The South Guangdong soccer powerhouses, Guangzhou, Guangzhou City and Shenzhen, have all made clear their ambitious goal of fighting hard to make it to the top four in the team competition!
With the first five rounds of the first stage of the war, the table of Group A of the Guangzhou tournament, Shandong team with 11 points to lead, followed by Guangzhou City and Shenzhen team, both tied for second place with 8 points, while Guangzhou team, although less than a round of the tournament, but with 7 points to cling to the fourth place. The core objective of the current coach Cannavaro is to lead his team into the top four of Group A in the first stage, and then to launch the road to the championship.
During the past two months off, the Guangzhou team has been sticking to the Panyu training base for orderly training, during which only the youth team was sent to participate in the AFC East Asian Championship group matches. Domestic players who have completed their quarantine have now returned to the team, and they are in good physical and mental condition. Currently, all registered players are available to play, except Fernando who is unable to play due to injury.
Despite the current "second transfer" period, the Chinese Super League teams did not have heavy internal and external reinforcements to join, but instead have redundant players in the lineup loaned to the Chinese A and B clubs. Guangzhou team in this summer also did not carry out reinforcements, "Pagoda combination" has all returned, the team lineup formally realized the "full Chinese class". Despite the fact that in the past two months, due to the absence of a number of international players, Cannavaro was unable to carry out a full lineup of joint practice, but the team is fully prepared for the next 28 days of the 10 matches. 13 evening, Guangzhou will be stationed in the Oriental Hotel, and Henan Songshan Longmen to play a bye, which is also the first game after the restart of the first phase of the Chinese Super League.
Guangzhou City has been stationed at the University City Stadium for training during the off-season, with no absence of other players except for Wen Yasen who was absent due to his participation in the European Cup. Considering the development of the team, Guangzhou City has also loaned out players such as Jin Bo, Wang Peng and Wu Chengru to Central League clubs. Currently, Wen Yasen has returned to Guangzhou to isolate, and manager Van Garst has focused on strengthening the attacking end of the set changes and the defensive end of the anti-aircraft ability during the training period. Van Garst believes that they must learn the lessons from the big loss to Shenzhen in the first 5 rounds of the tournament and stabilize the top 4 positions in the group in the next 9 rounds of the tournament. In Round 6, Guangzhou City will challenge current group leaders Shandong Taishan at the Huadu Stadium.
Shenzhen team has a luxurious lineup this year, but did not fully show its strength in the first 5 rounds. In the past two months training period, SZFC was led by the new head coach Carlos. Carlos has coached teams such as Levante and Alaves in the lower leagues, and last year coached Chengdu Xingcheng in the Central League. In the 6th round, Shenzhen will face Cangzhou Lions in University City, which is also Carlos' debut in SZFC. At present, Shenzhen's Iranian international Praliganji has completed the isolation to return to the team, led by Jintro's Shenzhen football next not only to protect the group's top four, but also through the wonderful performance to prove their own this year's luxury lineup strength.
