28. Bench depth

Judging from the situation in the last game, whether it is the back position or the back position, it is necessary to strengthen the defense.

Roque Gill had to rest for more than two weeks because of an injury in the last game, and as a foreign aid, he always has to go, which player should be trained to be the hub of offensive and defensive conversion, which is a problem that Zhang Sheng must consider now, and Zhang Sheng's first choice is Qi Ming.

Qi Ming's previous role as a left midfielder, responsible for feeding Ben Alfa with cannonballs, while filling gaps for Ben Alfa after he went up, and finally assisting Roque Gill in defense, his task is not daunting, once he is changed from this position to the back, who will fill his position has become a big problem, which shows that such a replacement is a trigger to move the whole body.

Because of Roque Gill's injury, De Paul, as the fourth foreign aid, can temporarily play the position before Qi Ming, but his defensive ability is average, and he can only hope that he and Ben Alpha form the left offensive corridor of the Longteng team, completely suppressing the right side of the opponent's team, so in addition to Lu Zhihui, the left central defender, needs to be more cautious, try not to participate in the attack, as a back and drag back players to strengthen the left side of the fill.

The problem now is that Ma Yongli does not understand how to go back and forth between the central defender and the back is not deep enough, the reason why the middle of the game was repeatedly penetrated has a great deal to do with his unstable performance, but the swing of such two positions, the player's grasp of the situation on the field, the requirements for the sense of position are extremely high, which can not be completed overnight.

Zhang Sheng's last move was only to make all the players pay more runs, and try to compress the formation as much as possible, so as to compress the opponent's breakthrough space.

Because most of the media were entangled in the penalty after the game, there were some very critical data buried in the saliva in the last game, that is, the running distance of the two teams in the last game, and the sprint running distance of both teams reached an extremely high height, and the Longteng team broke the record of these two data.

Not to mention the running distance of the whole game, even Liu Jianhong and Huang Jianxiang expressed their surprise in the commentary, and the 123-kilometer running distance of the Longteng team is the highest data in the history of the Super League. In the sprint running distance, that is, the high-intensity run with a running speed of more than 21 km/h, the Longteng team also broke the record with a distance of 4,212 meters.

These two statistics show that the Longteng team is the best in the Super League in terms of the overall movement of the whole team and the players' game investment.

In particular, Qi Ming's 689-meter sprint distance has reached the world's top level, because the world's top players like Ronaldo and Neymar have an average high-intensity running distance of more than 700 meters per game, of course, like Messi last season, the average is only 519 meters per game, but the "wonderful" of playing excellent data is another matter, after all, the efficiency brought by Messi's every sprint run is unparalleled.

In fact, this is also the expectation that Zhang Sheng gives to each player and the team's tactics - there are more high-intensity runs, and at the same time, there are more effective results.

After completing the game with Guangzhou Evergrande, Zhang Sheng gave the players in the team a rare two-day vacation, because the next game will not start until a week later, but after the next game, the Longteng team will usher in a three-line battle, a week of double matches, AFC Champions League, league, FA Cup Every Zhang Sheng does not want to give up, and it is necessary to give the players a little rest time in the process.

But during this break, bad news came.

Ben Alfa made a transfer request to Zhang Sheng, and a Ligue 1 team took a fancy to his performance and asked to buy him.

As for Ben Alpha, Zhang Sheng didn't expect him to stay in the team for a long time when he bought him into the team, but he didn't expect him to make a transfer request in the middle of the league, which is not good news for the team.

It's a pity that Ben Alfa is very resolute: "The summer transfer is the most important period of the season for European clubs, the club's planning, the manager's tactical arrangement, the determination of the core players, and the players' adaptation to the tactics are basically decided in this transfer, and if there are no special circumstances in the winter transfer, it is basically just tinkering, I don't want me to be the tinker, I should be the core." So I'm still hoping to complete the transfer in the summer. ”

"Yes. I approve it in principle, but I want the transfer fee to match your value, and I don't think you want you to come back to Europe yourself at a humiliating price. Zhang Sheng put forward his opinion. "Don't worry, I won't deliberately block your way back to Europe. ”

"Thank you. Ben Alpha said.

He knows Zhang Sheng's attitude towards the circulation of players - come and go freely, as long as he is not the kind of way to play tricks, Zhang Sheng will definitely not interfere.

As in history, Ben Alpha is still interested in the Nice team, as early as the beginning of 2016, the CEO of New City Hotel Group, Chinese American Li Jian, and the Plateno Group, where the first hotel chain brand 7 Days Inn is located, pulled a bunch of Chinese and American companies, ready to invest in the Ligue 1 Nice team.

They are targeting Ben Alfa, who plays in the Chinese Super League, a player who still has a lot of fans in France and has a lot of influence in the Chinese Super League, which is really suitable for them.

For Plateno Group, the privatization of the 7-day chain, the acquisition of eLong Travel Network and the acquisition of Jin Jiang International Group together with Ctrip, the big moves in the past few years have been one after another.

In order to develop the European market, especially Nice, the second largest tourist resort city in France, buying a Nice club, and buying a player like Ben Alpha is really not a problem for them, if they can buy a Chinese Super League player to play in France, it is really a natural choice, and it is the most attractive for Chinese tourists to Europe, especially France.

Soon, Nice sent Ben Alpha's transfer negotiation and club cooperation request to Longteng Club, Zhang Sheng did not participate in such requests and negotiations, and the club's management and Longteng Group were mainly responsible for this matter.

This is not a simple player deal, it is destined to be a long tug-of-war, and there is no hurry.

Zhang Sheng has only one request for Ben Alfa: "Give your best and play the rest of the game." ”

However, the next game made Zhang Sheng a little unhappy, and in the home game against Shanghai Shenhua, the Longteng team drew again.

This season's Shanghai Shenhua has greatly improved the arrangement and execution of tactics since Manzano came.

Manzano is a manager with a very clear sense of self and one of his strengths is to see what he eats.

After coming to Shanghai Shenhua, Manzano found a very simple and efficient way of attacking in view of the average age of the team: the middle and back field oblique long passes to find the weak side of the ribs, the wings to find strong forwards, and the forwards rely on ability to solve problems.

In this style of play, in view of the fact that it is an away again, the operation rhythm of Shanghai Shenhua ball in this game is faster, the passing purpose is stronger, and the offensive method is simpler and rougher.

Coupled with the pressing tactics adopted by the Longteng team, Shanghai Shenhua had the opportunity to play behind him, and the Longteng team played very thrilling in this game.

Shanghai Shenhua put Qin Sheng and Guarin in the midfield, two defenders who are active in defense and have strong sweeping ability, especially Demba Ba's body on the front line is too strong, whether it is Lu Zhihui or Du Zhenyu, it is difficult to say that they can withstand his impact 100%.

Although in the first half, the Longteng team relied on the cooperation of Ben Alpha and Nie Jiang, and Ben Alpha scored a goal to lead the score, but in the second half, Demba Ba carried Lu Zhihui away in the penalty area and equalized the score with a volley.

In the end, Shanghai Shenhua relied on Li Shuai's high pounce to resist and insisted on the score of 1:1 until the end of the game.

Shanghai Shenhua's goal in this game is completely the embodiment of Demba Ba's personal ability, the Longteng team's conceded goal is really no way, and the direction of Shenhua's attack is Ben Alpha and De Paul's side, reflecting the loopholes in the left side of the defense.

After seven rounds of games, the Longteng team has 17 points because of two consecutive draws and Jiangsu Suning, five wins and two draws, but the Longteng team ranks first because of the large number of goal difference; Guangzhou Evergrande is ranked third with four wins and three draws with 15 points; followed by Shanghai SIPG, China Happiness.

If the top few as Super League veterans, it is normal to be in the forefront, then Huaxia Happiness, the Super League promotion horse, is led by a novice coach like Li Gang, and it is only four points less than the first Longteng team, it is very rare, domestic football even thinks that with the financial resources and investment of the group behind Huaxia Happiness, it will be a new championship challenger in the Chinese Super League, and Li Gang is also considered to be an excellent local coach of the new generation, and his career teammate Zhang Shengyi is called Yu Liang.

On the other hand, the Longteng team, now they are not only drawn twice, but also strongly interfered with by the national team echelon.

In order to prepare for the 2016 Asian Junior Championship and Asian Youth Championship, the Longteng team, which has a large number of players from the national youth team and the national youth team, has been very well drawn, especially the national youth team is based on players in 1998, which is highly overlapping with many players of the Longteng team.

Shen Jun, Zeng Fanfang and Liming were selected as qualified substitutes for the team, which is still the result of Zhang Sheng's arguments, otherwise, it would be Nie Jiang, Xiang Tiange and Huang Dawei who were selected as core players of the Longteng team.

After the league, the AFC Champions League is officially coming, this round of the AFC Champions League is the last round of the group stage, because the Longteng team has already determined the first place in the group, and Zhang Sheng arranged the lineup of most of the main force in this game.

In particular, the teenager Chen Yinuo also played as a central defender, which was really a surprise for him who was less than sixteen and a half years old.

At the same time, Zhang Sheng's focus is on Ma Yongli's substitute, as a swingman for the back and center back, and now there is a player in the Longteng team who has played both center back and back waist, that is Zhang Hao.

Judging by the actual results of the game, it's okay.

Of course, it's also about the opponent in this match. The opponent of this game is Sydney FC, a typical Australian team, tall and strong, who likes to bully East Asian teams with confrontations, but unfortunately they met Zhang Hao, who has a beastly body.

It seems that Zhang Hao's first AFC Champions League was staged again, that time Zhang Hao faced an Australian team, and he bullied the Australians who love to play with his body the most, and this time it was the same.

In the first half, Zhang Hao's strong body swept like a tornado in the two positions of central defender and back midfielder, and Sydney FC's center forward and forward players were crushed by him alone.

At the end of the first half, the Dragons led 2-0.

In the second half, Sydney FC made substitution adjustments, and a flexible offensive player was placed in the forward position, Zhang Hao was suddenly a little blind, he could only take care of his head, and Chen Yinuo was too young, although Du Zhenyu helped him, he still made a lot of mistakes.

Sydney FC equalized in the second half of the 20 minutes, seeing this situation, Zhang Sheng did not take a substitution, but appropriately strengthened the attack, because Ben Alpha did not play, De Paul became the team's offensive core, and the Longteng team tilted the offensive resources to him as much as possible.

Sure enough, after forming a confrontational stance, the attacks of both sides reappeared, first De Paul again exceeded the score, and then Sydney FC equalized again.

In stoppage time, Zou Weijia showed the ability of his center, he scored a killer goal in the penalty area, and the Longteng team relied on this goal to win the game 4:3.

Although the victory in this game was very difficult, Zhang Sheng was very happy, and he could still win the AFC Champions League game with a lineup that was basically completely substitute players, and it can only be said that the bench strength of the Longteng team is already the top in Asia, which is still the result obtained in the case of three absolute rotation-level players being transferred to the national echelon, which is enough.

The victory in the AFC Champions League brought great encouragement to the young players who played in this game, and at the same time, it was announced after the game that the next FA Cup was also for them to start and play the main team.

After the AFC Champions League, in the next league, the Longteng team has a completely different set of lineups, in addition to preventing Roque Gill from being injured again, Zhang Sheng just let him sit on the bench after he has recovered from injury, and the other main players did their best, and the team also easily defeated Hangzhou Greentown 2:0 away from home.

Chavez and Nie Jiang scored again.

The fact that both teams can win on both fronts is so shocking that the Super League clubs and fans who reacted had to marvel at the depth of the Longteng's strong bench.

The discussion on the Internet is also one-sided: "The Dragon Teng team sells the captain every year, and the result is that the more it sells, the stronger it becomes." ”

And some people predicted: "According to this form, the local tyrant teams of the Chinese Super League have another goal." ”