Reporter Jia Yanfeng reported that on the evening of the 9th, Shanghai Shenhua and Shenzhen team fought to a 0-0 draw. Although Shenhua's three consecutive victories were ended, they are still in the third place in the table.
In the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League, there are two teams that are getting a lot of attention. Interestingly, both teams have Shanghai-based head coaches, but their personalities and tactical philosophies are very different. One is the "strong attack" Dalian Ren team, and the other is the "defense" Shanghai Shenhua.
After 20 rounds of matches, Shanghai Shenhua is ranked third in the Chinese Super League with 40 points, with 11 wins, 7 draws and 2 losses, scoring 27 goals and conceding 16. In many matches, Shenhua achieved difficult draws or even wins with their sturdy defense, despite being at a disadvantage in the overall statistics. For example, in the 21st round match against Henan Songshan Longmen, Shenhua's possession was 25% to 75%, passes were 213 to 645, shots were 3 to 6, and corner kicks were 4 to 9....... Shenhua was at a disadvantage in a number of key stats, but still managed to win 1-0.
There may have been a certain amount of luck involved, but prior to the match against Henan, Shenhua also made a comeback against Dalian Ren when they were at a disadvantage for most of the match. Going back in time, there were similar situations, so you can't attribute this to luck; efficiency might be more appropriate.
The most impressive thing about this season's Shenhua team is "never give up", even after being "suppressed" many times, even though the team is facing economic difficulties, and even though only Basogo is available as a foreign aid, the Shenhua team of the 2022 season is still calm and steady. The 2022 Shenhua team is still calm, steady and stable.
How did they do it? Shenhua's performance like this should be fully summarized at the end of the season, but for now, every Shenhua man is working hard for it.
For soccer clubs, in good times more to see the strength of funding, personnel strength, management, and in adversity, although can not completely ignore the personnel factor, but the management factor is more prominent than in good times. Because the fastest way to cope with the challenges of the crisis and overcome the difficulties, the first thing to look at is the perception of the business managers of the crisis, interpretation and response to see how the management of the crisis to give all members of the confidence for all people to drum up the courage to overcome the difficulties.
Adhering to the "I am the main" is the core idea of Shenhua's self-help road this year. With the management of the management, balancing the limited funds between the first team and the youth training; with the coaching team as the main, let Wu Jingui guide the overall development of tactics, measure the use of the players; with the Shanghai elements, Shenhua culture as the main, so that more affection for Shenhua, understanding, cohesion of the players together to withstand the difficulties.
"The pre-season preparations for this season are still quite twisted, as I told you before in an interview, but we all take these twists and turns as an asset to sharpen ourselves. In fact, from the second half of last year, the club has known that the days of 2022 will be more difficult, the whole team's business ideas have begun to transform." A Shenhua management told reporters that in the post-golden dollar era, Shenhua inevitably suffered distress, Shenhua's method of coping with the crisis is mainly from the excavation of their own strength, and strive to find a road that best suits them to go.
Bringing back Wu Jingui was the first major decision made by the management. Hua Shuai's prolonged and cumulative unpaid salary lawsuit has brought about many unfavorable consequences and impacts, and with the possibility of continued unpaid salary, the only way to get a coach with deep affection for the club is to endure the salary difficulties without diminishing one's work ethic and still have a clear view of the team's personnel and tactical playing style.
When you look at it this way, there is no one better than Wu Jingui.
Professional soccer development to today, multi-cultural integration is a big trend, but in the adversity of Shenhua, in fact, more need is a team with the head coach Wu Jingui, as can fight hard, less talk about conditions and pay more attention to the spirit of professionalism. Such a team can't just rely on words to build, but rely more on the art of leadership and management to accomplish.
"The Oasis Group is also in a difficult situation, but even so, it has allocated a certain amount of money to the Shenhua Club to cope with daily expenses. The club's management and some of the coaching staff are not getting paid for the time being, and they have taken the initiative to suffer themselves first and try not to aggravate the players. Ask the players to do, they have done first, and do better." Shenhua every month to send a part of the cost of living, and on time and according to the number of payment, which gave the players a lot of confidence, let us know, Shenhua will never be no one's team, especially the Oasis in its own extraordinarily difficult situation, but also still did not give up Shenhua.
In spite of these difficulties, the management has insisted on "me" as the main focus, and has been vigorously developing its own youth training and nurturing its reserves and talents. So far, no coach or player in the youth training team has been disbanded or left due to unpaid wages, and we are all waiting for the situation to get better, or rather, we are all willing to believe and unite around the current management to create a brand new future.
Good times may cover up a lot of things that are not done properly, and once a crisis comes, the problems will be exposed at once. Some teams seem to have been developing quite well in these past years, but when the crisis comes, they are totally incapable of making effective responses. In a great environment, and do not realize that in fact, they are a touch of collapse, only in the face of difficulties, can see the team's survival fundamentally rely on what.
"Wu's use of personnel this season is actually very clever, this year he built a tactical system with the kernel of Shanghai civilization. The reason why this system is described as ingenious is because Wu used a broad-minded, open-minded vision to establish everything with rules and discipline, open and transparent to all people, so as to be fair. The establishment of this system, in turn, can not be separated from the previous years in the attraction of the accumulation, it is this full accumulation and the cultivation of talent in the form of a grip to overcome the times." Generally speaking, the core tactical system of a force to see the maximum number of starts of the 11 people and the maximum playing time of the 11 people of the degree of overlap, the higher the degree of overlap, to rule out the possibility of no one is available, a great possibility that the head coach's tactical philosophy is clear, as well as the players used to tactical implementation in place, the degree of fit is high. Shenhua clearly belongs to the second possibility.
The 11 men who have played the most number of games and minutes for Shenhua so far in the 2022 season are Qian Jie to, Wang Haijian, Bassogo, Ma Zhen, Wu Xi, Cao Yunding, Zhu Chenjie, Park Jiajun, Jiang Shenglong, Jin Yangyang, and Wang Yi, and outside of them Liu Ruowanadium, Zhu Jianrong, and Yu Hanchao, who have had a good run in the competition as well. What are the characteristics of these people together? These are either senior Shenhua players such as Cao Yunding and Bo Jiajun, or young players from Shanghai's youth training such as Zhu Chenjie, Liu Ruofan, Jiang Shenglong and Wang Haijian. This has taken up half of the starting lineup.
Wu Xi became famous in Shenhua, when he was very resolute in choosing to return to Shenhua to play, it is enough to explain his "blue blood gene". Zhu Jianrong's performance this season can be described as amazing, but no one can forget that he has been on loan for so many years, and after going around in circles, he still came back to Shenhua, which proved to be a late bloomer for him. Qian Jie gave and Wang Yi, whose journey to the Chinese league began at Shenhua, and Yu Hanchao said that it was Shenhua that accepted him when he suffered the biggest setback in his career, so they both said that they had to repay Shenhua.
Basogo has also made a huge difference, as his defensive stats are among the top in the Shenhua squad this season, and he has stuck with Shenhua despite being owed wages.
In fact, just looking at Cao Yunding, Bo Jiajun, Wu Xi, Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong, Wang Haijian and Liu Ruowanadium, their knowledge of soccer and their performance on the field can already be a good illustration of Shanghai's soccer culture. With them as the central structure, Wu Jingui then crafts the remaining parts to blend and mesh with the main structure.
This season's Shenhua team, the biggest change is that all people must participate in the defense, all people can not casually aimless out of the ball, all players on the field can not complain to each other, all the veteran players must make the most resolute example, play the power of the model. Because of this, this season's Shenhua, seemingly not crazy and not put, but very resistant to attack, very rigid.
"If these young players are not loaned out to other teams to play on the game, do enough experience accumulation, even if I can put them into the main position to use them resolutely, it is very difficult not to pay the price of the results, like Zhu Jianrong, such a player did not release, but also the management's decision-making is very wise." This was the sentiment expressed by head coach Wu Jingui when talking about the utilization of Liu Ruowanadium, Jiang Shenglong and Zhu Jianrong.
It is because of this year's Shenhua unified all the people's views, beliefs, emphasis on execution and reasonable playing style, only to have today's results, "regardless of how the future, now this group of players, never allow due to the results of the reason, let Shenhua honor in the dust."
"Weak things like peaceful surroundings, while anti-weak things grow out of chaos, and strong things don't care much about their surroundings." This is a quote from the famous modern thinker and best-selling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In the past years of Shenhua, from the management to the coaching staff to every player who joined Shenhua or stayed here, this quote is actually a true reflection of their inner world.
Shenhua's much-criticized reinforcements and business philosophy over the years have also proved to us, when the crisis comes, that ordinary people can't always read the logic and world of the powerful. Since we don't understand, we have to be cautious and watch carefully. If Shenhua could have stayed in this ranking this year, perhaps this result list is a surprise in extraordinary times. However, what Shenhua now leaves behind is not only results, but also a kind of faith and a ray of hope. I don't know at the end of the season, who can turn this line of hope into a beam of light, illuminating the whole of Chinese soccer.
