Lumi reporter reported that Tianjin Jinmen Tigers ended their vacation rally on May 22nd and started a new round of training that afternoon. After more than a month of rest and recuperation, the Jinmen Tigers have a lot of things to do, the first task is to make up for the delayed physical fitness due to the unsystematic training in the winter. With the league restarting at the end of June, Jinmen Tigers are facing an even tougher challenge, with an intensive schedule that puts higher demands on fitness. At the same time, the depth of the bench also puts a higher demand.
After the new round of two-legged matches, the Chinese Super League will see the opening of the summer transfer window. Despite the Jinmen Tigers' delay in the winter training and transfer window, they have been at the forefront of the second transfer window before it opens. Despite limited funds, they started by signing Brazilian midfielder Jefferson Junior. Meanwhile, according to the coaching staff's plan, a foreign striker will also be brought in, and the current plan is to bring in two foreigners. In addition, Cao Yangzheng, who was originally expected by Tianjin fans, is no longer in the plans of the Jinmen Tigers coaching staff, although he is still in Tianjin waiting for the finalization of the naturalization procedures.
Brazilian midfielder joins Zim Tigers
After 5 games in the first stage, Jinmen Tigers had a surprisingly good result with 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. Delays in winter training and reinforcements made everyone think that they were one of the most likely favorites to play in the play-offs this season, but as the matches progressed, Jinmen Tigers only suffered one big defeat thanks to their excellent defense, and kept the number of goals conceded to less than 1 goal in all other matches. It can be said that without a strong forward line, it is difficult for the opponents in Suzhou to break through the tight defense of the Jinmen Tigers. And this year it is very common for teams' forward lines to be greatly reduced due to the inability of foreign aiders to return, so the situation of the Jinmen Tigers is not as bad as it was imagined beforehand.
Not conceding a goal can guarantee not to lose, but in order to win the game, there must be goals. Since Jinmen Tigers have decided to play defensive counterattack as their main style of play, the defense is there, but the counterattack firepower of the front line is obviously insufficient. Previous statistics show that the first five rounds of the Jinmen Tigers shot the least number of times in the Chinese Super League, and scored only 3 goals, only 2 goals in sports. Although the team has two foreign aid, Kadar is in the back of the defense, Iroquois most of the time on the bench, from the coach's use of him, obviously he has not reached the ideal state of the coaching staff. Now in the Jinmen Tiger lineup, the most capable of creating threats in the offensive end is Barton.
July is about to usher in the second transfer period of the season, Zimmen Tigers in the first transfer window missed the best time to add personnel, the second transfer there is more than a month of preparation time, in order to ensure that the new foreign aid can be in place in time to participate in the joint training, Zimmen Tigers has been in the forefront, become the earliest to determine the goals of the summer attraction of the Chinese Super League club. The reporter understands that this attraction, Jinmen Tiger is mainly to supplement the central axis, want to introduce a foreign aid striker and a foreign aid midfielder. A few days ago, 27-year-old Brazilian midfielder Jefferson Junior is close to signing a contract with Jinmen Tigers, and is now dealing with the formalities of coming to China. This season, he played 32 games for Turkish Super League side Gaziantep FK, scoring 4 goals and assisting 3 times. Junior is a defensive midfielder, and his arrival could free up Cong Zhen to participate more in the offense. Meanwhile, the Jinmen Tigers coaching staff had hoped to bring in the team's striker at the same time, but it didn't work out for some reason, but the Jinmen Tigers coaching staff will continue to push forward with the introduction of the foreign striker in the following time.
Cao Yangzheng: return confirmed
Before the transfer window opens, the Jinmen Tigers still need to be tested against two strong teams, Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua. During this period of recovery training, the team is mainly focusing on strengthening their physical fitness to cope with a more intensive schedule and more intense matches in the next phase. The Jinmen Tigers plan to play a few warm-up matches during this preparation period, the most recent of which is a warm-up match with Shenzhen Football.
By the time the transfer window opens after two rounds of matches, the Jinmen Tigers will also have new reinforcements to add. Of course, when it comes to this year's second transfer period and registration period, everyone will also be watching to see if Cao Yangzheng, the Chinese-American player the team has been waiting to naturalize, can register to play for the team in the second phase.
During the past winter preparation period, Chinese player Cao Yangzheng has been training with Shandong Taishan's reserve team, and then with the revival of Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, he returned to the team for a while to continue training and wait for the finalization of the naturalization procedure. In the first phase, the Jinmen Tigers club did not enroll him and he had to just train with the team as he had been doing in the past. In the process, it was speculated that Cao Yang would sign up to play for Jinmen Tigers in the second transfer period, and that the distance between him and Jinmen Tigers was actually only one naturalization procedure.
