Without realizing it, the 2023 Chinese Super League season has one last round to go. The last round of Shandong Luneng hosted Henan Jianye, and no matter what the result of this round, there is a high probability of locking the second seat of the Chinese Super League.
Looking back on this season, although the performance of Shandong Luneng has ups and downs, but in general, South Korean coach Cui Kangxi took over, the team basically maintained a relatively stable state. Shandong Luneng as coach Cui Kangxi, in the early difficult to win the situation, can quickly stop the decline.
Up front, the emergence of talented new star Xie Wenneng has been a major discovery for Shandong Luneng this season. Xie Wenneng was left out in the early stages and was not used by Cui Kangxi until the end of the season. Although he played 8 games and made only 4 starts, Xie Wenneng contributed 4 goals. Such offensive efficiency is rare among the younger generation.
However, compared to Xie Wenneng, who is gradually being appreciated by Cui Kangxi, a former national soccer hopeful is gradually becoming a dispensable chicken rib for Shandong Luneng. He just joined Shandong Luneng this season, the former Shanghai seaport forward line young talent Hu Jinghang. Data show that in the first 29 rounds of Super League games, Hu Jinghang only under the command of Cui Kangxi got three Super League games, three are garbage time substitutes. This shows that in Cui Kangxi's tactical system, Hu Jinghang basically did not leave any position, he is just a chicken ribs of Shandong Luneng players.
Fans familiar with Hu Jinghang know that he is a soccer elite trained by Genbao Soccer Base. Like many famous Chinese Super League players, he used to be one of Xu Genbao's proud disciples. Hu Jinghang is a striker who is not only physically gifted, but also fast and explosive. Because of Hu's outstanding talent, he was promoted to Shanghai Port at the age of 18. In 2017, Hu Jinghang had the best time of his career when he went on loan to Henan Jianye. That season, he played 27 games for Henan Jianye, contributing three goals and four assists, but showed exceptional creativity and lethality in front of goal from a young age.
As Hu Jinghang was born in the Chinese Super League (CSL), he was widely recognized by the outside world as he was repeatedly called up by the U23 national team and became a hopeful star of the national football team. However, regrettably, in the next few seasons, such a talented Hu Jinghang gradually fell into the Chinese Super League and became a marginalized person. Especially this year from Wuhan Changjiang to the talent-rich Shandong Luneng, Hu Jinghang completely by Cui Kangxi cold, become Luneng decorations.
Hu Jinghang is only 26 years old and is in his prime as a professional player. When he should be showcasing his talent in the Chinese Super League, he was overlooked and his hero was useless. Seeing his embarrassing situation today, one can't help but feel embarrassed for the former national soccer hopeful.
