Beijing, December 19th night.
China Super League (soccer league)
League Round 17, Beijing
national security
0-5 defeated Guangzhou City. After the game, assistant coach DeAnn arrived at the press conference to comment on the contest.
DeAnn said: "We played very poorly in this game, I congratulate the opponent for the big win, but as the assistant coach of the team, I also feel very ashamed. We were too slow to get into the game, and our opponents scored two goals. Later on, we played pretty well, but we couldn't score a goal, and then we let our opponents score more goals. Facing such a scoreline, we can only recognize the reality and bury our heads in the sand, expecting the whole team to remember this bad day."
When asked if the team was too affected by injuries, DeAnn replied, "The injury problem, as I said before, is not recent, and it's normal for every team to have injuries. We are indeed missing some key players, but these are not excuses. In the last game, we played a good game despite the injuries. We need to analyze why we played like this today instead of looking for excuses. As a coach, as a player, we have to be ashamed of this game, and the whole team should reflect on it."
When asked by the media why they were slow to recover from the loss and what they felt the problem was, DeAnn said, "There is definitely a difference between the head coach being on the sidelines or not, but that can't be used as a pretext for the team's failure. I think the first reason is that we are too slow to enter the state. But that's the way soccer is, once you slack off, it's hard to get nervous again, and even sometimes you can't even score an open goal."
After the game, the player Prince Ming also accepted the media interview, talked about the team's performance in this game. Wang Ziming said: "Today, we did not do very well in dealing with the opponent's counterattack, and the opponent's ability to grasp the timing is also relatively strong. The tactics laid out by the head coach were not well executed, and the score is here. After the game, I hope to quickly get out of the mood of losing by a large margin."
