Article source: Sports Weekly
Go all out on the field. This is the request that the Guangzhou team put forward to the young players who are about to face Malaysia’s eighth champion Johor Bahru, and it is also the club’s minimum goal for this young team in this AFC Champions League group stage. When the Guangzhou team, which appeared in the AFC Champions League, has no hope of winning the championship, and even a victory has become out of reach, the process and details of the 90-minute game, the attitude of young players to the game, and what they can learn from Asia What they have learned from their opponents is what they are most worthy of summarizing after the game.
Compared with the previously announced 30-person pre-registration list, the Guangzhou team that accompanied the team to Malaysia has a lot of personnel adjustments. 7 people including Zhou Pinxi, Luo Junhan, Wang Mu, Zhang Zhihao, Chen Guanxuan, Li Xuecheng and Wang Pengda were removed, and He Liqing, Fan Ruiwei, Wang Tianqing, Lu Shihao, Yang Xin, Ye Guochen and Guan Haojin were added to the team. In addition, Zhang Jianzhi, Yang Shifu, Li Dongcheng, Liang Guanhong and other 4 people on the 30-man list missed the AFC Champions League group stage due to injuries.
Among the 7 players added this time, the most interesting ones are undoubtedly Guan Haojin, 26, Yang Xin, 28, and Ye Guochen, 25. The three big brothers joined in the past few seasons in the three towns of Wuhan successively. , Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei and other team leased striker Ye Guochen will shoulder the heavy responsibility of helping the team to conquer the city. This means that the Guangzhou team has a veteran in the front, middle and rear to assist the team, and the three will also become the central axis of the team’s performance in the AFC Champions League. The club also hopes that this will help the team. The old-fashioned approach can help young players grow through the rare opportunity to train in continental competitions. Although Wang Tianqing, a 21-year-old left-back, has not yet had the chance to make his Chinese Super League debut, he has represented Guangzhou in the AFC Champions League and the FA Cup many times in the past two seasons. An important pawn that dominates the team’s left-sided offense and defense in the championship group stage.
In terms of paper strength, the Guangzhou team has improved from a year ago, but the opponents they face this year are also not to be underestimated. In the same group as Kawasaki Frontale, who won the J League in 5 years and 4 years, Ulsan Hyundai, the 2020 AFC Champion, and Johor Johor Bahru, the host, the eighth champion of the Malaysian League. Hong Kong Kitchee wants to be even worse.
Johor Bahru, which has participated in the AFC Champions League group stage for the fourth consecutive year and has been blessed by the host’s halo this year, still aims to achieve the first group stage, “We are confident, we must dare to dream, and dreams will not let you lose anything. Johor Bahru’s Mexican head coach Moura said, “Although we may be a small team, we have to face an Asian giant-like opponent, but I believe we have the ability to make history.” In the Malaysian League, Johor Johor Bahru, which is striving for 9 consecutive championships, has a smooth start, scoring 12 goals in 4 games and only conceding 1 goal to lead the leaderboard, which also makes Moura full of confidence in the team’s good start in the AFC Champions League group stage, “We will start from Having prepared a lot for this before the start of the season and having a great start to the league, I am confident that the team will perform well and that my players will fight until the end.”
Pan Yonghe, head coach of the Guangzhou team who was led by “Fuzheng” in the AFC Champions League this year, said,The goal of the team is to strive for a better performance than last season, so that young players can be trained and improved through high-level competitions such as the AFC Champions League, and grow up as soon as possible. “Johor Bahru is a strong team, but we are not afraid of them. .”
However, from the hottest title contenders in previous years to the current focus on training newcomers, the AFC does not have much expectation for the Guangzhou team, which has continuously teamed up with young players to play in the AFC Champions League, even if it fails to end the losing streak. , If you can score more goals and concede less goals, it can be regarded as an improvement over the 2021 season.Return to Sohu, see more
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