86_86638As a coach of a team, when dealing with the affairs of the team, there are times when you have to take into account the different needs of a team, between the main team and the substitutes, between the new and the veteran. In order to ensure the performance of the league, it is necessary to use more veteran players, and in order to ensure the future of the team, it is also necessary to use more young players to play football. Especially for a league like Japan, where the generation is changing quickly, and one of the main tasks is to develop talent, it is necessary to use more young people.

Cheng Fuhao knows this, so his promise to the players is also to allow young people to do whatever they want in the League Cup.

Japan's League Cup is one of Japan's two major cup competitions, but just like the English League Cup, this League Cup is much worse than the Emperor's Cup. The champion of this cup has no AFC Champions League place, no Super Cup to play, and only 18 teams participated, which is very small, so the League Cup has always been relatively despised and played very well for young people.

Moreover, Japan's League Cup is very suitable for training newcomers in terms of format: the rules of this competition are quite interesting: unlike the English League Cup, he only competes with J1 teams, and its format is not a knockout system, but a group stage first, and then a knockout round. And what's even more laughable is that this group stage is only divided into two groups.

The rules of the Japan League Cup stipulate that 4 of the 18 teams in the J1 League have the AFC Champions League to play and do not have to play in the group stage. The remaining 14 teams are divided into two groups of seven teams each, and after six rounds of group stage matches, each group will determine two winners, one team of four, and four AFC Champions League teams to enter the quarterfinals, play the knockout round, and finally decide the victory.

It's a pretty good format, which means that each team has at least six group games to play, and for a young man like Ko Soon Yao, playing time is quite guaranteed. For a young man, starting six games in a season is already a rarity.

Because of the coach's commitment, although the young people of the team did not get any chance in the friendly matches, they were still very diligent in exercising their strength. And in their efforts, a new season has arrived as promised.

What made it difficult for Tokyo FC to accept was that they lost the first game in Tokyo.

The first match of the season, Tokyo FC was against Niigata Swans. The strength of these two teams is roughly similar, neither side has real international players, and the strength is relatively average. However, in this game, Tokyo FC looked extremely weak in front of Niigata Swans and was directly tied to a score of 4-1.

The reason is actually very simple: Tokyo FC has only three foreign players in the lineup, and Gao Shunyao is still sitting on the bench. And there are four foreign players in the Niigata Swans lineup, and these people are basically all new to Niigata Swans. For a team at the level of the J League, the more foreign players in the team, the stronger the strength. Moreover, foreign aid has just been introduced, so it is easy to beat the opponent and be unprepared. Niigata Swans have brought in new foreign signings, giving them the upper hand in this game. They scored two goals shortly after the start of the game. Although Tokyo has been thinking about counterattacking, it can be known that at the end of the game, they only scored one goal, but Tokyo itself was chased by the opponent with two more goals because of some discouragement in the second half.

"It's not that we can't do it, it's that the opponent has brought in new foreign players, and we don't know their characteristics yet, so we suffered when we played against them. It's not too much of a problem, the league is long and one game doesn't decide anything. ”

After the game, in the face of the team's strength, Cheng Fuhao could only enlighten the team like this. Cheng Fuhao is not convinced of such a failure: the opponent has enough foreign aid, and the team's failure cannot be regarded as his own problem.

The Japanese league is characterized by a large number of midfielders and full-backs, and their weakness is that there are few good players in forwards and defenders. Such characteristics are just the opposite of South Korea, which is not as weak as the hardness and attack, but lacks the command talent of the midfield.

The lack of players in fixed positions will make the team poor. However, all teams are weak in the same position, which also makes it much easier for these teams to bring in reinforcements. Bringing in a few good strikers and good defenders can multiply the strength of your team, which is not new for Japan.

That's what the Niigata Swans did, and they won because of the reinforcements. And Tokyo FC doesn't have any good foreign help. Gao Shunyao, the reinforcement, was not able to play anything in this game. Although he was given the opportunity to play, the team was already behind when he came on. He didn't play well, but he can't be blamed. After all, it is a player of 4.8 million, and Cheng Fuhao does not expect him to be able to reverse the overall situation. Even if you really complain, you should complain that there is no main force to play.

It was a bad start, so it could be said that it was a very tough blow, but for Tokyo FC, this is just the beginning. After losing the first battle, a week later, Tokyo suffered a second defeat. Their second match against Urawa Ruby was against Urawa Ruby, and in this game, Tokyo naturally lost without suspense.

Urawa Ruby team, the Asian champion in the 07 season, and in the 07 and 08 seasons, they were strong contenders for the league title, the previous season was overturned at the end of the season, the latter season was lost at the end of the season, and it was a pity to lose both seasons. In terms of strength alone, they are much stronger than Niigata Swans.

In the general comments of the Japanese media, it is believed that Urawa is no longer as strong as Kashima: Urawa Ruby is now aging in the squad, the player salary is extremely high, and the three old players with a salary of 100 million yuan have made their lineup unable to be replaced, so they are gradually losing the competitiveness of the league.

However, although their squad is aging, at the beginning of the season, when the league has just started, they are not weak at all. Sandu Master, Xibei Meng, Tanaka Hatsa King This group of international players, plus Edmilson and Eduardo, Ponte three Brazilians, when they played Tokyo FC, they directly played Tokyo FC without temper, and conceded two goals in a row soon after the opening, and the whole game was suppressed.

At the start of the second half, FC Tokyo conceded their third goal and gave the team an early defeat. However, what is gratifying is that the morale of this team is not bad, because there is no hope, and when the time is less than 60 minutes, Gao Shunyao was replaced, and unlike the last game, which was basically idle on the field, this time Gao Shunyao has begun to play a little like this. At the last moment of the game, Gao Shunyao took advantage of Urawa Ruby to be careless, took advantage of Tanaka's hole that King Doukasa inserted too strongly, and sent the ball to the feet of Kabore with a header to help the team pull back a goal.

1-3, Tokyo FC lost the second game.

Started with two consecutive defeats and conceded seven goals. If you don't look at Kabore, it's a disgrace. Fortunately, after two games, the new players in the J-League are almost all familiar with each team, and Tokyo FC no longer has to worry about the sudden appearance of players to give them a surprise. On the other hand, in the third round, they finally ushered in a weak opponent: the opponent in this round, Kyoto Immortal, is much weaker than Urawa Ruby.

The Kyoto Immortals team once had a very famous player, Park Ji-sung, and for this reason, they also prefer to use Korean players. In their ranks, there are only two Brazilians, while South Korean foreign players and Japanese Koreans have one each. Compared to Tokyo, they are slightly weaker, especially their defender Sidis is already a 37-year-old old defender, which gives Tokyo a advantage.

Unfortunately, Tokyo still did not win this game: in the game, South Korean player Lee Jung-so was closely staring at Kabore for almost the whole game, so that Tokyo had to focus on Hirayama Sota. However, in the game, Hirayama Sota missed opportunities again and again, and he was never able to break the opponent's door.

Although Tokyo had the advantage, the goal was delayed, and it was not until the 70th minute that Hanyu scored a goal. It's a pity that the Kyoto Immortals are not a team that sits still. Their team's high school striker Yohei Toyoda also seized the opportunity to score a goal in the final moment, making the game end 1-1.

The first two games were lost in the overall strength, and Cheng Fuhao had nothing to say. Coughing about a domestic product, he also complained a few words when he was talking to his assistant coach Kenji Arima in private.

"People say that Hirayama is the monster of Japan, the best high school striker in Japan. But in this game, his performance is really not as good as the opposite Toyota Yangping. If I had given me Yohei Toyoda, I would have been able to win this game, and I would not have taken advantage of it, and it was just 1-1 in the end."

In these games, Hirayama Sota didn't play very well, and the first two games can be forgiven. The third was hard to tolerate. Cheng Fuhao originally had a lot of hopes for him, but now, he is also beginning to identify with Da Xiongqing. He didn't want to blame the players at the beginning of the season, but he was slowly building up dissatisfaction in his heart. And these complaints were heard by Ma Xianji, and he could only comfort him a few words.

"Let's give him trust, after all, the season has just started, maybe you have to adjust. Besides, if you want to replace him, someone has to change him - whether our substitutes can replace him or not will have to be seen in the next game to find out. ”

His persuasion left Cheng Fuhao speechless. Indeed, the season has just begun, and you have to wait if you have any ideas. Substitutes who want to replace the main team can't just watch three games.

Moreover, Gao Shunyao also did not play in these three games, Gao Shunyao did not play like the team in the first game, and although he assisted a goal in the second game, it had nothing to do with the overall situation. In the third game, Cheng Fuhao wanted to bet on Hirayama's ability, and he didn't make a substitution until the 82nd minute, giving Gao Shunyao too little time and no room to play at all.

If you want to see how strong he is, you can't see it in these games. However, the next game will be the League Cup match between Tokyo FC and Yamagata Yamagami. Gao Shunyao will be the starter in this game, and his strength can also be tested