Chinese Super League Spotlight Battle: Dalian People 0-2 Defeat Henan Songshan Longmen
On the night of June 24th, the 6th round of the 2022 season Chinese Super League was in full swing, and in the match in Haikou, the Dalian People's Team lost 0-2 to the Henan Songshan Longmen Team, who had a superior number of enemies. After the game, the two teams' head coaches Xie Hui and Javier attended the post-match press conference.
In response to the game, Dalian People's head coach Xie Hui said bluntly: "Due to physical reasons, we hope that through a large area of rotation, some of the main players have been close to the critical point, there may be a large number of injuries, for the sake of protection, today sent 9 substitutes, including 5 U23, 3 U21, they basically played the level, and there is a gap with one less person in the Henan Songshan Dragomans. In the second half, we replaced the main players, but some of the players' mentality is unstable, they are some players who haven't played the Chinese Super League a few times, and their experience and ability are lacking, as the head coach, I take all the responsibility, and I hope to get more benefits from lining up, congratulations on Henan's win."
Talking about the Dalian People's team data dominance but low shooting scoring rate, Xie Hui said, "I think you should pay attention to last season's scorer's list, the top ten domestic players on the list is very unlikely, this is the characteristics of our league, the all-China class scoring is very difficult, we actually got a lot of chances, but the mentality of the backward situation, which will not be in the usual training appear, extenuating circumstances."
Commenting on the match, Havel, head coach of Henan Songshan Dragons, said: "The program we prepared before was very different from today's match, we originally prepared a program that was very offensive, so we sent out a lot of attacking players, but after Ma Xingyu was sent off very early, we were one man short of a player on the field and faced a very difficult scenario. We quickly made adjustments and quickly adapted to the competition in this difficult situation, showing the spirit of hard work and passion for soccer with one less player, as well as our team spirit to protect each other, and this competition has a very serious positive meaning for us."
Then, Javier continued, "Before we discussed a lot of technical and tactical changes in the style of play, but I also said that if we talk about the DNA of Henan soccer, I think that the spirit of Henan soccer fighting, this joint never give up the spirit of hard work is engraved in the DNA of Henan soccer, we showed on the field, any difficulty is very difficult to defeat us, and we have difficulties have gained a lot of growth, and I hope that our spirit on the field will make the fans and those who support us proud and make you happy."
Speaking about Karanga's performance, Javier said, "First of all there are multiple reasons why he did well, he didn't go back to his home country after the end of last season, he stayed in China, he completed the pre-season winter training very professionally and with very high quality, he didn't miss any of the training sessions, and his dedication and hard work paid off on the field, so he scored a lot of goals. But today we are going to discuss this competition, it is not appropriate to talk too much about individual players, I think more should be discussed about the team's victory, the overall victory."
