In fact, Zhang Sheng still has one thing that he didn't say, that is, he wants to speed up the process of the Longteng team's all-Chinese class, Ivo will have to leave sooner or later, in this position of the front waist, Zhang Sheng is also ready to let Tao Wentao take over, there is no need to buy a foreign aid to play because of Ivo's injury. Pen & Fun & Ge www.biquge.info Now Ivo's injury is a good time for these youngsters to get a chance to play.

However, for the next opponent, Zhang Sheng is very serious to study, because on February 26, the Longteng team will usher in the first AFC Champions League game in the history of the team, the opponent is the Kawasaki Frontale of the Japanese J League, this time in the AFC Champions League, the Longteng team was divided into Group H, and this group also has the Western Sydney Wanderers, the champion of this year's AFC Champions League in history, and the Ulsan Hyundai team of the South Korean K League.

As the champion of the Chinese Football Association Cup last season, the Longteng team is considered to be the weakest opponent in this group, because the Longteng team is a promoted horse of the Chinese Super League after all, they not only have zero experience in the AFC Champions League, but also have zero experience in the first level of the league.

Kawasaki Frontale, the opponent of the Dragons, had already booked the three points before the game, and in their opinion, the Dragons were not worth mentioning other players except for Pato, a former superstar.

Kawasaki Frontale has its own confidence for this idea, and in Japan, Kawasaki Frontale has the title of the "second millennium" of the J-League, which means that they are often at the top of the J-League, but they have never won the championship. However, as the third runner-up in the J-League last season, this season is the fourth time that Kawasaki Frontale has participated in the AFC Champions League in eight years. Slightly different from traditional Japanese teams, Kawasaki has always played with an open and sharp style of play, and the pace of the game is relatively fast among Japanese teams, and the Sori Land Arena is also the famous home of the devils in Japan. In the J-League last season, Kawasaki Frontale scored 35 goals in 17 home games, with 11 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, averaging more than 2 goals per game at home, which shows the attacking power. Although Kawasaki performed poorly in the previous matches with TEDA and Guoan of the Chinese Super League, only 1 win and 3 losses, they still have enough confidence in the face of a promoted horse in the Chinese Super League.

In the AFC Champions League, coach Hachihiro Kazama, like Zhang Sheng, has no AFC Champions League experience, and he has only coached a Japanese university team before. However, sitting at home and facing the group's "fish belly" Jiangcheng Longteng, Kawasaki will still aim for offensive football.

Kawasaki Frontale now has three former Japan internationals Junichi Inamoto, Kenyoshi Nakamura and Yoshito Okubo in the middle of the lineup, and Kawasaki's success last season was inseparable from the courage of these three players. It is said that the coach of the Japanese national team, Zaccheroni, will be there to watch the game, and they will also work hard in front of Zaccheroni to try to return to the Japanese national team for the last World Cup.

Junichi Inamoto should be a Japanese player who is very familiar to domestic fans, he became famous at a young age, and later was valued by Wenger to buy Arsenal, but because of injuries, Junichi Inamoto did not get any opportunities at Arsenal. He then moved to another side in the Premier League, Fulham, where he became a regular in midfield, making a lot of appearances and performing very well every season. After that, Junichi Inamoto went to the Turkish Super League, the Bundesliga, the French Ligue 1, and returned to the Japanese J-League in 2010. During his stay in Europe, he was definitely the absolute main force of the Japanese national team, but unfortunately as Junichi Inamoto grew older, his main position was slowly lost. And this season Junichi Inamoto will switch to central defender, because he has always been known for his ferocious scrambling and tireless running, and now his physical fitness can no longer guarantee this ability, so he can only retreat step by step in his position on the field. However, Inamoto's excellent ball control and passing ability has not been lost, which will also make him the starting point of the team's attack, and his role in the Kawasaki Frontale defensive line is very similar to the role of Ma Yongli in the Longteng defensive line.

The core of Kawasaki Frontale's midfield is Kengo Nakamura, who has keen insight and outstanding footwork, his long passes are particularly accurate, and he has also been an important weapon in the Japanese national team's counter-attack. At the same time, Nakamura Kengang also has a strong set-piece ability, his free kicks in the front of the goal around 30 meters are often more dangerous than Nakamura Shunsuke, who is good at footwork, and his free kicks are powerful and heavy, and the J League is a nightmare for all opponent goalkeepers. And Nakamura's mental quality is excellent, and he has repeatedly saved the team with goals at critical moments.

And the Kawasaki Frontale is the most threatening is their striker Yoshito Okubo. As the J-League Golden Boot last season, he topped the table with 26 goals. Yoshito Okubo is a typical Japanese striker who has been cultivated in Japanese football over the years according to its own youth training environment. He is only 1.70 meters tall and weighs only 60 kilograms. With such a thin physique, it is hard to believe that he is a football player. However, with his dexterous movements and skillful technique, Yoshito Okubo has maintained a fairly high goal rate in the J-League, and he can guarantee the efficiency of scoring one goal in two games, whether it is at Osaka Sakura or Vissel Kobe. Historically, he also won the Golden Boot in the J-League this season, and he also became the first player in the J-League to win the top scorer alone for two consecutive years.

However, Yoshito Okubo's thin body is not much of an advantage in Europe and the national team, with only five goals in 48 games in his two foreign appearances, and only five goals in 40 appearances in the national team, against weak teams such as Thailand and Oman. Similarly, when facing a team like the Chinese team that is physically stronger than Japan, it is difficult for him to play well.

Originally, in the forward position, Kawasaki Frontale also had another high school striker Yajima Takuro, as a rare center player in Japan, Yajima Takuro's ability to play in the front court is still very good, but unfortunately he has transferred to the Yokohama Mariners at the beginning of the season. As a rare high school striker in Japan, he has a height of 1.86 meters but rough skills at his feet, and it is difficult to hold the ball in the front court, so he has been playing in the J2 league, and it is difficult to play in the club.

On the contrary, Kawasaki Frontale's No. 10 Renato breakthrough ability is among the top in the J League, and this 1.67-meter-tall small player is the reinaldinho who played in Guangzhou R&F later, and he will be the figure that the Longteng team must focus on.

In fact, for the Kawasaki Frontale team, Zhang Sheng thinks it is a good opportunity to score points. Because the reason why Kawasaki Frontale is called the "second millennium" in the Japanese J League has its own reasons. This team seems to have integrated the offense into the bones, the team's usual formation is 433, no matter which position the player is in the game, they are very accustomed to stepping forward to assist, such as Junichi Inamoto, as a central defender, he often assists to the front of the team, and the central defenders of other teams only occasionally step forward to assist different, they are central defenders in the midfield, so it is inevitable to concede more goals.

Facing such a team with strong offense and weak defense, Zhang Sheng is not worried at all. Kawasaki Frontale's attack is also typical of the Japanese team's attacking style, using the frequent runs and passes in the midfield, plus the sudden start of the three fast players in the front court to disrupt the opponent's defensive rhythm, and then the player behind the center forward organizes a secondary attack or shoots directly to score.

The Longteng team is very familiar with such tactics, and the tactics arranged by Zhang Sheng for the Longteng team are an upgraded version of this tactic, because the Longteng team has players like Kante in the midfield midfield, while Kawasaki Frontale does not have such players, although their defensive back Paulinho has the same name as Guangzhou Evergrande's back Paulinho and is also Brazilian, but the strength is really different. He played for Kawasaki Frontale for a few years before being sold to Chiba Ichihara in the Japanese J2 League.

In this game, as long as the Dragons strengthen the defense in the midfield, they can well block the attack of the Kawasaki Frontale, and the Mahrez and Pato on the offensive line of the Dragons will become a nightmare for the Kawasaki Frontale backline.

Zhang Sheng was preparing for the AFC Champions League after the Super Cup, while keeping an eye on Qin Minghao and Li Yun's match against Red Bull Salzburg.

On February 21, Qin Minghao and Li Yun both started for Salzburg against Ajax in the 2013-14 Europa League 1/16 finals. In the 14th minute of the first half, Qin Minghao's exquisite through ball made Alan pulled down by the opponent in the penalty area, and the Red Bulls got the opportunity to take a penalty, and Soriano hit the penalty; in the 21st minute, it was Qin Minghao who got rid of the opponent's defense and made Kanpur cross from the left, and Mane scored with a left-footed shot in the middle; In the 35th minute, Qin Minghao scored with a direct and accurate volley nearly 30 meters away from the goal after the midfield broke the ball, completing his first goal in the Europa League. Facing an old powerhouse like Ajax, Qin Minghao performed exceptionally well. Li Yun's defense kept a clean sheet against the opponent, and in the end, the Red Bulls won 0:3 away from home.

After watching this game collectively, the players of the Longteng team could not calm down for a long time, and the excellent performance of their former teammates in the European battlefield made them one by one high-spirited.

Zhang Sheng also encouraged the players: "See, this is the player from our Longteng team, everyone play hard, one day, you will become them." ”

On February 23, all the members of the Longteng team flew to Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan to start preparations. (To be continued.) )