This season, Guoan team returned to Gongtian Stadium, hoping to perform well in the league. In order to achieve this goal, they brought in a number of strong domestic and international players before the start of the season. However, the team's backline still has glaring deficiencies.
In order to quickly complete the team's task of replacing the old with the new, Guoan decided to leave three important players in the back line this season - Jin Pengxiang, Yu Yang and Yang Fan. Jin Pengxiang and Yu Yang are both free to leave the team, while Yang Fan is rented out to his old boss Tianjin Jinmen Tiger.
It has also led to a severe shortage of national safety defenders, especially center backs. Leung Sio Man has been training and playing overseas with the national youth team for a long time, and Nguyen Chi Long suffered a serious injury before the start of the league season and was out for the whole season.
In addition, Yu Dabao is no longer able to play the role of center back and has been discarded by the team's two coaches, Stanley and Suarez, leaving Guoan's defense now with only two true center backs - Ngadew and Pak Yang.
At the beginning of the season, Ngadeu should be the most reliable of the three foreigners brought in by Guoan. He possesses excellent tackling, interceptions and heading ability and is able to organize attacks at the back. Ngaardew has now become the thigh of Guoan's backline, that's for sure.
And Kashiwa Young, who has simply not been worthy of being partnered with N'Gadeu. 25 is the age for a defender to make his mark, but Kashiwa Young has been playing in the league like a raw player who has just stepped into the Premier League. In many games this season, Park Young has made serious mistakes, not only failing to stop the arrowhead role of the opposition's front line, but often leaking and top. Many of the goals Guoan has conceded this season have been directly related to Park Yang.
Recently Pak Yang had two consecutive rounds of the league without any injuries. In this case, head coach Suarez can only use veteran Zhang Chengdong as a guest center back.
The biggest problem of the current Guoan team is the lack of center back players, which is arguable. If this problem is not solved as soon as possible, Guoan will not only lose their gains this season, but it will also be difficult to guarantee the results of next season.
Therefore, next season Guoan club should recall Yang Fan who is on loan from Tianjin Tigers. Although Yang Fan has been inconsistent since joining Guoan, after all, he was trained by German head coach Strikers and performed very well in Tianjin, so he was called up to the national team by Lippi.
Yang Fan has also been heavily utilized by coach Yu Genwei over the past two seasons as the primary center back for the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, and his overall performance in the league has been commendable. It's fair to say that Yang Fan is much more capable than Bai Yang.
In fact, Zimmen Tigers tried to buy out Yang Fan's contract at the beginning of the season to officially bring the 27-year-old defensive general from Guoan. However, Guoan rejected Jinmenhu's offer, hoping that after two years of experience, Yang Fan would return to the team next season and become the centerpiece of the team's backline. Yu Genwei is also a bit helpless about this.
Therefore, Guoan should now seize the opportunity to extend Yang Fan's contract as soon as possible, so that he can be recalled next season and be given more responsibilities in the team. Here, we also hope that Yang Fan, who is back in the team, can be valued and used by the new coach Suarez, play as well as he did in the Tianjin game, and become a key player in Guoan's backline as soon as possible.
