Beijing time on April 20, the latest news shows that the recent campaign in the Asian Championship of the Chinese Super League powerhouse Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou team suffered a painful loss, constantly refreshing the Chinese Super League team in the Asian Championship record of defeat. In response, senior media personality Yin Bo wrote a long article on social media to express his indignation.
Yumbo said bluntly:
In the second round of the AFC Champions League group stage, Guangzhou were humiliated by Kawasaki Frontale with a score of 0-8, setting a new record for the shame of goals conceded and points difference for Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League. The previous record was set by Beijing Guoan last season, who also lost 0-7 to Kawasaki. Three days ago, Shandong Taishan lost to Daegu FC with a score of 0-7, equaling this shameful record. This time around, Shandong Taishan lost 0-5 to Urawa Red Diamonds, and although the situation has improved, the strength gap between the two sides is still obvious.
It's worth noting that both Kawasaki Frontale, who beat Guangzhou 8-0, and Urawa Red Diamonds, who beat Shandong Taishan 5-0, made large-scale rotations in this round. Ten of Kawasaki's first 11 players were replaced, and only two of Urawa's first 11 players played against Shandong Taishan. While Guangzhou and Shandong Taishan also had rotations, the degree of fluctuation was still within the normal range. Obviously, with Guangzhou and Shandong Taishan's AFC Champions League lineups, there is still a gap that is hard to bridge compared to the second-tier players in the Korean and Japanese leagues. Considering the compact schedule of the group stage of the AFC Champions League, six rounds of matches will be completed in 16 days, an average of less than three days per round, rotation is a must. The two Chinese Super League youth army strength is uneven, the latter schedule will be more difficult, unless the opponent mercy, or the possibility of a more humiliating tragedy at any time.
The reason why Chinese Super League teams have either withdrawn from the competition or sent their youth army to participate in the AFC Champions League for two consecutive seasons is, first of all, due to the inconsistency of the anti-epidemic policy under the new Champions League epidemic with that of the rest of the world. Sending a first-team squad to the tournament would mean unaffordable time and collateral costs, which may not be understood by those abroad but should be clear to domestic opinion. However, there is another argument that seems a bit far-fetched, and that is "training young players". Last year and this year, the Chinese Super League clubs that sent their youngsters to the AFC Champions League, no matter how they explained why they did not send their main players, would mention one more thing: "It is a valuable opportunity to train the young players". However, whether it is last year set a record in the Chinese Super League AFC Champions League tragedy after being stranded abroad for more than five months, or this year's first round of the tragic loss, the player Guan Jinhao ate a red card after the expulsion, and then fight the Kawasaki striker even dare not foul the Evergrande football school children, this "exercise" to pay the physical and mental cost of how heavy, the formation of psychological shadows need to be How many years of repair to return to normal, no one knows better than they themselves.
In contrast, Shandong Taishan, who have a strong youth training background and relatively solid players, played more positively in the second round against Urawa Red Diamonds compared to the first round encounter with Daegu FC. The coaching team also studied the opponent more deeply, the tactics were more focused, the players were more concentrated and played better on the field. However, the team was still in a complete disadvantage in the confrontation with the opponent's two lineups that did not intentionally prepare for the game, losing 12 goals in two games, and the psychological trauma of the team is difficult to heal. AFC Champions League history of the "tragedy" mark has been a pain point for Shandong Taishan, and now the old hatred has not been removed and add a new enemy, the future generations review the shameful record of the AFC Champions League, I'm afraid that will not go to emphasize what you sent the lineup, will only remember that line of more than a line of words that can not bear to look at the eyes, such a mental pressure should not be borne by the batch of innocent young people. This kind of mental pressure should not be borne by this group of innocent young people.
There is a pattern to the development of soccer and the growth of players. The AFC Champions League is a platform for Asian clubs to compete at the highest level, and the Chinese Super League participants may not be able to compete with their mighty Korean and Japanese rivals even if they field first-line starters. Will these almost never participated in the work of the tournament, two years during the epidemic, even the regular youth team can not play the game of the children, hastily pushed to the top of the Asian work of the field, and the Super League grade higher than the foreign work of the league's strong team of foreign aiders, international footballers head-on collision, suffered a huge physical and mental level of both the huge blow, just like elementary school has not yet graduated students, hard to take the college entrance exams, on him to produce a "exercise" value! Is it the value of "exercise" or the consequences of destruction? Therefore, the AFC tacitly accept the withdrawal, but the clubs that sent the youth army to participate in the AFC Champions League were severely criticized, which is reasonable. Chinese Super League teams need to learn from this. In the future, there will be a similar situation, sent out the first team, simply withdraw from the game, do not let the children to suffer and take the blame.
In my opinion, the most basic principle and bottom line of this matter is that, under any circumstances, these brave "to die" children are good, social media platforms on their net violence is unjustified, those spammers to Chinese soccer and the Chinese people brought shame, than 0-7 and 0-8 score of the tragedy is even worse.
