In the past two seasons, Beijing Guoan team has performed poorly in the league. In addition to the serious aging of the team's personnel, with players of playing age not being reused and young players from the ladder unable to reach the top, this also has a lot to do with the coach's lack of coaching ability.
At the beginning of coaching Guoan, Xie Feng and Stanley both led the team to perform quite well for a period of time. However, as the league progresses gradually, Guoan's tactical play has been familiarized by the opponents, some shortcomings in the position can not be compensated for, and the team's performance has also seen ups and downs.
Ricardo Soares, the new head coach invited by Guiao this summer, has also been questioned by many fans after joining the team. The Portuguese coach has been coaching in the Portuguese Super League for many years, but has spent most of his time leading relegated teams. That's why he specializes in tactical play and is the best option for relegated teams to counterattack defensively.
For Guoan, who has been playing pass-control for many years, it is difficult to adapt to this tactic of abandoning the midfield and passing directly from the back to the forwards in a short time, which is one of the reasons why Suarez has been criticized by fans.
Naturally, Suarez is not completely useless, at least after he joined Guoan, he managed to activate many young players in the team. Fang Hao, Nai Bijiang and Jiang Wenhao have become Guoan's main rotation players, while Yan Yu and Duan Dezhi have also gained a lot of valuable playing time this season.
With the rapid growth of a number of young players, some of Guoan's veterans have faded out of the team's starting lineup and have been abandoned by Suarez. Old captain Yu Dabao is a very typical example.
Yu Dabao, who joined Guoan in 2014, has now played for the team for almost 10 seasons, scoring 25 goals and assisting 18 times in various games. At the time, Yu Dabao was a red-hot member of the national soccer team. He had broken through the gates of Iraq and South Korea in the Asian Cup and World Cup preliminaries, helping the national soccer team through the danger many times.
As a result, Yu Dabao is also favored by the current national soccer team and Evergrande coach Lippi. After Dalian Albin was relegated, he wanted to poach him to Guangzhou Evergrande. However, Yu Dabao rejected Lippi and chose to join Beijing Guoan.
Yu Dabao has been an absolute mainstay of Guoan for the past nine seasons. Even though he was not physical enough to play as a main striker, after being converted to a center back by then Guoan manager Schmidt, Yu once again became a central player in the Guoan backline.
However, Yu Dabao was far less effective in the backline than the forwards, and was questioned by many Guoan fans because he was not a well-trained defender. This season, Yu Dabao is back in the forward line. When Suarez first arrived on the team, he made Yu Dabao the main center forward of Guoan.
However, the 35-year-old clearly couldn't do it. His performance on the pitch didn't live up to Suarez's expectations, and instead Prince Ming was used to play as the starting striker. However, after foreign striker Fabio joined Guoan, Yu Dabao completely lost his place in the team. Since the 17th round of the league at home against Wuhan Sanzhen, Yu Dabao has not played in five rounds of the league and was completely abandoned by Suarez.
Although Yu Dabao still has more than a year left on his contract with Guoan, he can't get a foothold in the team now, so he should consider leaving Guoan to join another team next season. In the end, it should be a wise choice for him to fall back to Qingdao and join his hometown team Qingdao Hainiu...
