In fact, Zhang Sheng's words are Zhang Sheng's original intention, and his use of Ben Alpha is a long-term consideration for the team. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The frontcourt of the Longteng team definitely needs a player with strong breakthrough ability, Ivo's strength is okay in the face of midstream teams, but when the teams in the Chinese Super League begin to introduce those European-level or even world-class players in the back position, Ivo is a little insufficient, Ding Huaiyi, this player is Zhang Sheng, sooner or later to go to Europe to experience, and in Zhang Sheng's plan, it will not exceed next season at the latest, Zhang Sheng will find a suitable opportunity to send Ding Huaiyi to Europe.

So at this time, it is Ben Alpha who is responsible for the rhythm change of the Longteng frontcourt, but there is a premise that Ben Alpha must conform to the team's most basic tactics - frequent passing and running, if he does not meet this basic requirement, then there is nothing else to talk about.

Therefore, Zhang Sheng would rather spend some effort to let Ben Alpha change his style of play during this time, rather than let the team continue like this all the time.

Before the start of the official game, the name of Ben Alpha appeared in the starting list of the Longteng team, and it seemed to outsiders that Zhang Sheng was preparing not to hit the south wall and not look back.

Even Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of commenting this game, said to his partner Xu Yang after getting the starting list: "It seems that Coach Zhang Sheng really trusts Ben Alpha, his starter has been controversial, and he still insists on choosing to believe in him in such an important game, of course, every coach has his own preferences, it depends on Ben Alpha's performance in this game." ”

While the commentators were discussing Ben Arfa's form, Zhang Sheng was also in the dressing room telling him: "This game is very crucial, I need you to give 100 per cent on the pitch, I gave you a chance, and you have enough freedom up front, but I want to see the reward." ”

In fact, Zhang Sheng has always had a wish, that is, to create a frontcourt wing similar to Robben and Ribery, of course, a weakened version.

Robben is the kind of player who has a strong ability to break through alone, and his change of speed and direction and breakthrough with the ball are definitely one of the best in the whole world football, which can be said to be second only to Messi - of course, when Robben is healthy.

At the same time, Arjen Robben's passing is very good, most of the time we see him shooting, but more often than not his passing is also very imaginative. His old rival, former Borussia Dortmund champion "Grand Cross" Grosskreutz, once said: "Robben can decide the outcome of the game alone, and to limit him, you need at least two people." ”

Zhang Sheng's replacement for Robben is Ben Arfa, and while he breaks through, he should also pay more attention to passing like Robben.

And Ding Huaiyi is the replacement that Zhang Sheng used to replace Ribery, if Ding Huaiyi leaves, Tao Wentao will need to come up.

Because the characteristics of both of them are very similar to Ribery, Ribery has a small pace when he has the ball, but he has a fast, tight, brisk, and broken step, which is why his back hand is difficult to defend: splits, crosses, and sudden big strides inside are his forte. Franck Ribery's stoppage is world-class, and his consistency in connecting the next action after stopping the ball is very much like that of his former France team-mate, Zinedine Zidane. Ribery's speed advantage is evident when he is off the ball, and you can see him quickly interspersing and finding space on the pitch at any time.

Franck Ribery is an attacking brain that can be played on the wings, and Ben Arfa is especially similar to him, except that he doesn't have the same insight and ball-handling options as Ribery.

In fact, the ability of top stars to have the ball, except for players like Messi, is generally the same, they fight for insight and ball handling options, this is the performance of the ball quotient, Ben Alpha and he are not comparable.

However, in a game at this level in the Chinese Super League, as long as the style of play can be changed, Ben Alpha is definitely enough, and if Ding Huaiyi is added, the frontcourt wings of the Longteng team will be completely formed.

Ben Alpha didn't know what Zhang Sheng's expectations were, and he himself wanted to go further, changing his style of play was his only option, and when faced with Zhang Sheng's suggestion, he nodded and said, "I'll do my best." ”

Zhang Sheng patted Ben Alpha's shoulder encouragingly and said, "Then work hard and prove it to me." ”

Zhang Sheng also made a big change to this game, that is, to take McGovern down, let Lu Zhihui go up to play central defender, this choice is Zhang Sheng's big move, Evergrande has a very prominent weakness is to defend against high-altitude balls and set-pieces are often seized by opponents, before Gong Lei coached Guizhou Renhe, and now the Chinese Super League Changchun Yatai is using such an opportunity to defeat Guangzhou Evergrande repeatedly.

As the best offensive header in the team, Lu Zhihui was given a heavy responsibility by Zhang Sheng in this game, and Zhang Sheng also hoped that Lu Zhihui could continue to play against Guangzhou Evergrande's magical state and break the door of Evergrande again.

At the same time, Lippi also got the starting list of the Longteng team, and he was also feeling tricky for the starting lineup of the Longteng team, Lu Zhihui, the player's header Evergrande team has been taught a few times, it can be said that it is impossible to defend, in the absence of a tall central defender in the team, how to defend him has become a big problem.

In this game, Guangzhou Evergrande is Feng Xiaoting and Jin Yingquan two central defenders, their ability to play the ball, interception ability and recovery ability are good, but the high-altitude ball is not very strong, if you know that the Longteng team sent Lu Zhihui, Lippi should send a player with strong defensive ability like Mei Fang, but unfortunately it is too late now, and you can only make a decision when the game is played.

The game soon began in the referee's whistle, both sides played very cautiously after the opening, no one dared to easily risk to devote themselves to the attack, everyone will always leave at least one defensive back in their backfield to maintain a defensive posture, this game Guangzhou Evergrande left a defensive back is Zhao Xuyang.

During the break, Muric left a place in the AFC Champions League after leaving, but Rene, who has been performing well in the Chinese Super League, still missed the AFC Champions League.

Although Rene's performance in the Chinese Super League is obvious to all, the Brazilian midfielder has scored five goals for Evergrande, and there is no shortage of key goals in key games. But Lippi ultimately decided to put Gilardino in the AFC Champions League squad, and of course he did so for a number of reasons.

The first is the restriction of the contract, many players transfer to Guangzhou Evergrande in the contract to discuss the AFC Champions League list, for example, when Barrios first joined the team, when Evergrande's striker Cleo was also in good shape, but Lippi still let the Paraguayans, who are frequently injured and unstable, enter the AFC Champions League list, which may be related to the contract. Evergrande brought Gilardino in after several twists and turns, and it is understandable that the Italian striker put forward the condition that he must be included in the AFC Champions League list.

At the same time, Gilardino is the most important reinforcement in the second transfer hand-picked by Lippi himself, so it is not surprising that Gilardino was selected for the AFC Champions League list, as for the other two non-Asian foreign aid Elkeson and Diamanti, one is the most important offensive core of the team, and the other is introduced by Lippi as a replacement for Conca's position, the two of them must not sign up, so the only one who suffers is Rene, whose reputation and reputation are far inferior to the other three foreign players.

This is also the reason why Guangzhou Evergrande has suffered in this AFC Champions League in the history - there is one less defender with sweeping ability in the midfield position.

At the beginning of the game, some of the disadvantages of replacing Rene with Zhao Xuyang cannot be dealt with for the time being, one is that the Longteng team has not yet begun to invest a lot of energy into the attack, and the other is that Zhao Xuyang is physically fit enough and can still concentrate on defense at the beginning.

But as the game progressed, the Longteng team fighting at home began to exert its strength, and the first point of force was Ben Alpha, who had been complained about by the commentators for a long time.

After the start of the game, the players of the Longteng team strictly implemented Zhang Sheng's tactics, that is, they fought more in the midfield, and used their midfield ability to gain a midfield advantage compared to the opponent's strength, and the Longteng midfielder with Ivo and Lin Feng as the front and rear axis did not live up to Zhang Sheng's expectations, and the two of them used their strong passing and receiving skills to basically entangle Guangzhou Evergrande's frontcourt offense and defense in the midfield belt, and it was difficult to have the opportunity to shoot in the 30-meter area.

It can be seen that after several years of training, the Longteng team has qualitatively improved the confrontation ability in the midfield.

The previous Longteng team has always relied on its strong passing and receiving ability to control the situation in the midfield, but with the gradual increase in the league level of the team, the technical advantage of the Longteng team in the midfield is often consumed by their own physical weakness, the main reason is that the team can not reflect the technical advantage in the case of high-level confrontation, but when the Longteng team began to slowly participate in the Chinese Super League, and even after the AFC Champions League, through Zhang Sheng's large number of use of various acceleration characters of the system, the team finally has a certain experience in the confrontation, and the team's technical advantage is reflected at this time。

It can be seen from the data in the middle of the league that the Longteng team's possession time in the midfield is getting longer and longer, although the team does not score many goals because of the striker's poor goal, but the midfield still has enough opportunities for the striker.

In this game, when Zhang Sheng strictly required the players to control the ball more in the midfield and not to attack rashly, the main purpose was to be afraid of the opponent's counterattack, because Zhang Sheng still remembered that in the last league game against Guangzhou Evergrande, the Evergrande team scored a goal with a counterattack, which made Zhang Sheng, who was too risky, regret it.

As the game progressed, the two sides gradually entered the state, and the first to launch a tentative attack was Guangzhou Evergrande, which was fighting away.

In the 18th minute of the first half, Guangzhou Evergrande's Diamanti showed the characteristics of his strong body, after receiving the pass from Huang Bowen in the back, he firmly protected the ball at his feet, Lin Feng in the middle of the Longteng team entangled him to death, but he couldn't grab the ball at his feet, and finally Diamanti fell to the ground under the sandwich of Roque Gill and Lin Feng who came to help, and the referee decisively gave Guangzhou Evergrande a free kick in the front court.

This free-kick is a little bit far away from the player, about 40 meters, and unless there is a god-level free-kick player like Robert Carlos, most players will choose to hang into the box and let their teammates complete the shot.

As the goalkeeper of the team, how to arrange the position of the human wall is their job, Song Jianhua chose the most conservative one, that is, to arrange 2 people outside the 10-yard area of the free throw players, and then the other defenders are standing in front of the penalty area to defend.

Before the game, Zhang Sheng reminded him that Diamanti's free kicks are very powerful, both in terms of power and arc and angle, but the threat range of his free kicks is between 20-30 meters, and in free kicks 30 meters away, Diamanti is still used to passing rather than shooting.

After arranging this human wall, Song Jianhua stood in front of the goalpost and glanced at it a few times, and saw that there was basically no chance for the opponent to shoot directly, he signaled to the referee that the human wall was set, and the referee also blew the penalty whistle for this free kick.

Diamanti has been observing the position of the Longteng team's human wall when Song Jianhua arranged the human wall, it should be said that Song Jianhua's arrangement is very conventional, there is nothing big wrong, he is completely arranging the human wall in accordance with the way of anti-passing, but unfortunately he underestimated Diamanti's experience.

Diamanti did not send the ball to a teammate in the crowd after the free throw, but directly to the open space between the human wall and the goalkeeper, Song Jianhua was obviously not prepared for the ball to appear in this position, he hurriedly went down to save the ball, but in a hurry, he did not grasp the position, the ball was saved, but the wrong save position caused the ball to bounce up and get out of his hand.

In the face of such an opportunity, where will Guangzhou Evergrande's players let go, especially Elkeson, a player known for his speed, he rushed from outside the box into the box with a super fast acceleration, and then before all the Longteng players reacted, a flirting shot shot into the net.

Guangzhou Evergrande scored on their first tentative attack and they took a 0-1 lead away from home.

After the goal, Elkeson rushed towards Lippi at high speed, and this ball was the best answer for him to repay Lippi for his trust.

Also very excited is Diamanti, although this goal is scored by Elkeson, but most of the credit should still be on Diamanti, he used his rich experience to gain insight into Song Jianhua's thoughts, and then decisively executed, creating a scoring opportunity for Elkeson.

Veterans are veterans, because they have enough experience to deal with all kinds of situations, these things have nothing to do with the talent of the players, they rely on the training of the game and the precipitation of time, and most of the players of the Longteng team lack this thing.