Harbor Soccer: Victory Dawn and Challenges Ahead
By Cheng Shan: In the just-concluded match, Lv Wenjun scored two goals in a row shortly after the start and Seaport quickly took the advantage. Although Cheng Changcheng pulled a goal back, Paulinho and Li Shenglong each scored a goal in the second half, and finally Seaport won 4-1. Vargas contributed three assists to give his team a win. The win certainly injected confidence into Harbour master Lecco, but will it be enough to rest on their laurels?
After the match, Leko couldn't hide his joy as he said, "We have won four of the last five games, which is a very good performance and the team's responsibility is improving." He also mentioned, "We played well in the first 30 minutes but conceded a corner. There were not many chances in the second half, but we were more efficient. Of course, there is still room for the team to improve and we still need to work hard."
Seaport has been under scrutiny from the preparation period this season. Although the staffing is not bad, the lack of physical reserves and the absence of systematic seasonal preparation have affected the team's performance in the early stage. The team's management and fans have shown a tolerant attitude. However, with the deepening of the league, Lecco's proposal of "substituting matches for training" and "training while playing" did not bear fruit, and the prolonged sluggish performance of the harbor made the fans lose patience.
The ugly field of play, seaport executives could not sit still, and after communicating with the head coach, the team initiated a solution to make personnel reinforcement in the summer window a priority. Strong funds coupled with quick action, Seaport has been successful in finding new recruits, with players such as Vargas joining the team and Wu Lei returning, but at the managerial level, there has been no action.
In fact, in the history of the seaport team, there is no habit of changing the manager in the middle of the season. The first phase of the Super League, the face of the fans' calls, the decision-making layer of the Harbour Club once hoped to make up for the shortcomings at the level of the head coach through the summer window to make up for the shortcomings of the head coach, "he is in fact a very thoughtful coach, and the communication with the team's senior management has also been relatively smooth." Club insiders have revealed that Leko's emotional intelligence is higher than a number of arrogant famous managers, although the results did not reach a satisfactory level, but its communication with the club's management has been smooth, but also willing to listen to some of the suggestions, making us also hope to maintain the seaport's tradition of not changing the manager in the middle of the season, so that Leko will continue to remain in the position of the head coach on top of the position. Secondly, due to the impact of the epidemic and the international situation, Seaport was unable to find a more suitable coach within a short period of time.
However, Lecco's flaws are obvious, the lack of clinical command ability, single formation on the field, hesitant to use ...... Originally attempting to make a difference in this season's seaport, had to reconsider some of the problems. In the second transfer period, the seaport side did contact the national coach, but the cooperation talked about half, because of some reasons, failed to come true. During this period, the seaport side also contacted the possibility of joining the foreign coach, in the face of fans and the media increasingly strong dissatisfaction with the voice, the seaport side is not without consideration of the "change of command".
With the return of Wu Lei, Leko also gained the opportunity to be under constant observation. But the loss to Beijing Guoan, coupled with Wu Lei's injury, Leco was once again pushed into the limelight, and the goal of Harbor's top three this season and the AFC Cup title is a bit far away, and Leco's position is in jeopardy. Seaport defeated Yatai this round, so that the environment of Leko a little better, but not to the point of "safe and sound".
Lecco can still smile sitting on the handsome seat, the person who should be most thankful is Lu Wenjun - in the recent game, veteran Lu Wenjun's performance can be described as eye-catching. As the same as Wu Lei "Chongming a period" players, Lu Wenjun in this season's team front line slump situation, many times to contribute to the wonderful performance.
In the previous match between Shanghai Harbor and Chengdu Rongcheng, Lu Wenjun stepped up in the Harbor's prolonged attack, and it was his deadlock-breaking goal that allowed the team to shake off the burden of wanting to win and fearing to lose, and finally, together with his old teammate Wu Lei, the team beat the opponent 3-0.
This game with Yatai, Wu Lei injury suspension, has returned to Shanghai for treatment. Lv Wenjun once again pick the beam, the 9th minute, Paulinho constantly ball straight pass, high-speed insertion of Lv Wenjun shot through the door; 30th minute, Paulinho passes Vargas, the latter sub-ball to the left, Lv Wenjun meet the ball rub shot far corner of the hand. 30 minutes to open the door twice, completed his career in the harbour of 50 goals milestone, so that his teammates can throw off the pressure, light on the battlefield, the team is finally one of the key figures of the victory. The team was one of the key players in the final victory.
After the match Leko talked specifically about the role of the veteran: "Lu Wenjun has been on my books for two years now, he is a very good player with a sense of mission and responsibility, which motivates him to perform well in every game, and last year he scored a lot of goals." Leko said he is satisfied with Lu's performance and that he has been a role model for the team, "At the same time, his performance is telling us that how we usually train will lead to what kind of performance we will have in the game."
"We played well in this game and took advantage of the moment. In the first half 2-0 to grab a little slack, before the end of the half by the opponent back to a, fortunately to the second half we are still a drum to take the game." Lu Wenjun said.
Seaport's current injury situation has changed, and Wu Lei's injury worries us. Harbor and Rongcheng competition, Wu Lei's ribs suffered the opponent's foreign defender Richard's violent impact, Wu Lei then could not support further, was Li Shenglong replaced off the field. After the injury, Wu Lei immediately stopped with the team training, after and coaching team, the club senior discussion, finally the team decided to let Wu Lei first recuperate from the injury, and then the follow-up training competition. The team organized Wu Lei to return to Shanghai on October 7, and then the club staff revealed that Wu Lei was finally diagnosed as a rib fracture, the doctor gave the opinion that the recovery period of at least one month.
According to the journey, Wu Lei is expected to miss three or four Chinese Super League competitions. For the seaport, which expects to get the top three places in the Chinese Super League, the impact of Wu Lei's injury is not small. What's more, in late November, the knockout round of the AFC Cup will take place soon, and the biggest goal of the seaport this season is to win the AFC Cup, which is also the unfinished wish of Wu Lei and his brothers. According to team news, Wu Lei's recovery is relatively smooth, catching up with the AFC Cup competition should not be a problem. Wu Lei said: "This time, I want to come back, I want to go back with my brothers to find the original pursuit of the feeling of desire, we struggle together, in order to a common goal and try their best. I expect us to work harder together to win the AFC Cup."
In addition to Wu Lei, also returned to Shanghai are Xu Xin, Zhang Huachen and young Liu Bai Yang, plus Abra Khan, who has not played a game this season, and Zhang Linpeng and Feng Jin, who have been still recovering, the seaport's personnel in a less than ideal situation. In the competition against Yatai, Li Shenglong received a teammate's pass header, but after the goal because of face injuries and blood on the field, directly to the ambulance to the hospital for treatment. It is understood that after the hospital, the doctor on the Li Shenglong trauma stitches, and then Li Shenglong rushed to Changchun airport, accompanied by the troops back to Shanghai.
