By Chen Yong
With only four rounds of the Chinese Super League underway, the problem of injuries and illnesses has emerged like a tidal wave, especially in the third and fourth rounds, the situation is even more serious. This wave of injuries is different from the past, in the past, mostly focused on joint ligaments and muscle strains, but this time there are frequent fractures and other hard injuries.
"This year is really weird, almost all of our injuries are not muscular but substantial, like cracked ribs, sprained ankles, and the likes of Biela being violated by opponents." Beijing Guoan boss Bilic said before the start of the fourth round of the Chinese Super League. More precisely, this year, fracture-type injuries have surpassed ligament injuries and muscle strains, the two most common soccer injuries.
On April 23, Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua game, Guoan player Yu Yang was injured in the confrontation, but he played the game with injuries, and participated in the second and third round of the game, three consecutive matches played a full 90 minutes, until the end of the third round of the game, Yu Yang went to the hospital for checkups, and the results were found to be cracked ribs.
On May 3, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic played against Cangzhou Lions, during the game Cangzhou Lions foreign midfielder Ahmadov was injured due to the conflict, but he insisted on playing the whole game, and went to the hospital for checkups after the game, and was diagnosed with cracked ribs, and Ahmadov has now returned to Uzbekistan.
May 9, Henan Songshan Longmen against Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, the fourth minute of the game, Henan foreign striker Toure was injured in the scramble, was replaced off the field after the examination was diagnosed as: a fracture of the base of the fifth metatarsal bone of the right foot.
On May 10, in the match between Hebei and Shanghai Shenhua, two Shenhua players were injured in the match due to scrambling, and the two were sent to the hospital at the first time after the match. According to the examination report, Peng Xinli suffered a fracture of the distal end of the fibula on the right side; and Zeng Cheng suffered two fractured ribs, accompanied by a mild pneumothorax.
In addition, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger player Li Xiang also suffered a comminuted nose fracture in the first round match with Shanghai Harbor, but the nose fracture didn't affect his subsequent matches too much.
At the end of four rounds of matches, the Super League has seen six cases of fracture-type injuries, which is still rare in the past.
So a question arises as to why the CFL has suffered so many broken bone injuries this year.
This has little to do with the team's preparation and individual preparation. Inadequate team and individual preparation is more likely to lead to muscle strains and joint ligament injuries, while fracture-type injuries are often caused by confrontation. Simple example, before the start of the 2020 season of the Chinese Super League, the team's preparation work is intermittent, the preparation is very inadequate, but at that time, the fracture type of injury is not common, more joint ligament and muscle strain type of injury. Therefore, the first four rounds of the 2021 season to appear this situation appeared to have a certain degree of chance, I personally believe that this is the main factor.
But behind the serendipity, there is a certain inevitability, the logical connection of this inevitability is this: the quality of the Super League competition declined across the board, especially the technical and tactical level of the overall decline in this situation, the teams have a lot of mistakes, and very often it is the mid-field confrontation and entanglement, or one side of the attack one side of the defense, a lot of personnel intensively will be concentrated in a certain area, and more confrontation, contact, shoveling, etc., naturally more likely to lead to fracture type injuries. The result of the fracture type of injury. As of May 11th morning, the CFA Disciplinary Committee has issued a total of 26 new season all kinds of on and off the field disciplinary fines.
Opposition resistance shoveling increase together, is the decline of the technical and tactical level of the Chinese Super League, on the one hand, the further loss of high-level foreign aid, on the other hand, the Brazilian epidemic led to a lot of Brazilian foreign aid can not come to China, although the Chinese Super League teams have also put together a number of foreign aid, but a number of foreign aid from the introduction of the team from the Middle League, completely is to make up for the number of.
The most affected by this wave of injuries are Shanghai Shenhua, Beijing Guoan and Cangzhou Lions.
First of all, Shanghai Shenhua, Zeng Cheng is the team's main goalkeeper, Peng Xinli is the team's main midfielder, Zeng Cheng if absent, Shenhua team also has a replacement goalkeeper Li Shuai, but Li Shuai this year is already 39 years old, although the experience, awareness, technology are not a problem, but by the physical limitations of the ability to save or have a certain decline. As for Peng Xinli, now Shenhua's main midfielder, the state is also very good, his injury also let the team's midfield affected.
Cangzhou Lions is in a worse situation, Ahmadov is the team's center foreign aid, under his drive, Cangzhou Lions once showed a strong midfield control, the first three games Cangzhou Lions possession rate ranked high in the second place in the Chinese Super League, second only to Beijing Guoan, but after the injury of Ahmadov, the team's midfield control slipped significantly.
Guoan's centerpiece foreigner Augusto originally did not return, and Bieira's injury has affected the team even more, in addition, Yu Yang also suffered a serious injury, while Kim Min Ja has returned home to South Korea. However, Guoan has been performing well recently, not only winning two consecutive matches, but also minimizing the loss of Kim Min-Ja's departure because of the postponement of their fourth round match.
Have to mention the national football team, Zeng Cheng is the latest phase of the national team members, after he fractured his ribs, the national team will certainly have to re-draft the goalkeeper, and now look at the goalkeeper available for selection is mainly Wang Dalei, Housen, as for Han Jiaqi, if the daily training may be drafted, but this time to prepare for the 40 strong tournament, the young Han Jiaqi may not be drafted.
Of course, some people talk about the early training of the national football team is to worry about the injury problem of the international players, which may be a reason for the decision of the relevant decision makers, but in fact, more injuries were produced in the fourth round, including Ahmedov, although he was injured in the third round, but it was announced before the fourth round of the tournament, and at the moment the decision of the national football team's early training has already been introduced, and in the first three rounds, injuries are still maintained at a normal level.
