In the opening match of the new Chinese Football League season, Wuhan Sanzhen under the management of Wei Shihao won the Super Cup for the first time with a 2-0 victory over Shandong Taishan. Wei Shihao and the Guangzhou veterans' outstanding performance added color to the Super Cup and brought back memories of their former glory days in Guangzhou. Coincidentally, the Guangzhou team also opened the new season with a 2-0 win over Zhuhai 2030, a good start to the season.
On April 8, blogger "Green Youth" revealed that the Guangzhou team will face Zhuhai 2030 in the first warm-up match of the new season. Given that key players such as Zeng Yaozhang and Wang Shijie were infected with the flu, Guangzhou did not send their strongest lineup, starting with Huo Shenping, Jiang Weilang, Wang Wenxuan, Chen Quanjiang, and Ruan Sai. In the end, Guangzhou won 2-0, ushering in a good start to the new season. For Guangzhou, the key now is not to win, but to prove that the team is still energetic and smoothly enter the preparation stage of the league.
As we all know, due to the financial crisis, Guangzhou team could only rely on local players in the last season, which led to relegation. In the new season, the team lost core players such as Wei and Yan. Currently, only a few people remain from last season's starting lineup such as Zhang Xiuwei and Wang Shilong.
For the new season, Guangzhou finally started to prepare for the season after confirming Liu Zhiyu as their coach. As a result, two former Evergrande youth players, Parman Jiang and Bugra Khan, are the first to return, and despite their limited abilities, they are certainly a big help to the current team. With Xu Bin and Ling Jie, who were once mainstays of the national team, the new Guangzhou team may be hard to match in the first division of the new season.
It is worth mentioning that Evergrande boss Xu Jiayin recently had a rare meeting with the head of the club, suspending the introduction of mid-generation players. Seemingly unfavorable to the Guangzhou team, it actually reflects Boss Xu's confidence in the strength of young players (the shortage of funds is also objective). Look at Wu Shaocong's rapid progress in the league, Xu Bin's bright performance in the Asian Youth Championship, it can be seen that Evergrande's young players do not lack of talent, but only lack of opportunities to show their own. If they are given more chances to play, they will grow faster. What's even more remarkable is that the young player, who is about 20 years old, has already made a name for himself in the Europa League and has a promising future ahead of him.
