However, Leonardo's attitude towards the Chinese team is very bad.

When someone asked him about joining the Chinese Super League team before, he said with a disdainful face: "I will never go to the Chinese Super League." ”

In history, he also did something more excessive, that is, in the game with Shanghai SIPG, he actually made a throat-cutting action when scoring a penalty kick: "The Chinese Super League team, you are finished!"

AFTER THE GAME, HE EVEN SAID IN AN INTERVIEW WITH A KOREAN REPORTER: "CHINESE SHUT UP" (Chinese, YOU CAN SHUT UP)

Although Zhang Sheng, as a traverser, had not experienced this at the time, he still instinctively treated him as the most dangerous opponent.

Seeing the active Leonardo, Zhang Sheng asked Zhou Zhou to strengthen his marking, and at the same time asked Roque Gill in the midfield to strengthen the defense on the right side.

This is also the reason why Zhang Sheng is on the right side of Zhou Zhou in this game, after all, his defensive ability is much stronger than Xiao Yunfan.

After Zhou Zhou and Roque Gill strengthened their defense on the right side, Jeonbuk Hyundai's left attack gradually fell silent, and the Dragons began their own attacking performance.

In the twelfth minute of the first half, Leonardo still wanted to organize an attack on the left side, but he was slowly squeezed to the sideline by Roque Gill, and Zhou Zhou also came up to help defend at the first time and poked the ball away from behind him.

Roque Gill, who received Zhou Zhou's player, quickly passed the ball out and handed over the organization of the attack to Lin Feng.

The latter took advantage of Jeonbuk Hyundai's opportunity to press the attack to play a beautiful counterattack, and he played a beautiful one-two-one collision with Tao Wentao, who came to respond, so that Jeonbuk Hyundai's organizational back Lee Jae-seong's defense completely failed.

Seeing that Lee Jae-seong's defense failed, Choi Cheol-chun, another defender of Jeonbuk Hyundai, hurriedly came over to defend Lin Feng.

Although Cui Zhechun is the main right fullback in the team, but his fighting ability in the back is very strong, and his small actions are particularly many, when playing with the Chinese Super League team, there are many people who suffer from him, this season in the face of Beijing Guoan, it is his many small actions on the field that made Zhou Ting, who was unbalanced in mentality, rough on him and received a red card.

As early as the group stage, it was he and Dai Lin who clashed with each other, causing Dai Lin to receive a yellow card.

In the entire K-League, as a defensive player, he can get the fifth-highest annual salary in the league, which is very indicative of his quality.

Before the game, Zhang Sheng also specifically told Lin Feng and Tao Wentao that once Cui Zhechun came up to fight, don't give him any chance to get close, and use more passes to avoid his defense.

This time Lin Feng did exactly this, seeing Cui Zhechun coming, he gave a beautiful ball to Ben Alpha who came back from the front line to get the ball, and followed by Ben Alpha was the defender Kim Ki-hee who later transferred to Shanghai Shenhua, and he appeared in the right-back position this game.

For Kim Ki-hee, Jang Seung specifically emphasized, and he asked Ben Alpha to focus on this point.

As a central defender, Kim Ki-hee is a defence-oriented player with average technical ability, and he is mainly responsible for defending and clearing at Jeonbuk Hyundai, but he tends to push too defense, which leads to his penchant for cards, and he often makes mistakes in the ground ball and high-altitude ball scrambles.

Originally, Choi Kang-hee asked Kim Ki-hee to play full-back to use his defensive ability to stop Ben Alpha's breakthrough, but at the same time, he also became a weakness that Jang Seung exploited.

This time, Ben Alpha took advantage of his ability to tackle too hard and shook it off with a nice feint to create a breakaway on the wing.

Ben Alpha, who had successfully broken through, did not cross immediately, but continued to cut inside to the edge of the penalty area, and Choi Cheol-soon also hurriedly came from the back position to fill the position.

Ben Alfa, who had already been reminded by Zhang Sheng, passed the ball very decisively, making Cui Zhechun's supplementary defense useless, but leaving the defensive space in the middle, and it was Pato who stepped forward into this defensive gap.

Seeing Pato's run, Jeonbuk Hyundai's players came to defend like a big enemy, not only the team's Australian international foreign aid Wilkinson came from the center back position, but another playmaker Lee Jae-seong also rushed back from the front court to prepare to pinch Pato.

However, this time they were wrong, Pato was just a front in the middle for the time being, Ben Arfa passed the ball to the left, and Nie Jiang, who had run from the outside of the box before, had already cut in diagonally.

After Nie Jiang got the ball, he crossed directly, because there was no player team to interfere with him, his ball passed very beautifully, and after bypassing the opponent's central defender, it was sent directly to the center of the penalty area, and Tao Wentao used Pato's cover at this time to run to the position.

Tao Wentao, who got the ball, had a beautiful push that was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Kwon Chun-tae, while Pato's shot, who continued to make up the shot, was blocked by another central defender, Kim Hyung-yi, with his legs.

The Dragons' attack almost broke through the opponent's gate.

It should be said that Jeonbuk Hyundai did not concede a goal this time, thanks to their two excellent defenders - Kwon Soon-tae and Kim Hyung-yi.

Looks like Wang Dalei, nicknamed "South Korea Van der Sar", Kwon Chun-tae is another player trained by Choi Kang-hee, in addition to playing for two seasons in the army club Sangju Sangmu during his military service, he has been playing for Jeonbuk Hyundai, and he is also the absolute main goalkeeper of the Korean national team. He was later bought by Kashima Antlers in the J-League.

And Kim Hyung-yi is more familiar to fans of the Chinese Super League, because he is the most embarrassing Korean foreign aid after coming to the Chinese Super League.

In the 2017 season, Guangzhou Evergrande originally wanted to introduce him to replace the long-injured Jin Yingquan for half a season, but what he never expected was that the Chinese Football Association suddenly issued a new policy to limit the number of foreign aid on the field, and Jin Hengyi, who was originally used as a stand-in, never had the opportunity to play, and he also became the only foreign aid on Guangzhou Evergrande's side who did not participate in a game, and transferred to the Bucheon FC1995 team of the K2 League after taking half a year's salary in vain.

I don't know what kind of experience this player who took 7.5 million yuan in Evergrande in half a year but didn't play a game, anyway, he became a victim of the new policy of the Football Association.

However, at this time, Kim Hyung-yi is the absolute main central defender of Jeonbuk Hyundai, last year he was selected as the central defender of the South Korean national team to participate in the World Cup, before he won the AFC Champions League and the K League double with the absolute defensive core when he was Pohang Steelers, and in the history of the 2016 season and Jeonbuk Hyundai won the AFC Champions League and K League double together, its strength is absolutely first-class.

The strength of the two of them can be seen from the fact that the two of them teamed up to stop the goal of the Longteng team this time.

The attack of the Longteng team just now not only frightened the players of Jeonbuk Hyundai, but also made the commentators of both sides very excited.

Park Wencheng shouted when Tao Wentao shot: "Nie Jiang's pass, shot, from Tao Wentao, Kwon Chun-tae's beautiful save, Pato's supplementary shot, Kim Hyung-yi blocked it." Jeonbuk Hyundai almost lost the ball, what was going on with the back line just now, it was all empty at once, and only Kim Hyung-yi was defending alone in the middle of the penalty area. ”

And He Wei felt sorry for the attack of the Longteng team: "The attack of the Longteng team this time is very threatening, and it almost broke through the opponent's gate, but unfortunately the luck is too bad." ”

Cui Kangxi, who saw this scene on the field, also hurriedly roared at the defense on his right: "Be careful, don't make low-level mistakes." ”

Jeonbuk Hyundai players, who were urged by the coach, began to play their most common tactic - crazy rush in the frontcourt.

As a team full of hardness and fierceness, Jeonbuk Hyundai has the top level in Asia whether it is pressing in the high position or counter-tackling on the spot after being cut off in the attack.

That's why they can boast of the K-League, while also being on par with Asia's top teams like Guangzhou Evergrande.

For this feature of Jeonbuk Hyundai, Zhang Sheng has also made arrangements for a long time.

Before the game, Zhang Sheng made a request to all the players: "Be sure to play the ball quickly, keep a good distance between players, and use our ability to pass quickly to disrupt their pressing." ”

Sure enough, Jeonbuk Hyundai's crazy rush tactics encountered a big dilemma in front of the Dragon Teng team.

The Longteng team has one or two players with extremely good footwork on each line, there are Ma Yongli and Xiao Yunfan on the back line, not to mention the midfielder, the Longteng midfielder with Lin Feng as the core has been running in for two or three seasons in terms of accurate and fast passing, and he has long been familiar with this set of tactics, as for the forward line, the three players have the ability to control the ball and pass the ball throughout Asia, which makes Jeonbuk Hyundai extremely uncomfortable.

In the past AFC Champions League matches, Jeonbuk Hyundai had a great weapon unless they ran into the J-League team Kashiwa Suns, who "ate and slept and played Jeonbuk", but now they have encountered new problems.

It's not like they haven't played against J-League teams that are characterized by fast passing, and the tactics that they thought could rely on such pressing and physical confrontation to gain an advantage were a bit ineffective.

For no other reason, in terms of physicality, the Dragons are definitely tougher than any team in the J-League.

Compared with the Japanese players who are generally only a little more than 1.7 meters tall and weigh no more than 140 pounds, the players on the field of the Longteng team can be regarded as "fierce generals".

For example, Lin Feng, the soul of the Longteng team who is now responsible for the midfield tandem, is 1.83 meters tall and 146 pounds, and the back back Roque Gil, who is responsible for sweeping, is 1.82 meters tall and weighs nearly 150 pounds.

Even Tao Wentao, whose body is not fully developed, has a height of 1.84 meters and weighs more than 140 catties.

These players have received the best physical training team in Asia, and the diet and research team that are rare in all Asian clubs, and the body fat percentage of these players is definitely the best in Asia.

Especially for Nie Jiang's special training recently, Longteng Club has invited the top sports research team from Europe to be responsible for the physical evaluation of players, and it can be said that there are not many Asian clubs with such conditions as Longteng team.

In fact, this is also Zhang Sheng's preparation for better improving the team's confrontation ability, allowing the players to adapt to the confrontation intensity in Europe earlier, and facilitating the players to stay abroad.

So in the face of Jeonbuk Hyundai's Asian-level pressing, the Dragons appear to be very comfortable.

From the fifteen minutes of the game, Jeonbuk Hyundai's crazy pressing has not stopped, but the actual impact on the Longteng team is not great.

Even Jeonbuk Hyundai's favorite tactic of quickly playing effective conduction and propulsion after breaking the ball has been greatly damaged.

Many times the players of the Longteng team did not pass the ball in place or made a mistake under the pressure of Jeonbuk Hyundai, but the Longteng team's counter-pressing is not vegetarian.

For example, in the 25th minute, Jeonbuk Hyundai used the local numerical advantage formed in the fast running of the front court to cause Lin Feng's passing power to be too small on the right side of the Longteng team, and was picked up by their forward Lee Geun-ho, but when Lin Feng lost the ball at the first moment, Roque Gill grabbed it, and at the same time, Lin Feng also quickly returned to the defense behind Lee Geun-ho to interfere with him to take the ball, and on Lee Geun-ho's passing line, players in each position immediately made close presses to players who were likely to receive the ball.

Lee Geun-ho could only make a horizontal pass to Leonardo when he saw that he could not pass an effective offensive ball, and Leonardo's side was tightly attached to Zhou Zhou, the former could not get rid of several consecutive feints, and could only be forced to the sideline step by step, and finally hit the ball on Zhou Zhou's body and let the ball pop off the sideline to get a sideline ball.

Seeing this situation on the field, no matter which side of the commentary is, it also seems very helpless.

Park Wencheng said: "The intensity of the Longteng team's game is really high, whether it is a physical confrontation or a counter-attack after losing the ball, they are not worse than Jeonbuk Hyundai's side, and they are more skilled and threatening than us in passing and receiving." Now Jeonbuk Hyundai can rely on abundant physical fitness to maneuver with the opponent, but in the second half, the opponent still has more balls, so the lack of physical fitness must be on our side first, I hope Coach Choi Kang-hee can think of a way to crack it. ”

He Wei also said at this time: "This should be the top confrontation intensity game at the Asian level, the degree of pressing between the two sides in the midfield is rare in the entire Chinese Super League, I believe that this game is not only a confrontation of technology and tactics, but also a confrontation of willpower and mental strength between the two sides." ”

And Xu Yang interjected in a timely manner: "At the same time, it is also the time for stars to play their role." ”

"Indeed!" He Wei also nodded in agreement with Xu Yang's statement, "In such a close game, it depends on the embodiment of the star's personal ability to break the deadlock on the field." ”

And Zhang Sheng's confidence in this game is because he has far stronger foreign aid than the other party - Ben Alpha and Pato, he had already instructed the two of them before the game: "This game will be very difficult, and the second half will depend on the performance of the two of you." ”