42. Collision of early arrival
Although the Chinese Super League is suspended, because the summer window of the 2016 season of the Chinese Super League is approaching, rumors about the transfer are endless.
A number of Europa League stars have been linked to the Chinese Super League.
At the same time, some players who are unhappy with their clubs, or who think they are "not worth it" compared to the club that lured them, are starting to get their heads on the move.
These players include two former absolute main players on Longteng's side - captain Zhou Zhou and midfielder Yu Bo.
As a summoning player who followed Zhang Sheng in the early days, Zhou Zhou, Yu Bo and Xiao Yunfan came together, and they were made great contributions to the promotion of Longteng Club and the championship by Zhang Sheng.
However, the improvement of the overall level of the team and the continuous upgrading of Zhang Sheng's tactics made them gradually on the verge of elimination.
But being eliminated by the Dragons doesn't mean there's something wrong with their abilities.
Although with the rapid growth of the Chinese Super League, the level of overall players in China has improved well, but Zhou Zhou's 75/75 ability value/potential value, Yu Bo's 76/76 ability value and potential value, even if it cannot be said that there is a place in the Chinese national team, there is no problem as a qualified substitute, as for the Chinese Super League, no matter which team they go to - except for Longteng and Guangzhou Evergrande - they can firmly take a main position.
When the news of Zhou Zhou and Yu Bo wanting to leave the team came out, as long as they were rich, Chinese Super League clubs flocked to it. Of course, such a major event has not escaped the attention of the media, and various sports media and self-media have also reported on this incident.
If it was a year ago, fans would still be sensational about such a transfer, after all, Zhou Zhou and Yu Bo are both frequent visitors to the national team, and they used to be the main force, but now they are much calmer: "Isn't it just selling the captain." It's news that the Dragons don't sell the captain. Isn't it the first captain and the fourth captain who are sold this time, and there is no excitement from the previous captain and vice team selling together. ”
Compared with the transfer rumors, the domestic media is now paying more attention to the warm-up matches of the Chinese national team and the Chinese Olympic team.
In the two warm-up matches, the match against Trinidad and Tobago was of particular interest. Because the only time the national football team qualified, in the Shanghai Four Nations Tournament before the top ten of the 2001 World Preliminary Championships, the Chinese team defeated Trinidad and Tobago 3:0, and that victory greatly boosted the confidence of the national football team, and finally broke through to the World Cup finals in the top ten. This time the warm-up with Trinidad and Tobago was arranged again, in addition to Perran considering the play-offs later, the Football Association, which has always liked "good signs", may hope to repeat the trajectory of qualifying that year.
However, this time the Trinidad and Tobago team sent a second team dominated by the youth army, and looking at their performance on the field, a state of "I'm just here to travel, bothered!", the pace of the game was played very slowly, and Perrin was thinking about borrowing the opponent to practice how to defend the Central and North American teams at that time, which made the audience look extremely depressed, although in the end the Chinese team defeated the opponent with a score of 4:0, it reflected the individual ability of the team, and there was no exquisite coordination and clear tactics.
The other game against Kazakhstan Tower was even more lackluster, the opponent was not strong, weaker than the previous Tedoba, the Chinese team made a lot of rotations, or won easily 3:0.
However, the national Olympic team, which is preparing for the upcoming Olympic football tournament, has chosen two very high-quality matches this time, and the two strong teams they have selected from Europe and the Americas can be regarded as a warm-up for their European and American opponents in the group stage.
With the international break over, the Chinese Super League is starting to rekindle the flames.
After a two-week break, the players of the national team and the National Olympic team in the Longteng team finally breathed a sigh of relief, as for the other players who were not selected, they had a good rest, and what was even more happy was that Ni Kai's return from injury gave the midfield on the left side of the Longteng team a good supplement.
Longteng, who has rebounded in form, won easily 2:0 at home against Shijiazhuang Yongchang with a goal each scored by Ben Alpha and Nie Jiang.
This victory of the Longteng team brings a good omen for the upcoming Chinese Super League power dialogue in the future.
In order to make way for the national team's World Preliminary Tournament, the 21st round of this season's Chinese Super League was brought forward to June 15, so the Longteng team played Guangzhou Evergrande at home in a week after the last round.
This game is extremely important for both sides, because as a strong battle for the Chinese Super League title, the two teams will definitely be worth six points.
If it was in the past, everyone would still have reservations in the first half of the league, after all, there are still many games to catch up with, but after this advance, once it is in the second half, when the points of the two teams are tight, the opportunity to overtake by direct dialogue is gone.
As old rivals, there was no nonsense between the two sides before the game, and the topics that reporters should have dug up had already been excavated, and now they are more concerned about the recruitment and transfer of the two teams.
The reporters kept asking if the star was coming and when the star would arrive, but the head coaches on both sides were also old fritters, except for "I don't know", "I haven't heard of" and other prevarications, there was no tone revealed.
And in the game, both sides also completely played their own characteristics, the Longteng team relied on the home advantage, from the first second of the game, crazy pressure Guangzhou Evergrande, Guangzhou Evergrande showed great resistance to pressure, although there are many veterans in the team, the performance is a bit dull, but the veteran has the advantage of the veteran, that is, to be in danger.
In the fifth minute of the first half, Guangzhou Evergrande saw Xiang Tiange rush to the front, they drove the ball to the front with a big foot, and the Longteng team immediately formed a siege, Du Zhenyu on the right side, Ma Yongli and Tao Wentao three people sandwiched Alain, who could not pass forward, handed the ball to the receiving Goulart, Goulart just got the ball, Tao Wentao and Ma Yongli turned around and ran over, and at the same time Roque Gill also forced Goulart back.
Goulart's reaction was also very fast, he didn't give the Longteng team a chance to steal, and quickly passed the ball to Paulinho, this time the Longteng team's pressing was more strict, Roque Gill put Goulart to Ma Yongli who came over to defend, and he and Tao Wentao rushed over to defend Paulinho, and at the same time there was Qi Ming next to Paulinho to prevent him from short passes, Ben Alpha was stuck on the side to prevent him from long passes.
In the end, Paulinho could only play the ball back to his centre-back, allowing a quick long pass to turn back into a positional battle.
This time, both sides showed their kung fu in attack and defense.
The Longteng team is as fast as the wind and layered in the full-court pressing, and Guangzhou Evergrande is as immobile as a mountain and steady. Of course, only these two teams with the best overall strength can play such a scene.
If other teams faced Guangzhou Evergrande, they would never have such a cobweb-like defense, and Evergrande had already taken advantage of the Brazilian trident's running position to open up the opportunity to shoot. And if it was another team to face such a stormy pressure from the Longteng team, they would have conceded the ball in the middle of the game, and with the team's posture of pressing with all their strength when switching from defense to attack, the Longteng team must be a rapid counterattack with great threat.
In fact, the offensive and defensive confrontation between the two sides this time is also a keynote of the whole game - the Longteng team is fully pressed, and Guangzhou Evergrande is mainly defending and counterattacking.
In the ninth minute of the first half, the Longteng team continued to exert pressure on the left side, Ben Alfa relied on his personal ability, first rushed forward with the ball, and then saw Guangzhou Evergrande have two people defending, he brought the ball back, and when the defender pounced, he stepped on the ball and turned around, and threw off all the two defenders.
Ben Alpha, who got rid of the defender, made Guangzhou Evergrande's left side have a huge gap, and Goulart, as a striker, desperately chased back and brought down Ben Alpha with a tackle, and after eating a yellow card, blocked the attack of the Longteng team.
Goulart's tackle was frantically booed by tens of thousands of fans at home, such a foul, from the perspective of Longteng fans, must be extremely unhappy, in their opinion, should be directly red carded.
With Zengcheng holding Ben Alpha's free kick in front, the Longteng team's attack also came to an abrupt end.
The Longteng team, which almost succeeded in the full-court pressing, tasted the sweetness, the players attacked more fiercely, and the overall formation was more pressed.
In the twelfth minute, Nie Jiang and Zou Weijia's pressing in the front court caused Guangzhou Evergrande to pass the ball to the half of the Longteng team with a hasty big foot, Du Zhenyu easily snatched the ball and handed it to Ma Yongli, Ma Yongli first came to a two-by-two cooperation with Qi Ming in the middle, and then he actually directly dribbled forward.
Guangzhou Evergrande obviously didn't expect Ma Yongli to come to such a hand.
In this game, Guangzhou Evergrande's back position is Zheng Zhi, not Lin Feng, if Lin Feng is there, he will definitely be very familiar with this scene. Because Ma Yongli's central defender forward insertion is a very hidden routine in the tactical drill of the Longteng team, it is not commonly used in the game, but Lin Feng is the captain of the Longteng team before, and he is very familiar with Ma Yongli's routine.
Zheng Zhi, who didn't react at the first time, paused a little, and didn't go up to participate in the defense, just such a stunned kung fu, Ma Yongli, who was not caught by the defense, broke through with the ball.
Ma Yongli's breakthrough with the ball not only allowed the offensive line of the Longteng team to enter the 30-meter line of Guangzhou Evergrande, but more importantly, he completely disrupted the defensive formation of Guangzhou Evergrande.
When Ma Yongli passed the ball to Ben Alpha on the wing, Ben Alpha, who was already up in speed, had only one person around him to defend.
In the Chinese Super League, as long as it is a game against the Longteng team, as long as Ben Alpha is on the field, put at least two defenders to defend him, he is the blood lesson that the opponents of the Longteng team have learned by conceding goals again and again.
Soon Guangzhou Evergrande was punished.
Ben Alpha dribbled the ball in the change of direction shook Shu Jun, but also made Guangzhou Evergrande's already chaotic defense completely dispersed, and then he did not insist on shooting, but after attracting the attention of Guangzhou Evergrande's three defenders, he used an inverted triangle pass to find Nie Jiang accurately, Zengcheng did his best Although Nie Jiang's shot was saved, but could not stop Tao Wentao's next supplementary shot, Longteng team led Guangzhou Evergrande 1:0 in their home stadium.
Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of the commentary, shouted routinely: "Enter, enter, enter." Tao Wentao's shot. After that, I also paid attention to the offensive tactics of the Longteng team, "Ma Yongli's sudden forward insertion was too deadly, and Guangzhou Evergrande didn't expect it at all." ”
Huang Jianxiang, who was in charge of partnering with Liu Jianhong, said with a smile: "The attack methods of the Longteng team have always been famous in the Chinese Super League. When Li Yun was still in the Longteng team before, his forward insertion was a killer feature that the Longteng team tried and tested. After Li Yun left, although the Longteng team used this trick less, it was not the first time that Ma Yongli had used this trick. In the final analysis, there are too many players in the Longteng team who can push forward with the ball. ”
"The team with the best technology in the Super League is not in vain. Liu Jianhong echoed with a smile, and then expressed his worries about Guangzhou Evergrande, "Evergrande's offense is a bit unattackable, the three midfielders in the middle of the Longteng team are all players who can attack and defend, and the sweeping area is too large." The two wing Longteng teams have strong offensive power, and it depends on how Evergrande adjusts. ”
The Longteng team's goal did not make Evergrande's head coach Scolari on the sidelines have much emotional change, he just made a gesture of pressing down with both hands on the field to keep the players steady.
The Evergrande players on the field performed extremely steadily after kicking off again, and did not rush to equalize because they were behind by a goal, they were very patient in the backfield, even if they advanced the attack to the midfield, there was no good opportunity, they would stabilize first and then plan.
The Longteng team, which has a ball in hand, has not given up its previous style of play, pressing like a mad dog, and the high-level pressing offense is still maintained.
In the eighteenth minute of the first half, the Longteng team got the opportunity to counterattack in the midfield again by pressing, Qi Ming, who played in the left midfield, chose to transfer the ball to Xiang Tiange who was inserted from the right side at high speed after taking the ball.
After Xiang Tiange took the ball, he did not continue to go to the bottom line, but began to cut horizontally.
Qi Ming's pass was very sudden, resulting in Xiang Tiange cutting horizontally with the ball, Guangzhou Evergrande's defense in front of the penalty area was not very dense, which gave Xiang Tiange a good opportunity to shoot, and Xiang Tiange did not waste such an opportunity, he continuously adjusted his pace and then shot the goal.
Under the impact of Xiang Tiange, the ball went straight to the left side of the goal with a small arc, and finally almost flew out of the bottom line by grazing the root of the left post.
The Longteng team almost broke through the goal of Guangzhou Evergrande again.