A few days before the game, Li Gang said in an interview with the outside world: "I'm looking forward to the on-court showdown with Zhang Sheng." ”

"Take lessons from him? Yes. When I was still in Guangzhou Evergrande, I often discussed with him privately about all aspects of coaching the team. But for these three points, I won't give up easily. When a reporter asked Li Gang about his previous question of asking Zhang Sheng for coaching, Li Gang seemed very sincere, but his tone was also full of confidence.

When the starting list of Hebei Huaxia Happiness came out before the game, everyone still saw Li Gang's caution.

Because of the absolute core of the team, Mbiya, the fulcrum of Li Gang's tactics with a balance of offense and defense, was injured and unable to play, and Li Gang discharged a 5-4-1 formation, making it clear that he wanted to play defensive counterattacks at the home of the Longteng team.

Of course, they do have defensive counter-attacking players in their team - Ravic and Gervinho.

As the backup of Messi in the Argentine national team, Ravic has strong enough strength, although he is not tall, he is fast, has a strong impact, and more importantly, he has a wonderful passing skill.

I think when he was in Serie A, he was known as the little bully of Serie A, and he was able to pass all the defenders three times, and then jerk off, maybe archery was his only weakness.

As for Gervinho, not to mention, all fans who are familiar with the Premier League know his nickname of "Hot Bird", who is as good as Messi, shoots Heskey, takes the ball to the end of the earth, and shoots to the ends of the earth, this is the summary statement given by the fans to Gervinho.

As an extraordinary demon, Gervinho is fast, and his feet are extremely beautiful, although his shooting skills have been complained about, but the experience of playing in Arsenal, Rome and other giants, it is not an exaggeration to call him one of the top and most famous foreign aides in the Chinese Super League.

With these two top breakthrough masters, coupled with a striker with excellent shooting skills like Deng Chaoqun, Li Gang does have the confidence to play defensive counterattacks with peace of mind.

Compared with the historical Hebei Huaxia Happiness, they appear to be stronger, Wei Zhimin's arrival has given their fullbacks a very strong impact point; Yao Tian, as a young player, is much better than Jiang Ning in history, although the types of the two are exactly the same; as for Zhu Xuhe, it is one more offensive and defensive balance chess piece for the midfield of Hebei Huaxia Happiness.

Aside from the lack of top domestic players in the centre-back position, this is a team of homegrown players at the national level.

Hebei Huaxia Happiness's current good results are not without reason, and Li Gang's words before the game are not honey confidence.

When it came to the actual game, Li Gang found that sometimes the tactical plan is very good, but the details are more important.

The Dragons' 3-5-2 formation and pressing style of play in this game made Ravic and Gervinho in front of them unable to get the ball at all.

Because Mbiya was not on the field, Li Gang was Kakuta in this game, hoping that he could rush up on the left side, but Li Xing, the midfielder in the middle, could not hold his position at all.

Under the impact of Nie Jiang, Li Xing had to put down his opponent and received a yellow card after only eight minutes of the opening game, and in this case, Hebei Huaxia Happiness played even more difficult.

Originally, in Li Gang's idea, if the midfield couldn't pass the ball, the two fullbacks were required to send the ball out more, but under the pressure of the Longteng team's frontcourt, the two fullbacks didn't say that they passed a good long pass, and it was more difficult to hold the ball steadily.

I have to say that the factors of domestic players' basic skills are too unqualified.

Before, Zhu Xuhe was on the right to help defend, and right wingback Gao Zhunyi was able to have enough time to pass the ball, but as for Wei Zhimin, he simply did not have the ability to pass long.

Now under the pressure of the Longteng team's frontcourt, Gao Zhunyi must make a move the moment he gets the ball, while China's domestic players are more accustomed to looking up at their teammates after taking the ball, and then adjust their position and pass the ball out.

After the two full-backs were unable to get the ball out, Li Gang could only hope for the three central defenders.

In this game, the three central defenders of Hebei Huaxia Happiness are Dewey, Jin Yangyang and Yawai Gurum, but unfortunately the first two do not talk about passing, and it is difficult to even defend well.

In this case, the entire Hebei Huaxia Happiness formation is completely disjointed, the front court of Gervinho, Lukaku, Yao Tian and Ravic are waiting for the ball to participate in the attack, and the back and back line are pressed into the 30-meter area of the stadium, and they can't send the cannonballs out at all.

Once such a disjointed formation is created, it is not surprising to concede goals.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Ben Alfa easily shook off the defense of Gao Zhun wing on the left side, and directly inserted between the gap between the right wing-back and the right central defender of Huaxia Happiness.

Instead of cutting off Ben Alfa's goal, Gülume's defense allowed him to cut inside and shoot successfully, and the goalkeeper Yang Cheng had no idea that Ben Alpha would shoot from outside the box, and when he started to save, the ball had already gone around his fingers, crossed a full arc, and flew into the net.

After conceding the goal, Li Gang had to make adjustments to the tactics on the field, and the attacking line retracted under his command, hoping to get closer to his midfield.

This approach really made the situation on the field of Hebei Huaxia Happiness look better, and several offensive players were able to get the ball, but they were too far away from the goal of the Longteng team.

Li Gang's original intention was to make full use of the tight compression of the Longteng team and the large space behind him to play counterattacks, so several offensive players pressed relatively high, and the current situation is that after retracting, the offensive players fell into the layers of defense of the Longteng team.

Ravic and Gervinho's ability is really strong, as long as the two of them get the ball, they can form a breakthrough on the field, but the defensive level of the Longteng team is extremely clear, these two powerful foreign aides can break through the first layer, but they can't break through the second layer of the overall defense, the third layer of defense.

What's more, Hebei Huaxia Happiness is not the kind of team with extremely smooth short passing, this team changed four foreign aides before the season, and introduced eight domestic aids, it can be said that the whole team has changed blood, counting on the team in this situation to be able to play extremely skilled cooperation, with the general ability of domestic players is not to think.

Now the situation on the field is that the Longteng team relies on the overall passing and receiving cooperation to pull the defense line of Hebei Huaxia Happiness, and Huaxia Happiness relies on a few foreign aides to fight alone in front.

Later, Ravic and Gervinho came to a few long-range shots with hatred to vent their frustration.

Li Gang was extremely anxious at this time, he stood on the sidelines and kept gesturing to the players on the field, asking them to press out the formation, and then he subconsciously turned his head to look at Zhang Sheng, who was also the head coach, Zhang Sheng was too quiet at this time, the latter was sitting in the coach's seat, chatting with the two assistant coaches, and pointing at the situation on the field from time to time, obviously discussing something.

"If Zhang Sheng encounters my situation, what should he do?" Li Gang couldn't help but think of this question at this time.

It didn't take long for him to think about how Zhang Sheng had switched between three and two central defenders before.

Now the Longteng team has put Chavez at the front, Nie Jiang, as another striker, retreated deeply, and the 5-3-2 in Zhang Sheng's mouth is actually a 5-3-1-1 formation.

And Hebei Huaxia Happiness is too conservative to adopt a defensive lineup of five guards, but in fact, it is very suppressed, do you have to play six back seven guards?

Thinking of the situation when the Longteng team encountered a single center forward in the game with Guangzhou Evergrande, Li Gang had a plan in his heart.

Li Gang on the sidelines made adjustments on the field, and Gao Zhunyi was pulled from the defender to the back waist position by him, which was completely an imitation of Zhang Sheng's swing tactics between Ma Yongli and the central defender and the midfield.

Hebei Huaxia Happiness's on-field changes were soon discovered by Zhang Sheng.

After Gao Zhunyi's premise, he and Li Xing formed a double-back waist pattern, and the former also specifically aimed at Nie Jiang's position, where Nie Jiang went, Gao Zhunyi ran wherever he went, and followed step by step.

Such a change still had a certain effect, with the help of Gao Zhunyi, the pressure of Hebei Huaxia Happiness's single back Li Xing has been reduced a lot.

Huaxia Happiness gradually pressed out the formation, and the two fullbacks slowly started to make contact with several attacking players in the frontcourt.

At this time, the situation on the field is a little better, and it is no longer a one-sided offensive and defensive drill.

"It's very sensitive. Zhang Sheng sighed in his heart, "Defense does not mean that one more person on the guard line can do things better, multi-level and flexible defense is the right way." Li Gang can see it. ”

After seeing the adjustment on Huaxia Happiness's side, Zhang Sheng also made corresponding changes, and De Paul strengthened his assistance to Ben Alfa and began to attack the right side of Huaxia Happiness.

Before the back five, Zhang Sheng relied more on the breakthrough of the side to hit the connection point between the opponent's fullback and the fullback, Chavez was responsible for attracting the opponent's central defender away, and then let Ben Alfa and De Paul shoot directly, now there is one less person on the opposite side of the central defender, then the corresponding defensive pressure of Chavez has weakened a lot, and he can make good use of the characteristics of Chavez's impact to find this center fulcrum.

As for Gao Zhunyi's marking defense against Nie Jiang, Zhang Sheng is not worried, if Nie Jiang can't even solve Gao Zhunyi's problem, he will be too sorry for his reputation as the strongest striker in China.

The corresponding changes in the Longteng team caught Hebei Huaxia Happiness a little off guard.

Ben Arfa and De Paul got the ball, although they broke through, but more often than not, they made a false move to deliver cannonballs into the box.

In the 31st minute of the first half, De Paul and Ben Alfa took advantage of the space left by a slight assist from the full-backs on the side of Huaxia Happiness to play a counterattack.

The duo made a succession of passes, which shook off the full-back's defence and attracted the attention of the left centre-back.

De Paul's pass then found Chavez, who pressed past Gurum and headed home with a powerful header.

The goalkeeper Yang Cheng on Huaxia Happiness's side was about to give up resistance, but Chavez's header popped up on the lintel and popped up the bottom line, and Huaxia Happiness escaped a catastrophe.

Then in the thirty-seventh minute, it was Ben Alpha's pass that found Chavez, this time Chavez took a trick and made a slight concession in the middle to let the ball pass behind him, which Gürum was blind, and what he didn't expect was Gao Zhunyi, who had been following Nie Jiang.

Nie Jiang kept turning back and running on the line of the penalty area, when Ben Alfa's ball passed, Nie Jiang just accelerated to the penalty area with a reflex, at this time Chavez just let the ball over, Gao Zhunyi was half a step behind Nie Jiang, did not keep up, Nie Jiang easily pushed the ball in the face of the incoming ball, and the ball changed direction and flew directly into the net.

After the Longteng team's wings and center forwards got in touch, the dexterous cooperation of the two center forwards widened the score gap by Nie Jiang, and the score became 2:0.

Li Gang was very helpless about this goal, and arranged his own tactics, but the difference in strength between the players was too large, and there was really no way to lose the ball.

Secondly, at a deeper level, it is still a question of trust in domestic local players.

On the side of the Longteng team, Zhang Sheng's trust in Nie Jiang is definitely no worse than that of any foreign aid, and sometimes Zhang Sheng even deliberately explained to the foreign aid and asked them to make a ball for Nie Jiang.

And Nie Jiang's strength does make several foreign players trust, in this case, the Longteng team has indeed formed a whole, compared to Hebei Huaxia Happiness, several foreign players do not trust domestic players from the bottom of their hearts, including Li Gang himself.

After 2:0, the Longteng team slightly weakened the intensity of the attack, while Huaxia Happiness was unable to maintain a high rhythm of running because of the decline in physical fitness, and the two sides ended the first half with this score.

After the second half, the Longteng team continued the offensive in the first half, and Nie Jiang scored in the penalty area in the 53rd minute of the second half, expanding the score to 3:0.

Li Gang was completely disappointed with Kakuta, the foreign aid who replaced Mbia on the field, and he replaced Kakuta with Zhu Xuhe, and the number of foreign aides on the field of Hebei Huaxia Happiness was the same as that of the Longteng team.

Although this substitution is a substitution forced by Li Gang, the effect is a bit unexpected, although Zhu Xuhe played very awkward on the left as a player on the right side, but he was very involved in the game, and Kakuta, who was more stable with a heart to take the ball and shoot and score, and the most important thing is that as a player who is also from the Longteng team, Zhu Xuhe and Wei Zhimin have made contact, and the attack on the left side is no longer Wei Zhimin handed over the ball, Kakuta took the ball and threw the ball away, and then Wei Zhimin and his teammates worked hard to get the ball back。

Gradually, with the consumption of physical energy, Tao Wentao and Xiang Tiange's right attack corridor was not as easy as in the first half, Zhang Sheng also made his own substitution, Tao Wentao was replaced by Xiong Jian, and continued to strengthen the offensive on the right side.