After the goal, Shinji Ono ran frantically to the coach's box, and then asked about the other game between Ulsan Hyundai and Kawasaki Frontale, and Popovich also said happily: "Now Kawasaki Frontale is leading Ulsan Hyundai 3:1 at home, as long as we hold on to this victory, we will be able to qualify, and now everyone will strengthen the defense after coming on the field." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

As the captain of the Western Sydney Wanderers, Beuukamp hurriedly cheered up his teammates: "Come on, everyone, there are only a few minutes left, everyone work hard, and the qualification is just around the corner." ”

When the referee came to stop their celebrations, the game was 90 minutes old and went into stoppage time.

In stoppage time, Popovich replaced the physically exhausted Shinji Ono with Juric, and then replaced the right wing-back Mullen with Hefnan, with the clear purpose of the two substitutions, one is to put the more physical players on the pitch, and the other is to use up the time of the game.

Seeing the retreat of the Western Sydney Wanderers across the board, the Longteng team doesn't want to attack anymore, one is that their own physical fitness is not enough, not enough to support the team to attack with all their might, and the other is that now the opponents have shrunk back, if according to the current score, the Longteng team will be the top of the group no matter what other games are like, so instead of risking the risk of losing the ball, the Longteng team should now honestly choose defense.

In this case, this stoppage time becomes meaningless, players on both sides are cowering in their own backfield, putting a player in front of them to cruise looking for offensive opportunities, facing the opponent's defenders to wait for the strict formation, such an attack is nothing more than a two-color ball player wants to use two yuan to find a chance to win the jackpot, and finally the game also ended in the Western Sydney Wanderers 2:1 scoreline.

When Zhang Sheng had to accept this defeat on the sidelines, Popovich took the initiative to come over to shake Zhang Sheng's hand, and he said to Zhang Sheng with a smile on his face: "Congratulations on winning the first place in the group." ”

Zhang Sheng shook hands with Popovich very perfunctorily and said, "Congratulations on qualifying." ”

At this time, the players of the Western Sydney Wanderers on the field are celebrating their "hard-won" qualification, and many players of the Longteng team are sneering and watching the opponent celebrate, obviously everyone is not optimistic about the road after this team, so it is really difficult to say how far the team can go to qualify by relying on the great advantage of the home field.

Only Zhang Sheng knows that the Western Sydney Wanderers have passed the biggest difficulty, and they can be said to have a smooth road to the end in history, and they have thought countless times in the game to simply fight to win this game, and then gave up, the strength of their team is indeed not that likely to win the championship in the end, and there is no need to gamble all for this game, I can only hope that this team can be punished in the end.

At the press conference after the game, Zhang Sheng looked very cold, in addition to returning to a few questions seriously to the domestic media reporters. For the Australian media, Zhang Sheng's ignorance is very obvious.

Because of Zhang Sheng's attitude this time, Zhang Sheng gained a bad impression of "can't afford to lose" in the Australian media, but Zhang Sheng scoffed at it, he will not have much contact with Australian sports now or in the future, whatever they say.

Popovich was still in the excitement of his post-match press conference, where he gushed questions from various reporters, and when asked by Chinese reporters about the referee, Popovich also looked very cunning: "I never comment on the referee's decision. ”

For this game, Australia's evaluation is to praise the Western Sydney Wanderers for their survival, saying that the players in Western Sydney worked hard to win. The media in China have very tactfully mentioned the referee's unfair decision.

After this game, the 2014 AFC Champions League group stage Group H matches are all over.

Western Sydney Wanderers won the second place in the group with 3 wins and 3 losses and 9 points, and the Longteng team won 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss with 9 points, but because the Longteng team was 3:1 at home and Western Sydney Wanderers was 2:1 at home, the Longteng team ranked first in the group with a goal difference advantage in the battle record between the two sides. Although Kawasaki Frontale tried his best to defeat Ulsan Hyundai at home, he did overwhelm Ulsan Hyundai in points, but the result was that one accumulated 8 points and the other accumulated 7 points, and both fell into the abyss of being eliminated from the group.

Of course, for the games that have passed, Zhang Sheng rarely bothered about the comments from the outside world in addition to summarizing the problems that occurred in the game, and Zhang Sheng always cared about the next game.

The next round of matches for the Longteng team will not be easy, as they will be away from home to take on Shandong Luneng.

Speaking of Shandong Luneng team, as a traditional giant in the top league of Chinese football, the vast majority of Chinese fans are very familiar with it, they have won four league championships, four FA Cup championships, and have a very wide fan base.

But since the 2010 season, after the rise of Guangzhou Evergrande, they have never won the league championship again, and in the year that Zhang Sheng crossed, they even did not succeed in relegation until the penultimate round of the league, which can be described as a gradual decline.

But in the 2013 season, they had a good result – finishing second in the league.

Luneng's performance is declining step by step and the club's own system has a lot to do with it, before the football boom, the team with state-owned enterprises as investors is relatively stable, whether it is Shandong Luneng or Beijing Guoan, the state-owned enterprise group behind them can provide a relatively stable environment for players, and other Chinese Super League teams that are not favored by capital are relatively difficult.

However, when the capital saw that football was profitable, a large number of private enterprises began to intervene in the Chinese Super League, and the clubs with the background of state-owned enterprises were greatly impacted, and Shandong Luneng was one of the representatives.

The peculiar sluggishness of state-owned enterprise clubs, and the lack of long-term planning of both the emperor and the courtiers have been revealed.

When other teams decisively change domestic and foreign aides and coaches for the sake of results, state-owned enterprises are often still in internal struggling. Similarly, for the sake of political performance, it is not uncommon for a new leader to want to completely overturn and start over.

For example, the change of coach of Shandong Luneng.

As the saying goes, once a son of heaven is a courtier. It also makes sense that this law is applied to Luneng. As early as the end of the 2011 season, it was reported that then-general manager Sun Guoyu might be rotated because of his poor performance that year, but in the end this news did not come true.

Because of such news in front of him, in order to help Luneng achieve a good result before being rotated, Sun Guoyu has been trying to change Luneng Taishan by changing the coach. Unfortunately, by the end of the 2011 season, his wish had not been fulfilled. In the 2012 season, Sun Guoyu wanted to continue to work hard, so he found Tengkat again, but unfortunately, he still failed to see a good result. After the end of the 2012 season, Sun Guoyu was officially transferred to other positions.

After Liu Yu took office, the first big thing he needed to do was to select a coach for Luneng. After a long period of speculation, Luneng finally chose Antioch. Using big-name coaches and selecting big-name foreign aid is Liu Yu's basic governing idea, and he also does the same. After finding Antich, he took advantage of the opportunity of the second reinforcement and found the biggest foreign aid in the Chinese Super League.

After a season of crawling in the football circle, Liu Yu's thinking has also changed. Even though Antich won a good result in the runner-up of the Chinese Super League for Shandong Luneng in the 2013 season, Liu Yu still decisively replaced him, the reason is very simple, that is, Antich is "disobedient".

This is also the reason why Shandong Luneng has changed its coach six times in three years.

It should be said that the investment of Shandong Luneng in the 2014 season is not small, Shandong Luneng spent 202 million yuan (22.1 million euros) to build a luxury team, ranking fourth in the world in the winter transfer period of that year, becoming the biggest favorite to win the Super League in the 2014 season.

In terms of foreign aid, Shandong Luneng spent 6.1 million euros to bring in CSKA Moscow striker Loew, 5 million euros to introduce Brazilian goalscorer Aloisio from Sao Paulo in the Brazilian league, and 7.5 million euros to introduce Montillo, making him the new standard king of this year's Chinese Super League. Montillo is similar to Conca, both Argentines, but he has proven himself in the Brazilian Liga. He won the Silver Ball award in the Brazilian league two years in a row and was named in the best team, and was called up by the Argentine national team last year, so he is known as Messi's substitute.

In terms of domestic aid, Luneng also frequently makes big moves. There is Wang Dalei who transferred to Shandong Luneng for more than 30 million yuan, and Dai Lin who came over with 1500w, and then they poached the national team's left back Zhou Hai from Longteng 2500w, and introduced Zhang Wenzhao in 2000w.

But at least judging by the performance of the players so far, they have not performed very well in Luneng, and on his AFC Champions League debut, Aloisio kicked a penalty. And there was another tragedy like losing 2:4 at home to South Korea's K-League team Pohang Steelers.

The only thing to be thankful for is that in the Chinese Super League, they are in second place with 16 points, and although they are on the same points as Guangzhou Evergrande, they are inferior in goal difference.

This game is also a contest between the teams currently ranked sixth in the Chinese Super League and second ranked in the Chinese Super League, and it is also the most eye-catching game of this round of the Chinese Super League, far more important than the Shanghai derby between Shanghai Greenland, which is still recovering, and Shanghai SIPG, which is just beginning to emerge.

However, there is one more game to focus on before this game, and that is the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals on April 25, when Red Bull Salzburg will host Sevilla.

Although Zhang Sheng knew that Red Bull Salzburg's hope of winning this game was very small, he still had a glimmer of hope to see Red Bull Salzburg lead the team to a miracle under Li Yun's defense.

In this game, because of Qin Minghao's injury, he could only cheer for the team in the stands, and at the same time, Red Bull Salzburg had as many as 3 more main defensive teammates unable to play. The team has a lot of influence both offensively and defensively.

After the start of the game, the performance of the Red Bull team once gave Zhang Sheng hope. La Liga, accustomed to being an away bug, have also performed poorly, and Sevilla have not yet dominated the Europa League in the following years. Although 2 of the backline led by Li Yun are substitute players, under his command, the team's defensive performance is still very good, and Sevilla has not been given many opportunities. Offensively, Soriano scored a goal in the 35th minute of the first half to take a 1-0 lead.

However, in the second half, the experienced Sevilla took advantage of a mistake by a Red Bull Salzburg substitute defender to level the score at 1-1, and then the retreating Sevilla kept the score until the end of the game.

Seeing this score, Zhang Sheng knew that the Red Bulls, who did not win Sevilla at home, had little chance of advancing to the final, but Zhang Sheng was still very satisfied with Li Yun's performance, and now he gradually has the wind of a general.

At home, Longteng and Shandong Luneng have attracted more attention, and the head coaches of both sides have become the target of the media.

Kuka, the head coach of Shandong Luneng team, who had just been eliminated from the bottom of the AFC Champions League group stage, praised the Longteng team fiercely in an interview with the media: "The Longteng team is a very strong team, they have a top superstar like Pato, Pato also consulted me about the situation of the Longteng team before this season, and I was surprised that he joined such a team, but now it seems that his choice is very correct." The presence of teams like Longteng in the Chinese Super League proves that the overall level of the Chinese Super League is very good, and their ability to qualify for the AFC Champions League with the top result in the group is proof. I know that we have a former player of the Longteng team like Zhou Hai in the team, and his performance is very good, of course, I also learned a lot about the Longteng team from him, and we will take this game very seriously. ”

Zhang Sheng also poured ecstasy soup into Shandong Luneng in an interview: "Luneng is one of the top teams in the Chinese Super League, their players are strong, and the head coach is also a world famous coach. And what I envy the most is Luneng's academy, they have produced a lot of very good young players. ”

When the reporter asked Zhang Sheng how he saw Luneng's AFC Champions League results, Zhang Sheng said modestly: "When we were able to qualify from the AFC Champions League group, we were a new army, and many opponents didn't know us. And Luneng has always been a regular in the AFC Champions League, this year's difficulties are only temporary, I believe they will play well in the future. After all, now in the Chinese Super League, their points are the same as Evergrande, which is the embodiment of their true strength. ”

At the same time, CCTV also attaches great importance to this game, and the ones responsible for commenting are Duan Xuan and Zhou Ning of CCTV, as one of the pillars of CCTV Sports Channel, Duan Xuan has always been commenting on the game of a champion team like Evergrande, and this time he is arranged to explain this game very seriously. (To be continued.) )