However, in Zhang Sheng's view, Kawasaki Frontale's goal was just an accident, in addition to Zhou Wei's lack of experience, Renato could not give such a good free kick every time, and the defenders of the Longteng team would no longer give the opponent such a good free kick opportunity. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sure enough, after Zhang Sheng told the players on the field to minimize foul actions, it was difficult for Kawasaki Frontale to get good free kick opportunities in the backcourt of the Longteng team.

After that, the game between the two sides entered a situation of parity again, and both began to strangle in the midfield. As time goes by, Kawasaki Frontale's games are getting harder and harder, which is related to the fact that Kawasaki Frontale's core players are generally older.

The three players in Kawasaki Frontale's central axis, Junichi Inamoto in 1979, Kenyoshi Nakamura in 1980, and Yoshito Okubo the youngest in 1982, means that they are generally over 30 years old. Even their two centre-backs, Yusuke Kawai and Brazilian foreign player Jesse, were both from 1982 and 1980. If you play in the J League, because the J League is very strict on physical contact, the physical confrontation is slightly better, and the physical fitness can also play the whole game, once it comes to a high-confrontation game like the AFC Champions League, and then when they meet a team like Longteng that focuses on young players and plays pass control, their physical fitness will be difficult to sustain.

Hachihiro Kazama had to replace Kenyoshi Nakamura and Yoshito Okubo in succession after only 30 minutes in the second half, because they couldn't run, and as a Japanese team that mainly runs, once the players can't run, then the tactics will be completely wasted.

The departure of Kenyoshi Nakamura and Yoshito Okubo made Kawasaki Frontale's offense even more weak, Kenyoshi Nakamura's departure made Kawasaki Frontale have no point of play in the midfield, and Yoshito Okubo made Kawasaki Frontale's attacking power greatly reduced, and Kawasaki Frontale as a Japanese team had to play defensive counterattack tactics, and it was an ugly defensive counterattack tactic in the backcourt.

Faced with this situation, the Japanese commentator also began to criticize Kawasaki Frontale's performance: "Facing a promoted polo team in the Chinese Super League, as the third place in the J-League last season, it was really a shame for Japanese football to be pressed in the half to play a counterattack at their home stadium." ”

However, it has to do with the general environment of Japanese football. In Japan, there are a lot of players staying abroad, and some players who can play well will stay abroad, because of the excellent performance of Japanese players in the European arena, and European teams are also easy to accept Japanese players, so this has prompted a large number of Japanese players to go abroad.

In fact, there are other reasons for Japanese players to go abroad, and the biggest reason is the low salary.

Taking baseball as an example, baseball in Japan exists as the national sport of Japan just like table tennis in China, and can receive subsidies from the state, so the development of baseball in Japan is far better than football. The income of professional players in Japan is only about 30% of that of baseball players, which also makes baseball a popular sport in Japan, so the selection of Japanese players is also the priority of baseball, and then football.

Moreover, there is an unspoken rule in the Japanese football world that seems strange to foreigners, and this is also the unspoken rule of the entire Japanese society - pay attention to the sequence of seniority. Until now, Japanese football, like other companies in Japan, has a salary that is not determined by the strength of the player, but by the number of years he has been with the club. The young players who join the team, even if they are the main international players, will receive an annual salary of 7 million at most, and the average player is only 4.8 million. And the ones who take the most money are the old players. And some international students work in Japan, if they are willing to endure hardship, then it is possible to earn 4.8 million a month. The income of a soccer player is comparable to that of an international student who works part-time jobs, which really does not make Japanese players unhappy.

This leads to one thing, on the one hand, the club needs to support those old guys who have an annual salary of hundreds of millions, but they can't play football, and at the same time, because of their commercial contracts, they have to be given playing time. On the other hand, the talented young players are used as the backbone of the team for a very low salary. In such a situation, there is a very unique thing, that is, the average age of retirement of Japanese J League players has reached 25 years old. Because Japan's seniority sequence is a social phenomenon, players have to start from scratch when they retire to work in other companies, and more and more people would rather retire early to do other jobs to survive the years, which also makes many talented people leave the stadium early.

That's why a lot of J-League teams have a bunch of old players or players who can't play and come back, and still play the main team, such as the three players above the Kawasaki Frontale center axis.

After replacing these three players, although the strength of Kawasaki Frontale has decreased a lot, the Longteng team has also not played safely because of the cooperation of the players, resulting in frequent mistakes in the frontcourt, and at the same time, such a high-paced game has also caused physical problems for the players. Zhang Sheng also began to replace, using Tao Wentao to replace Lin Feng and Xiao Yunfan with Shu Jun one after another.

Two successive substitutions in the backfield also allowed Kawasaki Frontale to find an opportunity to attack again, and Yu Kobayashi and Renato in the front court, plus the replaced striker North Korean foreign player Ahn Jong Jun began to attack the backfield of the Longteng team one after another. At this time, Kawasaki Frontale, as a veteran of the AFC Champions League, reflected the role of experience. After a few veterans went down, it was these young players who made the game better, and they took advantage of the sequelae of the lack of physical fitness after the Longteng team ran crazy to keep up with the rhythm of the AFC Champions League, and came to several high-quality shots in a row.

Fortunately, Zhou Wei made a mistake at the beginning, and then performed very well, he saved these threatening shots in a row, and maintained the score at 1:1.

Especially in the final minutes of the game, the Japanese team used their favorite tactic - a wave of onslaught in the final period to put the Dragons in front of goal in danger, and the Dragons had to shrink the entire formation back and completely defend.

In the face of this situation, Zhang Sheng couldn't help but shake his head, he and the players are still inexperienced, in the first half in order to keep up with the rhythm of the opponent's game, a lot of running consumed a lot of physical energy, and in the second half, in the lead, he did not take the opportunity to master the rhythm of the field, or continued to attack, and now the physical fitness of the players is generally unable to keep up. It's about their own tactical set-up and the players' own experience of how they distribute their fitness in the AFC Champions League.

Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff began to keep jotting down these weaknesses in their notebooks and correcting them when they returned.

In the end, the Longteng team also relied on the players' united defense to keep the score at 1:1, and the Longteng team also got the first point of the first AFC Champions League.

For this draw, the domestic media generally believe that the Longteng team played a bit of a pity, after all, the Longteng team once had a good hope of winning the game, and the Kawasaki Frontale only relied on a set-piece to pull back a point.

Japan's media is to Kawasaki Frontale criticized, a J League third team in their home stadium was actually a Super League promotion horse once pressed to the backfield to play ugly defensive counterattack, which makes Japanese football embarrassed, if the opponent is Guangzhou Evergrande, then it is understandable to be pressed to play, after all, Guangzhou Evergrande is the Chinese Super League hegemon, and in the face of the Japanese team, it has been very beautiful. Of course, the most they mentioned was Pato, who believed that it was because of the explosion of the Longteng team that all the stars like Pato would join in with a multimillion-euro level, and this game was the only goal scored by Pato for the Longteng team.

In the end, Japan exclaimed: "Another Guangzhou Evergrande is coming, everyone be careful." ”

However, Zhang Sheng, who returned to China, did not pay attention to these things, and he was summarizing some of the problems exposed in this game with the coaching staff.

The first is the position of Pato, from the point of view of this game, Pato if he is a person at the front, he really can't exert his power 100%. As a player who is not a stumping centre-forward, it is not his style to have him take the ball with his back up front and then turn around to shoot or play for his teammates.

Because when he was at AC Milan before, he played in this position. At the beginning, in order to strengthen his ability to fight in this position, Milan gave him a lot of muscle training to increase his muscle strength, but unfortunately this practice not only made Pato lose his previous ethereal aura, but also led to his constant injuries, coupled with Pato's own self-disciplined behavior, his performance in this position can be described as deteriorating, in his last season in Milan he only scored 1 goal in 10 appearances, which is one of the reasons why he was sold in Milan.

Pato, who returned to Corinthians, began to try to change, and Pato's position began to drop back and play on the flanks, mainly on the left wing, which also reinvigorated Pato's energy. According to the data given by the authoritative rating website Whoscored, Zhang Sheng can see that Pato's rating was only 6.63 when playing center, and after switching to left midfielder, Pato's rating soared to 7.79, and his performance almost made a qualitative leap. It's a pity that Corinthians put more pressure on him, hoping that he can lead the team to good results, and he has just returned to Brazil from Europe without this confidence and ability, which is why the Dragons can take advantage of this opportunity to buy him, if it is a season or two later, Corinthians will definitely keep him and let him go back to Europe to make a lot of money. (To be continued.) )