Because the Longteng team gathered late in this winter training, the training time is shorter than others, so it is necessary to determine the main lineup for next season earlier than others.

When the outside world is still discussing who the next world star to come to the Chinese Super League is, the Longteng team has completed physical training and started tactical training.

First of all, the team strengthened the tactical foundation - fast passing.

The smart serving system that the team had been using before has been upgraded again, adding a lot of real court conditions and unexpected situations, so that the players can quickly enter a high-intensity training state with such difficult passing training.

Secondly, in the various details of the 3-5-2 extreme change of formation, the coaching staff of the entire Longteng team has also put a lot of effort into it.

Among them, the coach who specializes in offensive tactics in the AFC Champions League gift package is in the limelight.

The 32-year-old coach has played for a number of clubs in Europe, including clubs such as Juventus in Serie A, but he has always worked as an assistant coach and has been involved in the design of many tactics, but he has never been reused.

Soon after coming to the Dragons, he gave great help to the entire coaching staff in the analysis of the 3-5-2 offensive tactics, the offensive evolution routines in the 3-5-2 change of formation, and the coordination between the players who pressed the players in the front court.

As a player who has played in many teams in Europe and has always been a marginal role, he can be said to be like a fish in water after returning to China, the attention of the club, the cooperation of local players, he has been discriminated against in Europe, and he has finally found a place to play.

Zhang Sheng lamented the advanced tactics of Europe at the same time, but also looked forward to the last AFC Champions League gift package of player rewards, plus the last Club World Cup eliminated the opponent, Zhang Sheng once again summoned a central defender player, now there are two players waiting for him to accept.

In the process of waiting this time, the introduction of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League is even more crazy, first Inter Milan's back, Colombia's international Guarin joined Shanghai Shenhua at a price of 12 million euros, and then Cameroon international, who has helped Serbia win the Europa League with excellent performance for two consecutive seasons, the absolute main force Mbia, joined China Happiness with 4 million euros.

In the end, Zhang Sheng's long-awaited transfer of Guangzhou Evergrande to introduce Jackson Martinez really happened, and the transfer fee of 42 million not only greatly increased the transfer fee record that has been constantly refreshed in Chinese football, but also became the highest transfer fee in the entire world football during this winter window.

And then, as if the money was worthless, Jiangsu Suning once again broke the "keep" just "kept" by Guangzhou Evergrande The transfer record of the winter window, Brazil's demon Teixeira joined Jiangsu Suning with a transfer fee of 50 million euros, and Teixeira's transfer is not so easy, in the battle for this player, there is Chelsea who has been secretly sending Qiubo, and Liverpool has been making an offer, and the transfer price of up to 30 million proves that Teixeira really has the strength to play in European giants, and Jiangsu Suning's 50 million euros still proves that it is more powerful to talk about money.

Next, although there are Turkish international main strikers like Yilmaz, and players with the world's first annual salary like Ravitch to join Hebei Huaxia Happiness, whether it is Zhang Sheng, who has already experienced it, or the fans who have watched the excitement for a whole winter, they have become numb.

Even if some people say that Ronaldo and Messi are coming to the Chinese Super League, it is estimated that some people believe it.

Of course, the advent of the Spring Festival also made everyone turn their attention to eating and drinking, because this is the theme of the Spring Festival.

After the four-day holiday of the Spring Festival, the Longteng team gathered all the personnel again and flew to Spain for pre-season warm-up training.

In the first stage of training in China, although the Longteng team also found a lot of opponents to warm up matches, but in view of the strength of these teams is not strong enough, the 3-5-2 formation has always been to beat the opponent without the power to fight back, and now go to Europe, meet those European teams during the winter break, it is the best way to test the results of tactics.

After the Longteng team arrived in Spain, the first opponent was Sporting Lisbon, but it was Team B, and the match with the first team of Sporting Lisbon would have to wait a week to arrive, Aurelio Pereira, as a club boss who has been in contact with the Longteng team, attaches great importance to the current status of the Longteng team, after all, not everyone has the opportunity to play with Barcelona on the official match occasion, and once played well, at the same time, several demons in the Longteng team in the World Junior Championship have long been coveted by Sporting Lisbon, even if Xu Mingyu leaves Sporting Lisbon now, it is not a matter of player strength, it is completely Xu Mingyu's core position, which is at odds with the club's expectations.

Xu Mingyu, who is only 21 years old now, has already played an absolute main role in the Rexor team he transferred to, at least at the level of the Portuguese league, proving that Xu Mingyu is at ease.

Looking at Xu Mingyu's performance in the World Youth Championships, he was far from being as good as several Longteng players in the World Youth Championships, especially compared with Nie Jiang, there was a very big distance.

In the match with Sporting Lisbon B team, Aurelio Pereira also made a special trip to watch Nie Jiang's performance, in the first half, the full main lineup of the Longteng team even more dominant than Sporting Lisbon, in which Nie Jiang kept switching between the position of the shadow forward and the center, and the performance was extremely good, in the twenty-third minute of the first half, Nie Jiang used his beautiful running position and clever header to turn the score into 1:0.

Aurelio Pereira on the sidelines was also very gentlemanly and gave Nie Jiang a round of applause.

This season's Sporting Lisbon B team is really not strong, and several of the demons in their team are either out of shape or seriously injured, and they are only in tenth place in the Portuguese League this season, with a full 31 points less than the first place Porto B team.

Therefore, after the start of this game, the requirements of the Longteng team are very clear, that is, the frontcourt uses the high-level pressing tactics that consume a lot of physical strength but have a very significant effect, and the tactics of pressing layer by layer.

Zhang Sheng's approach is based on the tactics of Jurgen Klopp, the former manager of Dortmund.

Jurgen Klopp is a coach who can really be called a master tactician, and Dortmund under his management is a team that does not have too many top stars, but makes the game very good-looking, passionate, and has good results.

It's not easy to do that.

Jurgen Klopp's coaching philosophy is based on team cohesion, and he believes more than any other team in the belief that the weakest point of a team determines the strength of a team.

Unlike other players who are determined to win the championship and buy a lot of top stars and chase after the best performers of the season, Klopp always chooses the most suitable player to be a piece of his tactical platter.

So unlike Bayern, which relies heavily on the performance of stars, Dortmund, under the coaching of Klopp, emphasizes team strength, produces team goals, and relies on the team as a whole regardless of winning or losing.

At the same time, the team's top scorer Barrios was also absent due to injury at the beginning of the season, and still defended the Bundesliga championship with a record high 81 points, and finally won the German Cup to achieve the prestige of the double.

Zhang Sheng's choice to use Klopp's tactics is also closely related to his club conditions.

The current Chinese Super League is the same as in history, the arrival of a bunch of foreign aid completely beyond the level of the Chinese Super League has turned the game into a confrontation between the two foreign aids, but it has become slightly better from the previous stacking of strikers in the front field - know how to put a back player in the back who is the top ability in Europe.

But in the final analysis, it is still to buy players at a price far beyond the value of the players themselves to crush other Chinese Super League teams.

And this is exactly what the Dragons team is very difficult to do, and at the same time does not want to do.

If Longteng Group is willing to invest a lot of resources in the club, it will not be without money, but the corresponding development in other businesses of the group will be restricted, which is not the original intention of Zhang Sheng to return from Europe, and it also violates the military order that Zhang Sheng set for his father.

At the same time, the most important point is that this style of play really does not help much to improve the level of domestic players.

Many fans have always said that high-level foreign aid can drive the rapid growth of domestic players, which does have some truth.

But professional football clubs are so professional – teams need good results, and of course, this can also be said to be quick success.

Therefore, when domestic players make running mistakes, passing and receiving mistakes, and defensive mistakes again and again, whether it is the head coach or foreign aid, there is a high probability that they will choose to do it alone.

Therefore, we see a club such as Jiangsu Suning playing a 7-0-3 formation in China, and a team that integrates a little bit of cooperation between domestic players and foreign players can win the championship, such as Guangzhou Evergrande.

It can be said that this style of play is really limited in its help to the growth of domestic players.

In particular, there are side effects on the growth of offensive players up front.

Since the Longteng team led by Zhang Sheng does not want to be like these clubs, it must let foreign players and local players integrate into one. Of course, choosing this style of play also means that foreign players can help their players grow faster.

In addition, as the most powerful contender for the championship, Zhang Sheng doesn't want his team to play extremely ugly, and the fans don't allow last season's double to play so ugly, so choosing Klopp's high-pressure, frequent running attacking style of play has become the first choice.

Of course, whether it is Zhang Sheng or Klopp's style of play, there is a basis, because modern football is more and more "back to basics".

At the beginning of football, and even in low-level amateur football now, players were always running with the ball, and wherever the ball went, people flocked to it like a tide. At the professional level, the players are required to stay in formation on the field, the defender's task is to defend, the midfielder stays in the middle, and the striker rushes forward, and everyone does their job.

However, what about football nowadays, there is an increasing emphasis on the flow and change of formations, requiring players to be able to multi-task, as well as the compactness of formations and the advantage of local numbers.

Also a top-class coach, Pep Guardiola explained when he first took over that he wanted no more than 30 metres between his attack and defence at any given moment, which meant that the team worked as a whole at both ends of the pitch.

In fact, this meaning is the same as Klopp's.

Judging from the style of play of Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola, there are some things that are very similar to them, which is to squeeze the space on the pitch as much as possible and to keep the defence very high. The strikers pressed the opposing defenders, the midfielders also helped, and the defenders' further pressing almost made the opponent claustrophobic.

The difference between them is that after winning the ball, Pep Guardiola asks players to take the ball and pass back and forth on both sides to open up space like holding the ball, while Klopp wants to attack as quickly as possible, more simply, directly and efficiently.

And both tactics have their inherent weaknesses, that is, the fear of being beaten back, especially in Jurgen Klopp's side.

The more direct style of play led to them conceding the ball quickly, and although there were immediate on-the-spot presses, it could also be hectic on the pitch.

The result is that they play at a fast pace, require a lot of running, and still lose games.

The most typical example of this was Borussia Dortmund's record for the most distance traveled in a single game in Champions League history against Marseille in the Champions League group stage, but it was Marseille who won the game because of their surprisingly efficient counter-attack.

Now the Longteng team played 3-5-2, which is very demanding on the players, quickly made the team suffer the bitter fruit, in the 31st minute of the first half, Qi Ming, who was responsible for filling Xiang Tiange in the midfield, made a mistake, and Xiang Tiange himself also assisted too forward, giving the opponent a chance, and the left winger of the Sporting Lisbon B team took the ball and counter-attacked after cutting inside the goal to make the score 1:1.

At the same time, Sporting Lisbon B also adjusted its tactics, changing the formation from 4-4-2 to 4-1-4-1, and Zhang Sheng also used his own change of formation, and Ma Yongli was premised on being a back, and the formation of the Longteng team also became 4-2-2-2.

The transformation from five backs to four backs is the tactics of the Longteng team's key training in winter, because the current Chinese Super League has gone through a series of explosions, basically every strong team has one or two super capable strikers in front of them, and there is also a back that can rush up to attack.

The main responsibility of the Longteng team in arranging a drag back is to cut off the connection between the opponent's midfielder and the striker, and at the same time prevent the opponent's midfielder from attacking forward.

Zhang Sheng's adjustment of the Longteng team's formation this season can be said to be very bold, in his opinion, the formation does not represent tactics, insisting on full-court high pressing is the tactical basis, and choosing to control the ball or direct fast attack is a change of moves.

Playing 3-5-2 or 4-2-3-1 or whatever, it's just a means to achieve both of these tactical goals.

Zhang's ultimate goal is to achieve the same effect that many coaches want – being tactical doesn't mean telling people what to do. It's more about what not to tell them what to do – meaning the only thing the team needs is for the players to use their brains and make their own decisions.

This approach is to go to the "core", to the ultimate goal of the "team leader".