In the late afternoon of November 13th, an exciting 1-1 draw was played between Dalian Ren's home team and Guangzhou. As the match came to an end, Dalian People's head coach Xie Hui hurried to the press conference.
Reflecting on Dalian's performance, Xie Hui was blunt: "At the beginning of the game, a series of mistakes made by us made the situation more and more difficult. The other team also adopted a delaying tactic and clearly valued this point. I've mentioned before that the net game time in the Chinese Super League is around 40 minutes, but I don't have any specific statistics for this match, so I think it was quite dismal."
"Even though we lost such a game we still had chances to come back, but in reality we only played 60% of our strength. I think we still have reason to be satisfied with this 1-1 result. We had 3.4 chances to create a goal and apart from the goal we conceded, the other team had almost no chances. Today, we think we should have taken all three points."
Talking about the current injury situation of the Dalian Ren team, Xie Hui revealed, "Regarding Laureus, we haven't officially announced his medial collateral ligament injury yet, and it is expected that he will not be able to play again this season. As for Dong Yanfeng, he may need another week to recover. He's been off for two weeks and the injury is not considered serious. We don't want to take any chances with Bosanjic, after all, we don't want to take any risks in the league. In addition, his injury involves his calf muscle and Achilles tendon, and once it recurs, the consequences are unimaginable, so we have to be cautious."
On the 18th of this month, Dalian People will face Zhejiang in the second round of the FA Cup. Talking about the match, Xie Hui said, "We will follow the established plan to prepare for the match gradually and rotate personnel at the right time. After all, the FA Cup itself is a match of three days and four nights apart, and we treat it as part of the league."
