The Tri-Town team has been training continuously for over a month as it prepares for its next eight key fixtures in a bid to achieve its goal of reaching the Premier League by the end of the season.
In the third round of the tournament, the Three Towns team actually recorded an amazing eight consecutive wins, and was firmly in second place in the table. In the first three phases, the team has gone through vicissitudes, with both glorious victories and unexpected loss of points; it has changed foreign helpers and coaches, enjoying both praises and doubts. Fortunately, before the launch of the fourth stage, the team gradually found the best state, and both offense and defense have grown to be a strong opponent in the First Division, making the outside world forget that they are just a new team in the First Division.
The AFC Cup came to an end in mid-October, and the Three Towns team took only a week's break to prepare for the tournament. They first conducted physical recovery training in Wuhan, followed by a two-week closed-door training in Foshan at the end of October, during which they also played a number of warm-up matches. 11 November, the team arrived in Meizhou in advance to adapt to the environment of the competition area. In the entire domestic soccer world, the three towns team can be called the least vacation, the most active preparation, training the hardest team.
Into the fourth stage, the three town team will be in order with Rongcheng, Kunshan, Hakka, Zhejiang and other strong teams to start a two-round showdown, each game is related to the "six points of life and death". In the face of eight strong dialog, acting head coach Pedro said: "For us, the fourth stage is like the final of the final, we need to be more determined and indomitable faith, despite the strength of the opponents, but we are not afraid to fight in the last eight games to grab back the points."
The Sanzhen team will face Rongcheng at the Wuhua Olympic Sports Center on Nov. 22 at 7:35 p.m. The two teams have 61 and 55 points, respectively, and the game is a close one.
Pedro revealed that the team has already analyzed the opponent's offense and defense in detail, hoping to play well in the game, "This game will be the best test of the players' active preparation results." Captain Deng Zhuoxiang also said, "In every game in the fourth stage, we will play it as a final, from the beginning of the game to the end of the whistle, we will strictly follow the coach's arrangement to get the best result."
It is worth mentioning that in the fourth stage of the First Division League, the FA will introduce the VAR refereeing mechanism in some matches, and in this match, the video assistant referee will be Wang Wei (Beijing).
