Guangzhou City ended the season on the 4th at Yuexiushan Stadium in Guangzhou
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In the final match of the league, the club beat Hebei 2-1 to finish seventh in the league, which is also the club's best record in the past four seasons. Song Wenjie, a 31-year-old veteran, scored two goals in the match, especially a world wave that stunned the audience.
This game is actually a battle for the seventh and eighth place in the league, the ranking is relatively chicken ribs, both teams have no desire to lighten up, but instead play a more relaxed and open. In response to the injury situation, both teams made adjustments, Chen Zhizhao with an injury, replacing the previous thigh strain Li Tixiang into the starting lineup, three u23 players to get a chance to play, in addition to the goalkeeper Han Pengfei, Wang Huapeng debut and played the whole game, 18-year-old Wen Yongjun again half-time substitutes.
Hebei also had a number of young players get a chance to play, and 19-year-old Zhang Yu also made an overhead cut to equalize a goal in the game's read-seconds.
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Playing in a relaxed state, it is easy to have a brilliant world wave, Song Wenjie's two goals in this campaign are very beautiful, showing the individual ability. In the 35th minute, he fired a long-distance shot directly from outside the penalty area, the ball made a beautiful arc, hit the post and refracted into the goal, the goalkeeper Bao Yaxiong could not react in time and could only see the ball into the net. In stoppage time, Guangzhou City launched a counterattack, and it was Song Wenjie who got rid of two defenders and scored twice.
Song Wenjie is not the main player in the front line of Guangzhou City this season, but due to the need for foreigner Thiago to go home to be with his wife who is about to give birth, Song Wenjie was able to get into the starting lineup, and the result was to have a more than expected play. This is also the first time after 11 years that Song Wenjie has been in the starting lineup again.
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Season with a two-goal performance.
Wen Yongjun is a new star unearthed by Guangzhou City People this season, who previously played against Beijing
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He scored a personal
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He scored his maiden goal in the 57th minute after coming on as a substitute in this match, but unfortunately, after the VAR video assistant referee ruled that the offside was in the first goal, the goal was invalidated. However, from the course of the game, Wen Yongjun's goal running and sniffing sensitivity have improved.
When summarizing the team's performance this season after the game, Guangzhou City head coach Van Garst expressed great satisfaction, saying that at the beginning of the season many people didn't think Guangzhou City would achieve good results, but the team entered the Championship Group and accomplished the goals set at the beginning of the season, "Entering the Championship Group and competing with certain strong teams in other divisions, we didn't lose, and we even won by a large margin against Beijing!
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Although the team has faced a lot of difficulties, in the absence of soldiers, a lot of players played eight games in 24 days, all of them can screw together and unite as one, such attitude and spirit is enough to support us to fight to the end, I am pleased and happy with the team's mental level of play."
Van Garst's contract with Guangzhou City expired at the end of last year. Looking back on the last year of coaching at Guangzhou City, Van Garst admits that it was enjoyable and that he liked the city of Guangzhou very much, "I was the assistant coach of this team last season, which was very helpful for me to understand the team, and the Chinese coaching team and staff gave me a lot of help in understanding the Chinese culture so that I can better integrate into this team and the league." He also previously revealed that he will stay in China and wait for his next job opportunity.
