Shen Feng's goal in the opening 2nd minute of the Asian Cup final helped the Longguo team take the lead in opening the situation.

At the same time, it also makes the trend of this game completely go to the unknown that no one can predict.

Before the game, although the vast majority of industry insiders and so-called professional football critics believed that the Dragon Country team had a certain advantage in this final.

This is most directly reflected in the odds of major bookmakers!

The odds of winning the championship of the Dragon Country team are lower than that of the four-time Asian Cup champion Japan.

However, no one would have thought that the Dragon Country team would be able to open up the situation so early and establish a score lead!

In this way, the Japanese team's pre-match tactical arrangement will be completely overturned; The same is true for the Dragons, Lippi's perception of this game is also very difficult, and he is even ready to play extra time and even a penalty shootout.

But now, the Dragons took the lead in just two minutes of the opening game, making the momentum of this game go in two completely different directions from the pre-match prediction.

Both teams will need to adjust their strategies in time to prepare for the next changes.

It happened that it was now in the dead ball period, and the head coaches of the two teams called the core players of their respective teams to their sides and gave them advice in their ears.

Lippi told Zheng Zhi and Zhang Xizhe, the two of them are the core of the midfield of the Dragon Country team, and play a leading role in the change of the Dragon Team's offensive and defensive transitions and changes in the rhythm of the game.

Japan's head coach Mori Boichi told Shinji Kagawa and Keisuke Honda, the two of them are the core of the Japanese team's current midfield, and their role on the field is the same as Zheng Zhi and Zhang Xizhe.

The goal celebration of the Dragon Country team ended with the intervention of the referee on duty, and the players slowly walked back to their own half, Zheng Zhi and Zhang Xizhe took this opportunity to greet other teammates one by one, and informed everyone of Lippi's on-the-spot adjustment strategy.

Lippi's adjustment is very simple, that is, under the good situation of the Dragon team's score lead and morale boosted, strike while the iron is hot, change the conservative strategy formulated before the game, and turn to strengthen the attack, hoping to completely stabilize the situation on the field as soon as possible.

A one-goal lead is the most unsafe score, if the Dragon team can score one more goal and lead by two goals, then the probability of winning this game can be increased to nine!

Of course, the Japanese team is not willing to be restrained, and has also adjusted its strategy in response to the changes in the situation on the field, and no longer slows down the temptation, but must take the initiative to speed up the pace of the game, take the initiative to attack, and hope to equalize the score as soon as possible.

As a result, after the restart of the game, the tempo of the game increased dramatically, and both sides let go of their hands and feet to fight against each other.

The Japanese team is known for their delicate skills and tactical coordination in Asia, and physical confrontation is one of their weaknesses, but in recent years, the physical fitness of their players has also improved significantly, and many players have established themselves in the most competitive five European leagues.

Over the years, the Dragon National Team has not established a too distinctive tactical style, which is directly related to the guiding ideology of the Dragon Football Association in previous years.

That was still the case until Lippi took over the Dragons.

However, Lippi is at the helm of the Dragon National team, and there are some advantages that distinguish him from other coaches, that is, he has coached the Evergrande team before, such as Zheng Zhi, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng, Gao Lin and other players, all of whom have been mediated by him for many years, and they already have a good understanding of his tactical characteristics.

After Lippi took over the Dragon Country team, he mainly used his team in the Evergrande team to build the framework of the Dragon Country team first, and then select suitable players from other teams to supplement the team.

In fact, this situation has continued until now - among the 23-man squad of the Dragon Team for this Asian Cup, the Evergrande team is still the team that has contributed the most players.

However, as the players of Zheng Zhi and Feng Xiaoting gradually get old, Zhang Linpeng, Deng Hanwen and other players have landed in Europe, and the Evergrande team has gradually shown a situation of no successor in the Dragon Country team.

In the starting list of the Dragon Country team in this final, there are still many players from the Evergrande team, but there are only two players who are still playing in the Evergrande team, Zheng Zhi and Feng Xiaoting.

On the contrary, the number of players who play overseas has increased to five including Zhang Linpeng, Deng Hanwen, Shi Ke, Zhang Xizhe, and Wu Lei! If you add Shen Feng, who has already signed a contract with Inter Milan Club and is just waiting for the announcement, the number of overseas players in the current main lineup of the Dragon Country team will exceed half!

This is an achievement that none of the 2002 Golden Generation players of the Dragon Nation team has achieved!

Moreover, with the emergence of more and more outstanding young players, I believe that in the near future, the Dragon Country will play overseas, and there will be more and more players who will land on the five faces of Europe.

Although the current head coach of the Dragon Country team is Italian Lippi, the tactical style of the Dragon Country team has not completely copied the Italian team, nor does it have the ability to copy it.

On the contrary, according to his deep understanding of Dragon Country football, Lippi tailored several sets of tactics for the Dragon Country team according to the current situation of the Dragon Country Team - this is Lippi's biggest role for the Dragon Country Team!

Among these sets of tactics, there are "stubborn counterattacks" that have been verified in the World Cup and proved to be effective; There are also "extreme presses" that have also been verified in the first few games of this Asian Cup, proving that the effect is excellent.

Of course, the reason why these sets of tactics can work is also because of people, because the Dragon Kingdom team has an invincible attacker Shen Feng!

When Shen Feng is not on the field, the tactical execution of the Dragon Country team will be greatly reduced.

In fact, this is not just a problem of the Dragon Nation team, many teams are also facing such a problem - the team's record is directly related to the state of the superstars in the team!

Like Shepchenko's former Ukrainian team, and now the Welsh team led by Bale, it is like this, with or without them, the Ukrainian team and the Welsh team are completely two different teams.

Even the Portuguese team led by Ronaldo, to some extent, has such a problem, so after winning the 2016 European Championship, many people think that it was Ronaldo's victory alone!