Longteng's home game against Guangzhou Evergrande was the highlight of this round of Chinese Super League matches, and in the days leading up to the game, media from all sides began to hype the game. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

One team is the current Chinese Super League hegemon, the other team is the current Chinese Super League upstart, and the two teams are in the first and second places in the league standings respectively, so it is difficult for such a game not to attract attention.

Before the start of the game, the two sides had already started the first round of confrontations, and these encounters were more psychological battles.

The first to attack was none other than the scheming "Silver Fox" Lippi.

Lippi gave an interview to the media before the game to ask him to comment on the Dragons, Lippi said: "It's a young team, they have stars like Pato, Ben Alpha in the team, but they haven't been doing well lately, although they still have very good domestic players in the team, but they have an obvious weakness, that is, they don't have the experience of winning the top league, they don't know how to stay ahead of the top league, which means they are not used to being strong." The last round against North Kyung Guoan exposed their weaknesses. ”

Then Lippi said: "And our team is different. Evergrande has maintained the championship position for several years, we know how to stand more firmly in the leader position, and we also know how to put pressure on the team that leads or catches up with us. ”

Finally, Lippi changed his tone and said: "This kind of experience is not so easy to gain, it takes a long time to accumulate in the top flight, and the Dragons are too young, maybe they will threaten our leading position, but it will not be this year." ”

"When do you think the Dragons will pose a threat to your team?" the reporter asked.

"When they won once. Lippi replied very cleverly.

Lippi's answer made the reporter's question fall into a dead loop, if you want to pose a threat to Guangzhou Evergrande, you must win the championship, and there is no threat before you win the championship, Lippi means that the Longteng team will never be able to catch up with Guangzhou Evergrande.

Compared with Lippi's aggressiveness, Zhang Sheng was much more low-key in an interview: "My team is now in a special period, the team has a lot of injuries, and the players' physical fitness is also a problem, so we will be more cautious." And this time the opponent is Guangzhou Evergrande, Evergrande is a very good team, which has been proven in previous seasons, and their national team players have also proved it. We don't want to compare ourselves to anyone, we have our own personality, we have a distinct temperament, we want our style of play to be liked by the fans, the fans have always supported us, we just need to play well and hope to be able to repay them with the fruits of victory. ”

Also very confident is the captain of Guangzhou Evergrande, Zheng Zhi, although he could not play due to injury, but in an interview, when asked by reporters how he thought of the pressure caused by the Longteng team to Guangzhou Evergrande, he still said: " Many people talk about pressure, there must be pressure, Guangzhou Evergrande has always been a strong contender for the Super League championship, we won the AFC Champions League last year, so the pressure before the game has been experienced, we have won the league championship 3 times, and we have also experienced 3 times before the game, this is the fourth time, everyone has experience. We, as the defending champions, are not under pressure. I don't care if they're under pressure, we just do our own thing. ”

As for the captain of the Longteng team, Shu Jun, behaved very lightly: "We came back from Nanjing, and we have been preparing for this game, I think the normal league is just that, everyone is preparing for the game step by step, like all home games, I think we do our job well, and the result will come naturally." ”

In fact, Guangzhou Evergrande's results after the break are not too good, and it can even be said to be very bad, first of all, they were forced to draw by Shandong Luneng at home in the last round of the Chinese Super League, and the leader Longteng team was defeated by Beijing Guoan at home.

What's more, Diamanti was banned by the Football Association for four games for giving the middle finger in the game against Henan Jianye, so he will miss the focus of this week's match against the Longteng team. In Diamanti's absence, Evergrande's offensive side will rely too much on the impact of Gilardino and Elkeson to attack. Of course, while both men have good impact and point-grabbing ability, it will be questionable who will step up as passers without Diamanti.

Although Evergrande is currently leading the standings on goal difference, when Diamanti was banned by the Football Association for 4 games, the team was under a lot of pressure, so there was Xu Jiayin's family banquet before the game.

In the locker room before the start of the game, Zhang Sheng also specifically mentioned this problem to his players: "The more people want to ignore something, the more they say it over and over again in words. In the past few days, Guangzhou Evergrande's head coach Lippi and captain Zheng Zhi have said that the pressure is worthless, as if they have nothing to do with the pressure, but in fact, this proves that they attach great importance to this game and are particularly pressured. ”

"People who talk a lot are weak-hearted!" Yu Bo at the bottom answered.

Zhang Sheng nodded with a smile on his face and said, "Yu Bo is right. They are the defending champions, they want to win the championship, and the investment of 1.2 billion on Taobao is both motivation and pressure. Is Jack Ma's money so easy to take? He is a businessman, as the saying goes, 'no one does the business of losing money, but someone does the business of cutting off the head.' He won't spend so much money on a business that doesn't make money, so now the Evergrande club is bound to put forward higher requirements for their players. Isn't that a lot of pressure?"

"And what about us? We are chasers, and the expectations of the outside world for us are far smaller than those from Evergrande. Zhang Sheng continued to relieve pressure on everyone, "Of course, I'm not saying that we don't need champions, I just want everyone to understand that we should have a more relaxed mentality to compete in the upcoming games, and let them tie their hands and feet." ”

Zhang Sheng's words were not wrong, and at the same time in another dressing room, Lippi was cheering up the players: "Our opponent is a very young team, they have the strength and momentum, but the more such opponents, the more we have to beat them, the young players have always been a breath of energy, once they are pressed, they don't have much patience to calm down, we have to hurt them, so that they will have a sense of fear when they see us in the future, and we have done this all these years." ”

Lippi's words are exactly what Evergrande has said about the actual situation of Evergrande in the Chinese Super League in recent years, because Guangzhou Evergrande has not been challenged in the Chinese Super League, but in the end, those challengers have surrendered to the feet of Guangzhou Evergrande.

In the past few years after Guangzhou Evergrande entered the Chinese Super League, more than one team has challenged them, such as the 2011 season of Beijing Guoan, this old strong team in Guangzhou Evergrande entered the Super League when it was in its heyday, which caused a lot of pressure on Evergrande to win the championship Sun Xuhai is also in the team, once made Guangzhou Evergrande helpless, Evergrande is difficult to find victory in Renhe's home stadium for many years, and the last laugh is Guangzhou Evergrande, Guizhou Renhe and finally relegated to the Chinese League in the 2015 season Under the strong investment of the boss, he continued to collect international players in the league, invited top foreign aid such as Keita, and challenged Evergrande, but the final result, after the lack of funds, the team was relegated this season, and later it was acquired by other capital, but Dong Xuesheng, Yu Hanchao, Li Xuepeng, Zhang Jiaqi, these international players were later "laughed" by Evergrande.

In later history, Shandong Luneng, Shanghai SIPG, and Jiangsu Suning also challenged Evergrande, but were finally suppressed in one draw after another.

On the contrary, since the establishment of the Longteng team, even when it was in the second division team, it has not lost to Guangzhou Evergrande, and there is no shortage of victories, so Evergrande sees the threat of the Longteng team very seriously, because Lippi knows that once a team like the Longteng team builds confidence in its own team, then it is also when the cornerstone of Guangzhou Evergrande's Super League hegemony begins to shake.

To be fair, Guangzhou Evergrande 2013 was the most passionate and energetic, and their performances were far less dominant than last season, but their composure and resilience allowed the team to continue to achieve success step by step. The accumulation and maturity of a strong team is the key to maintaining a strong and sustainable strength, and now Evergrande is walking on this road.

Lippi lined up Evergrande's existing strongest lineup in this game, he lined up Rene, Gao Jun, Huang Bowen, Gao Lin, Yu Hanchao, Elkeson in the frontcourt, and Zeng Cheng, Sun Xiang, Feng Xiaoting, Liu Jian and Zhang Linpeng in the backcourt.

Except for the two foreign aids, the other players are either active players of the national team or former players of the national team, and their strength is not strong.

At the same time, Zhang Sheng also lined up the strongest lineup of the Longteng team now, with Wen Kai, Ben Alpha, Ivo, Ding Huaiyi, Roque Gill and Tao Wentao in the front, and Shu Jun, Ma Yongli, McGovern, Zhou Zhou and Zhou Wei in the back.

In addition to Pato's injury and Lin Feng's accumulation of yellow cards and inability to play, this is also the strongest attacking lineup of the Longteng team, and except for the four foreign aids, the other players are either popular national team players, or former National Olympic and national youth team players, who are not inferior to Guangzhou Evergrande in terms of strength on paper.

This is also the reason why the outside media is hyping this game, because the starters of the two teams basically include the main lineup of the current Chinese national team, taking the two training camps of the national team during the break as an example, there are 11 people in the 36-person squad, if you count the players sitting on the bench on both sides, there are 17, and if you count the players who are suspended due to injury or yellow cards on both sides, it will reach 20 people, basically it can be said that the national team is the world of Longteng team and Guangzhou Evergrande two clubs.

The CCTV Sports Channel sent a golden combination of Duan Xuan and Tao Wei, and other media are also their own commentators and big-name commentators.

While both sides of the game were arranging specific tactics for the players, the commentators from all walks of life began to express their opinions.

Duan Xuan was introducing the starting lineups of both sides, and then commented: "The Longteng team is injured in this game, Pato and Lin Feng can't play, one is the team's terminator, the other is the team's offensive engine, the Longteng team sent Tao Wentao, a young man who is less than 19 years old, to replace Lin Feng's position this time, it's hard to say what the effect is, I don't know what Coach Zhang Sheng's plan is?"

Tao Wei said with a smile: "Tao Wentao is a young general, Lin Feng is not big, he is just in his early 20s, but Lin Feng's debut is higher and he has more experience in competitions, which makes everyone subconsciously think that he is a 'veteran'." Judging from the previous games, Tao Wentao's skills are more powerful than Lin Feng's, maybe Coach Zhang Sheng sent him to start with the factor of strengthening the offensive strength of the midfield, not to mention that this game has an authentic forward like Ivo to organize, it should not be bad. As for Pato's absence of the team, the Dragons' blow is really big, and the strongest person in the front court of the Dragons is gone, so it depends on whether Ben Alpha can replace Pato's role well. I think it's a bit difficult for Evergrande to do it, and it's a big question who will organize Evergrande's midfield in Diamanti's absence. ”

Duan Xuan is more confident in Evergrande: "Compared with the Longteng team, Guangzhou Evergrande's players are more experienced, and this time Coach Lippi discharged the back of Gao Jun and Rene, instead of Zhao Xuyang and Rene just want to give full play to Gao Jun's strong organizational ability, and control more in the midfield." Well, without further ado, now that the players from both sides are starting to enter the field, let's take a look at the long-awaited battle of Tianwang Mountain. ”

At this time, the stadium chanted the Longteng team's appearance list under the leadership of the on-site DJ Lu Fei, and every player of the Longteng team received a tsunami-like response when they came out, especially when Ding Huaiyi and Ben Alpha, who were loved by fans, came out, the cheers on the field were particularly loud.

At the same time, when the players of Guangzhou Evergrande played, it was overwhelming boos, and the only one who was mixed with a few cheers in the boos was Gao Jun, after all, he spent nearly three years in the Longteng team and won a lot of honors for the team, although he has now transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande, there are still many fans who have applauded him.