52. Tired
The victory in the first leg of the fifth round of the FA Cup did not make the Longteng team much easier, because the whole team will go to Changchun to challenge Changchun Yatai away on the weekend, which will be the fifth game played by the Longteng team in two weeks.
Zhang Sheng had to make a lot of rotations again for this game, two foreign players were put on the bench because they played four games in a row, and Li Ming of the central defender, Ma Yongli was also replaced by Huang He and Shen Jun. The three players in the midfield are Qi Ming, Zhang Hao and Tao Wentao, the two wings are Ni Kai and Xiong Jian, the front waist is Yan Xiaoyu, and Nie Jiang is in the center position.
As a last resort, Zhang Sheng adjusted the formation and became 3-6-1, and he was also the starter of the all-Chinese class.
This season's Changchun Yatai after the start, one draw and six losses can be said to have basically announced their entry into the relegation reserves, they had to invite an old acquaintance of Chinese football Li Zhangzhu, but Li Zhangzhu's Changchun Yatai also did not play well, so far, after 17 rounds of games (including the 21st round played in advance), they only have 12 points, ranking last in the league.
Against the remnants of the Longteng team, it is a good opportunity for them to score points.
From the first minute of the game, Changchun Yatai grabbed more fiercely than the Longteng team, and the action was also very big, the game was basically spent in the Longteng team players who kept falling to the ground, and then got up and were overturned, and even the commentator in charge of the commentary also complained: "The game is really fragmented." ”
Because Zou Weijia and Liming, the two headers of the Longteng team, were not present, even though they got a lot of free kick opportunities, the Longteng team lacked skills, and then Zhang Sheng simply chose tactical corners for all corners.
After passing the difficult football "wrestling match", the Longteng team finally took advantage of the slight decline in Changchun Yatai's physical fitness before the end of the first half to get a penalty, and it was Ni Kai on the left side who made the penalty, he was not afraid of confrontation, risked injury and forced into the penalty area of Changchun Yatai, and was pulled down by the opponent's player, giving the Longteng team a chance to break the deadlock.
Nie Jiang also lived up to the hard work of his teammates, and his penalty deceived Yatai's goalkeeper and turned the score into 1:0.
Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, also breathed a sigh of relief.
After the second half, Changchun Yatai suddenly launched a Jedi counterattack, Huang He and Shen Jun are not orthodox central defenders after all, and they still made mistakes in defense, Yatai's striker Moreiro took advantage of Huang He's loss to get a chance in the penalty area, and his header scored to make the score 1:1.
To add insult to injury, in the thirteenth minute of the second half, Ni Kai, the sharp knife on the side of the Longteng team, was injured in the scramble and had to be replaced by Cao Jinghao, and the Longteng team lost the speed player on the side.
By the more than 70 minutes of the game, Yan Xiaoyu, who had been performing very ordinarily in the Yatai muscle jungle, was replaced by Zhang Sheng with Zeng Fanfang.
Zeng Fanhua used the characteristics of his good skills at his feet to create several chances after he came on the field, although he did not score, but let Yatai's side eat two yellow cards in a row, and Yatai's defense seemed a little shaken.
In the stoppage time of the game, Zhang Sheng took a fight and replaced Xiong Jian with Wang Xing, giving the front line an extra high point, hoping to take advantage of the weakness of the already exhausted defense of Yatai's side to make a breakthrough in the set-piece.
In the last two minutes of the game, Zeng Xingxing once again got a free kick in front, and several players of the Longteng team also rushed to the penalty area.
Wang Xing became the focus of Yatai's care because of his height of more than 1.9 meters, but they ignored Qi Ming, who was not too tall.
When Zeng Prosperous's ball came out, Qi Ming actually had no one to mark him, he jumped easily and then shook his head to attack the goal, breaking through the gate guarded by Yatai goalkeeper Wu Yake.
The Dragons finally made a stunner before the end of the game and picked up the precious three points.
In order to ensure the preparation of the top 12 matches of the national team in the world preliminaries, the schedule of the Chinese Super League this season has been greatly compressed, and the Longteng team is more tired because there are still players to prepare for the Olympic Games, but the other strong teams are not easy.
In the past round of the game, when the Longteng team gritted its teeth and insisted on getting three points, Guangzhou Evergrande lost to Guangzhou R&F in the away game of the Guangzhou derby, and the Evergrande players were obviously more tired than the R&F players.
After the Longteng team played the game with Changchun Yatai, it happened to be going to the away game to challenge Guangzhou R&F, which was different from Guangzhou Evergrande was that the Longteng team was more tired, because the consecutive week of double matches, or consecutive away games, the horror was that the Longteng team had just finished the last game for only three days, and it was going to fly from the far northeast to the south of the motherland, which was a journey that consumed the energy of the players.
In order to try to eliminate this effect, the team's coaching team is also tired of dogs.
The physical fitness team has to develop a physical training plan for each individual after the game, the physiotherapist has to massage the players, the medical team has to check the injuries of the players every day given the continuous high-intensity games, and the logistics team has to book a hotel and prepare the equipment for the team before and after the game.
After the daily training, the players rested, the coaching staff can't, they have to summarize all the data of each player who trained that day, some of which need to be judged on the same day, and some of which need to be entered into the big data platform jointly developed by Longteng team and Jiangsoft Technology, so that the system can give relevant conclusions.
Then the coaching team will arrange the personnel and tactics according to all the results.
It can be said that the consecutive week of double matches not only put very high demands on the players, but also put the entire coaching staff team to the test.
Even if the players and coaching staff put in great efforts, in the actual game, even if Zhang Sheng made personnel adjustments, the whole team still played weakly.
In the first half, Guangzhou R&F's new foreign aid Zahavi penetrated the door of the Longteng team, which was the eighth goal he scored after coming to the team, before he scored seven goals and two assists in five games, and the state was hotter than the weather in Guangzhou in July, and in the last round against Guangzhou Evergrande, it was his one goal and one assist to help the team win the derby 2:1.
Today, the Dragons, who are the first in the league, have suffered from him again, and Zahavi can be called a giant killer.
Liu Jiayuan, who was in charge of the commentary, had to sigh: "Since Zahavi came to R&F, whether it is a relegation opponent or a championship team, it has become his soul." And R&F's offense has been completely activated, fast and smooth passing, very ornamental, at least the game has been played so far, Guangzhou R&F has played more like the Longteng team than the Longteng team. ”
Seeing Nie Jiang who couldn't run on the field, and even Roque Gill, who looked weak after a round of rest, Zhang Sheng could only stand on the sidelines and roar loudly, hoping to activate the state of the players.
In Guangzhou in July, the weather was extremely hot, and the air pressure was so low that Zhang Sheng stood on the sidelines for less than ten minutes, and his clothes were as if he had just been fished out of the water.
One can imagine the pain of the players on the pitch who are constantly running.
After the Longteng team lost the ball, under the supervision of Zhang Sheng, they ran for more than ten minutes, and there was a certain improvement in attack and defense, but soon the referee stopped the game, because the players on both sides needed to replenish the water.
"The heat was too much of a test for the players on both sides. "The referee has the power to suspend the game in appropriate circumstances to allow the players to rehydrate. ”
The logistics staff of the two teams also hurriedly moved the mineral water and energy drinks that had been prepared long ago to the sidelines, and the players from both sides gathered around.
Zhang Sheng took this opportunity to encourage the players: "Today's weather is very hot, everyone is playing very hard. ”
After finishing speaking to the domestic players, Zhang Sheng also deliberately said it again in Portuguese to the two foreign aids, which was also to show respect for their two foreign aids, and then Zhang Sheng instructed: "Let's play pass control next, everyone's running should be smarter, more focused, ensure the success rate of receiving the ball, try to reduce unnecessary running, and the high-pressure pressing in the front court can be appropriately relaxed." We are hot, they are hot, we are tired, they are tired, now it's up to you to see who can be stronger, I believe you are the best in every aspect. ”
After the hydration, the mental level of the Longteng team has been greatly improved, perhaps because of the replenished water has temporarily improved their physical fitness, De Paul and Nie Jiang have successively obtained the opportunity to shoot, but there is not much threat.
"It's good to watch now. Liu Jiayuan also smiled, "Both sides are hitting the ground and passing down, and they are both very smooth, so beautiful, the Longteng team finally showed their own housekeeping skills." ”
In the forty-second minute of the first half, the Longteng team continued to kick more than a dozen feet in the midfield, completely opened the defensive formation of Guangzhou R&F, and Zeng Fanxing, who substituted Tao Wentao in this game, made a very imaginative pass over the top to let Zou Weijia get the ball, and the latter's single ball actually missed the goal.
Zhang Sheng almost rushed out of the coach's work area to celebrate on the sidelines, but he had to regret that he stopped abruptly halfway, holding his head with a look of unwillingness.
By the end of the first half, Guangzhou R&F still led the game 1:0.
At half-time, although the score was behind, Zhang Sheng encouraged the players: "It is indeed a problem to play in such weather, but we played well in the second half and we have a chance to equalize." ”
Then Zhang Sheng analyzed the opponent's tactics: "But to win this game, this requires us to play more intelligently, the opponent is a team that mainly plays ground passing, and we are familiar with this set." Compared to the players of our whole team who can handle the pass and control fluently, their tactics must revolve around two front-field players to do the nodes, how to cut off the pass around the node, we have been training for a long time. In the second half, we showed our quality. ”
After the start of the second half, Reinardinho, an important node in R&F's frontcourt, became the focus of Longteng players, and Ma Yongli targeted to strengthen the follow-up defense of Zahavi, Guangzhou R&F's pass in the front court looked very dry.
Even Liu Jiayuan saw it: "The Longteng team played very smart, they didn't run with Renaldinho, but wanted to destroy his receiving point, Zahavi was responsible for Ma Yongli, a free man in the backcourt, and R&F's offense was a little unbeatable." ”
R&F's offense can't play, and the pressure on their backcourt is great, even if former Longteng player Wang Peng is very desperate, R&F is still difficult to expel the danger outside the penalty area.
First, Zou Weijia's ball made De Paul's long-range shot slide past the goal, and then R&F's back finally couldn't hold it because of the pressure, and foreign aid Svensson had to put down Nie Jiang, he received a yellow card, and gave the Longteng team a free kick in front.
For this free kick, Zou Weijia, the center of the Longteng team, and Qi Ming, who scored in the previous round of the game, were watched by the focus.
When De Paul's ball came out, he really looked for Qi Ming, Wang Peng, who was responsible for defending Qi Ming, obviously underestimated this little junior brother, Qi Ming's bounce was completed beyond Wang Peng's surprise, and his ability to stay in the air and his waist and abdomen were super strong, Qi Ming, who jumped high, pressed Wang Peng, and a powerful head shake made R&F's goalkeeper Chen Yuelei can only look at the ball and sigh.
After restraining R&F's tactics and attacking for more than ten minutes, the Longteng team finally scored a goal and equalized the score.
The equalizer Longteng team was originally ready to continue to attack to score goals, but the referee once again stopped the game to replenish water, and R&F also used this time to take a good breather.
After the game continued, R&F tightened the fence, and most of the team squatted in the backfield to defend.
When it was more than 30 minutes into the second half, the Longteng team finally had a problem with its physical fitness, and Qi Ming, who was the most active and consumed the most, slowed down significantly, allowing him to prevent him from affecting the overall defense in a key position, and Zhang Sheng had to replace him with the teenager Cao Jinghao.
Qi Ming's dismissal made the Longteng team's control in the midfield drop very much, and the general physical fitness of the players reached a bottleneck, and the overall formation of the Longteng team was pressed back at least five to ten meters.
The retreat of the Dragons' overall formation is not without its benefits, which at least gives the players in the front court room to sprint.
In the thirty-seventh minute of the second half, it was Zeng Xingxing who sent a good ball in the midfield, Nie Jiang increased his speed after receiving the ball and rushed up, he continued to change direction in the high-speed dribbling and stopped and sprinted, so that R&F foreign aid Svensson, who was already carrying a yellow card, did not dare to get started, which gave Nie Jiang a rare space to play.
After dribbling the ball to the edge of the penalty area, facing the R&F team's central defenders who came over to defend, Nie Jiang decisively shot with his feet.