For this lineup of Shanghai SIPG, Zhang Sheng chose very directly, didn't you say that the referee was biased towards your side, then I will play pressing tactics against you, cut off your two wings like Wu Lei and Hulk, and attack your weak defense in the middle.

This kind of tactic focuses on physical contact and relies on physical confrontation, and it depends on whether Shanghai SIPG can withstand this kind of organized overall oppression.

However, from the mouth of Shanghai SIPG head coach Villas-Boas, you can still hear his confidence in this game.

At the pre-match press conference, when answering questions from reporters, he said: "We finished a great game during the league break. The Chinese team's qualification this time has also given us a lot of players very strong help. We have a defender who can't play and Akhmedov can't play tomorrow because of suspension, but we have a lot of options and the whole team is very strong. ”

Finally, he added: "In the last leg, we were able to win away from home, but in the end we were not lucky. Today is on our home turf and we will definitely be able to break the record (referring to the winless record against the Dragons). ”

Boas, too, is not a big deal.

When he said "a great game", he was referring to the fact that before the national team game, Shanghai SIPG defeated Guangzhou Evergrande 4-0 at their home stadium, which lacked Paulinho and other main players.

The luck mentioned later is not good enough, but there is also evidence.

In the last round of the game, Lu Zhihui, the captain of the Longteng team, was forced to foul and was sent off, and in the next 20 minutes, relying on the unity of the whole team, he kept the victory of that game.

The fight is a popular event for fans before the game, but it's just entertainment, and the real thing is to watch the game.

In the match between the Dragons and SIPG, the situation was a little different from what Boas said.

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Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, was also full of smiles and applauded gently.

When Yan Junling misjudged the direction of Fernando's shot, and the football flew into the net, the cheers of a few Longteng fans on the field even suppressed the more than 20,000 fans at home.

Lou Yicheng, who was in charge of commentating the game, raised questions about Boas's arrangement: "Shanghai Port was beaten through the middle by the Longteng team as soon as it came up, which is not a good thing, Boas's defensive arrangement in the middle is too weak." ”

Lou Yicheng's partner Liu Yue put forward his views on the players: "Cai Huikang's state during this period is very average, just now as the only barrier in the midfield of SIPG, he was too easily thrown off by Tao Wentao to break through." ”

"However, the game has only just started, and SIPG still has a lot of time to adjust. Lou Yicheng voiced his expectations for Boas.

What puzzled Lou Yicheng and Liu Yue was that Shanghai SIPG did not make any adjustments in the next meeting, but simply shouted a few words to the field by Boas, so that the players on the field could concentrate more.

The game did change slowly, because Oscar's position was retreated a bit, and at the same time, Yan Xiaoyu strengthened the interference in the front court, so as not to let the Longteng team make a fuss in the middle so easily.

Obviously, the previous goal conceded did have an element of the inattention of the SIPG players.

This also has to do with Boas's usual tactics.

Since the beginning of this season, Shanghai SIPG's offense is indeed very strong, but their strength is more due to the strength of several superstars plus Wu Lei's outburst, the actual situation is that the team's overall participation in the offense is not very ideal, four foreign aid plus Wu Lei's goals, more than 90% of the team's total goals.

At the beginning of the season, Shanghai SIPG did play a few games of overall high pressing tactics with the support of neat players and strong soldiers, but from the middle of the season, with injuries and suspensions, the team played only a handful of overall pressing tactics, and more relied on a few foreign aides to make a sudden attack in the front court.

After the start of this game, SIPG did have the intention of using high pressure in the front court to stop the fire from burning to the point of becoming its own, but the actual implementation of this tactic was obviously wrong - they were pressed back by the Longteng team.

Obviously, if a tactic wants to run freely on the playing field, in addition to long-term training, it also needs to be honed in the actual game to slowly have an effect, after all, it is not like Zhang Sheng on the side of the Longteng team who holds a cheating method such as an advanced tactical forming accelerator.

After Boas reminded him on the field, Shanghai SIPG's frontcourt pressing became more resolute.

In the sixth minute of the first half, Oscar teamed up with Yan Xiaoyu and even formed a steal in the front court, breaking Tao Wentao's ball, and then Oscar decisively chose to shoot from a distance.

Thankfully, Oscar's long-range shot went just wide of the post.

Feng Shui took turns, and this time it was Zhang Sheng's turn to yell loudly at the players on the sidelines.

Jiang Mingzhi is better, Oscar has strong personal ability, and it is understandable that he did not save in time, but Tao Wentao's mistake is a bit sideways.

Tao Wentao, who knew that he had made a big mistake, hurriedly raised his hand to indicate that it was his own problem, and it was obvious that he had broken through in the midfield to help his teammates create a penalty, which made him relax.

After the players on both sides were yelled at by the head coach, the game finally began to officially enter the white-hot stage.

In the eleventh minute of the first half, Shanghai SIPG made a comeback, but the main attacker of the attack changed, "Hulk" Hulk was like a tank on the right side, rampage and continued to rely on body and technology, past Nie Jiang and De Paul, and then he and Yan Xiaoyu came to a beautiful two-by-one cooperation, and he was against Qu Wenming, who defended him, directly to the front of the penalty area, and came with a strong shot.

After receiving the last education, Jiang Mingzhi learned to be obedient this time, and he quickly made a side pounce and saved the ball out of the bottom line.

On the surface, after Jiang Zhizhi made the save, he looked like a regular operation, but in fact, if it wasn't in the actual game, he couldn't wait to shake his hand a few times to buffer the save just now, and he was still rejoicing in his heart at this time: "Hulk's shot is too strong, fortunately, it's more positive, if he chooses the angle, I won't be able to save at all." ”

In the face of Hulk's unreasonable style of play, Qu Wenming, as one of the back midfielders, began to use his brains.

Qu Wenming is a very special existence in the Longteng team, although each player in the Longteng team has their own sadness, but no one is as different as Qu Wenming, because he is an orphan.

At first, all his teammates always wanted to let him go, but soon Qu Wenming successfully made all his teammates forget that he was an orphan.

Because he is very good at being a man.

I think that at the beginning, Qu Wenming was able to join the Longteng team, but he lied to the admissions staff that he was Zhang Sheng's relative, and used the information about the Longteng team and Zhang Sheng that he collected on the Internet in advance.

Even Zhang Sheng didn't have to admire Qu Wenming's meticulousness and ingenuity.

After arriving at Longteng Football School, Qu Wenming got along well with his teammates, and he was thoughtful and assertive.

The most typical example is the 2015 Toulon Cup, because of dissatisfaction with the tactical arrangement of the head coach Fu Bo, the players of the national youth team dominated by the Longteng team had many complaints, but Qu Wenming, who took the lead in resisting, did not come out, but the captain at the time, Zhu Xuhe, was pushed to change his tactical style of play in the middle of the game and set aside the head coach.

In the end, Zhu Xuhe's transfer to leave the Longteng team has his own reasons for his lack of ability, which is also related to this incident.

In this game, he was deployed in a central midfield position and took on the responsibility of defence, and after Oscar and Hulk formed a series of shots, he began to think about his defensive methods.

The coaching staff of the Longteng team explained to Qu Wenming how to defend Hulk before the game, and also conducted targeted training, but in football games, you can't understand the opponent's ability 100% without actually playing with the opponent on the field.

Qu Wenming, who fought Hulk for the first time, was defeated.

He now thinks of what the team's assistant coach Michael Genk told him before the game: "Hulk is very emotionally unstable during the game, if you harass him and make him go to the referee to complain and complain, your goal will be achieved." So the point of defending him is to let him get the ball more on his own and try to cut off the ball from him and others. To accomplish this, you need to cooperate with multiple people, so as a defensive commander in the midfield, it is not advisable to go it alone, you need to set up a defensive position. ”

Michael Genk's defensive set-up against Hulk is the same as the approach used against Hulk by Urawa Ruby in real history and Shanghai Shenhua against SIPG.

In the two legs of the 2017 AFC Champions League semifinals, Urawa Ruby sent Japanese international Tomoaki Makino to play at left back to defend Hulk, while left midfielder Yuki Muto retreated sharply when defending, forming a good protection for Tomoaki Makino. If Hulk chooses to cut inside, Kazuki Nagasawa, a midfielder on the left, and Mauricio, a left-sided centre-back, will also have to help.

It was this multi-player defense that was ultimately scored by Hulk in the two-legged match, and Urawa won 2-1 on aggregate to advance.

Later, the domestic team did the same, and in the FA Cup final, Shanghai Shenhua sent Bai Jiajun to defend Hulk, two defenders Guarin and Qin Sheng, central defender Bi Jinhao, and libero Moreno to assist in defense at any time.

With the same move, Shenhua also restrained Hulk and won 1:0 in the first round.

After making up his mind to defend the kraft candy encirclement and suppression, Qu Wenming began to perform.

In the fifteenth minute of the first half, Hulk was ready to break through from near midfield, but this time left wing-back De Paul posted up early and just as Hulk was about to start, he hit him to the touchline and did not give him a chance to cut to the left.

At the same time, Shin Joon, who is on the left wingback, is smartly blocking the front, preferring to let Hulk knock down rather than eat the action of pedaling the bicycle under his feet.

Hulk saw no hope of breaking through head-on along the wing and opted to cut inside to the left.

Qu Wenming, who was in charge of the defense, came up in time to help De Paulo help the defense, and poked the football out of the sideline when Hulk changed to the inside and needed to change the center of gravity.

A successful assist defense gave the Dragons a lot of confidence on the left side of the defense.

In the next ten minutes, Hulk's intention to cut inside to the left was seen through by Qu Wenming, and the defensive formation of three or four men he commanded was as steady as Mount Tai.

Hulk was deflated on the left side, and it was precisely his weight on the ball in the SIPG team that was particularly high, resulting in SIPG's attacks often being futile.

The attack on the left side of SIPG was silent, and the right attack of the Longteng team was not easy to defend, and the right offensive combination of Huang He, Fernando and Tao Wentao kept hitting the left side of SIPG, making SIPG's back line dangerous.

Lou Yicheng was also very interested when he saw the lame play of the two teams on their left side, "Come on, hurt each other", and said: "The head coaches of both sides are betting heavily on the attack on the right side." Now it seems that the Longteng team is slowly gaining a foothold, but there are some problems on the side of SIPG. ”

Liu Yue agrees with Lou Yicheng's opinion: "Hulk has always been the center of gravity of SIPG's attack, and behind him, Fu Huan is destined to be just a cover. On the other hand, on the side of the Longteng team, whether it is Fernando, Tao Wentao or Huang He, in addition to good skills and strong impact, they are all characters who can pass and shoot. It's hard to say who to defend and the Dragons' attack on the left will be ineffective. SIPG's domestic players must have better performances. ”

"So, now it's up to Hulk to get the ball out. Lou Yicheng concluded.

Lou Yicheng knows, as an excellent coach from Europe, Boas of course also knows that the problem is that a player's habit of playing football is very difficult to change, especially a player like Hulk who has been completely stereotyped.

Hulk, who was restricted, continued to play in his way, and Boas could only ask Oscar to come over to help Hulk more, and Yan Xiaoyu also leaned more to the right.

Players from both sides moved to the right, and the result was that the top 10 people were crowded on this side, and it became a luxury to try to handle the ball well.

A large number of SIPG's technical players are trapped on the crowded right side, which increasingly leads to the inability to carry out the attack of the other way, Wu Lei can be said to be isolated, not only to attack alone, but also to help defend.

After only more than 30 minutes of the first half of the game, Wu Lei was already out of breath, and Wang Liange at left back even had to get a yellow card early in order to defend Fernando.

After getting lost in the dribble again and again, Hulk, who gradually felt impatient, began to shoot from a distance, and his emotions naturally affected his team.

To say that in this game, Hulk played awkwardly, and another player, Yan Xiaoyu, played even more awkwardly.

As a strong offensive and defensive midfielder, Boas put him in the back of the front and back in the expectation that he could take on the task of connecting the back line and the midfield, but now Yan Xiaoyu's energy is completely focused on defense, and the shortcomings of defensive ability, which is almost none, are particularly prominent.

Even Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, shook his head silently in his heart, after all, this is a player with 81/83 ability/potential value, an absolute Super League-level top player, it is too wasteful to be used like this.