34. Prestige

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Since last season, Guangzhou Evergrande has earned the nickname "Can't be messed with in the second half", and Evergrande fans have set a minimum spend for their teams at home, which is to score at least three goals against their opponents.

From these slogans, it can be seen that Evergrande is strong, but it also exposes some problems, especially in the second half.

The reason why Evergrande is called the second half is that they scored few goals in the first half, and even conceded a few goals. There are many reasons for the whole problem, one is that in the first half, basically all the teams that come to the celestial body will retreat and fight back, and one reason is that Evergrande's players are relatively slow to enter the game.

Evergrande's players are slow to enter the game is an old problem, and the main reason is that Evergrande has far more games per season than other clubs, for example, last season, in addition to the league, they also have to play the AFC Champions League, and the FA Cup has also reached the semi-finals, and then when other clubs are resting and adjusting, they went to play the Club World Cup. Evergrande has a large number of national team players in the team, in addition to the Chinese national team, as well as the players of the South Korean national team, and the players of the Brazilian national team in the later generations. For these reasons, Evergrande often struggled to get into the groove after the opening.

However, Evergrande because of the exquisite tactical arrangement and the strength of the players, once they enter the state, their full-court pressing, high-level pressing and pressing style of play can slowly reflect their power. In order to resist the oppression of the Evergrande team, many teams will consume a lot of physical energy to resist after coming to the celestial body, but the lack of foot ability or tactical ability often makes them completely collapse in the second half, which makes Evergrande often score a large number of goals in the second half, which also causes the minimum consumption of the celestial body.

Of course, this is also related to the coaching ability of Evergrande head coach Lippi, as the world's top coach, his ability to adjust on the spot can be described as a masterpiece, and he can often improve the situation on the field or turn the situation around through substitutions. It was a testament to Lippi's ability to capture the opponent's tactical weaknesses through the first half.

Therefore, Zhang Sheng's tactics in the game are very clear, using Evergrande's opening or the absence of the entire first half to attack, and using his local advantages to create goals, after all, Zhang Sheng has a superstar like Pato in his hands, and the opportunity to grasp the ability is first-class.

And it worked, and it was Riyad Mahrez's advantage on the right that gave Pato the chance to shoot.

When Zhang Sheng applauded vigorously to praise the disciples on the field, Lippi was very angry on the sidelines.

Lippi was not angry about losing the ball, but because he had reminded Pato of his characteristics before the game, and in the face of Pato's first possession of the ball, no player went up to interfere, but waited for him to get up to speed before he made a move. For a player like Pato, once you get the ball and you interfere, it means you're not far from conceding the ball.

Lippi had to shout to the people on the field: "Pay attention to the pressing, don't relax!" After saying that, Lippi pointed to his head with his finger, which meant to let everyone concentrate.

The Evergrande players on the field also nodded with serious expressions.

Zhang Bing, who was in charge of the commentary, said: "It seems that the Evergrande players are still very tired, this ball is completely because the players have not kept up with the rhythm of the Longteng team, if it is a normal situation, Evergrande's pressing will be much more proactive than this." ”

Zhou Ning also said: "That's true. But I would also say that the main thing is that the Dragons are strong enough, and against a team like the Dragons, you only need to be on the pitch for a second of lack of concentration, and their players have the ability to teach you a lesson. Beijing Guoan has suffered losses on them before. This year, they spent tens of millions of euros to bring in a superstar like Pato, which will be even more difficult, and I think all the teams in this year's Chinese Super League should be careful of Jiangcheng Longteng's team. ”

In the midst of their commentary, Evergrande launched a powerful offensive.

In the opening game, at their home stadium, as the double champion of last season, they were promoted to score a goal first, and it is still a team that has repeatedly deflated themselves, and the players of Evergrande have begun to devote themselves to the game.

Once the Evergrande players were fully committed, the Longteng team immediately felt a strong pressure, and the technical ability of the Evergrande players began to put forward the power, and the rhythm of the game became very fast.

At this time, the long-term experience of facing strong dialogues in the Chinese Super League, and the experience of high-intensity games in the AFC Champions League has given Evergrande an advantage on the field.

Now the situation of the Longteng team should be said to have a lot to do with the lack of Ivo, without Ivo's organization and scheduling in the frontcourt, Pato can only fall into the defense of many players on the other side again and again in the frontcourt, and Pato does not have a very good ability to pass the ball, so every time the Longteng team relies on Lin Feng and Kante's interception to grab the ball and pass it to the frontcourt, it is immediately cut off. Not only Lin Feng and Kante, who are in the back, will feel very powerless, but Pato, who has been stealed, is also playing more and more impatiently.

In the 21st minute of the first half, Diamanti received a pass from Gao Jun, and pushed the ball obliquely to Gao Lin after resisting Lin Feng with his body, Gao Lin directly gave the ball to Sun Xiang who assisted to the front court in the face of Shu Jun's defense, Sun Xiang shot from outside the penalty area, the ball was saved by Zhou Wei, the ball was slightly out of the goal, and the Evergrande team won a corner kick.

Diamanti's corner kick position is very good, just between the goalkeeper and the central defender, Zhou Wei barely used his hands to get the ball, the second point was taken by Deng Chaoqun, but his shot was also very fast Zhou Wei with his leg over the crossbar, Evergrande team won the corner again.

The next corner kick was grabbed by McGovern and the first point was pushed out of the bottom line, and Evergrande's third consecutive corner kick came.

Seeing the situation on the field, Zhang Bing said: "Now that Evergrande has begun to exert its strength, the pressure on the opponent from such consecutive corner kicks is very great. ”

This corner kick is still McGovern got the first point, he pushed the ball out of the penalty area, but the periphery got the ball is indeed Diamanti, Diamanti who took the ball directly did not stop the volley, the ball was saved by Zhou Wei and did not go out of the penalty area, at this time Deng Chaoqun showed his sensitive characteristics, he got the ball for the first time, and then directly stabbed the ball into the goal.

But at the same time, the linesman's whistle also sounded, and Deng Chaoqun was offside again.

Seeing Evergrande's attack, Zhang Bing said: "Deng Chaoqun's reaction is really fast, he got the second drop point in the penalty area twice, but unfortunately every time it was offside, and every time it was a fraction of a centimeter different from the score." ”

Zhou Ning also said: "Deng Chaoqun is indeed a natural shot, his sense of smell in front of the goal is absolutely top-notch, but he is still a little poor in grasping offside." ”

Zhou Wei, who picked up the ball from the net, looked shocked, Evergrande's continuous corner kicks just now gave him a lot of pressure, as a young goalkeeper, he has never played a game of this intensity, he has to guard against the opponent's shot all the time on the field, and like Diamanti's passing and shooting, whether it is power, angle or landing, it makes him very difficult to handle.

Zhou Wei played a few warm-up games with the first team before, and they were all professional teams in Europe, and later went to the AFC Champions League to face the Japanese team, he thought it was the most difficult game, and now it seems that the shooting of Evergrande players is really his first test.

It's a pity that the situation on the field has not changed for the better because of the efforts of the players, in the 26th minute, the Evergrande team played a wonderful attack again, Rene broke off Pato's ball in the position of the back waist, handed the ball to the Gao Jun organization, Gao Jun who took the ball directly to Diamanti, Diamanti was successful in the offside position, but unfortunately he burst into the penalty area after Zhou Wei's shooting power was too small, and Zhou Wei firmly pressed the ball under him, and the Longteng team escaped again.

Faced with this pressure, Zhang Sheng had to find a way on the sidelines. After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Sheng could only learn from other teams, temporarily shrink the team's formation, and let Wen Kai do the fulcrum ferry in the front court, make the ball for Pato, and let Pato run.

It should be said that this approach quickly had an effect, in the 33rd minute, Wen Kai got the ball in the front court, he didn't think about the problem of turning around and shooting, and directly distributed the ball to Yu Bo who came to the side to respond, Yu Bo had no way to move forward in the face of Zhang Linpeng's defense, so he handed the ball to Lin Feng who came to respond, Lin Feng was also smart to return the ball to Kante in the face of Rene's pressing this time, and Kante gave a direct plug to Pato this time.

Evergrande's players didn't expect Kante, who has always been responsible for the defense, to have the ability to pass the ball, when Pato took the ball, their robbery was already a little slow, Jin Yingquan, who came to grab it, had to pull down Pato in the way of hugging and falling, for the foul in front of the penalty area, the referee showed a yellow card very decisively, Pato was unwilling, because the ball Pato once it passed, the penalty area can shoot directly, and after being watched to death for more than 20 minutes, it was finally a chance to be destroyed, Pato was very angry。

But after all, this is Evergrande's home field, and the referee can't give a red card very casually, and Evergrande played very clean on the field before, and there was no big defensive action, so the referee let it go.

The next free kick, because Ivo was not on the field, was handed over to Mahrez to take the penalty, and in the end because the power was too small, it was hugged by Li Shuai.

After this attack, Evergrande didn't dare to press too much, after all, the midfielder of the Longteng team showed that there were at least two points of the ball, and Pato's assault speed was too fast, and Kim Yingquan, who had already carried a yellow card, was very dangerous.

The first half ended in a strangled midfield between the two sides, with the Dragons returning to the dressing room with a goal advantage. (To be continued.) )