After watching Shandong Taishan's two-goal away defeat to Beijing Guoan, there are three puzzles, and I specially ask the team and the club to solve:
The first confusion: Taishan only warmed up after the start of the game?
When the TV was turned on, the players of both sides were already standing in the field ready to kick off, and they did not see the team's previous warm-up. I don't know if it's for some reason, Taishan was late and didn't have time to warm up, so after the game started, Guoan quickly entered the state, and Taishan took 5 minutes to warm up? It was these 5 minutes that decided the success or failure of the whole game and the fate of both teams.
Of course, this is a joke. The problem is that if it weren't for this, the people were sleepy, the lineup was not complete, and the devil was away, in the face of Guoan, who had been in excellent condition recently, how could Taishan not realize the difficulty and even cruelty of the game, and could not predict that the opponents of the five foreign aid starters would definitely go all out to grab the start? Why do you use sleepwalking to warm up in the 5 minutes after the opening, so as to put yourself in a place of no return? Judging from the whole game, in addition to these 5 minutes, the next 85 minutes, especially in the second half, Taishan almost frantically counterattacked, suppressed the home team, and unfortunately was unable to return to the sky in the end. It can be seen that it is these 5 minutes of slackness or trustworthiness that has ruined the team's hope of scoring points in away games.
The second confusion: Why doesn't Taishan kick the anti-counter?
The remnants of the formation challenged the strong and high-morale Guoan, Taishan, who was deeply troubled by the double exhaustion of physical strength and mental strength, used anti-counter tactics to avoid reality and build a strong defensive line, while using the personal ability of Cressan and Wako to fight back with Xie Wenneng's speed, which was obviously the wisest choice. It's a pity that they didn't want to be flexible, and as always, they pressed out of the position as a whole and did not measure themselves, but as a result, a large gap was exposed behind them, and they were hit by the opponent's counterattack. The two goals conceded in the first 5 minutes were all blind premises of the defensive line, and the defensive structure was loose, so that Guoan could easily hit the Taishan penalty area after one or two passes in the backfield, and the striker scored in the face of the empty goal.
On the other hand, Guoan, in front of nearly 60,000 fanatical spectators who set a record for the attendance rate of the new workers' stadium, five foreign aides against the away team, with obvious advantages in strength and state, still do not seek flashiness, play extremely pragmatically, and immediately retreat to their own half to play defense after taking the lead. Due to the lack of air defense in the front and back of Taishan's formation, Adebenro and Fabio, who have strong ability to hold the ball and fast attack speed, can pose a substantial threat to Taishan's goal almost every time they counterattack to the frontcourt. In comparison, Taishan seems to be on the offensive, but Cressan and Waco lost their forward sprint space, fell into a defensive encirclement, and were never able to break the dense defense of Guoan, and they were busy for 85 minutes, with huge consumption, but nothing was gained.
Choi Kang-hee, who has always believed in offensive football, instilled in Taishan the Korean tenacity and the sense of strong offensive tactics that should not change to the ever-changing, regardless of the strength of the opponent and his own state, he will continue to use the passing and control style of pushing and suppressing the opponent layer by layer. When Moises and Fellaini were there, there was nothing wrong with playing like this, they were not there, they were still playing like this, and the scene was dominant + inefficient, so it was difficult to avoid. Cressan's "independence" and Vaco's ineffective dribbling are the products of this embarrassing situation.
It must be noted that this is not a patent after Cui Kangxi took over Taishan. In the 30-year team history of Taishan, only Yin Tiesheng coached the 4 years that he could play defense, and since then he has been playing the main offensive team tactics. However, Sonny, Tuba, Ivan, Kuka, Magath and Li Xiaopeng, Hao Wei, including Cui Kangxi in the first year of the team, insisted on the strong team play style, because Taishan was indeed a strong team at that time, and this year, the team was covered with internal and external difficulties, no longer strong, and still stubbornly playing like a strong team, it is too irrational.
The third puzzle: where did the foreign aid go?
The first two puzzles are tactical, and the third is about strategy. The root cause of the various on-field problems exposed by Taishan this season is the lack of reinforcements. Long-term double foreign aid against five foreign aid, no team can guarantee continuous and stable performance. Before the season, Fellaini's replacement Zeka was seriously injured and absent from the team just after he arrived, and Moisés' replacement was not found, and the original Judson fished for three days and dried nets for two days. Everyone is eagerly looking forward to the introduction of foreign aid in the summer window, and now it looks like there is a high probability that it will be in vain. If the club really reaches the point where it doesn't even have the ability to strengthen a foreign aid, then in the face of the third-line battle in the second half of the season, and even the future development of the team, the prospects will be pessimistic, I dare not imagine!