32. Pre-game

In fact, Lippi has another big advantage in bringing in Diamanti, that is, Diamanti is Italian. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

In Lippi's opinion. Physically, Conca is relatively thin, while the 1.80-meter-tall Diamanti has been in Serie A and the Premier League for many years, and has good confrontation ability and physical condition. In terms of personality, Diamanti is more open-minded, while Conca is relatively reserved and shy. Cheerful personality and easy to help Diamanti adapt to the new team environment. And Diamanti also has advantages that outsiders can't match. He is Italian and is able to adapt to the various tactical plays and changes of the Italian coach. In the Italian national team, Diamanti is an important pawn in Prandelli's change of team play. From Evergrande's point of view, the 2014 season is a season for the Chinese Super League giants to strive for four crowns and defend the AFC Champions League. For Lippi, he wanted to choose a player he was familiar with and who could quickly integrate into his tactical style of play, preferably one that could plug and play and work seamlessly. The most likely identity of this person, then, must be an Italian player, or a player who has been cultivated in the Italian football system.

At the same time, Diamanti has another advantage, that is, he has a Chinese wife. As a Taiwanese wife, Sylvia was able to help Diamanti understand and adapt to the Eastern environment and way of thinking. And Diamanti, who has been adrift in Italy and England, should be trusted to adapt to unfamiliar environments.

It's a pity that Lippi is too high on the strength of domestic players, in his opinion, if Diamanti, who has these advantages, can take domestic players to play the overall tactics together, then this season's Guangzhou Evergrande will be able to make qualitative changes in tactics, so that Lippi's optimistic European overall play tactics can play its role, and crush other teams again in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League.

In Lippi's thinking, the 4231 he mainly plays, the front 1, is most suitable for the strong and impactful Elkeson, Muric is still suitable for the left wing diagonal cut to create a killing opportunity, leaving Diamanti with two positions, one is the front midfield, and the other is the right side. Conca's departure just gave up the midfield position and gave Diamanti a chance to play.

It's a pity that the awareness of domestic players is not in place, the running can't keep up, Elkeson is not in the best condition, and Muric is not in the state, which led to the later trip to West Asia, which completely failed Lippi's plan.

In this way, Diamanti's dribbling is not as practical as Conca, it seems to be tall and strong but may not have Conca to resist and get rid of, the organizational ability is qualified but not excellent, and occasionally can give a stunning straight stopper, but you want him to control the field for 90 minutes to point where to play and create victory, he can't have such strength, 30 meters of the hinterland is not as decisive as Conca, standing in the forward position is actually not longer than the organization but longer than the goal, standing in the forward position, it is not suitable to be a fulcrum and suitable as an assaulter, Diamanti lacks the ability to walk freely in the offensive three areas of the Chinese Super League, and leisurely comb the midfield。

These weaknesses have been infinitely magnified this season.

In fact, in all fairness, Diamanti still brought out his advantages, but in a league like the Chinese Super League that needs foreign aid to carry, carry, and run with the team on his back, once such an effect cannot be achieved, then the high transfer fee has become a lingering haze for them, and Diamanti's situation is exactly like this.

At the same time, there is another player that must be mentioned is another player introduced by Evergrande throughout the season - back Rene.

As the first foreign aid introduced by Evergrande just after last season, Rene is not too high-profile, because as a player who has only participated in the Brazilian Primera League for two years and was sold to play in Asia, everyone does not value him too much, when he transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande, the outside world unanimously speculated that his transfer fee was between 1 million and 2 million, but from the financial report disclosed after Guangzhou Evergrande was listed, Rene's transfer fee was as high as 5 million euros.

Based on Rene's two years of experience in the Brazilian league, and especially his performances during Santos' highlights, it seems that he is an all-round modern midfielder who can adapt to any position in central midfield. At the same time, he is also known as "Yaya Toure", which not only has the unique super flexibility of Brazilian players, but also has the strong physical fitness of black players, high tactical literacy, comprehensive technology and strong explosiveness and aggression. The defensive ability is very outstanding, full of physical energy, tenacious will, with a strong sense of position, position selection and air dominance, the defensive area covers the entire midfield, and the feet are very clean, never rely on malicious fouls to stop the opponent's attack, never won a red card in his career, known as the "steal master" of the Brazilian league; Excellent anticipation ability to intercept the opponent's attack, and can also be the pivot of the team's offensive and defensive transitions, using skillful ball control, accurate passing to quickly start the attack, and timely forward to complete the fatal blow. This player has a very comprehensive range of attributes and unlimited potential, and is a rare all-round midfielder in the Asian arena.

But in the later Evergrande competition, his performance told everyone - you have lost your eyes. He went from being a futuristic box-to-box type of all-round Super League player to an x**t midfielder.

Rene is indeed very brave on the court, as long as he is on the field, Rene must be very eye-catching, especially in the backcourt interception and steal. But his most lethal thing is that he almost doesn't share the ball at the first time, he insists on dribbling, and sometimes he has to force the ball until he loses it.

Historically, in the 2014 season, due to the fact that he threw the ball to make the opponent counter-attack, formed a threat, shot and even conceded points, he could not count the ten fingers, and the ball was broken from his side, and he was beaten and counterattacked to break the goal 4 times.

Unlike other players who are cut off the ball in the attack, Rene is broken because he steals the opponent in the backfield or receives the ball from the opponent to form a flat situation, at this time the Evergrande players press on and attack across the board, Rene's choice is not to divide the ball before the opposing player is close, he is always a choice to force a breakthrough to the defensive line. Sometimes I am lucky to give a free kick, but the opponent has no obvious foul, and the referee does not blow it or give the opponent a fatal counterattack, because it is difficult to quickly return to the defense when pressing on a large amount at this time.

So Rene may be okay to play as a striker, after all, the main task of a striker is to do finishing moves, and it is understandable that he is strong and good. As a midfielder, he has done more damage to the team than he has contributed. This is also the reason why he was later sold back to Brazil after a long injury.

Originally, according to Lippi's idea, Zheng Zhi would slowly fade out of the team this season, and Gao Jun would take over Zheng Zhi as the position on the field, while Rene was responsible for interception and stealing in the backfield, but unfortunately Rene's style of play made Lippi have to give him up. In fact, when Rene transferred from Santos to Evergrande, he was already in the position of a substitute player in the team, and when he transferred to Evergrande, many Santos fans applauded on the Internet, and his performance in most of the season gave people a lot of illusions.

Before this game, another good thing for the Longteng team is that Guangzhou Evergrande is now full of injuries and the international players are tired.

Before the game, Lippi confirmed that Muric, Zhao Xuri, Feng Xiaoting and Zeng Cheng were definitely absent. Zheng Zhi, Gao Lin, Rong Hao, and Huang Bowen, who had just participated in the national team competition, also returned to Guangzhou on the afternoon of the 6th, and they went to the Middle East, and then the humiliating 1-3 defeat away from home made them physically and mentally exhausted. South Korean foreign aid Kim Yingquan rushed back to Guangzhou from Greece on the morning of the 7th. Therefore, it is a question whether the physical fitness of these international players can cope with the opening game, and Wang Yongpo of Luneng was arranged to rest in the first game of the Chinese Super League.

And because of the departure of Sun Yu and Zhou Hai, there are no international players in the team for the time being, although in Zhang Sheng's idea, there are many players in his team who have the strength of international players, but after all, as a Chinese Super League promotion horse, he has not played well in the Chinese Super League, and there is no way to talk about international players. But Zhang Sheng knows that as long as his players play well in the Chinese Super League, there will be many players selected for the national team in the future.

At the press conference before the game, Lippi was sad, and when the reporter asked him about the injuries and fatigue of the Evergrande team, Lippi also replied very cautiously: "Now there are indeed big injury problems in our team, and the lack of physical fitness of several national team players also has a certain problem for them, but I believe that it is we who win in the end." ”

When asked by reporters how he treats Pato, Lippi replied: "Pato used to be a player that I admired a lot and a series of injuries took his toll on him, but I think he's still a very good player and we'll focus on him in this game. ”

In fact, in the season shortly after Pato arrived in Milan, Lippi was also full of praise for Pato, he once said: Pato was the only one who allowed me to sit in front of the TV with such interest last weekend. Pato has all the qualities of a striker, passing, dribbling, shooting, right and left foot, very good mental quality, and most importantly, he has a greater desire to win than the world champions at AC Milan, which makes him always look full of energy, and in time he will become the greatest player in the world. If he were an Italian international, maybe I would still be interested in the World Cup.

This shows Lippi's affection for Pato.

When the reporter interviewed Zhang Sheng, Zhang Sheng also reflected the importance of Pato: "He is the most experienced player in our team, and he is also very enthusiastic to help his teammates in the team. ”

When asked by reporters how to deal with this game, Zhang Sheng was very modest: "The loss of our players this season is very serious, and Evergrande's reinforcements this season are very good, plus this is Evergrande's home stadium, our goal in this game is to try to take away points." (To be continued.) )