A beacon of a tournament is about to kick off in Dalian on Oct. 23, with the 2021 China
national soccer team
The first leg of the Concacaf Cup Quarterfinals will be played. There will be four exciting matches in the two days of the weekend. Among them, Wuhan's match against Shandong Taishan is undoubtedly the focus of the battle, leading the team to challenge the former hosts Li Xiaopeng revealed in the pre-match conference, after two games of the AFC Cup exercise, the team's form has risen, they will go all out to meet the challenge.
In the face of the AFC Cup in the last eight with the old hosts meet, Li Xiaopeng on Shandong Taishan expressed great respect, "Whether it is now Shandong Taishan, or once the
Luneng (city in Shandong)
Tarzan, all of which are my home, have also been extremely supportive of me coming out to coach. In this game, we will go all out and show that we are worthy of this competition." Wuhan played with an all-Chinese squad in their first two AFC Cup matches, with two foreigners, Rafael and Lopez, having returned to China and completed their isolation. Li Xiaopeng hopes they can return in the next match to better adjust their match form. Wuhan is likely to continue to play with a full Chinese squad in the first leg of this AFC Cup quarterfinal.
Shandong Taishan, which has five foreign aiders, has a stronger lineup. Facing a reunion with Li Xiaopeng on the field, Taishan's head coach Hao Wei said, "Li and I have cooperated with each other before, and we know each other very well, so I hope that we can learn and study tactics better, and make contributions to the development of Chinese soccer together." Talking about the way to win the game, Hao Wei emphasized that the team needs to create more scoring opportunities and improve the efficiency of the attack.
According to the established arrangement, the match between Wuhan and Shandong Taishan will be the first to be played at 3:30 p.m. on the 23rd, and the match between Henan Songshan Longmen and Sichuan Jiuniu will be played at 7:30 p.m. At the same time on the 24th, Shanghai Shenhua will play against Shenzhen, and Dalian People will face Shanghai Harbor.
