68. Return to the league
On August 11, after receiving their medals, the Chinese Olympic team did not stop in Brazil because the players of the team had to rush back to their respective leagues.
Of the five players who played in Europe, Ding Huaiyi's Austrian first division league had already started on 23 July, which means that he would have to miss at least four league games; Xu Mingyu's Portuguese league had already played two rounds since 7 August, and he still needed to take a break before he could play the fourth round when he rushed back; as for the Bundesliga match where Li Yun and Qin Minghao were played, it was also on 27 August recently, and the Olympic Games consumed a lot of their physical energy, so it was certain that they would have a few days of rest; the latest to start the game was Zhang Linpeng's Serie C B, and he had to wait until October to start, so he had enough time to rest。
A large number of Longteng players in the national Olympic team are pitiful, they need to rotate continuously, as soon as they return to China, it is estimated that they will not even have a good time difference, and they will have to participate in the league on August 14, and then they can only let the players who play less football in the Olympic Games go up.
Although everyone was physically tired, everyone felt that it was worth it, because the national Olympic team that returned to China was sought after by the whole society. Numerous media outlets have submitted requests for interviews, including top state media outlets such as CCTV.
Whether it is a goal or a goal, or a player who has not played, the players seem to have become heroes all of a sudden, and the commercial advertising contracts that have been insulated from Chinese footballers for a long time are also pouring in.
Fans on the Internet are also full of jokes, such as someone asking, "Do you know who is the most popular with our bronze medal?"
When the following group of people replied that an Olympic football that was not valued was still a bronze medal, and there was something to be angry about, the person who asked the question announced the answer: "Of course it's Sun Qiuwang." With this bronze medal, he can be exempted from military service, and when he saw the Korean team being eliminated, the way he cried was even sadder than Dou E. ”
Countless people below replied: "Lao Tie, you are right, I am speechless." ”
In fact, Zhang Sheng knows that the most depressed person is the head coach of the Chinese national team, Peilan.
For the Olympic Games, in this rare offseason of the Chinese Super League, the last training period before the top 12 of the national team, most of the absolute main force of the national team went to Brazil, and the national team that stayed in the domestic training camp can only be called the national second team, and I don't know what the significance of such a training camp is for the top 12 of the national team in a month, and the biggest role may be to see if you can find a substitute player from the second team.
Perhaps this is the reason why the Chinese Football Association ruled out a bunch of well-known coaches choosing Perrin when selecting the head coach of the national team - he was "obedient".
In the two weeks of the league break, Zhang Shengzhi spent a rare vacation, although he usually spends half of his time in Jiangcheng, but most of the time is soaked in the club, and he doesn't spend much time with his son, and his son, who has just passed three years old, almost doesn't know himself.
Maybe it is to compensate for Zhang Sheng's lack of talent in playing football, in the few days when he played with his son, Zhang Sheng found that his sense of the ball was really good, although the three-year-old little guy often stumbled when he walked, and the little football that he used as a small toy at home was played by him very slippery.
Zhang Sheng once tried to use the system to observe his son's football talent, but what he got was a bunch of question marks, maybe the child was too young for the system to distinguish.
"Maybe our son will be a big star in the future. Zhang Sheng quipped to his wife, "Otherwise, let him enter the echelon of the Longteng team in the future." ”
"As long as he wants to kick, let him kick. His wife Ye Ting is very open-minded, "The child has his own interests, so let him try it himself." ”
Hearing Ye Ting's words, Zhang Sheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, there is everything if you have an economic foundation, if you let an ordinary family choose the future development of their children, reading must be the first, not to mention that learning football is not cheap now, even if Zhang Sheng fights with the group of people on the board of directors in order to lower the threshold for contacting professional football, it is nothing more than to let the football school have some special free places.
In the past two years, football has been hot, and a large number of football schools have sprung up, as for Longteng Club, Shandong Luneng Club, Guangzhou Evergrande Club, which is either a lot of good players, or a famous school is even more difficult to find, and the rising tuition fees have become inevitable.
Of course, in business, the market determines the price, and the price of a good football school should be high, but like the domestic housing price, the price of a good football school is also the highest price that has been speculated.
The price of Luneng and Evergrande Football School has passed 5 this year, and the price of Longteng Club Football School, which has produced the most youth training talents, is as high as 6, and the per capita disposable income of urban residents in 2016 was 33,616 yuan, not to mention rural families.
Such a price is impossible to make football "close to the people".
Zhang Sheng also knows very well that under the general environment and trend, he can't stop it no matter what, if he insists on doing it, it will really be a mantis arm as a car, and he can give those talented children a few more free places, and get more good coaches to let the children who love football get a better education is already the best he can do.
In this offseason, Zhang Sheng exchanged his accumulated 200 points for an elite-level youth coach, the human resources department from the Americas to dig a youth coach of Chinese descent is only in his thirties, although he grew up in Brazil, but he not only recognizes Chinese culture, but also has enough love for football, China's domestic football broad market prospects make him extremely optimistic, the human resources department did not take much effort to negotiate with him, he also quickly flew to Jiangcheng, and brought the whole family to China, joined the team of Longteng Football School。
After the players of the National Olympic team returned to China, Zhang Sheng also rushed to the magic capital with the coaching staff, because on August 14, the Longteng team will challenge Shanghai Shenhua here, which will be the first stop after the national Olympic players return to China.
Considering that they have only been back for two days, this time Zhang Sheng still arranged a mixed lineup of the main force and substitutes, Chavez and Lu Zhihui, two players who have been repairing for a long time due to injury, were also sent on the field, and the Longteng team finally had three foreign reinforcements again.
In the backline, Lu Zhihui took Liming to play double central defenders, Shen Jun and Xiang Tiange were separated on both sides, Zhang Hao in the midfield, Rock Gil in the midfield, De Paul, Tao Wentao and Xiong Jian's midfield were balanced in attack and defense, plus Chavez's center forward, even if the rotation lineup, the overall strength of the Longteng team was strong enough.
However, this season's Shanghai Shenhua state is surprisingly good, even if Demba Ba was horrified and unspeakably seriously injured, they still rely on not strong domestic players and several elderly foreign aid to get good results, and now they actually pressure this year's investment is several times their city rival Shanghai SIPG ranked fourth in the league, retaining the qualification to impact the AFC Champions League.
In several strong dialogues in the Chinese Super League, Shanghai Shenhua also stood at the end of the season rarely, they defeated Guangzhou Evergrande, Jiangsu Suning and Shanghai SIPG at home, and drew with Longteng team away, which is considered to end the losing streak in the history of these teams.
With high morale, they are also planning to break the record of the Fenglongteng team's winless streak in this game.
From the first minute of the opening, Shenhua took advantage of the home advantage to launch an attack on the Longteng team, and for a time suppressed the powerful Longteng team.
However, the impact of Demba Ba's absence is still slowly reflected, Shenhua's attack is fierce, but it is difficult to stand in the penalty area, they tried to push Moreno into the penalty area, but the control in the midfield was greatly reduced, and Moreno had to be withdrawn again.
As the game progressed, the shortcomings of Shenhua's domestic players with poor overall level began to drag them back more and more, especially players like Lu Zheng, Xiong Fei, and Tao Jin, who were weak players even in the Chinese Super League, made frequent mistakes under the pressure of the Longteng team, and gradually Shenhua's offense and defense became a lone foreign aid.
In the thirty-fifth minute of the first half, the Longteng team almost broke through, Tao Wentao broke through Cao Yunding and Wang Yun in the midfield in a row, forcing Guarin to come over to help defend, as a result, Tao Wentao and Xiong Jian, Chavez played a beautiful three-on-two cooperation, and finally Xiong Jian burst into the penalty area to face Li Shuai's shot alone was magically saved by the latter.
Shenhua escaped the catastrophe.
In the first half of the result, Shenhua was embarrassed to hold this half.
In the second half, Manzano replaced Sun Yu, a former Longteng player with an injury, and replaced Wang Yun, and Shenhua's defense was slightly stabilized.
It's a pity that in the thirteenth minute of the second half, Shenhua's back line gave a big gift, and when the gold rush was forced by De Paul in the front court, when he passed back to Li Shuai, he actually played weakly, and was accelerated by De Paul to snatch the ball, and then in the face of Li Shuai's attack, De Paul successfully pushed the far corner, and the score became 0:1.
It can be said that under the strong pressure of the Longteng team's frontcourt, such a mistake is too fatal.
The next game is easy to play, Xiang Tiange and Xiong Jian, Tao Wentao's right side will be Shenhua's main offensive corridor - Bai Jiajun, Cao Yunding composed of the left side of the left side, Shenhua can only rely on Martins in the front field of the individual combat to do offensive articles.
Martins, on the other hand, is the kind of player who needs someone to feed the ball, he can neither play the role of a fulcrum, nor is he too good to pass on the spot, and he is completely mired in the defensive quagmire of the Dragons' backcourt players.
Manzano finally reacted at this time, replaced Lu Zheng with Wen Kai, and simply let Martins go to the side to make a sudden attack, and put a center forward in the frontcourt.
After Wen Kai came on the field, Shenhua finally had a player who could hold the ball with his back in the front court, and the offense gradually improved.
Unfortunately, they who wanted to score goals were soon hit again, in the 27th minute of the second half, the Longteng team broke the ball in the backfield, and the advantages of Shen Jun's long pass played a role, and he hit a big foot transfer of nearly 40 meters directly behind the Shenhua team's defense, and Chavez successfully took the ball in an offside position and turned it into a single knife.
It quickly turned into a goal, and Chavez slotted the ball into the net after passing the attacking Li Shuai, and the Longteng team led 0-2 away.
Manzano couldn't bear it, and replaced Tao Jin, who failed to create an offside position and had problems defending Chavez, with Bi Jinhao, which obviously didn't want to attack.
In the end, the Longteng team easily defeated Shanghai Shenhua 0:2 away from home, making a good start for the Longteng team after the offseason.
Interestingly, after this match, the Longteng team will play Shanghai Shenhua again after this game, as the first leg of the FA Cup semi-final in midweek is still between the two teams.
Manzano said after the game: "Although there are a lot of injuries in the team now, we will not give up, and the FA Cup is what we want to win." ”
Compared with the 2:0 score of the Longteng team, Guangzhou Evergrande released a terrifying offensive force, the new foreign aid Diego Costa scored a hat trick in the first official game, he defeated the entire defense line of Shijiazhuang Yongchang side alone in the front court, in addition, he also frequently made the ball to his teammates, forcing Yongchang to eat a red card in the first half, and his personal ability can be seen.
The outside world unanimously believes that although Guangzhou Evergrande is now 3 points behind the Longteng team with one less game, but with seven rounds left in the league, Evergrande has no chance to catch up.
As soon as he returned to Jiangcheng, even if there was still a FA Cup game to play in three days, Zhang Sheng still let all the players who had participated in the Olympic Games have a day of rest, especially for the players who have settled in Jiangcheng, they can return to their own bed and sleep beautifully after being away from home for nearly a month, which is better than any means.
After recuperating their energy, the Longteng team ushered in the challenge of Shanghai Shenhua.
This time, Manzano made a very bold choice, that is, to put Wenkai in the center of the problem, and Martins was arranged on the wing, willing to use local players on the central axis, instead of forcing foreign reinforcements, which is also a good change.
After Wen Kai played the center, Shenhua's offense became more three-dimensional, they made up their minds to play defensive counterattacks, using Wen Kai as a transit station in the front court, Cao Yunding, Martins Gamoreno made a fuss around him, Guarin is responsible for the tandem and sweep of the midfield, and the offensive failure will not be due to the player's large pressure and then air defense, and several of the strongest players of the team can also effectively suppress the back line of the Longteng team, which can be described as very stable.
I have to say that Manzano, the coach, is still very good at cooking.
The current Longteng team is very similar to the Guangzhou Evergrande team in the 2013 and 2014 seasons in history. In the league, most of the Chinese Super League teams either choose to put the iron bucket to defend the formation, or simply lie down and be hammered, and think that they are qualified to play against the Longteng team.
There are very few people like Manzano who choose to have a layered defense, and the offense can still form a good attack by relying on a few good players.
For example, in the seventeenth minute of the first half, Guarin simply transitioned in the midfield and handed the ball to Moreno, who used his elusive left foot to pass the ball to Cao Yunding on the left side, who accelerated inward after receiving the ball so that Tao Wentao couldn't keep up, and then Cao Yunding's shot on the penalty line grazed the post and flew out of the bottom line.
Manzano is indeed there、Thing。