Jinmen Tigers prepare for new challenges
Lumi reported that Tianjin Jinmen Tigers have ended their vacation on May 22nd and started a new round of training on that afternoon. After more than a month of rest and recuperation, the Jinmen Tigers are facing a lot of tasks, the first task is to make up for the lack of physical fitness due to unsystematic winter training. With the restart of the league at the end of June, the Jinmen Tigers will face a more difficult challenge, the schedule is more intensive, the physical requirements are higher. At the same time, the depth requirement for the bench has also risen.
The Premier League will see the opening of the summer transfer window after a new phase of two rounds of matches. Jinmen Tigers are ahead of the game before the second transfer window opens after delays in winter training and the winter transfer window. Despite limited funds, they were the first to finalize Brazilian midfielder Jefferson Júnior. Meanwhile, according to the coaching staff's plan, a foreign striker will also be brought in, and the number of foreigners is now tentatively set at two. In addition, Cao Yangzheng, who was originally expected by Tianjin fans, is no longer in the plans of the Jinmen Tigers' coaching staff, although he is still waiting for the finalization of the naturalization procedures in Tianjin.
Arrival of the Brazilian midfielder
At the end of the 5 games in the first stage, with 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses, Jinmen Tigers achieved a surprisingly good result. Delays in winter training and reinforcements made people think that they would be the favorites for this season's play-offs, but as the matches progressed, Jinmen Tigers only suffered one big defeat with their excellent defense, and the number of goals conceded in the rest of the matches was kept within 1 goal. It can be said that the opponents in the Suzhou District, without a strong front line, it is difficult to break through the dense defense of the Jinmen Tigers. And this year, the front line of each team due to the foreign aid can not return and the situation is very common, so the situation of the Jinmen Tiger is not as bad as imagined in advance.
Not conceding a goal ensures that you don't lose, but you have to score if you want to win. Since Jinmen Tigers have decided to play defensive counterattack as their main style of play, the defense is there, but the counterattack firepower of the front line is obviously insufficient. Previous statistics show that the number of shots on goal in the first five rounds of the Jinmen Tigers was the lowest in the Chinese Super League, and only three goals were scored, with only two goals scored in the campaign. Although the team has two foreign aid, Kadar is in the back of the defense, Iroquois most of the time substitutes, from the coach on his use of the situation, it is clear that he has not yet reached the coaching team's ideal state. Now in the Jinmen Tiger lineup, the most able to create threats in the offensive end is Barton.
With the second transfer period of the season coming up in July, Zimmen Tigers missed the best time to add personnel in the first transfer window. The second transfer there is more than a month of preparation time, in order to ensure that the new foreign aid can be in place in time to participate in the joint training, Jinmen Tiger has been in the forefront of the earliest confirmed this summer attraction policy of the Chinese Super League club. The reporter understands that this attraction, Jinmen Tiger is mainly to supplement the central axis, hoping to introduce a foreign striker and foreign midfielder. A few days ago, 27-year-old Brazilian midfielder Jefferson Junior is close to signing with Jinmen Tigers, and is now dealing with the formalities of coming to China. This season, he played 32 games for Turkish Super League side Gaziantep FK, scoring 4 goals and assisting 3 times. Junior is a defensive midfielder and his arrival could free up Cong Zhen to be more involved in the offense. Meanwhile, the Jinmen Tigers coaching staff had hoped to bring in the team's striker at the same time, but it didn't work out for some reason, but the Jinmen Tigers coaching staff will continue to push for the introduction of a foreign striker in the time to follow.
Cao Yangzheng: confirmed return
Before the transfer window opens, the Jinmen Tigers still need to pass the test of two strong teams, Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua. During this period of resumption of training, the team is mainly focusing on strengthening their physical fitness in order to cope with the increasingly intensive schedule and more intense matches in the next phase. The Jinmen Tigers plan to play a few warm-up matches during this preparation period, the latest of which is a warm-up match with Shenzhen Football.
After two rounds of matches, the transfer window opens and the Jinmen Tigers will also welcome new additions. Of course, when it comes to the second transfer period and registration period of this year, people will also be concerned about whether Cao Yangzheng, the Chinese player whom the team has been waiting to naturalize, will be able to register to play for the team in the second phase.
Chinese player Cao Yang was training with Shandong Taishan's reserve team during the past winter preparation period, and then with the rebirth of Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, he returned to the team for a while to continue training and wait for the finalization of naturalization procedures. In the first phase, the Jinmen Tigers did not enroll him in the club, and he had to simply train with the team, as he had done in the past. In the process, it was speculated that Cao Yang would sign up for Jinmen Tigers in the second transfer period, and that the distance between him and Jinmen Tigers was only one naturalization procedure.
