31. Preparation for the opening match
It should be said that the bonus award issued by the club made the players very happy, most of the players of the Longteng team have average family conditions, and many families are simply in debt. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info not to mention the rewards issued by the team after the overtake, the new contract signed by everyone has reduced the pressure on the backs of many players a lot, and now with a good Super League winning bonus, as long as everyone performs well, it is foreseeable that after a few years, it can basically make the family change dramatically.
In fact, this is also one of Zhang Sheng's original intentions for opening this club, and it is a matter of course for capable players to get the treatment they deserve.
On the second day back in Jiangcheng, Zhang Sheng once again organized the whole squad to watch the Europa League match on February 28, which saw Red Bull Salzburg face visiting Ajax at home. Salzburg, who returned to their home stadium, played more aggressively, while Ajax shrank back and played defensively.
Even so, Ajax failed to hold on, and at the end of the first half, Ajax, who had been defending for a long time, was still broken through by Red Bull Salzburg, which came from Qin Minghao's long-range shot in the midfield, which was also Qin Minghao's second Europa League goal for the team after coming to Red Bull.
In the 66th minute of the second half, Qin Minghao's cooperation on the left side allowed Alan to assist Mane to rewrite the score to 2:0, and at 77 minutes, it was Qin Minghao's run that pulled away the opponent's 2 defenders, allowing Soriano to expand the score to 3:0.
After Salzburg began to make a large number of substitutions, the four players in the front field were replaced by three, and Ajax had the ability to attack, but Li Yun's command at the back made Ajax have no chance at all, and finally the Red Bulls beat Ajax 3:0 home and away to enter the 1/8 finals of the Europa League.
After watching this game, the Longteng players were shocked by the high pressing, fast passing, game rhythm, and confrontation of the European team, and everyone was secretly wondering: If we went to such a game ourselves, how would the performance be?
Zhang Sheng also said: "This is just a Europa League game, if it is a strong dialogue in the five major leagues, if it is a Champions League game, it will make you even more amazed, everyone has also played with the Red Bull team in the warm-up game, everyone knows the goal in the future!"
A few days before the start of the league, the Longteng team also temporarily reduced the intensity of training, allowing the players to have a week's respite after more than two months of hard training. As the coaching staff, the coaches began to prepare for the first Super League game of the Longteng team, as the promotion horse of this season, the schedule of the Longteng team is very difficult, at the beginning of the league, the Longteng team will usher in 2 consecutive aways, and the first game opponent is still last year's Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou Evergrande, which is a very big blow to the Longteng team who want to try to get a good start.
And the Chinese Football Association also set the opening ceremony of the new season of the Chinese Super League to be held at the Guangzhou Tianhe Sports Center. This also means that the match between Guangzhou Evergrande and Longteng at home will become the opening game of the new season of the Chinese Super League.
In order to hold the 25-minute opening ceremony, Evergrande will bring its own football school students, its own music company, and its own song and dance troupe to perform, and at that time, CCTV Sports Channel will also broadcast the opening ceremony and opening game live.
It can be said that for this opening ceremony, Guangzhou Evergrande made a very grand ceremony, it is conceivable that all the senior leaders of Evergrande Group and the leaders of Evergrande Club will never allow this game to fail, otherwise Guangzhou Evergrande will lose all its face, not to mention, it will also give its own bitter master Longteng team a big advertisement, which is a result that Guangzhou Evergrande never wants to see.
It should be said that the growing domestic football market makes Evergrande will never be perfunctory, for the upcoming 2014 Chinese Super League, as the development company of the league - the Chinese Super League has signed 5 large orders, including Ping An, Huiyuan, DHL, Shell, and Changan Ford, the Super League's single-season revenue is as high as 350 million yuan. Among the five sponsors this year, Ping An has to pay 150 million yuan a year to the Super League, which is more than double the previous naming fee of Wanda Plaza. It can be seen that the domestic football market has begun to reach a blowout period, and any club that is interested in football and wants to obtain various benefits from it will not give up this gold mine that has just begun to be tapped.
According to the news from friends in Guangzhou from Yu Jie, the new leader of the team, Lippi, the veteran coach who had just signed a contract with Guangzhou Evergrande on February 28, had received a death order from Xu Jiaying, chairman of Evergrande Group: "You must win this game." And the winning prize of this game is not awarded according to the 100w stipulated by Evergrande Group before the season, but a 300w winning award, so that the team must win the Longteng team, a team that has repeatedly embarrassed itself.
Zhang Sheng, who heard the news, couldn't help but shake his head, and he said meaningfully to Yu Jie, who brought the news: "Old Yu, it seems that Evergrande is ready to take our sacrifice flag." ”
Yu Jie sneered and said: "Evergrande is very calculating, in such a grand atmosphere, Evergrande's players must be very desperate, and they just use such a home advantage to clean up our team that is a thorn in their side." ”
Zhang Sheng smiled and said: "It's hard to say about the game when the time comes, is it really when our Longteng team is a soft persimmon, can we pinch it casually? Be careful that when the time comes, we will disrupt this feast, then it will really be a loss to Mrs. and a soldier." ”
Because Zhang Sheng knows that this season of Evergrande in history is the most difficult season in all the seasons that Zhang Sheng knows, after the Evergrande team let go of their midfield core Conca at the end of last season, the team's newly introduced Italian international "Diamond" Diamanti did not play at the corresponding level, compared to the 6.9 million euros paid by the Evergrande team, Diamanti did not give a corresponding performance.
Diamanti's arrival, aside from the groundless rumors that Lippi's son Lippi Jr. and Lippi's team ate kickbacks together, is actually related to Lippi's preparation for an upgrade of Guangzhou Evergrande's tactics.
In Asian football, the best foreign players tend to be players from Africa and South America. There have been many examples to prove it, such as the former Al Ain team and later transferred to Haigang Ji'an, and the Evergrande team Muric, who is more able to adapt to the characteristics of Asian football. To put it bluntly, the consciousness of teammates may not be able to keep up with themselves, and many times they have to solve problems alone.
Based on the performance in the second half of 2012 and 2013, Evergrande's most prominent foreign aid in the Asian arena is actually Muric, but the worst foreign aid in the Club World Cup against Bayern is also Muric. Ji'an is also not famous in Europe, of course, his strength must be super Asian. When the situation is dominant, Europe's foreign players are accustomed to fighting together as a whole, and they need the awareness of their teammates to keep up.
Therefore, Evergrande's introduction of Diamanti and later Gilardijo, two Italian players, was to achieve Lippi's goal of transforming the team into a European-style overall style of play. Because in last year's AFC Champions League competition, Evergrande got closer to the "7 people lifting the piano and 3 foreign aid playing the piano" style of play, which worked well in Asia, but in the final, it was actually half choked to death by Seoul FC. If you want to defend the AFC Champions League, it is definitely not enough to upgrade personnel, there must be an improvement in the style of play. Therefore, Lippi tried to inspire domestic players to cooperate with them by introducing European players, so that the whole team's style of play is more three-dimensional and less dependent on individual ability.
It's a pity that Lippi looked at Diamanti's ability and Evergrande's domestic players.
When Diamanti first came to China, everyone regarded him as a strengthened version of Conca, and some called him a weakened version of Totti.
The reason why everyone calls Diamanti a strengthened version of Conca is because Diamanti and Conca have so much in common. Both were born in 1983, with only nine days of birthday difference, and both are attacking players in the front court. Conca is a typical midfielder, and Diamanti can play all positions in central midfield, making him a typical "nine-and-a-half" player. As a playmaker in midfield, Diamanti can provide fantastic assists, and he can often outflank and score goals as a shadow striker. In that sense, Diamanti is probably more comprehensive than Conca. The smaller Argentine may be better than Diamanti in terms of small-range passing skills, but the characteristics of the "nine-and-a-half" players make Diamanti better at partnering with a strong centre-forward. And Diamanti's skills are not bad, after Seedorf entered Milan, he named to sign Diamanti. The Milan boss has declared Diamanti the right person for a technical-stream style of play.
At the same time, Diamanti and Conca both have outstanding free-kick skills. Diamanti's free-kick from midfield is fast, spinning, arcing and angled. In Serie A, Diamanti has broken through the doors of Inter Milan, Roma and other strong teams through free kicks. In the Confederations Cup, Diamanti also scored past Uruguay with a free-kick. At this point, the two are inseparable.
Long-range shots are an important weapon in the arsenal of a midfield playmaker. Diamanti, like Conca, is a master at shooting from distance. Diamanti is explosive and aggressive, and is able to score from long range in a variety of situations. The area on the right side of the opposition half, close to the opposition goal, is the area where Diamanti most often completes long-range shots. In this position, he completed most of his long-range goals. Diamanti, who is explosive, shoots from a long distance with a sharp angle, fast ball speed, and strong momentum, which often makes goalkeepers fearful.
On penalties, Diamanti and Conca both have a super consistent mental quality. Diamanti is Bologna's number one penalty taker, and the "King of Celestials" was Evergrande's number one penalty pick. In the Italian national team, Diamanti is also an important option for penalty shootouts. At Euro 2012, Italy and England met in the quarter-finals, and the two teams finally reached a penalty shoot-out, with Diamanti being the last to come out and score a solid penalty to help the Azzurri beat England to advance. (To be continued.) )