Shenhua have not won four consecutive matches, earning three draws and one loss, and are not far behind in third place with 19 points. Apart from Shanghai Harbor, none of the other teams particularly stand out. The second team, Chengdu Rongcheng, won only five of their 10 matches, and the fourth team, Jinmen Tigers, drew six. The level of the Chinese Super League has dropped a lot this year, especially for the teams in the first group. Shanghai Shenhua has hit a bottleneck and is in line with the team's configuration. Fortunately, the next three games are good, facing weak teams.
Shenhua is considered to be renewed this season, the 99-00 group of players, have reached a leading age and one of them is improving rapidly, Jiang Shenglong has exploded and shown what he can do. In the game against Henan, he equalized the score, the last minute, put him in the center forward position, this is Wu Jingui's skills, many fans joked that this cultivated Fan Zhiyi, Jiang Shenglong's confidence is becoming more and more full of Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong used to be a famous center back.
Jiang Shenglong's career hasn't gone well. he was loaned to Tianjin Jinmen Tigers for the 2020 season for lack of opportunity, and then loaned to train with Chongqing for the 2021 season. Upon his return last season, he didn't do very well, but exploded this year. They completely stole Zhu Chenjie's thunder. They are partnered at center back, which eliminates the need for Shenhua to have a foreign center back. Jiang Shenglong is physically better and plays more of a robbing defender role. They are a great match for Zhu Chenjie. They are not the hope of Shenhua, but the future of the national soccer team.
This June, the national soccer team has two warm-up matches. There is no doubt that Jiang Shenglong was selected, and Jiang Shenglong is expected to work with Zhu Chenjie to replicate Shenhua's center back combination. Bassogo made his comeback in the last game and had a good overall performance, breaking on the wing and passing still in the net. Basogo is a foreigner from the golden dollar soccer days. He suffered a serious injury and his form declined, but that doesn't stop him from being a good foreigner. With Basogo back, Shenhua's 5 foreigners are tidy for the first time and it's really starting to affect his performance.
After 9 games, Wu Jingui made a decision to bench Yan Xinli. As a foreigner, Yan Xinli performed poorly. In the future, Shenhua's foreigner combination is: Mallet, Bassogo and Teixeira form the attacking trident, with Amadou as the midfield sweeper. Shenhua's sides are getting richer and richer, along with veterans Yu Hanchao and Cao Yunding, Shenhua is feeding more and more players to the cake. Shenhua will have a hard time winning the title this year, and a top three finish isn't a big deal. Only by signing Dai Weijun in the second transfer window will the last piece of the puzzle be completed.
According to Shanghai Shenhua's plan, there will not be a large number of signings in the middle of the season, and there are drawbacks to the foreigners, but Malele has not reached an unusable level, and Bassogog will take the responsibility of scoring goals when he returns. In the international match day, Shenhua will have a large number of national players temporarily leave the team, the June 20-day interval, in fact, is not friendly to Shenhua, may face a lack of training players, but give more time to the foreign aid, especially Teixeira this point, need to find the state as soon as possible, become qualified 10 foreign aid.
