Before the game, the cheers of these fans were actually on par with the opponents at home, and even Shen Fangjian and Xu Yang, who were in charge of commenting the game, also praised: "I have to say that Longteng Club is a very young but very professional club, they not only play well in football, the home atmosphere is good, and even the cheering ability of the fans is also first-class, look at the slogan on the sidelines is really neatly organized." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

In the dressing room of the home team, Popovich mentioned the word confrontation the most when assigning tactical tasks to the team: "This game is our home stadium, we know that the opponent's players are technically good, but they are not without weaknesses, and this weakness is very obvious, one is that their confrontation ability is far inferior to ours, and the second is that their physical condition is far inferior to ours." And in terms of fitness, the more intense our confrontation, the faster their physical energy will be consumed, so as long as we strengthen our confrontation, the greater our hope of winning this game, and it may even make them completely collapse in the second half of the second half. ”

"So in this game, we just need to firmly entangle their most dangerous player up front, Pato, and cut off the connection between Mahrez and Pato on their right, and their attacking ability will basically be nullified. As for the attack, we have to strengthen the high pressing, don't let them pass the ball down, once we grab the ball, the attack must be decisive. One of their two midfielders today is a former substitute, their No.28 Zhang Hao, and he is our primary target in this game. Popovich even directly pointed out what he considered to be the key player in this game.

The players below are all very happy and obviously they are very confident in playing at home.

In the locker room of the Longteng team, Zhang Sheng and Popovich thought of the same point, which was also confrontation.

Zhang Sheng said: "I think through the last round of the fight, we all know what kind of team the opponent is. Their greatest reliance is to use their strong bodies to seek confrontation, and their physical condition is far better than ours, so they will use confrontation to harass us even more. It requires our players to pass the ball faster and once we get the ball upside down, their confrontation is completely meaningless. At the same time, on defense, Zhang Hao, it's up to you to sweep the midfield this time. ”

Zhang Hao also nodded excitedly and said, "I will let them know what it means to be strong!"

However, Zhang Sheng put forward higher requirements for Zhang Hao: "I know that you are not worse than them in physical confrontation, but you have to remember that the midfielders are not only intercepting and sweeping, the team's offensive initiation point also starts from you, I don't need you to do the work of tandem and organizing the attack, that is Kante's task." You're going to have to show the weapons you've used in your training, and if you can show that, maybe we'll be able to take a win easily. ”

The weapon in Zhang Hao's training mentioned by Zhang Sheng is long-range shooting.

In the usual training, Zhang Hao's long-range shooting is very famous in the team, because of his strong body, so his feet are very hard, and he has been regarded as a pure defensive player by the outside world, he can often shoot a very beautiful world wave under the neglect of others. Zhang Hao's long-range range can sometimes even reach 35 meters away, which is very terrifying.

Hearing that Zhang Sheng actually allowed himself to plug in and shoot a long shot, Zhang Hao was also excited, the head coach had always let himself put the defense and defend again, and this time he actually agreed to let himself insert a long shot, as a professional player, who doesn't want to score on the field. Zhang Hao hurriedly said: "Good coach, as long as I have the opportunity, I will show them my hand." ”

In the end, Zhang Sheng mentioned the referee: "This game is their home field, and the referee is a West Asian, the referee will definitely favor them, so it can be expected that we will encounter a lot of excessive actions will be ignored by the referee, everyone must calm down, and the referee's interference will be handed over to Wen Kai." That's his role as the captain of the field. ”

Hearing the head coach mention his name, Wen Kai also nodded seriously and said, "I know." ”

Zhang Sheng nodded with satisfaction and continued: "The other players should not argue with the referee, because it is basically impossible for you to get any good feedback for your argument, and there is a chance that you will get a yellow card." ”

Hearing Zhang Sheng's words, the players couldn't believe it, after all, this is the AFC Champions League, there are a lot of people paying attention, and the referee's every move is under everyone's gaze, so it is impossible to go too far.

But Zhang Sheng knew that this was the case, in last year's AFC Champions League, in the match between Guizhou and the Central Coast Mariners, the referee of the United Arab Emirates helped the opponent many times at the home of Guizhou Renhe and the opponent, so that Gong Lei, who has always been a good gentleman, made a move to count the money on the sidelines.

The West Asian referees have always spared no effort to attack the Chinese Super League.

After the official start of the game, the Western Sydney Wanderers, who played at home, played very actively, and unlike the previous games against the Longteng team in China, they were more aggressive, after all, the advantage of playing at home includes the referee's bias towards the home team.

Therefore, the actions that were whistled for fouls when they challenged the Dragons away from home became normal physical contact in the eyes of the referee when they arrived at the home stadium in Western Sydney.

For example, in the 8th minute of the first half, Pato, who was holding the ball in the front court, was just about to start with the ball, but was pulled to the ground by their defender Trifiro, who used his hands and feet, and the referee did not say anything about this obvious action that could blow fouls, but signaled Pato, who fell to the ground, to stand up.

Pato, who was about to get up to protest to the referee, was quickly stopped by Wen Kai, who ran over. Wen Kai said to the referee: "That action just now is very dangerous, so the players will be easily injured, I hope you can show them something." ”

The referee shook his head indifferently and asked Wen Kai to return to his position, seeing this scene, whether it was Zhang Sheng on the sidelines or the audience in front of the TV, they were very helpless.

Shen Fangjian, the commentator, was also dissatisfied with this decision: "This is an obvious foul, if the rest of the games are based on this scale, today's Longteng team game will be very difficult." ”

Xu Yang smiled bitterly: "It's not the first time we've seen them do this. The referees of West Asia, we all know it. ”

However, the next Western Sydney Wanderers also took a hit, their frontcourt players failed in the confrontation with Zhang Hao in Halliday, and the Australian players who have always been superstitious about their ability to fight never expected to meet a stronger player like Zhang Hao than them.

Harriety, who thought he could squeeze Zhang Hao away with his body, was fiercely resisted by Zhang Hao with his body, and Halliday's ball was lost.

After the referee hesitated, he didn't blow the whistle, after all, the players in Western Sydney didn't blow the whistle less than a minute ago, and if the smaller action blows the foul now, it will be too obvious, and the foul is near the midfield, and the Longteng team will not be able to score because of this physical confrontation advantage.

Zhang Sheng happily gave Zhang Hao a thumbs up on the sidelines.

Shen Fangjian also smiled: "Zhang Hao's body is really strong, the players in Western Sydney are like pieces of paper in front of him, and they will be knocked away when they hit one." The referee was too embarrassed to blow the ball. ”

In the next game, the players of the Western Sydney team quickly found that their physical confrontation was actually useless, and the two backs of the Longteng team, whether it was Zhang Hao or Kante, their confrontation ability was very strong. As for the two wings, whether it is Yu Bo or Mahrez, one is a player who does not suffer a loss, and the other is a player who can use technique to shake off the opponent, Western Sydney's confrontation tactics did not have an immediate effect except for consuming a little physical energy of the Longteng players.

On the contrary, their tactics of high pressing have a certain effect, after all, Zhang Hao is on the Longteng team in this game, and his ability to pass under his feet is far inferior to Lin Feng, so whenever the ball is passed to his feet, the Longteng team's pass will be slightly sluggish, but Zhang Hao uses his physical advantage to protect the ball very steadily, so that the opponent does not have many opportunities to steal in the front court.

After 10 minutes of initial testing, both sides also knew each other's intentions, that is, both sides emphasized confrontation, and both had players who could fight against it.

The next game entered the entanglement between the two sides in the midfield, Zhang Hao relied on his strong body and abundant physical fitness to cover the entire midfield, Western Sydney's attack was basically lifted before entering the 30-meter area of the Longteng team, and they only relied more on foreign aid to get a chance.

After observing the situation on the field, Popovich decisively made a change to his tactics, because the previously designed tactic of encircling Zhang Hao in the middle of the midfield and then attacking obviously did not work. He started to let the players on both wings attack.

After the Western Sydney Wanderers changed their tactics, their attack still achieved a certain effect, after all, compared to the crowded middle, the space on the side is more expansive, and the right forward of the Western Sydney Wanderers Ono Shinji still reflects the ability of a former star, Yu Bo is not bad in physical confrontation, but when he encounters a very experienced player like Shinji Ono, he seems to be a little weak.

Shinji Ono is one of the typical top Japanese players, with very good skills at his feet, superhuman passing and receiving skills, and at the same time he does not suffer in physical confrontations, and in his heyday, he was the kind of player who could get a place in the top teams in Europe.

Although he was born in 1979 and is now in the late stage of professional football, he is more rational in playing on the field, more sudden in attack, and also very thief when defending, more to predict the opponent's travel line in advance to interfere with the opponent, and form a pinching with his teammates.

This made a player like Yu Bo who played tougher very uncomfortable, and in the 34th minute of the first half, it was Shinji Ono who organized the attack again on the right side.

After he attracted both Yu Bo and Zhang Hao, an accurate long pass with big feet dispatched the ball to the left, this time Trifiro jumped high and pressed on Mahrez's body, and then distributed the ball to the inserted midfielder Halliday, who handed the ball to the center forward Kubi who came over to respond, and then Kubi took a long shot from the edge of the penalty area, which hit the lintel, and the Longteng team escaped a catastrophe.

This time the Western Sydney attack completely abandoned the previous high-flying tactics, leaving players like Shinji Ono to orchestrate the midfield playmaking, and then the players who stepped in from behind to form the pass and shoot.

Seeing this attack in Western Sydney, Zhang Sheng frowned on the sidelines, I don't know if they deliberately played such a tactic this time or just a coincidence, if it is a deliberate tactic, one of the two central defenders of the Longteng team must be pushed out to defend the attack of the forward player, but it is easy to be beaten by the opponent, after all, there is only one central defender in the penalty area at this time.

In fact, Zhang Sheng did not guess wrong, such tactics are indeed not the inherent tactics of Western Sydney Wanderers, but more rely on Shinji Ono's own strength to play, after all, other players of Western Sydney Wanderers may not have such an opportunity to play such a smooth cooperation again.

Shen Fangjian was worried about the situation of the Longteng team: "It seems that the Western Sydney team fighting at home is very fierce, their style of play is still very changeable, the side Qi Fei and the middle lane are inserted, the Longteng team is very suppressed, the lintel just now is a wake-up call for the Longteng team, I hope the Longteng team can quickly think of a way to solve this problem." ”

Xu Yang also praised the head coach of the Western Sydney Wanderers: "Popovich, the coach came back from the Premier League, although the tactics of the Premier League have always been despised by the leagues of the European continent, they have always believed that a large number of excellent coaches from the European continent go to the Premier League to do technical poverty alleviation, but after a large number of excellent coaches go to the Premier League in recent years, all teams in the Premier League have made great progress in tactics." Popovich's tactics are still outstanding in Asia, and it depends on how Coach Zhang Sheng, who is deeply influenced by European tactics and returns from studying in Europe, responds. ”

Zhang Sheng and the two assistant coaches next to him, Xu Erle and He Lijun after some discussion, quickly adjusted the tactics on the field, this time Zhang Hao and Kante are no longer parallel positions, the two backs distinguish the number of layers in the position, Kante's position is slightly premised, Zhang Hao is in the back to check and fill in the gaps.

For this change of the Longteng team, not only did Popovich on the sidelines not understand, but even the commentators Shen Fangjian and Xu Yang did not understand, because it was obvious that Zhang Hao was more suitable to fight with the opponent, and Kante was more suitable to deal with the connection between the back line and the midfield in the back. (To be continued.) )