Urawa Red Diamonds, even if they have the strength of the top teams in the J-League and the depth of the bench is thick enough, they are still in the category of Asian teams.

In the sixth minute of the first half, the two forwards of the Longteng team, Chavez and Nie Jiang, plus Ben Alpha and Qi Ming on the left, formed a pressure on the right side of Urawa Red Diamonds.

In the face of the layered pressing and snare of up to four players of the Dragons, their right central defender Ryota Moriwa made a mistake, and in order to avoid Chavez's pressing, he had too much power when he handed the ball to Takuya Aoki, and the ball went out of bounds.

After the throw-in was thrown, Ryota Morawaki and Chavez lost the confrontation, and the latter's header was rubbed against Ben Alpha who cut in from the side to the middle.

After Ben Alpha got the ball, a simple change of direction acceleration broke through the defense of Urawa Red Diamonds in front of the penalty area, and then Ben Alpha and Nie Jiang's one-two combination broke through Urawa Red Diamonds' backline, the former in the face of the Japanese international Shusaku Nishikawa saved, with the inside of the foot in the far corner of the shot successful, the score became 1:0.

This is a perfect embodiment of Zhang Sheng's tactics this season, the front court pressure leads to the opponent's mistakes, and the subsequent attack is simple and efficient, allowing the players to choose the most threatening attacking method, can burst on, can pass on the pass, and finally Ben Alpha solved the battle with his superhuman individual ability.

After the goal, Ben Arfa ran to the sideline with a proud look on his face and patted his chest, which meant very clearly - I am the strongest.

"Ben Alpha is in such hot form. Liu Jiayuan, who was in charge of commenting the game, praised: "Four goals in two rounds of the Chinese Super League, including a hat trick, two goals in the Super Cup, three goals in the first two games of the AFC Champions League, and now the third game to help the team break the deadlock, such a goal efficiency is simply appalling." ”

"After Pato left, many people speculated that Ben Arfa would play more difficult without anyone to help him up front, but I didn't expect him to explode completely. Liu Jiayuan could only sigh that the reinforcement of the Longteng team was too cost-effective.

The outside speculation is actually reasonable, Pato's departure did reduce the Dragons' frontcourt explosion, but Pato's departure to Chelsea also stimulated Ben Alpha even more.

As an unruly genius, Ben Alpha is basically unconvinced, when Pato was there before, although he didn't say anything on the surface, after all, Pato's qualifications are deeper than him, and he is not good to compete with Pato for the status of the team's number one star, but he has always compared Pato with himself in his heart.

Now that Pato is on the radar of the Premier League giants, Ben Alfa's mind comes alive: "You can be looked at by the Premier League team, why can't I, I've played in the Premier League before." ”

Thinking of the promise that Zhang Sheng had made when he bought him from the Premier League - that European teams would not be obstructed as long as the price was right, Ben Alfa felt that he should use his actual performance to tell Zhang Sheng: "I am also qualified to return to Europe and play in the Premier League!"

Gradually returning to the peak of ability and state, the extremely high heart made Ben Alpha completely explode.

Of course, Zhang Sheng's current tactics of frantically investing in the attack have indeed given Ben Alfa more opportunities to participate in the attack, and the chances of scoring goals have increased accordingly.

In response to Ben Alpha's arrogant celebration, it was Zhang Sheng who gave him a thumbs up.

After the goal, the Longteng team pressed even more crazy, and Urawa Red Diamonds completely fell into passivity.

In the eighth minute of the first half, the pressure of the Longteng team led to an offensive mistake on the side of Urawa Red Diamonds, this time it was central defender Tomoaki Makino who was eager to attack, and when he broke through with the ball himself, he was interfered by Tao Wentao and was cut off by Nie Jiang, who came back from the front line.

The combination of Urawa Red Diamonds' three main central defenders Tomoaki Makino, Ryota Moriwaki and Hiroshi Endo is more interesting, among the three, Ryota Moriwa is a fullback, and Hiroshi Endo is actually a central midfielder as the core player of the Japanese Olympic team, and Tomoaki Makino, the only orthodox defender on the defensive line, is still a very keen attacking central defender.

Among them, Tomoaki Makino is the most special, because simply making him a central defender who likes to attack is not enough to describe his characteristics, he is really a "striker" - offensive and scoring ability is the best among defenders, in Urawa in recent years, an average of 5 goals a season, and his way of scoring goals is not the traditional central defender with a header in the penalty area or a long shot and set-piece outside the penalty area to complete, he is more of a teammate to cooperate with the penalty area, into the penalty area with his feet to get shots.

So he asks the club for the number 10 shirt every year, and of course, every time he asks for this request, the club will refuse it at the first time.

In this game, the formation of the Longteng team also gave Makino Tomozhang the conditions to insert the attack, because speaking of the Longteng team, it was 3-5-2, but among the two forwards, Nie Jiang was more behind Chavez, in the form of a shadow striker, which led to the three central defenders on the side of Urawa Red Diamonds only defending Chavez It seemed too wasteful, and Petrovic also asked Makino Tomoaki to participate more in the attack before the game.

It's just that Petrovic's idea is very good, but the tactical arrangement is really too monotonous, he is extremely keen on short pass advancement, never tries long passes, and arranges a rare high school striker like Ljubiyankic in the forward line but does not use it, such an offensive method from the back to the front through passing to layer by layer, encountering the mad dog version of the Longteng team This version of the pressing play is extremely disadvantageous.

Makino Tomoaki's attack this time is exactly like this, if he chooses a big foot to drive to the front court to find Lyubyankic, and then go back to Yuki Muto or Aoki Takuya to counterattack, the effect will be better, but he is wrapped in the pass at his feet, and the result is that he is cut off by the Longteng team who arranged a large number of "defensive forwards" and "defensive fronts" in the midfield.

The Longteng team, which successfully broke the ball, launched an attack by Nie Jiang in the midfield, and seeing that Ben Alpha was being targeted by the opponent very deadly, Nie Jiang chose to pass the ball to Xiang Tiange, who assisted on the right.

At the same time as Xiang Tiange took the ball, Takuya Aoki on the side of Urawa Red Diamond followed, and after Xiang Tiange feigned a pass, he suddenly accelerated to start.

Xiang Tiange, who had just been selected for the national team, looked extremely confident, and he resisted the interference of Takuya Aoki in his high-speed dribbling, and then shook off the opponent.

From the competition between these two people, it is not difficult to see some differences between the Chinese and Japanese club selection, the most important thing in the selection of Japanese clubs is the player's foot skills, running perception, the basic skills of passing and receiving the ball, so the physical fitness requirements of the players do not care much, Aoki Takuya to be a midfielder who has just reached 1.8 meters, the weight is not heavy, and the speed is not fast, if it is in China, it is impossible to enter the top club of the Chinese Super League to play the main force, and in Japan, he is a matter of course to get a main position。

And Xiang Tiange is completely the opposite, don't look at him is only eighteen years old, his height, weight, and speed are extremely good, now his height has reached one meter eighty-three, and his weight is seventy-four kilograms.

In addition, in recent years, China's domestic football has always had a tradition of choosing tall and fast players, although there are a bunch of "rough brothers" on the field with clumsy bodies and rough skills under their feet, but once the training is good, it is still very promising, especially in the face of Japanese players.

The selection of players is related to the basis of the selection of materials in China, Japan and South Korea.

In fact, when it comes to the average height of young people, there have been rumors on the Internet that China is the shortest among the three countries in East Asia, China, Japan and South Korea, among which Wu Zhengxian, a deputy to the National People's Congress and the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, claimed as early as 2014: "In recent years, South Korea ranks 18th in the world's average male height, with an average height of 1.74 meters, Japan ranks 29th, with an average height of 1.707 meters, and Chinese men rank 32nd with an average height of 1.697 meters." Chinese boys between the ages of 7 and 17 are on average 2.54 centimeters shorter than their Japanese counterparts. ”

Carefully study his words, tracing back to the source is just three no information on the Internet, and as early as 2006 or even earlier flooded the Internet, in fact, people with a little IQ can distinguish the fallacy of this information, not to mention those countries in North and South America and Africa, there are 45 countries and regions in Europe alone, how can South Korea He De be ranked 18th, higher than the average height of young people in so many countries in Europe?

In October 2010, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences' Youth Research Institute, Japan Youth Research Institute and Korea Youth Research Institute jointly conducted a survey on the physical and mental health of high school students in the three countries, with a sample of 1,280 students from 10 high schools in Beijing, Shanghai, Ningxia, Liaoning, Shaanxi and Hunan, 1,113 in Japan and 3,933 in South Korea, with a roughly equal ratio of male and female students.

It was concluded that the average height of Chinese high school students is the highest - 168.17 cm, Korean high school students - 167.61 cm, and Japanese high school students - 164.70 cm. The average weight of high school students in China is 58.19 kg, in South Korea it is 59.26 kg, and in Japan it is 56.18 kg.

From this conclusion, it is easy to see why Japan should choose flexible, technical players, because they are really disadvantaged in terms of size compared to China and South Korea, let alone teams in Europe, America and Africa.

In addition to China's good foundation, there is also a more powerful point - a large number of young people, so it is completely able to take into account the physical conditions, select players with good flexibility and good talent, of course, this is under the premise that young people are willing to play, young people's families agree to him to play, and the selection of clubs and relevant departments is scientific.

It's even more different when it comes to Zhang Sheng, most of the systems choose players with both body and talent, which saves Zhang Sheng a lot of troubles.

Specific to this game, the confrontation between Xiang Tiange and Aoki Takuya is the true performance of the physical confrontation between high-level players in China and Japan.

Xiang Tiange, who got the space to sprint, only took two steps to the ball, and the opponent's back Yuki Abe rushed over, facing the "old iron man" who had played in the Premier League, but had passed his prime, Xiang Tiange did not take the ball more, but directly handed a cross to Chavez in the penalty area.

Xiang Tiange's operation was something that Zhang Sheng had firmly told him before the game.

Abe Yuki was good in attack and defense when he was young, and he had the ability to head the ball, and at the same time the ball style was tough, and he couldn't get off the line of fire with minor injuries, although he is now almost 35 years old, and his ability to score goals and assists has degraded to nothing, but his interception and sweeping ability in the midfield is still very strong, Zhang Sheng has always emphasized before the game that he should not be entangled with him more in the midfield, and it is the wisest choice to be able to quickly cross the bottom.

When Xiang Tiange's pass found Chavez, the latter easily crushed Endo, who was only 1.76 meters tall, and a beautiful header rushed to the door of Urawa Red Diamonds.

Fortunately, although Nishikawa Shusaku is short, his reaction and bounce ability are first-class, and in the face of the high-speed flying ball, he jumped diagonally upward, and lifted the ball off the crossbar with his hand, and Urawa Red Diamond escaped.

Seeing the Longteng team suppressing their team so frantically, Petrovic was so anxious on the sidelines, he waved his hand vigorously to let his players concentrate and show their fighting spirit, but then the corner kick of the Longteng team made Urawa Red Diamonds scare a cold sweat, Chavez was like a monster in the penalty area, and the whole person was completely pressed on the body of Tomoaki Makino and completely hit the goal, but this time the header was a little off the line and flew directly out of the bottom line.

Urawa Red Diamonds, who got the ball, were also afraid of the pressure of the Longteng team, and after kicking off again, they had to pour ten kicks in the backfield before they started to attack when the Longteng team felt that the formation was pressed too high and retracted a little.

It has to be said that the outside world's comments on Petrovic are on point - he is a master tactician in the 3-6-1 formation, but he does not know how to be flexible, and has been playing this formation to the point of being stubborn.

Although their usual style of play is more inclined to play fierce scrambles in the midfield, and then carry out short pass penetration to attack, and do not focus on possession but tend to attack, it seems to be better than those teams in Japan who pursue passing to the opponent's goal, but now the situation is completely different, Urawa Red Diamonds have been suppressed almost past halftime, and they still want to advance to the backfield of the Longteng team through positional attack.

Such a situation is what Zhang Sheng is most willing to see.

In the twentieth minute of the first half, Urawa Red Diamonds took this tactic to the extreme, with six players in their midfield plus a striker, forcing the Dragons to pass eleven good shots in a row, and there were two consecutive one-two combinations, and in the end it was only for Lyubyankic to do it back on the penalty line, and Yuki Muto came with a long shot from outside the penalty area, which was saved by Huang Dawei.

It can be seen from their attack this time that the defensive formation of the Longteng team is stable, the two wingbacks are recovered in time, and the Urawa Red Diamonds cannot penetrate the defense of the Longteng team, and the area of the goal can only be outside the penalty area, and the threat to the goal is far less than that of the Longteng team who shoots in the penalty area.

And such a precise pass under the pressure and the flash of inspiration on the field of the wonderful pass is at most a continuous two-to-one outside the 30-meter defensive area of the Longteng team, with the defensive ability of the Longteng team, it is still far from the goal, not to mention how many times can such a wonderful pass be played in a game.