People's ambition will increase step by step with what they have in hand. At the beginning of the second half of the season, seeing that his team lost important players, Cheng Fuhao once thought that being able to be relegated was his greatest luck. But after eight rounds of matches, Tokyo's results not only did not go down, but continued to rise, which also made Cheng Fuhao satisfied with the results, and began to play the idea of the AFC Champions League.

Such an idea may be a bit long-looking, but for Cheng Fuhao, it is also normal to consider the AFC Champions League: although Tokyo's results are better now, it still looks like it is more than relegation, and there is no hope of competing for the top three. With 34 points in 20 rounds, this result can be said to be the most uncertain for all coaches: in a season, there is nothing to strive for, and the season is still early, and he can't always be idle.

After the league results improved, the idea of whether the AFC Champions League could go further has been invading Cheng Fuhao, although the team has set him the goal of qualifying for the AFC Champions League group, and he himself has exceeded the task and brought the team to the quarterfinals. However, considering the current situation of the team, he is also eager to try again to see if Tokyo FC can win one or two more games in the AFC Champions League.

He would love to do so: last season, Tokyo's historic top-three finish catapulted him as a fledgling coach. And this season, if he leads Tokyo to the last four of the AFC Champions League, it will also prove that he does have a level and will be of great benefit to his own career. And, he believes, his players will support it as well: how many scouts are watching the J-League after the World Cup. The players will certainly not be satisfied with just being in the league and playing at a higher level. It is possible to get more people's attention.

Only, doing so is not without risk: in the AFC Champions League. They met strong opponents: in this round, they met South Korean team Suwon Samsung. The Japanese team has always had no advantage over the South Korean team, and Suwon Samsung is also considered the top team in South Korea, and it is not easy to face them. Tokyo's record against Pohang Steelers in the group stage is one win and one defeat, which also makes this game still have doubts.

However, it seems that if you fight it, there is nothing to lose left and right. So, these days. Seongbok Ho has been studying Suwon Samsung all along.

There are three main South Korean internationals that this team needs to pay attention to: goalkeeper Lee Yun-jae, South Korea's chief national goalkeeper, and almost the strongest goalkeeper in East Asia; Defender Cho Won-hee, a former Wigan Athletic player, has just been loaned back to Suwon Samsung not long ago. Midfielder Yeom Ki-hoon, a very good breakthrough master, once tried out West Ham United, can be said to be very threatening. These three people. The storage zài gives Suwon Samsung a lot of confidence to face any opponent.

Compared with the international players, Suwon Samsung's foreign aid seems to be a little worse. Because of injuries. There are only two foreign players they can use in the game. Motta, a striker in the front court, is a player who holds up the midfield line of Suwon Samsung. The defender Li Datou in the backfield is a foreign aid from China.

There are Chinese players on the other side. It also surprised Cheng Fuhao at that time, in the whole of Asia. There may be only these two teams that use Chinese players as foreign aid, and it just so happens that these two teams met in the AFC Champions League. This coincidence made Cheng Fuhao sigh that fate was magical.

While sighing, he also pondered what he could do to make Tokyo win the game: after all, the two defeats in Tokyo have made it clear: Tokyo's backline is not in good shape right now, and the midfield is prone to deformation when pressed by opponents, which is clearly built. If such a problem is not solved, if you meet the Korean team, it will be a big problem.

How to build a good backline and midfield, this is something that Tokyo needs to consider. In the first half of the season, Tokyo's defensive quality was quite high, and in the second half of the season, with the departure of Yuto Nagatomo and the loss of form of Yasuyuki Konno, their defensive quality has also dropped a lot, and how to find his own defense is a problem that Jofuku must consider.

Fortunately, after August 24, there was also a period of time when there were no major matches in Tokyo. Because of the national team competition, the league will not restart until September 12, and during this period, only the quarterfinals of the League Cup competition will be played, and this round of matches can be used to implement new tactics.

Last season, Tokyo won the League Cup, and they are willing to celebrate it, but this season, with the AFC Champions League to play, Cheng Fuhao is not very eye-catching about the League Cup. Different cups have different weights, and the top four of the AFC Champions League are more worthy of attention than the champions of the League Cup. Anyway, because of the AFC Champions League this year, the team did not put forward the requirements for Cheng Fuhao in the domestic cup, and the League Cup competition is used to implement new tactics, which is also very good.

When September 1 came, in the game with Shimizu's heartbeat, Cheng Fuhao sent out not all the main forces of the team. Yasuyuki Konno went to play for the national team at this time, and he was not in the team, although he couldn't play, and Mato Morishige and Bruno formed the defensive line. Among the others, he also chose to rotate Ko Shunyao and Kensuke Nagai, and in the forward line, he replaced Tatsuya Suzuki, and used Tanabe Kusato on the left side.

It seems that he wants to try whether he can have more opportunities if he doesn't have to fight hard in front of him and go to the ground to cooperate - people immediately have their own understanding of his adjustment.

However, the facts told him that Tokyo did not have such a playful capital, although he specially arranged tactics, used small players, and strengthened the team's passing ability, but in the game, Shimizu's heartbeat still easily killed them. After playing a defensive counterattack for half a season, it is unrealistic to want to immediately change to a technical flow, and they keep conceding goals in the game, on the contrary, Shimizu's heartbeat Omae Genki played well, and he scored two goals in the game, and told Tokyo with facts, so playing is not something they can try.

After the fiasco in the first round of the League Cup, in the second round of the League Cup, Tokyo still didn't make much effort, and in this game, although Gao Shunyao was replaced, Kenyu Nagai was replaced. It seems that Jofuku wants to try again, and what about replacing Kensuke Nagai with a more skilled Tanabe grass man. He tried to open up the attack on the left flank through guò to increase his attacking power. It's a pity that Tanabe Grass didn't play a sufficient level, technically, he was not enough to support Gao Shunyao, and in terms of strength, he lacked the hardness of Nagai Kenyou's counter-robbery, and he couldn't share the pressure on Gao Shunyao, so that Gao Shunyao played left and right in the front court, and he had to run and shoot, and he had to do dirty work, Gao Shunyao couldn't split himself into two, so this time, Tokyo still didn't win.

One loss and one draw, Tokyo's League Cup, an early defeat is out. Although the League Cup is not an important game, and people are also very clear that Tokyo has the AFC Champions League to play, I am afraid that they also want to give up the League Cup early. However, the way Tokyo lost was not because they used all the substitutions, but because they made the wrong tactical attempts. That's funnier.

It looked like Seongbok Ho wanted to find a way to deal with Suwon Samsung in these two matches, but his efforts didn't work at all. For a while, the media was also laughing at Cheng Fuhao's blundered attempt, his idea was really terrible.

"Maybe what Cheng Fuhao should do is to be rational, give up the AFC Champions League, and then wait for Yohei Kajiyama to come back."

In the media, some people have already questioned Cheng Fuhao: Obviously, people can see that his adjustment is for the AFC Champions League. Otherwise, he can not move the backline, anyway, the AFC Champions League game is over, and in October, Yohei Kajiyama should be back. He made such an attempt, definitely for the AFC Champions League.

The AFC Champions League Tokyo have gone far enough that they can give it up. Moreover, no matter how you look at it, Cheng Fuhao's adjustment doesn't seem to be very smart.

However, soon, in the game against Kawasaki Frontale, people realized what Cheng Fuhao's adjustment was doing.

In the game against Kawasaki Frontale, Gao Shunyao was put on the bench again. In this game, the team chose to let him rest in rotation so that he had more energy and body to cope with the game in three days.

This adjustment speaks to Tokyo's thinking even more fully. If it weren't for the AFC Champions League, there was no reason why they would want to put their team's goal-scoring strikers on the bench. And if this adjustment is not enough to explain the problem, then another adjustment makes people understand their thoughts even more.

In Tokyo, the lineup was the same as in the previous two League Cup games, but there were no changes, this time, it was a combination of Masato Morishige and Bruno Fernandes who appeared at the back, and Yasuyuki Konno was placed in the midfield position along with Hideto Takahashi.

Compared with the rotation rest in the front court, this adjustment is what makes people notice. Compared with offense, Cheng Fuhao pays more attention to the adjustment of defense.

Tokyo's defensive quality has declined, and it is due to the poor form of Yasuyuki Konno. After Yasuyuki Konno's poor performance, Jofuku Hiroshi was obviously ruthless. Let Masato Morishige play the main force, and his adjustment, making Yasuyuki Konno a midfielder, is definitely a wise move.

Yasuyuki Konno's defensive ability and position selection ability are known as the best in Japan. In the midfield position, he can defend better than the regular midfielder in many cases. Yohei Kajiyama is injured and it will be difficult for Park Joo-ho to play the scene that Tokyo demands, and putting Yasuyuki Konno in this position is clearly an excellent choice.

In this game, Tokyo finally found its own defense from the first half of the season. In the game, Kawasaki Frontale almost couldn't find a decent chance, and in the confrontation between the two teams, although Tokyo barely scored any goals because the main striker did not play, they relied on defense to get a 0-0 draw.

The 0-0 score is not something to be proud of, but not conceding a goal is definitely something that can make the Tokyo players happy.

This proves that in the face of Suwon Samsung's game, in addition to Gao Shunyao's sharp spear, they have also found the strong shield they should have. (To be continued......)