"The rich and the poor cannot move!" Although this saying does not apply to the "post-Golden Age" of the
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, but the second half of the sentence is quite meaningful.
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Phase II reboot.
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With four games each against the two main camps in the title race, it's worth noting that a number of teams in deep financial trouble have gone grainless.
Among them, Qingdao is in a worrying situation, after 0-3 defeat against Shenhua, at noon on the 13th, there are news that Qingdao's head coach Wu Jinggui has decided to resign. Although Qingdao Football Club has not yet officially confirmed it, several media outlets have contacted Wu Jinggui, who said that the coaching staff is no longer able to improve the strength of the team, which is the main reason for his resignation.
Currently, Qingdao is in a really tough situation.
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In the first phase of the competition, Qingdao ended with 9 consecutive defeats, breaking the record of 8 consecutive defeats set by Harbin Yiteng in the 2014 season, and finishing at the bottom of the table with Dalian People with 7 points. After the league restarted, Qingdao suffered another blow, losing 0-3 to Shenhua, bringing the losing streak to 10 games, continuing to rewrite the
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Historical losing streak record. What makes Qingdao fans even more anxious is that just before the
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Prior to the restart of the second phase, Soccer Daily revealed that Qingdao was eight months in arrears with their wages, and the players even said at one point that they would not enter the tournament until the issue was resolved. Now, Wu Jingui's resignation up front has added to Qingdao's woes.
Looking back on August 4, 2020, Qingdao Football Club announced Wu Jingui as the team's head coach at a time when Qingdao was in a difficult position. The year before, he led the team to the Central League title, a historic
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The league's famous Spanish manager, Lillo, parted ways with Qingdao in June due to family considerations under the epidemic, despite the club's emergency finalization of the former before the league officially opened.
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The team's head coach, Ma Qin, was not in China for the first two rounds of the league, but he let Qingdao off the hook and hardly came to China. In the absence of a head coach, the team could only rely on Oscar and Yang Weijian to lead the team, Qingdao's first two rounds of the league 1 draw and 1 loss without a win, and Wu Jingui's arrival stabilized the team's precarious situation.
Fresh from his appointment, Wu Jingui led his team to a 1-1 draw with Shanghai Harbor, followed by a 3-3 draw with Beijing.
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, beating Tianjin 2-0, but Qingdao was not expected to see another losing streak and eventually fell into the
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After being eliminated by Guangzhou City in the first round of the group, Qingdao welcomed Wuhan in the second round. After being 1-2 down in the first round, Qingdao returned to their opponents with a 2-1 victory in the second round and laughed last in the penalty shootout to successfully relegate. After the match, Wu Jingui's tearful scene was touching.
In fact, about Wu Jingui's performance last season, Qingdao fans have mixed feelings, but about the "survival first" Qingdao Football Club, with "the strongest fire-fighting coach" called Wu Jingui is worth trusting and relying on. However, Wu Jingui resigned in front of Qingdao, and Qingdao's situation is even more dangerous than last season, who can save Qingdao from the fire at this moment? If Wu Jingui is confirmed to leave, as things stand, club veteran Yang Weijian will probably be appointed as the "acting head coach" once again, leading the team to play the last two rounds of matches, including the match with Tianjin Jinmen Tigers. It is worth mentioning that in the 2012 Qingdao season, Yang Weijian replaced Sliskovic, who only led the team for one game, to become the team's executive coach, but his first game Qingdao defeated the Tianjin team, which was led by veteran coach Kuzawa, by 2-1 at home.
On the 13th of
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In a marquee match in the first round of the championship bracket, Beijing
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With Zhang Yuning's header in the 82nd minute of the game, the 1-0 win over the all-Chinese Guangzhou team, which has no foreign aid and no naturalized players, opened the season as expected. Since the 2019 season, the
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Unbeaten in 3 matches against Guangzhou for the last 3 seasons
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beat Canton for the first time; and the loss puts Canton in the
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The four-game winning streak in the first phase of the tournament came to an end.
The problems that Guangzhou team is facing right now are well known, and even whether this team can exist next season is still a big question mark. But even so, Guangzhou players still organized themselves to participate in the
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The second stage of the game, and from this game, Guangzhou players embodied a pretty good state of mind, from a certain point of view, they are also trying to repay their own know and cultivate the grace of the club, but also in the actual action to the outside world to prove that the Guangzhou team is in deep trouble is "not collapsed".
It is worth mentioning that in the second stage of the league matches, Liu Zhiyu, the former reserve team head coach of the Guangzhou team, was officially recognized as the head coach by the Guangzhou club, but the command of the matches was actually in the hands of the executive coach and player
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The hand. Just before the game, the former Guangzhou team boss Cannavaro also "space" for the
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Sending blessings and encouragement. Although
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The debut of the coaching ended in a loss, but public and private, as the team's "big brother", if the Guangzhou team did not have the
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, not even the possibility of pinching it together.
