After a month and a half of long vacation, November 20, the fourth stage of the Central League flames once again, the focus is undoubtedly the Meizhou region, ranked in the top six teams in the five seats occupied by the region, two direct promotion quota has been basically locked in Meizhou. Among them, Zhejiang, Hakka, three towns and Rongcheng and other teams in the spotlight, Zhejiang team in the 21st night of the battle of Kunshan, successfully fired the first shot at the championship.
Among the top four teams, Zhejiang took the lead, trailing Kunshan by a goal in the opening stages but eventually coming back to win 2-1.
In the opening games of the first three phases of the season, Zhejiang suffered a "curse", even against the opponents who were ranked as vice-chairmen at that time, they were unable to take all three points. However, in the fourth stage, they broke the spell in the most difficult stage.
After the first three stages of the game, Zhejiang team accumulated 58 points in third place, 3 points away from the direct promotion zone, obviously, such a ranking is not their goal. In the fourth stage, for the team that aspires to upgrade, every game is a "battle of life and death", therefore, the preparation for the period of preparation is particularly important. Although the start time was not determined until last week, Zhejiang team in the preparation period is "all out".
During the preparation period, Zhejiang scheduled two high-level warm-up matches, one of which was on Nov. 3 against the
national soccer team
The match in Shanghai. At that time, Zhejiang team sent three foreigners, Mu Xiekui, Matthews and Frank, who created a lot of chances in the game, and even had the upper hand once in the first half, and Matthews also opened the first record at the end of the first half. However, Zhejiang rotated in the second half and conceded two goals in a row, eventually losing the game.
After completing that game, the Zhejiang team returned from Shanghai to the Zhongtai base to play a warm-up game against the U22 national youth team that was training there.
In addition to the high level of warm-up games, Zhejiang team also carried out a "reinforcement". Last season's captain talk about Yang this season, two surgeries, the previous game has not been able to play, now, he followed the recovery division for recovery training, also came with the team to Meizhou, once the recovery situation is ideal, it is expected to debut.
If Tan Yang can play, he will undoubtedly bring great help to the team. Last season in the Super League group, Zhejiang beat Rongcheng 1-0 with his goal, and this season, Rongcheng is also the favorite to win the Super League.
Despite the meticulous preparations, there was also unfavorable news for Zhejiang, which was that Matthews was injured in the warm-ups and will miss part of the game.
Matthews joined Zhejiang team, quickly integrated into the team, and Mu Xiekui share the pressure of the attack. With this absence, manager Jordy had to face the problem of the team's attacking power all over again.
Facing Kunshan, Jordy remains confident despite the absence of Matthews, "Matthews is a very good player who can boost the team's offense and he is now working hard to recover. In his absence, we will have other players to take his place and the team is ready for that."
During the game, Jordy made big adjustments and received good results on the offensive end. Although they conceded the first goal in the 14th minute of the opening match, Gu Bin and Wang Jiao scored two goals in the 23rd and 33rd minutes to help Zhejiang complete the reversal.
Jordy was very satisfied with the comeback victory and after the match, he attributed the success to the positive mood of the whole team, "The players were very active and in the end, we earned three points."
It is worth mentioning that, in the absence of Matthews, Frank had an eye-catching performance, and Jordy praised him after the game, "In this game, Frank's performance was very good, his last pass was very crucial, in fact, he also had the opportunity to score, but just did not grasp it."
Frank's return to form is certainly good news for Zhejiang.
