Villas-Boas did not attend the post-match press conference at all, and it is clear that his resentment about the match is not ordinary.

His assistant coach also looked indifferent, answered a few questions perfunctorily, and then never said anything more.

For the media, this is exactly what they expect most, because the news material is full of them, and the time has come to carnival.

The visitors' win on penalties at someone else's home stadium isn't much convincing, at least in terms of results, and the cloud fans and keyboard warriors love nothing more than Spray.

They don't care what the details of the actual 90-odd minutes of the game are. Even more people who were slapped in the face by the Chinese team before were slapped, and the trash talk held in their stomachs squirted out like constipation and laxative after a long time.

Fans who really know, look at the data of both sides after the game, and you can find that the actual game is certainly not as simple as a 1:0 penalty win.

From the point of view of the possession rate of both sides, the Longteng team is 67%, occupying an absolute advantage, in the number of passes, pass success rate, shots and shots on target are also much higher, but in the foul data, SIPG is 21:12 ahead of the Longteng team, and the red and yellow cards of the players are also 3:1, which is more than the Longteng team.

From Zhang Sheng's point of view, three points is three points, and he won't pay attention to other things, as for Comrade Wang Xiaoping who showed off his calligraphy again, and gave Boas a two-game ban and a fine of 50,000 yuan, it was just a joke for the coaching team of the Longteng team before and after dinner.

The Dragons are still in a hurry to deal with a lot of things now, after all, the AFC Champions League is coming soon.

In the last round, the Longteng team won the game with a 4:0 victory at home, and it should be said that as long as the Longteng team does not have any problems, the promotion is to catch the turtle in the jar - to catch it.

Even so, the coaching team of the Dragons did not dare to relax at all, including scouts, intelligence gatherers to video analysts to tactical analysts, physical coaches, assistant coaches, and the entire team of head coaches were still treated as a normal AFC Champions League quarter-finals.

Michael Genk, as the first assistant coach and very experienced, put forward his opinion very cautiously at the pre-match preparation meeting: "We have to be careful in this game. ”

"Oh?" Zhang Sheng was a little puzzled.

"The feedback from the Japanese side, plus our analysis. The current Urawa team is very different from the one we met last time. Henk said solemnly, "Why don't you let Huang (Huang Linjia) and Gu (Gu Qi) introduce me." ”

Huang Linjia is the video analyst of the Dragons, and all the footage taken by the scouts and intelligence collectors must be handed over to him, and then he will analyze and edit it and submit it to the assistant coach or head coach, of course, when he analyzes, there will be a match analyst to assist him in doing these things.

In the Longteng team, Gu Qi is responsible for game analysis.

Huang Linjia and Gu Qi exchanged colors with each other, but decided to let Gu Qi speak.

She skillfully opened the smart projection screen that had been deployed and projected the prepared video.

"Since the last AFC Champions League match against us, after the break between the international break and the league restart, Urawa Rubies have played two league games and three warm-up games, from the information we have got. The tactical change here is very big. Gu Qi explained the video calmly, "Let's take a look." ”

"In the past five games, the biggest difference between Urawa Ruby and the previous one is that it has changed from a three-center-back system to a two-center-back. On the smart screen, the backline circled by Gu Qi with a red pen can be clearly seen that the positions of Urawa's four defenders are clear at a glance.

Seeing that everyone had carefully looked at the pictures she had arranged, she continued: "After Takashi Hori took over Urawa Ruby, although there were some small changes. The general framework still comes from the 3-6-1, possession tactics of the previous coach Petrovic. ”

"But!" Guqi raised his voice, bringing up new pictures and videos, and playing them one by one, "During this time, not only has the formation changed from 3-6-1 to 4-1-4-1, both in the league and against warm-up opponents in the lower leagues. And they're not obsessed with possession. ”

"Look, everybody. In the away match against Shimizu on August 27, when the strength was obviously stronger than the opponent, Urawa rarely chose a defensive counterattack style of play, and their full-court possession time was even inferior to that of the opponent. ”

"On September 9th, which was yesterday, Urawa played at home, and when facing the league opponent Kashiwa Suns, he returned to the style of play of possession, and the possession time was clearly superior. ”

"The most noteworthy game was the warm-up game against the three lower divisions, and they chose to play two of them on the counter-attack. That's weird. ”

"In terms of the results of the five games, they won away against Shimizu Agitation and lost to Kashiwa Suns at home. The three warm-up matches were two wins and one draw. However, in all the games, there were very few goals conceded, and the most one was a 1:2 loss to Kashiwa Suns. ”

"It can be seen from this. Urawa's tactics have become more realistic, no longer insisting on the pursuit of good looks, the improvement in defense is very obvious, plus after Yosuke Kashiwagi returned, he was in good shape, and the team's offensive threat was great, five games, their number of shots and corner kicks, and free kicks were far ahead of their opponents. ”

"So, my opinion is. In the next AFC Champions League match, the opponent is likely to choose a 4-1-4-1 formation to play our defensive counterattack. The key figures in their three lines are Mauricio at central defender, Yosuke Kashiwagi in midfield, and Shinzo Koki up front. ”

"From the player's point of view, they have two weaknesses, one is their left wing-back, whether it is Uga Kamitomoya, or Nasu Dailiang, who has a long-term injury and is in very poor form, plus Tomoaki Shinno, who can play at left-back, was sent off in the last red card, and their defense on the left side is the focus of our attack. Then there is their single back position, Takuya Aoki received a second yellow card in the last round and was suspended, leaving a veteran Yuki Abe, who was not physically fit enough to support the whole game. ”

After a flurry of data and demonstrations, Guqi came to her own conclusions.

In fact, when Gu Qi was talking, Zhang Sheng was listening and thinking while recording the main points in his notebook.

Judging from the available information, Hori Takashi is indeed a very realistic manager, and it is not realistic for him to take over the team - after all, he is a temporary takeover of the team, whether he can keep his position, victory is far more important than playing well.

Since it is a realistic head coach, it is difficult to say whether he insisted on playing 4-1-4-1 throughout the game, with Urawa Ruby's player reserves, the back line is indeed slightly worse, but their midfielders are very rich, plus the previous 3-4-2-1 formation.

In this game, Urawa Ruby will switch between 3 central defenders and 4 defenders, and the tactics are extremely flexible according to the situation on the field.

After going through the notebook in his hand again, Zhang Sheng began to express his opinion: "I roughly agree with Gu Qi's statement. However, I feel that we need to be more prepared. ”

Everyone on the coaching staff also increased their attention and waited for Zhang Sheng to say that it would be arranged.

"Since Urawa Ruby has the ability to play two formations, we need to be prepared for him to switch lineups in one game. However, no matter how the 4-1-4-1 formation and the 3-4-2-1 formation change, it is not difficult to see from the previous intelligence to the current intelligence that their main attack direction is the wing, whether it is the wing-back in the past or the bilateral forward-back, it is where they make a fuss. Then we just need to lay out the side for them, and the problem will be solved. ”

Head coach Zhang Sheng set the tone for the strategic direction of the game, and the entire coaching staff was like a precision machine, running at full speed.

Time is tight, the game is intensive, the coaching team can only work hard, make the preparation more adequate and more detailed before training, and make the targeted tactical design in training easier to understand and easy to teach.

The same hard work is the support staff, including team leaders, logistics, etc., the players and coaches are short of time, they must arrange all aspects of the software and hardware environment, even to the point that they must compare. The purpose is not to let anything outside of the game, such as hotel accommodation, sleeping environment, food safety, training grounds, fan communication, etc., affect the training and the game.

And to do this, but under the premise of cross-border away games, the difficulty can be imagined.

On September 13th, after the close cooperation of the players, coaches, and club staff, the time for the results came - at half past six in the evening, the game officially began.

In this game, the Longteng team arranged the tactics of 4-4-2, the starters and the last league game were rotated, the back line did not move because of the lack of people, and the midfield was greatly changed, Qi Ming and Cao Jinghao played double central defenders, Ni Kai and Fernando were separated, and the front line let Nie Jiang rest, and went to Chavez and Tang Jin.

Urawa Ruby was much different from the first leg starters, and their starting line was 4-1-4-1.

Except for the left-back Tomoaki Kamino who has no choice but to go to Uga Kamitomoya, many positions are active substitutions.

In the center back, Mauricio is actually partnered with Yuki Abe, and the right wingback is Ryota Moriwaki.

In the midfield position, former defender Endo was alone, and in front of him, Toshiyuki Takagi, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Shinya Yajima and Rafael Silva lined up from left to right.

On the front line, it is still Xing Bai Shen three tops in front.

Compared with the first leg, there were as many as four starters changed, and many others did not change, but the positions were changed.

This is a ship new Urawa Ruby.

At the beginning of the game, Urawa did attack with all his strength without reservation, as the Longteng team thought.

Before the game, the Longteng team pushed themselves and others to simulate the opponent's strategic intentions: in the case of 0:4 behind, they will definitely fight hard, and the game will definitely be pressed up at the beginning, if there is progress, then go forward, if there is no progress, they will borrow the slope to get off the donkey, take the AFC Champions League, and take opponents like the Longteng team to verify their tactics during this time.

The Longteng team arranged Ni Kai and Fernando to be extremely fast bilateral strikers, which is the embodiment of the tactical prediction of preparing to play behind the opponent's attack.

It should be said that the idea and corresponding approach of the Longteng team are correct, the problem is that there was a "black swan" in this game.

Just two minutes into the first half, Urawa Ruby scored the goal by Rafael Silva, who had been used as a substitute for him, and it was Yosuke Kashiwagi, the team's attacking playmaker, who provided the assist.

Two players who didn't start and play in the last round completed a beautiful link-up.

Yosuke Kashiwagi's assist was his masterpiece, an overhead kick in front of the penalty area.

This lost goal, the Longteng team's back line has a lot of problems, first of all, Liming once again made the mistake of being confused by the position, the height of one meter eight .nine, actually let others go over the top, and at the same time the goalkeeper Jiang Mingzhi made mistakes, he was obviously not ready for this over-the-top ball, and it can also be said that he was stunned by Yosuke Kashiwagi's beautiful pass, and the attack was not timely, allowing Rafael Silva to get the opportunity to shoot first.

Zhang Sheng on the field angrily shouted at the court: "Concentrate, concentrate, get nervous!"

Knowing the foul, Liming and Jiang Mingming hurriedly stretched out their hands and nodded, indicating that it was their own fault.

After teaching his players a lesson, Zhang Sheng began to think about the goal he lost.

Although his own players made mistakes, but the opponent's goal routine is obviously very proficient, Yosuke Kashiwagi's overhead pass, Zhang Sheng has long heard of it, and he has also heard about the players, Rafael Silva's beautiful running position is beyond Zhang Sheng's expectations.

Whether this is a strength or a characteristic of Rafael Silva will require close attention in the upcoming matches.

"You helped me watch Rafael Silva's movements. Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng, who had finished shouting on the field, returned to the coach's seat from the sidelines and instructed assistant coach Jiang Peng.

The latter quickly pulled out the small notebook he was carrying, and stared fiercely at Rafael Silva.

Scoring so early in the game gave Urawa Ruby a huge boost and the players were clearly playing harder.

And the Urawa fans in the stands were even more powerful, and the cheers and singing completely overwhelmed the Longteng fans who flew over.

Speaking of Saitama 2002 Stadium, this is a place that all Asian teams have to be in awe, and there are even many media outlets who praise it as the home of the first devil in Asia.

As a club backed by a major consortium like Mitsubishi, backed by the Tokyo area, and located at the junction of urban and rural areas with the most fanatical personality and the most harmonious neighborhood relationship, Urawa Ruby fans can say that they have an extremely strong sense of community belonging.

From before the game even started, the Dragons fans were silent.

Even Zhang Sheng had to approach Jiang Peng just now, and get close to the other party's ears to order things, of course, this is also a common method of a coaching staff, covering the mouth with his hands, and trying not to let the broadcast camera, especially the other party's broadcast camera, capture the mouth shape.

It is not uncommon to judge the content of speech by the shape of the mouth, especially after a football match, which has become a very useful channel for finding out the opponent's intelligence.

The fans fanatically cheered on the players, and the players exploded to an extraordinary level, and that's where the home advantage lies.

It's a bit of a bad situation.