Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Flowing Soldiers (Part II)

Zhang Linpeng didn't have time to be happy, but he heard Gao Jun say to him with a stern face, "However, playing in Europe does not mean that you will be successful, especially if your current strength is not strong enough to gain a firm foothold there, if you can't play for a long time, it will outweigh the losses, so you must train and play more actively, impress the head coach with your attitude, and even if you don't have a chance, you have to calm down, you can communicate openly and honestly with the head coach, but remember not to complain in private to express dissatisfaction, That doesn't make sense, and it's likely to get the manager to put you in the cold completely."

However, Gao Jun still likes Zhang Linpeng, the "lucky general" of the year, so he specially greeted him and recommended him to go to the Dresden Dynamo team for trial. In the end, Zhang Linpeng really stayed in the team, although because the strength was not enough for the time being, he could only start from the bench for the time being, but because the physical fitness of the main right-back Langen was difficult to cope with multi-line operations even after greatly improved, so Zhang Linpeng's appearance opportunities still had some, coupled with Magat's high-level physical training in the world, Zhang Linpeng also benefited a lot, and his already very good body was further transformed. It laid a solid foundation for him to become one of the best full-backs and defensive midfielders in Asia in the future

In addition to the two players who stayed abroad, Du Wei, who is still a first-class central defender in China despite his fatal flaws, also transferred to Guangzhou Hengda, which is currently ranked second in the Chinese Super League, for 12 million yuan this summer. In terms of common sense, it is very unwise for the Shanghai Oriental team to sell such a powerful player to the most powerful competitor in the league, but Xu Genbao considers that Du Wei is not young now, and earning money to support his family has become a very real pressure, and the Hengda team is willing to pay him double his salary. Then let him go, anyway, there are no replacement candidates in the team now

Honduran central defender Caballero, who joined Shanghai Orient a few years ago and immediately became the mainstay of the backline, is now 34 years old, but he is still young, let alone the Chinese Super League, even in the AFC Champions League, there are few opponents who can make him suffer big losses. After a long run-in, Zhao Ming, a young central defender who was transferred from Yanbian team, has now been fully integrated into the unique tactical system of Shanghai Oriental team in China. Because of his rare speed among the central defenders, Zhao Ming's role in the Shanghai Oriental team's backline has become more and more significant, even surpassing Caballero, who is called "the treasure of the town team" by fans. But whether it is Zhao Ming or Caballero, after the start of the 2009 season, the main position is no longer as stable as before, even after Du Wei left the team, because this season Shanghai Oriental team has an excellent young central defender born

Thanks to Gao Jun's help over the years, Bai Jiajun, who has only grown to 1.63 meters tall in history, has almost grown to 1.70 meters in this time and space, but even though his height is nearly 7 cm taller than in history. It is still too short for the central defender who has a heavy air defense task, even Xu Genbao, who has always been eclectic in employing people, did not dare to use him to play central defender at first after Gao Jun built yƬ many times, and mainly used Bai Jiajun as a substitute for the fullback.

In fact, if you only talk about defensive ability, the current Bai Jiajun is no longer under Zhang Linpeng, and because he is short, flexible and has a low center of gravity, his ability to break through one-on-one defense has reached the level of Asia's top defensive players. It's a pity that he has not been good because of muscle type problems and aerobic endurance, and he can only last up to 60 minutes in a very physically demanding position such as fullback. At the same time, the offensive ability is not as good as the defensive ability, so in the fullback position, he is completely unable to compete with Wang Shengchao, who has a balanced ability and is very popular with Xu Genbao, and even the younger Li Dribble, and rarely has the opportunity to play

However, because Gao Jun has always valued and cared about him, Xiaobai did not lose confidence in himself, but used this time to repeatedly hone his basic skills of tackles, headers, receiving and passing. At the same time, he started to develop his strength, anyway, he developed early, and he has long been determined to become the number one centre-back in Asia, so there is no need to worry about the negative impact of this.

In the past two or three years, Bai Jiajun's hard practice of the four basic skills has reached the realm of perfection. And his physique has also become extremely strong, 1.70 meters tall actually weighs 68 kilograms, but because there is no fat on his body, he only looks lean, coupled with Bai Jiajun's rare muscle type with a high proportion of white muscles, his explosive power is amazingly strong, such a small person has a super physical confrontation ability, in the formation of the Shanghai Oriental team, in addition to Zhang Linpeng, who is outstanding in physical quality, only foreign aid can have the upper hand in the physical confrontation with Bai Jiajun, but unless the weight difference is more than 30 pounds, Otherwise, it is difficult to have an overwhelming advantage. And with such strength as a foundation, although Bai Jiajun is still short, but relying on his incredible amazing bounce and rare excellent prediction, his performance when competing for the high ball in training is not too bad, those teammates who are under 1.8 meters tall are not his opponents, even if they are more than 1.8 meters tall, they may not necessarily win

And Bai Jiajun in the center of the necessary conventional ability greatly enhanced at the same time, he has always been excellent speed has been further improved, in 2009 during the spring training of a team test, Bai Jiajun ran 11 seconds of the personal best 100 meters, although this is the result of hand timing, in Chinese football is absolutely unprecedented, although Bai Jiajun is also very fast in history, but in any case not fast to this point, 7 centimeters of height really has a huge impact

Although there has been a significant improvement in individual ability, the defense is not as easy as the offense, and on the premise that the main central defender is good, few coaches will take the risk of substitution. Therefore, Bai Jiajun can only wait patiently for the opportunity, and the result has been waiting until the start of the new season in 2009, the most important first main central defender of the Shanghai Oriental team, Zhao Ming, was accidentally injured in the warm-up game, and he had to wait at least two months before he could re-participate in the game, and Caballero was also injured in the first game of the new season, although the injury was not as serious as Zhao Ming, and it only took half a month to heal. But Xu Genbao, who had to worry about allocating the playing time of the three main central defenders in the previous two years, suddenly faced the dilemma of only one central defender available, at this time he suddenly remembered what Gao Jun had said to him at the beginning, and finally decided to give Bai Jiajun a chance

Due to the butterfly effect produced by Gao Jun's crossing, the Shanghai Oriental team, which has a very strong lineup of domestic players in history, is more talented, even if it has sold a number of main players in the team, the configuration of domestic players is still the first in China, plus it has made a lot of money from the transfer, and Gao Jun has helped introduce a high level of foreign aid suitable for the Shanghai Oriental Club, which is also one of the best in China in terms of foreign aid allocation, plus the incomparable tacit understanding between the youth players of Chongming base and the ball control pressure that the Shanghai Oriental team has always insisted on. The high-level pressing style of play can be said to complement each other, so that today's Shanghai Oriental team has a strong game control ability that is unrivaled in China. Even the strongest competitor, Guangzhou Hengda team, can only rely on defensive counterattack tactics to threaten the goal of the Shanghai Oriental team, and such an offensive and defensive mode is like tailor-made for Bai Jiajun

In this case, even if the opponent successfully breaks the ball and can break the positive counter-grab after the Oriental team players lose the ball and accurately pass the ball behind them, they cannot directly threaten the goal of the Shanghai Oriental team, and must wait for the counterattacking striker to catch up with the football and advance to the 30-meter danger zone, after all, there is no monster in the Chinese Super League that Adriano can shoot from 40 meters away. What's more, Gu Chao, the current main goalkeeper of the Shanghai Oriental team, is tall and has an advantage in long-range shots.

In this way, whether the opponent's rapid counterattack can succeed depends on the speed between their strikers and the defenders of the Eastern team, so there must be fast central defenders on the defensive line of the Eastern team (the tactics of the Eastern team have high requirements for the assists of the fullbacks, and the opponent may not stay behind when counterattacking, so the work of protecting the back of the defense line can only be handed over to the central defenders. The reason why Zhao Ming quickly became the main force after coming to the Oriental team and made the Oriental team's results rebound sharply is precisely because he has a speed advantage that most domestic central defenders do not have. However, for this kind of work, compared with Zhao Ming, Bai Jiajun, who is faster, more flexible, more accurate in prediction, more accurate in tackles, and also from Chongming Academy, can do a more perfect job

Zhao Ming's speed is fast, in fact, compared with most central defenders, it is still worse than those speed-oriented forwards and wingers or even full-backs. And Bai Jiajun's speed, especially the explosion speed in the first 30 meters, is too fast, even the fastest Guangzhou Hengda team in the current Chinese Super League, Kuai Ma Muric, is slightly inferior, plus he is short and turns fast, and he has to save a little time than Zhao Ming, so he has a great advantage in the chase. (To be continued......)