Chapter 122

The first round of the competition against Nagoya whale 8 ended on September 2, followed by the second round on September 6. Back at home in Tokyo, relying on the interests of the landlords and their own away goal advantage, but also a lot of calm, this round of competition, they are mainly defensive, did not want to chase.

Their choice is quite right, in the second round of competition, Nagoya whale eight really let them out in a cold sweat. In the game, whale eight's high center Joshua Kennedy played a lot better than the last one.

The Australian international, who has played less than 10 games in the J League, doesn't cooperate well with his teammates. His tactics are not suitable for Nagoya whale eight and can't fit into the offensive system. For this reason, the team has to defend and fight back. But even so, once the player broke out, it was still very terrible.

In this round. He played a very incredible power. Tokyo's guard group is not weak. Yoshiko Kono is the team's Japanese backup center back, and Bruno is a Brazilian guard with strong confrontation ability. However, the two of them are powerless to stop this powerful guy. Bruno, 32, and his height of more than 1.8 meters, are extremely physical in front of his opponent of 1.94 meters. Kennedy forced through the east side again and again Beijing's defense, though lacking support, finally scored a goal for Nagoya Jingba.

Fortunately, there was a slight improvement in the attack of Tokyo at home. With a counterattack goal of cabore, they also did not make a blank. Tokyo was lucky enough to beat Nagoya whale eight 1-0 away, 1-1 at home and 2-1 to advance to the final.

Just after the game, Tokyo can't help but have a palpitation: Kennedy is really a strong player. That's because he just transferred in the summer, and his cooperation with Nagoya is not good, and his tactical system doesn't match, so Nagoya has to choose defensive counterattack to fight against Tokyo. If you give him time to integrate into Nagoya, it will be an unimaginable nightmare for Tokyo.

Fortunately, Tokyo didn't let that happen.

Getting to the final of the cup is a great thing to celebrate for Tokyo, but it's not necessarily for others. Even if Tokyo is the winner, Kennedy is still the focus of media discussion after the game. Joshua Kennedy's excellent performance against Tokyo made people realize that this forward may be a new terrorist threat to the J-League. Besides Lucas and caboret, it seems that another powerful striker has parachuted to the J-League. This time, his team is Nagoya whale eight.

Now the eight whales have Osaki Masako and Yoshida maye, plus a Kennedy, they find a better foreign aid midfield, which is enough to make their team into the ranks of the championship level. The introduction is a big event to change the pattern of the league. The arrival of Kennedy means that the competition in the League will be more intense next season.

Unfortunately, he lost to Tokyo. Nagoya has nothing to do with the championship at least this year. Otherwise, a powerful striker will be born and win a championship for Nagoya. Such a parachute can be regarded as dramatic.

For a moment, the media were discussing his business, and another high center was also mentioned: Gao shunyao, who also scored an away goal in the semi-final, was also compared with Kennedy.

There are many high centers in J League. Kennedy is a typical high center player. Hafner and Toyota Yangping are also typical high center players. For J League, which is generally lack of physical fitness, having a strong player stirring in front is more conducive to the stability of their pass and control tactics, which everyone knows. And which of these centers is the best, people are also very concerned about.

In this time's high center confrontation, Kennedy played better than Gao shunyao, but Gao shunyao won the game. This also leads to a question: which high center is the strongest in Japan?

"Although Joshua Kennedy has played less than ten games, his absolute strength is enough to show his ability. What he lacks is the running in with his teammates. He has not been able to combine with his teammates, which is the biggest reason why he lost to Tokyo

In the analysis of the media, it is generally believed that Kennedy's strength is superior to others. Even Gao shunyao has to be convinced that Australian international players are really unique. Compared with Asian players, Australian players are much better at physical confrontation. Gao shunyao is not a problem to bully the Japanese international by his physical advantage, but he still knows his own shortcomings by comparison with Kennedy.

However, compared with other players, Gao shunyao has no fear. For example, when the media compare him with Toyoda Yangping in Kyoto, Gao shunyao doesn't like him so much.

If we only talk about the pure dribbling technique, the Japanese Drogba is actually better than Gao shunyao - after all, he is a player growing up under the Japanese league system, and his technical level is guaranteed. But when it comes to comprehensive strength, compared with Gao shunyao, he does not have so many advantages. Because there is a big physical gap between him and Gao shunyao.This gap is not just a problem that he is 4cm shorter than Gao shunyao and 8kg lighter. To a large extent, he is inferior to Gao shunyao in any aspect. Bounce, speed, agility, coordination, balance, flexibility, even physical strength and reaction speed to the game, he is all a little worse.

These differences are insignificant if any one of them is taken out alone. But on the whole, there is a big gap. Gao shunyao's technique should be regarded as the roughest one in the J League now, but relying on his physical advantages and increasing awareness of running position, Gao shunyao is playing better and better, while Toyoda Yangping's comprehensive strength is much worse.

After all, technology and consciousness can be improved. Once the physical condition is set, it will be difficult to improve. Relying on his own physical condition, Gao shunyao can also guarantee that even if he is not as good as those European and American foreign aid, he is more fearless than any player in Asia.

Moreover, this is not his biggest advantage. The most important thing is that Gao shunyao is willing to sacrifice for the team.

High center on the court, has a variety of significance, some high center is used to destroy the city to pull the stronghold of the weapon, they exist on the court, is to rely on their own deterrence to break the door of the other side. And some high center, more is to play a fulcrum role. What they need to do is to cooperate with their teammates and help them kill all sides. Sometimes, better players don't necessarily lead to better attacks, and appropriate sacrifices must exist.

The most obvious example is England: Owen is a good striker, shearer is also a good striker, but Owen and shearer's partner, always no spark. But in Liverpool, Owen is surrounded by Heskey, and their match is much better. This is not because Heskey is better than shearer, but because Heskey knows how to sacrifice.

More service for teammates, help teammates score, help teammates play better, only do these, can be considered a good player.

That's what Gao shunyao did. That's why he was able to help Tokyo reach the Carling Cup final. And Tokyo's results, also improved his value, J League team, now also recognized his talent, gave him more affirmation.

That's how players and teams achieve each other. Players like Gao shunyao can only highlight their significance in the collective.

People are after Kennedy. It's someone else's business. The finals are just around the corner, and Tokyo is too lazy to take care of them. In fact, even in the next league, they lost to Osaka steel bar, they are also lazy to pay attention to. Being able to reach the final of the League Cup means that they are likely to win the first championship since the establishment of the Tokyo football team. In the face of such things, losing to Gamba is not a big deal.

Moreover, even if they lose this game, Tokyo's pressure is not great: after losing the game against Gamba, they basically have no strong opponents in the league. Except Hiroshima Mitsuki, Kawasaki forward and Nagoya Jingba, they are not afraid of other opponents. So far, Tokyo has only lost seven games in the league. If the rest of the games play well, it's difficult to win the championship, but if you just want to get the top four, it's not a big problem.

Of course, this time need to be careful is the sewer capsize, lost to those weak brigade. For example, in the first half of the season, they accidentally lost to Chiba Shiyuan, which is a typical careless loss of Jingzhou. However, Tokyo is not the first half of the season after all, Hirayama is still playing the main time, such a loss is not so easy to happen.

In the following competition, facing Chiba shihara, Tokyo easily won the competition. Opponents have been at the bottom of the table, which is quite different from the top three contenders in the league like Tokyo. Moreover, Tokyo still remembers the depression of losing to them in the first half of the season. This game is also open for revenge.

Unfortunately, Chiba shihara, because the first half of the season in Tokyo won three points, making this game suffered a bloody wash. Caboret scored two goals, Gao shunyao scored one and Ishikawa Zhihong scored one from penalty. A 4-0 game in Tokyo proved its strength and washed away the shame of losing to the opponent.

It's another victory and Tokyo is moving steadily towards the top three of the league. However, no one thought that an accident prevented them from winning in a row.

In the first half of the season, Tokyo replaced Gao shunyao with this team, making them reverse the game and win Hiroshima. But this time, things have changed.

This time, Tokyo won the goal first, but then came Tokyo's back, Yokohama, who was injured in the game. His injury disrupted the deployment of Tokyo and made Tokyo only draw in this game.

The draw is not the worst news that Tokyo received: after the game, a worse news came to them: yoshihei Kusama was injured a lot, his muscle was strained, and he needed to be injured for four weeks - that is to say, he was basically unable to participate in the whole October game.