87. Half-time lead

Guangzhou Evergrande's danger on the left flank quickly caught Scolari's attention.

At this time, Zheng Zhi, as a defensive back, rushed over to help Zou Zheng defend, Pato chose a completely different style of play from Robinho, he saw Zheng Zhi come over and was not greedy, but handed the ball to Zhou Zhou, who came to answer, Zhou Zhou also understood Pato's pass, and he passed the ball to the middle of Guangzhou Evergrande.

Because Zheng Zhi left the position of the back waist, Paulinho didn't have time to rush back, Guangzhou Evergrande was in an open field in the middle at this time, and Tao Wentao, who received Zhou Zhou's pass, was completely unguarded.

The open space in front of the arc of the penalty area, no matter which team has always attached great importance to it when defending, Tao Wentao was taking the ball all the way to this position unimpeded at this time.

As the team's central defender, Jin Yingquan had to come up to prevent Tao Wentao from shooting directly, but unfortunately he still underestimated Tao Wentao's determination.

Tao Wentao, who was dribbling the ball at high speed, actually played a feint like fried croquettes when he grabbed Jin Yingquan, and the latter didn't expect Tao Wentao to dare to play tricks in such a game, and he was broken through by Tao Wentao after a moment's stunned.

Even Duan Xuan, who was commentator, was shocked by Tao Wentao's pass: "Evergrande is very empty in the middle now, Tao Wentao rushed straight to the penalty area with the ball, beautiful, fried croquettes, Jin Yingquan didn't expect it, haha, Tao Wentao shot." Zengcheng! flutter beautifully. The man took off and pounced on the ball. ”

Xu Yang also said excitedly: "Tao Wentao is having a beautiful life, and the quality of this shot is also very high. Of course, Zengcheng's save is also extremely crucial. This ball is a good attack spirit and a beautiful guard. ”

"Evergrande can't play like this. Duan Xuan took over and said, "It's too dangerous to let the opponent break through with the ball in the middle so easily, you can't always expect Zengcheng to make such a wonderful save every time." You see, Scolari on the sidelines is thundering right now. ”

Duan Xuan was not wrong, at this time, the coach of Guangzhou Evergrande on the sidelines shouted angrily on the field, especially Robinho, who looked very embarrassed, because Scolari was yelling at him.

Robinho, who knew that he had made a mistake, worked extremely hard in the next game, as long as he lost the ball, he immediately went crazy to rob, although it didn't have much effect several times, and the last time he got a yellow card because of the big action, but the left side of Guangzhou Evergrande is no longer the Longteng team's own place.

Zhang Sheng, who was aware of the situation on the field, quickly made adjustments, and the direction of the team's main attack changed from the right side to the left side.

In this game, the left side of the Longteng team is Xiao Yunfan, and the left side composed of him and Ben Alpha is stronger than the right side in terms of attack power, and of course it is slightly weaker in defense.

Guangzhou Evergrande's right side is relatively active because of Gao Lin's counter-robbery and return defense, and Liu Jian himself is now playing cautiously and focusing on defense, so Ben Alpha and Xiao Yunfan do not have too many good opportunities.

Of course, if the Longteng team wants to make a fuss here, there is also an opportunity to take advantage of it, because Liu Jian has a yellow card.

Also a player who made a name for himself for his breakthroughs, Ben Arfa performed far better than Robinho, and when the Dragons began to attack from the left, Ben Arfa was not only extremely sharp in his breakthroughs, but also had extraordinary ability in organization, which meant that he changed from a pure winger to a wide midfielder.

For example, in the 35th minute, Ben Alpha, Xiao Yunfan and Lin Feng cooperated, and it was not Lin Feng, the absolute organizational core of the team, who was in the active position, but Ben Alpha.

The trio of three used quick passes to break up the four-man defence of Golin, Goulart, Paulinho and Liu Jian, and finally Ben Arfa's beautiful backheel kick was handed to Xiao Yunfan on the wing, whose low cross found Pato in the middle, and Pato's push was slightly wide of the goal.

The attack of the Longteng team this time is far more fearful than the last time, because Tao Wentao's last shot came from the fact that his players were not active in defending and counter-robbing, and this time the Longteng team completely relied on layers of advancement and penetrated the right defense of Guangzhou Evergrande in the way of positional warfare.

At the same time, the attack of the Longteng team is not centered on Lin Feng or Tao Wentao, and it is Ben Alpha who is responsible for organizing and dispatching the pass, which means that even if Lin Feng and Tao Wentao are seen to death by the Longteng team, they also have another player who can fight out to take over the responsibility of the organization.

This is too embarrassing for Guangzhou Evergrande, which plays with the core of Fei, and in the attack, who should defend has become a problem that cannot be bypassed, but it is in a dilemma.

After thinking about it for a while, Scolari gave up the idea of specifically containing the attack of the Dragons, and simply replaced the defense with offense and played according to his own offensive tactics.

It should be said that his choice is still very wise, before because the attack of the Longteng team made Evergrande's defensive pressure too much, Scolari was thinking about how to prevent it, but now after letting go, it is to let Guangzhou Evergrande's offensive characteristics be fully revealed.

Sure enough, after Guangzhou Evergrande put most of their energy into attacking, they put great pressure on the Longteng team's defense.

In the 38th minute of the first half, Paulinho and Goulart played a delicate combination in the midfield, in which Golin played a big role.

As a domestic player with the strongest sense of cooperation among the players on the field of Evergrande, some of his actions in the front court are really "******* such as this time, after receiving a pass from Goulart, in the face of Xiao Yunfan's pressing, he stepped on the ball and suddenly stopped.

Facing this sudden change of rhythm in this high-speed marching coordination is what the defender fears the most, because his own rhythm of the game is interrupted.

So when Gao Lin suddenly stopped, Xiao Yunfan was slightly stunned, but what Gao Lin wanted was Xiao Yunfan's stunned moment, when Xiao Yunfan just stopped the rhythm, Gao Lin suddenly accelerated and changed direction.

Gao Lin accelerated and changed direction, Xiao Yunfan hurriedly accelerated again, but when Xiao Yunfan accelerated, Gao Lin passed the ball again, and it was too difficult for Xiao Yunfan to defend at this time.

And when Gao Lin passed, Gao Latt began to run, and he ran very thief, just when Gao Lin attracted the attention of the Longteng team's backline.

When Goulin passed the ball, it was Goulart who slotted into the box from the gap between the midfielders and the centre-backs.

Goulart's astute run was immediately offside and came to the right side of the pitch.

As a former Brazil international, Goulart's sudden acceleration and rationality of receiving the ball are absolutely top-notch, and Goulart's ball position ensures that the pass is sudden, so the quality is not too high, but Goulart is extremely fluent.

Ma Yongli is a very fast turnaround in the central defender, but when he turned around and wanted to block Goulart's shot, Goulart had already shot with his feet, fortunately, Goulart received the ball in a relatively biased position, the angle of the shot was relatively small, and Huang Dawei was very focused, when Goulart stepped forward to the penalty area to get the ball, Huang Dawei immediately came over to block his shooting angle.

In the end, Goulart's shot was too small and the ball hit the side-netting.

But because of the angle of the broadcast, the ball seemed to have been scored.

Even Duan Xuan shouted excitedly: "Goulart!! shot, have you entered?"

"It shouldn't be there, it's hit the side net. Xu Yang explained, and then he put forward his own observations, "But from this attack, it can be seen that Guangzhou Evergrande's attack has come alive." ”

"Indeed!" Duan Xuan said with an expression that he was not afraid of big things, "This way the game will be much better, and it will be a wonderful game if both sides can play an attack." ”

It's just that Zhang Sheng on the sidelines won't think so at this time, Guangzhou Evergrande's offensive ability is released, which is not a good thing for his team.

After carefully observing the situation on the field, Zhang Shengxiang made a downward gesture, asking the players to slow down the pace of the game and pay more attention to the midfield defense.

Sure enough, in the next game, the players of the Longteng team are more in the midfield to control the ball and fall to the feet, once Guangzhou Evergrande has the idea of launching an attack, Tao Wentao in the midfield, Lin Feng and Roque Gill will join forces to strangle the opponent's offensive, even if it is a foul when necessary.

The situation of mutual explosion between the two sides that Duan Xuan had always wanted to see did not appear, but instead turned into a lifeless midfield grappling.

This situation is not only unhappy, but Scolari is even more unhappy, and the fans watching the game in front of the TV and mobile phones are also bored, and the only one who is happy is Zhang Sheng.

Football tactics are like songs, the rhythm can be changed completely, and the manager is equivalent to the conductor.

Some head coaches like the rhythm of "moving times, moving times", while some head coaches like the rhythm of "medicine and medicine", and if you want to sing songs well, you have to maintain your own rhythm.

Football tactics are the same, to be effective, you have to let the game go at your own pace, whoever can disrupt the rhythm of others and control the rhythm on the field can gain the advantage of the game.

This is exactly the case now, Scolari wants the rhythm that is gone, and Zhang Sheng's rhythm is about to fly.

Because Guangzhou Evergrande, which attacked the middle, was blocked in the middle, but the side attack of the Longteng team was vigorous.

Towards the end of the first half, the Longteng team once again used three midfield strangulations in the middle to cut off Goulart's pass, and then launched an attack from Ben Alpha on the left wing, who used his individual ability to break through Liu Jian's defense.

Liu Jian wanted to pull Ben Alpha after being breached, but a yellow card in the early opening period made him worry about it, and Ben Alpha was gone.

Eventually, Ben Alfa cut inside and fired a quality shot from the edge of the box, which sent the ball in a beautiful arc to the far post, before narrowly deflecting off the post and grazing the post.

Ben Alfa's shot caused a big sigh from the Longs fans on the sidelines, and everyone regretted the shot, but Scolari on the sidelines was taken aback.

Scolari had expected to make a change at half-time, but the Dragons' attack almost made him a substitution, because if he had been two goals down in the first half, the game would have been unplayable.

Fortunately, Guangzhou Evergrande's players are very experienced, and they also know that they are not fit enough to play an attack now, so everyone has made the decision to retreat.

After a passive defense in the last minutes of the first half, Guangzhou Evergrande finally held their goal.

Duan Xuan summed up the game in the first half: "The first half of the game is over, the Longteng team still has the advantage, and the score of 1:0 is also evidence of the performance of both sides. ”

"That's true. Xu Yang also said, "If Scolari doesn't make adjustments in the second half, this game will be really difficult to play." ”

Xu Yang was not wrong, in the away team's locker room at this time, Guangzhou Evergrande was making tactical adjustments.

Scolari's first adjustment was Liu Jian, after all, Liu Jian, who was carrying a yellow card, was already complete and could not withstand Ben Alpha's assault.

He replaced Liu Jian with Li Xuepeng, who had stronger attack ability.

It should be said that Scolari's substitution is very risky, Li Xuepeng, as a player who changed from a striker to a fullback, although his offensive ability is stronger, but his defensive ability is destined to be far inferior to Liu Jian's.

Scolari's substitution this time is to use Li Xuepeng to exchange with Ben Alpha.

Of course, this was just Scolari's personal wishful thinking, and it will be interesting to see what the situation was on the pitch in the second half.

At the same time, Scolari told Robinho to be more active in defending and pay more attention to cooperation.

Robinho didn't dare to argue in the face of Scolari's instructions, because he also knew that his performance in the first half was really not impressive.

In the end, Scolari made a tactical change.

First of all, he let the two forwards and two midfielders in the front court sandwich the two midfielders, Tao Wentao and Lin Feng, so that they could not play the ball from the middle, and could only go around to the flanks of the wings.

Then let the two full-backs press, and the full-backs press the side pass of the Longteng team to prevent them from passing the ball to the middle, then the Longteng team is left with the only line to pass to the center.

Finally, let the central defender get stuck on the flank of the Longteng striker in advance, and cut off the only passing route.

The full-backs and centre-backs are both extremely dangerous operations.

Because after the fullback presses, there will be a large gap behind him, and the two wings of the Longteng team, whether it is Ben Alpha or Pato, their speed and forward propulsion ability are first-class, as for the premise of the central defender, it is even more dangerous, once the central defender makes a mistake in defense, whether it is Nie Jiang or Tao Wentao inserted in the back row, even Lin Feng has a beautiful shooting level.

Of course, once Guangzhou Evergrande's tactics are successful, the attack of the Longteng team will become extremely difficult, and Evergrande will not only be expected to equalize, but even win is very likely.

At this time, in the locker room of the Longteng team, Zhang Sheng did not make any changes to the tactics, and the advantage in the first half made everyone very confident - our strength is stronger than the opponent.