On September 28th, at 4:45 pm, the 18th round of the 2022 Chinese Super League (CSL) Supplementary Match, a key match between Dalian People and Shanghai Shenhua will be played. A pre-match press conference was held at the Puwan Stadium in Dalian, where Dalian head coach Xie Hui and Shanghai Shenhua head coach Wu Jingui made an appearance.
Commenting on the team's preparations, Wu Jingui said, "Recently, our team has been actively preparing for the game and has conducted in-depth research on the opponent's game. We have noticed that our opponents are in excellent form and have improved significantly this year, which we must pay full attention to. For the upcoming matches, we will give our best and play at our level."
Shenhua is undefeated in the past five rounds of matches, will this lead to a change in the team's mentality? To this, Wu Jingui clearly responded, "No, we will treat every opponent with the same attitude and do our best in every game, which is our consistent competitive attitude."
Dalian player Yang Xu revealed, "We've been training very hard these past few days, and we've had a teaching match to try to find the rhythm of the game, so I hope we can bring a great game to the fans tomorrow."
Yang Xu confessed, "Our team has previously been affected by fluctuations in mentality, but in recent matches, we have stuck to our own style of play no matter who our opponents are or what style of play they use. We have also seen that this has brought us good results, so we will continue to stick to this tactical mindset."
Introducing Dalian's preparation for the match, Xie Hui said, "Our next opponent is Shanghai Shenhua, who have performed well in both rankings and matches. From the technical and tactical level, the team led by director Wu has a high tactical quality, showing high figures both in the ball-less and ball-playing state as well as in the conversion. They are ranked in the top three in many difficult situations. This is a very interesting game, I don't want to say it's a tough game, the two teams have very different styles, which is a very good thing for soccer. I'm looking forward to the outcome of the game against such an opponent and I hope we can get a good result."
Today, the club officially announced the return of Lin Liangming to the first team. Regarding Lin Liangming's form and whether he will have a chance to play tomorrow, Xie Hui responded, "Lin Liangming returned to the team for training today, before that he had been training individually with the fitness coach. Therefore, he may only be able to start from the bench and I don't think it's very likely that he will start."
In the last round of Dalian people and Guoan's game, the team adopted a new 4312 formation, which is 442 midfield diamond-shaped station. Xie Hui said: "In fact, 433 and 442 rhombic midfield grafting part is very big, the change is a combination of a positive triangle and an inverted triangle, and there are many positions are different rhombus, different triangles. As professional players, we can understand these changes, but it does not mean that the formation is completely changed. Three at the back is a bigger formation shift and I don't think it will take too long, in fact we were able to see it in the last game and we cut through it a bit more smoothly."
Player Feng Zeyuan said, "Our team is facing many difficulties and challenges at the moment, but that doesn't stop us from actively preparing for tomorrow's game, and we hope the team will meet our opponents in the best spirit tomorrow."
