15. League Promotion
Unlike the rough and rough Gamba players, Lin Feng, who easily passed the opponent, rushed forward decisively, and another back of Osaka Gamba Kosun Xiangping hurriedly came over to defend, but Lin Feng's ball quotient was very high, he was not obsessed with the previous pass, but gave the ball to Zhou Zhou, who was inserted at high speed on the right side, who and Lin Feng came to a beautiful two-by-two cooperation, leaving Gangba's back starling Xiangping and left wingback Keisuke Iwashita behind. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Gamba Osaka, who was completely empty on the left side, could only let the central defender and another midfielder, Endo Hohito, fill the position, but Lin Feng obviously expected their defensive ideas, and he did not continue to hand over the ball to Zhou Zhou, who had successfully bottomed, but distributed the ball to Tao Wentao, who came to pick up in the middle.
Tao Wentao is now in the middle because the defenders have gone to the left side looks very loose, and the Osaka Gamba players who came from the right side to fill in the position have just arrived, Tao Wentao did not waste such an opportunity, and distributed the ball to Ben Alpha on the left side, because his side was completely empty.
Giving a player like Ben Alpha such a loose opportunity means losing the ball, and sure enough, Ben Alpha easily entered the penalty area with the ball, this time he did not go to the goal from a small angle, but an inverted triangle pass to the middle, and Nie Jiang in the middle easily scored in the face of a completely empty goal, and the score became 0:2.
The Longteng team launched an attack from the midfield this time, relying on passing to continuously mobilize the opponent's defensive center of gravity, and finally scored a goal, the process was very clear, basically did not give the opponent a chance to adjust the defense, which was a textbook Barcelona goal.
Compared with the first goal, Zhang Sheng attaches more importance to this goal, because this goal can better reflect the training content of his winter training period, that is, to pull the gap through passing, and the last shot is the kind of empty goal that can be scored when running in place.
After this goal, the Longteng team has basically killed the game, and Gamba Osaka, who has already made two substitutions, does not have too many cards to play, while the Longteng team has three substitutions, and there is more room for adjustment.
The players of Gamba Osaka looked at the Longteng players who were running excitedly on the field a little blankly, Takashi Usami looked at Nie Jiang with envy now, this Chinese player has broken his AFC Champions League record for the youngest goal, the head coach also specifically mentioned him before the game, and now he has scored again, and then look at the two foreign aides who created opportunities for him, this is the difference in strength.
In the next game, Zhang Sheng began to adjust the personnel, he replaced Lu Zhihui with Wei Zhimin, so that the youngster could experience the AFC Champions League game, and then replaced Lin Feng who had run all day with Yao Tian, and moved Tao Wentao back to the back waist, continuing to maintain the running ability in the midfield.
In the end, the game also ended 0:2, and the Longteng team made their AFC Champions League group stage debut and won a crucial victory.
With the joy of victory, the Longteng team returned to Jiangcheng, ready to face the next AFC Champions League game, this time the opponent is Buriram United, which is similar to Guangzhou Evergrande Thai giants - the rise time is short, excellent results, and in the AFC Champions League is also getting stronger step by step, in the history of Guangzhou R&F lost 1-2 to them at their home stadium, and the away game was beaten a 5-0, losing face.
Despite being just a Thai team, Buriram United have not been bad against Chinese Super League teams, having beaten Guangzhou Evergrande away in the 2012 AFC Champions League and finishing second in the 2013 AFC Champions League ahead of Jiangsu Shuntian and Sendai Tanabata. In the subsequent quarter-finals, Buriram United knocked out Uzbekistan's powerhouse Benyudko, but were eliminated by Tehran in the quarter-finals and reached the quarter-finals, which has already set the best result for a Thai team to participate in the AFC Champions League.
In last year's AFC Champions League group, they were in a group with Shandong Luneng, with a score of 1:1 away and 1:0 at home to remain unbeaten, so it can be said that the Chinese Super League team is more like a weaker in front of them.
This is a typical Southeast Asian team, the players have a certain personal ability, passing and receiving the ball is relatively fast, plus there are more than 12 Thai internationals in the team, and it is even more obvious in the face of the Chinese Super League team with rough footwork, but the team's weakness is also more obvious, that is, the players are thin and short, and the defense of high-altitude balls is not effective.
Before the game, Zhang Sheng solemnly mentioned to the players that this team should not be taken lightly, but when it came to the game, he still found that his pre-match warning was not in-depth enough, because shortly after the opening, Buriram United took advantage of the attitude of the Longteng players to score a goal.
After taking the lead, Buriram United was very smart, and immediately retreated across the board, not giving the Longteng team a chance to counterattack, Zhang Sheng stood on the sidelines and saw that the players who were attacking with all their strength have not been able to get back the score, and their faces were black all the time.
At halftime, Zhang Sheng criticized the players who played messily one by one, and in the last game, Zhang Sheng felt that his players had matured after a year of the AFC Champions League, and in a blink of an eye, these players got carried away.
He told the players with his attitude that he was very dissatisfied, because his pre-game advice and reminders became the wind in his ears.
After the batch of players, they also drank water and wiped their sweat carefully, for fear that any big move would make Zhang Sheng's temper explode, and the atmosphere in the locker room was very depressing for a while.
As the captain of the team, Lin Feng lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, and it wasn't until the end of the halftime that he stood up and said: "Coach, I'm sorry, look at us in the second half, it's not as good as our goal." β
Zhang Sheng "snorted" and did not answer, in fact, the pre-game tactics had been arranged very carefully, and there was nothing to say at all.
After the start of the second half, Lin Feng's attack changed, he was no longer obsessed with attacking from the middle, but after pulling away the opponent's side defense, he frequently crossed the bottom, and finally in the 58th minute, Lu Zhihui, who assisted to the front, knocked on the opponent's door with his header.
After the goal, the mentality of the Longteng team eased a lot, and Zhang Sheng also began to adjust the players, replacing Nie Jiang, who was not too good, with Zou Weijia, and his attitude towards playing high ball was very clear.
Sure enough, this substitution worked, Zou Weijia, who is 1.88 meters tall, has a strong body and has strong header ability, scored a header from a corner kick in the 67th minute, and the situation was finally reversed.
In the rest of the game, the technique was no worse than that of the opponent, and the stronger Dragons were in complete control of the situation on the field, and in the final stages of the game, Pato scored another header to completely kill the game.
With the Longteng team finishing the game with a score of 3:1, they firmly occupied the top position of the group after two consecutive wins in the group stage, making a good start for the upcoming Chinese Super League.
After entering March, the pace of the 2015 season of the Chinese Super League is getting closer and closer, Zhang Sheng took the Longteng team to make the final preparations before the season, because the league is imminent, the team did not carry out a large amount of training, but mainly adaptive training, Zhang Sheng also opened the system, ready to check the attributes of himself and the players before the season, and then according to their own tactics, determine the final main lineup of the season, and also made a pre-season call.
At the end of last season, Zhang Sheng did not upgrade the system because of the team's average results, and all the summoning conditions for this season have not changed, and the summoning points and winning streaks left over from last season have been retained until now.
According to the system's summoning conditions, after playing the match with Buriram United, Zhang Sheng gained 160 points and also achieved the summoning conditions of 5 consecutive wins, and before the start of the new season of the Chinese Super League, Zhang Sheng got 2 summons.
Zhang Sheng still put the target of the call on the coach this time, because in this winter, the Longteng Football School has been adjusted and expanded.
First of all, the football school has divided the echelon again, and the echelon planned by the Longteng team is U9, U13 and U17, but as football has become more and more popular in recent years, a large number of parents have begun to send their children to the football school, and it is difficult to meet the usual training and games of the young players with only three echelons.
Now the football school is U9 coaches with 9-12 year old children, U13 coaches with 13-16 year old children, U17 coaches with 17-21 year old young people, in order to make these children and young people more clear, Zhang Sheng and Heiko Fogel decided to add a few more echelons after discussion, and then Longteng Football School will have U9, U11, U13, U15, U17, U19 and above six levels.
Secondly, the Longteng Club has built new branches of football schools in all cities in Hubei Province, which means that the Longteng Club has completed the layout of the youth training echelon in Hubei Province, and then in addition to expanding to the surrounding provinces and cities, it is slowly supplementing or digging deep into the youth training resources in the province.
The adjustment and expansion of the football school has left a huge gap in the club's youth coaches, and Zhang Sheng's call this time is to fill this gap.
The four coaches called this time came very quickly, the day after Zhang Sheng's call was completed, these four coaches came to the club together, these are four very young coaches, they are all graduated from professional sports colleges, and they are all returnees, they have coached youth training in various European countries before, but they have just started their coaching career - just coached in the club's youth training for 2-3 years.
All four coaches are around 28-30 years old, and they are full of career pursuits, and they see it as an opportunity for them to return to China with new European knowledge and coaching experience to help domestic football move forward.
The human resources department of Longteng Club has been tirelessly looking for capable and experienced youth coaches in Europe, and the four coaches are the four coaches entrusted by the employees of the human resources department to the headhunting agency, and then arrange for them to come to the club for interviews.
Zhang Sheng is very satisfied with these four coaches, through talking with them, I can see that they have a lot of knowledge in youth training, and although their youth coaching experience is not long, they have their own ideas and are the kind of people who can flexibly use knowledge.
The arrival of the four of them can greatly improve the talent gap of Longteng Football School, and Haike Fogel, who has been crying to Zhang Sheng about the lack of people, finally smiled, and finally began to breathe a sigh of relief after so many masters came at one time.
After solving the problem of the youth coach, Zhang Sheng began to check his own information and that of the players.
After calling up the system, Zhang Sheng saw a shocking information, that is, the system prompted that the Chinese Super League had been upgraded, and judging from the information prompted by the system, the Chinese Super League has a great improvement in the overall level this time - the average ability value of the Chinese Super League players has increased by 2-3 points, and the average potential value of the Chinese Super League players has increased by 5 points.
When Zhang Sheng took a closer look, it turned out that he had completed the first stage of a long-term task.
Previously, the system girl issued a long-term task to Zhang Sheng--common progress,This task system does not give a complete indicator,But divided into several stages,The first stage of the task is to provide 10 domestic players with an ability value of more than 70 in the Super Leagueγ
Zhang Sheng didn't expect to complete this task before this season, because according to his understanding, there are indeed more than ten domestic players with the ability to go out of the Longteng team with more than 70 abilities, but including Li Yun, Qin Minghao, Xu Mingyu and Ding Huaiyi all went to Europe to stay in the United States and did not stay in China, but he didn't expect the system to still prompt him to complete the task.
Zhang Shenghe asked the system girl strangely: "Is this a benefit?
The system girl patiently explained to Zhang Sheng: "The overall strength of the Chinese Super League is not only that you send players to other Chinese Super League teams, as long as you send players, whether they are sent to China or abroad, it is to improve the influence of the Chinese Super League." Selling to domestic clubs is to directly improve the level of other teams in the Chinese Super League, but if you send players to Europe, once they recognize the level of Chinese players, and let European clubs know the level of Chinese players, they will keep an eye on domestic players, so that players have more possibilities to play in Europe, which stimulates their performance, for example, Zhang Linpeng of Guangzhou Evergrande is not going to Europe this time, and there are European teams really buying him. How could this happen without you sending players to Europe. β
"So what's going on with the increase in the average potential of the players?" Zhang Sheng asked curiously.
This time, the system girl seems to have become an empathetic confidant sister, and she knows everything and says everything: "Isn't this normal? Do you think Chinese players are really so unsuitable for playing? Now most of the Chinese Super League players have a comprehensive ability index of less than 70, the players who have the ability to be selected for the national team are about 70, the main force of the national team is more than 70, and there are so many core players who are 74-75, and this ability index is basically unable to play in the teams of the five major European leagues. I don't think you think that these players only have this little potential, they just play at a low level for a long time, and their potential is depressed a lot, and now the overall level of play has improved, and the potential value is slowly recovering. β