10. Dominance

After the game, the wave of reflection after the winter transfer purchase of the Chinese Super League suddenly filled the entire domestic football scene.

CCTV directly commented: "The strength of the team is not piled up by the value of the players. When it comes to the value of this game, Jiangsu Suning may look higher on paper, but in the layout and execution of tactics, the gap between the two sides is as huge as a chasm. The Dragons sold a lot of players at the start of the season, but their other players were able to connect seamlessly, which shows that the club's most fundamental tactical philosophy has been thoroughly implemented at all levels. ”

"We have been talking about learning this, learning that, I think many teams in the Chinese Super League should think about it, should we follow the example of the Longteng team, stick to our own style, after a long time, it will always blossom. In the end, CCTV also put forward its own suggestions.

As for the ridicule among the fans, that's even more.

In view of the fact that Ramires was transferred from Chelsea, and Chelsea was in a relegation position in the first half of the Premier League, and Jiangsu Suning played at the same level as the relegation team in this game, some fans complained: "Ramirez will definitely say after playing: I changed from one relegation team to another." ”

Some fans sighed: "Jiangsu Suning's foreign aides finally understand what it means to be afraid of god-like opponents, but to be afraid of pig-like teammates." ”

"The players of the Dragons are really useful. Look at Xiao Yunfan, the only Suning player who can cooperate with foreign aid, and then look at the Longteng team, all of them are players who can cooperate with foreign aid. Before the season, some people said that the Longteng team was hollowed out, and what the Longteng team wanted to say was, if you come to dig, I will lose if you dig it out. "This is the grievance of Jiangsu Suning fans.

Zhang Sheng has long been accustomed to the praise of the Longteng team from the outside world, and Zhang Sheng prefers the practical benefits for such verbal benefits - this victory plus the previous AFC Champions League victory, Zhang Sheng's points have reached just 200 points, and he can call players again.

Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng opened the system and habitually looked at his attributes:

Coach level: German A-level coach (equivalent to Chinese A-level coach, able to coach the Chinese Super League)

Individual Level: Level 5

Experience: 1663500/3000000

Summoning Energy: 200/100

Goods:

1. Common items: None

2. High-level items: 1 high-level player growth booster

1 Advanced Tactical Shaping Booster

3. Special Item: Super Potential Pill x4 - Permanently increases the potential value of players with a potential value of 120 and below (the lower the potential value, the more it increases).

Advanced Fixed Potential Pill x8 - Permanently increases the potential of any potential player by 1-5 points (up to a maximum of 150).

Super Fixed Potential Pill x1 - Permanently increases the potential of any potential player by 5 points (up to a maximum of 150).

Skill: Friends of Youth Level 2 - Permanently increases the growth rate of players 21 and under who lead the team by 2%

Hygienist Level 2 - Permanently increases the recovery speed of injured players in the leading team by 11%.

Ubiquitous Level 1 - Permanently increase the player's position on the field.

Mission: King's Champion (uncompleted)

Progress Together 16/20 (In the second stage, at least one player with an ability of 80 or more must be transferred to other Super League teams, and the rest of the players must be at least 70 ability.) )

Concentration (Dawn's Mission)

After the last item was used up, Zhang Sheng's accelerator charm was empty, but this time the Super Cup champion brought Zhang Sheng a player and a tactical charm.

Seeing this, Zhang Sheng didn't even think about it, so he used them up.

The tactical charm was used in the left midfield run of the 3-5-2 offensive and defensive transition, and the player charm was used on Qi Ming, with the obvious intention of improving the team's defensive ability.

Zhang Sheng's heart moved after taking a look at his special items, and then looked at the potential value of Nie Jiang 118, he simply made up an integer and gave the super potential pill to Nie Jiang to use, and soon the system prompted that Nie Jiang's potential value had increased, reaching 120.

Seeing that the system did not prompt Nie Jiang's potential value to reach its peak, Zhang Sheng was also relieved, it seems that Nie Jiang still has room for growth.

Next, Zhang Sheng began the call of players.

This time, Zhang Sheng chose not to call the players, but to put the summoning quota on the coach.

Since the last time a coach with specialized attributes came out, he has been extremely helpful to the team's offensive tactics, and during the entire winter training period, he has helped the team design many offensive routines, which are much richer than the relatively simple offensive tactics before.

After tasting the sweetness of this specialized attribute coach, Zhang Sheng decided to choose a coach with defensive specialized attributes again, because after the system opened the specialization last time, there was already an option to choose the attributes of the specialized coach in the system's mall.

At the same time, Zhang Sheng also found that another task was also marked, that is, the common progress task that can improve the level of the entire Chinese Super League gave the ability value requirements of the transfer players, and clearly told himself that he must transfer players with more than 80 abilities to other Chinese Super League teams in order to complete the second phase of the task.

In this regard, Zhang Sheng can only say MMP, for the overall strength of the Chinese Super League, the system is forcing himself to sell blood.

After using up the points and items, Zhang Sheng quickly left these behind, because the next Longteng team was going to cross the ocean to play in the AFC Champions League in Australia, thousands of miles away.

Australian teams have always been difficult to play, which is a deep understanding of all Chinese Super League teams after participating in the AFC Champions League.

In addition to the Australian team's physical pressure on the Chinese Super League team, their overall tactics have always played well, and compared to going to China's neighboring countries, going to Australia is jet lag, coupled with the fatigue of long-distance flights, the away record of the Chinese Super League team in Australia has always been not very good.

To this end, the Longteng team flew to Australia on February 29 and adapted to the local environment two days in advance.

In fact, the Dragons' approach was unanimously considered to be too cautious, because their opponent in this game, Sydney FC, was not in good shape.

Sydney FC, which won the Australian Super League runner-up last year and entered the AFC Champions League, is now winless in six consecutive league games and only sixth in the Australian Super League rankings.

Sydney FC manager Graham Arnold's attitude before the game also revealed the mentality of the whole team now: "The Dragons are a strong team, they are very strong in terms of foreign players, they bought four million euros before the season and paid more than our whole team. But this is our home turf and we have to show the Australian spirit in the game, which is aggressiveness and aggressiveness. ”

And centre-back Ryan Grant, who attended the pre-match press conference, put it even more funny: "If we do well enough, we could get a contract from China." ”

When it came to the game, Sydney FC did show their mental strength, and they took advantage of the stronger bodies of their players, constantly seeking physical confrontation.

The Longteng team's full-court pressing tactics were not good because of the referee Fagani's loose scale, and Sydney FC rarely ate cards when facing the pressing of the Longteng players.

At the same time, Sydney FC completely abandoned the ground attacking style of play, constantly seeking attacks with high balls, and saw football flying in the air throughout the game.

In the seventeenth minute of the first half, three of them formed a header relay in front of and in the penalty area of the Longteng team, and finally their striker Steinpochev formed a shot to break through the door guarded by Zhou Wei.

In fact, this lost goal is also related to Zhou Wei's more reckless attack, he saw the Sydney FC players after the header relay, actually wanted to rush out of the small penalty area in the air to break the ball, but because of the wrong judgment of the landing point, the ball was directly hit by him to Steinpochev's feet, which is equivalent to feeding the opponent a big pie.

After conceding the ball, the Longteng team, at the request of Zhang Sheng, quickly changed its tactics, no longer rushing to attack after pressing, but letting the players pass more and control the ball.

This style of play did pay off very quickly.

Just five minutes after conceding the goal, the Longteng team used the combination of ground passes on the left side, Ben Alpha and Nie Jiang formed a line, and the latter was directly connected by Ben Alpha who burst into the penalty area after passing the opponent's back midfield.

Ben Alfa remembered to hit the goal with his foot, and was pulled to the ground directly by the opposing defender with both hands, this obvious foul not only received a yellow card, but also gave the Dragons a penalty.

In the face of this penalty, Ben Alpha made it 1:1 in one fell swoop.

After the game completely fell into the control of the Longteng team, several players in the midfield easily played the pass control, although the first half did not score, but the possession rate of the Longteng team in the half even reached as much as 70%, Liu Jiayuan, who was in charge of the commentary, was a little anxious at first, and in the end, he also said easily: "The same taste, the same formula, when the Longteng team plays the Australian team, it always solves the problem by relying on the pass at the foot of the ball." It seems that after Lin Feng left, the Longteng team was still able to make such a quick pass. ”

After the training content of the Longteng team playing 3-5-2 before the season and turning into a pressing style of play came out, many fans and people in domestic football thought that the Longteng team was forced to do this.

Because Lin Feng is the core of the Longteng team's previous fast passing play, his departure should affect the team's play of this tactic.

Unexpectedly, in this game, the Longteng team still took out this tactic, and it still can't be used to use it, which just proves the previous CCTV evaluation of the Longteng team after the Super Cup - the basic concept of passing control and hitting the feet has infiltrated into the genes of the Longteng team, and it will not disappear because of the departure of anyone.

After the second half, the Longteng team continued the first half of the game and completely mastered the situation on the field, while Sydney FC only followed the ball of the Longteng team, and the only thing left was the trick of fouling.

But often standing by the river without getting their shoes wet, in the sixteenth minute of the second half, they got a yellow card and penalty package for a foul that was too obvious to Nie Jiang in the penalty area.

It's a pity that Nie Jiang's own penalty was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Janjetovic and missed a good opportunity to overtake.

Compared with Liu Jiayuan, who is worried that the Longteng team will not score this penalty, and will show impatience to give the other party a chance later, Zhang Sheng is much calmer, after two years of AFC Champions League and a training in the Club World Cup, which of the main players in the current team of the Longteng team is not battle-hardened.

Nie Jiang basically played all the AFC Champions League games as the main force last season, so don't look at his young age, he is just 18 years old, he is a proper AFC Champions League "old man".

What gave back to Zhang Sheng's calmness was Nie Jiang's performance on the field.

After missing the penalty, Nie Jiang only complained to himself for a while before calmly plunging into the game again, and only three minutes later, Nie Jiang completed his redemption with a goal.

In the nineteenth minute of the second half, Nie Jiang used his running position to get a chance in the penalty area, he accurately found the backwardness given by Xiang Tiange in a group of defenders like Sydney FC, a beautiful header rubbed the ball, the ball crossed a strange arc, bypassed Janyetovic's palm, and flew into the net.

"Well, being able to score with a header in the Australian team's penalty area, Nie Jiang's ability to run and grab points is really strong. Liu Jiayuan also had to praise from the bottom of his heart.

Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, waved his fist excitedly, with a score of 1:2 and complete control of the situation on the court, there was basically not much suspense in the game.

As for the header in the penalty area that Liu Jiayuan said, it is not worth mentioning at all in Zhang Sheng's opinion.

The header in the penalty area does not mean that whoever is tall has an absolute advantage, otherwise I put two or three two-meter-tall big men in the penalty area, wouldn't all the headers be mine.

The most important thing in header shooting is the player's ability to grab points, as well as the control of the ball with the head, many players who are not tall can repeatedly head goals in the penalty area, relying on these two points.

Of course, the footwork of the passer and the understanding between the passer and the header are also very important.

Obviously, when facing the Australian Super League team, Nie Jiang is stronger than the other party in these two points, and Xiang Tiange's footwork and the tacit understanding and accuracy of the pass are also very good.

Then the goal came as a matter of course.

The Longteng team, which overtook the score, took the initiative to reduce the pace of the game, began to use the advantage of the technology at their feet to control the ball in the midfield, and gradually attracted the formation of Sydney FC.

When Sydney FC thought they had a chance to attack, the Dragons launched a couple of fast-paced raids, but Janjetovic was in good form, keeping out Ben Arfa, Chavez and Tao Wentao in succession.

After 35 minutes of the second half, their centre-back Raial was sent off for a second yellow card, and Sydney FC gave up their resistance completely.

Zhang Sheng easily used up his three substitutions, replacing Nie Jiang, Ben Alpha and Xiang Tiange, giving other players more opportunities to play.

In the end, the Longteng team won away with a score of 1:2, and the team's two-game winning streak also ranked first in the group.

This crushing victory not only made domestic fans lament the strength of the Longteng team, but even the AFC praised the dominance of the Longteng team on its official website, claiming that the Longteng team is still a strong contender for the AFC Champions League title this season.