埃神弹射建功 广州恒大淘宝1:0杭州绿城
北京时间4月17日晚20点，2015年中超联赛第六轮在天河体育场开始一场较量，由广州恒大淘宝主场迎战杭州绿城。
比赛开始后，广州队把绿城压制在半场之内猛攻，但绿城防守稳固，一时没给广州队实质突破机会。两队一直僵持到第13分钟才有第一次实质射门，但这记射门就取得意外进球。先是埃尔克森禁区外倒钩力量不大，但绿城后卫布拉比头球解围也不远，埃尔克森起来转身迎球就射，皮球在地上弹了三弹之后，飞向绿城大门右侧死角。绿城门将顾超显然视线被挡，对此球反应过慢，等到他感觉不妙做出扑救动作，皮球已经弹进了大门，1比0，广州队领先！有了这个进球，广州队进攻似乎也打开了，第16分钟郜林禁区外吊射，被顾超接住。第20分钟绿城险些进球，绿城右路谢鹏飞传中，中路阿甘跟进太快摔倒没碰到球，王上源在弧顶处盯人不紧，陈柏良从后插上拿球，随即带到禁区左侧强力射门，曾诚奋力把球扑出底线！曾诚起身后猛推了一把王上源。安塔尔左路角球开出，曹轩争顶，但皮球擦头皮而过。第26分钟埃尔克森禁区外转射门稍稍打高，第32分钟高拉特左路带球中射门又打高，天河的草坪质量似乎不太对，皮球在地面上无法平稳滚动。第33分钟张琳芃右路强行冲入禁区后传中，埃尔克森跟上打疵，球滚向左侧，郜林巧妙闪过，高拉特迎球怒射再次打高！第37分钟广州队中场妙传，郜林左路反越位成功，但他的单刀怒射被顾超奋力扑出！角球开出后，高拉特抢在范晓东之前，小禁区内俯身冲顶，顾超神奇一扑把球又打出底线！广州队换到右路，金英权开出战术角球，邹正左脚外脚背传球，冯潇霆和埃尔克森两个高点跃起都未碰到！广州队继续攻，第40分钟张琳芃右路传中，埃尔克森头球顶了个直上直下被顾超接稳，一分钟后埃尔克森接高拉特送球，一脚抽射也打高。
中场休息绿城连换两人，赵啸天换下冯刚，罗竞换下谢鹏飞。第48分钟郜林和邹正配合，在绿城多人重围中杀出一条血路，但郜林大好机会的射门却斜飞出界。第54分钟广州队角球被绿城方面顶出，随即绿城形成三打四的前场快攻，在安塔尔掩护下，罗竞径直带球到禁区前沿怒射，皮球擦柱而出！但随后比赛暂停，布拉比在角球争顶时和阿甘撞在一起，布拉比头破血流倒在地上，阿甘的眉角也在流血，广州队的队医也过来协助两名队员疗伤，特鲁西埃和杭州队医一起帮助阿甘绑头上绷带。天体赛场的LED、3D地毯遍布广州队地产的广告。比赛重开后广州队又险些进球，好在顾超奋力扑出郜林的射门。第63分钟广州队用梅方换下张琳芃。刚出场的梅方就传出一记身后球，埃尔克森高速接应，倒地卧射被顾超扑住。第69分钟邹正左路和埃尔克森打出小配合，邹正下底传中，高拉特在后点侧身扫射被范晓东挡出。第72分钟高拉特在右侧的射门还是高出，高拉特自己也无奈摇头。第75分钟绿城又拿到快速反击机会，梅方放倒拿球的罗竞吃到黄牌，这也是本场第一张黄牌，罗竞的任意球射门高飞出界。第77分钟王林在恒大禁区里拿球，在郑智的干扰下摔倒，主裁张雷没有表示，死球后杭州队员围着张雷争论。此时广州队用董学升换下高拉特，张雷示意高拉特走向换人区域，高拉特却要从球场另一端离开，结果吃到黄牌。第80分钟梅方右路传中险些吊门成功，顾超后仰把球打出。第84分钟董学升转身射门被顾超扑住。随后比赛又暂停，整个头顶都被鲜血染红的布拉比再次受伤倒在地上，特鲁西埃准备用吴伟换下布拉比，但短暂治疗后布拉比坚持起身战斗。第88分钟广州队用刘健换下郑智。第90分钟阿甘在禁区右侧转身怒射，曾诚飞身把这个直奔死角的球扑出！战术角球开出后，王林右路传中，双方禁区前乱战，阿甘再次转身射门，皮球又被曾诚扑出！第93分钟埃尔克森接右路角球，头球顶在外门柱上！第94分钟埃尔克森右路连续三次过曹轩，接着他大力斜射，但皮球擦柱而出！补时6分钟后比赛结束，广州恒大淘宝主场1比0战胜杭州绿城。
广州恒大：19-曾诚；5-张琳芃(3-梅方 63分钟)、6-冯潇霆、25-邹正、28-金英权；10-郑智(17-刘健 88分钟)、11-高拉特(18-董学升 79分钟)、12-王上源、21-赵旭日、29-郜林；9-埃尔克森
杭州绿城：1-顾超；13-曹轩、20-安塔尔、26-布拉比、22-王林；11-谢鹏飞(12-罗竞 45分钟)、14-冯刚(24-赵啸天 45分钟)、16-范晓东、17-陈柏良、18-赵宇豪；10-阿甘
SHANGHAI SHENHUA
Established: 1993
Ground: Hongkou Football Stadium, Hongkou District, Shanghai
Capacity: 35,000
Honours: Chinese top-tier league champions: 1995
Chinese top-tier league runners-up: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008
Chinese FA Cup winners: 1998
Chinese FA Cup runners up: 1995 & 1997
With Shanghai Shenhua’s early-season vim having fizzled out, a trip to Henan with their impressive early-season home record might just be the last thing the Hongkou side need. Can Shenhua get their act together and succeed where Evergrande fell at the start of the month?
Home Discomforts
It was a script everyone had seen played out before – Tianjin a couple of weeks ago, Harbin among others last season – most of the CSL’s bottom half (Shenxin excepted) coming to Hongkou, essentially. Against sides who pack the defence and rely on set-pieces or swift counters to create their chances, Shenhua run out of ideas remarkably quickly – win, lose or draw the result is usually a tight, uncomfortable, and nerve-fraught game with Shenhua creating little outside moments of individual brilliance, and looking jittery on the few occasions their opponents do attack.
And so it was against Chongqing Lifan – one of the worst and most uneventful 2-2 draws this correspondent has witnessed. Shenhua looked flat-footed and bereft of ideas to break down the deep-lying Lifan defence; the two goals coming from a towering Gio Moreno header from a free-kick, and a somewhat scruffy medium-range effort from Cao Yunding. Following both goals, Shenhua lapsed into a fatal combination of apathy – not attempting to press the ball in midfield or push to extend their advantage – and neurosis – abandoning all composure and positioning when defendinig in their own box. A gleeful Emmanuel Gigliotti pounced twice to confirm what North Terrace News has always said – when it comes to reliable CSL goal-getters, you just can’t beat an unheralded Argentinean journeyman with a hit-and-miss record back home.
Understudies Fluff Lines; Stars Fail to Shine
With Paulo Henrique and Lv Zheng again missing through injury, coach Francois Gillot reverted to the old-fashioned 4-4-2 formation which had served Shenhua well prior to the more cautious approach offered in Beijing. Following the wishes of this very column, Gao Di was given the Henrique role – hassling defenders and making smart runs alongside the more static Tim Cahill up front – and the forgotten Wang Fei was given his first start of the new regime in his favoured wide midfield position. Both men, unfortunately, failed to grasp this opportunity – Gao made a couple of good runs, and Wang swung in one or two dangerous crosses, but both men ultimately wasted a lot of the ball and became more anonymous as the game progressed.
Saturday also marked another anonymous game for both Moreno and Cahill. Moreno’s season thus far has been something of a slow-burner – aside from a header, a penalty and an assist, the captain has contributed little of note. Whether it’s an attitude problem or a tactical issue is unclear; Moreno does tend to waste a lot of the ball when playing deeper, and leaves Wang Yun single-handedly running the engine room much of the time – Shenhua’s shape actually improved markedly with the introduction of Avraam Papadopolous to do his share of water-carrying alongside Wang Yun at half-time against Lifan, with Moreno pushed further forwards.
Questions are also beginning to be raised regarding the Cahill purchase, and how he fits into Shenhua’s side. The Australian is remarkably on-track to match the minimal on-pitch impact of Nico Anelka – admittedly without getting the manager fired or running first-team matters by proxy through bringing in a mate. It’s painful to watch, and you’d struggle to find two more different characters regarding attitude or workrate when comparing the Frenchman and the Aussie; Cahill runs tirelessly, is clearly a great motivation to his teammates, and continues to put in a shift in both penalty areas in dead-ball situations. Unfortunately the side is really not set up to play to either of Cahill’s strengths – lacking wingers to reliably set up chances for his aerial prowess, and lacking forwards to make space for his surging late runs – as such, Cahill is pressed into action as a makeshift hold-up target man, hardly the best use of the CSL’s 2015 marquee signing.
Where Now?
It’s arguable, actually, that Gillot did little wrong and was let down by his players – he selected a formation which had served well, with players in their natural positions, and switched things around after the break to remedy the ineffectiveness of Cahill and Moreno and shore up the center of the park. Even bringing on the hapless Zhan Yilin was an attempt to retain some natural width in Shenhua’s side – this struggle may well be easier to park at the feet of the club’s recent transfer policy and the players’ mentality – admittedly, both of these areas being something a successful coach can bring his will to bear on in the longer term.
Shenhua’s paper-thin squad – barely strong enough for a quality XI – is being badly found out with the absence of just a couple of players. Makeshift right-back Zhang Lu had a shocker against Lifan, but worse was to come when Wang Changqing replaced him. Leaving aside any other motivations for Wang’s dreadful defensive negligence, it has to be noted that the #7 simply can’t defend any longer, leaving his man unmarked multiple times, eventually culminating in the second equalizer. Zhang remains on the treatment list — predicted to miss two months due to the you-couldn’t-make-it-up injury of catching his studs in Hongkou’s golf divots, so it may be worth seriously considering a 3-5-2 – in a squad not blessed with width, putting more players in central areas may at least mask some of Shenhua’s current weaknesses.
Preview & Reality Check
Whether Henrique returns or not is key to Shenhua’s chances here; they’re simply a different, and much less threatening, side without the chunky Brazilian forward. The need to rush the striker back does need to be balanced against the danger of him breaking down again – if left with no options beyond Cahill and Gao up top for the remainder of the season, Shenhua’s chances of overcoming their recent slump and continuing to threaten the ACL places will vanish to near-zero.
Hanghai is a famously hostile stadium to visit – throw in a recent home victory over Evergrande and Shenhua’s traditionally rotten away form adding to their current confidence malaise and identity crisis, and the omens are set for further disappointment here. The 2015 Shenhua side are still coming together and will remain unpredictable for a little time yet – while there’s a sneaky suspicion that they might just pull together and nick another unexpected win here, it’s difficult to seriously expect anything other than a home win after more shaky Shenhua defending and mostly-impotent attacking here. 2-1 Jianye and a swifter return to mid-table than Shenhua may have expected a couple of weeks ago.
Shenhua in 2015 according to North Terrace News:
P 5 W 3 D 0 L 2 GF 10 GA 5 GD +5 Pts 9
Shenhua in 2015 according to the CSL table:
P 5 W 3 D 1 L 1 GF 10 GA 6 GD +4 Pts 10
Steve Crooks is WEF’s Shanghai Shenhua correspondent. Check his North Terrace News column each week for the latest club developments.
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