Lippi, who was on the sidelines, angrily hammered the coach's bench with his hand, and Zheng Zhi's injury dealt another heavy blow to the Evergrande team's tactics. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zheng Zhi has always been the most relied on Chinese player after Lippi came to Evergrande, although Zheng Zhi is now older, his physical confrontation ability has declined, and his physical fitness cannot guarantee a high confrontation in the whole game, and at the same time, he is too slow to play the ball in the midfield position, and likes to bring a few feet to the ball. Even with these shortcomings, Zheng Zhi still values Lippi the most. That's because Zheng Zhi has a big picture view that is rare among domestic players now, and the most important point - the ability to pass the ball forward in a deeper way. In other words, Zheng Zhi can make Evergrande's attack play, instead of letting the ball stay in the midfield and cross backwards or simply return the pass. This is also the reason why Zheng Zhi was able to play the core of the midfield in the Premier League team Charlton in the first place, because he can bring great help to the team in attack.

In this game, it was the presence of Zheng Zhi that allowed Conca to be targeted, and Evergrande was still able to suppress the Longteng team in the middle of the first half. This is also the reason why Zheng Zhi said that he could play before the game, and Lippi hesitated but agreed to his request, because Evergrande's midfield could not do without him.

Before Zheng Zhi got off the field, Lippi still had a trace of luxury, hoping that he could pass a good ball on the field to find Muric to counterattack, but now Zheng Zhi's injury made Evergrande's hope even more slim, Lippi had to make a forced personnel adjustment, replacing Zheng Zhi with Feng Junyan, but this time Lippi was very decisive, while replacing Zheng Zhi, he also replaced Rong Hao, and it was Zhao Xuyang who replaced him.

Seeing this substitution, Shen Fangjian also said: "Lippi's substitution sends a clear signal that the Evergrande team is going to defend to the death." The formation has completely changed from the previous 4-2-3-1 formation to the current 4-3-3 formation, and it is a purely defensive 4-3-3 formation. Sun Junyan plus Huang Bowen and Zhao Xuyang's three-back formation made Evergrande's midfield defense very strong, but it was not helpful at all in attack. ”

It should be said that Lippi's substitution was very decisive and decisive, Zhang Sheng was secretly happy for Zheng Zhi's end, and wanted to make a fuss through the back waist of the Evergrande team, but he didn't expect Lippi to go to the two back waists at once, which disappointed Zhang Sheng's wish.

With the substitution of the Evergrande team, one player of the Evergrande team was activated, that is, Muric, before Evergrande also thought that he could use the ground attack to play to the front court through layers of passes, and then the midfielders sent a straight plug to let Muric go forward. But because the two wings of the Longteng team are not inferior to Evergrande, and there are players like Ivo and Kante in the middle of the midfield who have both skills and bodies, Evergrande's attack has not been able to play.

Now with the stubborn defense of the whole line, Evergrande's offense is simpler, but it is also more effective, that is, once the players in the midfield or even the backfield grab the ball, they will directly find Muric in front of them, and let Muric rely on his own personal ability to solve the problem. Although the success rate of such an attack is low, once a successful attack is played, it is possible to bring a goal.

In fact, Zhang Sheng has a deep study of Lippi's 4-3-3 formation, because the 4-3-3 formation is also one of the formations that Lippi often uses after coming to Evergrande.

Lippi's 4-3-3 is the legendary "no striker". This formation emphasizes the constant passing of the players on the field and the constant running without the ball. Pep Guardiola in the Barcelona era abolished the traditional number nine position in this formation, forming the concept of nine and a half, achieving Messi's king status, and also interpreting this formation perfectly. Among them, the most classic is the "three sixes" tactical requirements put forward by Gua Shuai, that is, six people form a collective of passing and receiving the ball, the distance between each person is six meters, and the ball is counter-robbed within six seconds after conceding. Let's compare Evergrande and Barcelona: the two fullbacks Zhang Linpeng and Sun Xiang have a strong ability to insert assists, which is similar to Barcelona's Alves and Alba; Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets, the front three players, it is not an exaggeration to say that Elkeson is the Messi of Asia, Muric has strong speed and breakthrough ability, equivalent to Sanchez in the Barcelona team, and Golin plays the role of Pedro.

To sum up, Evergrande's 4-3-3 frontless formation can be said to be very strong. However, Zhang Sheng also found that Evergrande's non-striker formation still has a lot of weakness.

The first is the air defense of the central defender. Evergrande's two central defenders, Jin Yingquan and Feng Xiaoting, both have strong interception capabilities, but their air defense capabilities can only be described as average. This season and last season, Changchun Yatai and Tianjin TEDA both used high-altitude bombing to make Evergrande suffer, and they also lost the game. Feng Xiaoting is physically strong, but his feet are slow, which will not be conducive to the timely position of the central defender, Jin Yingquan is very flexible, but the physical confrontation is not good, which forms the soft underbelly of Evergrande's air defense.

The second is that the midfielders are not capable of interception. In Barcelona's 4-3-3 formation, Busquets erected a barrier for Barcelona in the midfield with his strong defensive ability. Evergrande's midfielders can only say that their ability to fight on the spot is okay, but the sense of filling is too far away, and the interference with the initiation point of the opponent's defensive counterattack is not timely enough, and sometimes it is easy to be penetrated by the opponent's pass.

Finally, the wide side is not capable of crossing. Sun Xiang and Zhang Linpeng both have a strong ability to insert assists, Sun Xiang has improved his ability to cross under Lippi's training, but he still can't do the right strength and excellent landing point, Zhang Linpeng can rely on his speed and strong body to kill a bloody way for Evergrande on the right side, and he can also pass a very threatening cross from time to time, but sometimes he can't control his own footwork, the stability of the cross needs to be improved, and once he touches a player whose body and speed are not weaker than him, the offense is even more discounted.

Therefore, before the game, Zhang Sheng prepared Mahrez on the right to suppress Sun Xiang, Yu Bo on the left to fight against Zhang Linpeng, and relied on Gao Jun's pass to instigate the attack in the middle, and finally made full use of the tactics of set-pieces to carry out high-altitude bombing.

But now Evergrande's 4-3-3 is completely different from the previous 4-3-3, except for Elkeson being sent off by one less, Evergrande's overall formation is more backward, and it is not the same as the Longteng team in the midfield. The three players in the midfield are also all midfielders, only responsible for sweeping and defending, in the face of such an iron bucket formation, and it is an iron bucket formation of the Evergrande team under the leadership of Lippi, Zhang Sheng is also at a loss for a while.

However, it was the Evergrande team that really got the chance. After a series of big kicks to find Muric, the Evergrande team got a good chance. Previously, because of the offside tactics arranged by Zhang Sheng, Muric rarely got the ball a few times, but they were blown offside, and in the 25th minute of the second half, Evergrande's opportunity came.

This time it was Huang Bowen in the midfield through active scrambling to make the Longteng team make a mistake when passing and receiving the ball, Huang Bowen who grabbed the ball did not make any stops, and drove directly to the front court with a big foot, Kante, who has been fighting against Muric, made a rare mistake this time, he rose when he topped the ball, Muric didn't expect Kante to send himself such a big cake, after a little hesitation, he began to run with the ball.

As a dragged central defender, Ma Yongli had to come forward to press, but unfortunately Muric's speed was much faster than him, in just a few seconds, Muric rushed into the penalty area with the ball, Ma Yongli had to interfere in the back, Xu Di also rushed over to block. However, Muric used his skillful foot skills to get past Xu Di and then decisively shot with his feet, and Ma Yongli reached out with a flying tackle from behind, but even so, it did not prevent the ball from reaching the net, and Ma Yongli's tackle brought down Muric.

After the referee blew the penalty for the goal to be valid, he also ran to Ma Yongli's side and showed Ma Yongli a yellow card, indicating that Ma Yongli was a dangerous move.

Zhang Sheng couldn't be angry, Muric was not injured, he was just taken down, and Ma Yongli's tackle was close to the ground, not towards people. The most important thing is that Muric's goals have been scored and the celebration is frantic. This is purely the referee looking for a balance in order to give the red card to Evergrande in the first half.

In the face of this goal, the players of the Evergrande team began to celebrate wildly, and in the case of falling behind by one goal and one less, they actually equalized the score, which was not easy, and even Lippi, who had been very calm, was also running on the sidelines excitedly.

Shen Fangjian also shouted: "The ball went in, and Evergrande equalized." The unbeatable Muric, the perfect center forward who combines speed, skill and shooting. It was a beautiful goal. ”

In fact, Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, knew that this ball could only be said to be the luck of the Evergrande team. Huang Bowen's casual pass combined with N'Golo Kante's rise to the top caused the goal. Zhang Sheng also loudly cheered up the players on the sidelines: "This ball is a dribble balloon, don't be affected, let's continue to attack." ”

After the kick-off, the Longteng team took out the strength to eat milk and began to attack, and Mahrez on the right side also broke out completely, after a few feet of the Longteng team's midfield express delivery, he passed Feng Junyan and went straight into the Evergrande team's penalty area, and Feng Junyan pulled down Mahrez in desperation, and the Longteng team won a free kick in the front court, and he also received a yellow card.

In the face of this free kick, it was Mahrez who took the penalty, and Evergrande's penalty area was full of Longteng players, after the free kick, a red player in the crowd jumped high, and then shook his head hard to push the ball into the goal.

Then I saw Lu Zhihui running out of the crowd, celebrating wildly, the Longteng team just equalized only 2 minutes later, and then overtook the score again, or a header, and it was Lu Zhihui who made a contribution. (To be continued.) )