April 20, Beijing Times, the recent Chinese Super League (CSL) powerhouses Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou in the AFC Champions League have suffered heavy defeats, refreshing the record of defeats of CSL teams in the AFC Champions League. In response, well-known media personality Yin Bo made a lengthy comment on social media, criticizing the status quo.
Yumbo said bluntly:
In the second round of the AFC Champions League group stage, Guangzhou defeated Kawasaki Frontale by a score of 0-8, setting an embarrassing record for the Chinese Super League team with the largest point difference and the most goals conceded in an AFC Champions League match. The record was previously held by Beijing Guoan last season, when the score was 0-7. Three days ago, Shandong Taishan tied the record with a 0-7 loss to Daegu FC. In the latest round of matches, Shandong Taishan lost 0-5 to Urawa Red Diamonds, and despite the improvement in the field, the gap in strength is still obvious.
Both Kawasaki Frontier and Urawa Red Diamonds made large-scale rotations in this round of matches, with 10 of Kawasaki Frontier's 11 first-round starters replaced, and only 2 of Urawa Red Diamonds' first 11 starting against Shandong Taishan. While Guangzhou and Shandong Taishan have rotated, but the fluctuation is only within the normal range. Obviously, compared with the second-tier players in the Korean and Japanese leagues, the strength gap between the two teams in the Chinese Super League is obvious, and considering the intensive schedule of this year's AFC Champions League group stage, the later matches will be even tougher.
The main reason why Chinese Super League teams chose to withdraw from the tournament or send their youth army to participate in the AFC Champions League for two consecutive seasons is the inconsistency of the epidemic prevention policy with that of foreign countries under the epidemic. If the first team is sent to participate in the tournament, it will face unbearable time and cost, which may be difficult for foreigners to understand, but domestic public opinion should understand. However, the argument of "training young players" seems a bit far-fetched. Last year and this year, the Chinese Super League teams, regardless of the reasons for not sending their main players, would emphasize that "this is a valuable opportunity to train young players". But whether it was last year's record Super League AFC Champions League tragedy stranded abroad, or this year's first-round defeat, the player Guan Jinhao was dismissed, and then fight the Kawasaki striker even dare not foul Evergrande football school children, this "training" to pay the physical and mental cost of how heavy, the formation of the psychological shadow of the number of years it takes to repair, only their Only they know best.
In contrast, Shandong Taishan's performance against Urawa Red Diamonds in the second round was more active than that of Daegu FC in the first round, with the coaching team studying the opponents more deeply, with better tactics, and with the players being more focused and playing better on the field. However, they were still suppressed by the opponent's second-string lineup that did not intentionally prepare for the match, and lost 12 goals in two matches, which made the psychological trauma of the team difficult to be healed. AFC Champions League history of the "tragedy" has been Shandong Taishan's heart disease, and now the old wounds have not yet healed and add new pain, the future generations review these shameful records, I'm afraid that will not go to emphasize what lineups you sent, will only remember those intolerable score, such a mental pressure, should not be borne by these innocent young people.
The development of soccer and the growth of players have their own laws. The AFC Champions League is a platform for Asian clubs to compete at the highest level, and Chinese Super League teams may not be able to compete with their powerful Korean and Japanese rivals even if they field first-line starters. These children, who have almost never participated in professional matches, and who could not even play regular youth team matches during the epidemic, are hastily pushed to Asia's top professional matches, and face off with foreign aiders and international players from foreign professional league teams of a higher grade than the Chinese Super League, and are subjected to a huge blow to both body and mind, just like students who have not yet graduated from elementary school being asked to sit for the college entrance exams. Cultivation" value is training or destruction? Therefore, the AFC is justified in tacitly accepting the withdrawal, but severely criticizing the clubs that sent the youth to participate in the AFC Champions League. Chinese Super League teams should reflect on this move.
In the future, if a similar situation occurs again, the Super League team should simply withdraw from the tournament and not let the kids suffer and take the blame.
I think the basic principle and bottom line in this case is that no matter what the circumstances are, these kids who had the courage to "die" are good people. The online violence on social media is unjustified, and the humiliation of the national soccer team and the Chinese people by those spammers is even more heartbreaking than the 0-7 and 0-8 scores.
