When the reporter interviewed Hao Dacang, the former star, who has always been unscrupulous in his words, said directly: "It's not that I said that the current Chinese players, there are few who can reach the height of our group of players now." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but Nie Jiang doesn't count, his level is top even if it is at our time, I'm afraid that he will kick bad in China, let him go abroad as soon as possible. ”

Regarding such comments from the outside world, Zhang Sheng deliberately tested Nie Jiang's attitude: "The outside world praises you very much, what do you think?"

Nie Jiang said undeniably: "I also think I'm quite powerful." ”

Seeing Nie Jiang, who was not ashamed of his words, Zhang Sheng smiled and said, "You are not ashamed." ”

Nie Jiang touched his head embarrassedly and said: "When I used to play in the reserve team, I wanted to play in the Chinese Super League, and I thought the Chinese Super League game was very attractive, but later I played in the Chinese Super League, and I thought the AFC Champions League was better, and now I really want to see what the European game should look like." ”

Zhang Sheng persuaded earnestly: "Don't underestimate the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, you are a newcomer now, others are not familiar with you, once others focus on you, especially when you are put at the height of foreign players, you will know that the game is not good to play." ”

Zhang Sheng said this is the reason. Now in the front trident of the Longteng team, there are top foreign players such as Pato and Ben Alfa, and all opponents will focus their attention on the two of them, and the relative marking of Nie Jiang is not so strict, which is why Nie Jiang can often get the second point to hit the empty goal.

But once the opponent's defense of Nie Jiang rose to the height of foreign aid, Nie Jiang's goal was not so easy.

Nie Jiang also nodded seriously and said, "I know, but when they treat me as a foreign aid, I will be even stronger." When I scored two in one game in the AFC Champions League qualifiers, I said that after the knockout round, I would have two more games, and now I have fulfilled my original promise. ”

Hearing Nie Jiang's confident answer, Zhang Sheng couldn't persuade him, so he could only say, "Then you have to maintain such an upward attitude." ”

Compared with the joy of the Longteng team, the other two teams participating in the AFC Champions League also have an advantage, but they are not to the point of being very safe.

North Jing Guoan is in the away 1:1 draw Jeonbuk Hyundai, and also occupy the advantage in the field, an away goal is very beneficial to them, and because of the appearance of the Longteng team, Osaka Gamba was forced to play Guangzhou Evergrande, the history of this season's AFC Champions League East Asia finals were advanced, away Guangzhou Evergrande is a 2:1 victory over Osaka Gamba , completely pressed the opponent to play they wasted too many opportunities, to the second leg of the home game to add a bit of suspense. However, the oppressive scene of the game also made Cannavaro's position look a lot more solid.

The good results of the Chinese Super League team have made fans in Japan and South Korea extremely red.

South Korean fans were amazed by the Chinese Super League's strong foreign aid team, while Japanese fans were amazed by Huang Bowen and Zheng Zhi, who scored the Osaka Gamba goal.

Zhang Sheng certainly knows that this is the result of the growth of players' abilities after the promotion of the Chinese Super League.

Before the impact of the AFC Champions League dissipates, as the highlight of the Super League in the next round of the competition, Guangzhou Evergrande's home game against Longteng has become the content of media hype.

The media's continuous praise of Zhang Sheng during this period has basically reached the point of running out of words, so they have set their sights on the more newsworthy Cannavaro, of which the most eye-catching is that his mentor, former Evergrande coach Lippi, has rushed from the Italian firing line in the past few days.

According to the news from within Guangzhou Evergrande, Lippi returned to China this time, the main purpose of which was to sign a sky-high endorsement contract with Guangzhou Evergrande to do promotional activities for Evergrande's Ice Spring, which is also one of the reasons why Liu Yongzhuo, vice president of Evergrande Group, who is in charge of Ice Spring, went to pick up the plane; This game will give the answer.

Of course, there is also a rumor that Lippi also revealed to Evergrande that he will take up a new position, hoping to take away his previous coaching team. Previously, there were rumors that Lippi would take over the Belgian national team, and the coaching team who took him away this time also confirmed this rumor from the side.

Before Cannavaro's reign, Evergrande had never had such a big gap with the team at the top of the table, and now the five-point gap has made Guangzhou Evergrande's senior management very dissatisfied with Cannavaro.

In the past four seasons, Evergrande has left behind one position in the league more than halfway through. The specific data is as follows:

In the middle of the 2011 season, Evergrande ranked first with 37 points, and Beijing Guoan ranked second with 27 points;

In the middle of the 2012 season, Evergrande ranked first with 35 points, and Jiangsu Shuntian ranked second with 28 points;

In the middle of the 2013 season, Evergrande ranked first with 41 points, and Shandong Luneng ranked second with 30 points;

Historically, in the middle of the 2014 season, Evergrande ranked first with 33 points, and Beijing Guoan ranked second with 31 points, but the appearance of the Longteng team made them decline, and at the end of the half, Guangzhou Evergrande was behind the Longteng team by one point, even so, at the end of last season, it was Guangzhou Evergrande who had the last laugh.

In fact, in Zhang Sheng's opinion, Cannavaro is indeed a bit lucky.

Guangzhou Evergrande's large-scale recruitment before the season made countless fans full of expectations for them. Compared with last year's foreign aid, but they still won four consecutive league championships, the AFC Champions League reached the finals, and now after replacing strong foreign aid, everyone expects Evergrande to sweep all opponents.

But the reality often backfires, and the striker Allan, who spent 11 million euros to poach, only made two appearances in the team, only played 121 minutes because of a torn cruciate ligament, and is expected to fully recover in September.

The side effects of overuse of Elkeson in the first two seasons also broke out suddenly, once known as the "devil's muscular man", he has never been able to get rid of the haze of muscle strain, always hovering between returning from injury and re-injury, the most recent injury was on May 5 in the last AFC Champions League group stage substitute injury injury, pessimistic return is expected to take another month.

The main goalkeeper Zeng Cheng suffered a facial injury at the home stadium in Western Sydney, and the injury time was more than 40 days from the injury to the re-opening of the door for Evergrande, during which the substitute goalkeeper Li Shuai was the goalkeeper for Evergrande, and many mistakes were criticized.

In addition to constantly eyeing European clubs, Kim Yingquan on the back line has spent more time in injuries, and has been injured since the beginning of the season, until he suffered a knee injury in the final round of the AFC Champions League group stage on May 5, and finally couldn't bear it and was out of action for 50 days.

The main defender in the league, Rene, started in the league at the beginning of the season and was in good shape, but since April 3, he played Henan Jianye away, and he has been resting for nearly a month due to injury, and he did not return as a substitute until May 1, when he played Shenhua away, but he was injured again after playing Shenhua, and there is no sign of a comeback for the time being.

In addition, other players, including those like Rong Hao, Liao Lisheng, and Li Xuepeng, have been resting for more than 2 months due to injuries, and as for the situation that Zou Zheng, Zheng Zhi, and Zhao Xuri are only injured for one or two weeks at a time, it is too common.

Who would have thought that before the season, the foreign aid corps of Guangzhou Evergrande was left alone, and many of Guangzhou Evergrande's games were actually a single foreign aid lineup, but fortunately, Gaolat's super strength brought a lot of goals and assists to Guangzhou Evergrande.

This is also thanks to the very thick bench depth of Guangzhou Evergrande, otherwise such an injury situation would have been crossed on any Chinese Super League team.

While Guangzhou Evergrande is plagued by injuries, the strength of other Chinese Super League teams is unabated.

In terms of salary, two seasons ago, a main substitute of Guoan, such as Wang Xiaolong, had an annual salary of less than 1 million. The average annual salary of domestic players in the first team of Guoan is about 3 million yuan, although it is still less than that of Evergrande and Luneng, but compared with themselves two years ago, they have made a great leap forward. In this case, the team's combat effectiveness will definitely be improved accordingly.

In terms of foreign aid, whether it is a promoted horse like Chongqing Lifan and Shijiazhuang Yongchang, or a midstream team like Jiangsu Shuntian and Changchun Yatai, the high quality of foreign aid makes Evergrande no longer have an absolute advantage. In the 2014 season of the Brazilian League, Goulart scored 14 goals, Changchun Yatai foreign aid Moreno scored 15 goals, and Tianjin TEDA foreign aid Barquez scored 13 goals. The Chinese Super League now has no parallel foreign aid, so Evergrande's foreign aid advantage is not as good as before.

The general environment determines that the success of the Chinese Super League championship is getting more and more sufficient, and the difficulty of Evergrande defending the title is definitely getting bigger and bigger. To be able to achieve this result now, it should be said that Cannavaro has done his best, and it can only be said that Cannavaro did not have a good time.

Therefore, for this strategic game worth 6 points and related to the morale of Guangzhou Evergrande, the outside world has a very high degree of opinion, but Cannavaro is bitter and can't say, because now in addition to Gaolat, other foreign aid is all injured, due to the suspension of Dong Xuesheng and Li Shuai, these two positions can only let Gao Lin, who has played a full game, and Zeng Cheng, who has a small injury, to play, Cannavaro has never been so stretched.

On the other hand, in the Longteng team, only McGovern of the five foreign aides was injured and could not play, and the other four foreign aides were all alive and healthy.

In terms of domestic players, Nie Jiang is now like a rainbow, Lin Feng and Tao Wentao's dominance in the midfield is also fully revealed, and the players in the rest of the positions are also in unstoppable form in the last AFC Champions League game.

So before the game, although this game is the home of Guangzhou Evergrande, everyone unanimously looks down on them, which has never happened in these years, and everyone has put the Longteng team to the same height as Guangzhou Evergrande in their hearts.

However, in the pre-match press conference, Cannavaro still appeared extremely relaxed on the surface, always maintaining an excellent gentlemanly demeanor, he talked and laughed freely, and appeared calm in response to the various questions raised by reporters.

In particular, Lippi's return to Guangzhou at this sensitive period is imaginative, and when the outside world speculates that Cannavaro is facing a crisis of confidence, the reporter's questions about this were easily resolved by him: "I knew that Lippi would come to China, but those are private matters, and I am more happy to be able to return to the Chinese Super League after playing in the AFC Champions League, which means that tomorrow is an opportunity for the team to get back on the winning track, and I am very happy about it." ”

This answer reflects his strong self-confidence.

And when the reporter asked Nie Jiang, who is now very hot in the Longteng team, Cannavaro expressed great vigilance: "This is a talented player, he reminds me of Anthony when I was young. He is also a striker, he has also emerged at the age of 17, and I will take him very seriously in this game. ”

At first, the reporter below did not think who Anthony was, but after the prompting of Cannavaro's translator, everyone showed their surprised expressions, because Cannavaro was talking about his very good little brother Antonio Cassano.

When Cannavaro was in Real Madrid, Cassano was teammates with him, and he once pleaded with head coach Capello, hoping that Capello would give Cassano the opportunity to play, which shows Cannavaro's love for Cassano.

Now Cannavaro compares Nie Jiang to Cassano, which is really surprising to everyone, after all, Cassano was once recognized as the most talented player in Italy.

At the age of 17 years and 5 months, Cassano used a lightning bolt to shake off the two king-level defenders Blank and Panucci in the game against Inter Milan, and sent the ball into the net of the top giants Inter Milan, and since then he has become famous overnight, and is even regarded as the future pillar of Italian football.

With him and he successively played for Rome in his heyday, was introduced by Real Madrid, the most powerful club in the world, and then was bought by giants such as AC Milan and Inter Milan, and was selected for the Italian national team many times, although in the end he did not meet the expectations of the outside world, and now can only play in a small club like Parma, but the strength he shows is still very good, last season he made 36 appearances in Parma in all competitions, scored 13 goals, not only helped Parma not only successfully relegated, but also achieved sixth place to qualify for the Europa League, but unfortunately due to financial problems, qualification for the Europa League was cancelled by the Italian Football Federation.

Since Cannavaro has said so, it seems that Nie Jiang will be watched in the game.

After Zhang Sheng heard Cannavaro's analogy, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, he had reminded him in the conversation with Nie Jiang before, be careful that the opponent would treat him as a foreign aid to defend, but he didn't expect Guangzhou Evergrande to put him at the same height as a foreign aid star, does he really have the mysterious power of the East?