72. Lian Ping

The opponent of the Longteng team in this game is Changchun Yatai, which is a very tenacious team, in the face of the remnants of the Longteng team, they fought very fiercely, especially the forward line of Moreiro is a great threat to the Longteng team's backline. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The reason for this, in addition to the strength of Moreiro itself, is that the average age of the Dragons' backline is too low.

From the 17-year-old goalkeeper Huang Dawei, to the 19-year-old central defender Du Zhenyu and the 17-year-old central defender Liming, to the 19-year-old right full-back Wei Zhimin and the 17-year-old left full-back Xiang Tiange, such a young defense line is unique in the entire professional league around the world, not to mention the Chinese Super League.

Among these players, except for Wei Zhimin and Du Zhenyu, who have slowly become the main force this season and have played a lot of games, the other three players have played as substitutes most of the time.

Huang Dawei and Li Ming both started the Super League for the second time.

Even Liu Jiayuan, who was in charge of the commentary, was surprised by the overall age of the Longteng team: "When I first got the starting list of the Longteng team for this game, I was shocked, this average age is estimated to be the lowest in the history of the Chinese Super League, right?"

Hearing Liu Jiayuan's question, Zhu Xiaoyu, who was in charge of the partner's commentary, gave an affirmative reply: "Yes, indeed." The average age of the Dragons in this game is only more than 20 years old, and the name of the youth army is really worthy of its name. Although these players have basically been selected for the national youth team and the national Olympic team, I just don't know if they can play at a high level in the game. ā€

As soon as Zhu Xiaoyu's words fell, Changchun Yatai launched an extremely threatening counterattack.

This time it was Xiong Jian who assisted to the front, but seeing that Changchun Yatai's defensive lineup was very neat, there was no chance, so he let the ball stay at his feet for a while, and was broken by Yatai's foreign aid back Matsu, and then he made a long pass to Du Zhenyu on the left side, who made a beautiful stop and turned around to grab Xiang Tiange.

After Du Zhenyu's pass passed to the penalty area, Moreiro was completely empty at the back point, fortunately the central defender Du Zhenyu jumped high, and the ball flying in the air was rubbed by his head and flew out of the bottom line, otherwise Moreiro would have hit the empty goal.

Liu Jiayuan also exclaimed: "Du Zhenyu's pass, little Du Zhenyu pushed it." It's okay, it's okay. In the last round of the game, the old Du Zhenyu scored a goal against the little Du Zhenyu, and this time the latter was considered a meritorious service. ā€

Pushing this ball out, Du Zhenyu turned to Xiang Tiange and shouted, "Don't worry, stand firm." ā€

Now Du Zhenyu is the oldest and has the most experience in this back line, Zhang Sheng told him to command his teammates' defense more before the game, and he now uses his actual actions to give a performance.

In the next game, the Longteng team mastered the initiative on the field through the ability of the frontcourt players, but they did not have many good ways to face Yatai's iron bucket formation.

Because Ben Alpha, Nie Jiang and Tao Wentao are not there, and now the only people who have the ability to break through in the front court of the Longteng team are Chavez and Pato.

However, Chavez, who has just arrived in the team, is not so skilled with his teammates after all, and he is now playing more on his own ability.

So Pato, the only threat on the front line, became the focus of the target.

The Dragons can only rely on long-range shots and set-pieces to threaten the opposition goal.

When the first half ended, both sides were scoreless.

After the start of the second half, the Longteng team strengthened the attack on the two wings, Wei Zhimin and Xiang Tiange began to insert assists frequently, and the two of them finally brought a level change to the team's attack.

In the sixteenth minute of the second half, Wei Zhimin cut inside and passed the ball to the goal, and the opponent's right full-back Jiang Zhe touched the ball out of the bottom line, and the Longteng team won a corner.

After that, Yao Tian's pass accurately found Chavez, and the latter's header was powerful and finally broke through the opponent's door.

After dozens of minutes of bombardment, the Longteng team finally took the lead.

Liu Jiayuan said excitedly: "This is Chavez's third goal after coming to the Longteng team. This reinforcement during the break of the Dragon Teng team is really cost-effective. ā€

'All three of Chavez's goals were headers. He's already shown us what he's capable of heading and I don't know if he can show us anything else in the future. Zhu Xiaoyu obviously likes to look up information, and he accurately told Chavez's goal history.

Liu Jiayuan praised the overall strength of the Longteng team: "To be honest. I didn't expect that the Longteng team, which played in the rotation and substitute lineup, would also be able to suppress Yatai. It seems that their bench depth is really strong. ā€

"Of course. Zhu Xiaoyu said, "These substitute players don't look very young, but they are the absolute core of the national youth team and the national Olympic team, even players like Yu Bo and Yao Tian have been selected for the national team." Speaking of which, they are all national players, and their strength must be there. ā€

After the goal, the Longteng team continued to test the pressure of the opponent, and formed many chances to shoot, although they did not score to expand the score, they still let the two commentators keep praising their performance.

It's a pity that the Longteng team's continuous attacks did not score, but gave Changchun Yatai the opportunity to counterattack.

In the 33rd minute of the second half, Changchun Yatai's pass from the back found Matsu on the right side, who used his body and speed to eat Wei Zhimin raw, and then passed the ball to the middle, and Morero shot straight into the corner of the goal with a non-stop shot nearly 20 meters away from the goal.

Huang Dawei was very concentrated, and immediately made a save, but the angle of this fallen leaf ball was too awkward, and the ball bounced into the goal after hitting the inside of the goalpost.

"This foot wave is so beautiful. Liu Jiayuan shouted loudly, "At this distance, you can still hit the dead end, and Morero is worthy of the silver boots of the former Bajia." ā€

Zhu Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "This is a fairy ball." Huang Dawei's performance in this game is still good, but it's a pity. ā€

Also shaking his head on the sidelines was Zhang Sheng. He knows the characteristics of Huang Dawei, he is the kind of player who is very stable, and can save the ball nine times out of ten within his ability, but there is nothing he can do when he encounters a shot like Morero.

Zhou Wei is better than Huang Dawei in this aspect, if he is in excellent condition, he can even save the fairy ball, but unfortunately most of the time he is not so reliable.

After the equalizer, seeing that there was not much time to play, Changchun Yatai began to defend back across the board, and replaced two defenders in a row, and the attitude of wanting to defend this point could not be more obvious.

Zhang Sheng replaced Yao Tian with Lin Feng and Tao Wentao in succession, and replaced Liming with Lu Zhihui, hoping to use the skills and headers of the two of them to score goals.

In the 38th minute of the second half, Tao Wentao passed two people into the penalty area, and was knocked to the ground by the opposing defender Ismailov, but the referee did not award a penalty, and the replay afterwards showed that it was a very obvious penalty, because Ismailov's hand action was very obvious.

Next, in stoppage time, Lu Zhihui's header hit the crossbar and bounced off the bottom line, missing the chance to kill again.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Dragons had to accept a 1-1 scoreline, which was the team's second consecutive draw.

Fortunately, in the match held at the same time, Guangzhou Evergrande was also held to a 2-2 draw by Shanghai Shenhua at their home stadium.

However, after this game, many media began to look down on the performance of the Longteng team in the next few months, especially in the words of a Cantonese media very representative: "The Longteng team is undoubtedly the dominant team in the Chinese Super League this season." Guangzhou Evergrande lagged behind them a lot in the early stage of personnel and coach adjustments, but I believe that with the intensity of the next game of the Longteng team, they are likely to be overturned. ā€

They were right, because the Dragons were going to have an extremely difficult time ahead.

In the middle of next week, the Dragons will play a FA Cup game and travel to Singapore to challenge their opponents. Although Zhang Sheng has decided to send a substitute squad for this game, these substitutes will definitely affect the league at the weekend.

The next step is for the 97 and 98 age group to go to the Under-19 national team.

Originally, according to the arrangement of the Football Association, these players of appropriate age will start to participate in the continuation from August 29, and in early September, they will also participate in the "China Team" Four Nations Invitational Tournament in Qingdao, and then continue to participate in the training camp, and finally from September 28 to October 7, they will go to Huai'an, Jiangsu Province to participate in the preliminary round of the Asian U19 Youth Championship.

However, Zhang Sheng did not fully agree with the Football Association's arrangement, because according to their request, as many as nine players in the team will be absent from the game for more than a month.

In addition, the U16 national team will also have to draw players, who will train from September to early October, so the 99-year-old players in the team will also be away from the team for almost a month.

By the end of September, the team's age-appropriate players (23 years old and under) will compete in the crucial final stage of the Olympic budget competition, which will be played until mid-October.

When the World Junior Championship starts at the beginning of October, the Under-17s will definitely be involved in the team, and once the team is doing well, it will be played until the beginning of November.

In addition, the middle is also interspersed with the national team's World Preliminary Tournament matches, so the players of the Longteng team are too tired.

If the players are transferred according to the requirements of the Football Association, then the Longteng team will not play in the following games.

What's more, from August 26, the AFC Champions League will begin, and the team must be 100% ready.

Even if you don't consider the AFC Champions League, in the last eight games of the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team will play Guangzhou Evergrande at home, Beijing Guoan away, and Guangzhou R&F away.

In the two months from the end of August to November, if there is any mistake, it is very likely that the current advantage of the team will completely dissipate, not to mention the FA Cup, which is ready to be abandoned, it is very likely that the AFC Champions League will be eliminated, and even the league championship may not be guaranteed.

If the 14-point lead in the final eight rounds were reversed, it would be a real loss of face for the club.

Therefore, how to coordinate the selection time of players with the Football Association is the most critical issue for the club now.

Soon in the next round of the Chinese Super League, the main Longteng team relied on Pato and Yu Bo to score a goal each to defeat Liaoning Hongyun 0:2 away, proving that the previous two consecutive draws were just a nap for the team.

By midweek, when club officials were arguing with the Football Association, assistant coaches He Lijun and Schurrle took the team to Xinjiang for the FA Cup.

The Longteng team, which is mainly composed of substitutes and rotation players, relied on the goals of Chavez and Zhang Hao to defeat the new Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopards 1:2 away from home.

Compared with the score, the latter was very polite to the Longteng team, and did not make any big moves on the field, allowing the players to return to the club safely.

Moreover, as many as three Longteng players in the team are also victims of this national team selection, Yan Xiaoyu and Qu Wenming will be absent from the Chinese League for a long time, so they also give up the FA Cup.

However, there was one game in this round of the FA Cup, which played a wonderful game that is rare in the history of the Chinese Super League. That was the Shanghai derby between Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG.

In this game, the tie was 3-3 after regulation time.

Each of those six goals was nothing short of spectacular.

First of all, Shanghai Shenhua's Moreno had a beautiful upside-down golden hook in the penalty area, followed by another player of Shenhua, Wang Yun, who kicked the ball outside the penalty area without stopping, and hung it in the dead corner of the goal, leading 2:0.

If Shenhua wins by a big score like this, it can only be one-sided exciting, and this game is beautiful and beautiful, and the opponent also gives a correspondence that is not inferior to them.

First, SIPG's Wu Lei pulled a goal back from the edge of the penalty area, and then Ji'an's impactful header helped SIPG equalize.

Then Shenhua relied on Demba Ba's barb to take the lead again, and just when everyone thought the game was going to end like this, SIPG's Conca scored successfully with a direct free kick before the end of the game, making this twisty game seem more ups and downs.

In the end, it was Shanghai Shenhua who had the last laugh, and they relied on penalties to defeat Shanghai SIPG 8-7.

It can be said that this game, whether it is the rhythm of the game, the technical and tactical arrangements of the two sides, and the excitement of the goals, are one of the most exciting games in the history of the Chinese Super League and even Chinese professional football.

This also proves from another aspect that as long as everyone puts their minds on the game itself and is willing to devote themselves to the game, they can still play at a very high level.

Moreover, the promotion brought by excellent coaches and excellent foreign aid, and the league promotion helped by Zhang Sheng, have made the Chinese Super League more and more exciting.

Zhang Sheng also looks forward to more exciting games like this in the future, because such games are unparalleled in terms of improving the players and attracting fans.