Conquer the Devil's Home Turf! The veteran Guoan taught the young InBev a lesson

Special correspondents Song Ci and Ding Xu report In the match between Dalian InBev Haifa and Beijing Guoan, the number of spectators at Dalian Barracuda Bay Football Stadium reached 61,185, setting a new record for the second highest in the history of the Chinese Super League, and this number is also the highest number of spectators in a single game since the completion of Barracuda Bay Stadium. But this time the record was broken, and the away fans also had a lot of credit.

In the "big scene" at Barracuda Bay Stadium, 2,704 Guoan Expedition fans witnessed how the veteran Guoan taught the young InBev a lesson - the Guoan team won a victory in the most cost-effective way.

After this campaign, Guoan is still the only unbeaten team this season, and Guoan, who has won 4 consecutive games, has also set a new record of 19 rounds of unbeaten across the season in the team's history, and this is also the 300th Chinese Super League victory in team history, while InBev, which was plagued by injuries, failed to play the main force, and unfortunately failed to keep the 11 home games unbeaten across the season in the face of strong opponents at the championship level.

InBev has been in good form this season, winning three and drawing one of its four home games this season and winning nine and drawing two of its 11 home games across the season. Facing a Chinese Super League BIG5 team at home for the first time, InBev is looking forward to breaking Guoan's unbeaten golden body this season with the blessing of Barracuda Bay at home. The two teams have a deep relationship, and CCTV broadcast the battle of Lianjing live. At the beginning of the game, a huge TIFO was raised in the Dalian South Stand, once again showing the strong support of Dalian fans for InBev.

In terms of the starting lineup, InBev coach Li Guoxu continued to use the 442 formation, but there have been a lot of changes in personnel. The three main players who were replaced in the game with Yukun, Song Yue, Alimi, and Rabuyad not only missed the start, but also did not even enter the 23-man squad, and were replaced by Lu Peng, Fei Yu, and Mao Weijie. Among them, the veteran captain Lu Peng returned to the starting line after 4 rounds, and Fei Yu started for the first time this season.

"Because of injuries and rotations, after all, this is our ninth game in more than 30 days, so we had to do some rotations. Li Guoxu explained after the game. Last night, the InBev club officially announced the injuries of the three main players, Rabouyad and Song Yue are expected to recover in two weeks, and Alimi's recovery period is as long as 3-4 weeks. According to the reporter's understanding, after the match with Yukun, the three injured have not been able to train with the team.

Zheng Zhi and Chen Tao, members of the national team's coaching staff, watched the game at Barracuda Bay, after all, Guoan is currently the largest household of international football, and a total of 7 people from Guoan were selected for the national football training camp in March, and some of the players in InBev have performed well recently. appeared together, as well as Zhou Ting, who is also a famous hotel in two places.

Wang Ziming scored his first goal of the season in the 19th minute of the game, and Fabio doubled the score three minutes later. Fabio has scored five goals in four consecutive games, and is currently tied for the top scorer in the Chinese Super League with Keles, who is currently tied with Keles for eight goals. The two goals conceded by InBev were all headers, once again exposing the team's shortcomings in high-altitude balls at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

The first half of the game was completely under the control of Guoan, the only Guoan in the Chinese Super League with an average possession rate of more than 60%, the first 45 minutes of possession reached an astonishing 80.3%, shooting 8 to 5, forcing InBev to shoot 0 on target in the first half, and the ratio of successful passes was 374 to 61. 'In the first half, the players respected Guoan too much and didn't play what we wanted, especially defensively.

Yibian fought again, InBev made a desperate bet to replace 3 people in a row, Zhao Xuebin, Kalanga, Yang Mingrui replaced Fei Yu, Wen Jiabao, Liu Zhurun respectively, and Li Guoxu changed the formation to 343. "We have always wanted to practice the system of three central defenders, but there are only three people in the actual Zhengyin central defenders...... "In the 53rd minute, Zhao Xuebin, who was born as a striker and has changed to a right central defender, sent a long pass over the top on the right side of the midfield, and Malele shot hard at a small angle on the right side of the penalty area, and Husen fell to the ground to seal the ball out of the bottom line, which was the only shot on target in the whole game.

The full-time technical statistics showed 29.3% possession to 70.7%, 8 to 11 shots on goal and 1 to 6 shots on target. "In the second half, after the adjustment of personnel, the players were more combative, and the defense also limited Guoan's attack." Li Guoxu said after the game, "From the whole process of the game, including the score, we do have a certain gap with Guoan. ”

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yuning missed a penalty in stoppage time, otherwise the score would have been even more ugly for InBev. Lu Peng concluded: "The team was a little bit wrong in the first half, and in the second half, but there was not enough time and I didn't take the opportunity, which is a bit of a pity, especially at home. ”

InBev lost 0-2 to Guoan, breaking its unbeaten streak in 11 home games across the season, and at the same time achieving Guoan's unbeaten streak of 19 consecutive games, refreshing its unbeaten record in team history. "I want to say sorry to the 60,000-odd crowd who were there because we didn't play well, but I want to say we did our best."

Li Guoxu said: "This is the first time we have played against the top 5 teams at home, and this is also a learning process, and we will continue to summarize and improve to make our team better and better." "In fact, InBev is a very stable team, the probability of scoring points against a strong team is very low, but it never drops the chain when facing a team of equal strength to itself. In the 11 rounds that have ended, InBev has faced the top 8 teams with 2 draws and 4 losses without a win, and has been unbeaten against the bottom 8 teams with 3 wins and 2 draws. In the next round, the British blog field challenged the three towns that were lower than themselves, although it was an away game, but this game was the focus of the game to grab points.

The last time Dalian InBev lost at home was on May 4, 2024, when they lost to a young Guangzhou team. This time, they lost to the experienced national security team. Judging from the comparison of the strength of the two sides, the national security team has the upper hand. But as the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, the Guoan team did not press the whole line very domineeringly at the beginning, but put down a position to let the home team attack, but every attack of the opponent was easily collapsed by Guoan's calm and calm defense.

In this game, Guoan's foreign aid Dawan did not give Dalian team's young midfielder Liao Jintao the opportunity to display his talents, and let the core foreign aid closely monitor the opponent's 25-year-old domestic players, showing Guoan's respect and attention to the opponent. This is also the key content of Chairman Zhou Jinhui's pre-war mobilization in Dalian: we must not despise any opponent, Guoan has no proud capital, we must learn to lower our posture and treat the game more pragmatically.

After the game, Guoan confessed: "The boss is very important to supervise the game before the game, after all, the last round just reversed the harbor in Shanghai, if this round feels that Dalian is a promoted horse and does not pay attention to it, it may be punished." So even though we were 2-0 up today, we were all focused until the last minute. ”

Defend with all your might, then deliver a lethal blow in a simple way. In the first half, Guoan used two standard side bottom crosses and outflanked headers in front of the goal, which seemed to be just the most basic and practical offensive means, but the opponent was powerless, so that the two forwards of the Guoan team, Wang Ziming and Fabio, made contributions respectively.

The match was another record for attendance set at the Barracuda Bay football stadium four days earlier, but this time with some credit from the visiting fans. It was the presence of 2,704 away fans that surpassed the previous record of 60,699. There were so many away fans who came to the scene that even the Dalian Division did not expect it, but the competition area ensured that all Guoan fans entered Barracuda Bay and opened 6 stands to visiting fans, which also set a record in the away team area of the Barracuda Bay Football Stadium. After the game, Fabio, who has scored 8 goals this time, said bluntly: It is really incredible that so many fans are here, and our dream since childhood is to play in front of so many fans, so we are very happy as players.

The coach of the Guoan team, Setien, boldly rotated, Wang Ziming and Zhang Yuan started the game, which many people did not expect, but the two players also completed the task well, especially Wang Ziming, who ushered in the first goal of the year in the case of playing time this season.

This season's Guoan team can be said to have two sets of lineups with similar strength, which is also the main reason why they can still maintain their combat effectiveness due to successive injuries in the previous period. In this game with Dalian, take a look at the list of Guoan substitutes: Zhang Yuning, Serginho, Wu Shaocong, Fang Hao, Zhang Xizhe, Li Lei, Chi Zhongguo, Yang Liyu. This is not counting the injured Han Jiaqi, Fan Shuangjie, He Yupeng and others.

I have to say that how to reasonably arrange the players in each game does require rich coaching experience, and it also needs to see enough big scenes. Setien once communicated with the national security management that in order to remain competitive for the championship, more personnel must be involved in the game, so different lineups must be selected according to different opponents. This time, Setien's rotation not only allowed Zhang Yuning and Serginho to rest, but also won at the lowest cost.

Although some fans were a little dissatisfied with the performance of the Guoan team in the second half, they thought that they were once suppressed by the Dalian team. But in Setien's view, "although the opponent made a lot of counterattack attempts in the second half and created a lot of difficulties for Guoan, we resolved them one by one." It's not just the wins and the points that I'm happy with now that I've seen the players improve. There are a lot of details of the game, and the players are getting better and better, and only then will the team get higher and higher in the rankings. ”