The first step in Zhang Sheng's tactical adjustment was to gesture to Ma Yongli and let him play a long pass.

As the Longteng team's strongest player with long passing ability on the field now, when his side's passing control in the midfield is not played by the oppressive defense, Ma Yongli's pass can just achieve the combination of long and short in attack.

In the twentieth minute of the second half, the Longteng team's transmission in the midfield was forced to be pressed back into their own half, and the overall formation of Guangzhou Evergrande also moved forward to press, and the football at this time also happened to the feet of Ma Yongli.

As soon as Ma Yongli got the ball, Elkeson's pressing approached, and Ma Yongli also wisely passed the ball to Lu Zhihui, after Lu Zhihui got the ball, Elkeson ran to him again, Lu Zhihui didn't think about it, and handed the ball to Ma Yongli again.

At this time, the players of Guangzhou Evergrande were pressing in the front court, and they were all pressed relatively high, and Ma Yongli made a little observation after receiving the ball and passed the ball to the front court with a long pass.

At the same time as Ma Yongli passed, Pato cleverly made a retreat, and suddenly stepped forward, he was in an offside position before retreating, so Feng Xiaoting didn't take his running to heart at first, but when Ma Yongli touched the ball and passed the ball, Pato had already retreated to a position parallel to Feng Xiaoting, and when Feng Xiaoting reacted, Pato seemed to have successfully got Ma Yongli's pass in an offside position.

Pato, who ran with the ball at high speed, surprised the Evergrande players, because now Pato has formed a single knife.

Pato, who was single-handed, faced the attacking goalkeeper Zengcheng with a beautiful bocce ball, and the ball passed under the armpit of the fallen Zengcheng and drilled into the net.

After the goal, Pato excitedly raised his hands and ran to the sidelines to celebrate the goal.

The defenders of Guangzhou Evergrande all raised their hands to signal that the ball was offside.

Referee Abdullah, who was also unsure whether the goal was offside, went straight to the linesman on the sidelines and asked him about the result.

After exchanging a few words with Abdullah, the linesman pointed to the spot where Pato had received the ball and signaled that it was an offside goal.

Seeing this decision, Guangzhou Evergrande fans were satisfied, and they all applauded vigorously to express their gratitude to the referee for the change of decision, but this time it was the turn of the Longteng team players and the people in the coach's seat to be dissatisfied.

Zhang Sheng hurriedly complained to the fourth official on the sidelines about the penalty.

Since the rules of football have not yet been introduced into video refereeing at this time, the final decision on the field is all determined by the referee, and the fourth official simply ignored Zhang Sheng's protest, of course, he also maintained the authority of the referee.

Regarding this punishment, Duan Xuan and Xu Yang did not dare to rush to a conclusion, but said in unison: "There should be a slow-motion replay later." Whether it was a misjudgment or not, you will be able to see it at a glance later. ”

Sure enough, soon the broadcast camera gave the slow motion of the goal, judging from the slow-motion replay, before Ma Yongli passed, Pato was indeed in an offside position, but when Ma Yongli passed, Pato had already retreated, and the moment Ma Yongli kicked the ball, Pato was basically parallel to Feng Xiaoting's position, but because Pato's start speed was too fast, his arm poked out before Feng Xiaoting, and his body was also offside by half a body.

This offside penalty is indeed correct, it should be said that Ma Yongli did not have a tacit understanding with Pato on the long pass after taking the ball.

The Longteng team's long pass attack this time did not cause an effective goal, but it was the counter-effect of startling the snake, and the next few long passes of the Longteng team were either because Ma Yongli's long pass was not accurate enough, and was easily taken by the players of Guangzhou Evergrande, or it was simply passed to the place where the Longteng team players could not get it.

Ma Yongli's non-stop pass attracted the attention of Guangzhou Evergrande players, because every pass in the backfield was out from under his feet, before Elkeson and Goulart often ran back and forth between Ma Yongli and Lu Zhihui to scramble, and later found that the ball would always return to Ma Yongli's feet, under Scolari's instructions, they simply stared at Ma Yongli.

In desperation, Ma Yongli handed over the task of playing the ball to Lu Zhihui, and the latter's long pass accuracy was even more unreliable.

It should be said that the last penalty had an impact on the psychology of the Longteng team, but it was a great encouragement to Guangzhou Evergrande.

The Longteng team's frequent backcourt shots now seem a little impatient, while Guangzhou Evergrande's attack in the middle is becoming more and more threatening.

Shortly after that offside goal from the Longteng team, Guangzhou Evergrande scored.

In the thirtieth minute of the second half, after continuous pressure on the middle of the Longteng team, Guangzhou Evergrande aimed their target at the right side guarded by Xiao Yunfan.

After Zheng Long got Paulinho's pass, he did not send the ball to the middle again, but gave it to Elkeson on the left, this time Elkeson and Zheng Long did a wall-hitting cooperation, Zheng Long did not rush into the penalty area after taking the ball, he turned around and handed the ball to Paulinho in the middle, Paulinho played a one-two with Zheng Long again after taking the ball.

The Longteng team did a two-by-one on the side before, which made many of Guangzhou Evergrande's attacks useless, but this time I didn't expect that after the two-over-one on the side had no effect, their attack on the side was just a disguise, and the real focus was on the middle.

Paulinho, after a one-two with Zheng Long, shook off Roque Gill's defence and created an opportunity to shoot from the edge of the box, at which point Roque Gill pulled him down without even thinking about it.

This time, Roque Gill's foul not only received a yellow card and could not play in the next leg, but also gave Guangzhou Evergrande a free kick opportunity in a good position.

In fact, this is also a microcosm of the Longteng team in the middle of this game, Paulinho's forward threat is too great, so that the Longteng team is in an extremely passive situation in the middle.

Guangzhou Evergrande attaches great importance to this free kick opportunity in the front court, in addition to Paulinho standing in front of the ball, and Huang Bowen is covering him.

In the end, it was Paulinho who made the free throw. Before he made the free throw, Huang Dawei kept directing his teammates to line up the wall, hoping to block all the angles of Paulinho's shots.

When the referee blew the whistle for the penalty, Paulinho used the power of the run-up to kick the ball hard.

Paulinho's shot was a boccia ball close to the ground, just as the players of the Longteng team jumped up, drilled past their feet, and in the face of this extremely fast and powerful shot, by the time Huang Dawei fell to the ground to save, it was too late.

Guangzhou Evergrande finally paid off after attacking for dozens of minutes.

Duan Xuan was also completely impressed by Paulinho's ability: "Guangzhou Evergrande should be grateful to Paulinho for this goal, he organized the attack by himself, made free kicks by himself, and then scored again." Add to that the number of key tackles he's made in midfield, what is a B2B midfielder?

"His ability, like Pato, is definitely more than a notch above the entire Super League player. Xu Yang also praised, "And his position is more critical than Pato, the position in the middle of the midfield is the backbone of a team, and if this position is up, the whole team will stand up." ”

For this goal, Zhang Sheng felt that he was indeed responsible, Paulinho after the opening, often forward, he still only focused on Evergrande's side attack, and when the task of organizing the attack changed from Evergrande's two wing forwards to Paulinho, he did not make the corresponding arrangements at all, let go of the marking of the opponent's core personnel, and the loss of the ball became inevitable.

Guangzhou Evergrande is not without weaknesses now, and the weaknesses are still very obvious, that is, they are now pressing on the offense, and the gap behind them is extremely large, but now there is really no one in the players on their field who breaks the opponent's defense with an extremely beautiful long pass.

Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng turned around and looked at his bench, and soon he looked at Cao Jinghao.

The 1998 youngster is the kind of player who has a particularly big advantage in that he has a good long pass, but he is not good enough to play against the opposition in midfield, and how to arrange his position is a problem.

Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng had his own ideas, and he asked Cao Jinghao and his teammates to hurry up and warm up first to prepare for the substitution.

At this time, the Longteng team on the field seemed a little busy because they had to defend against the side attack and the forward insertion of Paulinho in the middle.

After Cao Jinghao and his teammates warmed up, Zhang Sheng asked other players to rest, called Cao Jinghao to his side alone, and then said: "Now our form on the field is a bit passive. The main thing is that no one is giving good balls to teammates in the forward line. Ma Yongli is now very dead by the opponent, I need you to go up to break this situation, after you go up, take the position of Zhou Zhou, play fullback, you don't need to go to the midfield to fight against the opponent, you are not capable enough now, just guard the side, send a good ball to your striker, and use your favorite long pass. ”

To be able to play in such a game, and to play as a savior, Cao Jinghao is very excited.

Zhang Sheng's substitution also made Duan Xuan and Xu Yang a little incomprehensible, because Cao Jinghao, as a player who is less than 17 years old, is too young, and now he is playing as a left midfielder to replace Zhou Zhou with left wingback, and everyone is a little confused.

But they soon found out.

This time, Guangzhou Evergrande took it for granted that their offensive target was on the left side guarded by Cao Jinghao, but Cao Jinghao was far more mature than they imagined.

Under Zhang Sheng's advice, Yu Bo as a full-back assisted Cao Jinghao's defense very well, and Cao Jinghao fully played his characteristics - running, first-class ability to pass and receive the ball.

When Goulart and Huang Bowen came to force the grab, Cao Jinghao first handed the ball to Yu Bo, and then Yu Bo handed the ball to Lin Feng who came over to respond, Lin Feng's retreat allowed Paulinho to also come over to participate in the scramble, at this time there was no one around Cao Jinghao to defend, Lin Feng pushed back and handed the ball to Cao Jinghao.

In the few seconds when Lin Feng passed the ball over, Cao Jinghao had already looked up and observed his teammates on the forward line - Pato was now in a tight defense and could not start, Tao Wentao was next to Zheng Zhi, and the only one who was a little empty was Nie Jiang.

Seeing this situation, Cao Jinghao had his own judgment, when Lin Feng's ball came over, he did not make adjustments, but directly made a long pass, the ball crossed the Goulart who came over and rushed, and flew directly to Nie Jiang's side after Zheng Zhi who wanted to jump up with his head in the midfield, and at this time Nie Jiang just bypassed Feng Xiaoting's defense through the running position, and inserted it from the space between Jin Yingquan and Feng Xiaoting.

The Guangzhou Evergrande players who reacted began to desperately chase back, and Duan Xuan also shouted: "The long pass counterattack of the Longteng team comes from Cao Jinghao's long pass." ”

At this time, Jin Yingquan is the last line of defense, Feng Xiaoting is chasing behind Nie Jiang, in the face of Nie Jiang's constant change of direction in the high-speed dribble, it should be said that Jin Yingquan has raised his attention to the limit, and while retreating, he is ready to follow Nie Jiang's change of direction to change direction to cut off Nie Jiang's ball.

At this time, the foot skills honed by Nie Jiang had an effect, and in the high-speed dribbling, he firmly controlled the ball at the most suitable distance under his feet, Jin Yingquan didn't dare to kick at all, but he was almost unable to maintain his center of gravity because of Nie Jiang's continuous shaking.

Soon Jin Yingquan's balance reached the limit, and in the face of Nie Jiang's acceleration of another change of direction, he could only stretch out his foot to fight hard to see if he could break the ball, but unfortunately his leg did not touch the ball at all, just when Nie Jiang was about to make a single knife, Feng Xiaoting, who caught up from later, grabbed Nie Jiang's jersey, and then quickly withdrew his hand and stretched out his hand to say that he did not touch it.

Nie Jiang, who was running at high speed, was pulled by this, and completely lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground, and he immediately began to complain to the referee who ran over out of breath.

The referee looked at the foul very carefully, showed Feng Xiaoting a yellow card without thinking, and gave the Longteng team a free kick in the front court with an excellent position.

The players of Guangzhou Evergrande did not argue with this penalty, after all, the foul was still obvious, but the players of the Longteng team did not do it, because Feng Xiaoting did not pull this shot, Nie Jiang was likely to be a chance to score a single goal, and the referee could have sent him off the field with a red card.

Duan Xuan also said: "The referee should still be merciful, although Nie Jiang still has Jin Yingquan in front of him, but he has lost his center of gravity, Feng Xiaoting pulled this time, Nie Jiang's single knife is gone, maybe considering the home factor, Feng Xiaoting only received a yellow card." ”

"I just avoided this one with a yellow card. Xu Yang said, "Feng Xiaoting has a yellow card on him, and if he gets another one this time, he will be suspended for the next leg! To be honest, Scolari is probably worried about the lineup for the next leg." ”

"It should be said that Cao Jinghao has made meritorious contributions. Duan Xuan turned his head and said, "I said why did Coach Zhang Sheng replace him, look at his long pass." ”

At this time, the broadcaster was playing the slow motion of Long Teng's attack, just in front of Cao Jinghao's pass to Lin Feng, a direct long pass without stopping the ball, and extremely accurately found Nie Jiang's running position.

"Tut-tut! Look at this kick. Xu Yang also praised, "There are really too many good players in the Longteng team. ”..