At 4:45 p.m. on September 28, the pre-match press conference for the 18th round bye of the 2022 Chinese Super League, Dalian People vs Shanghai Shenhua, was held at the Puwan Stadium in Dalian. Both Dalian head coach Xie Hui and Shanghai Shenhua head coach Wu Jingui attended the conference.
Commenting on his team's preparations, Wu Jingui revealed, "Recently, our team has been actively preparing for the game and watching our opponents' matches. We noticed that our opponents are in very good shape and have made remarkable changes and progress this year, so we must pay great attention to them. For tomorrow's match, we will definitely give our best and play to our level."
On the question of whether Shenhua's undefeated record in the last five rounds of matches will affect the team's mentality, Wu Jingui made it clear: "No. We will take every opponent seriously. We will take every opponent seriously and go all out in every game, which is our consistent competitive attitude."
Dalian player Yang Xu said, "We have been training very seriously these days, and we also had a teaching match to try to find the rhythm of the game, and I hope we can give the fans a great game tomorrow."
Yang Xu also confessed, "Our team has previously encountered games where the game situation was affected because of a change in mentality, but in recent games, no matter who the opponent is and how the opponent plays, we have always insisted on playing with me as the main player. We have also seen that we have achieved better results, so we will continue our tactical thinking to do so."
Xie Hui said when introducing the preparation of Dalian people: "The next round opponent is Shanghai Shenhua, they have performed well in the ranking and in the game. Technically and tactically, the team led by director Wu has a very high tactical quality this year, reflecting high figures both in terms of no ball, ball state and conversion, and can be ranked in the top three in many difficult situations. This game is very interesting, I don't want to say it's a difficult game, the two teams don't have the same style, which is a good thing from the soccer itself, and what kind of result with such an opponent I'm looking forward to, I hope it can be a good result."
Today, the club officially announced the return of Lin Liangming to the first team. To the question of Lin Liangming's situation and whether he will have a chance to play tomorrow, Xie Hui replied, "Lin Liangming came back to the team today, and before that, he was training alone with the fitness coach. In that case he can only start from the bench, I don't think it's very likely for him to start."
In the last round of Dalian people and Guoan's game, the team used a new 4312 formation, that is, 442 midfield diamond stand. Xie Hui said: "In fact, 433 and 442 rhombus in the grafting part is very large, the change is a positive and inverted triangle, there are many positions are different rhombus, different triangles. As a professional player can understand these, but not a complete change of formation. Three at the back is a bigger formation change, I don't think it takes too long, in fact we could already see it in the last game, we cut through it more smoothly."
Feng Zeyuan said, "Our team is facing a lot of difficulties and challenges now, but it doesn't prevent us from actively recovering and preparing for tomorrow's game, and we hope that the team will be in the best spirit to face the opponent tomorrow."
