Shenhua narrowly defeated Mount Tai: 3 points of gold, providence!

Special correspondent Gan Hui reports In the face of the tall Shandong Taishan defense, Gao Tianyi, who came on as a substitute, knocked on the door of victory at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium with a header that he was not good at, helping Shenhua defeat Shandong Taishan 1-0 and get three golden points. After 9 rounds of league games, Shenhua continues to lead the Chinese Super League with a record of 7 wins, 2 draws and 23 points.

Although last season defeated Shandong Taishan home and away and won by 9 goals, in the face of Zeka and Wu Xinghan's red card suspension of Shandong Taishan, head coach Slutsky is quite low-key and pragmatic. Before the game, he repeatedly emphasized that "the Taishan team is a strong team, and the game will be difficult", and the tactical arrangement gave up the technical player Xie Pengfei, who performed well in the last round, and used the physically strong Mineiro. In addition, Xu Haoyang replaced Yang Haoyu to play the No. 8 position, and Wu Xi, who did not participate in joint training the day before the game, still started.

The adjustment of personnel has brought about a change in the style of play. In this game, Shenhua played more behind the Shandong Taishan defense through long passes, hoping to use Mineiro's speed and impact to impact the opponent. In the 12th minute, Shenhua's tactic almost worked. Xu Haoyang made a long pass, Taishan defender Shi Ke rose to the top, and Mineiro advanced at high speed to get a single chance, but unfortunately the final shot was saved by Wang Dalei and missed a great opportunity.

André also had a good chance to open the scoring in the following game, but his volley couldn't keep the ball down. Last season, the lack of ability of forwards to take advantage of opportunities plagued the team. This season, Shenhua has adjusted the staffing of the front line, but from the current situation, the effect is not obvious.

When the forward line repeatedly misses opportunities, the defence will face a serious test. Fortunately, Shenhua's defense withstood the pressure last night and was the most consistent performance so far this season. Especially worthy of recognition is Xue Qinghao, since the 7th round of the league replaced Bao Yaxiong as the starting goalkeeper, Xue Qinghao's form and performance have continued to improve, and the recent two consecutive rounds of clean sheets against opponents. In this game, in addition to contributing a wonderful save, a quick hand throw launched a fast attack, which directly created a good opportunity to attack the goal. Of course, Xue Qinghao still has room for improvement in terms of the timing of the attack and the cooperation with his teammates in the defensive line.

Since Shandong Taishan's attack is concentrated on the left side, Shenhua's right side of the defensive pressure is relatively high. In the 64th minute, Slutsky made the first substitution adjustment and replaced Xu Haoyang with Gao Tianyi. The substitution had a great effect, strengthening the defensive end and also contributing a lot to the offensive end. After Gao Tianyi came on the field, as the current No. 1 set-piece penalty taker, the quality of Shenhua's set-pieces improved, Zhu Chenjie and Jiang Shenglong both formed good opportunities to attack the goal, and Gao Tianyi also scored the winning goal.

In the 77th minute, Chen Jinyi struggled to save the ball, Andre followed in time to grab the ball and sent a cross, Gao Tianyi inserted the top goal at high speed, with this goal, Shenhua won the victory in this difficult hand-to-hand fight, 1-0 victory over Shandong Taishan, won the victory of the strong dialogue, and also won the golden 3 points. After the game, Gao Tianyi, the hero of the goal, said that the victory belonged to the whole team, "I am still grateful to my teammates, thanks to this team, without their desperate defense in the first 60 minutes, maybe they have fallen behind when they played, and today's victory belongs to our whole team." ”

Judging from the game, Shenhua once again showed the team's excellent physical reserves and good tenacity. Slutsky concluded: "You can see that this match is a very tough, very close matchup. I think the key to the game was patience, concentration, and reducing turnovers, and luckily we didn't make any mistakes today and scored the crucial goals. ”

In this game, Shenhua directly launched a long pass attack in the backfield, Slutsky explained, "Zhu Chenjie's long pass attack is mainly because Shandong Taishan has always played very fiercely at home, and the front court is very active, but today it is very surprising that the opponent's pressing strength in the front court has weakened, and the retreat is a little deep, in this case it also gives our defenders the opportunity to calmly take the ball and organize the attack." When I was replaced by Gao Tianyi, I also told him that he could retreat more to take the ball and organize the attack. ”

In the next round, Shenhua will continue to play away against Chengdu Rongcheng, who are currently ranked second in the league standings. So far this season, Chengdu Rongcheng has been very strong in the strong dialogue, and has successively defeated Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Port, so the next game is another severe test of Shenhua's offensive and defensive system.