After the 2-0 victory over Guangzhou R&F, Zhang Xiaorui's firefighting work in Shenzhen came to a temporary end. Cruyff Jr.'s team is coming and he will miss the opportunity to make decisions in the Chinese Super League standing in the position of head coach.
4 games, 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, against Suning did not fall behind, against Luneng's loss is also a pity. Zhang Xiaorui should be satisfied with his coaching, and Shenzhen should also be very satisfied with him, and must not let him leave easily. Zhang Xiaorui's tactical ability and tactical strain in these 4 games are far richer than Li Tie's coaching in recent years, an offensive front waist, a defensive back, Li Tie is better at building the team's spiritual attributes, and Zhang Xiaorui's tactical changes are surprising.
By the time Donadoni left class, Shenzhen had lost 3 consecutive games, morale and rankings had fallen to the bottom, Zhang Xiaorui temporarily put out the fire, and Cruyff Jr.'s team had to wait for several games to come. In this case, the work that Zhang Xiaorui must do includes-
Rapidly boost the morale of the entire team;
Get as many points as possible, and try to ensure that Shenzhen is not left too far behind by Teams such as Shenhua;
In response to the problems of Donadoni's coaching, try to do new solutions, even if unsuccessful, at least leave enough reference and choice for Cruyff Jr.
Obviously, such requirements are very high; once Zhang Xiaorui has another consecutive defeat in several games, Shenzhen is likely to lose the opportunity to impact the top 4 of Group A in advance, like Guangzhou R&F and Dalian, and the arrival of Cruyff Jr. will become more embarrassing.
However, Zhang Xiaorui completely proved himself.
The first contribution of Zhang Xiaorui's coaching period was that he made the spirit of Shenzhen not disperse, but full of fighting spirit.
From being defeated by Luneng 0-2, to a 3-2 narrow victory over Dalian, a 1-1 draw against Suning, and then to a victory over R&F in this game, although the difficulty of the game he coached was not too great, and some mistakes were made in the coaching process, but every time the mistake led to a goal loss or a complicated situation, he could always find the problem at the first time, and quickly made adjustments, and achieved very good results.
The first game of the temporary firefighting, although it was cut off by Liu Binbin at the last moment, Zhang Xiaorui did not let the morale of the team be low, did not collapse, but rose rapidly, and the second half directly broke out, leading Dalian 2-0, and after being equalized by the opponent, he could also adjust and finally scored 3 points. Against Suning, the team was behind first, and he was able to adjust quickly at half-time and quickly equalize.
Zhang Xiaorui's second contribution was to find Dai Weijun's instructions through experiments.
Dai Weijun was arranged in the back position, which proved to be overkill and could not play his strengths; now, his best position is the front waist, which can not only be forced at a high position, but also withdraw to respond, and can also complete breakthroughs and long-range shots in the front, playing very comprehensively, which also leads to Wang Yongpo almost no room to play.
The third contribution of coaching is to prove that if the position of the three major forwards of Preciado, Gao Lin and Bifoma is too wide, it will not play an offensive role at all.
In several consecutive games, the three major strikers can only play the greatest role when they continue to approach and concentrate on attacking a certain area; once dispersed, the lack of enveloping points in the penalty area will always lead to the difficulty of the team to score, after all, Shenzhen's current attackers generally do not have high quality of shooting and lack of efficient shooters.
In the end, Zhang Xiaorui proved that Donadoni's trust in U23 full-back Xu Haofeng was not reliable.
He rebuilt the defensive line, Ge Zhen was fixed in the position of right-back; Zhang Yuan still played the center-back, but as long as he played less than ideal or the defensive pressure was too great, Pei Shuai would play instead; this backline configuration, Jiang Zhipeng was liberated, the defensive line was closer to the 3.5 defender mode, unlike before, Xu Haofeng always became a short board to be attacked.
4 coaching games, 4 major changes, although Zhang Xiaorui regrettably could not continue to coach, but laid a solid foundation for Cruyff Jr. Next, Ke Shuai can continue to improve the team on the basis of Zhang Xiaorui's experiment, which undoubtedly makes it possible for Shenzhen to completely explode.
Shenzhen now needs to figure out two things:
Zhang Xiaorui is definitely worth cultivating and reusing, don't let go easily;
If Cruyff Jr. is not up to the task, find a way.
Cruyff Jr. does not have the experience of leading the team to compete for the championship, and he does not necessarily have Zhang Xiaorui to know the team. Shenzhen is now hard to muster the morale of the people, do not waste it.