Chapter 198: What is the first gear of the Macao team?
Zhang Desheng's outburst that he couldn't hold back in the first half not only greatly boosted the morale of his teammates, but also made the Japanese players begin to feel fear.
Although this breakthrough failed to complete the goal, from the perspective of the Japanese players, it was too desperate!
They almost defended Zhang Gongzi in a suicidal way, but after defending half the game, they were suddenly told - as long as he wants, he can still tear you apart at any time!
Originally, many Japanese players, including Japanese fans, felt that Zico's defensive arrangement for Zhang Desheng was too extreme.
No matter how good he is, can he defeat a team on his own every time?
But now they know that Zhang Desheng can really do it, and this monster has once again proved it with a desperate performance after the Asian Cup.
How do you play in the second half?
It seems impossible for them to defeat this god-like being on the football field!
Zico said: I don't know what to do!
He was so frightened by the final blow of the first half that he almost peed his pants!
Although the Japanese team is not very strong in his eyes, it is still too much for you to play like this, right?
I couldn't have done it back then!
The most desperate thing in Zico's heart is that he originally went to the sky to boast victory in order to highlight himself.
But at this time, he was shocked to find: he didn't blow it wrong? People are really at this level! But the problem is that Zico knows very well that he will never be able to reach this level back then, so isn't it me who has become a clown?
At halftime, the commentators and guests of various Japanese TV stations all racked their brains to give advice to the home team.
But to be honest, in the first half, except for Zhang Gongzi's final outburst, there was really no way, and the biggest problem of the Japanese team was the players' performance and tactics.
Zico's employment was problematic in the first place, and in order to improve his altitude against the Macau team, which is more capable in the air, he sent the only two central defenders in the team who are more than 1.80 cm tall.
But these two have height, but their speed and agility are too different, and Koji Nakata is the bottom of the Japanese team's defenders.
Miyamoto and Makoto Watanaka are less than 1.8 meters tall, but they are stronger than Koji Nakata at this time in terms of physical fitness and defensive ability, and they can at least barely keep up with the rhythm when they are sent up.
In addition, in order to defend Zhang Desheng, the price paid by the Japanese team is indeed too large, not only its own offense has been affected, but the key is that it can't be prevented!
But the biggest problem is that those two waste strikers have wasted too many chances.
This was even a surprise to Zhang Desheng, although Takahara Naotai and Daikoku Shoshi are not a big role in Europe, but they are also considered a first-class level in Asia.
But today's performance of these two people is no different from the Chinese team's waste dim sum, and the Japanese team's forward line is basically a copy of the Chinese team in the World Cup three years ago.
The most impressive scene for Chinese fans in the first half was the most threatening counterattack of the Japanese team, when Niu Zhanshan had been passed by Naotai Takahara to form a single knife.
But the main striker of Hamburg faced Kong Xiaochuan in the penalty area, and he didn't dare to try to beat the goalkeeper, and he didn't even dare to make more moves, and he shot too impatiently, and finally shot off as expected.
This scene reminded Chinese fans of Yang Chen in the World Cup, and the Japanese team, the main striker of Hamburg, looks exactly the same!
Zico also felt that the two had wasted too many opportunities, so at halftime he replaced Okoshi with Atsushi Yanagisawa, who played soy sauce at the Serie A team "Messina".
This is also the characteristic of the Japanese team's players in Europe, basically except for Hidetoshi Nakata in the past few years and Shunsuke Nakamura in the past two years, the rest of them are playing soy sauce roles in Europe.
Chinese fans ridiculed them for being a face-saving project sponsored by Japanese companies, at least at this stage, and there are many similar situations in South Korea.
So this substitution is useless, and the gap between the Japanese team's forwards in terms of combat power is not large.
Macau changed their formation to 4-5-1 after the resumption of the second half.
They now have a one-goal lead in hand, so naturally there is no need to use the attacking formation anymore, and they will directly defend and counterattack in the second half!
At the same time, Liao Qimin also replaced the average state of Li Wei with Zhang Yalin, a midfielder who performed well in the Chinese Super League last season, which is ready to play a double-back lineup.
This change of formation made the Japanese team's counterattack in the second half very difficult, especially when Zhang Gongzi also retreated to participate in the defense, even if his defensive skills were still not very good, but with his crushing physical fitness and one-handed tackle skills, he still shoveled Nakata Hidetoshi to scream!
That's right, he dedicated the second half to defend this guy who is still called "the first person in Japanese football" by the Japanese media!
In the eyes of the Japanese media and fans, Hidetoshi Nakata is still the first person in Japanese football, including his status in the team.
This phenomenon is easy to understand, after all, the decline in ability, in addition to the fact that you and the opponent can clearly perceive it, both the media and the fans must be delayed in perception.
It is difficult for people to change the inherent impression accumulated over the years, and even if a player declines, it will not be like a free fall, and A-shares will not be red during the New Year's holidays.
So Hidetoshi Nakata's performance has regressed, and everyone will only think that he is injured? Could it be related to the team's tactics? Could it be because you are too tired?
Now that Nakata Hideshou is facing Zhang Gongzi, there will be more excuses to hit the street.
After all, this is the first real supergiant in Asian football, and he is not ashamed even if he is abused.
So less than ten minutes after the start of the second half, Hidetoshi Nakata was embarrassed by Zhang Gongzi.
Nakata Hideshou himself was a little desperate, because Zhang Desheng was obviously much taller than him, but his feet were more flexible than him, his action speed was faster than him, and his explosive power was incomparable after his physical fitness declined, so he was eaten to death in terms of body.
The most uncomfortable thing is that although Zhang Desheng's defensive skills are average, his feet are ridiculously accurate, and he is fast and fierce, and his prediction of the ball and the ball is also very good, which makes Nakata Hidetoshi almost like being covered by the five-fingered mountain of the Buddha.
But the Japanese fans did not scold him for being a waste, but encouraged him not to be discouraged and quickly stand up and continue to send!
However, others were not treated so well, especially the midfielders who began to struggle to deliver shells in the second half, and the frontcourt that still kept wasting opportunities despite the fact that chances were getting fewer and fewer.
This is mainly due to the gradual improvement of the defensive quality of the Macau team, they were not stronger than the Japanese team in defense, and even slightly weaker, this Macau team is stronger than the Japanese team in fact, in fact, the attack.
This is because the defensive end has very high requirements for the physical and experience of the players, but the offensive side relies more on talent and a flash of inspiration, which is also the advantage and weakness of the current Macau team.
But after Zhang Desheng joined the defense and frequently commanded, the Macau players immediately had the backbone, and they began to revolve around Zhang Desheng to defend actively and at the same time, but also more and more stable.
Today, the Japanese players were already very uncomfortable in attack in the face of the Macau team's proactive pressure in the front court and the tactics of pressing from a high position.
Now the Macau players, under the leadership of Zhang Gongzi, have become more detail-oriented and overall cooperation in the second half, which has caused more and more trouble for the midfield led by Shunsuke Nakamura.
This is also a real core role, as long as Zhang Desheng is on the field, then the players of the Macau team will have self-confidence and will naturally show above average performance.
The Japanese players attacked for 20 minutes in the second half, but apart from allowing Thiago to almost score a goal on the counter-attack, they did not really threaten Kong Xiaochuan's goal at all.
After the 70th minute of the second half, Zico saw that his team could not equalize, and he had no choice but to take the risk of replacing Koji Nakata, who had already received a yellow card, with young striker Keiji Tamada, ready to change the formation to 3-4-3 to give it a go.
This extreme adjustment was not without effect, and Keiji Tamada, who was outstanding on the dribble and was also very fast, created a scoring opportunity after just two minutes on the court.
He used a running position that was obviously faster and more flexible than Niu Zhanshan, and took advantage of Zhou Ting's opportunity to get into the penalty area, and got a shot with a small angle, but it was a serious one-knife opportunity.
However, Keiji Tamada's passing ability is good and his speed is also very fast, but his shooting ability is very average, and he is still not the top in Asia.
At the same time, Kong Xiaochuan has been fed to 84 by the forwards of the Japanese team, and his state is on fire!
So in the face of this low shot with good strength but limited angle, he used a beautiful falling action to block the ball off the bottom line with an extreme leg extension.
This made the 70,000 Japanese fans at the scene so angry that they beat their chests, and Keiji Tamada was even more annoyed and knelt on the ground and slapped the turf!
But Kong Xiaochuan was even more excited, his 84 combat power had turned red on Zhang Desheng's system at this time, and there was a flame special effect on his name.
This flame naturally means that his state is hot at this time, and the name that turns red means that he is impacting the next realm.
That's right, the Japanese team actually fed Kong Xiaochuan to a critical point that could be broken through at this time.
If the small book continues to be fed like this, Kong Xiaochuan may really break through to the middle of the 8th series.
Of course, the probability of this breakthrough will not be very high, because Kong Xiaochuan's talent is not at the level of a real genius.
So even if it is this kind of "first-world god" level game, he has to repeatedly impact at least several times before he has a chance to break through.
But such opportunities are hard to come by, and they have to be at continental level or at the level of the continental Champions League. Then the opponent has to be a strong team of the same grade, or higher. At this time, you must also play amazingly, preferably to turn the tide and help the team win; Only by combining so many elements into one can the conditions for a breakthrough be met, and only then can it be regarded as a god in the last battle.
Therefore, Zhang Gongzi is very eager to fight against this group of Asian powerhouses, whether his little brothers can break through quickly, and how much talent they can cash in in the end, it really depends on these teams to sacrifice themselves and stick knives in both sides.
Doesn't the Chinese team often play this role, which of those Asian stars is not chased and fed by the Chinese team!
Now it is feng shui in turn, and how much talent the talents of the Macau team can cash in will depend on the help of Asian powerhouses such as Japan, South Korea, Australia and Issa.
Today's Japanese team is very face-saving, and after the next corner kick was taken, he was directly picked up by Kong Xiaochuan, and now his name is even redder.
The Japanese team naturally didn't know how many good things they had done, they continued to attack desperately, and even pulled out some of the manpower to defend Zhang Gongzi.
Zico also knows that it is too easy to be caught and counterattacked by such a kick, but the difference between losing one and losing two in this format is not big.
They must find a way to get at least one point at home, otherwise they can't even hold the home stadium, then they are really in danger of dying in this death group!
The Japanese team was in the round of 16 in the last World Cup, and if he didn't even rush out of Asia in his hands, then someone would hand him a knife.
In the 77th minute of the second half, even the fullbacks were involved in the attack, and finally broke through Kong Xiaochuan's door through Junichi Inamoto's shot from the penalty spot.
However, just as the 70,000 Japanese fans at the scene were thunderous with joy, the referee's gesture that the goal was invalid immediately filled the entire "Yokohama International Arena" with the sound of "Baga".
Junichi Inamoto couldn't accept this, and stepped forward and asked the referee loudly - how could he be offside when he received the ball with a large group of Macau players in front of him?
The referee did not hesitate to draw a yellow card warning - because according to the new rules, although Junichi Inamoto received the ball was not offside, if his teammates were in an offside position and obviously benefited, they could also make a penalty that the goal was invalid according to the actual situation.
Judging from the slow-motion replay at this time, when Junichi Inamoto received the ball just now, two of the three strikers of the Japanese team were in an offside position.
There is nothing wrong with that, but the problem is that their movements and positioning clearly interfere with the goalkeeper's judgment and line of sight.
Kong Xiaochuan had to pay attention to them at the time, so he couldn't react to Junichi Inamoto's shot.
Then this goal is invalid, and it is definitely a penalty without fault.
Barcelona was blown away in the Champions League last season!
Of course, if the penalty is valid, there's nothing you can do with the referee.
But this time the referee was obviously not bribed by anyone, and he also decisively ruled that the goal was invalid, which made fans all over Japan scold the "black whistle"!
At this time, the Japanese don't know if they have heard a sentence: If you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing in the future!
After the Macau team escaped, they soon got a great chance to open the scoring.
But this opportunity had little to do with Zhang Gongzi, who had a strong presence on the defensive end in the second half, but was simply invisible on the offensive end.
This time it was Yang Feng, who had just been replaced, inserted on the left side, this Porto's substitute full-back is not good at defense, but his speed and dribbling are very good, and he is very good at the back of the long pass, as well as the bottom of the cross.
This time, his high-speed edge set made the Japanese team's defense very hesitant, and after Yuji Nakazawa, who happened to come to assist in the defense, hesitated, he could only give up the encirclement of Zhang Desheng and follow out to prevent Yang Feng from taking the ball to the bottom.
But after Yuji Nakazawa pulled it out, the Japanese team's three-dimensional defense immediately lost a fulcrum.
Zhang Desheng's on-court reading ability is much better than Li Wei's, and he immediately cut to the position where the Japanese team's position was leaky without the ball.
At this time, the Japanese team's defense was seriously interfered with, and Shen Yi immediately distributed the ball to Yang Feng, who was inserted on the side.
Yang Feng's eyes lit up after taking the ball, because the defensive formation of the Japanese team had been pulled to the middle by Zhang Desheng, as long as he broke through Yuji Nakazawa in front of him, there was a large open field in front of him.
And this Yuji Nakazawa is not a speed player, so Yang Feng, who is in the state of dribbling the ball at high speed, is immediately a bold man who divides the ball and directly uses his speed to forcibly overtake from the outside!
Yuji Nakazawa is one of the few tall and powerful central defenders in Japan, but his mobility is really average, and even the kind that can be considered poor in Asia.
But Yang Feng's speed is a quasi-first-class existence in Europe, so the heads-up of these two people gives people a strong sense of visual impact, especially Yang Feng's people's ball is really a feeling of "eating raw" opponents that can only be seen in the high-level four major leagues.
After Yuji Nakazawa was humiliatingly eaten raw, the Japanese team's defense line, which had been pulled away by Zhang Gongzi, was instantly penetrated by Yang Feng.
At this time, from a bird's-eye view, Zhang Desheng is still surrounded by several Japanese players, and they are passively following him into the penalty area.
But at the same time, Zhu Biao began to accelerate from the back field outside the camera, and Thiago gave up his position and inserted himself into the penalty area.
If Li Xiaobo also rushed to the penalty area to respond, the Japanese team's defense fell into complete chaos, and for a while, the Japanese team was the inferior team, because most of their defense was still contained by Zhang Desheng.
Yang Feng did not pass the ball into the penalty area at this time, but passed it to Shen Yi, who responded outside the penalty area.
Zhang Desheng had already rushed to the small penalty area with Li Xiaobo at this time, and just when the Japanese players were becoming more and more overwhelmed, Shen Yi suddenly sent the ball to the right side.
Is this Zhu Biao who passed on to the back set?
No, it's a through ball to Thiago!
At the moment of Shen Yi's pass, Thiago relied on his short-distance explosiveness, which was second only to Zhang Desheng on the field, to get rid of the defense of the three masters, and rushed to the outside of the small penalty area on the right side in an instant.
And the football also came to him at this time.
"Well passed!"
Thiago couldn't help but praise in his heart, Shen Yi's pass was of such high quality that he didn't have to stop the ball at all when he ran in front of him, he just needed to kick the football.
Of course, he still didn't deliberately aim when shooting, and he didn't observe Kawaguchi's living position, and he still kicked hard by feeling!
This somewhat lucky way of shooting has always been a shortcoming that shackles him to go further, and it is also the reason why he missed twice of his three shots today, and once he made Kawaguchi's chest hurt.
But this time, his shot finally worked a miracle.
Kawaguchi could only feel a strong wind blowing past his ears, and he could even feel a tearing sensation brought by the strong wind, which showed how strong the ball was.
If this is smothered in the face, even if it really can't live.
But it is precisely because the speed of this ball is extremely fast and the shooting distance is close in front of him, even if Kawaguchi can touch it as soon as he raises his hand, he still can't even raise his hand.
"The ball is in!"
"The main striker of the Macau team, Thiago, who is of mixed Chinese and Portuguese descent!"
"He scored with a powerful volley from close range, and the Japanese star Kawaguchi didn't react at all!"
"But in addition to the ferocity of Thiago's shooting, the sharp breakthrough of the 20-year-old Yang Feng is undoubtedly a display of speed and skill, and Shen Yi's passing is the perfect release of wisdom and imagination!"
"The Japanese team's defense did not make mistakes, but the Macau team's collective perfect play made all the protection, pressure, and balance of the Japanese team broken!"
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At this time, CCTV's commentary belonged to blowing the Macau team into the sky, but what Chinese fans didn't know was that at this time, the Japanese commentary was even more powerful, and the words were more middle-two!
There is no way, they can only blow the Macau team strong enough to make their defeat look less embarrassing!
After Macau scored this goal, the defeat of the Japanese team was completely irreparable.
They gambled so hard that they ended up losing again!
"Alas, these teammates of mine all have characteristics, but they are also all flawed!"
At this time, Zhang Gongzi, who was involved in nearly half of the defense and actually made great contributions, couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he went to celebrate the goal with his teammates.
Shen Yi's overall view and passing ability are indeed good, but he lacks physical fitness like Shunsuke Nakamura, especially the ability to break forward.
Li Xiaobo has height, strategy and spirituality, but his foot skills and physical confrontation, including archery, can only be played in Asia.
Tu Guangtai has a solid defense, strong interception ability, and plenty of physical energy, but his offensive ability, explosive speed, and physical confrontation can also only have a certain dominance in Asia.
Levi has good technique at his feet and excellent dribbling, but lacks explosiveness and shooting accuracy.
Thiago has explosiveness, confrontation and dribbling, but lacks shooting ability and technical delicacy, especially composure and dynamic vision.
Zhu Biao, Ma Zhenguo, Wang Zhen, Yang Feng and other new batch of good seedlings are relatively few in terms of defects, but their age is too young, that is, their combat power and experience are far inferior to this group of relatively old generals.
Zhang Desheng could only show a wry smile when he thought that he would take this group of teammates who had skills but also obvious shortcomings to compete with those strong teams from Europe and South America.
In the 77th minute of the second half, the Macau team led 2:0, and the winner was decided!
Zico wanted to struggle a little more, and he made the final substitution on the sidelines, replacing Shinji Ono, who had a mediocre performance today, with Mitsuo Ogasawara.
However, the new Japanese midfielder who Zico coached in the J-League naturally couldn't find any good opportunities in the face of the Macau team's more recyclable defense after 2-0.
One of the reasons why this Japanese team is inferior to the South Korean team in the eyes of Zhang Desheng is that they lack a star who can really break the game!
If it was Hidetoshi Nakata three years ago, it would barely be one.
But the current Japanese team is really not as good as the South Korean and Iranian teams in terms of hard power, and it is not easy to play when it encounters Saudi Arabia, which has the ability to make money, and they may really be eliminated in this group!
Liao Qimin's side also deployed troops in the final period, and in the 79th minute of the second half, he replaced Li Xiaobo with a speed-oriented striker Yan Song, preparing to use him and Thiago to form a counterattack double arrow.
This substitution was unexpected by Zico, Liao Qimin did not replace the defender or defensive midfielder to strengthen the defense, but replaced a speed winger?
At this time, except for Zhang Desheng, I am afraid that no one would think that the gap between the Macau team and the Japanese team is actually the "head coach".
Zico was definitely a superstar at the all-time level when he was a player, and although he was a bit high-minded, it wasn't too much to call him the king of the ball.
However, in the coaching era, Zico was one of the unremarkable.
The reason why he always finds decent jobs is mainly because he relied on his fame as a player to receive invitations from third-world teams in football, such as Japan, which is crazy about Brazilian football.
Zhang Gongzi's system also evaluates the ability of the head coach, so he knows that Liao Qimin's coaching ability at this time is as high as 82, but Zico has just reached 80.
The most important thing is that Liao Qimin's upper limit has reached 89, but Zike's upper limit is only 84.
This is also the reason why he will not change the head coach easily, after all, Milu, who has been at the peak of his system in recent years, is 87 to 89 in his system, and Liao Qimin's future limit has the opportunity to grow to the level of Milu at this time, which is naturally enough for the Macau team.
Of course, Milu's potential is still higher than Liao Qimin's.
But the problem is that managers and players alike, most of them are not able to live up to their potential perfectly, and there will be times when they don't perform well.
Milou also has occasional slumpers, and on those occasions his coaching ability drops below 70.
Today, Zico made a lot of stupid moves in the lineup, and his adaptability in the second half was also very poor, and the real-time coaching ability displayed by the system at this time had dropped to 65.
But today, Liao Qimin, whether it is the pre-game arrangement that he is better at, or the on-the-spot arrangement of the short board, actually surpasses Jike, especially after replacing Yan Song, the effect is immediate.
In the 83rd minute of the second half, the Macau team found the fast Yan Song in the counterattack.
Yan Song's performance and growth in the Macau team are better than the original plane, and he has grown into a typical Asian king of fishponds at this time.
There are a few of these players in Asia every year, and they don't play at their normal level when they go to Europe, but they can play their best in Asia.
Yan Song's best thing in the past few seasons is naturally speed, whether it is an inside cut or a hard trip, he has entered the king of fish period in Asian football at this stage.
And his specialty was put in the second half, when everyone's physical strength declined, which naturally made the Japanese team's defense easily pierced like a piece of tofu.
This time, Jia Di Liang was helpless, and could only choose to use a red card to make Yan Song's counterattack fail to score a goal, but the Japanese team, which was fighting with 10 people, completely lost the possibility of turning the tables.
In the end, after the Macau team wasted several counter-attack opportunities, the 2-0 score did not change again and remained until the end.
"The ability of both sides to seize opportunities is not good!"
In addition to defense in the second half, Zhang Desheng kept his teammates in the offensive end.
But although the result was a goal, the process was still difficult for him to be satisfied.
Their problems are similar to those of Japan, that is, the ability of the strikers to take advantage of opportunities is too poor, and the midfielders lack enough hard solving ability, both of which are key to a team's tough game.
Of course, they are not without their strengths.
The Macau team's backline is not impressive, but the consistency is not bad, and there are few serious mistakes. And the reserve strength is sufficient, in the face of opponents with various specialties, they will not be without coping, and the comprehensive strength is already considered to be the fourth grade level, and the speed of progress is very fast.
In addition, their midfielders are also good at the level of passing and control, and their defense is not a short board, and their comprehensive ability can even barely reach the level of the end of the third rate.
Therefore, the Macau team at this time is equivalent to a midfielder at the end of the world's third-rate level, a backline with a relatively large room for improvement at the top of the world's fourth-rate level, and a striker at the level of a fourth-tier team excluding Zhang Gongzi (the World Cup team is divided into four grades).
But there is a huge variable here, that is, as long as Zhang Gongzi, a three-body person, is serious, then his threat alone can be more terrifying than the entire forward line of any team in the world, and he alone is enough to make the Macau team's forward line immediately jump from the fourth gear to the first gear!
If you look at the strength of the whole team at this time, especially the potential......
"Okay, at least we can play it!"
Zhang Gongzi also shook his head self-deprecatingly when he thought of this, if the Macau team didn't have so many shortcomings, it wouldn't have set him off like a savior.
The problems he is struggling with now can only rely on "luck" to continue to dig out outstanding newcomers, and then make up for it little by little.
(End of chapter)