The Dragons' goal completely disrupted Dubai's pre-match deployment in Al Ahli.

Dubai media's pre-match praise for the Dragons, Olaroyo's praise for the Dragons is not a lie, they really think that the Dragons are stronger than them, after all, in their eyes, players like Pato and Ben Alpha are giant-level players, and it is an unwise choice to attack against the Dragons.

Their thinking is actually the same as in the face of Guangzhou Evergrande in history, in their home stadium, the 4-4-2 formation is stable, but it is difficult to play a strong attack, and at the same time they are afraid of the impact of Elkeson and Goulart on Evergrande's side, and the result is completely defensive counterattack tactics in their home stadium.

In a two-legged game like the AFC Champions League, if they don't dare to attack at their home stadium, it can only mean that they are afraid.

This time in the game against the Dragons, they are still like this, defensive counterattack is their tactic formulated before the game, ensuring that they do not concede the ball is their goal of the game, it is of course the best to steal one, but now they have conceded the ball first!

The deficit in the game also made Olaroyo give up the idea of winning the draw, and now the priority is to get the score back first, and under his gesture, the players of Al Ahli Dubai completely pressed the formation out.

Al Ahly still has a certain threat in attacking with all his might, especially Lima, a player who has played a big role, and after this period of testing, he observed that Xiao Yunfan, the right wing-back of the Longteng team, was slightly weaker in defense, and launched an attack on his position.

Although Ribeiro may sound more famous, Lima is actually a better player to play in Asia, as he is more impactful than Ribeiro, and he is one of the few players in Al Ahly's squad who is not afraid of the Dragons.

Another team in the history of the Chinese Super League, Beijing Guoan, wanted to introduce him at the beginning of this season, but Lima, who looked down on the Chinese Super League, and his Benfica club did not pay attention to the Guoan team at all, and then Guoan waited for two days without getting the opportunity to contact Lima before introducing Kleber.

After coming to Al Ahly, his performance was also very good, and he was not impressed by the overly cautious attitude of coach Olaroyu before the game, including the goal scored by the Longteng team this time, and he also thought that he was stolen by the opponent - after all, the Longteng team did score a goal with a quick counterattack.

Lima was very upset about being attacked, and now he is ready to use his strength to tell the other party that I am the brightest star of this game.

In the 32nd minute of the first half, Ribeiro got the ball near the arc of the center circle, and after observing a circle, he found that his teammates were very close to the opponent, and after passing the ball to the danger of losing the ball, he thought about passing the ball to his teammate back Majid Hassan, who came from behind, but Lima, who was standing very close to the sideline, insisted on raising his hand and asked Ribeiro to pass the ball.

Seeing how confident his team-mate was, Ribeiro chose to trust him and he passed the ball over.

Lima's choice is actually very dangerous, on the passing line that Ribeiro passed to him, Pato on the right side can rush to the passing line to break the ball, Xiao Yunfan is behind Lima, and it is not good to half turn around to attack when he gets the ball.

In order to avoid the pass being cut off by Pato, Ribeiro passed the ball farther away from Pato's position, and the power was also very large, and the ball passed was still a certain distance from Lima.

But it was such a bad pass that Lima still got it, and he held the ball very steadily.

Xiao Yunfan saw that Lima received the ball so reluctantly, so he wanted to take the opportunity to lean up from behind him and poke his ball off, and Xiao Yunfan also overestimated his physical confrontation ability, he thought that his height of 1.8 meters was stronger than that of less than 1.8 meters, but the impact and stabbing ball behind Xiao Yunfan did not stab the ball, and he was still a little unstable because of his excessive force.

Lima also took advantage of Xiao Yunfan's rashness, and after receiving the ball, he withstood Xiao Yunfan's impact, and when Xiao Yunfan kicked out, a beautiful pull ball turned around, completely getting rid of Xiao Yunfan's defense.

Seeing Xiao Yunfan's reckless top robbery failure, Roque Gill had to come over to help him fill in the position, and his departure also gave Ribeiro space to catch the ball.

Lima was not greedy after the breakthrough and saw Roque Gill coming, he was smart enough to return the ball to Ribeiro, and this time the two of them passed into a beautiful one-two combination, which is exactly the kind of attacking routine that Olaroyo dreams of.

After getting the ball, Ribeiro is now not as confused as before, because the defense of the Longteng team at this time is still in adjustment, there are a lot of gaps, he has leisure to observe the running position of his teammates in the running with the ball, and after adjusting his center of gravity, he saw Khalil who was pulled out of the penalty area to make the ball.

As the captain of the UAE national team, Khalil won the silver boot in the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, the player's shooting is first-class in Asia, and his ability to play the ball is also very good, this time after receiving a pass from Ribeiro, he made a beautiful pretending to want to turn around, in fact, halfway through, directly sent the ball to the side plugged in Fardan, who shook off a little passing angle in the acceleration run, and passed the ball directly into the penalty area.

At this time, Lima had already run to the penalty area, and in the face of Fardan's pass, Lima had the urge to jump in the box.

As a centre-forward, Lima is only 1.79m tall, but in the season he won the Portuguese Premier League Bronze Boot, he scored seven headers, more than a third of his total of 19.

In the first leg of the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League in Al Ahly, Dubai, Lima's goal was scored in the jump of the set-piece in the case of two defenders, it can be said that he is not tall, but the bounce is very amazing.

Lima's header was still very threatening this time, because Ma Yongli had gone out to defend Khalil, and the Longteng team left another central defender Lu Zhihui in the defense of the header.

Lu Zhihui, who is famous for his header ability in the entire Chinese Super League, did not rob Lima by 1.85 meters, so that the latter's header was successful, fortunately, Lu Zhihui's name is not in vain, although he did not grab it in the header defense this time, but in the physical confrontation, the gap between the two people is too big.

Although Lima grabbed the point, in the physical confrontation in the air, he was washed crooked by Lu Zhihui, and after the ball rubbed on Lima's head, it was slightly higher than the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line.

It can be said that if there was no interference from Lu Zhihui in the air, Lima's header would have been 100% into the goal this time, because Zhou Wei's pounce just now was still a long distance away from the ball.

"Lima's header. He Wei also exclaimed, "It's too dangerous." We can't give the opposition such a chance, the centre-forward is alone against our centre-backs, and the options for attacking are too great. ”

"The main thing is that the left side just took a defensive run, and it was a bit aggressive. Xu Yang analyzed, "In this game, we saw that the tactics of the Longteng team were very clear, that is, not to give Ribeiro too many opportunities to organize. However, the rush on the left flank caused a hole in the defensive system, forcing the midfielders to fill in the position, which was why Ribeiro was able to launch a series of playmaking attacks. ”

Zhang Sheng also found a little problem in his tactics this time, that is, Lin Feng, as a back waist, wants to organize an attack, and sometimes he has to rush a little forward, plus the Longteng team that has just scored is now full of momentum and strong offensive, Lin Feng has more opportunities to run to the front, his return defense is not so fast, and the B2B midfield has one less B, and the team's midfield defense will definitely have problems.

It's time for the team to recycle the formation, Zhang Sheng thought.

Soon he made an arrangement, allowing Lin Feng to properly retract his position, and the overall formation of the Longteng team was also taken back accordingly.

When the Dragons' formation retracted, Dubai Al Ahly found that his attack had become difficult again, and Ribeiro, the core of the organization, often passed the ball around in the midfield, found that there was no chance, and had to give the ball to the two midfielders to let the Dragons' formation pull out.

As the Longteng team played more cautiously, the tempo became slower again, the two sides exchanged the ball more in the midfield, and the fans on both sides were frantically cheering on the sidelines, but the game was very dull.

Zhang Sheng, who is now leading by one goal, also looks very leisurely, he was still standing on the sidelines under the command before, but now he is sitting comfortably in the seat of the coach's seat.

"Football matches are like this, since ancient times, red and blue have come out of CP, oh no, since ancient times, there has been no good game in the final. Zhang Sheng and Schurrle beside him said, "A one-goal lead is not safe, so the entanglement in the midfield is very beneficial for us." ”

Zhang Sheng's words are not wrong, when the two teams decide to rely on positional battles to advance the attack, it depends on whose tactical details are more perfect, whose passing and receiving details are handled better, who has more good players, who is more patient, and who can win in the end.

The Dragons are now leading by one goal, with a more stable mentality than the opposition, and as a team known for playing passes, their advantage in midfield is also more obvious.

Now on the field, Dubai Al Ahli can be able to block the Longteng team in the midfield, and the referee can be regarded as a great merit.

Every time Dubai Al Ahli made small moves and fouls closer to the 30-meter area, the referee basically turned a blind eye and did not give the Longteng team a chance to take a free kick in the front, but in the half of the Longteng team, Al Ahli's players fouled, but he blew the whistle in time, looking very fair.

However, the free kick in the backfield is really not of much help to the attack, and the Longteng team will not invest a lot of troops into the attack for a free kick in the backfield.

Even the commentator He Wei said: "I can understand the pressure of the two teams in the final, it is normal for the pace to be slow, but the referee should also control such frequent fouls, once the two sides can't suppress the fire, the game will become a farce." ”

As the time passed in the first half of the game, the referee's punishment began to become more and more "severe", and many normal physical confrontations in the Longteng team in their own half were frequently whistled for fouls by the referee.

In just ten minutes, the referee gave three free kicks in front of Dubai Al Ahly, but the quality of the first two Al Ahly penalties was not high, and the ball could not go around the human wall.

Until the end of the first half, Dubai Al Ahly got a lot of front-court set-piece opportunities with the help of the referee, but they didn't grasp any of them, which made their head coach Olaroyo very anxious.

Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, looked at the situation on the field coldly, and said with disdain in his heart: "The defense of set-pieces is the focus of our drills before the game. You don't have an advantage in average height, and you want to score goals with your headers, and you think too much. ”

Sure enough, after a succession of free-kicks and corners failed to score even a single successful shot, one of Dubai Al Ahly's free-kicks in first-half extra-time flew high into the stands.

Zhang Sheng was also overjoyed to applaud vigorously on the field, and the meaning of ridicule was self-evident.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the Dragons returned to the dressing room with a one-goal lead.

The players of the Longteng team who walked on the way off the field talked and laughed, with relaxed expressions, and the faces of the players of the home team were extremely dignified, and the embarrassing situation of falling behind at home and not being able to play an effective attack made them really worried.

At half-time, Zhang Sheng praised the players' performance: "You played very well in the first half. The referee helped him, but you all held your breath. And it is us who control the ball in the midfield, and they are the ones who run to grab the ball, as long as everyone protects themselves, they will be in great trouble in the late game, and it is estimated that they will not have the strength to foul when they want to. ”

'We always have to remember that possession is not a win, but it is a win. Zhang Sheng continued to cheer everyone up, "Now the lead is us, we control the ball on the court for one more minute, the opponent will be more impatient for one minute, this psychological and physical double pressure is likely to lead to a collapse." In the second half, everyone continued to work hard to let them know that in the face of absolute strength, some small actions will not help. ”

At this time, Olaroyo could only cheer up the players over and over again, and even vaguely mentioned the scale of the penalty: "Everyone knows the importance of this game. Our boss, as well as our boss's father, were watching us. They have created the best environment for us, the home advantage is so obvious, we must not waste this opportunity. We need to play more aggressively and interrupt the rhythm of their passing. The attack from Lima and Ribeiro in the first half was what we should have played, and the more we run, we have a chance. ”