The afternoon game on the first working day after the New Year's holiday, I believe many people did not see the process of the game. Just know, Cao Yongjing made a penalty, hit the goalpost, and Shui Xi kicked the ball to the top of the net in front of the empty goal. It is also known that Cao Yongjing scored the first goal of Guoan in the melee, while Shui Xi wasted several single-knife opportunities. Some people may have heard that Nguyen Chi Lung struggled to defend Achimpen and won a lot of expectations and applause.
Fortunately, in the end, guoan won the ball, and Guoan won the fifth place in the league, which is the worst ranking since 2017 and the second-worst ranking of Guoan in the past 10 years.
For Bilic, however, it was gratifying that he had the second highest ranking of his coaching career. Previously, he had led Besiktas to third in the league for two years and fifth with Guoan, which was already a rare high ranking for him.
At the same time, the 1-0 victory over Shenzhen also ended Guoan's 6-round winless.
Guoan only won 2 games in the championship group, and both were 1-0, which is enough to show that today's Guoan is gradually drifting away from the Chinese Super League.
In fact, Guoan's entry into the championship group itself is an "accident", if it were not for the last two games in the first stage, first winning Changchun Yatai under Li Feng, and then fighting with Shenhua, Shenhua, who is mostly veteran, suddenly collapsed within 20 minutes, Guoan should have been relegated.
But with the performance of the team coached by Bilic, can Guoan really be relegated? Anyway, in the first stage, Guoan faced Tianjin Jinmen Tiger and struggled to win, only to kill Dalian, who eventually fell into the relegation play-off, and Wuhan, who was difficult to win. It fully shows that Bilic's guoan is not sure of winning for anyone.
To put it bluntly, as long as the overall play style of the Chinese Super League team is relatively clear, the team with a strong group, Guoan basically cannot win, and the few teams that can win are either "ICU", or "nursing home", or "XJBT", or "fooling". Not to mention a team like Shandong Luneng, even the Hebei team, Guoan can't take it down painfully.
Of course, there are a lot of reasons why Bilic is good at lip service, such as the absence of foreign aid and the large number of international footballers. But the question is, how many teams in the Chinese Super League have foreign aid? In this round of shenzhen team, only Achimpen has a foreign aid starter. In the last round of Guangzhou City, there were only two foreign aides. In the former Guangzhou team, not to mention foreign aid, not even mercenaries. In the 8 games of the entire championship group, in addition to Shandong Taishan's foreign aid, the other 6 games, the opponent will have up to 2 foreign aides, but Bilic just can't beat it.
Under Bilic, among the original players in the team, only Liu Huan and Zhang Yuning have improved compared with last season's performance. If you think that the national team destroyed people and caused Zhang Xizhe, Wang Gang, and Li Lei to decline in status and level, then how did Wang Ziming, Yang Fan and Hou Sen, who trained with Bilic, also decline?
Many people say that after a year, Cao Yongjing and Gao Tianyi are huge surprises. But don't forget, what's the point of this surprise? They were originally the main force or substitute of the relegation team, and if they performed well, it can only mean that Guoan has become closer and closer to the relegation team.
And that's exactly what happened. To put it bluntly, the so-called good performance of Cao Yongjing, Gao Tianyi and Liu Huan is based on the decline in national security achievements and tactics. It's like, in a key class, you score 70 points, which is not a good score, but in a poor class, you can get the first place in the class with 75 points. It's not how good they are, it's that national security has gotten worse.
Some people say that the international footballers of Guoan are old. But is that really the case? If you can count as a veteran over 30 years old, Zhang Xiangzhe is 30 years old, and Li Lei is 29 years old, this is not a veteran. And what about Wang Ziming and Yang Fan, who are not very old and are in the ascendancy? They have all had high-profile performances, and even been selected for the national team, how can they age prematurely?
Bilic spent half a year to polish the mature 4-back system of Guoan in the hands of previous foreign teachers to 5 defenders, and in order to make up for the serious shortage of wing-backs in this formation, he let Cao Yongjing, Liu Guobo and Bai Yang all play full-backs, which is enough to show that 5 defenders are not suitable for Guoan's formation of play, but it seems that only the numerical advantage of 5 defenders can block Guoan's flawed defense.
In fact, the defense of national security obviously has nothing to do with the number of people. In the whole championship group competition, Guoan's way of conceding goals is basically two, one is the leakage of the point in front of the goal, and the other is the long-range shot at the top of the arc of the penalty area. Both of these approaches are insoluble for Bilic's team.
A head coach, when the team frequently has the same defensive loss of points, but can not come up with a solution, is obviously exhausted.
And on the offensive end? Guoan also does not have any decent cooperation routine, blindly relying on the attacking players to personally rush and beat, Cao Yongjing's breakthrough ability is good, but he also takes the ball suddenly, suddenly loses and then grabs. Zhang Yuning's shooting footwork is good, but he also raises his leg to shoot, and shoots away. As for the water mat, the sudden can not be sudden but also sudden, the sudden loss of the next time and then sudden, the shooting can not shoot but also shoot, can not shoot into the next time and shoot again. For a year, Guoan's goals have hardly evolved into a repetitive routine, saying that it is good to hear it is called blossoming on all sides, and saying that it is ugly is called playing where it is.
Another manifestation of Guoan's offensive chaos is the absence of the core of the midfield, and the two recognized people in the team who understand: Jang Hyun-chul and Park Sung have a weaker and weaker presence in the team. The midfield is a random kick, rushing blindly, and the front court is a blind shot. The result, everyone has seen, 26 goals scored, 28 goals conceded, -2 goals difference.
Pacheco's side pays attention to passing and running coordination, Manzano's team mainly plays crosses from the side, Schmidt's team has a high pressing, and Genesio emphasizes reception and organization. These four successful coaches in Guoan have brought out teams with distinct stylistic characteristics, but they basically let Guoan maintain the initiative on the field, and continue to attack opponents through control and oppression.
And Bilic's team, like his compatriot Stano, the formation recovered 30 meters, the defender directly looked for the forward, proper defensive counterattack, to see that there is no counterattack and no routine, defense and no system.
Let Bilic lead the team, maybe the team can take off in the future, but at this stage, it basically looks like "if you want to practice this skill, you must first go to the palace". Is it just that the national security that has been "castrated" is still the national security?
One might argue that without Augusto and Vieira, Guoan would have no basis for transmission and oppression. But don't forget, during the Pacheco period, Matic Xu Liang and Park Chengdu could give Guoan a midfield advantage. There are many technical players in the frontcourt of Guoan, and they are also among the best figures in China. Although there is no Augusto and Vieira, but the opponent does not have a level of foreign aid such as Paulinho, the technical content of the midfield, Guoan is still the top in the Chinese Super League. But Bilic will still focus on defensive counterattacks. To put it bluntly, a relegation coach is a relegation coach, and if you let him play possession, he couldn't think of it before, and of course he wouldn't kick.
If the fifth place is the ranking, in Bilic's view, he must be satisfied, after all, the team he has led before, rarely exceeds the fifth place. But in the eyes of fans, it is certainly not satisfied, Guoan is a capital team after all, is a super team. In the beijing home "ID: bjzhuchang" view, the ranking is actually not important, the content of the game is important. If you can play the game clearly, you can do it. The question is, Bilic's team, playing understood?