A game with a less than 1% chance of a blowout went awry, and the whole thing was even more surprising.
In this round of the Chinese Super League, Shanghai Port, the top ranked team in the league, hosted Meizhou Hakka. Both in terms of paper strength and recent form, Shanghai Port almost crushed their opponents. In the pre-match press conference, Meizhou Hakka head coach Ristic didn't set a clear goal for such a powerful opponent, but just admitted that everyone will try their best.
In order to lock up the league title as soon as possible, Shanghai and Hong Kong must try to win every game. Facing Meizhou Hakka, both Javier and Wu Lei expressed their confidence in winning.
But when the game actually ended, it was completely unexpected by everyone. Shanghai Port utilized their home field and strength advantage to attack the Meizhou Hakka hinterland, but the first goal was scored by Meizhou Hakka, and if it wasn't for Oscar in the last minute, then I'm afraid that Shanghai Port would have lost to their rivals and erupted into an even bigger upset.
What is the reason why Shanghai Harbor didn't win this game? Wasting chances is definitely the most important reason, and in this reason, Wu Lei should take the absolute responsibility! You know Wu Lei had no less than five real scoring chances, and three in one slash, but the whole game was unproductive, causing the team to only blossom but not bear fruit.
The game went to the 8th minute, Shanghai port backfield sent accurate direct, Wu Lei took the ball quickly breakthrough, in the penalty area facing the goalkeeper, was Cheng Yuelei pounced out; 30th minute, Shanghai port front field continuous pass wonderful direct. Wu Lei again took the ball to form a single knife, a strong shot was again blocked by Cheng Yuelei; 60th minute of the second half, Shanghai Port launched a counterattack, Xu Xin led the ball long straight into. After attracting the opponent's defense energy, he was assigned to the insertion of Wu Lei. Wu Lei's chance to face a single shot was still seized by Cheng Yuelei!
Three brilliant one-touch chances that Wu Lei didn't capitalize on, leaving the fans at the venue shaking their heads. In addition to these three obvious one-touch chances, there were also Oscar's multiple direct kicks that Wu Lei didn't capitalize on.
Fan confession: why do teammates always wear their left foot when they don't pass the ball well? I'd like to ask, there's already a one-touch goal, and I have to complain about bad passes from teammates. Are teammates passing through the keeper and passing directly to Wu Lei to shoot at goal to be satisfied? Some fans said that Javier didn't know how to rotate and kept starting Wu Lei. As a result, Wu Lei's physical fitness was seriously affected, leading to a weak final shot and a lack of physical fitness that affected his confidence. This is the reason for the consecutive single shots. Although this explanation can be said to be justified, losing so many one-touch chances is not something that can be put off by a physical quality. In addition, Wu Lei had many chances in the first half. At that time, there was no problem with Wu Lei's physical quality. Why could he still not hit it in?
As manager Javier said after the game: the team created a lot of chances in the first 15 minutes and if we had taken it we would have scored three or four goals, but we didn't do it.
In the second half, Oscar saw that Wu Lei was not in good shape, even if Wu Lei ran out of open space, he no longer unconditionally passed to him, but took the ball to look for opportunities, even if he faced the opponents, Oscar still did not pass to Wu Lei, relying on his own ability to break through constantly, and the final tie, it was Oscar who did not give Wu Lei a better chance to make his resolute shot to equalize the score.
In fact, before this game, when manager Javier had a meeting with the team, he had said that he wanted everyone to play with spirit and try to win the game in the first half, and then send out some substitutes or young players in the second half to finish the game. This would not only work on some of the players who usually get very few chances, but it would also give the key players a chance to rest up for the AFC Champions League a few days later.
Unfortunately, Wu Lei kept missing chances and the team couldn't get the scoreboard advantage, even being in a passive and embarrassing situation at one point. Not only did the team fail to get three points for the whole game, but the idea of training young players and resting key players expected to stay in the AFC Champions League did not materialize.
Originally, as long as Wu Lei scored another goal in this game, he would have surpassed Ackerson as the king of scorers in the Chinese Super League. However, with the continuous wastage of chances, this miracle can only wait for one more time. In addition, so far, as the king of scorer of domestic players, Wu Lei is naturally the main striker of the future national football team. Moreover, after the end of this month, the national team will have a short training session, but based on Wu Lei's shooting form, what reason does Jankovic have to convince himself to call up Wu Lei?
In fact, apart from his shot which has been criticized, Wu Lei's running position and breaking ability are very good. If you want to fully utilize Wu Lei's maximum ability, Jankovic could put Wu Lei in the shadow striker position. If the striker is Ickxon, the national soccer team may make an unexpected decision that Wu Lei will stand behind him and create chances for the striker or take the second shot on goal.
The national team is not Shanghai Port, where you have great players like Oscar in the music department who can pass you the ball time and time again and create a chance. But our national soccer team doesn't have Oscar, there are almost no players who can give you a knife. But if Wu Lei still steadily shoots in the face of a hard-won knife in a national soccer game, it would be too detrimental to his teammates' strikes and to the national soccer team's situation.
