In fact, as early as the establishment of the Australian Super League in 2004, the Australian Football Association hoped to set up a team in the Western Sydney area, where community football is developed, but it has not found a sponsor willing to invest. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoFinally, before the end of the registration period for the league in October 2012, the president of the Australian Football Association, Ben Barkley, decided that the Football Association would raise its own funds to form the Western Sydney team. Eventually, the team was established with the then Prime Minister Gillard allocating $4 million as a guarantee on behalf of the government. After the establishment of Western Sydney Wanderers, the property rights and management rights belonged to the Australian Football Association, and part of the operating funds came from sponsors.

Later, there were British media reports that Premier League giants Manchester City were preparing to buy Western Sydney Wanderers for close to 9 million pounds, which was eventually confirmed as a rumor, and the main reason why there were Premier League teams interested in them was that they later created an even more incredible result than the Australian Premier League runners-up - winning the AFC Champions League in the team's first AFC Champions League season. This also gives those investors a glimpse of the money scene.

But after winning the AFC Champions League in 2014, the Western Sydney Wanderers created an embarrassing record, since the AFC Champions League all the way to win the championship trophy, the team then collapsed in all competitions, the league only accumulated 4 points in the middle of the ranking at the bottom, not only the honor is not guaranteed, even the qualification for the playoffs has become very slim, on the one hand, the Western Sydney Wanderers multi-front battle, the team players are a little overdrawn, the team has a long rest because of the Asian Cup, but the team's main striker Juric and defensive stalwart Spiranovic have been selected for the national team, Western Sydney Wanderers can not play with a full lineup。

However, don't look at the Western Sydney Wanderers as a new army, but the support figures behind him are not simple, because there is no privatization, so they have the support of the Australian Football Association and the Australian government, and it can be said that they are the sons of the Football Association in the Australian Premier League. In the history that Zhang Sheng knows, after winning the AFC Champions League in 2014, Western Sydney Wanderers have been fighting to break free from the bottom of the Australian Super League and have become the most water AFC Champions League champion in history.

Of course, this is also related to the Australian Football Association's efforts to save face, because since the Australian Super League team participated in the AFC Champions League in 2007, their best result was only one runner-up in 2008 Adelaide United, and then they were basically wiped out in the group stage, and they were lucky enough to reach the round of 16. Western Sydney Wanderers have become the face of the Australian Football Association.

It's just that the current Western Sydney Wanderers have not yet shown their strength in the AFC Champions League, and in the first AFC Champions League, they were beaten 1:3 by South Korea's Ulsan Hyundai team at their home stadium, and the Longteng team only got one point from Kawasaki Frontale. Therefore, it is generally believed that the Western Sydney Wanderers and Longteng in Group H are the targets of the points being grabbed by Ulsan Hyundai and Kawasaki Frontale, while the game between Western Sydney Wanderers and Longteng is a rookie pecking at each other.

Of course, there is also a voice that Western Sydney Wanderers and Dragons are the big dark horses in their respective domestic leagues, and the game between them can also verify whose dark horses are a little brighter.

Before facing this team, Zhang Sheng also specially investigated some players of this team, and from the investigation, Zhang Sheng found that many players of this team are actually related to the Chinese Super League. Because they have a number of foreign players who have played in the Chinese league, including former Tianjin TEDA foreign player Bridge, former Chengdu Sheffield United, Chongqing Lifan foreign player Brandon, Daniel Mullen who played for Dalian Albin last season and former Liaoning Hongyun foreign player Dane. Several players who have played in China have mentioned in media interviews that they have briefed their team-mates about the Chinese Super League team, so Rangers are also close to each other and they intend to prove themselves on the road.

Of course, the team's runner-up finish in the Australian Super League is not only due to these players who have been abandoned by the Chinese team, they have the Australian national team striker such as Juric and the first central defender in Asia, Matthew Spiranovic, and of course, the most important player is the former Japanese national team player Shinji Ono.

Juric is a player with dual Australian and Croatian citizenship and is a typical Aussie striker. He is tall - a full 1.8.9 meters, strong - weighs 85 kilograms, has strong physical confrontation ability, excellent heading ability, but the work is rough on the feet. It is said that he later received a number of offers from Chinese Super League teams, but he rejected them all, and eventually he also moved to Roda FC in the Eredivisie.

Matthew Spiranovic played in the 2014 World Cup and the 2015 Asian Cup as the main central defender of the Australian national team, and then won the 2015 Asian Cup with the Australian national team on home soil, and was also selected in the best team of this Asian Cup. Spiranovic was born into a football family, his father Michael was born in England and was a former footballer, and Spiranovic has two younger sisters - Amelia and Laura, the former plays for South Melbourne and the other plays for Melbourne Victory Women.

Spiranovic is the quintessential Australian centre-back, tall, strong and capable of heading the ball, but he is slow to follow back and turn slowly.

The real core player in the Western Sydney Wanderers team is Shinji Ono, as another talented midfielder who has emerged from the Japanese national team after Hidetoshi Nakata, Shinji Ono is familiar to the majority of Chinese fans. Known as a talented Asian star from a young age, Shinji Ono is an all-round midfielder with a keen eye for the attack, midfield and even the wings. Japanese fans also affectionately call him "Japan's Beckham".

Shinji Ono's peak was at Feyenoord in the Eredivisie, where he won the UEFA Cup in 2002 with an absolute assistant to his team-mates' goals, and was awarded the Asian Footballer of the Year title for his outstanding performances, and he became the first player to win both the Asian Footballer of the Year and the Best Newcomer. Unlike many other Japanese players, Shinji Ono has excellent skills and a very strong physique, and he was once called "Monster" in Japan, because although Ono is only 1.75 meters tall, he weighs 74 kilograms. This is also the fundamental reason why he can gain a foothold in a league like the Australian Super League, which is dominated by physical confrontation.

The tactical play of the Western Sydney Wanderers is very simple, that is, a long pass and a long pass, the team rarely plays layers of advancement through the organization of the midfield, after the player gets the ball, as long as the center of the front court runs in place, it is a long pass, and then through the direct charge of the center or other front-court players or the header ferry, and then slanted into the penalty area, so you can see that this team has a terrifying height, aside from the three central defenders who are about 1.9 meters tall and the center forward who is 1.8.9 meters tall, even their two fullbacks have a height of 1.88 meters, except for Shinji Ono who is less than 1.8 meters tall, all the other players are 1.85 meters tall or above, it can be said that it has a fight with the Premier League team Stoke City, known as the "Sky City", because Stoke City, which also loves high school strikers and header tactics, has the highest average height in the Premier League - 1.85 meters.

Of course, this style of play is also related to the Australian Super League teams and English clubs, and it is also related to the fact that this season's manager is from the former Crystal Palace team. However, when it comes to long passing, it is not as simple as everyone thinks.

The traditional British long-pass punch has two levels: X** long-pass punching crane and standing pile-type long-pass punching crane. We have always simplified the long pass punching and hanging, and have not studied the details and innovations behind this style of play. Can you imagine Pep Guardiola simply asking his players to "make more passes" and it's OK?

The modern tactics of long passing and hanging have long ceased to be the kind of high and high striker who stands still, and it is no longer the kind of mechanical wingback rushing and hanging. The current Premier League team's long pass rushing and hanging style of play has become a non-stop interspersed run of the forward players, the wings of the players fly together and the bottom cross, and the players in the middle of the road through rapid cooperation and conversion, such a concise, bright and practical style of play, although there is a shadow of the British style of play, but it has a different routine from the traditional British long pass play.

Although this tactic is very different from the ground transmission and pass-based play that is popular in world football today, isn't this how the diversity and unpredictability of football are also reflected?

In the face of the Western Sydney Wanderers' cosmic sky flow play, Zhang Sheng also made sufficient preparations.

First of all, in the center back, Zhang Sheng sent a double-headed master like McGovern and Lu Zhihui, and in the midfield, Zhang Sheng sent a combination of good skills at his feet, Yu Bo on the left side was taken down as a substitute in this game, and the starting one was Ding Huaiyi, a super skilled player. Because the opponent's ability in the midfield is not too strong, and the Longteng team can just take advantage of their weakness and gain an advantage through the control of the midfield, so that the midfield needs to be supported by a player with super skills at the feet like Ding Huaiyi, Yu Bo can go up to play as a substitute when Ding Huaiyi is not physically fit.

Another change in this game is to push Pato down the front line again, ready to use his quick start characteristics to play a surprise attack, so in the position of the front midfield, Lin Feng is on the field as the starter, and in the position of the back midfield, Zhang Hao, a bison-like player with a body, is responsible for defense, and Kante is responsible for tandem.

Compared with the game that the outside world sees as rookies pecking each other, Zhang Sheng believes that it is likely to become a key battle to determine who qualifies. (To be continued.) )