On the night of April 28, the capital
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The Warriors will be in the 2021 season
China Super League (soccer league)
The team will face Shanghai Harbor Army in the second round of the league.
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Bilic, the team's head coach, revealed at the pre-match information session on the 27th that he has been constantly motivating his players to regain their confidence in training in recent days, and expects the whole team to display a strong offense in the match against the seaport.
Bilic at the launch
After losing 1-2 in the first round to
Shanghai Shenhua (soccer team)
After the team, Bilic was
China Super League (soccer league)
The opening game of the tournament was not a good performance. This round against the strength of the harbour team, Bilic face pressure naturally not light. At the conference, Bilic shared the team's recent preparations, in addition to the regular technical and tactical training, he emphasized the psychological construction of the players, "Despite the lack of personnel during the preparations, I told the players that the most important thing is to maintain self-confidence, and I hope that they can continue to be confident and be ready for the next game."
Regarding the lessons learned from the first loss, Bilic said: "I am well aware of the problems exposed in the last game, mainly the team's lack of aggressiveness in the offensive end, allowing the opponent to create a lot of trouble for us in the offensive end, which also led to a long period of time we control the ball but can not be converted into an effective offense. The coaching staff also expected the players to have ups and downs before the game, so I expect the team to make progress one game at a time and gradually improve their form. For this game, I expect the players to improve significantly in terms of physical confrontation and aggression compared to the last game."
For the Harbors, Bilic took over the
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team before it was known. Not only does he have the benefit of a team from
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Video footage of last season's matches provided by the club also familiarizes Harbour's current Croatian-born skipper Leko and goalscorer Arnautovic. "The Harbour are also a strong team with a very different tactical approach to Shenhua and we need to be ready for that." Bilic said he and Leko, who both hail from Croatia's second-largest city, Split, and had started out with the country's second-biggest team, the Split Free Soldiers, as well as playing for the Croatian national team in succession, were familiar with each other. While he was in the
England Premier Soccer League
Arnautovic was a starter for West Ham United when he was in charge of the team. Bilic said he would inform his players about his knowledge of the opposing team's playing style and characteristics, however, whether or not these will have an impact on the game will depend on the players' performance on the field.
In terms of players, absent from the first game of the side defender Wang Gang and newcomer Lucas Sosa are the focus of attention. Bilic frankly, the former's injury recovery is good, basically close to the first state; the latter individual ability is outstanding, the training effect is also very good, is a very good defensive midfielder, but because of the shorter time to the team, and the same position on the competition is very fierce, so it needs to be and the team more integration.
Harbor skipper Leko
Harbour master Leko, who attended the conference later, said the team was in good shape overall after thrashing Tianjin Jinmen Tigers 6-1 in their opening match. However, the match against
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The team is playing a completely different game than the first one.
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The team is stronger and will come out with more motivation to win after the first loss. Therefore, he expects his players to do better than they did in the last game.
Talking about himself and
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On the relationship between team owner Bilic, Leko said, "First of all, I've known Bilic for many years and we've been teammates, and I've always had a lot of respect for him. Specifically for this game, I think we're both going to put our personal relationships aside because it's the Harbors and the
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The game between the teams, we as head coaches will just go our own way."
