In the August 4 edition of Shandong TV's KANBALL TIME, reporter Chen Yong broke the news that the turf renewal project at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center had forced the Taishan Football Club team to choose more away games in their upcoming schedule.
According to the announced schedule, Taishan will follow the rematch with three consecutive external matches: firstly, the team will challenge Tianjin Jinmen Tigers in Haikou at 20:00 on August 6, and the match will be played at Mission Hills Soccer Base. Immediately after that, the team will move to Dalian Jinzhou Stadium on August 13 at 19:30 to battle Shanghai Shenhua. After the match, Taishan will return to Haikou again to meet Hebei on August 17 at 20:00hrs.
Chen Yong revealed in the program, "As the Olympic Sports Center is undergoing a summer turf replacement, Taishan's number of home matches will be limited, so the club proposes to try to increase the number of away matches in the early stage. For example, the team will play Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, Shanghai Shenhua and Hebei in Haikou consecutively before returning home. However, what we didn't expect was that Shenhua was scheduled to play in Dalian, at which point we felt the schedule was too bumpy and wanted to adjust the schedule. But at this time to adjust the schedule is facing a difficult problem, that is the need to adjust the schedule of other teams, other teams may not be happy to cooperate, this is really a rather unexpected thing."
