After the 0:2 lead, the Longteng team used the control of the midfield to firmly grasp the game in their own hands, until the end of the first half, the score was maintained at this score, the score of the first half and the process of the game have surprised the outside world, originally everyone thought that Jiangsu Shuntian could win when the whole team was in poor shape, but I did not expect Jiangsu Shuntian to be completely spent, even if the new Antar stood on the center back line, it still failed to change the dilemma of the team's flawed backline. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the start of the second half, Zhang Sheng maintained the lineup in the first half and continued to strengthen the offensive, although he did not score again, but he suppressed the attack of Jiangsu Shuntian very strongly, until 20 minutes after the second half, several players of the Longteng team had physical problems, and the team's control of the field began to weaken. However, Zhang Sheng was very decisive and successively replaced Zhang Hao, Tao Wentao and Yu Bo, and replaced Lin Feng, Ding Huaiyi and Ben Alpha, these three new forces on the field made the Longteng team's defensive thickness in the midfield has been greatly strengthened, and Jiangsu Shuntian even if he replaced the newly introduced foreign striker Toloza during the break to no avail.

In the end, the game also ended with the Longteng team winning the opponent 0:2 away from home, and the opponent of the Longteng team in the next round will be the veteran team Qingdao Zhongneng, which has been relegated to the Chinese League.

However, Zhang Sheng is not very concerned about this game in the FA Cup, after all, Qingdao Zhongneng, a famous little expert in Chinese football, is really not worth mentioning, and the opponent that Longteng will face in the Chinese Super League four days later is Guangzhou Evergrande!

This season's Guangzhou Evergrande should not be too successful so far.

When looking back at Guangzhou Evergrande last season, it is really Guangzhou Evergrande, an Asian giant team that has sprung up. The league has achieved three consecutive championships, won the AFC Champions League for the first time and entered the Club World Cup for the first time, while setting and breaking a series of records of its own. When entering 2014, everyone will feel that only Conca has left, but there is still the most important person in the team, Lippi, and the main lineup that won the championship is basically retained, this year should still belong to Guangzhou Evergrande's own stage and era, and it should not be greatly challenged. However, no one expected or expected that Guangzhou Evergrande would compete in the 2014 journey in the first half of the season with ups and downs and stumbles.

There are many reasons for this state.

The first is that the players are too tired and not fit enough. In 2013, Guangzhou Evergrande has been playing from the end of February to the end of December, which can be described as a ten-month long season, but under the tutelage of Lippi, Guangzhou Evergrande's generals can still cope with it, the league and AFC Champions League double, and the semi-finals of the Club World Cup are good proof, there will be no fatigue and physical problems. And after such a long season, this is more than 50 high-intensity games, which also makes players who have never played so many games and hours before feel very tired, especially domestic players, unable to adapt. At the end of the 2013 season, Guangzhou Evergrande soldiers only had a month's rest, and then they had to prepare for the new season. In such a short period of time, it is impossible for the players to recover physically, so the players generally fell into a state of fatigue and physical exhaustion at the beginning of the season.

In the first game, Guangzhou Evergrande was forced to draw by the promoted Ma Longteng team at their home stadium. And in the following half of the season, coupled with the high intensity of the schedule, many players could not bear it. The 2013 "second half can't afford to mess with" phenomenon has been seen very rarely this season, as evidenced by the fact that the players have physical problems and cannot support themselves until the end of the game.

The second is the change of Lippi's tactical style of play and tactical system. In 2013, Lippi focused on Conca's tactical arrangement and style of play, allowing Conca to serve as the team's offensive organization commander, and Conca also played his best passing skills, and played Guangzhou Evergrande's frontcourt like a smooth cooperation. With Conca's departure at the end of the season, Guangzhou Evergrande has non-stop brought in Italian international Diamanti to fill the position that Conca left. In the first few games of the season, Diamanti's super individual ability seems to have a tendency to make people forget about Conca, but as the game progresses, Diamanti has not been able to adapt to the team's tactical play and tactical system, just casually as the core of the midfield, even if Lippi wants to rebuild Diamanti into a tactical core system like Conca, but from the first half of the season, Lippi's tactical building still has not received good results. The reasons for this are both the individual reasons of the two players, Conca and Diamanti, and the overall level of integration of the team.

Then there is the difference in the degree of cooperation of the trident of the former field. In 2013, Guangzhou Evergrande was able to be so strong, which was not unrelated to the play of the former foreign aid trident Muric, Conca and Elkeson. The kind of game and effect that can play 3x3 football in a small range is even more terrifying for all teams in Asia. With the departure of Conca and the addition of Diamanti, the former trident has been replaced by Muric, Elkeson and Diamanti. If from the point of view of personal ability, Diamanti is not inferior to Conca, with explosive impact and long-range shooting ability, which can be seen in the first few games at the beginning of the season, but it is difficult for Diamanti to pass the same accurate ball as Conca, because Diamanti and Conca are different types of players, Diamanti belongs to the type of player who completes the goal, and Conca belongs to the type of player who passes the ball. Therefore, entering the 2014 season, Guangzhou Evergrande's new European and American front-field trident can rarely make a small range of coordinated passes in the opponent's penalty area, and then complete the fatal blow. The reason for this is related to Diamanti's style of play and the degree of tacit understanding with Muric and Elkeson.

Then there's the porous backline. In mid-2013, the reason why Guangzhou Evergrande won the championship in a row was not only the super offensive firepower that the opponent feared, but also the solid performance of the backline. Especially in the 44 games of the league and the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande did not concede more than 30 goals, that is, the average goal conceded per game did not exceed one goal, which well preserved the team's victory. However, in the 2014 season, Guangzhou Evergrande retained Zeng Cheng, Zhang Linpeng, Feng Xiaoting, Jin Yingquan and Sun Xiang's defensive championship team, and the first half of this season made Guangzhou Evergrande's back line encounter an unprecedented crisis, and the back line was repeatedly in danger, conceding 22 goals in 22 games, with an average of 1 goal per game. The reason for this is that the defensive concentration of the players in the back line is not concentrating, the defensive form is inconsistent, and the new players have not yet adapted to the team's defensive system.

Finally, there is a clear lack of desire and excitement among the players to win and win titles. There is a pattern in the world of football that throughout the year, teams and players will always have a hunger and excitement for wins and championships, and this desire and excitement will support their motivation to keep going. However, after winning and winning the championship, the team and players gradually reduced their desire and excitement for winning the game and winning the championship in the second year, and finally failed to defend the title. Before winning the AFC Champions League within five years and achieving a breakthrough in Chinese football, Guangzhou Evergrande hired Lippi as the team's head coach. In 2013, Lippi and the soldiers of Guangzhou Evergrande were full of infinite desire and excitement for the AFC Champions League, and they wanted to achieve the great cause of winning the AFC Champions League no matter what, and finally succeeded in achieving it. However, the Guangzhou Evergrande players, who have already won the honor and championship, seem to have less strong sense and desire for victory in the game after coming to 2014, especially the attitude towards the game, and rarely play games with high morale. And the reason for this is also related to the law of the football world, players cannot always maintain the desire and excitement for winning and winning.

Even though Guangzhou Evergrande had such shortcomings in the first half of the season, they are still the strongest club in China, and the long break in the Chinese Super League season has given Guangzhou Evergrande enough opportunities to adjust.

First of all, this ultra-long break period gave Guangzhou Evergrande what it needed most - time to adjust and recover from fitness. In this intermission, Evergrande's huge group of international players also participated in the training camp and played three friendly matches, but the remaining more than a month gave them a rare respite, most of the players accompanied their families to recuperate, and the club's physical fitness team also formulated a very good physical reserve training plan for them, so that they can enter the second half of the season in a very good state.

Secondly, Lippi introduced his favorite player, Gilardino, to make his tactical transformation more formed. Before the season, Lippi wanted to evolve the team's single-core Conca's style of play into a multi-core attacking style, and Gilardino's arrival gave Lippi more confidence.

In fact, from the first half of the season, it can be seen that Guangzhou Evergrande's goals in this half of the season are very evenly distributed. In 2013, Guangzhou Evergrande scored more than seventy percent of all the goals, and the former foreign aid trident Conca, Muric and Elkeson accounted for more than seventy percent, and there were few goals scored by domestic players. After entering 2014, after Guangzhou Evergrande successively introduced domestic players such as Dong Xuesheng, Mei Fang and Liu Jian, Guangzhou Evergrande in the league and the AFC Champions League double-line competition, the number of goals scored by domestic players and foreign aid was the same, which did not appear in previous seasons. Taking the league as an example, after 14 rounds of the league, Guangzhou Evergrande scored a total of 35 goals, foreign aid scored 20 goals, and domestic players scored 15 goals, while in the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande scored a total of 15 goals, foreign aid scored 10 goals, and domestic players scored 5 goals. On the whole, the gap between the number of goals scored by foreign aid and domestic players is gradually narrowing, especially the distribution of goals of Guangzhou Evergrande is very scattered, and more than ten players have scored goals in the double-line battle. This is a big change from last season's trident, which has been relying on foreign aid, and the reason for this is that Guangzhou Evergrande has a variety of scoring methods, players have the ability to score, and the team has a strong grasp ability.

In terms of the coordination of the front field and the foreign aid trident, in theory, Gilardino has more advantages than Muric, who left during the break.

Muric has been affected by physical injuries and ups and downs in form in the first half of the season, the number of goals has declined very quickly, and his cooperation with Diamanti is also very incongruous.

In the end, Guangzhou Evergrande also came up with its own trick - Xu Jiayin, the boss of Evergrande, to entertain the soldiers of the club.

The family banquet of Xu Jiayin, the boss of Evergrande Group, has always been a killer feature of Guangzhou Evergrande Club, and the "psychological massage" of the boss Xu Jiayin has always had a good effect. Xu Jiayin has always had the tradition of "inviting to dinner" at the critical moment of Evergrande, and the results of the previous "family banquets" have been good, which is why Xu Jiayin is called a "psychological masseuse". In the view of Evergrande soldiers, every time Xu Jiayin mobilizes before the game, the team can often achieve the desired result.

After losing to Yatai in the league in 2011, Xu Jiayin hosted a banquet for Evergrande before playing TEDA, and the team finally defeated TEDA 4-0 in the following league to win. In April 2012, before Evergrande played against Bai Sun, Xu Jiayin hosted a banquet for the whole team, and reiterated at the banquet that "the AFC Champions League is to win glory for the country", and Evergrande won 3-1. Before the first round of the 2013 AFC Champions League group stage, Xu Jiayin hosted a banquet for all the Evergrande team members, asking the players to have the confidence to win and the spirit of hard work to win the AFC Champions League, and Evergrande immediately defeated Urawa 3-0.

Zhang Sheng also knows that after losing to Chengnan in the first leg of the Evergrande AFC Champions League in the 2015 season, Xu Jiayin once again started the "family banquet mode", he hosted the Evergrande coaching staff and players at the Yujing Peninsula Hotel in Jinshazhou, and put forward the "four musts" requirements, as a result, Evergrande immediately defeated Chengnan 2-0 in the second leg to advance.

And this time, before the upcoming game of the Longteng team, Xu Jiayin once again feasted the team, and Xu Jiayin said at the meeting, "If you don't fight for your life, you will sell mineral water." Xu Jiayin talked about the "nine musts" in the "psychological massage", and had a comprehensive and thorough grasp of the problems and states of the team, and was to the point.

This shows how much Xu Jiayin attaches importance to this game, which also means that the Longteng team will usher in a fierce battle.