In fact, these years are also the strongest years of Hiroshima Three Arrows, in the reality that Zhang Sheng knows, Hiroshima Three Arrows missed the J League championship in 2014, and won the J League championship again in 2015, and in 2015, Hiroshima Three Arrows participated in the Club World Cup as the host league champion, after losing 0:1 to River Plate, the champion of the Copa Libertadores in the semifinals, reversed the AFC Champions League champion Guangzhou Evergrande 2:1 in the third and fourth finals, and won the third place. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the team of Sanfrecce Hiroshima is a strange team even in the J-League, that is, they do not attach great importance to the AFC Champions League, and they even regard the Emperor's Cup (similar to the Chinese FA Cup) as more important than the AFC Champions League.

Therefore, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, who has the strongest attacking power in the J League, is often complained by fans in Japan because of foreign wars, and if you look at their history, you can see that their results are not good when facing Chinese Super League teams.

In the 2013 season of the AFC Champions League, they were in the same group as Beijing Guoan, and Beijing Jingguoan stepped on their shoulders to qualify for the group; this year's AFC Champions League they and Beijing Guoan were in the same group, although Hiroshima Three Arrows qualified, Beijing Guoan was eliminated, but in the two legs of the two sides, Beijing Guoan with a home score of 1:1, away 2:2 to occupy the advantage, Guoan if not facing the other two teams in the same group of away results is too scummy, maybe this time out of the Guoan.

And in the history of Zhang Sheng knew that in the 2016 season, the play was a mess, in the Super League almost relegated Shandong Luneng in the AFC Champions League group stage and Hiroshima Three Arrows in the same group, Shandong Luneng, who was in a very poor state, was 1:2 away and 1:0 at home to kill them out of the group, which was also the first time in the history of Shandong Luneng to enter the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League.

This shows the weakness of the Hiroshima Three Arrows team against the Chinese Super League team.

Of course, the strength of the Hiroshima Three Arrows team itself is undoubted. Although the captain of Sanfrecce Hiroshima does not have any big players, the stalwarts such as Takato Hayashi, Hiroki Mizumoto, Naoki Ishihara, Toshihiro Aoyama, Yojiro Takagi and Takeshi Nozuda have always been part of the Japanese national team squad. On the AFC Champions League registration form, Sanfrecce Hiroshima only has 4 foreign players, in addition to Mikic from Croatia, Park Yong Kim, Hwang Seok-ho and Byun Jun-beom are all from South Korea. Sanfrecce Hiroshima is a typical team with average overall strength, no obvious weaknesses, and no reliance on foreign reinforcement.

Of course, the reason why Sanfrecce Hiroshima did not buy good foreign players is very simple, that is, their team has no money.

Before Sanfrecce Hiroshima's results broke out, that is, in the 2011 season, the team's head coach had always been foreign coach Petrovic, and he also received a salary that was considered a high salary in the J-League - an annual salary of 80 million yen is equivalent to 6 million yuan.

Sanfrecce Hiroshima Club was originally capitalized at 2,110 million yen, but by the end of 2010, the club had already used up 2,036,000,000 yen, so it had to invest 200 million yen, leaving the entire team with a capital of 220 million yen, and by the end of the 2011 season, Hiroshima's deficit had reached 265 million yen.

Of course, another reason why Sanfrecce Hiroshima did not have money to invest was that they were building a new football stadium, and in order to build the stadium and build the streets at the same time, and make use of the stadium flexibly, the club chose the old Hiroshima Citizen Baseball Stadium as the construction site, and the new stadium is a professional football stadium with a capacity of 30,000 people.

This is a very Premier League style professional football stadium, in fact, this is also in line with the temperament of the Hiroshima Three Arrows team, because in the Japanese football world that is generally obsessed with samba football, Hiroshima Three Arrows has always relied more on the European style, the team from the beginning, the first coach is the perennial Swedish England Baxter, since then nine coaches, in addition to four local, five foreign coaches are from Europe.

Due to the strict access system of the J League, teams that cannot meet the financial balance standards will be relegated, and for this reason, the club's president Yuichi Motoya said that he can only reduce human resources costs, reduce the salaries of all players, and no longer renew the contract of foreign coach Petrovic, who has led the team for 6 years.

After Petrovic's departure, Hiroshima appointed Hokazu Moriyasu, who had been the head of the club's intensive competition department, as manager. Hoichi Mori is a former coach of Japan's Under-19 youth team, who led the team to a runner-up finish at the Asian Youth Championships, and is also a manager who has been influenced by the style of European football.

In terms of foreign aid, the Hiroshima Three Arrows team can save money and only sign 3 players. Among them, Croatian player Mikic, who was born in 1980, is only a former Croatian Under-21 player, who played two seasons in Kaiserslautern and is an attacking right midfielder. The other two are both South Korean student players, former South Korean Under-18 international Lee Dae-heon and South Korea's London Olympics star Hwang Seok-ho, even if Hiroshima Sanfreccece's results have improved and their income has increased, they have only replaced a few South Korean foreign players.

For example, in the 2011 season, the salary of all players in the Hiroshima team was less than 1.1 billion yen (about 80 million yuan), which is almost half of the relegated Osaka Gamba, but the team won the league championship.

Relying on these young local players and young local coaches like Mori Boichi, there is no super foreign aid, no big-name supplements, no famous coaches who shout out and frighten, and the Hiroshima team does not even have the main national team players. In the case of low salaries, relying on the local core players cultivated by the youth system, they finally won the league championship.

At the same time, Mori Boichi also broke the embarrassing record of the Japanese coach leading the team to win the championship, and the last time the Japanese J League won the championship was in the Osaka Gmba era of Hiroshi Nishino in the 2005 season. The most important thing for the Hiroshima Sanfrecce team under Hoichi Mori is to pay attention to defense, pressing opponents in the midfield and even in the front, and strictly marking the area at the back.

From these aspects, it can be seen how similar the teams led by Mori Baoyi and Zhang Sheng, the teams are based on local players as the core, and the players are generally very young, both sides attach great importance to defense, and play a pressing front-court forcing tactic, and at the same time, the offense of both teams is also based on passing and control, and even the development of the club is so the same, both sides are building professional football fields, and there is no such impulse in the investment of players.

The current Hiroshima Three Arrows should be the most notable of their front trident, and the local offensive triangle composed of Toshito Sato, Yojiro Takagi and Naoki Ishihara is the most important thing for the Dragons to guard against.

And now Sanfrecce Hiroshima is in very good shape, they are in second place with 6 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, and in order to prepare for this AFC Champions League, the J League also specially adjusted the J League match in the 12th round of Sanfrecce Hiroshima to July, giving them enough physical fitness.

Compared with Hiroshima Three Arrows, the Longteng team rushed to Japan to play away from home after just finishing a Chinese Super League match three days ago, and the team's physical fitness and other aspects are far inferior to their opponents.

After coming to Japan, Zhang Sheng asked the players to quickly adapt to the venue, and at the same time, the most he did was to let the team's physical fitness team and physiotherapy team step up the physical preparation of the players.

In terms of players, the captain of the team, Shu Jun, officially returned, and this time Zhang Sheng brought him to Japan, but he has not been allowed to start for the time being, after all, his condition has not reached the best. At the same time, as the absolute midfield core of the team, Ivo finally ended the adjustment after the injury and has begun to officially train with the team, but Ivo did not register him for the first phase of the game because of the previous injury, if he wants to participate in the AFC Champions League, it depends on whether the Longteng team can eliminate Hiroshima Sanfrecce and enter the AFC Champions League 1/4 finals, because the second registration time for the AFC Champions League is the week before the 1/4 finals.

In the pre-match press conference, Sanfrecce Hiroshima's head coach Mori Hoichi looked very confident: "I know that there are top superstars like Pato in the opposition team, but we are not afraid of them, we play football as a whole, and we are very well prepared tactically, and we will win in the end." ”

Not to be outdone, Zhang Sheng said in an interview: "This is not the first time we have come to Japan to participate in the AFC Champions League, although we are a young team, but our players are very good, I hope we can achieve better results than last time." ”

The last time the Dragons came to Japan, they took a point, and the better result was of course to take all three points.

For the game of the two teams, the domestic attention of the two sides is completely different, as the biggest dark horse in the Chinese Super League this season, all the domestic sports broadcast platforms have given full attention, affected by yesterday's Guangzhou Evergrande in the AFC Champions League away 1:5 swept Osaka Sakura, domestic fans have given enough expectations, responsible for commenting on the game is Liu Jianhong and Xu Yang of CCTV Sports Channel.

In Japan, neither fans nor the media are very concerned about this game, although the Hiroshima Three Arrows team is the champion of the Japanese J League, but because the team belongs to the China region of Japan, not the developed Kanto and Kansai, so the number of fans is small, and the results of the AFC Champions League in the past are poor, and they are not favored. The match was broadcast on Nippon TV's pay TV G+, with the commentary being Shoji Jojo and Ken Suzuki live, and yesterday's Osaka Sakura vs. Evergrande match, Nippon TV was broadcast with the assistance of 3 former internationals including Toshishi Toshi. Of course, this is also the reason why the influence of the Longteng team is far less than that of Guangzhou Evergrande.

On May 7, the 1/8 finals of the AFC Champions League East Asia officially began, and Sanfrecce Hiroshima welcomed the challenge of the Longteng team at their home stadium Hiroshima Metropolitan Park Land Arena.

In this game, Zhang Sheng arranged a more conservative lineup, Ding Huaiyi on the left side was also put on the bench again, and Yu Bo, who was stronger in defense, started the game, but Lin Feng was Zhang Sheng arranged the starter, after all, the opponent is a team known for defense, Lin Feng's midfield pass is far more secure than Zhang Hao, in Zhang Sheng's idea, Lin Feng attacked strongly for a period of time, striving to score goals for the team, and then let Zhang Hao go up to defend, it is best to get three points, and it is also very cost-effective to get a draw without three points.

Sanfrecce Hiroshima, on the other hand, lined up a full-day lineup, and several foreign players did not get starts.

After the start of the game, Sanfrecce Hiroshima took advantage of the home field to attack aggressively.

As the backbone of the team, Toshihiro Aoyama is only 1.72 meters, he is the main midfielder of the Hiroshima Three Arrows team, and was once a representative of the Asian Games in Doha, Japan.

But when you underestimate his thin body, you will be punished, as a typical Japanese youth player, his foot ability is very good, only 2 minutes into the opening, Lin Feng slightly relaxed his defense was passed by him a good ball, Nozu Tian Yueto received a pass from Aoyama Toshihiro outside the penalty area after a long shot, the ball was slightly higher than the goal, the Longteng team was a dodge. In the 8th minute, Yojiro Takagi passed the ball to Toshihiro Aoyama, and this time the shot was replaced by the latter, and he fired a long-range shot that hit Ma Yongli's body and popped off the bottom line.

Obviously, Sanfrecce Hiroshima is in better form than the Dragons.

It may be that the impact of continuous away games on the Longteng team is relatively large, and many players of the Longteng team are obviously a little unable to run on the field after the opening, which leads to the consequence that the ball cannot be passed on offense, and the defense is always slow, and this is the state of the Japanese team's favorite opponent.

As the organizational core of Hiroshima Three Arrows, Yojiro Takagi slowly found a weakness of the Longteng team after carefully observing the situation on the field, that is, because the players of the Longteng team are not active in running, Lin Feng, who is responsible for attacking in the midfield, often makes mistakes between the passes between his teammates, and once Lin Feng inserts the attack forward and makes a mistake, then the Longteng team has a loophole in the process of switching from defense to attack, and there is only Kante who really attacks and defends in the backfield.

Yojiro Takagi, who figured this out, began to prepare for this loophole in the Dragon Teng team.

And Yojiro Hagi is capable of taking advantage of this loophole, he is not only a master of dribbling, holding the record of the youngest league appearance of the Hiroshima team, but also his physical strength is extremely abundant, and he also has a long-range shooting ability, and he even played a single striker in the team when Hiroshima Sanfrecce lacked a striker, which shows his all-round ability.

In the 11th minute, Yojiro Takagi had a chance, when Lin Feng passed to Mahrez on the right, because the pass was too powerful, the ball was picked up by Hiroshima Sanfrecce's left-back Hiroki Mizumoto, who passed the ball to Yojiro Takagi. He used his skillful foot skills to shake Lin Feng who came over to defend and then picked up a pass, as a sudden striker, Naoki Ishihara received the ball and faced the goalkeeper directly, but his shot was substandard, the ball deviated from the target, which can be said to be a must-score goal was knocked away. (To be continued.) )