On the night of August 26, Beijing time, the 15th round of the Chinese Super League was rekindled. In this matchup at home in Rizhao, Beijing Guoan met a strong challenge from Shanghai Shenhua. In the end, Han Chao and Bassogao showed their power, but Guoan lost 0-2 with the score of 0-2 in the case of dominating the field. It's worth noting that Guoan has yet to win against any of the top five teams in the rankings this season.
In this campaign, Guoan did not make significant adjustments, the defense line of Yu Dabao, Yu Yang and other players are still sitting on the bench. Memisevic partner Bo Yang, the midfield is led by Zhang Xizhe, Ji Zhongguo, the front line of Zhang Yuning as a sudden attack. Shenhua, on the other hand, adopted a defensive counter-attacking tactic, with Jin Yangyang partnering Jiang Shenglong for the first time due to injuries, midfielder Wu Xi making a timely comeback, and veteran Yu Hanchao getting a chance to show off his skills, with counter-attacks relying heavily on his partnership with Bassogo.
At the beginning of the match, Guoan took the initiative on the field, but Shenhua didn't lose the upper hand on the field by virtue of their tenacious scrambling and running. Guoan made many threats, but Shenhua successfully suppressed Guoan's offense with excellent defense and counterattack. It was not until the 16th minute that Guoan finished a threatening shot, but Zhang Yuning's shot was slightly over the crossbar. Shenhua with excellent tactics, the first goal in the Guoan full attack was born, Yu Hanchao easily over Park Yang formed a single knife, facing Zou Dehai a foot shot broke the door. The second goal was equally simple, Yu Hanchao created a penalty kick when he was attacking from the back, and Bassogo scored a goal to give Shenhua a two goal lead and solidify their defensive counter-attacking tactics.
Shenhua's offense was extremely efficient in this game, with 4 shots on goal and 3 on target, resulting in 2 goals. Guoan is getting more and more impatient in the situation of falling behind and facing the iron barrel formation, the attack method is single, most of the time rely on the side of the road passes, but the effect is not good. The whole game 31 passes, only 6 successful, the rest were all destroyed by the Shenhua defenders, 17 feet shot only 2 feet shot on target, the efficiency is very poor. Zhang Yuning continued his embarrassing form from the previous game and eventually left the field due to injury, the impact on the subsequent games is unknown.
Guoan's two goals conceded are very simple, rather than the tactical success of the Shenhua team, the Guoan defense once again made mistakes that should not be there. Defensive problems have always been the pain point of Guoan, the team after the change of command, abandoned the previous repeated mistakes of YuDaBao, YuYang, ZhangChenDong, etc., MeimeiSheVeiQi return to the center back position, but this approach in the face of the middle and lower reaches of the team is still useful, a hard battle, I do not know is the ability to degradation or the strength of the problem, the defense of how to change the lineup are not able to solve the problem. Facing the top five teams this season, Guoan is either flat or negative, 1-5 loss to three towns, 0-3 loss to Henan, 0-2 loss to Shenhua, only against Meizhou to get two draws, it seems that this season's Guoan, the overall strength of the Super League mid-tier level.
It is worth mentioning that Guoan's new manager is basically determined to be the former reserve team manager Stanley, the Dutchman had previously led the youth army of Guoan in the AFC Cup, eliminating all the main force of Chengdu Rongcheng, breaking into the top 8, the young generation of Guoan players very well understood. His arrival may bring changes to today's Guoan, and perhaps under his leadership, Liang Shaowen, Liu Guobo, Tian Yuda and others will get more chances to play. After all, the results of this season's Guoan have been so, might as well let the young players grow up quickly. (DD)
