According to senior reporter Niu Zhiming, the Shandong Taishan team will blow the rallying cry on October 8 to prepare for the upcoming Super League and AFC Champions League matches.
With the Yokohama Mariners' AFC Champions League campaign coming to an end, the players will have a four-day break. By the eighth day, the Taishan team will be assembled again, and it is expected that the majority of the players will return to the team for training.
In retrospect, the foreigners deserved a longer vacation, especially the veterans like Fellaini and Moises, who have played consecutive matches recently and are in dire need of more adequate time to recover and adjust.
Since 20, Taishan will usher in three consecutive road matches in 10 days, from Changchun to Incheon, and then to Shanghai, the team lineup rotation and adjustment is imperative. At that time, we may witness a brand new change in the team's lineup.
Between the 7th and 17th, Chen Pu, Wang Dalei and Liu Yang were called up by the national team, while Abdul Meat Suli, Xie Wenneng, Jia Feifan and Yu Jinyong were involved in training for the Olympics. In other words, the entire Taishan team is not expected to be assembled until the 18th.
