After the game against SIPG, the Longteng team's personnel reserves reached their limit.
Especially in the central defender position, Ma Yongli was seriously injured and was suspended, Lu Zhihui was suspended for two yellows and one red, Lu Yangyang was suffering from three yellows, and Li Ming was suffering from two yellows. In the following period, if there was a little carelessness, the Longteng team would be in this position.
There will be a situation in the position that no one can have.
And after the game, Xiang Tiange, Zeng Wengrong, Wang Xing, Shen Jun, and Peng Langjun all went to the National Youth Team to report. The player reserve of the Longteng team, which is fighting on the third line, is not only stretched to describe it. Once there is a wave of injuries, even
It is difficult to assemble a full roster of eighteen people.
On May 19, in the 10th round of the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team scored eight points in an away game. Changchun Yatai ranked second from the bottom in the league with Quanjian, Jianye, and Lifan.
In order to ensure the AFC Champions League match next week, the Longteng team used its limited player resources to make rotations.
Under the arrangement of the coaching staff, the team continued the 4-4-2 tactics. Nie Jiang, the scoring hero who scored twice in the last game, and Chavez, who diligently provided assists to Nie Jiang, were all arranged.
On the bench, "young general" Tang Jin started the game, playing a tandem forward with Fernando; Lu Yangyang replaced Lu Zhihui, who was red carded and suspended, and partnered with Li Ming, but there was only a post-00s generation like Chen Yinuo on the bench.
Junior general; at the same time, in the two full-back positions, Cao Jinghao and Huang He are on the left and right, and the former is regarded as the left midfielder and guest left back.
In the key midfield, the Longteng team maintained the same configuration as SIPG in the previous game. The only difference was that De Paul moved from full-back to full-midfielder in the previous game.
When it comes to playing against a weak team like Yatai, the Longteng team is very experienced. It is the most effective way to keep an eye on foreign players, strengthen frontcourt pressure, control the ball more after scoring, and wait for opportunities to counterattack.
The course of the game was just as the Longteng coaching staff predicted.
At the beginning, Yatai could still rely on sufficient physical strength to deal with the Longteng team - under the pressure of the Longteng team, the passing error rate was high, and they relied on more running to make up for it. However, in the second half of the first half,
The lack of physical fitness can only allow players to frequently use fouls to interrupt the Longteng team's offense.
After the referee's continuous warnings were useless, he started to draw cards. The Yatai players had cards and could only be timid. The consequence was that at the end of the first half, the Longteng team relied on Tang Jin's goal and Fernando's shot broke
deadlock.
In the second half, although Yatai's foreign aid worked hard and Ighalo's breakthrough earned Lu Yangyang a yellow card, but with the help of two muscular men, Zhang Hao and Liming, the Longteng team once again stabilized the defense and took advantage of Yatai's eagerness to equalize.
With his mentality, Tang scored a goal, which was also his first goal in the Chinese Super League.
The outstanding performance of this 21-year-old forward made the commentator say: "Another excellent forward. The Longteng team's player reserve is absolutely stronger than you can imagine."
With two goals in hand and an important game to play four days later, the Longteng team wisely started to play a possession-based game. The Yatai head coach on the sidelines also knew that scoring points was a luxury.
As the Longteng team began to make continuous substitutions, their formation retreated further and they concentrated on defensive counterattacks, which meant that the game entered garbage time.
In the end, as expected, the Longteng team easily took three points in the away game at the minimum cost.
Strategic plans scheduled by the coaching staff.
After returning to Jiangcheng, the coaching staff began the final preparations before the AFC Champions League knockout matches.
Go back four weeks ago.
On April 26, the Longteng team defeated Muangtong United away from home and confirmed the first place in the group. The entire coaching staff began to work at high speed, because one day ago, in the Group G match corresponding to the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande defeated Dongfang in an away game.
, Kawasaki Frontale defeated Suwon Samsung in an away game. Evergrande has ensured the first place in the group. The Longteng team's two opponents in the knockout round have been determined to be Kawasaki Frontale and Suwon Samsung.
As the leader of the entire coaching team, Zhang Sheng entered the results into the ERP software developed by Jiangsoft Technology for the club on the day the game ended.
This software actively calculates points, automatically completes the milestone task of the "AFC Champions League Group Stage" in the season plan, and launches the next stage of the milestone task - the "AFC Champions League Knockout Stage". Immediately, not only the coaching staff of the team in Thailand,
Various departments, including the domestic coaching staff, have also received push information on Xiaomi-sponsored mobile phones - these push notifications come from the installed club software app, which is also developed by Jiangsoft Technology.
"Ding." Because China is one hour ahead of Thailand, Dragon Team video analyst Huang Linjia, who had fallen asleep, vaguely heard the sound of a message being pushed to her phone. After groping for a while on the bedside in the dark, the dazzling screen made her realize
He woke up a little bit.
"I'm going to be busy again." After seeing the message pushed by the app, Huang Linjia muttered, put down her phone, and continued to sleep.
Early the next morning, Huang Linjia came to the club headquarters, logged into the ERP software, and confirmed that the "AFC Champions League knockout" task had started: "Xiao Xiong, Xiao Wang, let's have a morning meeting."
At the morning meeting, Huang Linjia arranged for her two video analyst assistants to prepare all game videos of Kawasaki Frontale and Suwon Samsung this season.
Most of the content is already in the club's video database, but a small amount of content needs to be confirmed with the game videographers hired in South Korea and Japan and asked to be sent over.
After collecting all the game videos, Huang Linjia began to analyze the videos, starting from the common lineups of the two teams - including starters and substitutes; the head coach's tactical arrangements; the details of effective offense and effective defense in each game; and the acquisition of red and yellow cards.
process etc.
All these things are completed on the video analysis software developed by Jiangruan Technology. Huang Linjia and her colleagues only need to move the mouse and keyboard to cut out the video segments they want for every detail. In the end, these segments
Videos can be edited and spliced at will - including drawing circles, marking arrows, filling in text descriptions, etc.
After completing these contents, Huang Linjia submitted the cropped and synthesized videos of the two teams, as well as his preliminary analysis report of the videos, to another department of the coaching staff, the game analysis department.
Gu Qi, who is responsible for game analysis, led two assistants to analyze the videos and reports submitted by the video analysis department.
"I also need more details about Kawasaki Frontale's away game against Sakura Osaka on April 30, especially the defense of the second goal conceded." Gu Qi contacted Huang Linjia during the video analysis, and the latter readily agreed.
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On May 10, the last round of the AFC Champions League group stage ended. In the Group G match, Guangzhou Evergrande, which had already secured first place in the group, tied with Suwon Samsung 2:2 with its pure substitute lineup, while Kawasaki Frontale successfully defeated them at home with a big score.
Eastern team.
Despite Guangzhou Evergrande's unintentional blockage, Kawasaki Frontale, which was originally one point behind Shuiyuan Samsung, luckily qualified second in the group.
The focus of the Longteng coaching staff's tasks in the AFC Champions League knockout round has shifted, and all resources have been tilted towards Kawasaki Frontale.
With preparations in advance, in just two days, on May 12, the video analysis team and the game analysis team summarized the analysis report of all Kawasaki Frontale coaches, players, tactics, and recent game content and submitted it to
Got Zhang Sheng.
This report contains more than thirty pages of documents and more than 500 grams of edited video.
The video analysis team and the match analysis team took a breath of relief from the task of playing the AFC Champions League match with Kawasaki Frontale. In the following time, they will be on call and participate in many pre-match tactics and training preparation meetings.
If you think that Huang Linjia and Gu Qi have urgent and heavy tasks and are the most tiring among the coaching team, then you are wrong, because the head coach is the hardest working person.
Because after Zhang Sheng gets this information, he needs to estimate what his opponent's tactics will be and what countermeasures he should take.
The simplest example - how the Longteng team should arrange their defense against Kawasaki Frontale at home.
In this regard, Zhang Sheng and his team need to study the opponent's usual tactics and formations in away games this season and even in previous seasons. They will use the collected recent physical and competitive status of Kawasaki Frontale players to sort out their possible potential by probability.
Which players should be used, and what different routines will be used by different personnel. At the same time, for each key player, what characteristics and playing style they have, and targeted strategies must be formulated.
If you think that it is not difficult to do this, after all, there is so much information for reference and analysis, then you think that the tasks of the coaching staff are too simple.
As long as it is a qualified coaching staff, they will always be able to do some of the above. Some strong coaching staffs can even do it in more detail than the Dragons.
But how to condense these things into essence, tell your players in the simplest and easiest way, and practice the corresponding tactics in training is the biggest problem.
It is not difficult to see this when you pay attention to the biographies of Europe's top coaches and the books they publish.
The biographies of Loew and Benitez have been improved to this level in Mourinho's scouting report. If faced with a heavyweight game - such as a national derby or a European knockout round, the coaching staff
The overall analysis report produced may be hundreds of pages long.
The contemporary professional game is so intensive that it would be impossible for all players to take the time to read hundreds of pages of reports.
This also takes into account the player's reading ability, cultural level, etc.
It can't be like the so-called "most tactically complex sport in the world" - rugby, where players spend time reading tens of thousands of pages of tactical instructions to play the game.
Just imagine, a player plays for ten minutes, then runs to the sidelines to read the report, and then goes on the field to continue playing - this is simply the most ridiculous thing in the world.
Therefore, after hundreds of pages of reports are summarized, condensed, and assigned tasks, what is handed over to each player is often less than one page or even two or three sentences. This work is by no means a summary, but a high-level task
The process of concentrating the essence.
Take how to defend the club champion as an example.
When the club champion plays as a right winger, the report may mention his injuries at the time, his excitement in recent games, his most common fake moves, where he may cut inside, and what position he likes most. Which foot should he use to hit the goal, how will he pass the ball, what are his usual small movements and even micro-expressions before starting the sprint, whether the left foot or the right foot comes first when starting, how should the defensive players handle him? distance, etc.
But the A4 paper that was finally given to the team's left back might have only one sentence on it - guard against cutting in, and if that doesn't work, commit a foul far away from the penalty area. If none of the above methods can stop it, just count on God.
Of course, the word "give up" will not appear in the Longteng team's coaching staff report. It contains more analysis of the opponent.
As for Kawasaki Frontale, who is nicknamed the "Millennium Second Brother", although the team has never won a championship, they have always been a strong contender for the championship, or the judge of the J-League championship.
Last season, Kawasaki Frontale once again won second place in the league and runner-up in the Emperor's Cup.
After years of frustration, the club finally couldn't bear it anymore. The team's meritorious coach Hachihiro Kazama resigned, and the "big, medium and small" combinations of Kawasaki Frontale that had been prominent in the J-League were also dismantled. The "big" among them was Yoshihiro Okubo. He transferred to the capital team Tokyo FC.
As the J-League's historical top scorer, Yoshito Okubo scored 82 goals in 130 league appearances and 101 goals in 166 games in all competitions during his four years at Kawasaki Frontale. He can be said to be the absolute core.
His departure means that the team only has Nakamura Kengo and Kobayashi Yu from the "small and medium" teams.
Perhaps the outside world only saw the misfortune of Kawasaki's thousand-year-old second son, but the report of the Longteng coaching staff analyzed the reasons in depth.
The report mentioned that the reason why Kawasaki Frontale failed to win the championship was because of insufficient hard power.
First of all, there is not enough capital behind the club. Kawasaki Frontale was formerly developed from Fujitsu's sports department, and Fujitsu has always been supporting the team. Unfortunately, this company is not what it used to be, and the support it can give to the club is really limited.
Secondly, it is not without reason that the former meritorious coach Hachihiro Kazama has been criticized and praised by others. Under his leadership, Kawasaki Frontale, a medium-sized team, can be called a strong team, and countless players have been selected under his guidance and cultivation. Japan's national teams at all levels. But at the same time, the over-obsession with the No. 10 core player's style of play makes the team very easy to target. Often in important games, the offense is not strong, and the chain is lost at critical moments.
Finally, there are no top foreign players or domestic Japanese players, and the bench reserves are not deep enough, so they often lose sight of one thing in two-line and three-line operations.
After commenting on Kawasaki Frontale's style during the Hachihiro Kazama era, the coaching staff's report quickly turned to the team's current situation.
The Kawasaki Frontale has changed a lot this season.
The soul of a team is always the head coach. After Kazama Hachiro left, his deputy Onimuda took over. Even after he retired, he joined the team's coaching staff and has been learning from Kazama Hachiro. He is deeply influenced by Kazama Hachiro. The influence of macros and the differences in ideas between people are still very large.
At least judging from the games coached by Guimuda this season, the two have very different defensive philosophies.