66. Zhongjia, here we come
In an interview after the game, Senko's head coach Song Lihui said helplessly to reporters: "I heard people in the southern region of the round-robin before, saying that the Longteng team should not be in the second division. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoAs a team in the North Division, I haven't played against each other before, so I haven't felt it yet. Now judging from the situation of the game, the two core players of the Longteng team are also much higher than us. They really shouldn't be playing in the second division. I hope our team will have better luck next year and never run against a team like the Dragons again. With our strength, there is still a great opportunity for next year. ā
After the game, Zhang Sheng said very calmly in an interview: "I said that our team is a whole, and no one's absence will have an impact on the team, you see, I am not wrong." ā
The victory in this game also means that the Longteng team has a ticket to enter the Chinese League. The next game against Guizhou Zhicheng is completely just a battle for the champion and runner-up of the second division league.
After the game, the substitutes and club staff all poured into the field, and everyone began to celebrate the team's promotion to the Central League, although the club from players to coaches to club officials were very confident that their team could be promoted to the Central League, but at the moment when it was confirmed that they had qualified for the Central League, everyone was still very excited.
Zhang Sheng was surrounded by the players and coaches. As you know, most of the team's current achievements are due to Zhang Sheng. From the construction of the club, from the selection of players, to the arrangement of tactics to the final on-the-spot command, Zhang Sheng has paid too much for this.
After Zhang Sheng broke free from the crowd, he came to the side of an old Xing sitting in the coach's seat. Just now, when everyone was surrounding Zhang Sheng, Lao Xing was sitting here.
Zhang Sheng came over and patted Lao Xing's shoulder. I was stunned to find that Lao Xing's eyes were red, obviously crying.
When Lao Xing saw Zhang Sheng, he hurriedly wiped his eyes with his hands, and said a little embarrassedly: "I'm so excited." ā
Zhang Sheng thought that he was old when he saw Lao Xing not coming over at first, and he was embarrassed to come over to join in the fun, but he didn't expect Lao Xing to be more excited than he imagined.
Zhang Sheng smiled: "It's okay. ā
Lao Xing calmed down and said: "When the team was acquired by Longteng Group, I thought that the club should be rich, and I don't have to worry about the salary every time, and then the team participated in the amateur league, and I was okay when we won the championship, but I didn't expect that we were promoted as soon as we participated in the second division, but we were promoted with an undefeated record." Now that I think about it, it feels like it's still in a dream. ā
Zhang Sheng comforted: "This is just the beginning, there will be more achievements in the future that you can't even imagine." ā
Lao Xing was also happy: "As long as Coach Zhang is here, I believe it." ā
At the end of the match with Qinghai Senko, the Longteng team, which has entered the Central League, has basically completed the task of this season. Zhang Sheng also gave the players two days off after the game. Then the team is ready to go to Guizhou to challenge Guizhou Zhicheng.
In the game with Guizhou Zhicheng, Zhang Sheng was on the bench a lot. Guizhou Zhicheng also didn't play very hard. Guizhou Zhicheng, who has also successfully won the championship, also played carelessly.
Guizhou Zhicheng fans played a banner in the stands with the banner "Guizhou Fans Celebrate the Successful Promotion of Longteng Team and Zhicheng Team" to celebrate.
The players on both sides of the field also played very casually, and Zhang Sheng sent three veterans, Chen Hao, Lu Xi, and Li Fei. The other players are also substitutes. Zhao Yingying and Wu Hao, who have made contributions to the team, are also on the field.
In the end, the match ended with a score of 1:1.
After returning to Jiangcheng, Zhang Sheng received a call from Li Yun. On the phone, Li Yun said a little indignantly: "In the intra-team confrontation last week, Qin Minghao and I were on the bench, but in the end we defeated the main team 2:1. If it weren't for the recklessness of the defenders who partnered with me on our side, we wouldn't have conceded that goal, and Qin Minghao gave so many good chances in the front court, all of which were wasted by them. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been just two goals. ā
Listening to what Li Yun said, Zhang Sheng asked Li Yun to give the phone to Qin Minghao.
Qin Minghao introduced in detail the intra-team confrontation of the national youth team last week.
This time, Li Yun and Qin Minghao were both assigned to the side of the substitute team. Li Yun is responsible for commanding the back defense of the substitute team, Qin Minghao is responsible for organizing the attack in the midfield, and the back is Xu Xin, who is deliberately friendly with the two of them.
After the opening, Li Yun began to command the defense very generously, but the players on the same team did not listen to him too much. These are basically players from the Chinese Super League, although most of them are on loan to play in the Chinese Second League, but their self-esteem is very high, even if many of them participate in teams that are completely incomparable to the Longteng team.
As for Qin Minghao in the midfield, the same is true, although the coach arranged for him to play the core of the midfield on the bench, many players still prefer to come by themselves rather than seek cooperation with him.
The two of them, who have never had experience in the echelon of professional teams and national junior teams, have been ignored.
After the opening, the home team took advantage of the combination and scored a goal with ease. Li Yun, who was in charge of directing the backline, was very angry and shouted at his teammates who had lost their positions. The player who lost his position was not convinced at first, and then the goalkeeper who lost the ball also came up and said a few words to him, and he also knew that he was at a loss, but he still had a pimple in his heart.
In the next game, Li Yun showed his strong strength, and the forwards and defenders of the main team tried to pass one-on-one from him, but they all failed. Li Yun's command also began to be accepted by everyone, and gradually the main team's attack became less of a threat to the goal.
But the pressure in the midfield was still there, and Li Yun began to use his good foot skills to find Xu Xin, who became the point of the ball in the backline, and the defenders and goalkeepers were also used to handing the ball to Li Yun to deal with.
After connecting with Xu Xin, the defensive command of the backcourt of the substitute team was completely handed over to Li Yun, and at this time, Xu Xin's advantage of running more without the ball was revealed. In the backfield of the substitute team, the main team gradually couldn't find opportunities.
At this time, Qin Minghao's ability was shown, because Xu Xin, who could get the ball, handed over the ball to Qin Minghao more, and Qin Minghao used his skills, awareness and overall situation to start frequently directing his teammates to run. The substitutes found themselves slowly able to compete with the main team in midfield. This is thanks to Qin Minghao's constant shouting in the midfield, asking everyone to pass the ball out, when to pass it to themselves, and when to pass it to other teammates. According to Qin Minghao, after a game, people are not tired of kicking, but they are tired of shouting.
The rest of the game became a one-sided game, with more substitutes suppressing the main team. In each half, they scored two goals to defeat the main team.
Although this game showed the strength of Li Yun and Qin Minghao, the head coach continued to put the two of them on the bench.
After the game, Qin Minghao took the initiative to find Rick Link and proposed that he wanted to train more with the main team's team so that he could cooperate more proficiently, but Rick Link did not give a positive answer, but asked Qin Minghao and Li Yun to be more patient. According to Rick Link's words relayed by Qin Minghao: "Young people, I know you want to express yourself more, but you need more patience, patience is the most important quality that young players should have. ā
Zhang Sheng also had to scold a few words: "If it is the long-term training of young players, patience is indeed very important to young players, but it is time to compete, now should not be the time to talk about patience, when it is time to produce results, it is still talking about patience, that is completely funny." ā
But Zhang Sheng could only comfort the two of them: "This coach is the kind who doesn't give up when he doesn't see the Yellow River, and he won't make changes until he can't do it in the game." You need to wait for your chance. When the situation is unfavorable, immediately force him to the palace. ā
Rick Link's coach can be said to be the culmination of the failures of foreign coaches who have come to China to coach.
Swear before you come and at the beginning. For example, when Rick Link first came to take charge of the national youth, he proudly vowed to enter the main match of the World Youth Championships, bringing more training opportunities to this team. He vowed to make this national youth team become a first-class team in Asia within five years, so as to complete the goal of entering the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. At that time, he mentioned three goals to the national youth, "first, to lead these players to qualify for the Olympic qualifiers, second, to become the highest level team in Asia, and third, to play the same pressing football as the Netherlands and even Barcelona".
After losing to Thailand in the first game, he vowed at a press conference, "Our goal is to win the last two group games and qualify for the group." ā
In the end, he threw the pot to the players, and after the national youth were out early, he attributed the reason for the team's early elimination to the fact that the players did not play their due level, and at the same time repeatedly said that there was no problem with their skills and tactics.
Later, when he coached the national junior team, he also failed miserably. Rick Link never admitted it.
In the eyes of these foreign coaches, Chinese football is super backward, as long as it fails, it must be that the level of the players is not enough, and it has nothing to do with them
After giving Qin Minghao and Li Yun instructions, Zhang Sheng began to wait patiently for the arrival of the match between China and Thailand on November 3. Because historically, China lost to Thailand with a score of 1:2 in this game, and it was a goal scored after 90 minutes.
Zhang Sheng did not have any hope for this Asian Youth Championship, and Rick Link's oppressive football with full offense and defense was completely inconsistent with the current batch of players of the national youth team. And the superstition of this tactic made him die unrepentant, and the team lost again and again.
Zhang Sheng just hopes that with the addition of Qin Minghao and Li Yun, the team can at least lose less and leave at least some hope for Chinese fans.