Fox in the Penalty Area

After the opening, Shining Star was the first to threaten the South China Tigers' goal. Two shots in a row were extremely threatening, which created an illusion for those Flashing Star fans in the stands and in front of the TV.

That is, they feel that the Chinese Super League championship is nothing more than that, and Shining Star can easily defeat the South China Tigers in the Super Cup, win the Super Cup championship, and become the king of Chinese football.

But the actual progress of the game was not as these Flash Star fans thought.

After being threatened twice by Flash Star in the opening game, the South China Tigers did not panic. Instead, they played steadily and appeared to be very patient.

They didn't play fast breaks like the flashing stars. If the opportunity is not good, they would rather slow down, control a control in the midfield, and pass a circle back and forth in the backcourt, and they will never take the risk of going forward.

This is the consistent football style of the South China Tigers: steady.

Steady as an old dog.

Of course they are qualified to be so stable, because their overall strength is very strong, and the front, middle and back three lines basically have no shortcomings.

Whether it is a single game or the entire season, "stability" is a characteristic of the South China Tigers.

Last season, the South China Tigers and the Golden Arrows competed for the league title.

Although the Golden Arrow has always maintained the lead, the South China Tigers held on to the Golden Arrow and did not fall behind, but patiently waited for the Golden Arrow to make a mistake.

They are not the kind of passive waiting to hand over their fate to their opponents, but use this kind of stable play and pressing to force the Golden Arrow to make mistakes after they cannot withstand the pressure of leading.

As a result, in the sprint stage of the league, Golden Arrow lost 1:2 away to Hedong Thunder, losing the first place in the league.

After that, the South China Tiger never let Golden Arrow go back.

Until the end of the league, the South China Tigers used their stable performance to firmly occupy the first place in the league, and finally regained the league championship.

This kind of stability is also often vividly reflected in a single game - there was a statistic last season, in the game, as long as the South China Tigers scored first, they won more than 70% of the games in the end ... Note that it is winning, not not losing.

Their coach Friedrich Lechmann was known for his steady coaching style when he was in charge of the German giants Blue and White Munich. Under his guidance, the blue and white Munich steadily made all competitors feel desperate,

Realized the domination of the Bundesliga.

After coming to the South China Tigers to coach, he naturally continued to use what he is best at.

Cooperating with the hard power of the South China Tigers who have no shortcomings in the three lines, they have really brought "stability" to the fullest.

Of course, this kind of stability does not mean that the football of the South China Tigers has no passion and is negative and ugly. As long as the timing is right and the opportunity comes, they can also launch a storm-like offensive, destroying the opponent's defense and fighting spirit in a short period of time.

In this Super Bowl, although the Flash Stars threatened the South China Tigers' goals in the opening game, they did not launch a fierce attack afterwards, trying to save some face in front of the newly promoted.

In fact, Zhao Kangming hoped that the South China Tigers would do this. As long as they were eager to press the attack, they would be able to give Flashing Star a chance to counterattack.

With the overall strength weaker than the opponent, Shining Star naturally hopes that the South China Tigers can fall into their rhythm. Both sides will raise the rhythm and attack quickly. After speeding up, the South China Tiger may make mistakes and loopholes, and Shining Star can take advantage of these loopholes.

Flash Star has the ability and advantage to play fast. There are many young players in their lineup, and the wide players also have speed advantages.

Coupled with an efficient shooter, he can always seize limited opportunities to score goals, especially suitable for playing when there are not many opportunities against strong teams.

But now the South China Tiger's actions made Shan Xing feel as if he had kicked on an iron plate.

It's not just that the speed can't be played, if they insist on continuing to speed up, it may delay their own rhythm, causing mistakes and loopholes on their side first.

After realizing this, Zhao Kangming walked to the sidelines and made gestures to tell his players to slow down the tempo, don't worry, shrink appropriately and play defensive counterattacks. He still uses his speed advantage, but not as much as before. Aggressive again.

"Zhao made the team shrink back." Matthews Fisher, the assistant coach of the South China Tigers, said to his long-time partner Friedrich Lehmann after seeing this scene. "It's a pity, if they continue to attack like this, we will be able to find loopholes..."

Lehman smiled and shook his head: "Matthews, don't think Zhao is too stupid, he led this team to defeat the Golden Arrow. But all this is in our prediction, it's no big deal, as long as We stick to our own rhythm, Zhao's small thoughts are not important at all."

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Lehman didn't make any adjustments to Flash Star's shrinking defense and quick counterattack. He just sat on the coach's bench and watched the game, letting the players on the field play by themselves.

He believes that with the ability and experience of players like the South China Tigers, coping with the current situation is simply trivial.

In fact, the players of the South China Tigers did not disappoint the head coach Lehman.

Relying on their powerful abilities and rich experience, they slowly dealt with Shanxing, while consuming their patience and vigor, they were also looking for opportunities.

As for Flashing Star, he could only use the pitifully few opportunities to fight back.

However, due to the steady style of the South China Tigers, Shining Star's counterattacks seldom really threaten the goal guarded by Lin Zhiyuan.

After Hu Lai and Lin Zhiyuan had confronted once at the beginning of the match, they never spoke directly again.

This made those melon-eating people in the Olympic team group who were waiting to watch the fun quite boring.

"The South China Tigers basically controlled the situation on the field..."

"It's normal, He Feng. After all, there is still a gap in strength between the two teams."

Yan Kang and He Feng were discussing the ongoing competition, and they could see that the initiative of the competition had basically fallen to the South China Tigers.

This didn't strike them as unexpected, but rather normal.

Although Flash Star can be said to have swept the Chinese League One and performed very well in the FA Cup, it is difficult for them today to compare with the South China Tigers who have won six championships in the Chinese Super League in ten years.

Many people even think that it is already a great achievement for Shining Star to appear in the Super Bowl.

No one, except maybe the most ardent, die-hard Flash fans, thought they could win.

For this newly promoted team, it is most important to be able to take advantage of the opportunity of the Super Cup to play against the most powerful team in the Chinese Super League. What they can learn from this game is the most important.

After all, if Shining Star's goal is to keep relegation, then even if they are double-killed by the South China Tigers in the league, it will not affect their goal of relegation.

No relegation team will consider scoring points on the league leaders, but by playing against the leaders, it may help them recognize the gap between themselves and the league's strongest level. If they can learn something from this game, it will be very important for their next journey to avoid relegation.

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Faced with the South China Tiger's pressure, Shining Star was very tenacious, but they still failed to withstand wave after wave of South China Tiger's continuous offensive.

At the thirty-fourth minute, the Star City Gate finally fell.

The South China Tigers launched an imbricating attack from the side, and finally their left back Qu Lu passed the football to the goal of Shining Star.

Wang Guangwei got ahead of Brazilian striker Alessandro and pushed the football out.

But the second landing point outside the penalty area was controlled by the South China Tigers - this is the result of the pressure exerted by the South China Tigers before, and almost all the players of Shining Star were compressed to the vicinity of the penalty area, and the places farther away were all South China Tiger player too.

So even if Wang Guangwei wins the first point, the South China Tigers can also launch a continuous attack on the flashing star by controlling the second point.

At this time, they don't have to worry about the space behind them being used by Flash Star, because whether it is Chen Xingyi or Li Rong, they have returned to the penalty area to participate in the defense, and there is no way to counterattack so quickly. From the Xingxing penalty area to the South China Tigers' penalty area, such a long distance is enough to offset Xingxing's speed advantage. After all, the players of the South China Tigers are not scarecrows, they will return to defense.

The South China Tigers midfielder Lou Jiarong controlled the second goal from outside the penalty area. The Chinese national team player first pretended to shoot, then dunked Hu Lai who was rushing up, and then shot with his foot!

The football passed through the dense crowd in the penalty area and went straight to the bottom left corner of the goal.

Shining Star goalkeeper Yu Zhiming's people in the penalty area blocked his sight, and when he saw the football coming out of the crowd, it was too late to pounce on it.

The football skimmed the turf at low altitude and entered the net!

"Hey? Hey beautiful!!" He Feng shouted, "Lou Jiarong broke the deadlock with a cold shot from outside the penalty area! The South China Tigers lead 1:0!"

The South China Tigers fans in the stands of the stadium cheered, while the Flash Star fans opposite them hugged their heads in pain.

After scoring the goal, Lou Jiarong ran to the corner flag of Shining Star, and at the same time called his teammates to come up to celebrate the goal.

In the stands in front of him was the area where fans of the South China Tigers gathered. They waved several large flags and wrote: "The tiger occupies South China, and the roar shakes the Central Plains!"

These flags were waved amid thunderous cheers, as if huge waves had been set off in the stands, and the cheers of the South China Tigers fans were the roar of the huge waves!

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"As expected of the South China Tigers..." Zhao Kangming didn't make much movement after losing the ball. He just raised his eyes and looked at the stands behind the Shining Star Gate.

Chen Mo lowered his head and looked at his watch: "For thirty-four minutes, facing the Chinese Super League champion, this line of defense has performed well enough. But we were still compressed too hard by them, and we recovered too much. We shouldn't lose the area outside the penalty area Just hand in hand..."

"Lessons from experience and things like this can be resumed during the intermission." Zhao Kangming shook his head, and after speaking, he got up from his seat and walked to the sidelines.

At the same time, Qin Lin also cast his eyes on the sideline coaching bench - he wanted to see if the head coach would have the latest instructions.

Sure enough, he saw Zhao Kangming making a gesture to him:

Hold on, continue to defend and counterattack, don't panic!

He looked at Zhao Kangming and nodded, then turned around and shouted to the teammates who were hit: "It's just a ball, it's no big deal! Don't think about it, just defend until the end of the first half! Withstand their attack!" "

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After the game restarted, the South China Tigers who broke the deadlock really launched a more violent attack on the goal of the flashing stars.

The Flash Star fans watching in front of the TV were terrified and didn't dare to take a breath.

But even though he lost the ball, Flashing Star still tenaciously withstood all the subsequent attacks of the South China Tigers.

Or maybe the South China Tigers were looking for stability, seeing that Shan Xing's defense hadn't collapsed, so they didn't exert all their strength...

With five minutes left in the first half, the South China Tigers saw that they could not break through the goal of Shan Xing for a while, so they also took the initiative to shrink and gave up the opportunity to continue besieging Xing Xing. They may be worried that the Flash will use the last few minutes to hit a high-quality counterattack or two.

He Feng also sighed in admiration: "Giving up the advantageous situation voluntarily... The South China Tigers are really stable in this wave of operations."

As the South China tiger took the initiative to shrink, Shining Star naturally lost the chance to fight back quickly.

Flashing Star naturally didn't fight back when they saw this, they were afraid that after they went up, the South China Tigers would seize the opportunity to fight back.

The last few minutes of the first half of the game passed in a kind of calm after the storm.

The South China Tigers temporarily lead Flash Star with a score of 1:0.

Players from both sides walked into the aisle one after another, substitute players warmed up on the field, TV broadcasts entered commercials, fans and spectators went to the bathroom, swiped their mobile phones...

Everyone began to wait for the start of the second half.

But everyone's mind is definitely different.