With the end of the two rounds of the AFC Champions League, the pace of the 2017 Chinese Super League season is getting closer and closer, and the topic that has also become hot is the Sino-Korean World Preliminary Tournament on March 23, for which the Chinese Super League will make way for him after playing the first two rounds.

Historically, because of the U23 policy, the national team has not achieved good results, and only Shandong Luneng and Guizhou Hengfeng have submitted bids for the opening ceremony of this season, which is very cold than the previous cities.

Now better results, more spectators and income have made as many as six clubs apply for the hosting, and in the end, Shandong Luneng, which made a lot of money before the season, got the right to host.

In the first round of the Chinese Super League, Shandong Luneng happened to play against Longteng team away.

Before the season, Shandong Luneng, like the Longteng team, became a big player exporter, and they sold all international level players, they sold Zhao Mingjian, Wang Yongluo, Yang Xu, Gao Zhunyi, Montillo and Yusire left in foreign aid, and a large number of young players took up the position at the signal of Magath.

The same is a team famous for youth training, Shandong Luneng young players in all echelons of the results are top, in recent years they and the players of the Longteng team formed the national team of each echelon of the results, but they are rare to appear in the first team, many players even in the reserve team for four or five years.

There are good youth players who are not needed, and the results of the first team are steadily declining, watching the Longteng team rely on the youth players of the team to sing all the way, Luneng's management is in a hurry, and finally after learning from the pain, this season's Shandong Luneng also set off a youth storm.

For this opening mode, Luneng made a lot of efforts, and the club specially sent people to Linzi, the birthplace of Keju, to carry out the ball ceremony, and the whole event was full of flowers and lively.

After the start of the game, Luneng, who was fighting at home, played very passionately, and the situation of the previous Shandong Luneng Pacers team was no longer repeated.

Since Magath came last season, Luneng's game runs have indeed increased, but the players' inability to do so can often be seen, and it is not for nothing that the team is barely relegated in the end.

And now on the Luneng field, except for two or three veterans in the middle and backfield, the other positions are all players in the 92-94 age group, and they are not at all inferior in the face of such a high confrontation and full-court pressure tactics of the Longteng team - isn't it just a few more steps.

The commentator was also very emotional: "The U23 policy has not affected these two teams at all, especially it has become a catalyst for Luneng's rejuvenation, as for the Longteng team, not to mention, except for foreign aid and their captain Lu Zhihui, the whole game is U23 players." This game is estimated to be the lowest average age in the Chinese Super League. ”

Seeing the high-intensity scrambling players on the field, Zhang Sheng shook his head a little helplessly. Before the season, the team's tactical class talked about the combination of rigidity and softness countless times, paying attention to the control of rhythm, but as soon as the opponent ran wildly, everyone ran like crazy, and it can only be said that the gap between the players who control the tactics is not small.

Soon, however, it was revealed who had the better tactical understanding.

Qi Ming, who was not the highest on the field, reacted immediately, he began to deliberately control the ball in the midfield, frequently asking for the ball to pull Luneng's overall defensive formation, and using the stronger foot ability of the Longteng team, Qi Ming reflected the ability of the commander on the field.

The Longteng team, which caught the game in its own hands, played several waves of successful attacks through constant rhythm changes, but the Luneng defense line, which often had low-level mistakes before, was very stable, and Wang Dalei made many wonderful saves, and the Longteng team was never able to break through Luneng's door.

Last season, the former Brazilian international striker Tardelli was complained by Luneng fans as a "water tower" and was once sent to the reserve team, but now he is in surprisingly good shape, the Longteng team could not break through Luneng's door, but he gave the Longteng team a great threat to the goal with two shots, one of which hit the post and made the Longteng fans break out in a cold sweat.

At the end of the first half, Luneng kept the score at 0:0.

"Qi Ming. You played well in the first half. Zhang Sheng never skimped on his praise, and then put forward his own requirements to other players, "In the second half, everyone must control their own rhythm, and we must make our own decisions in our game." ”

The coaching staff has already had more than 10 kinds of responses to the tactical arrangement, and hundreds of local tactics have been refined.

Compared with Magath's simple style of playing by relying on Pelle's long pass and flying with both wings, the technical content of the Longteng team is not known to be much higher, but sometimes, it is not the tactics with high technical content that can easily win, and you must be patient enough on the court, and Zhang Sheng does not lack this patience.

In the second half, Luneng is still a routine style of play, after the Longteng team stuck the defensive channel on the side, he repeatedly played behind Luneng's two wings, Luneng's midfield relied on young and strong players like Wang Tong to fill the position, and relied on top central defenders like Gil to wipe their butts and keep their defense.

In the twenty-fifth minute of the second half, the Longteng team finally relied on Chavez to make the ball for Nie Jiang, who dodged Wang Tong's entanglement and broke through Luneng's door with a hidden low shot on the line of the penalty area.

After conceding the goal, Luneng rarely walked without discouragement, and in the last fifteen minutes of the game, they still had high-intensity sprints and runs, and even the commentator said: "Luneng did his best." The attitude of the players is not to be said, and the improvement in fitness is also obvious to all. It's a good start, and the opposite Dragons are the target for them to catch up. ”

In the end, the Longteng team defeated Shandong Luneng who hoped to win in the opening ceremony 0:1 in the away game.

After the game, Zhang Sheng praised Magath from the bottom of his heart for Luneng's training: "It was a difficult game, and we are glad that we won. Mr. Magath will lead Luneng to a good result this season, and I think they are one of the strong contenders for the title this season. ”

Many people took Zhang Sheng's words as a condescending consolation for the winner, but the second round of the Chinese Super League fulfilled Zhang Sheng's prediction.

In Shandong Luneng's home game against Guangzhou Evergrande, Wang Dalei made a miraculous save, and Gil and Pelle scored with a header from a set-piece with two highs, allowing Guangzhou Evergrande to lose 1:2 to Shandong Luneng.

Although Zheng Zhi's red card was suspended and Mei Fang was injured, the team was affected a little, but there was still a great contrast between Evergrande's fatigue and Luneng's desperate running.

Because they played the finals of the AFC Champions League and FA Cup, and went to the Club World Cup, Evergrande players have nearly a month less rest time than the teams in the Chinese Super League, and the continuous battles are really physically and mentally exhausting.

After the game, a bunch of Shandong Luneng fans in the stands cried with joy, since Evergrande entered the Chinese Super League in 2011, Luneng faced Guangzhou Evergrande in the league 12 games, 6 draws and 6 losses, without a win, and now finally won the first victory.

The Longteng team played the same difficult game, but the result was different, with a narrow 1-0 away win over Jiangsu Suning, and Nie Jiang's goal saved the Longteng team again.

After two rounds of games, except for the two teams that SIPG met were weak teams and won by a big score, several teams that were favored before the season were extremely difficult in the dialogue, and the outcome was unpredictable until the last minute of the game.

Various media have given their own conclusions: "The introduction of a large number of excellent foreign aid in the super class has made each team attach great importance to defense, and a large number of excellent coaches have also formulated reasonable tactics for the team, and now the strength of the teams in the Super League is becoming more and more balanced." ”

The strength of the Chinese Super League team is getting stronger and stronger, and Zhang Sheng is psychologically prepared.

Since the system launched the task of "common progress", Zhang Sheng has known that the more his players are sold, the greater the improvement of the overall strength of the Chinese Super League.

The first stage of the "common progress" task has been completed, and the explanation given by the system at the beginning is that excellent young players, old players who train hard, will improve in terms of ability value and even potential value.

It's been more than two years since this task, and those players who have improved their potential have slowly fulfilled it through the training of these two years of high-level competition, which means that these players have risen to the ball.

For example, last season, the Longteng team played mad dog tactics, and the high-intensity pressing and pressing made most of the Chinese Super League teams at a loss, but in the second half of the season, they insisted on it for longer and longer.

In this season, in the first two rounds of games, whether it was Shandong Luneng or Jiangsu Suning, they did not fall behind in the overall confrontation rhythm, and they lost more games because the details were not as good as the Longteng team.

Zhang Sheng looked at the task of "common progress" again, and it had reached the progress of 19/20. And among the 19 players transferred out, the conditions required by the system to include players with a potential value of more than 80 have long been met, Lin Feng, Yan Xiaoyu, and Du Zhenyu add up to even exceed the number specified by the system, that is to say, the Longteng team will be arbitrarily transferred out to a player with an ability value of more than 70 to the Chinese Super League player, and the second stage of the task can be completed.

It is conceivable that if there are 20 more international players in the real Chinese Super League, or even players from the absolute main sector of international players scattered in various teams, the overall strength of the league will be like.

This season, several teams in the middle and lower reaches of the team are usually selling core players to make money to ensure the normal operation of the team, Longteng team and Shandong Luneng release a large number of players with a good level of upgrading, and several teams in the upper reaches can be said to have a great increase in strength, especially several teams participating in the AFC Champions League, the bench strength is much higher than in history.

This round of the AFC Champions League is an outpost before the suspension of various leagues in Asia and the national team competition. What's even more amazing is that the four groups in East Asia, Longteng vs. Kashima Antlers, Guangzhou Evergrande vs. Kawasaki Frontale, Shanghai SIPG vs. Urawa Ruby, Jiangsu Suning vs. Osaka Gamba, the first three are all the first in the group against the second in the group, and the last is also the first in the group Jiangsu Suning against the third in the group, but only Osaka Gamba has a goal difference less than the second Jeju United in the group.

Suffice it to say, this is likely to be a crucial battle to determine who will be at the top of the four East Asian groups.

Kashima Antlers before the start of the J-League, extremely arrogant, but the performance in the Club World Cup not only amazed the outside world, the team is also full of self-confidence, for the new season of the league championship, they are determined to win, for the Japanese J League team for many years has not touched the AFC Champions League trophy, they are even more eyeing.

In fact, last season's Kashima Antlers were not the most dominant team in the J-League, Urawa Ruby was the strongest team in the J-League last year, and Kashima Antlers were able to win the league championship more because of the unreasonable J-League format.

Therefore, at the heart of the team, after Takeshi Shibasaki, who had a high-profile performance in the Club World Cup, transferred to Tenerife in the second division, the club invested the prize money brought by the Club World Cup and the league directly into the construction of the squad.

In order to ensure the two-front battle in the new season, this offseason, Kashima's foreign aid introduction can be called the first in the J League.

In terms of foreign aid, Kashima's original foreign aid only left the small central defender Bueno, and the new introduction of Kwon Chun-tae, Leo Silva, Pedro Júnior, and Leandro is four foreign aids.

As the first national goal of the South Korean national team, Kwon Chun-tae has been famous in South Korea for a long time, directly supplementing the shortcomings of goalkeepers, Silva and Júnior are the top foreign players in the J-League, these two are the core of the midfield and the former assist king in the league, which can effectively relieve the pressure of Mitsuo Ogasawara and make up for the loss of Kaeo's departure. What's more, as the "old man" of the J-League, the two don't need much run-in time. Even if Shibasaki Takeru Yoshi, there is a world of difference compared to the foreign aid who almost came in handy last year.

In terms of domestic aid, the three-pole fight complements the strength of the bench, and Kenshi Kanamori is known as the top ten most anticipated newcomers in the J-League in the new season.

Excellent reinforcements coupled with the top defensive combination of two internationals such as Masaki Gen and Naotsu Ueda, top J League players like Yuma Suzuki and Yumeo Kanesaki sit in the front line, Mitsuo Ogasawara, Ryota Nagaki's midfield duo, and young people such as Oda Yixi and Machida Hiroki, the strength of the team is strong enough and young enough.

The reason why Kashima Antlers have so many talented youngsters is related to the tactics advocated by their head coach Masadashi Ishii, who is good at tactics reflected in high tempo and high pressing in the front court, marked by physical fitness, counter-attacking in the front court and quick attack.

It can be said that this is a copy of the Dragon Team.

No team is perfect, there are advantages and there must be weaknesses, and Kashima Antlers are very outstanding.

First of all, the biggest problem is the head coach Masadashi Ishii.

Ishii Masataka was in Kashima Antlers when he was a player, and he stayed in the club directly after retiring, and stepped up to the position of the team's head coach.

This led to a feud between the head coach and the ace core players in Kashima Antlers, and Ishii Masadada and Kanesaki Yumeo had a heated argument on the sidelines over the latter's substitution, which is extremely rare in Japanese clubs.

This also indirectly led to Kanesaki Yusei's removal after being selected for the national team.

The underlying reasons are not simple.

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