November 2 afternoon, FA Cup semi-final first round, Shandong Taishan is about to usher in the battle with Henan Songshan Longmen. As last season's cup champion, Shandong is quite a mountain of momentum, has won 9 consecutive victories in various competitions. Facing Henan Songshan Longmen, Taishan will fight for ten consecutive victories.
Henan “have the bottom”
this season Super League league, Taishan team and Henan Songshan has had two competitions. The first round, the two sides 1:1 draw; the second round, Shandong Taishan 2:0 easy victory. Although the overall record is still Taishan advantage, but the only draw, to Henan Songshan skipper Anthony Ao has brought a lot of momentum.
“From our point of view, Henan is also a strong opponent of Taishan, and we have drawn with them in the league.” Anthonyo indicate. The coach who came to the team in October to act as the head coach position, in the Cup of the manifestation of the remarkable. Four games down, Henan totaled 8 goals in regular time, only 2 goals lost. Among the quarterfinals, simply reached the team's goal.
Handsome change of ownership, Henan Songshan face a new look. “We are a very united team, the semi-finals do not need too much mobilization, the players to full of battle condition to prepare for this competition, we have full confidence in the quality of the competition.” AnthonyO said.
both sides of the lack of main in addition to changes in the marquee, the two teams once again than the match, the biggest change in the personnel. With super meet the status comparison, short of a large number of main players, become a common problem for the two teams.Shandong Taishan side of the personnel shortage is the clichéd topic. Fellaini has now missed a number of consecutive games, six international players have not yet returned. And after the national team formation adjustment, Taishan team personnel is likely to further change. In the pre-match conference, Hao Wei clearly indicated that Fellaini and Wang Tong will not appear in the debut list, which further aggravated the team's personnel tight problem.
The good news is that Sun Junhao will be able to follow the team to continue to play in the Cup. As last season's K-League Most Valuable Player, Sun Jun-ho should have been called up by South Koreas national soccer team. However, his name is missing from South Korea's latest 25-man roster.
At the same time, Henan Songshan Longmen is also plagued by personnel problems. Niu Ziyi, Luo Xin, Zhou Dingyang and other main players missed the F.A.C.A. Cup due to injuries. In addition, Šunić has not been able to enter the tournament due to epidemiological factors, and Ivo has had some muscular troubles.Even though the team is full of injuries, Anthony Ao is still optimistic as much as he can bring to the team. “Our team is a whole, and we're not going to lose energy because we're missing one player.” he said. He said, “Entering the top four of the FACup is gratifying, but we won't stop there.”
Taishan encountered problems No doubt, facing the comprehensive strength of the stronger than their opponents, defensive counterattacks is Henan Songshan's choice. Although previously against the Wuhan team, Hao Wei has now on the opponent's defense counterattack tactics for a certain arrangement, accumulated some experience, but this competition, Henan Songshan will still give the team's front line to bring a certain trouble.Fellaini is injured, Guo Tianyu, Liu Binbin and other players have not returned, Taishan team in the FACup available front line personnel are few and far between, and favoring the younger. Faced with this piece of “hard core”, Hao Wei will face problems in the offensive end. “Henan team's tactics and the previous almost, expect us to have more ways to break the intensive defense.” Hao Wei said.
At the same time, how to deal with the defense counterattack, has become the most worthy of thinking about the players. In the last round of competition, Delgado scored a goal for the team, to a certain extent, to prove their own value. With the recent excellent performance, he attended the pre-match conference with Hao Wei. “We will face this game according to our own way, and expect a good result.” Delgado said.
