Chapter 478: Tiger in South China
Shining Star took the lead in threatening the South China Tigers' goal after the opening. Two consecutive shots were extremely threatening, which gave the Shining Star fans in the stands and in front of the TV an illusion.
That is, they feel that the Chinese Super League champion is nothing more than this. Flash Star can easily defeat the South China Tigers in the Super Cup, win the Super Cup championship, and become the king of Chinese football.
But the actual progress of the game was not what these Flash Star fans thought.
After experiencing two consecutive goal threats from Flash Star in the opening game, the South China Tigers did not panic. On the contrary, they played it slow and seemed very patient.
They don't play fast breaks like the Flash Stars. If the opportunity is not good, they would rather slow down, control the ball in the midfield, and pass the ball back and forth in the backcourt, and they will never risk going forward.
This is the South China Tigers' consistent football style: steady.
As steady as an old dog.
Of course they are qualified to be so stable, because their overall strength is very strong, and there are basically no shortcomings in the front, middle and back lines.
Whether it is a single game or an entire season, "stability" is the characteristic of the South China Tigers.
Last season, the South China Tigers and Golden Arrows competed for the league championship.
Although the Golden Arrow has always been in the lead, the South China Tiger has clung to the Golden Arrow and has not fallen behind. Instead, it has patiently waited for the Golden Arrow to make mistakes.
They are not the kind who passively leave their fate to their opponents and wait, but use this kind of stable performance and pressing to force the Golden Arrow to make mistakes after being unable to withstand the pressure of leading.
As a result, during the sprint stage of the league, Golden Arrow lost to Hedong Thunder 1:2 in an away game, losing its first place in the league.
After that, the South China Tiger never let the Golden Arrow go back.
Until the end of the league, the South China Tigers firmly occupied the first place in the league with their stable performance, and finally regained the league championship.
This kind of stability is often reflected vividly in a single game - there was a statistic last season. In the game, as long as the South China Tigers scored first, they ended up winning more than 70% of the games. ...note, it’s a win, not a loss.
Their head coach, Friedrich Lechmann, was known for his steady coaching style when he was coaching the German giants Blue and White Munich. Under his guidance, the Blue and White Munich steadily made all competitors despair and achieved dominance in the Bundesliga.
After coming to coach the South China Tigers, he naturally continued to use the method he was best at.
Coupled with the hard power of the South China Tigers, which have no shortcomings in the three lines, "stability" is really brought into full play.
Of course, this stability does not mean that the South China Tigers' football is devoid of passion, negative and ugly. As long as the time is right and the opportunity comes, they can launch a storm-like offensive and destroy the opponent's defense and fighting spirit in a short period of time.
In this Super Cup, although the Flash Stars continuously threatened the South China Tigers' goal at the beginning, they did not launch a fierce attack after that, trying to regain some face in front of the newly promoted team.
In fact, Zhao Kangming hopes that the South China Tigers will do this. As long as they are eager to attack, they can provide opportunities for Flashing Star to counterattack.
With the overall strength of Flash Star being weaker than their opponents, they naturally hope that the South China Tigers can fall into their rhythm. Both sides will pick up the rhythm and attack quickly and defend quickly. After speeding up, South China Tiger may make mistakes and loopholes, and Flash Star can take advantage of these loopholes.
Flash Star has the ability and advantage to play fast. There are many young players in their lineup, and the wing players also have a speed advantage.
Coupled with an efficient shooter, he can always seize limited opportunities to score goals, which is especially suitable for playing against strong teams with few opportunities.
But now the South China Tiger's actions make Flash Star feel like it has been kicked on an iron plate.
Not only are they unable to play fast, but if they insist on continuing to speed up, it may disrupt their own rhythm, causing them to make mistakes and loopholes first.
After realizing this, Zhao Kangming walked to the sidelines and made gestures, asking his players to slow down the rhythm, not to be anxious, and to shrink appropriately for defensive counterattacks. He still used his speed advantage, but it was not as good as before. Aggressive.
"Zhao made the team shrink back." Matthews Fisher, assistant coach of the South China Tigers, said to his long-time partner Friedrich Lechmann after seeing this scene. "It's a pity. If they continue to attack like this, we will find loopholes..."
Lehman smiled and shook his head: "Matthews, don't think Zhao is too stupid. He led this team to defeat the Golden Arrow. But all this is in our predictions. It's not a big deal. As long as We stick to our own rhythm, Zhao’s little thoughts are not important at all.”
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Lehman did not make any adjustments to Flashstar's intention to shrink the defense and launch a quick counterattack. He just sat on the coach's bench and watched the game, letting the players on the field play their own game.
He believes that with the ability and experience of players like the South China Tigers, it is simply trivial to cope with today's situation.
In fact, the South China Tigers players did not disappoint head coach Lehman.
Relying on their powerful abilities and rich experience, they slowly dealt with Flashing Star. While consuming their patience and energy, they were also looking for opportunities.
As for Flashing Star, they could only use the pitiful opportunities to fight back.
But because of the South China Tigers' steady style, Flash Star's counterattacks rarely really threatened the goal guarded by Lin Zhiyuan.
After Hu Lai and Lin Zhiyuan had a confrontation at the beginning of the game, they never had a direct conversation again.
This made the melon-eating people in the Olympic team group who were waiting to watch the excitement quite boring.
"The South China Tiger basically controlled the situation on the field..."
"This is normal, He Feng. After all, there is still a gap in strength between the two teams."
Yan Kang and He Feng were discussing the ongoing competition, and they both saw that the initiative in the competition had basically fallen to the South China Tigers.
This did not strike them as unexpected, but rather as normal.
Although the Flash Stars can be said to have swept the Chinese League One and performed very well in the Football Association Cup, it is difficult for them to compare with the South China Tigers who have won six Chinese Super League titles in ten years.
Many people even think that it is a great achievement for Flash Star to appear in the Super Bowl.
Perhaps except for the most ardent and die-hard Star Flash fans, no one else thought they could win.
For this newly promoted team, the most important thing is to be able to take advantage of the Super Cup opportunity to play against the strongest team in the Chinese Super League first. What can be learned from this game.
After all, if Flash Star's goal is to avoid relegation, then even if they are double-killed by the South China Tigers in the league, it will not affect their goal of relegation.
No relegation team will consider scoring points against the league leaders, but playing against the leaders may help them understand the gap between themselves and the strongest level in the league. If they can learn something from this game, it will be very important for their next journey to avoid relegation.
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Faced with the pressure from the South China Tigers, Shining Star performed very tenaciously, but they still failed to withstand the South China Tigers' wave after wave of continuous offensives.
At the thirty-fourth minute, the Shining Star City Gate finally fell.
The South China Tigers launched a cascading attack through the wing, and finally their left back Qu Lu passed the football to the goal of Flash Star.
Wang Guangwei got in front of Brazilian forward Alejandro and pushed the football out.
But the second goal outside the penalty area was controlled by the South China Tigers - this was the result of the South China Tigers' previous pressure, which compressed almost all the Stars players to the vicinity of the penalty area, and further away, they were all South China Tigers. Tiger player.
So even if Wang Guangwei wins the first point, the South China Tigers can launch a continuous attack on Flash Star by controlling the second point.
At this time, they don't have to worry about the space behind them being exploited by Flash Star, because both Chen Xingyi and Li Rong have returned to the penalty area to participate in defense, and there is no way to counterattack so quickly. The long distance from the Flash Star penalty area to the South China Tigers penalty area is enough to offset the speed advantage of Flash Star. After all, the South China Tigers players are not scarecrows. They will return to defend.
It was South China Tigers midfielder Lou Jiarong who controlled the second goal outside the penalty area. The Chinese national team international first pretended to shoot, dunked Hu Lai who came up to tackle him, and then shot with his feet!
The football passed through the dense crowd in the penalty area and went straight to the lower left corner of the goal.
Star goalkeeper Yu Zhiming was blocked from view by people in the penalty area. When he saw the football emerging from the crowd, it was too late to pounce on it.
The football skimmed the turf at low altitude and flew into the net!
"Hey? Beautiful!!" He Feng shouted, "Lou Jiarong broke the deadlock with a cold shot from outside the penalty area! The South China Tigers are leading 1:0!"
The South China Tigers fans in the stadium stands cheered, while the Stars fans opposite them held their heads in pain.
After scoring the goal, Lou Jiarong ran to the corner flag area of Flash Star and called his teammates to come up to celebrate the goal.
In the stands in front of him, it was the area where South China Tiger fans gathered. They waved several big flags and wrote: "The tiger is in South China, and the roar is in the Central Plains!"
These flags were waved amidst thunderous cheers, as if a huge wave was set off in the stands, and the cheers of the South China Tigers fans were the roar of a huge wave!
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"As expected of the South China Tiger..." Zhao Kangming didn't make much movement after losing the ball. He just raised his eyes and looked towards the stands behind the Flash Star Gate.
Chen Mo lowered his head and looked at his watch: "After thirty-four minutes, facing the Chinese Super League champions, the defensive performance was good enough. But we were still compressed too hard by them and recovered too much. We shouldn't have put anything outside the penalty area." Just give it up..."
"Let's review things like experience and lessons during the intermission." Zhao Kangming shook his head, and after saying that, he got up from his seat and walked to the sidelines.
At the same time, Qin Lin also cast his eyes towards the coaching bench on the sidelines - he wanted to see if the head coach would have the latest instructions.
Sure enough, he saw Zhao Kangming making a gesture to him:
Stay steady, continue to defend and counterattack, don't panic!
He looked at Zhao Kangming and nodded, turned around and shouted to his teammates who were hit: "It's just a ball, no big deal! Don't think about it, just defend until the end of the first half! Withstand their attack!" ”
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After the game restarted, the South China Tigers, who broke the deadlock, launched a more fierce attack on the Bingxing goal.
The Star Flash fans watching in front of the TV were terrified and did not dare to take a breath.
However, despite losing the ball, Flashing Star still tenaciously withstood all the subsequent South China Tigers' attacks.
Or perhaps the South China Tigers were seeking stability and saw that the Flash Star defense had not collapsed yet, so they did not exert full pressure...
With five minutes left in the first half, the South China Tigers saw that they could not break through the goal of Flash Star, so they took the initiative to shrink and gave up the opportunity to continue to besiege Flash Star. They may be worried that Flash Star will use these last few minutes to launch one or two high-quality counterattacks.
He Feng also marveled: "Take the initiative to give up the advantageous situation... the South China Tiger's operation is really stable."
As the South China Tiger took the initiative to shrink, Flashing Star naturally lost the chance to make a quick counterattack.
When Flashing Star saw this, they naturally stopped fighting back. They were afraid that after they went up, the South China Tiger would seize the opportunity to fight back.
The final minutes of the first half passed in a kind of calm after the storm.
The South China Tigers temporarily lead the Stars with a score of 1:0.
Players from both sides walked into the tunnel one after another, substitute players came on to warm up, the TV broadcast went into commercials, fans and spectators went to the toilet, and others checked their mobile phones...
Everyone began to wait for the start of the second half.
But everyone's thoughts are definitely different. (End of chapter)