Chapter 41: Three Wins in a Row

After the first round of matches with Henan Jianye, Li Yi commented on the performance of the players who appeared this time.

There is no doubt that Chen Long's performance is obvious to all and should be the best in the audience.

Think about it, a 12-year-old rookie, who made his substitute debut in the reserve league, can have such a good performance, although he did not score, but it is still shocking!

It can be said that after this battle, Chen Long's ability can be regarded as a complete victory over the players and coaches of Evergrande's reserve team.

This also means that Chen Long has booked a starting spot for the next game.

In fact, that's how things went, and in the second round of the league against Changchun Yatai, Chen Long made his debut.

Chen Long's performance on the court also lived up to Li Yi's expectations, and he repeatedly threatened Changchun Yatai's goal in the game against Changchun Yatai.

Moreover, in the 82nd minute of the game, following the first game against Henan Jianye to assist Wang Hao to score, this game once again gave Wang Hao a wonderful assist.

In the end, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Reserve Team relied on Wang Hao's goal to defeat Changchun Yatai and won two consecutive victories at the beginning of the league.

Wang Hao topped the list of scorers in the reserve league with the data of three goals in two games, and Chen Long topped the assist list with the data of three assists in two games.

This is the first time for the Chinese Super League Reserve League, you know, in the reserve league, there is no shortage of players who play in the Chinese Super League, they may be because of the poor state in the Chinese Super League, or the accumulation of yellow cards, suspended, but, after all, their strength is there.

The two players of Guangzhou Evergrande Reserve Team played amazingly in the first two rounds of the league, which also made the reserve teams of other clubs in the Chinese Super League begin to pay attention.

However, for Chen Long, he may be in some trouble now.

Whether it was the first round or the second round, his performance on the court was truly perfect, and he was recognized and trusted by his teammates and coaches.

However, he's a central striker who hasn't scored a goal so far, which is not what he wants.

'Maybe it's my mentality, it's that I want to score too much'

On the training ground, Chen Long comforted himself like this while training.

Although he did not score, it did not dampen Chen Long's self-confidence in the slightest, and he firmly believed that he may have encountered a bottleneck now, and as long as he maintained a good attitude, he would definitely break it.

As the head coach, Li Yi saw the changes in Chen Long, and he was also pleased with Chen Long.

After being a coach for so many years, Li Yi has met all kinds of players, and has also encountered many situations like the one Chen Long is facing now.

Even world-class superstars have a ball drought, not to mention Chen Long, a newcomer.

Originally, Li Yi planned to enlighten Chen Long in the past, but he found that Chen Long himself had enlightened himself, and shook his head with a sigh, Li Yi swore that if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't believe that a 12-year-old newcomer who had just been promoted from a football school could do it to such an extent.

Of course, Li Yi also comforted himself in this way, maybe this is the difference between a superstar and an ordinary player, in Li Yi's heart, Chen Long will definitely become a superstar in the future.

In the third round of the league, Evergrande challenged Shanghai SIPG away, and Chen Long continued to start.

At the beginning of the game, SIPG took advantage of the home momentum to start a wild bombardment of Evergrande's goal, which caused huge pressure on Evergrande's defense.

Evergrande players had to retreat from the defense, and even Chen Long, who was the team's center forward, also participated in the defense.

After more than a month of training at the reserve team training base, coupled with the previous two games, Chen Long has gradually adapted to the rhythm of the reserve league game, and his physical confrontation ability has also improved significantly.

Therefore, when Chen Long was also involved in the defense, SIPG's offense gradually slowed down, and the ball was gradually controlled by Evergrande players.

The three-board axe at the beginning of the Shanghai Port competition is over, and next, it is Evergrande's turn.

With the indirect assistance of midfielders Liu Tao and Chen Long, Evergrande soon began to press forward across the board, pressing SIPG's half.

Liu Tao is the core of Evergrande's midfield, in addition to Chen Long's occasional organization of the whole team's attack, more balls are passed to Liu Tao, after all, Chen Long's position on the field is a center forward, so the ball after that is more handled by Liu Tao.

Before the start of the game between the two teams, the coaching staff of both teams did full intelligence work, and arranged the players who need to be focused on the opponent's team.

Chen Long is a newcomer newly promoted by Evergrande this season, and this news is now grasped by the coaching staff of the reserve teams of various clubs in the Chinese Super League.

Of course, not every newcomer has such "treatment", all because Chen Long's performance is too amazing.

The task assigned by the SIPG coaching staff to the SIPG players is to beware of Chen Long's passes, and in the first two rounds of the league, Chen Long's pass success rate was very high, which left a deep impression on them.

Therefore, this is also the reason why more balls are handed over to Liu Tao to deal with, whenever Chen Long touches the ball, there will always be at least two SIPG players who come forward to force it, there is no way, Chen Long can only pass the ball to Liu Tao, signaling his teammates to reduce the number of passes to him.

In the first half of the game against SIPG, neither team scored, and the game was extremely dull, and even Chen Long was a little overwhelmed by the close pressure of SIPG players.

As soon as the second half of the game came up, Li Yi took the lead in making personnel adjustments, replacing the midfielder Zheng Fei, who played sluggishly in the first game, with a defender.

Li Yi's intention is obvious, that is, to strengthen the control of the midfield and create more attacking opportunities.

After Zheng Fei came on the field, the control of the midfield immediately increased, so Chen Long's position was forwarded.

In the 70th minute, the Shanghai Port defender made a mistake in clearing the siege, and Evergrande's forward Zhou Bo, who was forced to rush forward, seized the opportunity and stabbed the goal, the score became 1:0, and Evergrande finally scored.

After conceding the goal, the SIPG players began to play a little impatient, but the Evergrande players seized the opportunity, and in the 80th minute of the game, Evergrande defender Jinhua assisted the midfielder Liu Tao to break the goal, and the score became 2:0.

Seeing that the players on the field were getting more and more impatient to deal with the ball, the head coach of SIPG made personnel challenges one after another, replacing three frontcourt players and replacing three backcourt players, with the intention of adding the team's defense, the game went on for 80 minutes, and the game was over in 10 minutes, that is to say, SIPG had lost this game, so the purpose of SIPG coach was not to lose more goals.

In the end, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and Evergrande Reserve defeated Shanghai SIPG Reserve with a score of 2:0, winning three consecutive victories and continuing to dominate the top of the standings.

However, Chen Long's performance in this game can only be described as average, and he still did not score.

Three days later, Evergrande Reserves will challenge Beijing Guoan Reserves away, and this game is particularly important for both Evergrande Reserves and Chen Long.

In the first team, Beijing Guoan has always been the championship rival of Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, and every duel between the two teams is very eye-catching.

Similarly, the contest between the reserve teams of the two teams has always been the focus of the reserve league, the final champion of the reserve league last season was Guoan, and the runner-up was Evergrande, and the reason why Evergrande was the runner-up was that they lost in the two encounters with Guoan last season, so the showdown three days later was for Evergrande. It can be said that it is a battle for revenge.

For Chen Long, he needs to break the ball drought and score goals quickly, perhaps, in the battle with a strong team like Guoan, Chen Long's bottleneck can be broken!