Hello everyone, today is September 11, 2024, let's take a look at the content of today's and yesterday's Hanzu Evening News.
1. Although the away team won but was not happy, Hong Mingfu's tactical transformation was questioned again
2. A 0-0 draw with archrival Australia gave Shen Tailong a full start
3. The Black Magpie finally welcomes the new leader, and Quan Qingjun will lead the team to complete the season tasks
Let's take a look at the details of each news
Although the away win was not happy, Hong Mingfu's tactical transformation was questioned again
On the evening of September 10, local time in Oman, the second round of Group B of the third phase of the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup was staged in Muscat. Oman, who suffered defeat in their first game, hosted Korea, who drew their first game against Palestine, and although the two sides were tied 1-1 at half-time, Oman still dropped back-to-back points in the final stage in the second half, swallowing the bitter fruit of consecutive defeats 1-3 and finishing first in Group B.
Of course, the protagonist of our news cannot be Oman, but the Korea team. The reason why the game is described as Oman's "home team tone" is because Korea's game last night was a complete manifestation of individual heroism, with Son Heung-min scoring three goals with two passes and one shot, including a "controversial" penalty that was not awarded. And coach Hong Mingfu's tactical transformation was also questioned by the outside world after the game.
Originally, Hong Myung-bo's plan was to replicate the tactics of the Ulsan period, and let the defensive midfielders play "fake central defenders", so that when attacking, he retreated to the central defender position to form three central defenders, and the two full-backs would become wingers, and the formation would be changed to 316 tactics in an instant. Even when retreating, the formation is a 415 that does not fall behind. But it is clear that Hong Mingfu's players are not at all comfortable with such changes, and the full-backs make frequent mistakes, and the opponent seizes the opportunity to play a counter-attack. If it weren't for the opponent's poor shooting skills, Korea's goal would have been pierced more than once.
Of course, this is not to say that Hwang Hee-chan, Son Heung-min, Lee Gang-in and Zhu Min-kui did not work hard, but precisely because they worked too hard and did not want to lose, they did not fully implement Hong Myung-bo's tactics. In fact, the biggest problem of the Korea team is the "up and down" ability of the fullbacks, Hong Myung-bo's tactics are very advanced, but without good wingbacks as support, the reaction force of this set of tactics is great.
Take yesterday's second half of the game as an example, after Xue Yingyou was beaten by the opponent, Hong Mingfu used Huang Wenji to remove him, and as a result, Huang Wenji repeatedly appeared with Li Gangren "grabbing the ball", and Huang Wenji's cross was too outrageous, coupled with the extremely poor confrontation, it can be said that it is another failure of Hong Mingfu's employment.
In fact, in Korea, Hong Myung-bo's tactical hidden dangers are already obvious, Gwangju FC's Lee Jung-hyo is using Hong Myung-bo's tactical loophole, frequently using wingers to break through the opponent's full-backs, and using the midfield's interception ability to quickly deliver opportunities to the front, so that the frontcourt can easily face Kim Young-kwon and others who have no time to defend. Although mistakes are allowed in the World Preliminary Tournament, if the full-back problem cannot be solved and the tactical situation is not compensated, then even if Hong Myung-bok leads the team to the United States, Canada and Mexico, what will be the development of Korea football?
When Son Heung-min is getting old, do you still expect a 30+N veteran to play the whole game to save the team in the future? In fact, in a sense, the victory of the Korea team is not the victory of Hong Myung-bo, nor the victory of the team, but the victory of Son Heung-min alone! For the Korea men's football team, last night's victory was somewhat "black humor".
A 0-0 draw with arch-rivals Australia gave Shen Tailong a full start
Since the start of the World Preliminaries, people can't help but like to compare Shen Tailong and Hong Mingfu, indeed, although these two are contemporaries, their abilities are much worse. Although Hong Mingfu led the team to 1 win and 1 draw, although Shen Tailong was 2 draws, but the quality of the opponent was completely different, Shen Tailong drew Saudi Arabia away, and drew Australia last night at home, which has been touted as a god by Indonesian fans! Throughout the game, Indonesia attacked very fiercely in the opening game, and even had the possibility of scoring first, but Australia goalkeeper Matthew · Ryan saved the opponent's must-have goal.
In the second half, the Indonesian team held on to the opponent's offensive and finally held on to a 0-0 draw. Although many of Indonesia's players are naturalized players, their strength is much worse than that of Korea, so isn't it the credit of Shin Tai Long that such a team can draw Australia as well as Korea? For the future of Indonesian football, there is more to look forward to in October.
The Black Magpie finally welcomes the new leader, and Jeon Kyung-jun will lead the team to complete the season tasks
Finally, let's look at the news of the K2 League, this weekend, the K-League will be rekindled, and Seongnam FC, which has lost its manager, has also found a new coach before this week's league, he is the 51-year-old Jeon Kyung-joon. Jeon Kyung-joon has worked in the Korea Football Technical Committee and served as an assistant coach at all levels of Korea's national brands, but he is known to Korea fans because he once coached Jeonnam Cheonryong to win the FA Cup in the 2021 season, which is also the first K2 league team in Korea football history to win the FA Cup. Since 2019, Jeon Kyung Joon has led Jeonnam Tianlong for 4 seasons, and Jeonnam Tianlong has almost completed the upgrade step by step. However, it was precisely because of the failure of the upgrade that Jeon Kyung-joon lost Jeonnam's handsome seal. This time to return to the K2 stage, leading the league's bottom-ranked Seongnam FC to regroup, in fact, it is not easy, after all, today's Seongnam hole cards are much worse than Jeonnam, good luck to him.
(Editor-in-charge: Korea Football Research Association)
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