, scored the winner against Evergrande in 2015, and scored again in 2016, although he moved to Guangzhou R&F, he scored again in the 2016 season. As a domestic striker who is not too prominent, he has completed the feat of scoring the Evergrande goal for three consecutive seasons.

There are many more examples of this in the Europa League, and it is very common for top giants to turn over in the gutter against the same opponents, such as the lesser-known Cameroonian goalkeeper Kameni, who is a real nemesis for Barcelona.

He has been playing in La Liga for a long time, and he has always kept clean sheets against Barcelona who have been attacking over the years, and he has kept four clean sheets when he played for Espanyol and three clean sheets after his transfer to Malaga, which is absolutely unthinkable for all fans.

Lu Zhihui's performance is not something to be fussed about.

Shortly after Lu Zhihui hit a threatening attack, Guangzhou Evergrande also returned the favor to the Longteng team, this time Evergrande's attack was created by the two strikers Gao Lin and Gao Lart.

These two are also the two most threatening players in the Guangzhou Evergrande team right now.

As an active Brazilian international, Goulart's ability is in line with his value - 15 million euros, and as the highest transfer price in the history of the Chinese Super League, he has also played far beyond the level of the Chinese Super League.

So far, Goulart has scored six goals in six AFC Champions League group games and eight goals in 10 league games, which proves that he is second to none not only in the Chinese Super League, but also at the Asian level.

Compared with Goulart, who has the name of a Brazilian international, Golin's performance this season is the most unexpected.

Prior to this game, he had scored 7 Super League goals now!

As a centre-forward, Gaulin has been criticized for his shooting.

Although his fame was scored 5 goals in 4 AFC Champions League games during the Shanghai Shenhua period, he frequently hit empty goals in front of the goal, and playing jerking off gave him a bad brand, so much so that fans nicknamed him "Gao Plane".

After coming to Guangzhou Evergrande, although he scored 20 goals in the Chinese League, becoming the second local player in China to get the best shot in the secondary league, and scored 11 goals in the Chinese Super League in the 2011 season, but in the next few years, because Guangzhou Evergrande has successively introduced a large number of high-level foreign strikers, Gao Lin's league goals are far less than before.

Gradually, Gao Lin began to move further and further away from the goal, becoming a supporting striker, but before Zheng Long and Yu Hanchao joined, Gao Lin was almost the only domestic player in the Evergrande team to spend most of his time in the opposing half, because as his ability gradually grew, he was the only player in the team who could stand up front and deliver beautiful passes to his teammates.

In this season, because of the injury of several foreign aids, Gao Lin's position had to move forward, and once again took on the heavy responsibility of attacking the city, originally everyone thought that he would frequently appear to hit the empty goal when the scene of urgency, he used his continuous goals to tell everyone - I am still one of the best strikers in China.

For example, the first point that Guangzhou Evergrande's attack found this time was Gao Lin.

After Feng Xiaoting in the backcourt made a long pass from a very long distance, even under Xiao Yunfan's watchful eyes, Gao Lin still took the ball down with an extremely beautiful stop ball, and turned around successfully while unloading the ball.

His performance made He Wei exclaim: "This ball is beautiful! The coordination of the body and the coherence of the movements show that Gao Lin has really risen this year." ”

After Gao Lin stopped the ball and turned around in one go, he made several actions to get rid of it in a row, seeing that he couldn't quickly pass Xiao Yunfan, and Zhou Wei sealed the shooting angle of the goal very tightly, he dialed the ball, flashed out of the gap of the pass, and sent the ball to the far end of the goal.

His pass was very thief, the ball was very high when it was flying, and the centre-backs basically couldn't top it, but it fell very badly before flying out of the box, and the ball landed near the back post.

The passing in this place is too uncomfortable for the defender, the defender can't touch it, the goalkeeper can't pick it up, as long as the offensive player consciously inserts it, this is called a murderous pass.

Fortunately, as a central defender, Ma Yongli's defensive awareness is also top-notch, and when Gao Lin kicked out, he went to carry Gaolat, although he was at a disadvantage in physical confrontation, so that Gaolat still ran to this position, but because of the interference in physical confrontation, Gaolat was still affected to a certain extent, and the ball was slightly off the post under Gaolat's rush.

The cooperation between Gao Lin and Gao Latt is the reason why Guangzhou Evergrande has suffered a large number of injuries this season, but still successfully qualified for the AFC Champions League and occupies the first group position in the league.

Although Guangzhou Evergrande's attack did not cause a goal, it still scared Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng made a gesture to Xiao Yunfan with both hands down, which meant that he would be more stable when defending.

In fact, long before replacing Zhou Zhou with Xiao Yunfan, Zhang Sheng had already expected such a situation.

Zhou Zhou, as a player who changed from the back position to fullback, the defensive gene is deeply rooted in his bones, with him on the field, at least at the level of the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, there are few players who want to break through successfully from his side.

Although Xiao Yunfan is born as a striker, he has better skills in the position of fullback and stronger assist ability, but he and Zhou Zhou are really not at the same level in terms of defensive ability.

Zhang Sheng chose to take a risk, and he had to pay the price for his comeback.

Xu Yang is also praising Guangzhou Evergrande's attack: "Now Guangzhou Evergrande has a shortage of foreign aid, but Gao Lin has lived up to his name of 'Gao Linsman', he can be a foreign aid envoy." This kind of attack is simple and efficient, but the technology contained in it is rarely possessed in the entire Chinese Super League. ”

Gao Lin and Gao Lart's attack seems to be a shot in the arm for Guangzhou Evergrande, and then they frequently look for Gao Lin and Goulart in the front court at the same time, the two wings also played an effect.

Yu Hanchao on the left and Zheng Long on the right also began to use their speed advantage to constantly impact the back of the two wings of the Longteng team, which is a weakness of the Longteng team's tactics - the back line is very far forward, and the gap between the two wings is very large.

Cannavaro just wants to use this style of play to make the two wings of the Longteng team retract and reduce the pressure on the Longteng team on the Guangzhou Evergrande midfield.

But Zhang Sheng, who decided to win this victory, did not follow Cannavaro's idea, but let the players strengthen the high pressing in the front court, delay the speed of Guangzhou Evergrande's counterattack, and at the same time affect the quality of their passing, so that even if Guangzhou Evergrande can pass the ball out, the players who take the ball in the front court are also very awkward.

This tactic of the Dragon Teng team still has an effect.

In the next game, the rhythm of the game and the degree of confrontation rose in a straight line, the speed of the offensive and defensive conversion of the two sides was extremely fast, and the Longteng team used the advantage of fast passing express in a small area to mobilize the players of Guangzhou Evergrande to run non-stop, once the ball was lost, it was a stubborn fight on the spot.

Guangzhou Evergrande's players used long passes to constantly impact the back of the Longteng team.

The game is often just after Guangzhou Evergrande's attack ended, and the Longteng team's counterattack hit their goal, and soon Evergrande quickly launched a second attack after the defense was successful.

In such a game, not only the commentators of each family kept commenting on the defense and offense of the two teams, but the fans on the sidelines and in front of the TV also watched it with relish.

The difference is the expressions of the managers on both sides of the pitch.

Zhang Sheng excitedly commanded the team on the sidelines, asking the players to speed up the pace of the game again, while Cannavaro frowned and looked for a way to slow down the pace of the game.

Because the difference in fitness between the players on both sides is too big.

The current Guangzhou Evergrande is a two-front battle - in the previous FA Cup, they lost away to Xinjiang Dabancheng Nahuan, that is, Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopard, and have been eliminated in the FA Cup.

In that game, Guangzhou Evergrande not only sent a full bench lineup, but also only 13 players signed up, and head coach Cannavaro did not direct the game, but let assistant coach Maddaloni command the game.

In that game, the Tianshan Snow Leopard, which has Yan Xiaoyu and Ni Kai, two loan players of the Longteng team, firmly suppressed Evergrande's second team, and Evergrande's scene was extremely passive, if it weren't for the fact that the team was really empty, Guangzhou Evergrande would never treat the FA Cup like this.

Even if Evergrande strategically gave up the FA Cup, their physical fitness is far inferior to that of the Longteng team.

For example, in the last AFC Champions League game, Guangzhou Evergrande in order to lay the victory early, the whole main lineup out of Osaka Gamba, which has been in excellent form recently, although it has an advantage on the field, but the goal is not so smooth, until the end of the game, Guangzhou Evergrande relied on Gaolat's goal to defeat the opponent 2:1.

This game greatly consumed Guangzhou Evergrande's physical energy, while the Longteng team was a completely different situation.

The score of 3:0 not only allowed the Longteng team to put all their energy into this game without worrying about the second leg of the AFC Champions League later, but also Zhang Sheng used up three substitutions early in that game, allowing several main players to rest.

Therefore, Cannavaro is trying to slow down the pace of the game as much as possible, use these experienced players in his team to slowly grind with the Dragons, and finally let the individual ability of Gaolin or Goulart solve the game.

And Zhang Sheng's idea is just the opposite of him, that is, to use the physical advantages of his players to speed up the pace of the game as much as possible, it doesn't matter if he scores in the early stage of the game, and the winner will be determined after 70 minutes.

Now the game looks fast-paced, the intensity of the confrontation is high, the quality of the game is one of the best, and it is very spectatory, it seems to be a very commendable game, but it is not the game that Cannavaro wants.

Football isn't about a good team, and often a lot of the time, a quiet win is what the manager wants.

For example, Juventus, the representative of the famous big and strong style of play, is like this.

There's a reason why the club is nicknamed "The Old Lady", in addition to their long history and heritage, the slow pace of the game, but always being able to suffocate opponents is another interpretation of this nickname.

No matter how passionate the opponent is, they can always drag the opponent into their own rhythm and use the calm defence and strong pressing to solve the battle, and Cannavaro, who came out of Juventus, was the first thing that came to mind when he was short of manpower and out of fitness.

Now it seems that his idea is about to fall apart.

Once it is played like this in the first half, then in the second half, especially in the last 20 minutes, Guangzhou Evergrande will be difficult.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly gestured to Zheng Zhi, the captain on the field, and asked him to control the rhythm of the game.

At the beginning of the thirtieth minute of the first half, Zheng Zhi, as the core of Guangzhou Evergrande, no longer began to pursue the forward offensive pass, but asked Feng Xiaoting, who was responsible for the ball on the back line, for the ball.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Sheng decisively gave instructions to Lin Feng, using all means to interfere with Zheng Zhi's passing, and at the same time asking other players to be ready to cut off Zheng Zhi's passing route at any time.

Cutting off the passing line here is not to predict the direction of Zheng Zhi's pass, but to whomever Zheng Zhi's ball is passed to, he will immediately go up and force it, so that they don't have the opportunity to pass the ball down slowly.

At the same time, Zhang Sheng gestured to Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin on the two wings, sprinting back and forth to rush to the side, driving the opposing side players to run.