On the evening of August 11th, Beijing time, the first stage of the 2021 Chinese Super League in the Guangzhou Division came to an end. Four teams from Shandong Taishan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Guangzhou City entered the next stage of the championship. The Henan Songshan Longmen, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics, Cangzhou Lions and Qingdao teams entered the relegation group. Judging from the state of the teams in the first stage, the Taishan team is currently the most promising team to compete for the championship, while the Qingdao team is generally considered to be in the relegation play-off.
Judging from the first stage of the game, the Taishan team is undoubtedly the best team in the entire Super League. Except for the loss to the Guangzhou team, the rest of the games remained unbeaten, and the final points ranked first in the entire Super League, and they obtained the “privilege” of designating the venue of the championship group. Not only that, the 33 points of the Taishan team also gave them an advantage in points after entering the championship group, and also gave them a psychological advantage.
This season is the first time that Taishan coach Hao Wei has led the team to complete preparations from the preparation period. Although the results of the warm-up match were not ideal, the Taishan team quickly entered the state after the start of the Super League. The start was a two-game winning streak, although there were ups and downs in the middle, but since the loss to the Guangzhou team, the Taishan team has completely entered the state, a wave of 5-game winning streak ended perfectly, allowing the outside world to witness their solid bench depth. Gerdes and Moises did not return to the team, Leonardo was in poor condition, Hao Junmin transferred midway, Jin Jingdao prepared for the national team to recover early, etc., this series of personnel problems activated Yi Qi Tianyu instead. A group of bench players headed by Han Rongze and Delgado. Winning the top spot in the first stage is also inseparable from these players.
In the final 14 games, the Taishan team won 10 games, 3 draws and 1 loss. They scored 30 goals and only conceded 10 goals. They were the second most scoring team in the Guangzhou Division and the team that conceded the least. The foreign aid central defender Judson introduced during the second transfer period made the team’s defense more stable. In addition, Moises has ended the isolation and can return to the team in the next stage of the game. At present, the Taishan team has begun to take shape.
Guangzhou is getting better, Mesozoic + naturalized players entering the state
After talking about the Taishan team, I have to say another title contender, Guangzhou team. Their performance at the beginning of the season was not ideal, starting with a record of 1 draw and 1 loss. However, as the game deepened, Cannavaro found the direction of the team. In the game, players from the Mesozoic era were gradually activated, such as Gao Zhunyi, Yang Liyu, Yan Dinghao and others played very well. On the other hand, Cannavaro also helped the naturalized players to regain their form. Exxon not only led the scorer list with 11 goals in the first stage, but also surpassed Li Jinyu and crowned the historical top scorer of the Chinese Super League. Luo Guofu found his second spring in a new position through weight loss, and Gao Lat gradually integrated into the Cashuai system. The entire Guangzhou team began to get on track after the “ultra-long” interval in the league.
If the Taishan team finally chooses to compete in the championship group in Guangzhou, then the Guangzhou team will increase the “home advantage” in addition to the advantage in championship experience. This is even more positive for the Guangzhou team, which also increases the possibility of the Guangzhou team regaining the trophy of the Super League.
Frustrations are different, Shenzhen, Guangzhou City, Henan meets different circumstances
With a smooth team, naturally there will be a frustrated team. After a large amount of investment, the Shenzhen team has now won the third place, which is not inferior. There is little hope for the championship, and it is not a turn to relegation. The older Shenzhen team did not play well in the final stage of the first stage. If it weren’t for Wang Yongpo to kill the savior in the last game, the Shenzhen team would end without winning in 4 rounds. It is worth noting that this one lost. There were relegation teams like the Cangzhou Lions in 3 games.
Guangzhou City and Henan team staged a “fight for life and death” in the final round. Guangzhou City went through a roller coaster-style closing game from a penalty kick, falling behind 0-1 to equalizing the score, and finally thrilled to defend fourth place and enter the championship group. Entering the championship group in a state like Guangzhou City can only be hovering at the “bottom of the list”. The most frustrated was the Henan team. Originally, as long as they held a 1-0 score in the last 25 minutes, they could counterattack into the top four, but in the end they unfortunately missed the chance to enter the championship group.
Break the losing streak!Qingdao all the way down to become the worst team
Unlike Shandong Taishan, the big brother of the same province, which dominated the Guangzhou division, the Qingdao team started with a relatively good record of 1 win and 1 tie, and went all the way down. Finally, the first stage of the game ended with a 9-game losing streak with the longest losing streak in the Super League. . The losing streak created by the Qingdao team has both natural disasters and more man-made disasters: the team was exposed to arrears of wages, and foreign aid left the team due to arrears during the intermittent period. Although Vukovic finally tried to save Vukovic, it still lost waves. Two foreign aids, Povic and Urvestad.
In addition, the head coach Wu Jingui always likes to carry out the rotation of “Tian Ji horse racing” in the game, dispatching a quasi-substitute lineup to the strong team, and do his best to dispatch the main force for several relegated competitors. However, when the substitutes and strong teams are losing by big scores, this also affects the main team’s mentality when competing with competitors, and there are often accidents in such well-matched games: for example, Alessandrini’s injury just started. Leaving the field and so on, further weakened his originally not strong strength. In addition, the Qingdao team members are too old, and there have been 9 players over 31 years old in the starting lineup. All these have given Qingdao team a more adequate reason to become a “deputy monitor”.
In comparison, it is precisely because of the poor performance of the Qingdao team that the other two Chongqing Liangjiang Sports and Cangzhou Lions who have been stable in the relegation group have the opportunity to breathe and the right to breathe. The Chongqing team, which is also underpaid, was rumored to “retire” every time before going to the competition area, but they eventually scored 11 points in the first stage. Especially the 4-0 victory over Guangzhou City, let the outside world see their hard work.
Three days a match is too dense, the international team’s consecutive injuries test Li Tie
As the national football team successfully qualified in the top 40 of the world preliminaries, the isolation time for the players to return to their country and the arrangement of the next top 12 matches have caused trouble for the Super League this season. In the case of no alternative, after the first stage of the rematch, the league was changed to a three-day match, which greatly exceeded the physical ability of the players. At the same time, this also tested the thickness of each team’s lineup. Teams like Taishan and Guangzhou with a small difference in the strength of the benches can naturally maintain their results in the rotation, while other teams are not.
The 3 days 1 game forced all teams to rotate regardless of their strength. Even so, the players still cannot bear such a dense schedule, and injuries are inevitable. If the international team suffers an injury, the national team coach Li Tie is the least willing to see it. By the way, two international footballers in the Guangzhou Division have suffered injuries. Tang Miao has been determined to miss the next World Cup preliminaries due to surgery. And Jin Jingdao chose to leave the Guangzhou competition area ahead of schedule for the world preliminaries to treat his injuries. Li Tie is also tested by the national team’s injuries.
From the perspective of the entire first stage, the teams that finally entered the championship and relegation groups from the Guangzhou Division were not particularly unexpected. Next, for each team, there is an opportunity for adjustment. Only by better grasping it, can the next stage of the game play better. (Yang Xixi)Return to Sohu to see more
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