In the 49th minute of the second half, Wang Haijian hit a close-range shot in the penalty area that bounced off a defender. Immediately afterward, in the 51st minute, Adrian sent a precise direct shot to Dumbya, who easily adjusted in the middle of the road and then calmly shot from the edge of the penalty area to break the deadlock and win the lead for Shenhua.
The game went to the 62nd minute, Qingdao launched a counterattack, in front of the penalty area in a series of passes, creating a one-touch opportunity, Shenhua goalkeeper Xue Qinghao pounced on a shot almost to the hand; then, Shenhua attacked successively, in the 65th minute, Dumbya burst into the right side of the penalty area, forming a one-touch, cleverly past the goalkeeper, but the last shot went wide; immediately after a minute, Chen Shenji long pass, Shenhua once again get a one-touch opportunity! One minute later, a long pass from Chen Shenji gave Shenhua another one-touch chance, and Adrian scored with a push shot from the offside, helping Shenhua extend their lead to 2-0.
In the 69th minute, Dumbya stole the ball in a melee in front of the goal and scored to rewrite the score again. In the 71st minute, Chen Shenji, who was active in the second half, attempted a hanging shot, but it went over the crossbar. Finally, Shenhua beat Qingdao 3-0.
Shenhua had their first match of the second stage on December 12 against Qingdao once again. With 22 points accumulated in the first phase, Shenhua is not under much pressure to survive relegation and therefore did not avoid an early showdown with Qingdao, with the main purpose of the match being to improve player form and to sharpen the squad.
On December 5, the team will have their second warm-up match of the week against Tianjin Jinmen Tigers at Kangqiao Base. After completing this warm-up match, Shenhua plans to take a three-day break and depart from Shanghai on December 9 to officially enter the Suzhou tournament.
Shenhua intends to develop newcomers, but can't actually support them fully
In the warm-up match against Qingdao, "new faces" Fernando, Yu Hang, Chen Shenji appeared one after another, all three from the Shenhua 2001 team, previously as a member of the Shanghai U20 team to fight in the Shaanxi National Games.
As this year's youth league has ended, Shenhua's teams at all levels have been on vacation earlier. Considering the goal of developing young players, Shenhua has taken a number of young players from the 2001 team to follow the first team for training. However, in the next stage of the league, the first team is still facing a major practical problem, that is, unable to fully implement the goal of training young players.
In the middle of this year, the CFA canceled the reserve team league, the club team players are unable to register in the FA and do not have the qualification to substitute at any time to represent the first team to play in the league. As a result, neither Chen Shenji and Jiang Yongjie, who were registered during the AFC Cup, nor newcomers Fernando and Yu Hang are eligible to represent Shenhua in the remaining league matches.
The only existing U23 players in the team are two goalkeepers, Ma Zhen and Xue Qinghao, one defender, Wang Yi, and two midfielders, Wang Haijian and He Longhai. Based on the actual situation, Shenhua will still use the original team to fight in the second stage of the league, and according to the actual situation to train young players, Wang Yi, Wang Haijian, He Longhai is expected to usher in the league debut.
Among Shenhua's original squad, Moreno is certain to miss the second phase of the league. From the current situation, Basogo is also basically out of the situation stage. Called up by the Cameroon national team and completed the task of the group stage of the World Preliminary League tournament, Basogo directly to France, chose to stay in Paris to wait for permission to enter our country.
Whether it's the Africa Cup of Nations, which kicks off in January next year, or the two knockout matches in March where a place in the World Cup is at stake, he will need to fight for his place in the Cameroonian national team through systematic training and tournaments. Therefore, returning home for the remaining eight matches is in the next phase of Basogo's program, but it is still unknown when he will be able to depart due to the country's epidemic prevention policy. The only thing that is certain is that Basogo will not be able to make it to the last stage of the tournament.
The other three foreigners, Jonic, Adrian and Doumbia, played in the warm-up match against Qingdao. If there is no unexpected situation, all three will not return to the team early, and will represent Shenhua to play the second phase of the eight league games.
Two international players Wu Xi, Zhu Chenjie has completed a 14-day "Suzhou" isolation phase, December 2 and the army arrived in Shanghai together, into a week of "independent monitoring" phase. According to the provisions of the two at this stage can meet with Shenhua.
Because this national football journey up to 107 days, the condition of the international players generally fatigue, through the exchange with the players themselves, Wu Xi, Zhu Chenjie will be a little rest, is expected to return to the club on the day of December 5 to report.
Zhao Mingjian and Wen Jiabao, who had not been allowed to leave Dalian in accordance with the epidemic prevention requirements, flew to Shanghai on November 30 after going through the procedures of approval for leaving Lian. The two have been absent from the joint training for two weeks, and will now train alone under the leadership of the physical fitness coach.
After the league starts on December 12, there are only three days between the eight matches, which is still a big test for the players' physical fitness. How to reasonably allocate physical fitness and prevent injuries and other unforeseen circumstances will be the primary consideration of each club. Wu Xi, Zhu Chenjie, Zhao Mingjian and Wen Jiabao are the four late returnees who will be evaluated by Shenhua's coaching and medical teams to see if they can make it to the first match.
Relegation is not a concern, act as a judge
According to the schedule, Shenhua's fellow teams include Henan Songshan Longmen, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, Cangzhou Lions, Qingdao, Wuhan, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger and Dalian People. According to the regulations, the first stage of the same group of teams in the second stage will not play, so the second stage, Shenhua and Qingdao, Cangzhou Lions, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, Henan Songshan Longmen two rounds of a total of eight matches respectively.
Now the relegation zone standings, 22 points of Shenhua, 18 points of Henan basic relegation without worry, of which Shenhua may become the earliest "ashore" team. The other six teams Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, Wuhan, Cangzhou Lions, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, Qingdao, Dalian and Shenhua, Henan two teams with a large gap in points and a smaller difference between them, do not rule out the possibility of relegation melee in the second stage.
According to the rules out by the Football Association at the beginning of this season, the Chinese Super League will expand to 18 teams in the 2022 season, so there are no direct relegation spots in the Chinese Super League this season, and the 15th and 16th place teams will play a play-off against the third and fourth place teams in the Chinese First Division, with the winners participating in the next season's Chinese Super League, and the losers entering the Chinese First Division.
Now the table, the relegation zone 18 points below the maximum difference between the teams only 4 points (11 points Chongqing two rivers Athletic, Wuhan, and 7 points Qingdao, Dalian people), in order to prevent to participate in the form of play-offs to decide life and death, the next stage of each league points are particularly critical, will play a decisive role in the relegation situation, and Shenhua is likely to become one of the judges, the first three rounds of the first three rounds of the first three rounds of the first three rounds of the first three rounds of the first three rounds of the first three rounds of the first three rounds of the first three rounds of the first round of the first three rounds with Qingdao, Cangzhou Lions, Chongqing Two Rivers Athletic at the end of the showdown, it is likely to be an early shore while the relegation situation has changed somewhat.
