76. Luneng's weakness
In the official game, the Longteng team played very actively at Luneng's home stadium, and the team continued the usual oppressive high-pressing style of play, while the team like Luneng, which was most afraid of pressing, fell into passivity at once. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
The high pressing here does not refer to a simple upper grab, but the overall oppression. Because to say that it is necessary to press high, after Kuka came this season, many games of Shandong Luneng relied on the pressing of front-court players to play well in the Chinese Super League, and the last Chinese Super League was a 0:3 away victory over the league's first-ranked Beijing Guoan, Loew's three goals were wonderful, originally thought that this big win could maximize the team's morale, but in the most critical life-and-death battle of the week was reversed by Osaka Sakura 1-2. Luneng scored 5 points in 6 games, setting the fewest AFC Champions League points in team history, and bid farewell to the AFC Champions League after three consecutive defeats, which made the outside world quite dissatisfied.
A big reason for Shandong Luneng's poor AFC Champions League record is that they are very flustered when they encounter Japanese and South Korean teams that really rely on overall pressure and high pressing, which is also the reason why Shandong Luneng often loses by large scores when they encounter a rare overall pressing style of play in China like Guangzhou Evergrande.
Shandong Luneng can have a good record in the face of other domestic teams is to rely on the strength of strong domestic players and foreign aid players in their own team, several stars in the front court can cause a lot of pressure on other Chinese Super League teams through the oppressive style of play, but their front-court pressing is only relying on a few offensive players to fight alone, and the overall formation is not integrated into the pressing, so it is often the players in the front court who are very tired, and can no longer support the attack in the back, after the team conceded the first goal or was equalized, Luneng could not play the previous offensive rhythm and routine, which is actually an important reason why Luneng lost all the past three AFC Champions League gamesγ
On the other hand, in the game of the Longteng team, the overall pressing style of play has always been the tactic they adhere to, whether it is from the team just established, or after the second division, the first division or the Chinese Super League now, this style of play has been insisted on for more than 3 years, no matter how the team's players change, this tactic has never changed.
Like Guangzhou Evergrande, the ones who can support the Longteng team's style of play are those super players in the team. Of course, this style of play of the Longteng team has very high physical requirements for the team's players, if you can't get the lead through the early stage of the game, you will encounter a lot of problems later, which is also the reason why the Longteng team is not as good as before after entering the Chinese Super League. In the previous low-level league, often the Longteng team's oppressive style of play in the first half has already determined the advantage, and in the second half, it relied on the passing control style of play to kill time, and the victory was hand-to-hand, and now it is time to reach the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, once it is difficult to win in the first half, the second half can only rely on the pass control to slowly find opportunities.
However, there is no problem with the physical fitness of the Longteng team, the AFC Champions League that ended on the 22nd has been 5 days since the Chinese Super League game on the 27th, and the players' physical fitness has long been restored, so the Longteng team played very actively after the opening, and the corresponding advantage was established very early.
In the 14th minute of the first half, the Longteng team succeeded in the front court's forced counter-robbery, and Wang Yongpo passed the ball too little in a panic, so that Lin Feng easily got the ball, and after taking the ball, Lin Feng decisively gave the ball to Yu Bo who was inserted on the side, Yu Bo knocked the ball horizontally to Wen Kai who came to answer, Wen Kai gave the ball to Lin Feng, Lin Feng stuffed the ball straight to Pato who was inserted, at this time Luneng central defender Dewey's weakness of turning slowly was very obvious, in the words of the fans describing him: " By the time Dewey turned around, the team could already kick off again in midfield. β
For a player like Pato, a second of inattentive defense can make him a threat, let alone a player like Dewey who is 3 seconds slower, Pato formed a single knife after entering the penalty area, and then shot successfully before Dai Lin came to defend, Wang Dalei just symbolically stretched out his hand to this shot and watched the ball go into the net, and the Longteng team led 0:1 away.
Seeing the goal of the Longteng team, Duan Xuan said: "Oh~~~~~, this goal is really fast, from Lin Feng's breaking the ball to Pato's goal, there is only no more than 1 minute, and the key is the continuous passing of those few feet without pause, which penetrated the defense of the Shandong Luneng team at once, which is really the style of the Longteng team." β
Zhang Sheng was very calm about this goal, because he knew that his team's tactical style was the most against a team like Shandong Luneng, and he knew before the game that once Shandong Luneng could not stabilize his mentality, this game was likely to be a big defeat.
Compared with Zhang Sheng's relaxed applause on the sidelines, Shandong Luneng's head coach Kuka roared loudly on the sidelines, because this kind of loss of the ball after being tackled in the backfield is something that every coach cannot tolerate.
If it is the opponent who relies on the overall cooperation from the back to the front court to press over step by step to score, or even an extremely fast defensive counterattack to lose the ball, Kuka feels that it is acceptable, after all, it is acceptable to be defeated by the opponent in a dignified manner, but if such a backcourt is stealed and then loses the ball, in Kuka's view, it is purely the players' own lack of concentration.
Kuka shouted loudly to Wang Yongpo on the sidelines: "This is a game, not a game you usually play on the training ground, concentrate your attention." β
Although Wang Yongpo's shouting felt very wronged, after all, he never expected the Longteng team's frontcourt pressing style to be so sharp, but in any case, this conceded goal was due to his own passing error. Wang Yongpo could only stretch out his hand to Kuka, and nodded at the same time, indicating that he would work harder in the future.
In fact, this is also related to the underestimation of the players of the Shandong Luneng team on the Longteng team, after all, as a Chinese Super League giant, their past achievements are far more dazzling than the Longteng team, not to mention the length of the team's history, Shandong Luneng players are still very proud of their team's heritage, Zhou Hai's transfer from the Longteng team to Shandong Luneng before this season is the best example.
Zhou Hai finally played out and was favored by the national team, and transferred to Shandong Luneng the next year, but the Longteng team now has no international players in the team, in the eyes of Shandong Luneng players, an international player is willing to come to his own team like this, which is in line with the nature of people's "people go up, water flows low", Shandong Luneng must be stronger than the Longteng team, so Zhou Hai will come to Luneng.
After conceding the goal, Shandong Luneng's players are generally very angry, in their opinion, the goal of the Longteng team is a shameless sneak attack, and the strength of the Longteng team is not as good as their own.
Sure enough, after that, Shandong Luneng's players performed more actively, and the players in the midfield and backfield no longer seemed a little slow as before the game, everyone tried to strengthen their running, and even Zheng Zheng, who has always been considered the most "lazy" on the team's back line, ran more than in the previous game.
Finding a suitable substitute for Zheng Zheng has always been what Shandong Luneng has been doing, Zheng Zheng's performance at the beginning of his debut was very amazing, and he won a lot of praise, his physical condition is very good, he has a long-range shot, and the quality of free kicks is high, but Shandong Luneng can have a good performance in the position of left fullback, which also leads to him becoming Shandong Luneng's "full diligence king", long-term double-line combat without rest time so that the distance he runs each game is gradually decreasing, so that he later became " Shandong Luneng Pacers", Zheng Zheng's performance on the court and walking state in the game when the Chinese national team lost 1:5 to the Thai youth team were scolded by fans across the country.
This is also the reason why Shandong Luneng Ken spent a lot of money to buy Zhou Hai from the Longteng team before this season, in fact, Shandong Luneng unanimously believes that Zhou Hai's strength is inferior to Zheng Zheng. After Zhou Hai came to Shandong Luneng this season, he has been used as Zheng Zheng's substitute, but Shandong Luneng's multi-line battle still gave Zhou Hai a lot of opportunities, but when it came to an important game, Zheng Zheng was still playing the main force, but in any case, Shandong Luneng still found a qualified substitute for Zheng Zheng.
So when Zheng Zheng wants to run now, he still has enough physical strength to support him.
When Luneng's players began to run, the Longteng team's high-level pressing was not so effective, and in addition to the midfield, several players in the front of Luneng were more fierce, obviously they also wanted to return the Longteng team's broken ball in the frontcourt.
Seeing Shandong Luneng playing so fiercely now, even Duan Xuan was surprised: "Luneng obviously accelerated the pace after losing the ball, I have watched a lot of their games, it is rare to see them running and pressing so wildly, I don't know if the Longteng team can withstand this wave of counterattack of the Luneng team." β
Zhou Ning, who is partnering next to him, is quite optimistic about the Longteng team: "I don't think Luneng's style of play may be effective." I have a good relationship with the Dragons, and I can often explain their games, and from the games I have commentated, I found that the players of the Dragons have a common characteristic, that is, they are not afraid of pressing. Their players generally have good foot skills, the basic skills of passing and receiving the ball are very solid, I dare not say what they can do in the face of that kind of European strong team, but at least with the strength of the current Chinese Super League team and the team in the AFC Champions League, there are few opponents who can completely suppress them, even Guangzhou Evergrande is difficult. β
In fact, the current situation on the field also confirms Zhou Ning's statement, Shandong Luneng players after a wave of crazy grabbing, soon the physical strength is not enough to support them for such a long time and high-intensity running, and the pressing is naturally loosened, and the Longteng team that has the ball naturally controls the situation on the field, and they begin to suppress Shandong Luneng in their strongest position - the midfielder.
The Dragons, who gained the advantage in midfield, quickly played several beautiful attacks. These attacks are not the first goal after the front steal, but the dignified use of tactical and player technical advantages to form a suppression.
The Longteng team was able to suppress Shandong Luneng offensively, which was also related to Luneng's unfavorable attack after encountering a strong team.
Luneng's offensive disadvantage is mainly due to the fact that the positions of several players have not been properly arranged, such as Loew instead of Montillo who was placed in the forward midfield position in this game.
This season, Shandong Luneng introduced Montillo, the two-time Brazilian Liga MVP runner-up and the substitute for Messi, the core of the Argentine national team, and did not put him in the familiar position of the front midfield, but let the former Brazilian main striker introduced last season play the front midfield, and Montillo had to be active on the side all the time.
Montillo's passing and ball control is undoubtedly the top in the Chinese Super League, his ball control is quite light, and the through ball is also very tasteful, but Luneng can rarely grasp his pass, on the one hand, perhaps as South Korean foreign aid Jang Hyun-so said: "Montillo is alone, it's a piece of cake." However, Luneng's teammates couldn't support him at all. Montillo's understanding of football is too far from the consciousness of other Chinese players, so he can't play at all. β
Montillo's best position is the front midfield, and there are players in front of him on standby, but the problem is that Loew spends more time dropping back and playing in the front midfield, and there are no players in front of him, so Montillo's passing ability is meaningless. Playing Montillo on the flank is a worse option, as the Argentine is clearly not comfortable on the flank, and the game will habitually close to the middle, and the two can easily overlap in position. As a result, a large number of people gathered in the middle, making Luneng's attack seem rather fluid.
After Shandong Luneng was eliminated in the group stage of the AFC Champions League, Kuka still showed a good ability to correct mistakes, he simply withdrew Loew from the center forward position as a forward midfielder, and let Han Peng top the center forward position, so that at least Montillo has a passing target.
But Montillo's problem has not been solved, on the side, in addition to running to the middle from time to time to get the ball to make simple and practical breakthroughs or passes, but also to participate in defense, he wants to steal and he has to tackle, as a physical, physical average player, the direct consequence of such offense and defense is obviously to affect his offensive output to Luneng.
The data shows that Luneng's total possession time in the 6 AFC Champions League games is 149 minutes and 7 seconds, while Montillo's foot control time is only 8 minutes and 12 seconds, and the time when he does not lose control of the ball after passing the ball is 6 minutes and 3 seconds, which means that his personal total possession time is only 14 minutes and 15 seconds, and the percentage of personal possession time in the team is even only 9.6%. In other words, except for Wang Dalei's very little time to control the ball as a goalkeeper, Montillo's time of possession is the average of the whole team. Shandong Luneng's purpose of introducing Montillo to strengthen the passing control of the midfield has completely failed. (To be continued.) )