Beijing Guoan, Shandong Taishan and Zhejiang FC ranked fourth to sixth and all lost in the 20th round. This situation was not expected by the outside world before, so I hope these three teams can recover their form as soon as possible.
Meizhou Hakka, Qingdao West Coast, Cangzhou Lions and Nantong Zhiyun also suffered losses after the standings, and the relegation situation remains unclear.
The difference in the standings is already obvious: besides the first group of Shanghai Harbor and Shanghai Shenhua, and the relegation group of Meizhou Hakka, Qingdao West Coast, Cangzhou Lions and Nantong Zhiyun, the other 10 teams are spread out in terms of points. It is worth noting that Changchun Yatai's 12th place scored 21 points, four and seven points ahead of the four teams behind it, a clear advantage; Qingdao Hainiu accumulated 22 points, Wuhan Sanzhen accumulated 23 points, and Shenzhen Xinpengcheng accumulated 24 points, so the pressure of relegation will not be too great.
There were a total of 27 goals in this round, and there were a lot of beautiful goals. For example, Shanghai Port had three great long range goals from Matthews Yusa, Xu Xin and Oscar. There were also two amazing goals in this round. Yang Yiming scored a header with an extremely difficult backward movement and Yang Zexiang's downward lying shot was extremely clever. There were also two more goals. Edu Garcia scored in the 78th minute to kill Beijing Guoan and Tan Long scored in the 88th minute to kill Cangzhou Lions. Their two goals were valuable for the team, especially Tan Long's goal that got Changchun Yatai off the hook for a while.
After his hat-trick in the 17th round of the Chinese Super League, Wu Lei used to lead the scorer's list with 19 goals. At that time, his teammate Gustavo only had 11 goals; however, in the last three rounds, although Wu Lei had 4 goals and 23 goals, Gustavo scored 7 goals in one breath with a hat-trick and two second goals, increasing the number of goals from 11 to 18. He is now five goals behind Wu Lei, and the battle for the Golden Boot in the 2024 season seems to be in doubt again.
However, Wu Lei's great achievement in the last three rounds has seen him move to second place on the assists list. The last player to have three consecutive successful passing rounds would date back to the 2015 season with Luo Guofu.
