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First of all, they chose a good manager.

At the beginning of this year, after scandals with countless famous top coaches, Beijing finally signed a 1+2 work contract with the little-known Spanish coach Gregorio Manzano. This decision surprised experts from all walks of life, and even a certain online Serie A expert shouted: "Camacho brother" is here. Although the results of Beijing Guoan are the best in recent years, there are still a large number of fans who are not very interested in it, but in the face of the results of the top two teams in the standings, they have to admit that Manzano does have two brushes.

Zhang Sheng remembers that Manzano won this year's Chinese Super League Coach of the Year in history, which shows the external affirmation of him, and as a reborn Zhang Sheng, he knows that Manzano is also very good at coaching Shanghai Shenhua after being fired by Beijing Jingguoan, under his coaching, the team won the fourth place in the Chinese Super League, creating an unbeaten home record in the league, and at the same time broke into the semi-finals of the FA Cup, re-qualified for the AFC Champions League after five years, and completed the club's season goal.

Secondly, compared with the poor recruitment in previous seasons, the recruitment of Bei Jing Guoan this season can be said to be a rare success.

Guoan cleaned up a large number of players in the winter window, and it can be seen that they want to make a big move. Among the players who left the team, Wang Xiaolong and Kanute were the main players last season, and Kanute was the core of the whole team, and the departure of these two people still had a relatively large impact on the team. To this end, the club has spent an unprecedented amount of money to bring in six players in one go.

Among them, Batala also created a record for the value of foreign aid in the history of the Guoan team, Beijing Guoan bought it at a price of 350w euros, as the Turkish league assist king, Batala was undoubtedly introduced as a stand-in for Kanute. Due to the confrontation with the coach in the previous club, when he came to the national security team, he had not trained systematically for half a year. It can be seen that in the beginning of the season, his ability to get rid of it did not show too much because of his poor physical condition, but it was his keen sense of smell in front of goal that helped him become the team's top scorer in the first half of the season.

This season, Beijing Guoan was eliminated from the AFC Champions League, and many people also thought that it was the reason why Batala was not there, because of the problem of bargaining on the transfer fee, Batala missed the qualification for the AFC Champions League registration, and everyone felt that if Batala could play in the AFC Champions League, Beijing Jingguoan, who had performed well in the AFC Champions League group stage, would not necessarily be eliminated.

At the same time, several other foreign aids, including the South Korean national team Ha Dae-sung, Zhao Hejing, nicknamed "Kangkang", and Chen Zhizhao, who came back from Brazil, have performed well, not to mention Liu Xing, who they poached from the Longteng team, has become the sharpest attack of the national security team now, making the left side, which has been criticized before, become their own advantage.

And Zhang Sheng knows that in this summer transfer period, Deyang, which they bought from Jiangsu Shuntian, performed better. He was depressed in the Sainty team, and he performed very well in Beijing Guoan, nicknamed Asian Ibrahimovic, really played the role of Ibrahimovic, scoring goals, assists, and responding to everything, and even often returned to the backfield to assist in defense.

Although the other foreign aid in the summer window, Fizuraou, started high and went low, but now he is in good shape, and Lei Tenglong, who returned from Portugal, is also a good substitute.

As a non-player-born coach, Manzano is the kind of veteran coach with a strong academy style, and his personal steady and rigorous character is also reflected in the formation requirements, he places great emphasis on tactical discipline, the range of activity of each position is fixed, and the three lines are compact, although this tactic is relatively out of the current trend of frequent position changes in the world, but it is very suitable for Chinese players with poor technical and tactical awareness.

Manzano's favourite style of play is a diamond-shaped midfield of four, and like many pure Spanish coaches, Manzano mainly plays on the wings. Historically, this season's Beijing Guoan has never used this formation because of the lack of ability and characteristics of the full-back personnel, Guoan has never used this formation, but this season with Liu Xing, the main level of the national team, Manzano has the capital to play this formation, especially in the face of weaker teams, Liu Xing's inward cut on the side is the main means of his attack, but in the face of strong teams, Manzano will have another way of playing, he will use the 4231 single forward control style of play, the team uses short passes to cooperate, layer by layer advancement, Batala stands in the position of the front waist and is responsible for scheduling, because this formation is stronger than the 442 formation of defense, more stable.

It should be said that Manzano still brought a lot of new things to Beijing Guoan, as a Spanish coach, and Zhang Sheng, who advocates passing and receiving, so far this season's Beijing Guoan has 60.5% possession, and the number of passes is also the most in Guoan's history.

The second is that he has been very good at the back, conceding the fewest goals in the Super League so far - just 10, even fewer than Guangzhou Evergrande and Longteng in front of them. Of course, this is also related to the fact that there are many fouls in Beijing Guoan, because there is no longer a need for a small range of multi-person areas to quickly break the ball and fight the opponent's counterattack, but it is necessary to use more harassment and fouls in the midfield to achieve the purpose of slowing down or preventing the opponent's rapid counterattack, so this season's Beijing Guoan fouls rank first in the Chinese Super League, fortunately, their "heritage" is very deep, and there are relatively few yellow cards, plus this season they are neat and the bench thickness is very deep, so there is no shortage of manpower.

However, in Zhang Sheng's view, after Manzano came to Beijing Guoan, the most successful thing was the psychological adjustment of the players.

There's a reason why Manzano is so mentally well-trained, he holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a psychiatrist's license, which gives him the nickname "Professor" in Spanish coaching circles. After the arrival of Manzano, through subtle indoctrination, he gradually established a strong mentality for the Guoan players, and overcame a big stubborn disease of Beijing Guoan - the away bug.

Away bugs are a common problem of Chinese Super League teams, the imbalance of home and away results has been a chronic disease that hinders the further progress of the Guoan League, even if the home-and-away points difference is still as much as 13 points when winning the championship in 09, this situation is even more serious last year, Guoan 2013 season unbeaten at home in the league throughout the year, the difference between home and away points reached 15 points. This kind of home-and-away performance of the two teams may come from the utilitarian football ideology of "winning at home, keeping a draw away" ingrained in the cultivation of Chinese football, and so far Beijing Guoan has only scored six points less away than at home, which is still their achievement in the first half of the season when there are more home games.

So in the face of this away dragon team, Zhang Sheng attaches great importance to it, considering that the team's core personnel and positions have been greatly adjusted, Zhang Sheng did not let Ben Alpha start, but maintained the first half of the season's style of play, Pato is still placed in the middle, the right side is on Ding Huaiyi, the left midfielder is still Yu Bo, the double back is Lin Feng and Roque Gil partner, and the goalkeeper is also on Zhou Wei.

Before the start of the match, Zhang Sheng explained to both Ben Alfa and Ivo.

For Ben Alpha, Zhang Sheng made it clear about his current situation: "Judging from the report submitted to me by the fitness coaching team, your body does not have the capital to play the whole game now, today is a very important game, the opponent must focus on defense in the first stage, and only prepare to attack in the later stages of the game, so you can't start this game, but I will put you on the bench, and you must be ready to go up when the team can't open the situation." ”

Ben Alfa, who had eaten a killer stick when he first entered the team, was very honest: "I know, when it comes to the second half, look at me." "Obviously he also knows that his current tactical role is to go up and sprint in the second half.

As for Ivo, Zhang Sheng was more polite: "I should have given you more opportunities to play to find your form, but this game is special, I hope you can understand, if the situation on the field is stable, I will let you play in the second half." ”

Ivo is clearly prepared to be a substitute and said: "Boss, I know that if the situation on the pitch is not good, I want to come on and help. ”

Zhang Sheng patted Ivo's shoulder comfortingly and said, "There will be a chance." ”

Manzano, who also took the game very seriously, was also in the dressing room at this time. In fact, although Manzano is a psychology professor, he is not good at dealing with locker room relations, he has twice coached Atletico Madrid in La Liga, there have been locker room crises, and Manzano rarely enters the dressing room, except for the decisive moment, he rarely spends 40 minutes before the game like when he coached Atletico Madrid to face elimination in the Copa del Rey in 2002, using his psychiatrist experience to cheer up the players.

But this time against the Dragons, who are in the lead position but only a new team, Manzano saw hope of reaching the top, and he carefully prepared the dressing room speech before the game.

First of all, he pointed out the biggest weakness of the Dragons: "I know that everyone is very serious about this game and this team has beaten us before, but I would say they are not as strong as they thought they were. ”

'They made a big mistake in the middle of the league and they let two key players move away, which is not the approach of a strong team, a team that wants to win the title. Any team that wants to win a championship will do everything they can to strengthen their team, and will never give up core players for a little money or a little fame in the middle. So, as long as we show a stronger desire to win the title, we will beat them. ”

After saying these words, Manzano surprised the players very much, because even though Manzano led the team to a good result this season, he never said the word championship, and when facing the first team in the league, he made a declaration of winning the championship, which shows how much he attaches importance to this game.

Seeing that the team was looking at him with surprised eyes, Manzano said seriously: "Yes, I'm talking about winning the championship." Don't be surprised, because we're a team with a championship tradition. We've won the FA Cup three times, we've won the league, I've led the team to the Copa del Rey in La Liga, I know what the title can bring us, those trophies prove that we are the best, and our opponents, what do they have?'

"This game will determine whether we can win the championship this season, and as a champion player, I am sure that you will be able to overcome the difficulties and overcome them!" Manzano's unwavering tone gave the players great encouragement.

As the captain of the team, Xu Yunlong reflected his value at this time, and after Manzano finished speaking, he began to cheer up his teammates: "I have been in Guoan for almost fifteen years, I have won all the championships with the team, and I have a deep understanding of the coach's statement, only a team that wants to win the championship can win the championship, what is the slogan of our Guoan?"

"National security will always be the first!" all teammates shouted in unison.

Hearing his teammates chanting in unison, Xu Yunlong hit the railway while it was hot: "That's right, this is our belief in Guoan, under this belief, we won the FA Cup, we won the league championship, today, under this belief, we want to defeat the opponent and move towards the championship again!"

Then Xu Yunlong stretched out his hand, and the players of Beijing Guoan also gathered around and folded their hands together.

Xu Yunlong took the lead and shouted with everyone: "Come on, come on, come on!"

Seeing the performance of Xu Yunlong and the players, Manzano also extended a thumbs up to everyone and said: "Let's play, stick to our style of play, we are the strongest." ”

As the players prepared to play, the commentators from all walks of life began to make various predictions for the game.

Because it is the focus of this round, like the two teams, all the broadcast media have sent their own elite soldiers, Shen Fangjian is responsible for the CCTV commentary, Sina Sports is Wang Yu and the famous Huang Jianxiang, and the local TV stations of the two participating teams are of course the most famous.

At the beginning of the season, no matter how much the fans envisioned their team, they never thought that their team would stand at the top of the table after the first stage of the league, but the Longteng team gave them a great surprise, and the fans also gave the team the greatest support, that is, to come to the scene to watch the game and cheer for the team.