On May 2, Beijing time, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Football Team faced Meizhou Hakka Team at Evergrande Panyu Training Base, and the two sides played a teaching game. Wei Shihao, Axon and Gaulat scored goals, and Xinjiang youngster Perman Jiang, trained by Evergrande Football School, scored two yuan. The goals of the young players let us praise Evergrande's youth storm, in fact, not only the attacker blew up the youth storm, in terms of midfield scheduling, the chinese magic flute Zhang Xiuwei's play is also worthy of admiration, although there is a big gap with Real Madrid star Modric, but Zhang Xiuwei's state is hot, long passes are rushing, and there is great progress in midfield planning.
Zhang Xiuwei and his teammates
Just as some media people have labeled Zhang Xiuwei before: Lyon youth training, Chinese magic flute, future star, spiritual ethereal, all overflowing words, but serious injuries, drunk driving, age fraud, bans, return to the furnace and other "black" words have also been accompanied by him, this 23-year-old young man is like an angel and a demon body, criticism and praise words around him. Fans familiar with Guangzhou Evergrande know that last season's Guangzhou Evergrande early stage can be described as extremely difficult, the midfield line has always lacked a player with excellent running ability, able to cover his own penalty area to the opponent's penalty area, and can effectively transition the offensive and defensive conversion to help the backcourt transition out of the ball and the back of the attack, and Zhang Xiuwei, who is Cannavaro's love general, was placed in this position by Cannavaro. As the inheritor of the old captain Zheng Zhi, can Zhang Xiuwei, who is highly anticipated in midfield, carry the burden of Zheng Zhi and Cannavaro's tactical needs? Combined with Zhang Xiuwei's relevant personal data, personal ability and the comprehensive situation of the team, we may wish to review and summarize.
Last season, in the Chinese Super League, Zhang Xiuwei made 20 appearances, 15 of which were in the starting lineup. This shows that Cannavaro gave Zhang Xiuwei enough opportunities in the platoon deployment. First of all, in terms of passing, a total of twelve key passes were given in 20 games. And got two assists. The total number of passes reached 673, and the pass success rate was 87%. You can compare him with the big brother Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi's number of passes reached 659 times, but the pass success rate was 86%, which shows that Zhang Xiuwei is very good in the success rate of one foot. The midfielder not only sees the ball, but also depends on the interception. Averaging 1.5 steals per game and 0.95 interceptions, while the stats aren't gorgeous, we all know he's a speedy offensive midfielder.
Zhang Xiuwei
From a strategic point of view, Zhang Xiuwei is called "energetic". In the past two years, Guangzhou Evergrande midfielder has lacked jumping ability and vitality. Liao Lisheng and Zheng Zhi are relatively slow, focusing on players who control the ball. Although Liao Lisheng's consciousness can be flexible and his offensive and defensive conversion ability is very good, he lacks motivation and enthusiasm to play, and his forward strength is very weak. Although Xu Xin is full of energy, he is more anxious about his defensive position and ability to control the ball, which is why Cannavaro said Xu Xin was a bit lazy. Overall, the midfielder played very dull, which gave people the feeling of Guangzhou Evergrande two years ago. After Zhang Xiuwei joined the team, he injected energy and gave the midfield a little more vitality.
Zhang Xiuwei belongs to the kind of midfielder whose physical fitness is not outstanding, but his brain is very active, and he has a spiritual spirit to play football, and his position is higher than Xu Xin and Zheng Zhi. In the 2016 season, Tianjin Quan Jianchong was successful, and Zhang Xiuwei, who was only 20 years old, was already the main force of the team, and the prospects were generally optimistic. However, after experiencing the "drunk driving door" storm, the state of the Chinese magic flute is much worse than before. But knowing that mistakes can be corrected, through the precipitation of this epidemic period, some of his abilities have been well demonstrated in this warm-up match. It may be because the overall level of meizhou team is not as good as the strong team in the Chinese Super League, but we can feel the changes in the players themselves.
In an interview at the end of last season, Zhang Xiuwei was asked about the recruitment for the national team, and there was no him in the national team quota, and the young man answered the reporter in a very simple language: "I think it is better to do myself, every training class and every game is played well, and I do a good job of myself, a lot of it is a natural thing." ”
Zhang Xiuwei's coverage area, defensive hardness and ability to take the ball as a passing player at the conversion node are among the best among local players, and there is a lack of such a high-level vision player in China. After Guangzhou joined cannavaro, unlike Scolari's set of lineups, Cannavaro has been repeatedly hammering different 11 people, so the performance at the beginning of last season was somewhat unsatisfactory. We all know that Cannavaro is one of the few who relied on his status as a defender to win the Ballon d'Or, and also had a big cash when he coached Guangzhou Evergrande, the original Guangzhou team was good at playing against each other, carrying the ball in front of the court, relying on passing control to pass the ball into the opponent's goal. Now it is more about taking off from both sides, using long passes to hang the opponent's back ball, so that the midfield engine needs more stable players, so as to ensure the efficiency of the attack.
Judging from the specific competitions, although last season's games were sometimes invisible, Zhang Xiuwei's performance was remarkable in some games. This article visits Hebei Huaxia Happiness on guangzhou Evergrande, the penultimate game of the previous season. The final home-away score of the match was 1:3. Guangzhou Evergrande easily won the game. In this game, Cannavaro used the 3412 formation. Zhang Xiuwei as the front back, such an important game, he has done the best in the front waist. But to deliver shells to the front, he also made a significant contribution to the defense. The 4 interceptions in this game are the players with the highest total number of interceptions in the whole game, and he takes advantage of his small and agile characteristics. Maybe his physical fitness is not as good as other midfielders of his age, but his speed is indeed commendable.
Zhang Xiuwei and his teammates
I don't know what impressions you have of Cannavaro's previous coaching process in Tianjin, but for me, Cannavaro's experience of coaching there is like a junior high school student doing the problem of primary school students, he is very stable in Quan Jian's employment scheduling, and here he also found the shining gold, and this piece of gold also arrived in Guangzhou Evergrande with the footsteps of chasing him.
Whosocred gave Zhang Xiuwei the characteristics of the description is that he prefers short passes and long-range shots, likes to tackle, foul control is poor, and high-altitude confrontation is an obvious disadvantage, after all, he is 175cm tall and weighs only 65kg, and his physical fitness in the domestic arena is at a disadvantage. But in the current midfield configuration of Guangzhou Evergrande, especially in the case of Paulinho because of the double foreign aid restriction policy, Zhang Xiuwei needs to do more defensive and defensive transition responsibilities, this article and then in the first round of the 2019 season of the Chinese Super League and Tianhai and the game with R&F, Zhang Xiuwei's running range basically covers the two penalty areas on the right side of the stadium, while using a pass success rate of up to 86.3% and an average of 2.5 tackles per game 0.8 steals at both ends of the attack and defense.
Cannavaro
I don't know if you remember another meritorious veteran Huang Bowen, he is very full of wisdom in the scheduling of the whole game, but to remove him to let Zhang Xiuwei take his position, he needs to play more of a global overall role to carry out tandem balls and scheduling, which exposes the current problems of Zhang Xiuwei more obviously, in the long pass transfer and the overall situation have more obvious flaws, at the beginning of the season He Chao has not been on loan, he and Zhang Xiuwei's midfield matching performance is difficult to say satisfactory, including 1-3 loss to Daegu The 1-0 narrow victory over Taida, while the two took turns and Huang Bowen played relatively smoothly, which shows that the development of new players still needs the help of old players. The experience of the old players is a great asset for the new forces. And if we look at it from a whole big data, Zhang Xiuwei served as a midfield dispatcher last season, and the number of times he and Zheng Zhi were matched was very large.
This is also a wonderful point of Caravaro's employment, the old with new and old players with new players to flourish together, give enough experience, I don't know if you remember another newcomer to Guangzhou Evergrande: Yan Dinghao, one of his significant features on the field is that as long as he is on the field, Talisca can be activated, Talisca was injured, after a period of hardship. Zhang Xiuwei also played a lubricating role on the field, better defusing the shells delivered by Paulinho to Talisca and allowing him to score goals. I believe that readers who pay attention to Guangzhou Evergrande must have found that the last few games are precisely because Zhang Xiuwei played more confidently, so the midfield was firmly connected, although the role of Zheng Zhi's big brother is greater, but there is no way to achieve such a very good level without Zhang Xiuwei.
In contrast, Xu Xin, another young general of Evergrande who stayed in the ocean, appeared to be somewhat inadequate. The author feels that the ball he plays is too loose, if the football is not under his feet, he will not fight for the ball from his teammates, and it is precisely because of this that the ball is snatched and intercepted again and again, this big brother-style football must not be able to stand in Evergrande's team, and through Cannavaro's platoon, next season in the 2020 season, the position of Guangzhou Evergrande midfielder should be Zhang Xiuwei continuing to serve as the starter.
Ka Shuai and Zhang Xiuwei
Such a young player can make significant progress in the top Chinese Super League in China, and is slowly growing, which makes us full of confidence in the player who will replace Zheng Zhi in the future. In the 2020 season, He Chao returned to Guangzhou Evergrande after his loan period expired, and Yan Dinghao returned from injury, which made us look forward to the competition for Evergrande's midfield position. But no matter what, they have the motivation to compete, and having the motivation is the best contribution to Chinese football. I also sincerely hope that the Chinese team can successfully score in the 2022 Qatar World Cup, and the Chinese team hopes to be in these young players.