62. Shake hands and make peace
Before this game, Zhang Sheng received a fax document from the Football Association, which has confirmed that Zhou Hai and Sun Yu will be recruited to participate in the East Asian semifinals, and hopes that they can report directly to the national team after this round of the league. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhou Hai is good as a player who has been selected for the national team, after all, he has already had the experience of the national team, and he has a record of playing, and his performance has been unanimously recognized by the outside world.
And Sun Yu was very excited. As a player who was squeezed out of the player position by the relation, left the team in anger and wandered around, and suffered a lot of cold eyes, now he can have the opportunity to participate in the national team competition, although he is destined to be only a substitute, Sun Yu is still very excited.
At the same time, there are also excited fans who came to watch the game this time.
Since the Longteng team began to win consecutive victories, the entire Jiangcheng ball market has become very hot, as the Longteng team began to attack the winning streak of the Chinese League, the fans of the Longteng team's home games began to rise sharply, and the attendance rate of the stadium has also risen from the previous 56,000 thousand people, after the Longteng team broke the winning streak of the Xiamen Blue Lions, the attendance reached a peak of the Longteng team this season - 10,000. This is also the upper limit of the number of people who can enter the stadium in Wuchang District according to the rules of the Chinese Football Association. Since that game, the attendance of the Dragons' home games has started to fill up.
Of course, this is also related to the sluggish performance of the Longteng's fellow city team, Jiangcheng Zhuoer. So far this season, the Chinese Super League has passed the halfway point, and Jiangcheng Zall only has a record of 12 losses and 3 draws, and has not tasted a win, the performance can be said to be extremely disappointing, and has booked a relegation seat in the Chinese Super League this season in advance.
Originally, before the start of this season, Jiangcheng fans gave a lot of hope to Jiangcheng Zhuoer. However, with the chaotic preparation of Zall before the season, the change of the team's home stadium, and the disappointing performance afterwards, Jiangcheng fans decisively gave up their expectations of Zall in a decisive way.
On the contrary, it was the sudden emergence of the Longteng team that gave Jiangcheng fans a big surprise, this young emerging team that only broke into the FA Cup final when it was still playing in the second division last year did not disappoint the fans this year, and made persistent efforts to play at a very high level, with fifteen consecutive victories in the middle league. And after being sent a large number of main players to participate in the World Youth Championships, they still swept all opponents, and at the same time, the national youth team dominated by the Longteng team also won the best results of the Chinese national team in history.
Therefore, Jiangcheng fans gradually focused their attention on the Longteng team, for example, before this game, all the tickets were sold out, and the scalpers outside the stadium also began to be active.
For this game, Henan Jianye takes it very seriously, because they know that if this game does not take advantage of the fact that a large number of main players of the Longteng team cannot come back in the World Youth Championships, then it is a distant thing to defeat the Longteng team in the future.
Before the game, Henan Jianye's head coach Tang Yaodong said to the players: "In the last game, we lost. In addition to the strength of the opponent, we were really careless at the beginning of that game. So in this game, many of the opponent's main players are not there, but we can no longer be careless, judging from the game during this time, even if those main players are not there, they still have strong foreign aid and 2 international players in the team, plus the strength of their substitute players is not bad, so look at their results to know that we can't take it lightly. We had to give 100 per cent in this game. ”
Zhang Sheng's pre-match arrangement was very calm: "We still 'focus on me' and just play our own tactics." ”
After the start of the game, Henan Jianye, who got the right to kick off, played very cautiously, they were not in a hurry to attack, but played a defensive counterattack. The Dragons, on the other hand, insisted on their ground offensive tactics and began to press up front.
Because McGovern recovered from injury not long ago, in this game, the Longteng team still let him play as a substitute, and the main starting central defenders were Ma Yongli and Lu Zhihui. And they have to face a new foreign striker who has just arrived in Jianye in the second transfer - Bundesliga striker Rafael, who is a very strong black striker.
In the 10th minute of the first half, the new signing almost scored. After the Longteng team used smooth offensive tactics to kick the ball to Henan Jianye's backfield, Wen Kai's shot was blocked by Liu Fangming. After getting the ball, the Jianye team immediately launched a long pass attack, the midfielder's Katongo in the face of Kante's defense to the header and distributed the ball to the side, Zhang Lu on the side directly kicked up 45 degrees to adjust the penalty area, Rafael used his strong body to squeeze away from Ma Yongli, who was marking himself, and then a lion's header hit the crossbar, and the Longteng team escaped a catastrophe.
Zhang Sheng, who was standing on the sidelines, couldn't help frowning, judging from the opening 10 minutes of the game, the Jianye team deserved to maintain the strength of the Chinese Super League, and their players did not fall behind in the face of the Longteng team like other Chinese teams in the confrontation on the field.
In particular, their midfielder Katongo is still very strong, and he clearly has the upper hand in the confrontation with Kante, which of course has something to do with Kante's relatively short stature. Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng gestured to the field, and had to let Sun Yu be responsible for marking Katongo, and Kante was responsible for the tandem with the frontcourt players.
After Sun Yu began to mark Katongo, the Longteng team gradually regained its disadvantage in the high-ball confrontation in the midfield, and Henan Jianye's high-ball tactics were curbed to a certain extent.
But soon Jianye team changed tactics, they began to use the through ball in the midfield many times, and Sun Yu, who was responsible for marking Katongo, had to prevent his acceleration again and again, fortunately, Kante was still very advantageous in terms of speed, and his assistance allowed the Longteng team to completely block Katongo's attack in the midfield.
The Dragons began their own attack.
In the 21st minute of the first half, the Longteng team showed why it was able to crush the strength of the Chinese League, and it was Sun Yu who was responsible for connecting with the backfield this time. After he got the ball, he quickly handed the ball to Kante, who played Ivo in midfield and Yu Bo in front of the triangle attack, and finally Mahrez used his skills to break through the right wing of the Jianye team, and Wenkai swept the ball into the goal after receiving Mahrez's pass.
The attack was very fast from the launch of the attack to the goal, and the Dragons basically used a pass in the midfield, while Mahrez was the last tempo changer. This is also the reason why the Longteng team was able to score consecutive goals before, the Longteng team has Mahrez, Ivo, Qin Minghao, Xu Mingyu and other players with superior skills at the foot in the frontcourt, and they are all able to use their strength in the front court to suddenly change the rhythm of the game, which is also the biggest distress of many teams when defending the Longteng team, because several frontcourt players of the Longteng team have the ability to change the game alone.
After the goal, the Longteng team received a round of applause from the fans in the stands, and the commentator Ding Fan also said: "Another typical Longteng team-style goal." Open up the gap with successive passes from midfield, then take advantage of Mahrez's sudden acceleration to break down the opposition formation, and finally the striker or someone from other positions in the front field inserts into the box to get a shot. It's a goal like that. ”
After gaining the lead, the Longteng team began to further compress the space of Henan Jianye, and Henan Jianye insisted on hanging the ball into the penalty area to play high.
In the 41st minute of the first half, Henan Jianye's insistence had an effect, Katongo once again got the ball in the midfield, this time he no longer insisted on playing in the middle after getting the ball, but played with the right side, Zhang Lu on the right side and Katongo played a one-two cooperation, and Katongo directly from the bottom of the ball found Rafael in the penalty area. This time, Rafael used his physical advantage to head the ball into the goal of the Dragons.
The Jianye team equalized the score, and this goal really showed the strength of the Jianye team at the super level.
In the face of this goal, Zhang Sheng also knew that his physical confrontation in the back line was still insufficient, and it seemed that Ma Yongli's physical condition and header ability were still not enough to compete with the black and hard black foreign aid.
After the end of the first half, Zhang Sheng replaced Ma Yongli with McGovern to strengthen the air defense in the backfield. The situation in the second half really improved, McGovern was tall enough, strong enough, and good enough headers to completely limit Rafael, and at the same time exposed another shortcoming of Rafael, that is, the technical movements of this foreign striker are very slow, whether it is the cadence of the feet or the movement speed is very poor.
Henan Jianye, whose effective offense was contained, was completely at a disadvantage, and they had to rely only on Kaonego's ability to play counterattacks, and it was a very simple straight pass, using Kaonego's speed to threaten the Longteng team's defense, but this offensive method was too simple and crude. The Dragons, whether it is N'Golo Kante in midfield or Lu Zhihui in the back, have enough pace to limit this attacking style.
However, this offensive method also has a very big advantage for Henan Jianye, that is, there are enough people left in the backfield, and there are enough people in defense. The Longteng team just finished a FA Cup match three days ago, and the players' physical fitness is not in the best condition, so they are slightly lacking in the running of the frontcourt, and the corresponding attack is not so sharp. And now there are too few substitutes for the Longteng team, and Zhang Sheng can't rely on substitutions to gain an advantage.
In the end, the game also ended with a score of 1:1. The winning streak of the Longteng team came to an abrupt end, and Henan Jianye maintained its undefeated record. (To be continued.) )