63. Equalize

When a team's offense is not a threat, their defence will be put to the test, especially when they are still facing a team like the Dragons who have the most attacking ability up front. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the thirty-fifth minute of the first half, Shanghai SIPG took the ball from the side again into the penalty area of the Longteng team, Yu Hai was completely at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Liming, his height of 1.83 meters and Liming's height of 1.86 meters was originally a gap, not to mention Liming's bouncing ability was even better, the ball was easily pushed out by Liming, and in the process of Liming jumping up the ball to vacate the air, he even glanced at the position of his teammates.

The ball was accurately headed over to Roque Gill, who was defending at the top of the box.

In the face of Roque Gill's ball, Conca symbolically came up to block it, and this level of grabbing was not a threat to a player like Roque Gill, he squeezed away Conca with a slight squeeze of his body, and then decisively rushed forward with the ball.

When Roque Gill burst in, the rest of the Dragons began to press across the board, and several players up front kept running.

The first to come over to answer was Xiong Jian.

After receiving the ball from Roque Gill, he felt that Davi was interfering with him behind him, and did not force him to turn or think about passing him, but knocked Roque Gill's pass and began to turn and cut forward, which was a very beautiful wall-hitting combination.

Shanghai SIPG hurriedly began to make corresponding defensive arrangements, Cai Huikang began to stare at Xiong Jian, who was reflexively inserted, and Dawei ran over to defend Roque Gill, who rushed forward with the ball.

Roque Gill is still very clear about his positioning, and when he saw Davey coming, he chose to pass the ball out as soon as possible, and the task of organizing the attack was handed over to a more suitable teammate.

It was Tao Wentao who came to answer.

At this time, Shanghai SIPG had just finished a failed attack, and the two backs in the back, Dawei and Cai Huikang, went to stare at the corresponding people respectively, so Tao Wentao's position was completely empty.

As a central defender, Jin Zhourong had to rush up to defend Tao Wentao, and in the face of Tao Wentao's dribbling into the border defense, he did not dare to go out too casually to rob, in addition to being afraid of the failure of the robbery to make a big mistake, he is very familiar with Tao Wentao, this is a group of players whose foot skills are the top in the Chinese Super League.

Tao Wentao's sense of rhythm with the ball is very good, the position of the ball is always only about 80-120 cm from his feet, as a player who is not too fast, he is extremely fast with the ball, which is very different from those who have no ball or no confrontation, run fast, known as "fast horse", once there is a ball at the foot or encounter someone interferes with the player who stops and looks at three passes.

In fact, the latter is also a common problem for many Chinese players.

Many coaches are eager to catch all the athletes who practice sprinting when selecting materials, and in their opinion, speed is a great advantage.

It's a true idea, because footballers have a huge advantage in both offense and defense if they are fast enough.

But football is not running, and speed is not everything.

In the history of Chinese football, there are countless players known as "fast horses", such as Zheng Long, Liu Bingbing, Wang Tong, Lv Zheng, Qu Bo earlier, Dong Fangzhuo, Gao Feng, Yao Xia, Xie Feng and others.

It's nothing more than Hao Haidong's highlight performance is a little longer, but even Hao Haidong, when he arrives at a game like the World Cup, he will find that his so-called speed is useless, and in the end it is still unnoticed.

In the final analysis, it is their ability to combine the ball and the ball is too poor.

Just look at two of the most high-profile players in world football today – Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo – to see the difference between them.

Someone once analyzed the difference between the two of them with the ball, when Messi dribbles the ball, the distance between the ball and Messi always fluctuates within 80 centimeters, and the fluctuation range is very small, so when we watch Messi dribble, we will feel that the ball is like sticking to Messi's feet, others run over to break the ball, Messi can quickly change the direction of the ball, or pass the ball; but when Ronaldo carries the ball, the ball fluctuates between 70-180 cm, because the ball is far away, it is relatively easy to be broken, but Ronaldo has an advantage that his body is extremely strong, and the speed is also very fast, he can firmly protect the opponent under the confrontation。

Tao Wentao's physical fitness can only be said to be average, and the fluctuation range of his dribbling is far from Messi's, but it is absolutely enough at the level of the Chinese Super League.

Therefore, when Jin Zhourong faced Tao Wentao, he could only choose the most secure border retreat.

Once a player like Tao Wentao is in such an advantage of holding the ball, the opponent's defense is already in jeopardy, and sure enough, when he saw that Jin Zhourong was only stuck in the position and did not grab, he did not have a good chance to break through, and decisively passed the ball out, this time his ball was passed to Pato on the right side.

This time defending Pato is the veteran Sun Xiang, seeing Pato take the ball, he chose the best way - to squeeze Pato to the sideline, but unfortunately this approach can only prevent Pato from breaking through, can not prevent Pato from passing, when the ball to Pato's feet, he did not waste this opportunity to quickly counterattack, the first time he chose to pass, and it was Xiong Jian who came to respond.

At this time, you can see Xiong Jian's ability, he is worthy of being called Lin Feng's successor, he is observing all the time, in the running position, after passing the ball at the first time, after seeing the cooperation of his teammates, he decisively ran from the middle to the right to come over, and at the same time brought Cai Huikang, who was defending him, also brought over.

After receiving Pato's pass, he also used a style of play similar to Lin Feng, a straight plug with a non-stop ball, and the ball passed through the gap exposed after Jin Zhourong went to the top, while Nie Jiang was successful in his run.

After receiving Xiong Jian's pass, he shot decisively, this shot was very powerful, although Yan Junling made a save, but he didn't dare to hold the ball, he could only hit the ball with his fist.

After the football was hit by Yan Junling, it was biased to the left, and Ben Alpha had been waiting for this moment for a long time, facing Yan Junling who was still on the ground, Ben Alpha easily hit the empty goal, and the Longteng team equalized the score with an extremely sharp counterattack.

Zhang Sheng jumped up excitedly when he saw Ben Alpha's goal on the sidelines, this goal came too critically, after the team fell behind, Shanghai SIPG kept endangering their team's penalty area, so that the two young central defenders defended the penalty area under great pressure, no one knew when the two of them would make mistakes again, and now this goal has completely stabilized the players.

After the goal, Ben Alpha slid on his back on the pitch after a sliding kneeling, and the Dragons team members ran over to hold him down and began to celebrate wildly.

Duan Xuan also applauded the beautiful goal of the Longteng team: "The attack of the Longteng team is so beautiful, this is completely relying on the pass to completely empty the back line of Shanghai SIPG, from the first kick of Roque Gill's pass, the players of the Longteng team are actively running. ”

Then he looked at the replay of the goal in slow motion and said, "Look, everybody. Roque Gill passed the first kick, and it was Xiong Jian, followed by a non-stop collision with the ball, and the ball was handed to Roque Gill, and then Roque Gill's ball was handed to Tao Wentao, Tao Wentao did not carry the ball much, and directly gave the ball to Pato, who then handed it to Xiong Jian, to see how much Xiong Jian would run. Next is Xiong Jian's straight stopper, Nie Jiang's shot and Ben Alpha's supplementary shot, basically one touch in the middle, one pass, Shanghai SIPG has no chance to stand firm in the defensive formation at all, and losing the ball is an inevitable result. ”

After the equalizer, the Longteng team gradually began to take over the initiative on the field, and Xiong Jian used his non-stop running up and down in the midfield to become the most eye-catching player in the game.

Even Zhou Ning was surprised by Xiong Jian's performance: "In the past, the midfield tandem of the Longteng team was completed by Lin Feng, and Xiong Jian didn't have many opportunities to play as a substitute, but I didn't expect a dozen starters to perform so amazingly, this team is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger." ”

When the commentator was still praising his team, Zhang Sheng, as the head coach, looked at Xiong Jian's performance, but he was very calm.

Xiong Jian's excellent performance in addition to his ability is acceptable, the biggest credit is still due to the team's entire coaching staff, after several years of unswervingly following the same tactical style, through the strict selection of tactical players suitable for the team, the Longteng team has now basically moved towards a virtuous circle.

As long as the players who have been cultivated in the Longteng team for a certain period of time, they can quickly integrate into the team as a whole under Zhang Sheng's various system items.

Therefore, you can often see that many players of the Longteng team can have a very amazing performance when they play for the first time, and Zhang Sheng spares no effort to give these players the opportunity to play, and their growth has always been very fast.

Especially for a player like Xiong Jian, he basically used Lin Feng as a template when he summoned, and he seemed to be comfortable when he took Lin Feng's position.

This is also Zhang Shengken's confidence to sell players easily, in fact, this is also Zhang Sheng's preparation for the future all-Chinese class.

As the Longteng team grasped the initiative on the field, the pressure on the back line was greatly reduced, and Liming gradually reflected that he had an advantage over Du Zhenyu, that is, his foot skills were much better than Du Zhenyu.

After trying the first kick to the midfielder, Liming gradually took over the ball from Du Zhenyu's feet.

In the 43rd minute of the first half, the attack of the Longteng team in the front court could not penetrate the defense of Shanghai SIPG at the first time, and after the ball returned to the feet of Roque Gill, it was passed to Liming, and the formation of Shanghai SIPG was slightly pressed.

Dawn, who was on the right side of the back, had already observed the situation on the pitch when he received the ball, and he moved the ball from the right to the left with great precision.

At this time, Ben Alpha on the left side had just attracted the defensive attention of defender Cai Huikang and SIPG right wingback Wang Shenchao by running, and Xiao Yunfan took the opportunity to assist forward.

Liming's transfer of the ball was very beautiful, after bypassing Evra, who tried to top the ball in the frontcourt, the ball accurately found Xiao Yunfan, and the landing point was a little in front of Xiao Yunfan's high-speed running body.

This kind of pass allows Xiao Yunfan to quickly get the ball without making any pauses, and then go down or cut inside.

Duan Xuan also praised Liming's pass when he saw it: "Liming's transfer of the ball is so beautiful, this young player's vision is really broad, and his footwork is good enough." ”

In the sound of Duan Xuan's commentary, Xiao Yunfan took the ball comfortably and resolutely cut inside, and in the face of the defense of the SIPG defenders, he shot on the edge of the penalty area after a few consecutive lateral strokes.

Xiao Yunfan is worthy of being the one who played many years ago, and this shot is still very threatening, and the ball crosses an arc and flies straight to the right post of the goal.

Fortunately, Shi Ke, another central defender of SIPG, blocked it with his leg on the way to the ball, and the ball flew out of the bottom line.

With Xiao Yunfan's shot, both teams had no good chances, and in the end the two sides fought 1:1 in the first half.

Zhang Sheng, who returned to the locker room, called to inquire about Lu Zhihui's condition, and the situation from the hospital was not very good, Lu Zhihui had a cracked eye corner, and his eyebrow bone was also fractured, and it was accompanied by short-term amnesia, and now the hospital is conducting a CT examination on him.

Zhang Sheng couldn't help sighing, it seems that in the next round or two, he can only use Liming as a substitute.

Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng went over and asked Liming how he felt in the first half of the game: "How was it, I was in such a hurry to play in the first half, have you adapted to it now?"

Dawn nodded hurriedly and said, "It's okay, coach." I was nervous at first, but now it's much better. ”

"That's fine. Listen to Du Zhenyu and Zhou Wei's arrangements on the field, they have more experience than you. Then Zhang Sheng turned his head to Du Zhenyu and said, "Zhenyu, remind Liming's position in the second half, and the command of the defense in this game will be handed over." ”

Du Zhenyu nodded hurriedly.

In the end, Zhang Sheng told Zhou Zhou again and asked him to help Liming more, after all, as the captain on the field, this is his responsibility.

Sure enough, after the start of the second half, Shanghai SIPG was not obsessed with hanging high balls in the penalty area, and began to frequently impact the position guarded by Dawn.

At this time, Zhang Sheng's halftime arrangement had an effect.

During the sports war, Du Zhenyu will explain who will rob and who will be responsible for delaying, and Zhou Zhou will also come to the penalty area to help Liming when Du Zhenyu is robbing;

Therefore, SIPG's many impacts on Liming were all in vain under the assistance of the Longteng team's backline.

Of course, their attacking style also makes the Longteng team's backline obviously a little timid, and the Longteng's often used style of play that starts to pass the ball forward from the back line to organize the attack has been greatly affected.