The situation is much different in the new season, as two soccer teams from Guangzhou have fallen into the first division. Every team is likely to be relegated this year. Even Meizhou Hakka and Nantong Zhiyun, teams from small soccer clubs, are at least made up of adult players who won't be disadvantaged against their opponents. In this situation, the Dalian Ren players still stick to last season's tactics, but their mentality has changed. They started to fear failure. They feared that they would go back to the Chinese First Division after the failure. They couldn't get the high salary of the Chinese Super League. After their mentality fluctuation, this deadly attacking tactic naturally won't flourish like it did last season.
Honestly, Xie Hui is a triple threat. We've never seen him coach the CFL before. We didn't know his level. After a season of playing, we realized that you just struggle to attack. Just counterattack. In addition, the level of Dalian players doesn't support Xie Hui's tactics, so as we told you when we did our season preview before the game, a bad record for this season is predictable. Therefore, we can call Xie Hui the best water manager in the Chinese Super League, but he's been really lucky. Because he had two teams padding his back last season, he could spread his stupid offensive tactics with impunity. However, when there is no one to pad his back this season and the players' mentality fluctuates, such stupid tactics cannot match the strength of the team. Besides, he doesn't have that much ink in his stomach, so naturally he can't.
As a result, our road to relegation and some stunning match wins have been down to pure luck. This unworkable tactic is a joke on the soccer pitch when there are no bottom feeders and the so-called pressing simply doesn't hold up. He coached at Nantong Zhiyun, but the results were mediocre. Many believed it was the team's lack of strength that prevented them from storming the Chinese Super League. But why did Xie Hui leave for one season and the team was promoted directly to the Chinese Super League? This seems to prove that the problem is not with the team, but with Xie's failure to live up to the fans' expectations of him.
