89. Win the championship
Sure enough, after Ben Alpha saw Wei Zhimin inserting along the sideline, he decisively cut in.
At this time, Li Xuepeng had to face two choices, either to follow Ben Alpha to prevent him from cutting inside to pass the ball to the right or shooting, or to let his central defender come out to defend Ben Alpha and follow Wei Zhimin himself.
In the end, he chose to defend the more dangerous Ben Alpha.
Ben Alpha's choice was more wise, seeing Li Xuepeng coming with him, he gave the ball to Wei Zhimin without thinking about it, and at the same time ran towards the penalty area.
The unguarded Wei Zhimin rushed along the baseline into the box after getting Ben Arfa's pass. As a central defender, Feng Xiaoting had to put aside the defense in the middle of the penalty area to defend against Wei Zhimin.
It should be said that Feng Xiaoting's approach was right, he prevented Wei Zhimin from shooting directly, and also blocked his line of passing the ball in the middle of the penalty area, but the parallel offensive line was blocked, and the gap of the inverted triangle pass was exposed.
Wei Zhimin chose this kind of inverted triangle pass, and he directly found Lin Feng on the penalty line.
Before Lin Feng started to insert the ball after passing the ball, Zheng Zhi was always two positions behind Lin Feng because of his slow start and physical fitness, and now when Lin Feng took the ball and adjusted his shot, Zheng Zhi followed.
Seeing Lin Feng preparing to shoot without defense, Zheng Zhi had no choice but to get started, he grabbed Lin Feng's jersey from behind Lin Feng, and Lin Feng, who was just about to shoot with his feet, completely lost his center of gravity under the pull at this time, the ball was not kicked accurately, and the person fell on the line of the penalty area.
After Zheng Zhi stretched out his hand to foul, Ma Ning blew the whistle very decisively and showed Zheng Zhi a yellow card.
Zheng Zhi had no energy to argue at this time, but supported his knees with both hands, panting constantly.
Seeing this scene, Duan Xuan shook his head and said: "Zheng Zhi is really old, such a high-intensity competition, and the continuous and intensive schedule make him unbearable. ”
Xu Yang also said worriedly: "Guangzhou Evergrande is still inseparable from Zheng Zhi for the time being. His role on the field speaks for itself. ”
Scolari, who was on the sidelines, saw it more clearly, and he hurriedly asked Huang Bowen, who was warming up, to come over and say, "You will go up to replace Zheng Zhi later." Your main task when you come on is to defend and intercept well in midfield. ”
The sharp-eyed Duan Xuan saw Scolari's movements, and he introduced: "It seems that Guangzhou Evergrande is going to be replaced." It was their third substitution. If my guess is correct, it should be Huang Bowen replacing Zheng Zhi. ”
Sure enough, after the Longteng's free-kick was slightly over the crossbar by Ben Alpha's shot, Guangzhou Evergrande made a substitution adjustment.
Captain Zheng Zhi was replaced by Huang Bowen, and Feng Xiaoting took over Zheng Zhi's captain's armband.
Zheng Zhi's downfall also means that Guangzhou Evergrande's tactics have retreated in an all-round way. Because compared to Zheng Zhi, Huang Bowen's interception ability in the midfield is really not good, maybe he has a good kick ability, and he also has good long-range shooting skills, but in the hardness and strength of the midfield defense, he is at least one level worse than Zheng Zhi.
In order not to concede the ball, Paulinho can only stand behind Huang Bowen to help him defend, and stay further away from the goal, which will make Paulinho's offensive energy unable to release.
Sure enough, in the next game, Huang Bowen faced Tao Wentao, Lin Feng and Roque Gill were entangled in turn, and there was almost no chance to pass a good ball, and Paulinho's few reluctant long-range shots were not much of a threat because they were too far from the goal.
Guangzhou Evergrande was suppressed again.
This time the suppression is not a simple tactical problem, but more of a difference in the strength of the players on both sides.
Standing on the sidelines, Scolari looked a little helpless, his three cards were played, the team's strength was not as good as the opponent's, and the tactics were irreconcilable, except for finding some opportunities on set-pieces.
Next, the Longteng team and Guangzhou Evergrande played two kinds of football, the Longteng team relied on the players in the midfield to keep passing and controlling the inverted feet to organize the attack, and Guangzhou Evergrande was the retreat of the midfield across the board, leaving only Gao Lin and Elkeson in the front court, so that Feng Xiaoting and Jin Yingquan, who had good footwork in the backfield, came to attack the high ball with a big foot and made a long pass to hang it.
From the scene, it seems that the Dragons are playing more beautifully, and the mercury-like passing and controlling offense is extremely gorgeous, but the defensive lineup with Paulinho as the core is extremely tenacious, as long as the Dragons' attack enters the first 30 meters of the front court, the power of the attack will be sharply reduced.
On the contrary, Guangzhou Evergrande's long pass rushing and hanging style is simple and rough, relying on Elkeson's strong body and extremely fast speed to impact the back line of the Longteng team.
In the 38th minute of the second half, Ben Alfa forced a kick-up shot after getting rid of the edge of the penalty area in succession, and the ball obviously crossed the arc and went straight to the corner of the goal post and the lintel, and finally it was slightly higher, but this shot also reflected Ben Alfa's individual ability vividly.
In the 40th minute of the second half, Guangzhou Evergrande was still colored, Feng Xiaoting's accurate long pass in the backfield directly found Elkeson, who still held the ball firmly under the double bag of Lu Zhihui and Roque Gill, and he took advantage of the opportunity to catch the ball and turned around directly, and then Elkeson's non-stop shooting action made the ball slightly off the post and Huang Dawei was scared into a cold sweat.
In the last few minutes of the game, Guangzhou Evergrande mustered up the last remaining strength to launch a Jedi impact, Zou Zheng, who played extremely hotly in this game, broke Pato's ball and ran all the way, and finally his pass hit Xiao Yunfan's body and popped up the bottom line.
Guangzhou Evergrande got a corner kick opportunity.
In the face of this opportunity, Paulinho also rushed to the penalty area, Zheng Long's corner kick really found Paulinho's point, the latter's header was extremely powerful, fortunately Huang Dawei made a wonderful save this time, the ball was slapped by him to the right side of the penalty area, and it was Goulart who grabbed the second point, and a volley hit Lu Zhihui's body, and then Gao Lin reached the ball again, his shot was too hasty, and finally lived up to the nickname of "Gao Plane", and the ball shot directly into the stands.
Guangzhou Evergrande's corner kick really made Zhang Sheng's heart jump, seeing this situation, Zhang Sheng decisively made a substitution, one is to replace a player to replace Nie Jiang, who is a little lacking in physical fitness, and the other is to delay a little more time.
Sure enough, when the Longteng team completed the substitution of Zou Weijia for Nie Jiang, the game had already entered the injury time stage.
At this time, the players on the bench, including members of the coaching staff, were already standing on the sidelines, ready for the end of the game.
At the same time, Duan Xuan and Xu Yang, who were in charge of the commentary, also kept nagging a sentence in their mouths: "If it ends with this score, the Longteng team will win the Chinese Super League championship this season." ”
Xu Yang even said: "Once you can win the championship in your home stadium and in the Guangzhou Evergrande game, this is enough to prove that the Longteng team stepped on the body of the previous king to ascend to the throne." ”
In fact, before this game, the Chinese Football Association had already sent officials to Jiangcheng with the Vulcan Cup, and it was obvious that these people from the Football Association were also optimistic that the Longteng team would remain unbeaten at home.
As long as the Longteng team remains undefeated, then they can lead Guangzhou Evergrande by 12 points, and when there are still four rounds left in the game, in addition to the two games of the Longteng team and Guangzhou Evergrande, it is one win and one draw, according to the rules of the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team will definitely win the championship.
This is actually a very hurtful thing for Guangzhou Evergrande.
The championship trophy of the Chinese Super League is called the Vulcan Cup, which weighs 5.5 kilograms and is composed of thousands of gold, platinum and Xinjiang Hetian jade, which is worth more than one million people.
According to the rules of the Chinese Super League, which is also an international practice, whichever team wins the Chinese Super League will keep the Vulcan Cup in their club for one year.
The champion of the Chinese Super League last season was Guangzhou Evergrande, so the Vulcan Cup is naturally placed in the club of Guangzhou Evergrande, but a replica of the Vulcan Cup will be made in the exhibition room.
That is to say, the Chinese Football Association made a special trip to Guangzhou and got the Vulcan Cup from Guangzhou Evergrande Club, and then transported it to Jiangcheng to award the trophy that previously belonged to Guangzhou Evergrande to the Longteng team.
Although everything is going according to normal procedures, the meaning of slapping the face is too strong.
So now when the game is about to end, the players of Guangzhou Evergrande want to score a goal in life and death, and they don't want to be won by the Longteng team like this.
At this time, the players of the Longteng team were indeed extremely nervous, although as early as a few rounds ago, the Longteng team, which was ahead of other teams by a huge margin, was fully sure that they could win the championship this season.
However, when it really came time to win the championship, the players were still in high spirits.
In the four minutes of stoppage time, many Longteng players on the field have their feet fluttering, especially Lin Feng, who is the playmaker of the midfield, has made several passing mistakes in a row, and such unforced mistakes are very rare for him to happen.
Although Zhang Sheng was also extremely nervous at this time, he still had to stand on the sidelines and roar, hoping to stabilize the situation on the field through his shouting.
However, it didn't seem to have an obvious effect, and in the second minute of stoppage time, Lin Feng made another mistake in the midfield, and his counter-attack led to a yellow card.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Sheng had to make one last adjustment, that is, to take out his last substitution.
After Guangzhou Evergrande's free kick was pushed out of the bottom line by Elkeson, Zhang Sheng replaced Lin Feng with Zhang Hao, in addition to replacing a B2B back with a defensive back, intending to strengthen the defense, another idea is very simple, that is, to delay time, because Lin Feng as the captain of the game, after all, handed over the captain's armband to another player, as the second captain, Zhou Zhou was not on the field, and finally Lin Feng ran to his own penalty area and handed the armband to the third captain Ma Yongli.
As the referee, Ma Ning also began to look at his watch frequently at this time.
Zhang Hao's play and Lin Feng's armband exchange made the tense atmosphere on the field drop a lot, and the Longteng team finally returned to normal a little, Huang Dawei made a move to let his teammates press after setting the goal kick, but in fact, in the end, it was a short pass and handed the ball to Ma Yongli.
Seeing the actions of the Longteng team, Guangzhou Evergrande obviously knew that the opponent wanted to pass the ball slowly to consume the last bit of time, and Gao Lin and Elkeson rushed up to grab Ma Yongli's ball as soon as possible.
Ma Yongli, who wore the captain's armband on his arm, showed the captain's ability, and he quickly passed the ball to Wei Zhimin, who came to pick up, and Wei Zhimin handed the ball to Lu Zhihui under the pressure of Guangzhou Evergrande players, and Lu Zhihui returned the ball to goalkeeper Huang Dawei.
Seeing the Longteng team's passing method, the fans in the stands let out loud mockery, but the object of ridicule was the players of Guangzhou Evergrande, after all, this is the home of the Longteng team.
Huang Dawei passed the ball to Xiao Yunfan after receiving the ball, Xiao Yunfan did the opposite this time, sent the ball to the front court with a big foot, and Zou Weijia, who was on the front line, used his physical advantage to get the ball, and then gave the ball to Pato.
At this time, Pato's rich experience was reflected, he took the ball straight to the position of Guangzhou Evergrande's corner flagstick, and then stretched out his arms and protected the ball between himself and the corner flagstick.
Behind Pato were Paulinho and Zou Zheng, who kept arching Pato with their bodies and hooking the ball with their feet, hoping to get the ball.
Finally, Paulinho's foot touched the ball and kicked it off the line, and the Dragons won a corner.
Zou Zheng angrily yelled and complained to Ma Ning, arguing that the ball was poked out by Pato and wanted to get a goal kick.
It's a pity that he only ushered in a yellow card from Ma Ning.
Seeing this scene, the fans on the sidelines laughed non-stop.
Duan Xuan also said anxiously: "At this time, the players of Guangzhou Evergrande should stop arguing, just let the players of the Longteng team serve as soon as possible." ”
But Duan Xuan underestimated Pato's experience, he stood in the position of serving the corner, fiddled with the ball for a while, called Tao Wentao over, and then issued this tactical corner.
After Tao Wentao passed the ball back to Pato, Pato once again protected the ball at the corner flagstick.
At this time, the players of Guangzhou Evergrande were completely angry, and Paulinho put Pato down with both hands and feet.
Pato immediately covered his legs and kept rolling on the ground, looking extremely painful, and Ma Ning also came over to separate the players from both sides.
Pato's series of actions, although not above board, are within the scope of the rules of football.
Ma Ning came over and warned: "As long as you lie on the ground, I will make up the stoppage time for as long as you want." ”
Hearing the warning, Pato hurriedly stood up like no one, anyway, the side had already got the set-piece, and there was no need to delay any longer.
Sure enough, Pato hit the ball vigorously into the penalty area with a pass, and Zou Weijia did not get the ball under the interference of many defenders of Guangzhou Evergrande.
When Guangzhou Evergrande's players were ready to attack with the ball immediately, four minutes of stoppage time had already passed, and Ma Ning blew the whistle for the end of the game very decisively.
Longteng won the Chinese Super League in the 2015 season.