The 31st round of the Chinese Super League continued to be contested on December 15, with Beijing Guoan defeating Changchun Yatai 3-0 to record two consecutive victories.
In the final round of the Chinese Super League, Beijing Guoan, who visited Haikou, beat Hebei 4-0 to get out of the doldrums of two consecutive losses. Affected by the epidemic, the Guoan team, which should have returned to Rizhao to play at home in this round, remained in Haikou. This change allowed the team to relax and wait for work. Coach Stanley introduced: "The training and preparations were good. Changchun Yatai brought us a lot of trouble in the first round of games, which requires us to pay more attention to our opponents."
Changchun Yatai in the first round of exchanges to Guoan brought to Guoan brought a lot of trouble. As a result of a number of first-team discomfort, Yatai according to the Chinese Football Association before the emergency release of "each Chinese super clubs can make up the u21 players to participate in the league" is participating in the policy of u21 league youth ladder to complete the make-up report. A few days ago, Yatai youth army from Zhangzhou district rushed to Haikou, on behalf of the team to participate in the Chinese Super League with Beijing Guoan.
According to the starting list, there were only two veterans in Yatai's starting lineup, Dong Honglin and Zhang Li, while the oldest of the other nine was 21 years old, and there were three young players who were 18 years old. Guoan, basically the main team, dominated the game from the start. Although Wang Ziming's goal in the first three minutes was ruled out, he broke the deadlock in the 31st minute when he received an assist from Jiang Xiangyou. Prince Ming scored two goals in the 51st minute after Cao Yongjing issued an assist. Zhang Yuning scored Kang Xiangyou's penalty kick in the 63rd minute to collect his 18th goal of the season and help make it 3-0.
After the match Guoan head coach Stanley was the first to recognize the performance of the opposing team's young players, "Changchun's young players performed well against a better opponent than themselves, which will be a valuable experience for their career." For this particular game, Stanley emphasized patience to his disciples, "We were a little anxious in the first half, and it's normal to make mistakes. Therefore, I asked everyone to be patient at halftime and we need to do better in the second half."
Now that Beijing Guoan is in the upper-middle of the table, with no hope of competing for the title and no worries about relegation, the team's head coach reiterated the goal of his efforts, "We have to fight for a win in every game and get as good a result as possible, and at the same time I'll think about giving more opportunities to the young players to show what they can do."
