In the 2014 season, Conca, who had been rumored to be leaving Evergrande, finally chose to say goodbye to the celestial body. Conca was replaced by former Fiorentina captain, Italy international Diamanti. When Diamanti first arrived at Evergrande, he scored with a wonderful long-range shot, but in the end, for various reasons, Diamanti drove high and low, leaving only a fading back when he left Evergrande. Today, I will tell you the story of Diamanti.
Conca left the team, and Lippi wanted to speed up Evergrande
In 2014, conca Corpus, who has always been dissatisfied with Evergrande, chose to leave the team. According to Lippi's tactical conception, at Juventus, he did not choose another Zidane after Zidane left, but chose Nedved, who was more capable of running and had a greater coverage of the activity area. According to Lippi's subsequent memoirs, his most proud reinforcement at Juventus was Nedved. In Evergrande, Lippi chose Italy international Diamanti to join, but also to make the team's tactical play richer, closer to the European rapid advancement, all attack and full defense style.
This is destined to be a very difficult reform
Whether a tactical play style needs to be changed after a team wins the championship is a difficult question to answer. Lippi chose to respond to changes when he led italy before, and as a result, italy in 2010 could not guarantee that he would not concede goals when facing a semi-amateur team like Georgia in the qualifier stage, and the Confederations Cup was beaten 0-3 at halftime against Brazil, and the overall performance was even worse than the national football team in 2002. In the World Cup, Italy drew 2 and lost 1 defeat and eventually missed the round of 16.
In Italy, Lippi chose to change in response to changes and ultimately failed miserably, but in Evergrande, Lippi chose to change, especially in 2014, this node chose to change, obviously there is also a great risk. Since Evergrande played the league, the AFC Champions League and the FA Cup in the 2013 season, the Evergrande team had the latest holiday, the shortest rest time, and Lippi was absent for more than ten days of training due to personal reasons, which meant that Evergrande's winter training period did not have a good physical reserve - the new tactical running ability requirements were higher than during the Conca period, which obviously laid the groundwork for the difficulties of the 2014 season.
The AFC Champions League completed a major reversal, and Diamanti was sent to the "emperor" position
In the first round of the AFC Champions League group stage, Guangzhou Evergrande was stubbornly blocked by Melbourne Victory, and in the first half of the game, the Australian team took a 2-0 lead with two world waves, especially the second goal, the Australian used the corner to play a volley straight to the dead corner, and evergrande fans at halftime even had a premonition that the defending champions would be upset.
But in the second half, Diamanti stabilized the military with two world waves. In the league, Diamanti once again showed his long-range shooting skills on the direct free kick in front of the box. The position at the top of the arc of the penalty area was also marked by Evergrande's pre-match poster, called the "emperor" position.
The Italian stars go high and low, and the overall physical fitness and lack of awareness of the team are big problems
But soon, the Italian star Diamanti fell into a long slump, although the Italian star has a broad vision, but his passing needs teammates to predict the running position, which puts forward high requirements for the football awareness of local players, but also requires players to run more diligently. But these two in the 2014 season evergrande can not do, not to mention the Chinese players' sense of no-ball running is Lippi has been trying to change but with little effect, it is said that Evergrande after the 2013 season of long games, in the 2014 season winter training without systematic physical reserves in the case of long-term competition, the time to see the bottom of the physical fitness is probably much earlier than the coaching staff expected.
In this way, in the 2014 season of the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, Evergrande only won the Chinese Super League championship, and the AFC Champions League stopped in the quarterfinals. Although the stop in the AFC Champions League has a lot to do with Hassan's performance, it is also an indisputable fact that Evergrande lacked overwhelming control over the game against the Western Sydney Ramblers.
Diamanti's entry into Evergrande is a not-so-successful tactical change carried out by Lippi, which is an attempt by the coach to hope that Chinese football will improve from tactics, although it is not successful in the end, but the fans blame all the responsibility on Lippi's selfishness, blaming Diamanti, which is obviously unfair.