In real history, Boas's attitude of preparing to abandon Wu Lei and put him on the shelf is obvious, and his contempt and misuse of Wu Lei once greatly affected Wu Lei's confidence in playing football.

Fortunately, Xie Hui, as an assistant coach, has stayed abroad, and he has strong communication skills, so he bluntly said that he can not use Oscar, but Wu Lei must be reused. Because, Oscar's type of player, SIPG can solve it with money - don't worry about not being able to buy it, isn't it just throwing money, but a local iconic player like Wu Lei, who else can you use if you don't need it? Once Wu Lei is not trusted, his state and ability decline, then, if SIPG wants to find a player with the same ability as Wu Lei in the local area, don't even think about it.

In the end, Wu Lei's better and better performance slowly conquered Boas and secured the position of the core player.

The same encounter with Wu Lei is the veteran Yu Hai, he can't look down on Yu Hai, resulting in Yu Hai at the beginning of the season in Shanghai Port almost no ball to play and was abandoned, unfortunately Yu Hai did not have Xie Hui to ease it, fortunately Yu Hai has not given up, the attitude and level of training is very good, and then the team is short of manpower, Yu Hai seized the opportunity to have a place, Boas also recognized Yu Hai's ability.

In addition to these conflicts with clubs and players, Villas-Boas is more troublesome about his conflicts with the official Football Association.

As a former disciple of Mourinho, provoking officials seems to have become a passive skill. Historically, in just one season in charge of SIPG, Boas has been banned three times a year and fined four times.

For the first time, after the match with Guangzhou R&F, Boas supported Oscar on INS and was banned by the Football Association for 2 games.

The second time, the FA Cup, after the match with Tianjin Quanjian, Boas was again banned for 2 FA Cup games for "inappropriate remarks".

The third time, against Beijing Guoan, Boas was suspected of counting money to the referee before being sent to the stands, and was fined 4 games of the Chinese Super League + 4 games held by the Football Association next season, which not only means the end of Boas's 2017 Chinese Super League, but also the arrears of next season.

The last time, perhaps because he felt that it was no longer challenging to scare the Chinese Football Association, Boas took aim at a higher-level opponent, the AFC. In the AFC Champions League, after the AFC Champions League and Guangzhou Heng match, Boas was dissatisfied with the team's bizarre bus accident 5 times, angrily denounced "we are facing a team that controls the AFC", and was fined $14,000 by the AFC, but the game was suspended.

In the end, SIPG failed to renew the contract with Boas, in addition to Boas to realize his racing dream at the age of 40 and compete in Dakar, it is a very important reason to look down on the Chinese Super League, look down on the Chinese Football Association, and even despise the entire Asian football.

But realistically speaking, Boas is really the first person sent to the Chinese Super League by the mainstream top coaches in European football, and it also makes Chinese football once again connect with the trend of European first-line technology and tactics, he has won 7 titles in Porto and Zenit St. Petersburg, and was awarded the Premier League Coach of the Month twice when he coached Tottenham, and is the youngest champion coach in the history of the Europa League.

And it must be admitted that Chelsea's 2012 Champions League triumph was due to Villas-Boas, who gave Mata and others the best running plan on the basis of the original team committee when he left class, which benefited Di Matteo and others too much. Then Tottenham's Bale and Modric were promoted to world-class stars, and Boas also contributed to it.

Its capabilities are obvious to all.

Under the leadership of Boas, the current Shanghai SIPG is fighting on three fronts, not a single line has been left behind, not to mention the FA Cup, the AFC Champions League is also successfully qualified, with five wins, two draws and one loss in eight rounds in the league, only five points less than the first-ranked Longteng team, and one point less than the second-ranked Guangzhou Evergrande.

In daily training, Villas-Boas is recognized by SIPG as the coach hired by the club over the years, with the richest content, the highest level, and the most acceptable to the players. His grasp of tactical details and the ease of acceptance of the design of tactics is also the best, from the two months he led the team, it seems that the switch from three back to four back this old and difficult problem in the Super League has been done very well by him, it can be said that the Super League in addition to the Longteng team, another team with many tactical changes;

After Boas's training during this time, Wu Lei, who was already better developed than in history, has become more and more powerful, not only him, but also Yan Shuai, Wang Liange, Fu Metro, and He Xi have also made great progress.

Before the game, Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff made a very detailed analysis of Boas's tactics.

Last year's SIPG, under the leadership of Eriksen, dominated the game more through pass control, and the team put a lot of emphasis on attacking opponents through wings and low crosses. At that time, the team had Conca in the midfield, and a top center forward in the Chinese Super League such as Elkeson as the forward arrow, which was understandable, but Boas, after taking over the team, used Hulk as the attacking core to carry out his favorite high pressing tactics. In the game, it does not blindly emphasize suppressing the opponent through high possession, but adopts a targeted strategy to lure the enemy deep to create space for the team's attacking players to quickly counterattack. It can be said that in the tactical setting, Boas prefers to use the individual ability of the star to complete the ball rather than passing, the advantage of this style of play is that it is more direct and fast, but the disadvantage is that it is more dependent on the individual play of the star.

If you only look at Boas's new tactics from the aspect of employing people, it will give people the illusion that who will not rely on foreign aid tactics, but on the whole, you will find that Boas's SIPG team has two biggest improvements from before.

One is the versatility and mastery of tactical details, which is very similar to that of the Dragons. SIPG has been stubbornly picking out the details in tactics this season, and it is rare that there will be no ability to be flexible when it encounters a targeted style of play. At least from this point, it can be seen that Boas's team is really strong, which is in line with the goal of the Longteng coaching staff's pursuit of refined tactics.

The second is to bring the rhythm of the European arena to SIPG. The previous Chinese Super League, in terms of strength, on paper strength can be compared with the Longteng team is not only Guangzhou Evergrande, but also Shanghai SIPG, and even Huaxia Happiness and Beijing Guoan are not much worse than the Longteng team, but when it comes to the rhythm of the game, the Longteng team can be said to be who is left to me.

The Longteng team, which is based on young players, often likes and is good at taking the initiative to improve the rhythm of the game and use their physical strength to drag down the opponent under the deliberate arrangement of the Longteng team's coaching staff.

With the arrival of Villas-Boas, there is now another high-tempo Chinese Super League team - Shanghai SIPG.

For example, in the AFC Champions League, Shanghai SIPG's opponent mentioned this matter.

Urawa Red Diamonds head coach commented after the defeat to SIPG: "They are very organised and aggressive up front, and they are very effective. The sense of pressure in the transition between attack and defense is very strong, the tactical literacy of the players is very high, and the execution is very good, and they have a lot of high-level attackers in the frontcourt. ”

It can be said that Petrovic's speech accurately and comprehensively summarizes the SIPG team since the season.

In the face of SIPG's style of play, the tactics adopted by the Longteng team are extremely targeted, that is, to see the two foreign aides in their front court, especially Hulk, who is closer to the goal, and force him to dribble the ball, as for Oscar, just don't let him pass the ball to Hulk.

For Boas's self-defeating martial arts and not letting Elkeson play, the Dragons felt too lucky.

Therefore, the Longteng team adjusted the formation from 3-5-2 to 4-4-2 to match the 4-2-3-1 of Shanghai SIPG.

Considering Hulk's overly strong body, the Longteng team arranged for Zhang Hao, who was also physically powerful, to use his running and interception ability to be responsible for stifling SIPG's attack in the midfield.

In other positions, the Longteng team is all the main players, and it has returned to the long-lost three-foreign aid system.

Lou Yicheng and Liu Yue, who were in charge of commentating the game, also noticed the start of the Longteng team.

"The Longteng team has returned to the long-lost 4-4-2.Judging from today's arrangement, the hardness of the midfield has been significantly strengthened, and Zhang Hao's appearance is a clear signal. Lou Yicheng said quickly when he introduced the starting lineups of the two sides after the start of the game.

Hulk's long-range shot went wide, but it was powerful enough. Liu Yue, who was always paying attention to the situation on the field, interrupted Lou Yicheng's introduction, "There was a kick at the beginning." Although it is the home of the Longteng team, SIPG obviously has no intention of showing weakness. ”

"SIPG have been in good form this season, and it is their goal to challenge the Chinese Super League supremacy. Lou Yicheng was obviously convinced of the strength of the Longteng team in the Chinese Super League, and pulled the words back to the beginning, "Just before Hulk shot, he carried Zhang Hao, but he didn't carry it, so he chose to shoot from a distance." This is too rare in the midfield, and there are really few domestic players who can use their bodies to resist Hulk. ”

After Shanghai SIPG chose a shot on goal at the kick-off, the game quickly entered the rhythm of the Longteng team.

Unlike the previous Longteng team's double center forward, there was always one who would be in front of the pile, and the Longteng team's double center retreated particularly deeply in this game, whether it was Nie Jiang, who was used to receiving in the midfield, or Chavez, who was more forward, the two were not just robbing each other's defenders in the front court.

The four men in midfield are also different from the diamond-shaped positions that are common in the Super League, maintaining a parallel position, as are the four defenders, who are very close to the midfield.

The distance between the three lines of the Longteng team is so close that it is beyond the expectations of SIPG.

Under normal circumstances, if a team is too close on three lines, they will often be penalized on the pitch – the length and width of the pitch will not narrow with your formation, and the opposition can make the most of the gaps behind you and the open space on the flanks.

But the Dragons relied on several means to close the hole.

In the defense arranged by Zhang Sheng, defense is never an isolated task of a single player, but is always divided into two groups: pressers (assistant defense) and tacklers (interceptions), and the opponent's dribbling rhythm, passing vision and route are destroyed through pressing, and then the tackler goes up to make the final decision. Even if the break fails, the breaker immediately becomes the pressor, chasing the pressure on the spot, and his teammates will immediately turn into tacklers and start a new round of defense.

The emphasis on parallel positioning also makes SIPG's attack fall into the trap of offside many times; the pressing in the front court interferes with the accuracy of the opponent's long pass behind the long pass; keeps the middle lane open, increasing the difficulty of the opponent's straight plug, and the horizontal formation is tight.

Keep moving as a whole while defending. Due to the lateral tightening of the defensive line, it is inevitable to leave gaps on both flanks that the opponent can exploit. When the opposition splits the ball to the wings and takes advantage of the gaps, the whole team must move over as a whole, rather than being pulled out by isolated full-backs to scramble.

In attack, Fernando on the left and Tao Wentao on the right frequently cut inside to the middle, standing in the forward position to organize the attack, and the width of the attack on the side was handed over to the two wingbacks De Paul and Xiang Tiange to cross.

In this way, the strengths of several players in the Longteng team – Fernando (in training) and Tao Wentao's playmaking skills, De Paul and Xiang Tiange's speed and quality crosses – were put on display.

Seeing such a high-intensity pressing and pressing of the Dragons, Boas, who had followed Mourinho in Serie A, involuntarily resounded in his mind the famous words of the Italian tactician Sachi: "If our forwards and defenders stay within 25 meters, then we are invincible." ”

In the eighth minute of the first half, the Dragons played a beautiful triangle attack in front.

Nie Jiang made a beautiful pass outside the penalty area and accurately found Qi Ming who attacked the penalty area, who obviously knew his team's tactics well, and did not make observations and hesitations, so he made the ball to Fernando, who ran without the ball as the second wave of attacks into the penalty area.

Fernando, who was noticeably quicker than SIPG's defenders, got rid of the defenders around him and put his shot to the test of Yan Shuai, who made a magical save as he leaped up the ball like a spring to lift the ball off the crossbar.

"Fernando's shot. Yan Shuai's save is so beautiful. Shoot beautifully, pounce beautifully. Lou Yicheng shouted loudly, "The moment he started is too critical, the Shanghai Port team defender who has been following him is who, oh, it's Akhmedov, can't keep up at all." ”

Liu Yue traced the attack even further: "But in fact, the initiator of this attack is Nie Jiang. Several players in the front court of the Longteng team, to be honest, have the ability to organize attacks, and it is too difficult for SIPG to defend. Moreover, Zhang Hao's appearance greatly liberated Qi Ming's offensive ability, and he could frequently insert himself into the penalty area. ”

"The defense of the Longteng team is layer by layer, and this offense is also wave after wave, and the suppression of SIPG is too strong. Lou Yicheng analyzed the situation on the field, "The biggest change in the tactics of the Longteng team this season is that the overall formation has become extremely compact. This has strengthened their continuity both defensively and offensively, and SIPG has to find a way. ”

"I think SIPG should play with the speed of the pass. They are now relying too much on Hulk and Oscar. Liu Yue hit the nail on the head and pointed out the current tactical shortcomings of SIPG.

Liu Yue can see that Boas should actually see it, and it depends on how he adjusts.