Winning the Asian Championship and winning 8 Chinese Super League titles is an honor for Guangzhou. However, due to financial problems, we have been sitting on the slide since last season. Whether it was coached by Liu Zhiyu or bringing back the old captain Zheng Zhi, Guangzhou did not escape the fate of sliding to the bottom of the Chinese Super League.In the 2023 season, Zheng Zhi entered the National Football League coaching team and then resigned with the coaching team. Liu Zhiyu once again accepted the command of the Guangzhou team, leading a group of young players from the Evergrande Soccer School to compete in the China First Division. However, the Guangzhou team under Liu Zhiyu's coaching, just like the previous season in the Chinese Super League, always had 5 and 3 wins in the tournament.
The new Guangzhou team chairman then made the decision to change the coach. El Salvador, the foreign coach of the Evergrande Soccer School, took over coaching from Liu Zhiyu. They then began to overhaul the team's starting roster. Many of the substitutes from Liu Zhiyu's time were in the starting positions, while many of the starters from Liu Zhiyu's time were on the bench. In the first game under Salvador, Guangzhou scored two goals in the opening nine minutes to take the game 2-1. In the second match, "Pond China" drew 1-1 with Wuxi Wuhu (Wuxi Wuhu's penalty kick was disputed). The third game of the Central League, Guangzhou 2-1 Jiangxi Lushan, the fourth away 4-1 victory over Dan, but a big win over Dan.
With 3 wins and 1 draw since Salvador took over, Guangzhou improved its points from 3 to 13 and its ranking from 14 to 10th. After two consecutive wins for Guangzhou, the team has once again received good news. According to Football Daily and the famous media person "Leicester City's Little Fox", Efirdin, who returned from his study abroad, and Xu Bin, who failed to enroll for various reasons, have completed their supplementary reports (the earliest 8 days to play). Both Xu Bin and Efirdin are core players of the U20 national soccer team. Efirdin was the captain of the team during the U20 Asian Cup and his performance even impressed Xu Europe.
During the U20 Asian Cup, many fans believed that Xu Bin and Efirdin would be the duo of the Guangzhou team in the new season. However, due to various reasons, both players missed the first half of the team's matches. However, the short absence of Xu Bin and Efirdin doesn't seem to be a bad thing now. If they had been fighting with the team, they might have won a game. In this case, it's hard to say whether Guangzhou will activate Salvador.
Now, under the training of El Salvador, the Guangzhou team has come out of the dilemma. With the return of Xu Bin and Efirdin, Guangzhou's strength is expected to improve again by "half a step". In that case, relegation will no longer be a problem for Guangzhou. Such a Guangzhou team, such a coach, after two seasons of hibernation in China's First Division, has every hope of returning to the Chinese Super League and regaining its glory.
