After playing the match with SIPG, the personnel reserve of the Longteng team came to the limit.

Especially in the position of central defender, Ma Yongli was seriously injured before, Lu Zhihui was suspended with two yellows and one red, Lu Yangyang was three yellows, and Liming was two yellows.

And after the game, Xiang Tiange, Zeng Wang, Wang Xing, Shen Jun, and Peng Langjun all went to report to the national youth team.

On May 19, in the tenth round of the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team scored eight points away, and Quan Jian, Jianye, and Lifan ranked second to last in the league Changchun Yatai.

In order to ensure the AFC Champions League match in the middle of next week, the Longteng team used their limited player resources to make a rotation.

Under the arrangement of the coaching staff, the team continued the tactics of 4-4-2, and Nie Jiang, who scored twice in the last game, and Chavez, who diligently gave Nie Jiang an assist, were all placed on the bench, "youngster" Tang Jin started and played with Fernando as a double striker; Lu Yangyang replaced Lu Zhihui and Liming, who were suspended from the red card, but there were only post-00s players like Chen Yinuo on the bench; at the same time, in the two fullback positions, Cao Jinghao and Huang He were separated, and the former was a left forward cameo left wingback.

In the key midfield, the Longteng team maintained the same configuration as SIPG in the previous game, with the only difference being that De Paul moved from full-back to full-back in the previous game.

For a weak team like Yatai, the Longteng team is very experienced, and it is the most effective way to keep an eye on foreign aid, strengthen frontcourt pressure, control the ball more after scoring, and wait for opportunities to counterattack.

The course of the game was exactly as predicted by the Longteng coaching staff.

At the beginning, Yatai could still rely on physical strength to maneuver with the Longteng team - under the pressure of the Longteng team, the high rate of passing errors relied on more runs to make up for it, but in the second half of the first half, the lack of physical fitness could only allow players to frequently use fouls to interrupt the Longteng team's attack.

After the referee's continuous warnings were useless, they began to take out the cards, and the Yatai players had cards on them, so they could only be timid, and the consequence was that at the end of the first half, the Longteng team relied on Tang Jin's ball and Fernando's shot to break the deadlock.

In the second half, although Yatai's foreign aid made a force, Ighalo's breakthrough made Lu Yangyang eat a yellow card, but with the help of Zhang Hao and Liming, the Longteng team stabilized the defense again, and took advantage of Yatai's eagerness to equalize, and scored a goal by Tang, which was also his first goal in the Chinese Super League.

The 21-year-old striker's excellent performance made the commentator exclaim: "Another good striker." The Dragons are absolutely unthinkable in terms of player reserves. ”

With two goals in hand, and an important game to play four days later, the Longteng team wisely started to play possession-oriented, and the head coach of Yatai on the sidelines also knew that scoring points had become a luxury.

As the Dragons began to make successive substitutions, the formation was more retracted and they concentrated on defensive counterattacks, which meant that the game went into garbage time.

In the end, as expected, the Longteng team was bloodless and easily took three points away from home at the lowest cost.

The coaching staff predetermined the strategic plan.

After returning to Jiangcheng, the coaching staff began the final preparations before the AFC Champions League knockout round.

Go back four weeks to what it was before.

On April 26, the Longteng team defeated Mengtong United away from home and determined the first place in the group, and the entire coaching staff began to run at a high speed, because a day ago, in the corresponding Group G match in the AFC Champions League knockout stage, Guangzhou Evergrande defeated the East away, and Kawasaki Frontale defeated Shuiyuan Samsung away, Evergrande has ensured the first place in the group, and the two opponents of the Longteng team knockout round are determined to choose one of the two in Kawasaki Frontale and Shuiyuan Samsung.

As the leader of the entire coaching team, Zhang Sheng entered the results of the game into the ERP software developed by Jiangsoft Technology for the club on the day of the end of the game.

This software actively calculates points, automatically completes the milestone task of "AFC Champions League group stage" in the season plan, and starts the next stage of the milestone task - "AFC Champions League knockout round", immediately not only in Thailand with the team's coaching staff, including all departments of the domestic coaching staff have also received information pushes in the mobile phone sponsored by Xiaomi - these pushes come from the installed club software App, similarly, this software is also developed by Jiangsoft Technology.

"Ding. Because China is an hour faster than Thailand, Huang Linjia, a video analyst of the Dragon Teng team who had fallen asleep, vaguely heard the sound of the message being pushed by the mobile phone, and after groping around the bedside in the dark for a while, the dazzling screen made him wake up a little.

"It's going to be busy again. Seeing the information pushed by the App, Huang Linjia muttered, put down her phone, and continued to sleep.

Early the next morning, Huang Linjia came to the club's headquarters, logged in to the ERP software, and confirmed the start of the "AFC Champions League knockout" task: "Little Bear, Xiao Wang, let's have a morning meeting." ”

At the morning meeting, Huang Linjia arranged for her two video analyst assistants to prepare all the game footage of Kawasaki Frontale and Shuiyuan Samsung this season.

Most of the content is already in the club's video database, and a few need to be checked with the match videographers hired in South Korea and Japan to send them over.

After collecting all the game footage, Huang Linjia began to analyze the video from the usual lineups of the two teams - including starters and substitutes, the tactical arrangements of the head coach, the details of all effective attacks and effective defenses in each game, the process of obtaining red and yellow cards, and so on.

All of these things are done on the video analysis software developed by Jiangsoft Technology, Huang Linjia and her colleagues only need to move the mouse and keyboard to crop the segmented video they want for each detail, and finally these segmented videos can be edited and spliced at will - including drawing circles, marking arrows, filling in text descriptions, etc.

After completing these contents, Huang Linjia submitted the videos cropped and synthesized by the two teams, as well as her own preliminary analysis of the videos, to another department of the coaching staff, the match analysis department.

Gu Qi, who was in charge of the analysis of the game, took two assistants to analyze the videos and reports submitted by the video analysis department.

"I also need more details about Kawasaki Frontale's away game against Sakura Osaka on April 30, especially the defense of the second goal conceded. In the analysis of the video, Gu Qi contacted Huang Linjia, who happily agreed.

On May 10, the last round of the AFC Champions League group stage ended, and in the Group G game, Guangzhou Evergrande, which had ensured the first place in the group, drew 2:2 with Shuiyuan Samsung, while Kawasaki Frontale defeated the Oriental team by a large score at home.

Under the unintentional resistance of Guangzhou Evergrande, Kawasaki Frontale, which was one point behind Shuiyuan Samsung, was lucky to finish second in the group.

The focus of the AFC Champions League knockout round of the Longteng coaching staff has shifted, and all the resources have been tilted towards Kawasaki Frontale.

In just two days, on May 12, the analysis report of all the head coaches, players, tactics, and recent game content of Kawasaki Frontale summarized by the video analysis team and the game analysis team was submitted to Zhang Sheng.

The report contains more than 30 pages of documentation and more than 500 gigabytes of edited video.

The video analysis team and the match analysis team were a little relieved by the task of the AFC Champions League match against Kawasaki Frontale, and they were on call for the rest of the day, participating in many pre-match tactical and training preparation meetings.

If everyone thinks that Huang Linjia and Gu Qi's tasks are urgent and heavy, and they are the most tiring in the coaching team, then everyone is wrong, because the hardest is the head coach.

Because after Zhang Sheng got these materials, he had to estimate what the opponent's tactics would be and what countermeasures he should take.

One of the simplest examples is how the Dragons should set up their home defense against Kawasaki Frontale.

In this regard, Zhang Sheng and his team should study the habitual tactics and formations of the opposite season, and even the away games in previous seasons, use the recent physical and competitive state of the Kawasaki Frontale players collected, sort which people they may play on according to probability, what different routines different personnel will have, and at the same time, what characteristics they have, what kind of playing style they have, and formulate targeted strategies for each key player.

If you think that this is not difficult to do, after all, there is so much information to refer to and analyze, then the task of the coaching staff is too simple.

As long as it is a qualified coaching staff, they will always do some of the above, and some strong coaching staff can even do it in more detail than the Longteng team.

But how to condense these things into the essence, tell your players in the most simple and understandable way, and practice the corresponding tactics in training is the biggest problem.

It's not hard to see this by following the biographies of Europe's top coaches and their published books.

The biographies of Loew and Benitez have been raised in Mourinho's scouting reports. When faced with a heavyweight game – such as a national derby or a knockout match in Europe – the coaching staff can come up with an overall analysis of hundreds of pages.

The modern professional game is so dense that it would be impossible for you to get all the players to take the time to read the hundreds of pages of reports.

This also takes into account the player's reading ability, literacy level, and so on.

You can't play like football, the so-called "most tactically complex sport in the world", and let players spend time reading tens of thousands of pages of tactical instruction books.

Imagine a player playing for 10 minutes, then running to the sidelines to flip through the report, and then coming back on the pitch to continue playing – it's a ridiculous joke.

Therefore, after the hundreds of pages of reports have been summarized and condensed and tasks have been assigned, each player is often handed over to less than one page or even only two or three sentences, which is by no means a process of pinching the head and removing the tail, but a process of highly condensing the essence.

Take how to defend the king of plum balls as an example.

When the king of the plum ball plays as a right winger, the report may mention his injury situation at the time, the excitement of the game in recent games, the most habitual feints, where he may cut in, which foot he likes to use to hit the goal in which position, how he will play the ball, what are the usual small movements and even micro-expressions before starting the speed sprint, whether to start with the left foot or the right foot first, how the defender should control the distance from him, etc.

But in the end, the A4 paper handed to the team's left-back may only have one sentence on it - prevent the inside cut, if not, foul away from the penalty area, if none of the above methods can be stopped, count on God.

Of course, there will be no word of giving up in the report of the coaching staff of the Longteng team, and it is more about various analyses of the opponent.

As Kawasaki Frontale, nicknamed "the second millennium", although the team has never won the championship, they have always been a strong contender for the championship, or the judge of the J-League league championship.

Last season, Kawasaki Frontale once again finished second in the league and runners-up in the Emperor's Cup.

After many years of grievances, the club finally couldn't bear it anymore, the team's meritorious coach Hachihiro Kazama stepped down, and the "large, medium and small" combination of Kawasaki Frontale, who was prominent in the J League, was also dismantled, and the "big" of them - Yoshito Okubo transferred to the capital team Tokyo FC.

As the all-time goalscorer in the J-League, Yoshito Okubo scored 82 goals in 130 league appearances and 101 goals in 166 games in all competitions during his four years at Kawasaki Frontale.

His departure means that the team is only left with Kenyoshi Nakamura and Yu Kobayashi in the "small and medium".

Perhaps the outside world only saw the misfortune of Kawasaki's second millennium, but the coaching staff report of the Dragons team analyzed the reasons in depth.

The report mentioned that the reason why Kawasaki Frontale couldn't win the championship was because of his lack of hard power.

First of all, there is not enough capital behind the club, the predecessor of Kawasaki Frontale was developed from Fujitsu's sports department, and Fujitsu has always supported the team, but unfortunately this company is not what it used to be, and the support it can give to the club is really limited.

Secondly, it is not for nothing that former meritorious coach Hachihiro Kazama has been discredited. Under his leadership, Kawasaki Frontale, a medium-sized team, can be called a powerhouse, and countless players have been selected for the Japanese national team at all levels under his support and cultivation. But at the same time, the style of play of the No. 10 core player who is too attached makes it very easy for the team to target, often in important games, the offense is not sticking to it effectively, and it has become the norm to drop the chain at critical moments.

Finally, without top-notch foreign players and domestic players, and lacking in bench reserves, they often have to lose sight of one or the other in the two- and third-line battles.

After commenting on Kawasaki Frontale's style during the Hachihiro Kazama era, the coaching staff's report quickly turned to the current state of the team.

Kawasaki Frontale has changed quite a bit this season.

The soul of a team has always been the head coach, after Kazama Yahiro left, his deputy Oniki Tatsu took over, even if he joined the team's coaching staff after retiring, he has been learning from Kazama Yahiro, and is deeply influenced by Kazama Yahiro, and the difference in ideas between people is still very big.

At least judging from the games coached by Tatsu Akiki this season, the two have very different defensive philosophies.