Wuhan three towns team super miracle: halfway to change the manager to create 14 consecutive victories in the record of the first league
Wuhan three towns team super miracle: halfway to change the manager to create 14 consecutive victories in the record of the first league
This year, Wuhan Sanzhen first set foot on the Central League, although low-profile claimed that the goal of the new season for a firm footing, but the introduction of internal and external reinforcements, impressed the outside world, is regarded as one of the favorites for the Super League. The team's internal goal is clear, that is, to make every effort to reach the Super League.
However, Wuhan Three Town's road to the Super League was not a smooth one. In the first stage, although they killed North Polytechnic and Heilongjiang Bingcheng, they lost to Guizhou and Shenyang City. At the end of the first stage, Wuhan Three Town finished first in the group and fourth overall in the league.
After the introduction of powerful foreign aid Malcolm in the front line, the team's performance is still difficult to get better. In the 13th round of the Central League, Wuhan Sanzhen drew 1-1 with Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic. After two consecutive rounds without a win, the team's standings fell from fourth to fifth, and the situation was not optimistic. on July 25th, Wuhan Sanzhen announced a change of manager, Alberto was no longer the head coach, and the technical director Pedro acted as the acting manager until the arrival of the new head coach.
After Pedro took over the team, the team's performance improved greatly, with 8 consecutive victories. 2005 season, Wuhan Guanggu had seven consecutive victories in the Chinese Super League, that year's Guanggu team was also a "new army". But they beat Beijing Guoan from the third round at home, then opened a wave of "seven consecutive wins" wave, even then claimed that "China's Real Madrid" Shandong Luneng can not stop its progress, until the team's head coach Pei Encai was drafted by the CFA to the national women's head coach position. The team had to stop its winning streak until Pei Encai, the team's head coach, was called up by the Chinese Football Association to be the head coach of the national women's soccer team. Wuhan Sanzhen's 8 consecutive wins is also the longest winning streak of Wuhan soccer in the professional field, plus the AFC Cup, Wuhan Sanzhen is 9 consecutive wins.
Surprisingly, the 8-game winning streak was not the end of the league as the team kept on winning until they lost 0-1 to Chengdu Rongcheng (the second round of the fourth phase of the competition), which brought the 14-game winning streak to an abrupt end, but the 14-game winning streak is the longest winning streak in the history of the Chinese League. In the games behind this 14-game winning streak, especially in the fourth stage, three points were especially important. Because, in the competition with the direct rivals for the Super League, Wuhan Three Town defeated Chengdu Rongcheng, Kunshan, Meizhou Hakka and Zhejiang respectively, and such a result also means that Wuhan Three Town has one foot in the Super League.
These four matches were very meaningful. Against Chengdu Rongcheng, the fourth place in the table, Wuhan Sanzhen fought back from 0-1 down and scored two goals in a row to win 2-1, getting three points and at the same time expanding their point advantage with Chengdu Rongcheng to nine points. Against Meizhou Hakka, with goals from Ogbu and Malcolm, Wuhan Sanzhen got three points and topped the Central League table for the first time this season. Then against Zhejiang, Wuhan Sanzhen won 2-1, extending their advantage over the third-placed team to 11 points, and it was only a matter of time before they overtook the top spot.
After that, Wuhan Sanzhen had another match against Chengdu Rongcheng. With a win, Wuhan Sanzhen would be able to reach the Super League, but considering the players' successive battles, the team sent out a rotating lineup, and finally, the team lost 0-1. After the match, Wuhan San Zhen corrected the acting head coach Pedro and recognized his contribution to the team. Then against Kunshan, Wuhan Sanzhen won the match 2-0 and became the first team to succeed in the Super League this season.
Wuhan three towns after the success of the super, the next year's Super League, Wuhan will show "a city double super" a new pattern, Wuhan will also usher in the Super League derby. "We are a Chinese Super League new army, to learn from the Chinese Super League big brother Wuhan team, the two teams hand in hand to make progress together, show the good spirit of Hubei soccer." A team insider said.
Former K-League Golden Boot Malcolm becomes a big hitter
For Wuhan fans in Hubei Province, Wuhan Sanzhen team is not a particularly unfamiliar team. As early as 2014, Wuhan Shangwen Sports and Wuhan Municipal Sports Bureau, Wuhan Municipal Football Association hand in hand to open the "Overseas training star" program, starting in 2015, in five batches of 107 young players to Barcelona, Spain, to receive a period of five years of soccer training, there have been a total of six age groups from 2002 to 2007, the elite echelon experienced learning in Spain, Liu Yiheng, Liu Shao Ziyang, Lin Wenjie, Chen Jue, nearly 20 players, such as Liu Yiheng, Lin Wenjie, Chen Jue, etc.. At present, there have been 6 age groups from 2002 to 2007, the elite echelon has experienced the study in Spain, Liu Yiheng, Liu Shao Ziyang, Lin Wenjie, Chen Jue and nearly 20 players have been selected for the national team of various levels.
In 2018, Wuhan Sanzhen officially established a professional team to participate in the Chinese Championship League.In 2019, they entered the Chinese B League as the 11th-ranked team in the Chinese Championship by replacement.On December 12, 2020, they were promoted to the Chinese A League as the champion of the 2020 season by winning the Chinese B League final against Zibo Cuju in extra time and on penalties.
Entering the first season of the Central League, Wuhan Sanzhen is still showing ambition. in April, the salon announced that Geng Xiaofeng, Lv Haidong, Luo Senwen, Liu Yue, Liu Yiming, Ren Hang, Rong Hao, Xu Hao Yang, Xu Yue, Zhang Wentao, 10 local players to join the team of Sanzhen. These ten players are still very strong, Ren Hang, Rong Hao are international level of internal reinforcements, Geng Xiaofeng, Luo Senwen and other players are also quite strong, as well as Xu Hao Yang, Xu Yue, the two very promising young players.
In terms of foreign aid, three players, Ademilson, Jadson and Ogbu, joined the team at the beginning of the season. In the situation that only two foreign aiders can play in the Central League, Wuhan Sanzhen is still equipped with three foreign aiders, and one in the backfield and two in the front field, in terms of attracting reinforcements, it does take a lot of thought. In the second transfer, Jadson left the team, and Sanzhen signed Malcolm, the former K-League Golden Boot, and this signing brought great changes to the team.
In the 16th round of the First Division, Wuhan Sanzhen and Nanjing City were trailing 0-2 at one point, and Malcolm came on as a substitute in the 64th minute. In the 90th minute, Malcolm's header helped Wuhan Sanzhen draw with their opponent, which was Malcolm's first goal on behalf of Wuhan Sanzhen.
On September 13th, Wuhan Sanzhen played against Nantong Zhiyun, Wuhan Sanzhen once led 1-0, but was scored by the opponent in the 90th minute of the game, and then Malcolm scored a wonderful long-distance shot in injury time to assist his team to get three points. Entering the fourth stage of the four consecutive wins, Malcolm faced Chengdu Rongcheng and Meizhou Hakka both scored goals. Regarding the Super League, Malcolm said in an interview, "The policy of Super League shows the potential of the salon. Since the goal is set, each player needs to show the talent that matches it. We need to show all the supporters of Three Town that we are capable of this and that we deserve a Super League spot."
The team atmosphere is good, and the Super League has accomplished its milestones.
"We have a good atmosphere in the team and as a young player I don't feel a lot of pressure in the team. Although we have the task of reaching the Super League, the pressure given to us by Sharon is not very big, which makes our play on the field will become better. We will be very happy to have made it to the Super League, but the most important thing next is the final two competitions to win the Central League Championship!" A player said.
It is worth mentioning that, at this time when salary arrears have become a common topic in the national soccer world, Wuhan Three Town Salon has entered the professional league from the start, without haste, steady investment, and has never been in a situation of salary arrears, and is even the first professional salon in the national soccer world where the youth training input exceeds the input of the first team. It is this kind of steady upgrading form, make Wuhan three town step by step from the middle championship completed to the super.
Four years to complete the three-level jump, for such achievements, Wuhan three towns soccer salon deputy general manager and leader Yu Chen said, "any success is not accidental, the reasons for the achievements are also multi-faceted. There is a wide range of support from all walks of life, the group's stable investment, the salon's systematic construction and development, the team's competitive level of gradual improvement, but also inseparable from all levels of government and the competent departments of the support, drop by drop convergence, there is today all the three towns of the people of the joint efforts of the results."
Although it has completed the policy of the super, but the salon still has two games not played, the next round against Meizhou Hakka, will be the decision of this season's Central League Championship of a game, in this regard, "super this is only a stage of the completion of the policy, this year's league is not finished, there are still two competitions waiting for us. The team's unity and cohesion is the most important thing. The team from top to bottom, we all have the same policy and work hard for it." Yu Chen said. As for the long-term policy of the salon, "After the team has established a firm foothold in the Chinese Super League, it will move forward towards higher goals, bringing high-quality competitions to fans in the Wuhan area of Hubei province, and also contributing to the development of soccer in the region with the power of Wuhan Three Towns."
