Soccer Review
In a marquee match, Qingdao and Zhejiang gave it their all in the second round of the tournament. Qingdao's long unseen foreigners Alessandrini and Vukovic were on the field. Although Qingdao started the match with a strong offense, Zhejiang counterattacked with Frank and Mu Xiekui, who hit the ball almost instantly. With Qingdao's physical exertion in the transition between offense and defense, they had to switch from offense to defense in the face of Zhejiang's high-pressure situation, but the effect was not good. In the end, Zhejiang forced Qingdao to a 1-0 draw, with a total score of 1-0 in two rounds, successfully realizing the goal of the Super League.
The relegation of Dalian Ren and Qingdao is not a surprise. Looking back at Dalian soccer, the team took over the baton from Albion in 2015, and after two and a half seasons of hard work, the 2017 Central League Championship brought Dalian soccer back to the Super League. However, the next four seasons, despite heavy investment, relegation every year. This season, Dalian people have no salary arrears and have three foreign aid, but still regret relegation. Qingdao Yellow Sea in the first six seasons of the bitter struggle, in 2019, won the first title rushed into the Super League, last year barely relegated, but this year has been at the bottom of the list, and even suffered 11 consecutive losses, and ultimately had no choice but to be relegated.
In stark contrast, the rise of Zhejiang and Sichuan soccer. Last season, the Zhejiang team nearly promoted to the super, although in the play-offs against Wuhan, but this season in the play-offs to beat Qingdao, hibernation in the Central League for five years, and finally realized the super. Chengdu Rongcheng, on the other hand, took four years to complete the leap from the bottom to the top league, and after the success of the Super League, the decade-long history of Sichuan's soccer team in the Super League came to an end.
This season, the double blow of the National Football Association's salary restriction and the epidemic has left most Chinese Super League clubs facing a dissolution crisis. With the reduction in investment, foreign aid return to the team has become the norm. In contrast, a number of Chinese League One clubs continue to invest, and many teams have surpassed the strength of Chinese Super League teams. In the Super League Central A play-offs, the two Central A teams not only won the results of the game, but also won the process of the game. In the end, the top four teams in the Central League, Wuhan Sanzhen, Meizhou Hakka, Zhejiang and Chengdu Rongcheng, were all promoted to the Super League, making them the big winners of the season.
