This year's AFC Champions League group stage is finally over, and there is no surprise that the two Chinese Super League teams participating in the AFC Champions League, Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou, have not won a game.
For these young players who rarely play in professional leagues, they never expected to start, which is the top AFC Champions League in Asia. Big scores and losses, physical and mental exhaustion are all reasonable things. The only thing that can be done next is to return to the club, seriously summarize this AFC Champions League trip, understand how much difference between yourself and the Asian standard, this is a major wealth in life, face up to the gap, and overcome the deficiencies in the actual games in the future, then this AFC Champions League is still gained.
For Shandong Taishan, facing Daegu FC and Urawa Red Diamonds, the team lost a total of 21 goals in these four games, conceding an average of 5 goals per game, which was still in the case that the opponent did not exert his full strength. Although in the Singapore Lion City, I have found face, but the overall feeling is still lagging behind in all aspects.
However, these 6 games have indeed emerged several outstanding players, such as captain Lu Yongtao, forward Abdul Waili, Liu Guobao, and winger Yi Xianlong.
The advantage is that the yixian dragon on the side road can make the head coach of Daegu FC specially arrange and praise, which is also very rare.
Before the fifth game against Daegu FC, due to Shandong Taishan showing good morale against Singapore Lion City in games 3 and 4, several main players have gradually entered a good situation, as if they are not so green as the first game. Therefore, Daegu's coach Gamma made key arrangements in the defense.
For example, the front line has closely targeted Abdul's external forces, and in the face of Yi Xianlong, who has a strong breakthrough ability, it has adopted a delay + double scramble strategy. However, head coach Yu Yuanwei did not follow the previously scheduled plan, let Yi Xianlong wait on the bench, and did not play until the last 15 minutes, the purpose is to use sufficient physical strength to make a breakthrough in the offensive end.
After playing, Yi Xianlong quickly revitalized the entire wing, using his excellent technical characteristics of dribbling, continuously and successfully broke through the opponent's sandwich defense, and played a beautiful and outstanding match with Lu Yongtao in the middle road many times, which made the defense of Daegu FC fall into panic. Several of them hit near the penalty area, and they also ran out of a very good position, but unfortunately, the teammate's ability to handle the ball was obviously lower, and the passing accuracy was not high, which made the unguarded Yi Xianlong look particularly helpless.
After the game, Gamma admitted that he was very impressed with the 23rd, very bold in his actions, dared to break through, and his awareness of the reading and running position of the game was also much higher than that of other teammates.
Indeed! In addition, after watching Yi Xianlong's performance, many fans also called out that his playing style is very similar to that of Arthur Junmin, who just debuted that year! The same are all from the side, the foot technology, the ability to break through, pay attention to the delicate cooperation in the side, so everyone is very optimistic about the future of the national football road of Yixian Long, as long as there is enough time to perform in the club, the growth space of this young player is very large, and even in the future, like Arthur Junmin, it will become the new core of the national football team.
Speaking of the national football team, since the top 12 out of the game, what is even more embarrassing is that in the next year, there are basically no game tasks. The team is definitely facing the problem of restructuring, whether it is the coaching staff or the composition of the players, after all, the age structure of the squad is too large, and it is imperative to be young. This trip to the AFC Champions League, on the surface, is not too important, but in fact, from the club to the head of the national brand are paying attention. It is reported that U23 head coach Jankovic is ready to talk about several players who have performed well after the players return home.
Yi Xianlong, with his excellent personal ability, has captured the trust of fans. Whether the future can become the core of U23, or even the core of the future Chinese national team, the real investigation has just begun.
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