21. Tactical suppression
After this AFC Champions League match, the Longteng team, which won all three games, got 9 points, 5 points higher than the second-ranked Buriram United. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the other three groups, Beijing Guoan and Guangzhou Evergrande are also ranked first in the group with a record of three wins, except for Shandong Luneng to maintain their "tragedy team" name - lost 1-4 at home to Jeonbuk Hyundai, and now the strength of the three teams in the Chinese Super League has made the entire East Asian region fearful.
However, this time the fans and the media did not go to the Chinese Super League team to set a flag, you must know that in the group stage of the AFC Champions League last year, the Chinese Super League teams also played well in the first three rounds, and four teams remained unbeaten in the four groups.
At that time, the fans and the media shouted that the situation was very good, and even some media shouted that the era of the Chinese Super League dominating Asian football had arrived, but they never thought that the situation would take a sharp turn in the end, and Shandong Luneng and Beijing Guoan failed to qualify in the end.
This time, the media and fans are a lot more low-key, everyone is more about discussing what shortcomings the team still has, how to strengthen, of course, these discussions have nothing to do with Shandong Luneng, because the tragedy again made them be ignored by the gorgeous and beautiful, and everyone even disdained to mention them.
The media is trying their best to praise their team, but Zhang Sheng has a bit of a headache, because the Longteng team that has just gone through a fierce AFC Champions League game is going to challenge Shanghai SIPG away, this season's Shanghai SIPG is different from last season, they have upgraded the head coach and foreign aid, whether it is Eriksen or Conca, they are considered first-class masters in the Chinese Super League, and Conca has played a performance that amazes the outside world "Those who get Conca win the Super League".
Coupled with a vote of domestic players who have risen in strength because of the league promotion, it can be said that this season's SIPG is like a tiger with wings.
Zhang Sheng is not afraid of SIPG, after all, his foreign aid strength and domestic player strength are better than SIPG, but double-line combat is a very headache, plus he is still fighting away this time, the players of the U16 national team will return to the team on the 23rd, and the players of the National Olympic team will not come back until April, which is even worse, how to deal with this game is a problem that Zhang Sheng must consider.
Zhang Sheng knows that SIPG won the runner-up of the Chinese Super League in history, and since he is going to the Super League championship, he must score points in this game.
In the ranking arrangement, Zhang Sheng was very injured in the brain, Tao Wentao suffered a small injury in the AFC Champions League in midweek, and it took a week to recover, Zhang Sheng could only let Lin Feng fill in this position, and Lin Feng's back position was handed over to Zhang Hao, and Roque Gill will take on the task of equalizing the ball.
As for Ivo, it has become Zhang Sheng's back move, once the team is not in good shape, let him replace Roque Gill to play the front midfield, and let Lin Feng retreat is another way.
At the pre-match preparation meeting, Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff analyzed the current tactics of Shanghai SIPG.
After the end of the league last year, SIPG Group was dissatisfied with the team's results, and stood directly in front of the stage from behind the scenes, and their hands were indeed not small, digging Eriksen and Davi, and then digging Conca, and then buying Yu Hai, on paper, the strength of the team is greatly increased, but there are indeed many embarrassing places.
Yu Hai can fill in the gaps because of his essential oil attributes, but Dawei and Conca are really a collision - because both are playmaker midfielders.
Conca, as a player brought in by SIPG with great effort, is above Dawei, and he will never be a supporting role, but Dawei was personally brought over by the head coach, and it is also impossible for him to be a substitute, so there is only one choice. That is, Kongka is in the front, Dawei is in the back, one is the core, and the other is the auxiliary.
It's just that this begs a big question, who will defend?
Judging from the previous rounds of games, Shanghai SIPG regarded Cai Huikang as their defensive core in the midfield, and this choice seems to have no problem defensively, because Cai Huikang's interception ability, sweeping range and defensive hardness in the midfield are enough, but they also ignore a problem, that is, his ability to transfer the ball is too poor to afford to hand over the ball from the back line to the front.
SIPG can use Conca's personal ability to break through, pass, and divide sides, but if the ball can't be passed from behind, the threat will be greatly reduced, as long as the Longteng team restricts Cai Huikang's passing line to Dawei, SIPG's positional attack will be greatly reduced, after all, only Dawei can deliver cannonballs to Conca.
Next, the most discussed by the Dragons is how to limit Conca.
Conca's ability is undoubted, and his midfield getting rid and organizing skills are indeed strong, but after discussions with the Longteng coaching staff and analyzing the video of the game before SIPG, everyone agreed that there is no need to send someone to guard him.
Everyone decided to adopt the strategy of zone defense, cut off Conca's passing line, as long as the object of his pass is limited to death, and want to rely on Conca alone to decide the game, the back line of the Dragons is not papery.
Before the game, Eriksen spoke to the reporters interviewed: "The opponent is a very strong team, they have a lot of good players, and of course we still have a lot of good young players in the team. Their manager is a rare high-level coach I've had in my career, but this is our home stadium and we're going to win. ”
It should be said that Eriksen is very good at being a person, since he came to China to coach, from the Chinese Super League to the Chinese League, from R&F to SIPG to Shenzhen, few people say bad things about him, this time he gave a high evaluation of the Longteng team from top to bottom, which makes people feel like a spring breeze after hearing it.
In an interview with reporters, Zhang Sheng also gave Eriksen a big blow: "Eriksen is the world's top coach, he has successfully coached many of the world's top teams, I believe he is also the same as Shanghai SIPG, but striving for victory is our only goal." ”
Eriksen and Zhang Sheng really didn't say big things, and after the game started, the two teams with technical play played very spectacle.
Shanghai SIPG, the first to kick off, used the ball in hand, played a very beautiful match, Conca got Haisen's return pass, a very beautiful pass to the right side of Wu Lei, Wu Lei knocked across to find the answer to Conca, Conca and the ball to the left side of Yu Hai, and finally Yu Hai's pass to the penalty area, Haisen completed a shot.
Compared with other Chinese Super League teams that started to find frontcourt players at the beginning, SIPG insisted on hitting the ground and cooperated very smoothly, which can be seen that they have good tactical literacy and good foot ability.
Not to be outdone, Zhou Wei also passed the ball to the defender after kicking off, and then slowly ran from the backfield to the midfield through the inverted foot, and then through Lin Feng's up and down tandem, found the players in the frontcourt, and finally completed a long-range shot by Ben Alfa.
Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of the commentary at LeTV Sports, said: "From the attack of the two sides in the opening game, we can see that these are two very technical teams, and the players' running and passing are very orderly, and I believe that fans also like to see such games." ”
As the game progressed, the gap between the two sides in the midfield position was revealed.
At the beginning, with the promotion of the league this season, Cai Huikang, who has grown in ability, can still pass one or two balls, but gradually with the increase of Lin Feng's pressing strength, his shortcomings of low passing accuracy are exposed, and several consecutive passes make the players who come to the front court to receive the ball not very comfortable.
On the other hand, Zhang Hao, who is responsible for playing the back in this game, although he looks stronger than Cai Huikang, but his ability to pass and receive the ball is really much stronger, Eriksen obviously adopted the same tactics as Zhang Sheng, so that Dawei and Conca took turns to press Zhang Hao, not allowing him to pass the ball smoothly, but Zhang Hao resolved it one by one.
The Longteng team's long-term training with the intelligent serving system has shown results.
In the fifteenth minute of the first half, Nie Jiang, who withdrew from the front line, participated in the sandwich of Cai Huikang, and finally Lin Feng cut off the ball from Cai Huikang's feet.
Although Cai Huikang immediately carried out a counter-robbery after being tackled, Lin Feng's ability to transfer the ball under the confrontation still has a certain advantage in the Chinese Super League, he still passed the ball smoothly under Cai Huikang's close pressing, and it was Pato on the right side who got the ball.
Because Shanghai SIPG was in the state of the whole team's offense when Cai Huikang got the ball, he was very loose in defense, Yu Hai on the left side had already begun to run and prepare to insert forward, and left back Sun Xiang was also preparing to insert to assist, so Pato was not under much defensive pressure when he got the ball.
Letting a player like Pato easily get the ball in the front court was a very bad consequence, and sure enough, when Pato faced Sun Xiang, a veteran who was ready to adjust his center of gravity to defend him, an easy line change formed a breakthrough, and SIPG's defense line was in a hurry.
Pato, who had successfully broken through, inserted into the penalty area without hesitation, and then shot decisively in the face of Yan Junling's blocking.
Yan Junling took advantage of his height and arm length, and a diagonal jump lifted Pato's ball into the top right corner of the goal, and Shanghai SIPG escaped.
Cai Huikang, who lost the ball, stretched out his hand to Yan Junling apologetically, saying that the ball was his mistake, and then obediently ran to the penalty area, preparing to defend the second landing point of the corner.
Although the corner kick taken by Ben Alpha in the end was too close to the small penalty area and was picked up by Yan Junling, Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of the commentary, still discovered the tactics of the Longteng team very keenly: "The Longteng team is very fierce against Cai Huikang, and it is a little difficult for SIPG to play the ball, see how Coach Eriksen breaks the game." ”
Eriksen was also clearly aware of Tsai's weakness, and he waved his hand to let Davey get closer to Tsai, giving Tsai an extra point of contact in the middle.
Although SIPG's action had a certain effect - Cai Huikang was able to hand the ball to Dawei, who was very close to him, but Dawei was even farther away from Conca.
On the football field, the farther the pass is made, the more likely it is to make a passing error, and the farther away the receiver, the easier it will be for the defending player because he has enough time to prepare for the defense.
When Dawei was far away from Conca, although Conca kept running in the front court to receive Dawei's ball, no matter which defensive area the Longteng team was in, such a long-distance pass made Conca unable to easily turn around or organize an attack, and SIPG's offensive system was gradually suppressed.
In desperation, Conca had to retreat his position a little to better respond to Dawei's pass, but as the core of the midfield, he retreated, and SIPG's frontcourt offensive line also began to move away from the goal of the Longteng team, and the corresponding threat of SIPG to the goal of the Longteng team also began to decline significantly.
On the contrary, the defensive formation of the Longteng team was able to move forward, and gradually overwhelmed the formation of SIPG through the half, and the attack of the Longteng team became more threatening.
In the 32nd minute of the first half, the Dragons had another good chance.
This time, it was Roque Gill who passed the ball to Lin Feng in the midfield, and Lin Feng used the short pass tactics in the past two months of games and training to quickly pass the ball to the front of the SIPG penalty area.
Ben Alpha, who switched to the middle of the road with Nie Jiang, used his skills to shake the central defender Jin Zhourong who came over to defend, and then sent the ball to Nie Jiang who was diagonally inserted into the penalty area, Nie Jiang faced Wang Shenchao's interference, passed the ball to the back point, and the Shanghai Port team, which could not shift the center of gravity from the right side to the left side in time, leaked, Pato at the back point shot with his feet in an unmarked state, this time Yan Junling could no longer do anything, he could only watch the ball fly into the net, and the Longteng team led 0:1 away from home.
Liu Jianhong also shouted excitedly: "Enter, enter, enter! Pato stabbed at the beautiful back point." The Longteng team's beautiful passing coordination, this time the overall attack played like a smooth cloud, and SIPG's back line was a little careless. ”
Indeed, as Liu Jianhong said, the Longteng team this time is a classic teamwork with the overall offensive goal.
Because of the large number of people involved in the attack, the Longteng team was able to burn the fire in front of the SIPG team's penalty area through the skilled short pass cooperation in the midfield, and then several players in the front field affected the defensive attention of the SIPG team through a change, and then the embodiment of Ben Alpha's personal ability - a sudden breakthrough, which made the SIPG backline appear porous, and then Nie Jiang's smart pass, allowing Pato to form a shot.
It seems that when Pato shoots at the end, SIPG is leaking, but the series of cooperation in front is the main reason why Pato is undefended, as long as Pato can run in place and can play a shot within his level, SIPG's loss of the goal is inevitable.