The 2017 Chinese Super League finally ignited the war.

The focus of the first round of the game fell on Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium, with defending champion Guangzhou Hengda facing Beijing Chinatown.

Due to the schedule, Guangzhou Hengda had already played in the AFC Champions League and Super Cup before the league started and entered the game earlier, but playing three games in eight days is also a big test for Hengda players' physical fitness.

Head coach Scolari said in an interview with the media that it will be difficult to face Beijing Chinatown.

The new season has just changed hands, and the management, coaching staff and team lineup have undergone earth-shaking changes. Beijing Chinatown has long become the most eye-catching team in the new season of the Chinese Super League. Everyone is looking forward to seeing Van Gaal's debut in the Chinese Super League.

Gao Han personally formed the lineup, and Van Gaal and his coaching staff spent more than two months carefully creating six warm-up matches. Such a team has not only been eagerly anticipated by Beijing fans, but also has fans across the country looking forward to it.

Youngness is the biggest feature of this new Royal Guard.

After a group of veterans retired and sent away a group of players who did not meet Van Gaal's technical and tactical requirements, the current Beijing Chinatown is the youngest team in the Chinese Super League, and Van Gaal's best attitude is to train young players.

So what kind of answer will Van Gaal give to challenge the defending champion in the first round of the new season?

What will the final result of the battle between Van Gaal and Scolari, two world-class coaches?

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On the evening of March 5th, it is exactly 19 o'clock.

Gao Han appeared at Tianhe Stadium on time, accompanied by Lin Guoping, Begiristan and others.

The chairman had already reserved a seat for them in the stands, and Hengda's boss Xu also personally supervised the game at home.

Although the atmosphere inside and outside the court was tense, the relationship between the club's senior executives was very harmonious in the stands, especially after seeing Gao Han, Boss Xu was even more smiling.

"Brother, you don't take action, it's amazing when you take action."

Since he had had a lot of cooperation with Gao Han's Chinatown in youth training before, he was no stranger to each other. Boss Xu held Gao Han's hand in close contact, and a very good friend took him and sat down side by side.

"Forty million euros, Augusto's deal became our guide."

Gao Han honestly accepted the praise, "I heard that Barcelona wants to get Paulinho."

Boss Xu raised his eyebrows and looked at Gao Han in surprise, as if saying, do you know this?

"Old Xu, Paulinho's performance in the Brazilian national team is not as good as Augusto, but his performance in the club is worse than Augusto. Any player who has watched the Chinese Super League can clearly see his outstanding personal ability, so don't sell it at a low price."

A bright color flashed across Boss Xu's eyes. He didn't understand football, but when it comes to making money, it was his home court.

"What message have you received?" Boss Xu asked for advice.

"There are so many midfielders now. Barcelona wants instant combat power. Paulinho is one of the few options. If you miss the winter break, you must not miss the summer transfer period. They will be determined to win."

“How determined is it?”

Gao Han shook his head, "I don't know, but it should be similar to Augusto."

When Boss Xu heard this, he immediately slapped his thigh hard and laughed.

Forty million euros, my god.

Over the years, he has burned in Europe and South America. How much has he burned?

When will the La Liga giants also come to the Chinese Super League to grab people with checkbooks?

"Brother, don't worry, I will remember my kindness." Boss Xu said righteously.

Gao Han also laughed honestly and unceremoniously, "Why don't we get three points tonight?"

"How can that work?" Boss Xu couldn't sit still.

Everyone around him saw that they were joking and immediately burst into laughter.

"Our Guangzhou team has not lost to Beijing for three years. In the past six games, we have been unbeaten with four wins and two draws, scoring nine goals, conceding two goals, and blocking you in four games. How can you lose this advantage that you have finally obtained?" Boss Xu was not unhappy when he said this.

This is also a situation in the current Chinese Super League. Many teams are proud to defeat Beijing Chinatown. This is not only because of regional issues, but also because Beijing Chinatown is now backed by the La Liga giants. Beating such a team is itself big news.

"If you don't let us do it, then we will come and grab it ourselves." Gao Han also said proudly.

"Can you do it? Zhang Chengdong has left the company, and his strength has been lost heavily, right?"

Gao Han curled his lips, feeling helpless.

There have been many media rumors that Gao Han is very attractive to the players with the advantage of the national team head coach, but what about it?

Zhang Chengdong, who was originally trying hard to keep, eventually transferred to the team in his hometown of Hebei. Although he received more than 100 million yuan in transfer fees for Beijing Chinatown and broke the transfer record of domestic players, it still had a significant impact on the Beijing team.

"Don't worry, little brother, if the game scene is too ugly, I will tell them to let them play leisurely."

Seeing that Gao Han's face was not very good, Boss Xu took the opportunity to take the blame.

Everyone around them was joking again.

He said this, but in fact, his relationship with Gao Han was much closer with this joke.

At their level, it is difficult to affect them if a game or even a championship.

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Van Gaal still had a four-three-three formation in the first game of the Chinese Super League.

The goalkeeper is Yang Zhi, and the defense is Jiang Zhipeng, Lucas Verisimo, Gao Junyi and Deng Hanwen, He Chao behind the midfield, Artur and Zhang Xizhe are relatively ahead, Tang Shi on the left side of the front court, Richarlison on the middle, and Wei Shihao on the right.

This should be considered a relatively surprising starting lineup, mainly concentrated in three places, that is, the central defender Gao Jun first partnered with Verisimo to start, and young players He Chao and Tang Shi both start, which is really surprising.

If it were according to the European League standards, He Chao, Gao Zhunyi, Tang Shi, Wei Shihao and others were all in their early twenties, and it should not be surprising to start, but in the Chinese Super League, they did not get many opportunities. No one expected that Van Gaal would boldly arrange for them to play together.

How has the team been working together in the past two months? Has Van Gaal instilled his ideas into the players? Can players appreciate Van Gaal's technical and tactical concepts and intentions?

Gao Han was not unfamiliar with concern. Even though he had specially arranged a Chinese coach who had experienced and had been internship in Madrid Chinatown for many years to serve as Van Gaal's assistant, who was responsible for Van Gaal's translation and communication between the coaching staff and the players, he was still somewhat unsure.

On the other hand, Guangzhou Hengda sent all the main players, goalkeeper Zeng Cheng returned, defense line was Li Xuepeng, Feng Xiaoting, Mei Fang and Zhang Linfan, double midfielder Paulinho and Zheng Zhi, front court Alan, Goulart and Huang Baiwen, and single forward was Gao Lin.

It is not difficult to see from the arrangement of troops on both sides that they are determined to win this game.

The Football Association also attaches great importance to this game and specially arranged for the international referee group hired from Europe to take the whistle.

This is also Gao Han’s original proposal to the Football Association. On the one hand, he was to increase efforts to cultivate excellent referees from his country, and on the other hand, he hired professional referee teams from abroad to hold whistle and teach.

The purpose of this is to ensure the viewing of the Chinese Super League, and to improve the law enforcement level of local referees as soon as possible.

With the referee's whistle, the first round of the Chinese Super League focus battle officially kicked off.

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As soon as the whistle sounded, Gao Han watched the game with concentration like all the fans.

But no one expected that the changes Van Gaal brought to Beijing Chinatown would be so huge that he would surprise all fans at the beginning of the game.

Less than a minute into the opening game, He Chao passed the ball, Artur passed the ball to the left, Jiang Zhipeng made a pass, Tang Shi received the ball and broke through Zhang Linfan and passed it horizontally into the penalty area. Richarlison rushed over from the penalty spot to catch the ball, then drifted past Mei Fang, and scored directly with a low shot, opening the first record for Beijing Chinatown, one-to-zero!

There was an uproar at the scene.

There are even many Guangzhou fans who haven't even found their seats, but they didn't expect that they had already scored goals in the stadium.

Beijing Chinatown's opening attack created murderous intent in the first attempt.

This is mainly because Hengda players are somewhat arrogant. When passing the ball at Beijing Chinatown, Paulinho did not retreat to defend immediately. Zhang Linfan was also a little arrogant when guarding Tang Shishi, and blindly robbed, causing the loss of position.

But no matter what, Beijing Chinatown scored the first shot at the opening, and the players' continuous passing and cooperation before the goal, the sudden accelerated offensive rhythm was eye-catching.

After leading with one goal, Hengda, who played at home, still failed to enter the game, and the rhythm was still firmly controlled by Beijing China City. This team, contrary to the sluggishness and blindness of last season, began to become more enthusiastic, especially the desire to press and press and press in the midfield was very strong. After obtaining the ball, they immediately launched a counterattack and attack quickly.

Soon, Artur used a long shot to force Zeng Cheng to fly to save the risk, and then Zhang Xizhe also used a wonderful shot from the front of the penalty area to almost break through Hengda's goal, but unfortunately it was blocked by the crossbar.

The continuous offensive made Hengda's goal full of dangers.

As the saying goes, an expert looks at the tricks, while an outsider watches the fun.

Boss Xu was dumbfounded, and Gao Han was also impressed.

The tradition of Beijing team is to pass and receive the ball and penetrate the advancement. Van Gaal's arrival further brought high-pressure and rapid offensive and defensive conversions. He also instilled in the sense of position in the players, allowing them to effectively maintain the overall formation on the court, while also activate the offensive vitality of the frontcourt.

It can be seen that the frontcourt is based on Richarlison's tactics. The Brazilian striker has a lot of room for movement, and he can move freely in the three lines in the left, center and right. This is in line with his very comprehensive technical characteristics and also gives full play to his outstanding personal abilities.

Although he is thin, he has strong physical ability to fight and is fast. He can hold the ball and attack, cooperate with his teammates, and work alone by himself. His characteristics can be fully demonstrated.

There is also Artur in the same situation. Gao Han originally thought that Van Gaal would let him delay the back, but unexpectedly arranged for him to move forward and let young general He Chao delay the back. This has to be said to be quite surprising.

But judging from the performance on the court, the three midfielders Artur, Zhang Xizhe and He Chao performed well, and they cooperated well, which was a trend of replicating the configuration of Barcelona's three midfielders.

This surprised Gao Han, but he was even more happy.
Chapter completed!