34. Big Lead
After the start of the second half, the changes at Seoul FC paid off.
Dejan's retreat made Seoul FC's passing from the back to the front shorter, allowing them to pass with greater precision and strength.
Seoul FC's first dangerous attack came in the seventh minute of the second half.
The ball was cut off in one of the Longteng's cooperation in the front court, and Kim Dong-woo handed the ball to Osmar, who withstood Tao Wentao's counter-attack and handed a beautiful pass to Dejan.
It was also a timely jump to head the ball, DeYoung was a clear winner against Roque Gill, not only did he grab the point, but he also got the ball in the air and got the ball in front of him, and his pass went straight to Adriano, which allowed Adriano to get up and running without pause.
Sure enough, as soon as Dejan's pass fell, Adriano and Lu Zhihui, who were also rushing for the ball, reflected the gap.
Adriano is facing the goal of the Longteng team, Lu Zhihui is facing away from the goal, Lu Zhihui can only choose to face the head, because he wants to follow the defense sideways, and the final result must be thrown away by the opponent's accelerated change of direction.
It should be said that Lu Zhihui's choice was correct, but he still underestimated Adriano's ability at his feet.
Adriano made a very realistic feint by shaking the center of gravity of his body in the high-speed dribbling, Lu Zhihui first adjusted with Adriano's center of gravity, and when Adriano adjusted the center of gravity again, Lu Zhihui, who was much taller than Adriano and had a higher center of gravity, could not adjust.
Although Ma Yongli desperately chased back to block Adriano, and when he stretched out his leg to stop the former before the latter, Adriano decisively got up and shot.
In the face of Adriano's shot, Huang Dawei was very decisive, he blocked the near corner, faced with this powerful shot, quickly fell to the ground, and knocked the ball out of the bottom line with his fist.
"It's a bit dangerous. Liu Jiayuan was also frightened by the counterattack of Seoul FC just now, "Dejan's ability is really good, and he can be at the front, and he can withdraw to make the ball, and the Longteng team should strengthen his marking." ”
For Deyang, Zhou Ning, who is a football player in Beijing, is obviously more familiar: "Indeed. A striker like Dejan to say that he is the Ibrahimovic of Asia is really not blown out. In the face of Asian teams, his foot skills, header ability, confrontation ability, and ball making ability are all first-class. To be honest, Guoan really shouldn't let him go, after he left Guoan, look at Guoan's current results, alas......"
Zhou Ning, who is a national security person, is also unwilling now.
Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, did not have the heart to be sad like Zhou Ning, and how to solve the threat of Deyang on the field was the top priority.
Now Dejan's position on the field is very flexible, Ma Yongli is far away from the midfield, he chooses to fight against Roque Gill in the middle, if Ma Yongli comes up, Dejan will run to the two wings, making full use of Ben Alpha and Xiang Tiange after the two people attack to the front of the field to make a fuss.
No matter which one Dejan chooses, if the Longteng team withdraws the frontcourt players, or Ma Yongli completely plays the back in advance, it will be the way of Seoul FC.
The players in the front court are withdrawn, and the pressure on Seoul FC's backcourt will be greatly reduced, and Choi Yong-so, as a powerful head coach, does not lack the courage to take risks and the determination to attack, and will definitely press the two wings up, and the offensive and defensive momentum on the field is different.
And Ma Yongli's premise, the two central defenders must also be premised, the space behind the back line will become larger, which will provide Adriano with more space to sprint, and Seoul FC's counterattack will be more dangerous.
Just as Zhang Sheng was thinking, Dejan made a good ball again.
This time, Deyang was cruising to the left side, relative to the right side, there was Qi Ming, Tao Wentao's defense on the left side was not as timely as Qi Ming, and Deyang also saw this point.
When Seoul FC's left wingback Gao Guangmin passed the ball over, Tao Wentao was a step slower, Deyang had already got the ball, this time Tao Wentao and Deyang confrontation is not like the first half and Adriano confrontation, Dejan's physical fitness is much stronger than Adriano.
In the face of Tao Wentao's interference, Deyang used his hands to set up the former, and then squeezed from the side to the middle, at this time Gao Di Yojiro also ran to the penalty area very flexibly to respond, attracting Ma Yongli's attention.
Osmar, who is the real core of the team, quietly rushed up from behind at this time, and when the Longteng players focused their eyes on several players in the frontcourt, Osmar had already come to the penalty area not far away.
Dejan had already observed Osmar's position when he was dribbling the ball, and he made a move to pass the ball forward, which once again greatly attracted the attention of the Dragons' defense, and suddenly handed the ball to Osmar with the outside instep.
This pass is close to the ground, the ball speed is very fast, Osmar faced the incoming ball, and it was directly a powerful volley, he was more than 1.9 meters tall, full of strength, and the football flew straight to the upper corner of the Longteng team's goal like a cannonball.
However, because Osmar was too power-hungry, the shot was over the crossbar and into the stands behind the goal when it reached the Dragons' goal.
After this attack by Seoul FC, Jang Seung finally made up his mind and made adjustments on the field.
Under Zhang Sheng's instructions, Ma Yongli is no longer just active in the middle, he has begun to change from a swingman in the back and center back to a scavenger in the backfield.
The role of the scavenger is a very old tactical setup, as early as the early days of the football action, there was a concept of this position, but at first the scavenger was only a pure defender, and by the time the "football emperor" Beckenbauer was born, the scavenger became more flexible - both before and after.
Nowadays, the scavenger is no longer an exclusive name for any position, and many players who are flexible in position, whether in the back line or in midfield, will be given this name.
Zhang Sheng's current use of Ma Yongli is a backcourt scavenger, and he is not limited to the role of a defender on the field, nor is he limited to the role of a midfielder in the middle, and must flexibly go back and forth to the entire area covered between the back line and the midfield.
This tactical position is very demanding of the player, the player has to have a good sense of defence, be able to run, have to have speed and finally have a good ability to play the ball.
In the Longteng team, the only person who barely has this ability in the backfield now is Ma Yongli.
When he is by Deyoung's side, he can sandwich Dejan with his teammates and prevent him from taking the ball easily, and when he is not by Dejan's side, he forms a pressing group with his teammates to cut off Dejan's passing lane.
Jang Seung's change of tactics finally made Seoul FC's offense fall silent again.
Now what Zhang Sheng needs to solve is the problem of attacking in the front court.
Nie Jiang played very hard, which was the main reason why the Longteng team could not play a threat in the past 20 minutes, and it was also an important condition for Seoul FC to be active.
In the first half, Nie Jiang gave Seoul FC great defensive pressure in the front court, so that Seoul FC could not release their offensive ability, and after the start of the second half, Nie Jiang's silence allowed Seoul FC to free up more energy to attack.
It's time to change that.
In fact, Nie Jiang encountered a similar problem as Deyang.
Dejan was very active in the 20 to 30 meters area of the front, so the Dragons used Ma Yongli plus two wide midfielders to pinch him.
Nie Jiang is now being guarded by Osmar and Zhu Shizhong, two midfield players, the only difference from the situation of the Longteng team is that the impact of the two wingers of the Longteng team is too strong, and the two fullbacks of their three central defenders cannot stay in the back from time to time to prevent the side impact of the Longteng team, as for Kim Won-sik in the center, he must do his best to deal with Chavez.
In other words, the Dragons have a central defender who can swim randomly, but not on the Seoul FC side.
Considering this situation, Zhang Sheng gave Nie Jiang more room to move, that is, he could lean on the two sides at any time, and Chavez's run was a little bigger to help Nie Jiang draw defensive attention.
After nearly 30 minutes of intense confrontation in the second half, the physical fitness of the two sides opened up the gap again.
As a team with better skills at the feet, although the distance run by the Longteng team is equal to that of Seoul FC, one is more active in seeking fighters to attack, and the other is passive to follow the defense, Seoul FC is responsible for defending Nie Jiang's Osmar and Zhu Shizhong's physical energy consumption is far more than Nie Jiang.
In a high-level football game, even a goalkeeper who doesn't have much running distance will lose three or four pounds of weight due to 90 minutes of high tension after a game, not to mention players like Osmar and Zhu Shizhong who have been guarding Nie Jiang all the time and have to run constantly.
Many fans often wonder after the game, why a team runs more distance than another team, why it still can't be prevented, why it still concedes the ball, the main reason is that the team with poor technology can only rely on more running distance, keep following the defense to make up for the technical disadvantage.
When Nie Jiang is still able to speed up and expand the range of running, Osmar, especially Zhu Shizhong, who has a yellow card, is obviously a little unable to keep up.
In the thirty-fourth minute of the second half, Nie Jiang pulled the side to the right to meet Xiang Tiange, and Zhu Shizhong also followed the past to defend, but when Nie Jiang and Xiang Tiange, Tao Wentao's triangle attack and Nie Jiang, Xiang Tiange and Chavez switched, Nie Jiang changed direction and accelerated after getting Chavez's return ball, Zhu Shizhong took a step slower, and when Nie Jiang was about to cut inside and prepare to shoot, Zhu Shizhong had to get started and pushed Nie Jiang down at the front of the penalty area.
Fortunately, the referee was merciful, considering that Zhu Shizhong had a yellow card, he just warned him sternly and gave the Longteng team a free kick in front.
Considering that the first goal of the Longteng team was scored by a free kick, when Tao Wentao and Ben Alpha were standing in front of the ball, Seoul FC would not ignore Tao Wentao this time.
After discussing with Tao Wentao, Ben Alpha simply gave Ben Alpha a punishment.
As a result, Ben Arfa's free-kick went just over the crossbar and a very good set-piece opportunity was missed.
Choi Yong-so on the sidelines is also very decisive, and Zhu Shizhong's performance has sounded the alarm for him - the team's physical fitness is about to enter a bottleneck period.
Choi Yong-so replaced Zhu Shizhong with Shen Yuran, who can play both defenders and midfielders, and let this tall player of 1.97 meters come up to encircle and suppress Nie Jiang.
Under normal circumstances, Choi Yong-so's substitution is no problem, and replacing a new force with no distractions can indeed be better than the players who have suffered from gains and losses before, but sometimes such a simple substitution cannot make up for the tactical disadvantage.
In the thirty-seventh minute of the second half, Nie Jiang's diagonal run to the right attracted Shen Yuran's attraction, and in order to implement Choi Yongsu's tactics, even another midfielder, Osmar, also narrowed the distance with Shen Yuran, preventing Nie Jiang's breakthrough at any time and doing a good job in the second layer of defense.
At this time, Chavez also cleverly ran out of the penalty area and stood in the position after Osmar left, and Kim Won-sik, as a central defender, had to leave the penalty area at the same time to follow Chavez.
After Nie Jiang got the ball, he did not make the imaginary action of breaking through with the ball, but knocked the ball back to Tao Wentao steadily.
Tao Wentao had already observed the state of Ben Alpha on the left side before receiving the ball from Nie Jiang, and in the face of the incoming ball, he transferred a large distance and directly handed the ball to the left side, and Ben Alpha was sprinting to the right penalty area of Seoul FC at this time.
Gao Yaohan on the right side of Seoul FC was not as fast as Ben Alfa, let alone started one step late, so he could only watch Ben Alfa rush all the way into the penalty area.
Zhang Sheng's previous tactical arrangement relied on Nie Jiang's diagonal run to attract the opponent's defensive center of gravity, and at the same time, Chavez brought out one of the opponent's central defenders, so that the remaining two central defenders of Seoul FC had to tighten the distance and expose the gap on the side.
This tactic was a success this time, and Ben Arfa took the ball from the side into the box without anyone following him.
Just after entering the penalty area, Ben Alpha made a shot, and when Kim Dong-woo subconsciously raised his leg to block, Ben Alpha made a smash action, completely shaking off Kim Dong-woo's defense, he shot decisively, the speed of the ball was very fast, and when Yoo Sang-hoon saved, the ball passed through Yoo Sang-hoon's legs and rushed into the goal.
Ben Alpha's shot was a small goalkeeper who crossed the goal.
This goal also widened the score gap between Longteng and Seoul FC to 3:0.
The home advantage, the upper physicality and the lack of game time meant that this high-profile battle could be a repeat of the same situation as the Yongteng team beat Seoul FC by a big score once again.