On the night of August 26th, the 15th round of the 2022 Chinese Super League was lit as Beijing Guoan hosted Shanghai Shenhua in Rizhao. In this fierce duel, Han Chao and Bassogo's excellent play allowed Guoan to dominate the whole field, but went home with a 0-2 score. This season, Guoan has a dismal record against the top five teams, with no wins yet.
In this game, the lineup of Guoan did not make too many adjustments, Yu Dabao, Yu Yang and other defense players continue to standby for the substitutes, Memishevic partner Bo Yang, midfield is Zhang Xizhe, Ji Zhongguo sit in the town of the front line of the impact of Zhang Yuning full of power. Shenhua, on the other hand, took the defensive counterattack tactics, Jin Yangyang partner Jiang Shenglong to defend the line, midfielder Wu Xi came back in time, veteran Yu Hanchao also got the chance to start, counterattack by him and Bassogo teamed up.
At the beginning of the game, Guoan took the initiative on the field, but Shenhua was not in a disadvantageous position by virtue of the tenacious scrambling and flexible running. Although Guoan had a number of threatening shots on goal, Shenhua's excellent defense did not allow Guoan's offense to make any progress. Until the 16th minute, Guoan only completed a threatening shot, but Zhang Yuning's shot slipped through the goal. Shenhua with subtle tactics, in the Guoan full attack, Yu Hanchao easily over Park Yang, formed a single knife, facing Zou Dehai a foot shot to break the goal. The second goal is also simple, Yu Hanchao speed advantage again, creating a penalty kick, Basogo a cue, Shenhua two goals ahead, completely playing on the defensive counterattack.
Shenhua's offense was extremely efficient in this game, with 4 shots on goal and 3 on target, resulting in 2 goals. Guoan was getting more and more impatient in the situation of falling behind, with a single means of offense, relying on side road passes most of the time, but the effect was not good. The whole game 31 passes, only 6 successful, the rest of the Shenhua defense players destroyed, 17 feet shot only 2 feet shot on target, efficiency is strange. Zhang Yuning continued his poor form from the previous game and eventually left the field due to injury, I don't know how this will affect the following games.
Guoan's two goals conceded are very simple, rather than the success of Shenhua's tactics, Guoan's defense once again made undue mistakes. Defensive problems has always been the pain of Guoan, the team in the change of command, abandoned Yu Dabao, Yu Yang, Zhang Chendong, etc., Meimeišević back to the position of center back, but this approach in the fight against the middle and lower reaches of the team is still useful, a hard battle, I don't know whether it's the ability to regress or the strength of the issue of the defense, no matter how the change of the line is difficult to change. Facing the top five teams this season, Guoan either draw or lose, only against Meizhou to get two draws, it seems that this year's Guoan, the overall strength is only in the middle of the pack.
It is worth mentioning that the new foreign coach of Guoan has basically confirmed that it is the former reserve team manager Stanley. The Dutchman had led the youth army of Guoan to knock out the full-strength Chengdu Rongcheng in the F.A.C.A. Cup and broke into the top 8, and he knows the young generation of Guoan players very well. His arrival may bring changes to Guoan, perhaps under his leadership, Liang Shaowen, Liu Guobo, Tian Yuda and others will get more opportunities to play. After all, this season Guoan results have been so, might as well let the young players grow up quickly. (DD)
