It is said that Wang Zhuren's approach is the same as the youth training of players in reality, the idea of reusing young people and giving more game experience is very good, and it is not wrong to go the way.

But the reality is not good. In the 2017 international referee list confirmed by FIFA, there are 7 Chinese referees and 9 assistant referees. Most of these people are post-80s, and there are even referees like Zhang Yue who was born in 87 and are not yet 30 years old, you must know that just two or three years ago, he was still an intern in the referee office of the Chinese Football Association.

It is almost impossible to expect these inexperienced referees to blow out a smooth game, and even many times, they are also unhelpful on the field - misjudgments, blind judgments, resulting in the vindictiveness of the players on both sides, and the number of conflicts is not a few, until the People's Daily also began to criticize the level of these referees, the Chinese Football Association changed the schedule at the beginning of the season to blow the penalty plan, and temporarily added foreign referees in many key games.

This was the case in this game, and it was the referee from France, Toni Chaplon, who was responsible for the blow.

At just 44 years old, he is regarded as one of the best referees in France in the last decade, with more than 200 European top matches and a regular in the Europa League, Champions League and Under-21 European Championships.

The coaching staff of the Longteng team analyzed his information before the game.

This is a referee who doesn't like to play cards, and his enforcement philosophy is that the fluidity and rhythm of the game always come first. For this reason, the coaching staff specifically warned the players that with such a law enforcement scale, it is very likely that Evergrande players will adopt the tactics of frequent fouls, so they must make full use of the principle of favorable ball and play Evergrande's fast attack. At the same time, when the foul is committed, it is immediately fouled, as long as it is guaranteed that in the opponent's half, the action is not bad, and the counter-robbery can be more resolute.

Speaking of this referee, there is an interesting fact.

In real history, in 2018 when he was officiating in Ligue 1. In the final minutes of the game, the home defender knocked him to the ground, got up and swept the opponent with a vicious "sweep", and then showed the opponent a yellow card, as the player had already been yellowed and sent off.

And it was also in the last few minutes that the home team, which played one less, conceded a goal and lost the game 0-1.

After the game, the penalty set off an uproar, from the game video review, the defender obviously did not mean it, although Chaplon apologized to the player that the unhealed wound on his body was hit, he overreacted for a while, and also submitted an application to the French Football Federation for the cancellation of the second yellow card, he was still suspended by FIFA.

But from this incident, it can be seen that this is a very sensitive referee.

And how to benefit from the referee, analyzing and guessing the referee of the game has also become a very important job for the coaching staff.

At the beginning of the game, Guangzhou Evergrande, which was the first to kick off, began to attack, after all, as old opponents, the two sides will meet every season, and the head coach has been coaching for a short time.

Scolari played his usual 4-2-3-1 formation in this game, the goalkeeper is the veteran Zengcheng, the four defenders are Shu Jun, Du Zhenyu, Feng Xiaoting and Li Xuepeng, the two backs Paulinho and Zheng Zhiyi are one behind the other, the three frontcourt players are Lin Feng, Goulart and Gao Lin, and Diego Costa is at the front of the team as a center forward.

In the second minute of the first half, Golin made a beautiful fake break on the left and turned to smash the ball to shake off the Yellow Crane, flashed a gap to Diego Costa in the penalty area, and under the close interference of Dawn, he headed the ball in the wrong position, and the ball finally flew high off the line.

Gao Lin was able to form an opportunity to get the ball on the left side, mainly thanks to the forward insertion of Paulinho in the middle, Tao Wentao was attracted away, and did not run to the right in time to help the Yellow Crane assist in defense.

From the beginning of this attack, we can see Guangzhou Evergrande's confidence in winning this game, and it also reflects Paulinho's desire to attack.

Unlike the first leg of the game at the home of the Longteng team, Evergrande today is obviously more active, and the bonus of home field advantage to a team is very terrifying.

After Diego Costa had his first shot, the whole person also moved, and he began to frequently wander between the Longteng team's back line and the back midfield, bringing the two Longteng team's central defenders out of the penalty area again and again, and at the same time attracting the defensive attention of Qi Ming and Tao Wentao, creating conditions for Paulinho's forward attack.

The attitude of Guangzhou Evergrande on the field is a bit unexpected before the game by Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff.

Since Scolari took over Guangzhou Evergrande, it is obvious that he is not on the same line as the previous two head coaches.

During Lippi's tenure, his strategic goal is very clear, divided into three steps: the first step is to drag the seven domestic players with the excellent front-field three foreign players - that is, many Chinese Super League teams are still using the 703 tactics, the second step is to wait until the local players have improved, assist the three strong foreign players to play - this is the famous seven-man piano lifting, three people playing the piano tactics, the third step is the ultimate goal - domestic players and foreign players can be integrated together to form a smooth and flowing whole.

After coaching Evergrande for several years, he kept hoarding international-level players, and Lippi was disappointed to find that with the ability of domestic players now, it is already the ultimate to achieve the second step.

After the other teams in the Chinese Super League also began to increase their investment, Lippi, who could only bring the team to the second stage, found that the team had slowly lost the terrifying advantage of the past, and his resignation can be seen as a rapid retreat.

In real history, Lippi came back again to take over the Chinese national team, and he put forward the request for the Chinese Football Association to vigorously support him to naturalize a large number of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League, and the goal of naturalization is also very clear - to achieve the second stage that he did in Guangzhou Evergrande, it can be said that without this condition, Lippi, nicknamed "Silver Fox", will definitely not easily return to his old business.

Taking over the position of Guangzhou Evergrande, who successfully stepped down is now the head coach of Tianjin Quanjian, Cannavaro, as a personal disciple of Lippi, he came up with a youth storm, and the most popular oppressive style of play in Europe was picked up by him, and Guangzhou Evergrande's game was full of passion again.

Although the high position can win the team multiple opportunities to attack, the control of the pace of the game is slightly poor, and at the same time will compress the space for players to handle the ball, and the domestic players with slightly rough skills are even more unsuitable for this style of play - this is after Evergrande has scooped almost all the international players that can be scavenged.

The weakening of control was followed by the instability of the results, and Boss Xu, who had a famous plot, spent a lot of money, and the head coach of the World Cup took office halfway.

Many fans criticized Scolari for coming, compared with the flexible tactical play and on-the-spot substitutions according to the situation on the pitch during the Lippi period, the team's tactical style was obviously monotonous, and the game was extremely dull.

In fact, for a team like Evergrande that aspires to be the hegemon of the league, in the face of more and more powerful opponents in the Chinese Super League, the team's consistent control and stability in the long season are in the first place.

This is exactly what Boss Xu wants.

Therefore, the first thing Scolari did after taking over was to adjust the team's pressing area from the high position to near the center circle, relying on the running ability and physical advantages of midfielders Paulinho, Lin Feng, Zheng Zhi and others to strangle the opponent;

On the offensive side, the frontcourt players are given more freedom, and according to the situation on the field, they can switch positions in pairs to disrupt the opponent's defense, and at the same time open up space for Paulinho Zheng Zhi in the midfield.

Defensively solid is the biggest improvement since Scolari took over the team compared to Cannavaro's time.

Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff have doubts, that is, most of the time, compared to the premise of the Longteng team's aggressive three lines, and at the same time forming a multi-layer breakwater-style play, Evergrande is obviously a defensive counterattack style of play.

And in this game, they all pressed out.

Evergrande, who pressed hard, quickly formed an offensive advantage in his home field, and Lou Yicheng, who was in charge of commentating the game, was describing Evergrande's situation: "After the 7:2 victory in the last game, Evergrande is also full of morale this time. As soon as they came up, they gave the Longteng team a dismount, at least in the first ten minutes of the game, they suppressed the Longteng team. ”

"The meaning of this game is very special. Liu Yue analyzed, "According to outside news, Paulinho's trip to Barcelona has basically been decided, so this game is likely to be his swan song in Evergrande and the Chinese Super League." Seeing off Paulinho with a victory is probably the idea of many Evergrande players. ”

Lou Yicheng also smiled: "It should be mutual." Evergrande's players want to use the victory to see Paulinho off, and Paulinho also hopes to give Evergrande a victory, end the history of the winless team against the Longteng team, and complete a good story. ”

"The Dragons probably won't agree. Liu Yue's rebuttal quickly caused the two of them to laugh.

The game continued, and Zhang Sheng gradually saw some loopholes in Evergrande, that is, excessive grabbing and sticking defense led to frequent defensive gaps, and Zheng Zhi had made a tired defense in the midfield several times in a row.

Driven by Paulinho, Evergrande is very fierce in the defense. Try to stick to the ball-holding player on the side of the Longteng team to prevent the opponent from turning around, and at the same time, the rest of the teammates gather to form a local numerical advantage to control the ball.

For example, in the eighth minute of the first half, Fernando received Liming's pass to his player on the right side, and Li Xuepeng on Evergrande's side immediately came up, and the latter kept squeezing Fernando forward with his body to prevent him from turning around, and at the same time formed a triangular encirclement with Paulinho and Goulart, and sandwiched Fernando.

The triangular pinch circle made Fernando very uncomfortable, his passing lines were all blocked, and the only thing he could do was to see if he could use his unexpected foot technique to turn around and break through Li Xuepeng at the same time, so that he could catch a sideline ball if he was not good.

Once the players pinned their hopes on luck, Murphy's law worked, Fernando's turn not only failed, but was also forced by Paulinho to snatch the ball, the Longteng team finally advanced to the midfield attack, and was snatched back by Guangzhou Evergrande.

Paulinho, who won the ball, stepped forward again, this time after attracting Tao Wentao's defense, he chose to connect with Goulart in the middle, and then Diego Costa also got involved, he received the ball from Goulart with his back, and stuffed the ball into the box, Paulinho also ran into the penalty area.

"The Dragons were too passive, Fernando hesitated a little, and the ball was cut off by Paulinho. Let's take a look at Evergrande's attack. Lou Yicheng raised his voice to mobilize everyone's emotions, "Goulart received the ball, passed to Costa, beautiful, this kick was plugged through, shot, and the referee signaled that it was a corner kick." ”

"Let's take a look. Goulart is responsible for scheduling in the front court, Costa is the role of the center to the fullest, this straight ball completely penetrates the defense of the Longteng team, Paulinho's timing is just right, fortunately, Qi Ming's defensive attention is very concentrated, has been sticking to Paulinho, he stretched his leg to block this is too critical, otherwise this kind of back-inserted strong shot, the goalkeeper has no choice. ”

"I can't help it. Lou Yicheng praised, "People all over the world know that Messi wants to break through, you just can't pull it, all opponents know that Robben wants to cut inside and shoot, but he can complete this set of actions, and at least at the Super League level, in the South American budget stage, everyone knows that Paulinho wants to shoot forward, and you still can't prevent it." ”

"Haha, that's true. Taking advantage of the corner kick tactics on Guangzhou Evergrande's side, Liu Yue imagined, "We also hope that after Paulinho goes to Barcelona, opponents across Europe will also see him and sigh." ”

"That's definitely the biggest publicity for our Super League. Lou Yicheng seemed to have seen the scene Liu Yue said, "Let's take a look at this corner, it was Lin Feng who punished it." ”

Since the transfer to Guangzhou Evergrande, as long as Lin Feng plays, he replaces Huang Bowen and is the first penalty taker in the team's corner kicks. Liu Yue has obviously analysed Evergrande's corner kick data.

"Penalty before the penalty, header, oops, hit the lintel. Lou Yicheng exclaimed, "Costa's header, Lin Feng accurately found this point. In the end, the goal frame of Tianhe Stadium denied the goal. ”

"The Dragons are missing people here. Originally, it was an area defense, but in this area that Lu Zhihui was responsible for, he went to watch the ball and didn't look at people at all. Liu Yue carefully analyzed the footage of the defense.

Zhang Sheng on the sidelines was a little unable to stand, and he shouted loudly to the court: "Concentrate." At the same time, he made a gesture to quickly pass the ball out of the backcourt.

Because the coaching staff did not put Evergrande's high pressing in the first place before the game, many players did not react for a while, at this time, as the head coach, after observing the situation on the field, he had to make tactical adjustments immediately.

This adjustment does not refer to changing formations or substitutions or anything, but mainly to remind the players to take out the plan B countermeasures prepared by the team in their usual training for the opponent's plan B.