The fierce battle for the Asian Cup is in full swing, with the smoke of the eighth-quarter finals filling the air and the lords of the world competing fiercely. Although our national soccer team has bid farewell to West Asia and returned to their homeland, a team in the Chinese Super League, Three Towns of Wuhan, has left its footprints in West Asia. The former league champions, underperformed in the Dubai Cup, losing both of their matches, 1-3 and 0-1, and ended up fourth in the tournament as the final losers. It was as if the three towns in Wuhan were replicating the national soccer team's dismal loss in West Asia.
However, for Wuhan's three towns, traveling to West Asia for warm-up matches was a smart move. After all, participating in the Dubai Cup meant that the team got a high profile warm-up. The match against the Jeddah national team became the first warm-up match for the three Wuhan towns during the winter training period. Despite scoring first in the match, Wuhan Three Town ended up losing 1-3. The team suffered an opening defeat in the warm-up match in West Asia and failed to advance to the final of the Dubai Cup.
In the second round of the Dubai Cup, Wuhan Three Towns had a fierce battle with Morocco. From the starting lineup, Wuhan Three Towns sent out strong reinforcements, with main players such as Efirdin, Tao Qianglong and Liu Ruowan vanadium making their appearances, and players such as Davidson, Deng Hanwen and Jiang Zhipeng making their appearances as well.
In the 26th minute of the match, Athletic Lagarde showed great understanding and Wuhan Sanzhen's goalkeeper had to rush out of the penalty area to bring down the opponent player. The referee decided to award a penalty kick, and Mawhob took it, making the score 1-0 and the opponents took the lead. In the stands, Atletico de la Vega fans were thrilled and celebrated wildly. Wuhan Sanzhen got a good chance in the 21st minute, He Chao shot from outside the penalty area, but unfortunately failed to hit the ball, and then the opponent launched a counterattack, Wuhan Sanzhen could only cope with it.
Wuhan's three towns created very few chances in this match. In the end, they were shut out by their opponents and lost 0-1, missing out on third place and eventually finishing fourth. Considering that only four teams participated in the tournament, Three Towns of Wuhan became the penultimate finisher of this year's Dubai Cup.
Our national soccer team suffered a heartbreaking defeat at the Asian Cup, losing all three matches and finishing third in the group stage. Now, the Chinese Super League team is also suffering at the club level. We can only say that our soccer has to be improved in all aspects! Of course, losing is not scary. As long as we Chinese soccer can face up to our own shortcomings, bravely face and recognize this fact, we still have hope to rise in Asia. However, the most urgent task for us at present is to find a correct path of development. Without a clear plan and a reasonable plan, the road to our soccer recovery will be difficult.
