On the night of June 8, Chengdu Rongcheng had their final home matchup of June. In the 12th round of the Chinese Super League (CSL), Rongcheng drew 0-0 with Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, but was missing key players such as Romulo and Kim Hin-Woo.
However, Rongcheng still stands undefeated this season, having gone 26 consecutive rounds undefeated across the season, surpassing the undefeated Chinese Super League record for draws set by Guangzhou Evergrande in 2015!
This coming June 29, Rongcheng will challenge this exclusive record when they go on the road to Shenzhen!
Phoenix Hill Sports Park tonight, still crowded, friends have been screened by this event.
Chengdu Rongcheng and Tianjin Jinmen Tigers are the only two teams to remain undefeated ahead of the league. Rongcheng is second in the Chinese Super League with six wins and five draws, while Jinmen Tiger is fourth with four wins and seven draws.
Unfortunately, in this round of home match against Tsimshatsui Tigers, Rongcheng was missing their young generals Romulo and Feng Zhuoyi. Romulo retired with a serious injury and Feng Zhuoyi was sent off with a red card in the second half. Although Rongcheng won three points at home in the harbor by "pulling the teeth out of the tiger's mouth", the cost was not small. Feng Zhuoyi was suspended, and Romulo was diagnosed with a ruptured ACL in his left knee, requiring surgery and long term recuperation.
According to reports, Romulo originally wanted to go back to Brazil for surgery, but German teammates Tang Miao and Gan Chao suggested that it would be best for him to go to Germany for treatment. Fortunately, the team doctors are specialized and Romulo can first use conservative treatment to ease the injury.
Even in the best case scenario, Romulo will be out for at least a few months and possibly the entire season. Hurricane fans are also ready to console Romulo in various ways before tonight's game.
The "Red Blades" fans will create a Romulo song for Romulo in a short time and post a video of the song on their official account.
In the stands, fans spelled out "R10" in red and white plastic bags, and in the 10th minute of the game, the fans chanted Romulo's name in unison, a shocking and heartwarming scene. Romulo also applauded and thanked them from the stands.
Tonight, more than 500 frontline urban construction workers were invited to watch the game, including highly skilled "Chengdu craftsmen", sanitation workers who beautify the urban environment, construction workers who make the city vibrant, as well as takeaway and courier boys.
Before the game, they sang My People, My Country in unison to cheer for Hibiscus.
19:06 p.m. Songs resonate through the South Stand at Phoenix Hill Sports Park, a professional soccer stadium.
The song My People, My Country echoed through the 10,000-strong arena, with frontline builders waving the five-star red flag, their eyes firm and their voices resounding.
The songs conveyed emotions and expressed love for life in Chengdu and deep attachment to the motherland.
62-year-old sanitation worker Tang Dao propaganda, waiting to enter the field, pulled the sound of my people, my country, become "red" positive energy representatives.
He hopes to convey this warmth through the sound of the piano to the soccer players on the field, every audience, and even all the lovely people in this city.
The significance behind the 26th consecutive undefeated round in the Premier League?
Since the establishment of the Chinese Super League in 2004, only Guangzhou Evergrande at the peak of the "Evergrande Dynasty" achieved this feat in 2015.
At that time, Guangzhou Evergrande had new and old international players such as Zeng Cheng, Feng Xiaoting, Liu Jian, Li Xuepeng, Rong Hao, Zhang Linmiao, Zheng Zhi, Zhao Xu Ri, Zheng Long, Yu Hanchao, Song Lin, etc., and the foreigners included Jin Yingquan, Paulinho, Gaolat, Robinho, Aixon, Allan and others.
In the fourth round of the 2015 season, Guangzhou Evergrande suffered its first loss in the league with a 1-2 defeat away to Henan Jianye, which was also the team's only loss this season. In the next 26 rounds of matches, Guangzhou Evergrande achieved an undefeated record of 17 wins and 9 draws, thus setting a record of 26 consecutive undefeated rounds in the Chinese Super League.
However, fans expected Guangzhou Evergrande to continue to show an undefeated record in the following year, but in the first round of the 2016 season, Guangzhou Evergrande lost to Chongqing Lifan in the first round of the league with 1-2 away from home, and its undefeated streak came to a halt at 26 matches.
