This season's Chinese Super League has been very different because of Xie Hui and his Dalian Ren team. There is no need to repeat how hot Xie Hui and his "press and play" tactics are. But the reason why Xie Hui is in the spotlight is not just because of the magnificent soccer that the Dalian Ren team is showing, nor is it because of those emoticons and famous quotes. The fundamental reason is that for many years, Chinese fans have been tired of the "two-mixed" (coach and players) in the domestic soccer world.
The powerlessness of the front line is the most direct generalization of the fans on the ability of the front line of the national football team. National Football League striker powerlessness, to a large extent from the Chinese Super League, regardless of the strong and weak teams, are keen to pile up foreign aid in the offensive line, resulting in a lack of opportunities for local offensive players, or forced to move back position.
In fact, the impact of powerful foreign aid to the Chinese Super League is not only the decline in the ability of local players, but also masks the lack of local coaching ability.
Let's take a look at the candidates for the National Football League Coach of the Year award for the last three years.
In 2020, Chen Yang, Hao Wei and Wang Baoshan, with Hao Wei eventually being elected.
In 2019, Li Xiaopeng, Jia Xiuquan, Li Tie, and eventually Li Tie were elected.
Li Tie, Li Xiaopeng, Chen Yang, Hao Wei, Wang Baoshan, Jia Xiuquan, plus Xie Feng and Wu Jingui, who were nominated fourth and fifth in the 2020 Golden Marshal nomination, are almost the top group of local coaches in domestic men's football.
However, what is their best technical tactic?
Defensive counterattacks, and the most simple and rugged ones at that.
The defense relies on the local numerical advantage in the backfield, and after completing the defense, a long pass from the center backfield is handed to the extremely good individual ability of the wide receivers on the front line, and the rest is played by the wide receivers themselves.
Once upon a time, Li Tie in Wuhan has Evra, Li Xiaopeng in Shandong has Pellet, but to the national team, the two appeared in the original form.
Nowadays, Hao Wei, Shandong Taishan with Fellaini and without Fellaini is two teams.
Others like Wang Baoshan, Chen Yang, Wu Jingui and Xie Feng, do they lead teams with other techniques and tactics besides defensive counterattacks?
Jia Xiuquan's Chinese women's soccer team and Shui Qingxia's Chinese women's soccer team are completely different technical and tactical styles.
Due to the presence of powerful foreign aid, so that the domestic soccer world of this position of the top coaches, completely do not think of progress, and do not have to bother to study the business. As long as there are foreign aiders, plus a certain number of contacts in the circle, weak teams can be relegated, strong teams can compete for the title.
But when it comes to the state, it's all revealed.
Li Tie coaching the national football team to play a strong team, the idea is that the first half I first shrink, can hold the second half and then think of ways to hit the counterattack to steal one is one.
Xie Hui coached the all-Chinese class Dalian people, playing foreign aid complete, stronger than their own strength of Henan Songshan Longmen, Changchun Yatai and Zhejiang team, are the first pressure out of the fight, and all achieved the score lead.
See here, perhaps some people will say, China's men's football those international level is that, you let these local coaches do not play defensive counter-attack, what to play, is not to play the pass control to play the pressure to play against the attack?
Then we come to the second issue, daily training.
Just recently concluded the fourth round of the Chinese Super League, running distance of the top five players, ranked first for the Dalian people's Fei Yu, Shandong Taishan Sun Jun Hao, Shanghai seaport's buy Tijiang, the Guangzhou team's Yan Dinghao and Changchun Yatai's Tan Long ranked second to fifth.
Fei Yu, 31, who played for Nantong Zhiyun before coming to Dalian Ren, is not well known in the domestic soccer world. The all Chinese team of Dalian Ren has a lot of veteran players in their squad, but the fighting strength that the team has shown in several matches is quite amazing. Especially the front high-pressure press, almost half of the team are pressed to the opponent's half of the field for a frantic siege, once the opponent formed a counterattack, the whole team also returned to the half of the field for defense, running distance is not deceiving.
This shows that the Dalian people have done a very good job in physical reserves. As the head coach, Xie Hui must have spent a lot of time and effort to prepare for the match before the start, as well as in the team's daily physical training, and the requirements for the players must also be very high.
There is no harm without comparison.
Shandong Taishan in the game against Henan Songshan, a few lost the ball during the process, the front players are almost not involved in the defense.
Let's look at this game in the first half of the 43rd minute Henan Songshan Longmen this counterattack, until after Adrian finished shooting, the picture Shandong Taishan in addition to Wang Dalei, has been only four players. Where are the others? After the completion of the goal, two Shandong players coincidentally bent over to rest, indicating that this back to the defense of the sprint, so that they are really too tired.
What does that kind of physical reserve mean?
Beijing Guoan, playing 11 to 8, just narrowly beat Chengdu Rongcheng 3-2. A two-goal lead, followed by an extra man, ended in a 2-2 draw by Meizhou Hakka. Against Meizhou Hakka, the most capable runner in Beijing Guoan's formation, Ji Zhongguo, was replaced in the 82nd minute, with a running distance of 8.2 kilometers. Simple conversion, even if Ji Zhongguo played a full game, but also up to 9 kilometers more than a little. If Ji Zhongguo is like this, let alone the rest of the team.
There must be a problem with the players in this situation, so is the manager not to blame?
How do you actually practice in your regular training? Did you put any effort into studying the business?
The coaches are mixed up and the players must be even more sheepish.
The first four rounds of the Chinese Super League, our men's football team to participate in the 12 strong match of those main international players, especially those senior international players, how many performances outstanding? Simply all background plate.
Why?
On the one hand, we are born in sorrow and die in peace. We have already earned enough money, and now it's time to retire, so why do we still have to work hard?
On the other hand, in the past, with the help of external assistance, it was not visible, but now it is on their own, and all of a sudden it is exposed.
The following quote, summarized by one of the country's soccer journalists I saw on social media, is really so eloquent.
Xie Hui why fire, in fact, is not he led the Dalian people play how good, he just put the original posture of the sport of soccer, back to our fans.
After all, our fans have been suffering domestic soccer coaches and players who have been moping around all day for far too long.
