135. Victory
Seeing that the two consecutive shots were blocked by Zhou Wei, Olaroyu couldn't wait to go up and help complete the shot, but this could only be thought.
Because the Longteng team, which won the ball next, began to dominate the situation on the field again.
Zhou Wei's kick-off adhered to the characteristics of the Longteng team - the short pass was handed to his defender teammate, and Ma Yongli, who received the ball, also continued to make a short pass to Wei Zhimin on the wing, who in turn handed the ball to Roque Gill, who came to pick it up.
"Yes, let's steady. He Wei was very satisfied with the operation of the players of the Longteng team, "The opponent is attacking fiercely now." We can't rush. It's us who leads the way, we have the ball in hand, and then we just have to wear down their fighting spirit. ”
"The Dragons are doing a great job. Xu Yang also said, "Now these Longteng players on the field don't look young, they still have a lot of experience in the game." If you think they are young, you think they will be impulsive, and it is estimated that they will suffer. ”
After the Longteng team passed steadily on the field for a minute or two, they saw that the opponent did not press and started their own advancement, and the core responsible for the promotion was still Lin Feng.
In the twelfth minute of the second half, the Longteng team once again played the same Tiki-Taka tactics as in the first half, the only difference was that this time the players responsible for the change of rhythm in the front court were not either Ben Alpha and Pato, the two super foreign players, but Tao Wentao.
A large part of the reason why the Longteng team gives others the impression of a local tyrant team is that these two super foreign aides give people an illusion.
When outsiders mention the Dragons, the first thing that comes to mind is Ben Alpha and Pato, and the corresponding excellent local players such as Tao Wentao are ignored.
Even though Tao Wentao scored a beautiful one-on-one goal in the last round, Al Ahly still stubbornly focused most of his attention on the two super foreign players of the Longteng team.
Even Nie Jiang, a young player who has just won the Golden Ball and Golden Boot at the World Junior Championships, is more valued than Tao Wentao.
Therefore, for Tao Wentao's sudden change in rhythm, Al Ahli did not expect it at all.
This time it was their defender Fardan, who was responsible for defending Tao Wentao, and after seeing Tao Wentao receive the ball, he rushed directly after being worn out of patience by the Tiki-Taka tactics of the Longteng team.
Tao Wentao was waiting for him to make such a reckless move, in the face of Fardan's fierce grab, a beautiful step on the ball at his feet pulled back and then accelerated to get rid of the opponent's defense.
By the time Pardan realized that he had been mistaken, it was too late.
Breaking through as a midfielder, Al Ahly's centre-back could only come up to defend hard, and it was No. 2 Khamis who came.
As a modest centre-back, Khamis often makes up for it with aggressive movement and anticipation, which he is said to have learned from Cannavaro, one of the world's top tackles.
But Cannavaro is Cannavaro, and Khamis is Hamis. The technical task of grabbing not only requires experience, but also requires a lot of talent from the players.
Cannavaro's height is a disadvantage as a centre-back, but his talent for tackling is innate, not to mention the fact that the 91-year-old centre-back is not only not very experienced, but also often makes some rough mistakes.
In the first leg of the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League, Khamis made an extremely low-level mistake.
Against Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal, the opposition failed to attack and the ball remained in the box, but not completely out of bounds.
Khamis actually picked up the ball with his hand directly in the penalty area and gave Al Hilal a penalty, if it weren't for Al Hilal's core player Eduardo smashing this free penalty on the post, it might have been Al Hilal to advance.
Now in the face of the menacing Tao Wentao, the rough Hamis made the same mistake as Fardan, and he actually robbed it.
Tao Wentao subconsciously made a fake move of an oily ball, shook Hamis, and directly entered the forbidden area.
It wasn't until he was passed by Tao Wentao that Khamis discovered his mistake, and then his operation was even more reckless, he started directly behind Tao Wentao and pushed Tao Wentao down in the penalty area.
Ilmatov has been running with Tao Wentao, and when he saw Khamis's action, he decisively blew the penalty and gave Khamis a yellow card.
When He Wei saw that the Longteng team had been in the middle of the field smoothly in control, he kept telling Xu Yang how good the skills of these players in the front court of the Longteng team were.
The next Rifaldan's top robbery was shaken by Tao Wentao.
Tao Wentao's feints are so beautiful. He Wei hurriedly said, "This is an opportunity, Fardan's top grab was a bit reckless, and Tao Wentao rushed directly to the penalty area." Khamis came over to defend Tao Wentao, and he also grabbed it. Aha! Croquettes, it's croquettes, and this feint is even more beautiful than the one just now. ”
Tao Wentao fell in the forbidden area. Is it a penalty? It's a penalty! It's a penalty! Tao Wentao created a penalty for the Longteng team!" He Wei almost jumped up with joy, "This series of passes, it's so beautiful." ”
"The other party is a little bit upset. Xu Yang also said excitedly, "Being continuously walked by the Longteng team in the midfield, Al Ahly's player mentality is a little unbalanced. Let's take a look at slow-motion replay. Yes, Khamis pushed behind Tao Wentao, it was very obvious! Ilmatov is a really good referee. ”
It wasn't until a penalty was awarded that Khamis reacted, and he hurriedly went over to the referee Ilmatov to intercede, arguing that he had committed a foul outside the box, but Ilmatov, who is very experienced in law enforcement, did not give him any chance to defend himself and upheld the original decision.
"Who will punish this penalty?" He Wei asked subconsciously.
"It should be Pato. Xu Yang responded, "Pato has always been the first penalty taker of the Longteng team, and sure enough, Pato stood in front of the ball. ”
At this time, Pato seemed extremely calm, as a shooter, the more critical the moment, the more he had to calm down, Pato completely achieved this.
After a simple run-up, Pato feinted with his ankle when he took a free throw, and goalkeeper Mahmoud misjudged the direction and could only watch the ball fly into the net.
After the goal, Pato happily hugged Tao Wentao and thanked him for the penalty he made this time, and Tao Wentao chatted skillfully with Pato in English, obviously the relationship between the two sides is very good.
"It's 2:0. He Wei said proudly, "The total score became 4:1, and the game basically lost its suspense." It's harder for Al Ahli to get it back than it is to get it up. ”
"Haha. Look at Coach Zhang Sheng's expression just now. Xu Yang watched the slow-motion replay of the penalty kick, "jumped up happily." But it's a bit embarrassing, now there is an assistant coach in the coach's seat of the Dragons, and the other games have been punished. ”
In fact, at this time, Zhang Sheng's mind seemed to have stopped running, and the action of jumping up just now was completely subconscious. This score has basically determined the champion of the AFC Champions League.
When it was 1:0 before, Zhang Sheng had been guarding against the opponent's turnover, but now that the goal has been scored, Zhang Sheng really realized that the champion of the AFC Champions League has been stabilized.
"This is the AFC Champions League. Zhang Sheng finally reacted.
But soon he suppressed his expression, as a head coach must remain calm, although the opponent's chance to turn the tables is not coming, but the small probability event is also a crisis, he can't let the players on the field feel that the game has lost its meaning.
Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng shouted loudly on the field: "There is still more than half an hour." Lewd development, don't wave!"
In fact, there is another person on the sidelines who thinks the same as Zhang Sheng, and that is Al Ahly's head coach Olaroyo.
If Olaroyo would have had such and such thoughts before this goal, now he has no scruples at all, and fighting has become his only option.
Before kicking off again, Olaroyo directly replaced the back Fardan, who had just made a mistake, with Aseti, and a winger replaced a midfielder.
"Al Ahli has made a substitution. He Wei said, "Foreign aid Asaidi replaced Faldan, and now it's not much use to replace people." Do you have to rely entirely on individual ability? What about defense?"
'Three goals behind is behind, five goals behind is also behind. There's no way around it. Xu Yang was very considerate of Olaroyo's feelings, "If it were me, I would do the same." ”
After kicking off again, it wasn't just Olaroyo who was determined to change, Ribeiro also made a choice, and he chose to leave the middle and go to the wing.
It should be said that Ribeiro did the best thing for the opposition, which was to avoid the dense multi-layered defense of the Dragons in the middle and enter the wide area to create a threat with a low cross.
His change had some effect, and after Aseti came on, Ribeiro and Asaidi's multi-player advantage on the flanks almost resulted in a goal.
In the fourteenth minute of the second half, Ribeiro made a one-two with Aseti to get past Xiao Yunfan, and the latter cut into the box from the left side, and then Asaidi hit the goal from a small angle over the crossbar.
Three minutes later, Ribeiro made a comeback, he used his personal ability to pass Xiao Yunfan alone, and crossed the bottom, but after the football was rubbed by Lima in the middle of the penalty area to the back point, no one outflanked the back point, and directly let the football fly out of the bottom line.
Seeing Al Ahly's continuous flank threat, Zhang Sheng also made adjustments to his tactics, allowing Roque Gill to strengthen the defense on the wing, while Lin Feng retreated slightly to fill in for Roque Gill.
At this time, Olaroyo likes to plan everything before the game, and he doesn't like the weakness of active substitutions to be exposed very much, he didn't realize that when Ribeiro became a wide player, he needed a good dispatching defensive midfielder (a player like Lin Feng) behind him to distribute the ball to the wings and bombard the Longteng penalty area from both wings.
Olaroyo opted for his usual routine, which was to replace the team's captain Khalil, who had not performed well in the game, with Humed Abbas.
Ribeiro, who is more sensitive to the situation on the field, as a manager, does not react as quickly as the players.
And by the time he figured it out, the situation on the field had changed again.
In the twenty-first minute of the second half, the Longteng team took advantage of the opportunity that Wei Zhimin's side was not attacked, and once again played a successful attack.
This time it was Nie Jiang who cooperated with Wei Zhimin, who switched to the left side, and after attracting the attention of the opponent's defense, he vacated the side to Wei Zhimin.
Wei Zhimin took the ball directly along the sideline, Wei Zhimin did not choose to cross, but chose the inverted triangle pass, Lin Feng from the back position got the ball in the ribs of Al Ahly's penalty area, when he was ready to do the same as the first half and chose to go straight to the penalty area, Majid Hassan swept Lin Feng directly to the ground behind him.
This kind of scissor leg in the back has always been the target of the referee's attack, and Ilmatov rushed over to separate Wei Zhimin, who wanted to come to take revenge on Majid Hassan, and directly showed Majid Hassan a red card.
Majid Hassan, who had a yellow card on him, didn't explain and walked off the field with his head down.
Al Ahly Dubai was sent off by one more when he was already two goals behind, and the big picture is decided!
At this time, Li Xiang, the team doctor of the Longteng team, also rushed into the field and checked Lin Feng, fortunately, Lin Feng's sense of self-protection was very strong, although he was swept to the ground by the other party, he still jumped up and down before being fouled, and the injury was not serious, even so, Lin Feng was grinning in pain.
In order to prevent Lin Feng from being violated by the opponent again, Zhang Sheng, who had already locked the victory in the game, replaced Lin Feng with Qi Ming.
Also opting for substitutions is Al Ahly's side.
The departure of Majid Hassan meant that Al Ahli had no midfielders on the pitch and had to be protected in midfield, and Hamis, who had previously taken the penalty, was replaced by midfielder Sebil, and Al Ahli became a back three.
In fact, before this red card, Al Ahly had a chance, Ribeiro made the right choice, but in the end no one cooperated with his ideas, resulting in his inability to return.
What did he lack? The support of the coach and the other players! He was right, he realized that the Dragons had frozen him in a completely different defensive way than last time, and he did the right thing. However, the manager's successive tricks – swapping off the winger and cutting off the defensive midfielder – left Ribeiro with a low cross from the left side of the Dragons' attack.
For this kind of one-sided bottom cross, the Longteng team can still control it very well, so until the end, the opponent did not come up with any excellent countermeasures, and the next thing is to completely ruin the game's red card.
"The red card was accurate, decisive and no problem. He Wei also commented at this time, "It's not a loss to be the golden whistle of Asia." I hope Lin Feng's injuries are not too serious. ”
"Lin Feng didn't need anyone to help him go down just now, he should be fine. Xu Yang observed very carefully, "It is estimated that Coach Zhang Sheng is afraid that the other party will use this method to foul Lin Feng again, and it will be too cost-effective to really get injured, but Qi Ming, a young player, is very valued by Coach Zhang Sheng, basically Lin Feng is off the field, and he comes up to replace him." ”
"I heard that he was personally grabbed by Coach Zhang Sheng at his house. He Wei also knew that the next game didn't have much meaning, and began to gossip, "Of course it's valued." ”
Although there are still more than 20 minutes of the game, it already means that the rest of the game is garbage time, and everyone is ready to start celebrating.