Shanghai Seaport defeated Shanghai Shenhua 6-1 on aggregate yesterday afternoon to meet Shandong Taishan in the final of the AFC Cup. Thus, the October 13th kick-off of the AFC Cup regular season came to an end, a decisive final will be staged at the beginning of next year. The next ten days, Chinese soccer will step into the national football time. In the early hours of yesterday morning, Beijing time, the national football team once again embarked on a journey to Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, to prepare for the World Qualification Asian Zone 12 matches against Oman and Australia. By the time the internationals return home, the Chinese Super League, which has had a long off-season, may restart in mid-December. In this particular season, the clubs' advantage of stability and development is further amplified.
the tide of war
"King of the Cup" is the name of the game.
The day before yesterday, Shandong Taishan in the second round of the semi-final match of the FA Cup, with Liu Yang and Delgado's double, 4-2 victory over Henan Songshan Longmen, the total score of 5-2 to advance to the final. Since the reform of China's national soccer work, a total of 23 sessions of the F.A.C.A. Cup have been held, and Shandong Taishan has reached the final 12 times, winning the title six times before that. In the last four seasons, Shandong Taishan even killed the final every year, known as the king of the Cup.
However, after the match, Shandong Taishan boss Hao Wei on the team's overall performance in the F.A.C.A. Cup is not a high evaluation, "not as good as the league kicks, can only say stumbling".
After six major main Chiba national team, Shandong Taishan in the F.A.C.P.A. Cup and suffered injuries, especially in the semi-final round, the starting 11 people in addition to the goalkeeper, the rest of the 10 people in seven defenders, many part-time midfield, the captain of the Zheng Zheng is rare to play the back, only three foreigners native attack. But Delgado made 6 goals in 4 games, also contributed 1 assist, 1 planning goals, let Shandong Taishan rely on this set of "residual lineup" head into the AFC Cup final. It is worth mentioning that in the 5 games before the second round of the semi-finals, Shandong scored 8 goals without conceding 1 goal, the only team without conceding a goal. Shandong Taishan's victory in the final of the F.A.C.A. Cup is due to its stability.
Tarzan and Harbor Dual-Line Battle
After the end of the AFC Cup, Hao Wei said the team will make short-term adjustments to prepare for the second stage of the Chinese Super League. As the leader of the first stage of the league, Shandong Taishan's goal is naturally the double championship.
Several Chinese Super League teams have encountered difficulties this season. Although the Guangzhou team to the second region to promote the league title group, but in the parent company suffered a crisis, the team has not yet been officially assembled, has not been announced the first team manager candidate. The Hebei team, which performed a "dark horse leap" in the first phase of the league to advance to the championship group, announced at the end of October that the club was on strike and on vacation due to operating financial difficulties. Whether these two teams will be able to appear in the second phase of the Super League as scheduled is still unknown. Even if the team traveled, but the hearts of the people have long been disorganized, Guangzhou team to talk about how to compete for the title, Hebei team is also difficult to play again to stir up the dark horse.
Among the eight teams in the championship group, Beijing Guoan, who played the first stage with a single foreign aid, has welcomed a new recruit, but still cannot be compared with the team with a full complement of foreign aid. Strong soldiers and horses of the deep football also have the ambition to compete for the title, in order to better prepare for the next stage of the league, the core of the midfield Jintro has returned in advance. But from the first stage of the league and the embodiment of the FA Cup, the deep football is not lack of players, the lack of is the overall integration and championship temperament.
According to the original plan, the league will resume in mid-December and continue until early January of the following year. The final of the AFC Cup will be held at the end of the Chinese Super League, a tiebreaker. On the way to the double line of the championship, the probability will become Shandong Taishan and Shanghai seaport show.
Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Seaport did not meet in the Chinese Super League this season, but led their respective divisions. However, Shandong Taishan has 33 points from 10 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, which is better than Shanghai Seaport's 28 points from 8 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. From the results of the two sides, compared to the Guangzhou team, Shanghai seaport is obviously a more easy to deal with the opponent. From the embodiment of the AFC Cup, Shandong Taishan scored 12 goals in 6 matches, and the front line blossomed. On the contrary, Shanghai Seaport relies too much on Oscar. It is worth noting that, due to the national football team to the west again, after the restart of the league, the last 8 rounds of matches will be played in 24 days. The high intensity of the devil's journey will once again test the teams' personnel reserves, which is where Taishan's strength lies. After the return of the national football team, Hao Wei will have a richer selection in the next deployment.
On the road to the double line of contention, I'm afraid that Shandong Taishan has more advantages than Shanghai seaport.
the national team
Mental conditioning is as important as technical and tactical
The first four rounds of the World Qualifying Asian Zone 12, closed training in West Asia, the game after 48 days, Li Tie heart heart of the fifth and sixth rounds can really usher in the home game. But ultimately these two rounds will still be held in West Asia.
Once again lost the home field, Li Tie in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency frankly admitted that this result let many players have a large psychological fluctuations. "Our biggest difficulty during this period of time is to do the thought work of the players, each player thinks of different things, the ability to adjust is also different. None of us have experienced this kind of work, and I can only think of ways to give the players some help through my previous knowledge. I have been telling the players that this is something they have to go through, and they can only adjust themselves positively." Li Tie said.
Before the second trip to the west, the national team first "diet", Guo Tianyu, Wei Shihao, Wang Shangyuan, Yin Hongbo due to family reasons to leave the team, Gao Zhunyi also due to injuries and illnesses did not go with the team. the end of August before the initial trip to West Asia, Zheng Zheng due to family matters and failed to go with the team. This time, when some international players took a leave of absence due to their respective family matters, the national team considered from a humane perspective and did not force them to travel with the team to the west again.
"Speaking as a coach, I would like to bring all the players to Sharjah together. Guo Tianyu and all four of them are there for extremely special family reasons, not because I am not satisfied with the training attitude of certain players or they are not qualified to represent the national team. The team has also been communicating with the players that family is extremely important to everyone, and I can only respect their choices, and it is also necessary for me to protect the privacy of the players." Li Tie said.
Before the trip on November 3, the national football team divided into two sets of lineups respectively with the deep football and Zhejiang team played two warm-up matches, respectively 3-0, 2-1 win. Li Tie revealed that Wang Dalei and Gao Junyi were both injured in the warm-up matches, Gao Junyi had a more serious injury and could not catch up with the later two matches, and Wang Dalei's injury required three to five days to recover. "In fact, he could have chosen not to go to Sharjah due to his injury, but he expressed a strong desire to play with the coaching staff, saying that as long as he could contribute to the national team, he would be willing to go even just to train. This emotion of the player makes me very happy." Li Tie said.
Previously, there was news that the national football team will make up the recruitment of Zheng Zheng and Ji Xiang, but Li Tie responded: "We have also thought of making up the recruitment of other players, but because many of the Chinese Super League teams are on vacation, the players do not have a good condition, and the choice has become very limited. The only feasible thing is to choose from the teams participating in the AFC Cup, but we still have to consider for the club, and at the same time, we have to understand the physical condition of the players."
In the first four rounds, the national soccer team has 1 win and 3 losses with 3 points in the bottom two of the group, and the fifth round of the match with Oman is crucial in order to retain the hope of getting out of the World Cup. Li Tie said he is not going to think about the points situation at this stage. "From my point of view, it is to face the reality, put ourselves in a lower position, and try to fight every opponent."
After playing these two rounds of matches, the international players will return home, after the implementation of the "14 + 7" immigration isolation policy, rest three or four days, the international players will return to the club to enter the closed area to participate in the second phase of the Super League competition, which lasts until early January of next year. After the Chinese Super League "Devil's Journey", the international players will be gathered for the next year on January 27 and February 1 of the two 12 matches to prepare for the game.
This particular 12-team tournament, the international players in the technical and tactical preparation for the battle, psychological conditioning is crucial.
