Chapter 133: Quick Counterattack
Shen Feng's interview after the home game between the Dragon Team and the Honduran team was also repeatedly broadcast by the National TV Sports Channel in the following days, as a mouthpiece media, they know best who the biggest hot spot is today!
Moreover, Dragon Country Football also needs the emergence of a leader like Shen Feng now!
The fly in the ointment is that Shen Feng's personality is a little introverted and shy, and when he is engrossed in the game, he can show the momentum of a newborn calf and the domineering spirit of others, but off the court, he is a polite teenager who smiles at everyone, and when he was interviewed, he neither had any grandiose words, nor was he proud and complacent because of the achievements he made, and he was very modest.
In the words of some fans, Shen Feng seems to lack a natural leadership temperament!
However, no one is perfect, and Shen Feng has done well enough in the Dragon Country team, and he can't be expected to be perfect.
Moreover, Shen Feng's current age is still young after all, and in the Dragon Country team, he is also the youngest junior brother, facing a big brother like Zheng Zhi who is almost twice his age, if he really shows the arrogance of no one in his eyes, it is not in line with the traditional cognition of the Dragon Kingdom people.
In this way, Shen Feng, who is omnipotent on the field and polite off the court, is the most favored by such fans who have become fathers and mothers, and with Shen Feng, a successful example in front of them, parents who have many concerns about their children playing football can relax!
According to the self-feedback of local football associations and fans, after the Dragon Country team reached the World Cup finals for the second time, hundreds of thousands of children across the country, either spontaneously or at the instigation of their parents, began to contact football and began to transform into a football population.
Most of these hundreds of thousands of children, the idol is one person, and that is Shen Feng!
That's where role models come in!
Because of his excellent performance in the Dragon Country team, Shen Feng has become the most dazzling new star and the biggest star in Dragon Country football!
The key publicity and promotion of the National Television Sports Channel can only be regarded as the icing on the cake for the spread of his reputation.
Originally, not many people paid attention to the FA Cup game, even if it was the final, but this time, because the Dragon Country team reached the World Cup finals for the second time in history, it set off a wave of football craze in the whole Dragon Country; Second, the two warring sides in the final are many of the main players of the Dragon Country team; The third and most important point is that there is Shen Feng in the Jianye team!
Therefore, this FA Cup final has received far more attention than in the past, and the tickets for the two games have become a sought-after commodity in the past few days.
The National Television Sports Channel also arranged live broadcasts for these two games, with specifications far beyond the ordinary league and FA Cup matches, not only live commentary, but also guests invited to come over and predict and comment on the upcoming games.
The biggest attraction of these two games, the guests and fans, have reached a consensus, that is, the attack line of the Jianye team led by Shen Feng and the attack group of the Shanghai Port team led by Wu Lei, whose spear is sharper!
Between these two games, Shen Feng, who will celebrate his twentieth birthday, although he has just debuted, has surpassed in terms of personal ability, just on the day of the first leg of the FA Cup final, Wu Lei, who has passed his twenty-sixth birthday, is recognized as the first striker among the local players in the Dragon Country!
However, in these two games, Wu Lei had more helpers around him than Shen Feng, and his ability was stronger than Shen Feng's teammates.
Especially in the midfield, the SIPG team has Cai Huikang, Wang Shenchao, Shi Ke and others who have been selected for the Dragon Country team many times, and the Jianye team is slightly inferior in comparison.
Therefore, in general, Jianye team and SIPG team have each other's advantages and disadvantages in terms of lineup, and in the two-legged FA Cup final, who can have the last laugh mainly depends on the on-the-spot performance of the players of the two teams, as well as the tactical arrangements of the coaches of both sides.
In terms of desire to win, SIPG is slightly higher, not only because they want to use a championship trophy to make a perfect end to this season, but also because the FA Cup championship is directly related to next season's AFC Champions League qualification.
Dragon Country's qualification for the AFC Champions League next season is still "2+2", according to AFC regulations, it is the champion of the Dragon Super League, and the champion of the FA Cup, directly qualifying for the main competition, and the other two teams will participate in the play-offs.
Jianye has already won this season's Dragon Super League and therefore qualified for next season's AFC Champions League.
SIPG only finished third in this season's Dragon Super League, and although they have secured qualification for next season's AFC Champions League, they will have to start from the play-offs if they cannot win the FA Cup.
Although it is not difficult to win against the opponents in the play-offs, it is of course the best if you can directly enter the main competition!
Moreover, the goal of the SIPG team this season was originally aimed at the championship of the Dragon Super League, and once had the hope of winning the championship, but in the last few rounds of the league, due to its own problems, it fell off the chain and could only settle for third place in the standings.
As an upstart in the Dragon Super League, SIPG has invested a lot in recent seasons, and the introduction of Oscar, Hulk, Elkeson, and Akhmedov has cost more than 100 million euros!
Comparatively speaking, the Jianye team's investment in foreign aid is dwarfed and far inferior, and may not even be enough for the Shanghai Port team.
With such a huge cost, SIPG naturally wants to have better results in return, the Dragon Super League has ended, not much to say, the final of the FA Cup is just around the corner, and SIPG does not want to miss it anyway.
The first leg of the FA Cup final between the two teams started on time at 19:35 on the evening of November 19, 2017 at the Shanghai 80,000 Stadium, the home of the Shanghai Port team.
The Shanghai Port team, which was fighting at home, came up and gave the Jianye team a dismount, and today's birthday boy Lao Wulei helped the Shanghai Port team open the scoring, and also gave the best gift for his 26th birthday.
The defensive counterattack of the tactics adopted by the Jianye team in this game gave the initiative to the Shanghai Port team fighting at home, and the possession rate of the whole game was as low as 35%, almost half of the Shanghai Port team.
Although the score fell behind not long after the game began, the Jianye team still adhered to the coach's tactical arrangement, was not in a hurry to counterattack, and still defended step by step, and the first task was not to let the SIPG team expand its lead.
In this way, they held on for more than 80 minutes and successfully restrained the Shanghai Port team, which was attacking like a tide.
In the final stage of the game, taking advantage of the opportunity for the SIPG team to think that the overall situation has been decided, the physical fitness has declined, and the concentration has been relaxed, the Jianye team launched a quick counterattack, Shen Feng dribbled the ball from his own half, quickly broke through the top of the arc of the SAPG team's penalty area, and shot angrily, although the ball was blocked by the goalkeeper of the Shanghai Port team, Yan Junling, but still failed to prevent it from flying into the goal.