143. Finish the game

The half-time break ended quickly and the teams from both sides returned to the pitch.

When He Wei saw Lin Feng go down and get on Nie Jiang, he was very surprised: "The Longteng team has been replaced." Nie Jiang plays, so does the Longteng team rely on him to organize in the midfield?"

"It should be. Xu Yang said suspiciously, "What about the defense of the midfield?"

But soon the situation on the field gave them two answers.

At the start of the second half, América Mexico changed their style of play from the flanks to always put the last shot on the ribs, and began to use the deep inserts of the two flanks to cross the bottom.

In the fifth minute of the second half, Paulo Aguilar broke through the flank, and instead of passing back to the midfielder who came in, he went straight to the center of the box, Peralta.

Lu Zhihui was not prepared for Paul Aguilar's cross because he had previously arranged according to Zhang Sheng's tactics, which was to let the opponent easily find the passing line.

Peralta in the penalty area received a pass from Paulo Aguilar and a powerful header almost broke the door of the Dragons, and finally the ball flew off the bottom line by grazing the post.

"Oops! Du Zhenyu's defense didn't keep up. He Wei also exclaimed, "We can't let the opponent pass the ball so easily on the side, and it is unlikely that our central defenders want to completely lock up the opponent's two center forwards." ”

At this time, Zhang Sheng, who was off the field, also stood up immediately, walked to the sidelines, and his brain began to run rapidly, thinking about how to adjust the position of the players.

This American team is far from being comparable to Asian teams like Al Ahly, they don't have an absolute playmaking core, but everyone has the ability to organize, so they can't use the method of freezing the playmaking core to gain a defensive advantage.

The method that Zhang Sheng thought of was to use two forwards and two midfielders to pinch the opponent and two midfielders, so that the opponent could not play the ball from the middle. Then the opponent can only play the ball from the route around the wing to the side of the penalty area.

Then press up with a wing-back, and the wing-back presses the opponent's wide pass to prevent him from passing the ball to the middle, so the opponent has the only line to pass to the center.

Finally, the centre-back stuck on the flank of the centre-forward to cut off the only passing route. In the positional defense, the abundance of personnel in the three central defenders chose to allow themselves to withstand the position.

Zhang Sheng took advantage of the 3-5-2 midfielder's dominant style of play and made the opponent pay the price by grabbing.

And judging from the current situation, the opponent's tactics have changed very much.

Ambrish first moved a midfielder to the back line, pushed the central defenders to the sides to protect the full-backs, and at the same time pressed up with the depth of the full-backs, changing the attacking stance to a strategy of three two-sided forwards, and changing the point of attack to attacking the Longteng full-backs with two wide players, especially the combination of two homegrown players such as Wei Zhimin and Lu Zhihui on the left.

Seeing that the opponent changed the main attack direction from the sides of the top of the arc protected by his heavy troops to the flanks of the penalty area, and launched a real side attack, Zhang Sheng decisively made adjustments.

Lu Zhihui, who had been pressed by his own arrangement before, including Xiao Yunfan, who had not yet been sent to attack, retreated, blocking the flank of the opponent's attack again.

At the same time, let Wei Zhimin and Roque Gill stick to the opponent's attacking midfield, assist the fullbacks to defend the flanks, and finally Nie Jiang's retreat was deeper than that arranged by himself at halftime, and he returned to the top of the penalty area to protect, anyway, Nie Jiang only came on in the second half, so that he ran back and forth without any physical worries.

This approach is also because the opponent weakens the middle of the midfield and increases the wing attack, so the defensive pressure on the middle becomes less, and Nie Jiang can help protect it after pulling.

Sure enough, the opponent continued to maintain the style of play of attacking from the wing.

In the eighth and tenth minutes of the second half, América Mexico used the insertion of two full-backs to continuously pass the ball from the bottom line of the wing to find Peralta and Benedetto in the penalty area, hoping that they could use their movement and headers to get the chance to score.

It should be said that the strength of the American team is indeed strong, and the two fullbacks Samudio and Paulo Aguilar are the main internationals of Paraguay and Mexico respectively, which makes Xiao Yunfan and Lu Zhihui very embarrassed.

Although these two passes were interfered with by Xiao Yunfan and Lu Zhihui, they were accurately passed to the penalty area, but the passes were passed under the pressure of the defenders, and the ball was accurate, but the power and angle of the ball were not too good.

Peralta and Benedetto's shots, once high off the crossbar, and once because of lack of strength, were held firmly by Zhou Wei.

He Wei didn't fundamentally discover the defensive strategy of the Longteng team, and still said very worriedly: "Danger, be careful." The opponent's full-backs are too strong to go down the bottom, so they must do a good job of defending in the middle of the penalty area. ”

And the American team, which has continuously obtained shooting opportunities, seems to have found an effective offensive routine and began to desperately go down to the bottom to create opportunities.

It's just that the two wings of the Longteng team, after getting used to their attacking style, are more secure in defense, allowing them to pass the ball to the edge of the penalty area, but not giving a chance to cross the bottom.

In the fifteenth minute of the second half, Paulo Aguilar's pass was guessed by Lu Zhihui, and his defense bounced the ball to Paulo Aguilar, not even giving a corner kick to the opponent.

On the contrary, in the nineteenth minute of the second half, Xiao Yunfan's defensive ability was slightly weaker, giving Samudio a chance to create a corner.

The América also took this corner very seriously, placing Goltz, the tallest of their centre-backs, into the box.

This time, Benedetto used his height advantage to suppress Ma Yongli, grabbed the ball in the air and passed the ball to the back post, and Goerz, who came up to prepare for a header, grabbed the second point, and smashed a powerful header to the ground, trying to hit a rebound ball.

Fortunately, Zhou Wei's reaction was very fast, and when the ball bounced up, he dragged the ball out of the bottom line with his palm, and the American team got a chance to take consecutive corner kicks.

In the second corner, the American team did not have such a good footwork to find their teammates again, and Lu Zhihui also strengthened the header defense in the penalty area, he grabbed a powerful air point, grabbed the ball before Goertz, and pushed the football out of the penalty area, and Wei Zhimin, who was guarding the line of the big penalty area, put the ball to the opponent's half with a big foot.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Sheng made a second personnel adjustment, and Wei Zhimin, who made a temporary cameo appearance to play the back waist, was replaced by Zhang Sheng, and Qi Ming appeared on the stage.

This substitution is to use Qi Ming's offensive and defensive balance in the middle, and at the same time have a strong ability to head the ball to prevent the opponent from hitting high balls.

The Americas, who used this offense to find sweetness, stepped up their offensive more and more.

This time they made a slight change, after a pass on the wing, the striker in the box handed the ball back to his team-mates in front of the box, allowing them to take advantage of the opportunity to suppress the Longteng central defenders to shoot with their feet.

Now the effect of Nie Jiang's deep retracement has worked.

In the twenty-second and twenty-fifth minutes of the second half, Nie Jiang continuously interfered with the opponent's offensive organization and shooting in front of the penalty area, making the offensive method that the American team had thought of come to naught.

Although the Longteng team has resisted the opponent's attacks again and again, on the whole, it is still pressed and beaten.

He Wei was also extremely worried: "After the second half, the Longteng team seemed too passive. Although the opponent does not have many good shooting opportunities, it is very likely that such a long-term high-pressure defense will not know when to make mistakes, and I hope our lads can hold on. ”

In fact, although Zhang Sheng was a little worried on the sidelines, he was also silently cheering for the attack of the Longteng team, because the opponent's formation was not without weaknesses, and the weaknesses were very obvious.

That is, the Mexican América team has strengthened the attack on the wing, and at the same time, the defense in the middle of their midfield has indeed been weakened a lot, and now the América team has only one back to be responsible for defense.

Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng gave instructions to Chavez on the field, so that he could strengthen the pressure on the opponent's central defender even more, no longer seeking to turn around and shoot, but not allowing the opponent's central defenders to cooperate with each other, and at the same time, Ben Alpha and Pato moved closer to the middle, so that the middle of the Longteng team's midfield formed a local advantage of more people and fewer people in a short period of time.

In the 28th minute of the second half, the Americas team's continuous attacks did not score and slowed down the rhythm a little, but the Longteng team took advantage of this rhythm change to launch a decisive attack.

This time, it was the Mexican América team on the right side of the Longteng team who were ready to play a two-on-two combination, but the intention was too obvious, so that the back of the assistant defense made a defense around the front to break the ball.

After breaking the ball, Qi Ming turned his head and saw Pato asking, and handed the ball to him directly.

Because the American team was attacking on the flanks this time, their players were pressed very high, and when Qi Ming passed the ball to Pato, the opponent only had the back to defend Pato.

For this kind of one-on-one defense, Pato's ability is vividly played, and after receiving the ball, Pato got up and ran to the side, attracting Guerrero, the defender of the American team, to the side.

After that, Pato started unreasonably.

How can a midfielder like Guerrero catch up with Pato after the start, although he is desperately chasing back, constantly hitting Pato with his body, trying to knock him over, but all this is useless.

Pato rushed the ball directly to the edge of the penalty area of the American team at high speed, and then saw Chavez in the penalty area, and passed the ball decisively, Chavez leaned on the central defender Pablo Aguilar, and knocked the ball back to Nie Jiang, who ran all the way back from the middle.

Because Guerrero went to defend Pato as a midfielder, the middle of the single back of the American team finally suffered the bitter fruit, so that when Nie Jiang received a pass from Chavez, there was no one around him to defend him.

Standing at the front of the big penalty area, Nie Jiang would not let go of such an opportunity, he decisively shot with his feet, and the ball crossed an arc and flew directly into the side of the right post of the goal.

The Dragons relied on a successful defensive counterattack to extend the score to 2:0.

He Wei didn't have too many thoughts when Qi Ming got the ball, after all, the Longteng team was still far away from the opponent's half, but when Qi Ming accurately found Pato and Pato got up quickly, He Wei also realized that the opportunity for the Longteng team came: "Pato took the ball, and he rushed up on the side." Completely shake off the opponent's defense and pass the ball. Chavez's back, Nie Jiang, Nie Jiang was unguarded, shot, the ball went in, goal!! Longteng team expanded the score. ”

"Pato who rushed up, no one can stop him!" Even He Wei shouted out the goal that he rarely shouted when he explained, and Xu Yang also shouted excitedly, "Chavez's return ball is just right, Nie Jiang's shot is the goalkeeper's no way." Haha, the counterattack of the Dragon Teng team is really too sharp. It's so beautiful!"

In the stands, Chinese and international students from all over Japan dared to come to watch the game, and die-hard fans who flew over from China to cheer for the Longteng team jumped and jumped with excitement.

Zhang Sheng also jumped up excitedly on the sidelines, and He Lijun and Xu Erle around him rushed over and hugged Zhang Sheng tightly, because they knew that with a score of 2:0 and the overall defense of the Longteng team on the field, the American team had basically lost the opportunity.

And this is already the end of the second half, and expecting the Americas to attack as they did at the beginning of the second half, their fitness is also unsupportable.

The reason why Zhang Sheng didn't play Nie Jiang at the beginning of this game, even if he was suppressed very much in the second half, he didn't go down to Chavez, and he was waiting for this moment, because the teams in the Americas are generally not suitable for the playing style of a tactical center like Chavez.

In the Americas, especially in South America and in the Caribbean and Mexico, where the style is close to South America, they are popular for impact forwards, who are dominated by 1-on-1 defense, and rarely encounter such tactical centers with their backs in large areas.

Compared with Chavez's style of play that pursues turning and shooting at the beginning, Chavez's threat will increase exponentially when he plays the ball with his back, and when the American team can't understand the offensive routine of the Longteng team that changes again, it is certain that they will suffer losses on the field.

The 2:0 score not only made the Longteng team, which had been suppressed before, refreshed, but also made the mentality of the players of the Mexican American team a little unbalanced.

As the head coach Ambrish has only now thought of the most direct means of making tactical adjustments - substitutions, and it is a change of two, Benedetto, who was busy in this game, was replaced, and Osvaldo Martinez, another midfielder in the former midfield of the American team, was replaced;

So far in the game, the biggest gap between the two sides is reflected in the position of head coach.

Although the Longteng team was leading the game, Zhang Sheng had been observing the situation of the game on the sidelines, and at the same time kept making substitution adjustments to deal with the difficulties encountered by his team, and did not sit firmly in the Diaoyutai because the team was ahead.

On the other hand, Ambrish is always thinking about how to make a fuss in attack, and wants to use the existing players on the field to change the situation of falling behind on the field.

As a result, Zhang Sheng, who took the initiative to seek change, allowed the team to expand the score, while Ambrish, who was passively adjusted, only now thought of strengthening the manpower in the midfield to limit a fake midfielder like Nie Jiang.

The overall strength of the weaker Longteng team has achieved a great advantage by relying on tactics.