On September 23rd, the 26th round of the Chinese Super League, Shandong Taishan challenged Dalian Ren on the road. Both sides fought for 90 minutes and finally shook hands 0-0. The worst player of the match was undoubtedly Taishan international Sun Guowen. Facing his old master, Sun Guowen was completely blown away by 34-year-old veteran Shang Yin, and Cui Kangxi couldn't stand the half-time direct replacement. Sun Guowen's performance in this game can be described as a punch in the face to national soccer coach Jankovic.
Choi Kang-hee made some changes to his starting lineup due to the intensive schedule. Before that, substitute Sun Guowen got his first chance to face his old master. This was originally a chance for Sun to prove himself to the Dalian fans, but his performance made Taishan fans extremely unhappy.
In this game, Sun Guowen guarded the left side of Taishan's defense, but was blown up against Shang Yin one after another. First, Shang Yin made a beautiful stop to receive a long pass from a teammate and then advanced all the way to the penalty area line. Sun Guowen was thrown off by Shang Yin directly before he failed and ended up having to stop Shang Yin from entering the box with a foul in front of the box. Then, after Shang Yin took the ball on the left side of the field, Sun Guowen followed the defense closely, but was beaten by Shang Yin directly to a wicket and easily passed. Taishan's penalty area was under a lot of defensive pressure for a while.
In the first half, the left side of the Taishan team had been winded due to the presence of Sun Guowen, and many Taishan fans were outspoken in stating that Sun should not have started against his old master. Choi Kang-hee was extremely unhappy with Sun Guowen's disastrous performance in the first half. In the second half, he directly replaced Jadson with Jadson, allowing veteran Zheng Zheng to play Sun Guowen's position. From this adjustment, we can see that Choi Kang-hee has become intolerant of Sun Guowen's performance.
Sun Guowen's performance was also a "slap in the face" of the national football team's head coach, Jankovic. Sun Guowen had the opportunity to start in the previous warm-up matches of the national football team, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the media, because he has been the substitute of Taishan, but it is really puzzling that such a player can start in the national football team. Sun Guowen's performance today proved once again that Jankovic's previous choice was wrong.
Notably, members of the national soccer coaching staff, including Zheng Zhi, were on hand to watch the game and examine the international players' form. Zheng Zhi should have advised Jankovic to exclude Sun from the October training roster after witnessing his disastrous performance.
