Season 2021 after all the ups and downs
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The league finally kicked off on Thursday, and for teams like Guangzhou, who had to enter the tournament early and complete a fifth-round bye, they embarked on the "journey to purgatory" of frequent matches even earlier. This Sunday, the upcoming
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In round 6, they will face Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic.
In addition to the name change of the two teams in the Yu-Sui-Suizhou duel two years ago, the lineups have also changed drastically. Now, the eight champions, who have already said goodbye to foreign aid, are facing a severe test, and whether they can at least advance to the championship group seems to be their only way out.
["Ready for the Devils"]
Due to the international players' early preparation for the 40-team tournament, the fifth round of Guangzhou's match with Henan Songshan Longmen
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The tournament was postponed, which allowed Cannavaro to leave the closed tournament hotel early. However, the plan could not catch up with the change. The break, which was originally expected to last about a month and a half, had to be postponed until mid-July because of a change in the venue of the national team's World Qualifying Tournament, which made the two rounds of matches before and after Guangzhou's tournament as long as 67 days apart.
On the other hand, despite the delayed
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There is no conflict between the league and the AFC Champions League East Asian Group Stage, which begins at the end of June, but because it continues to be played outside the country in a tournament format, players are required to undergo a 21-day isolation and quarantine upon their return to their home country, in order to cope with the restart of the
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The Guangzhou team had to send young players to participate in the league, and the "Tigers", despite their best efforts, could only six consecutive losses group exit.
In response, Cannavaro said helplessly, "The most gratifying thing for me is that every player has given 100% effort, no one is resisting the game negatively because of the results, every player is fighting hard, but there's really no way we have to send out this kind of lineup to cope with the scheduling of the matches."
Faced with a full two-month break, Cannavaro gave the first-team only a few days off before regrouping at the base in mid-May to begin preparations for the subsequent
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League. Although the preparation started early, but the eight champions still need to face the problem of personnel shortage, in addition to the early withdrawal of training due to injury Fernando, Guangzhou team, the other six international players are deeply involved in the national football team in the final three 40 matches, and previously promoted into the first team of the eleven young players, some of them, such as Yang Dejiang, Zhang Zhihao transferred to play the U21 League and the AFC Champions League, Wang Shilong and Hou Yu and other players are selected at all levels of the National Youth, the Only a dozen or so first-team players remain at the Panyu base for training.
Despite the small number of people, the manager has been emphasizing high-intensity training, and the quality has not declined. Before the break Kasai had said that the team's problem was the lack of intensity in some moments of the game, so the focus in the break was also to be physically prepared enough. However, compared to the relatively favorable climate during the winter training, the entire summer training of the Guangzhou team is carried out in the high humidity and high heat of the Panyu base. A player said: this interval every day training, the equivalent of practicing another preparation period.
Guangzhou's international players also returned to the team after the end of isolation and quarantine on July 8, and went into joint practice after a short vacation. Yan Dinghao said in the pre-match conference against Henan, "We had a warm-up match before entering the tournament, we are all in good condition and are all ready for the devil's game."
["The results of rotation competitions are more important"]
The biggest news for Guangzhou throughout the summer has undoubtedly been the departures of Paulinho and Tallis.
As a result of the new crown epidemic raging, stranded in Brazil for half a year, "Pota" combination, on May 18 and June 20 have to transfer and negotiate the termination of the contract, officially left the Guangzhou team, since then the eight champions of the team no longer have any foreign players, in the summer window continue to maintain the "only out of not into the" situation. In the summer window continue to maintain the "only out not in" situation, the Guangzhou team also officially into the era of all Chinese class.
"Pota" combination of Guangzhou team and Cannavaro, like the climbing cane, now boots have fallen to the ground, the Italians can no longer expect them to return to the king, the Chinese players need to take full responsibility.
From the first stage of the first four games have been able to see, the lack of Paulinho and Talisman's Guangzhou team, in attack or defense, have lost the absolute advantage of the past, but by virtue of the front of the naturalization of the trident aftermath and the individual ability of the other local players, although it is no longer the biggest favorite to compete for the title, but the Guangzhou team face the middle and lower reaches of the team still has some advantages.
Sunday at 18:00 in the Galaxy Stadium to face into the second opponent of the devil's schedule Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, in the first phase of the almost no rotation of the main formation of Cannavaro, also recognized the need to rotate the use of players in the rhythm of the three days of a game, a reasonable distribution of physical, "28 days to play 10 games, the difficulty of the very great, I think it is very important that the player needs to be rotated or grasp the opportunity to rotate players is important. I think it's important to rotate players or grasp the opportunity to rotate players. We will definitely see a lot of rotation, not that we do not pay attention to the results of the competition, but that under the premise of ensuring the health of the players, rotation is more important than the results of the competition."
But in most
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Teams have brought all the players on the 35-man roster into the tournament to cope with the sight of an intensive schedule, but Guangzhou is one of the teams with fewer players when they step into the tournament.
First, there are the young players on the Guangzhou roster, part of whom are in quarantine isolation after returning from the AFC Champions League, and part of whom are on the national youth training rosters at all levels, and then previously on the
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Collective training and then touched the old disease strain Fernando, still need time to recover, short-term can not enter the competition. In this regard, Cannavaro also said: "I am most sorry or Fernando, I am very angry with Fernando's work, we carefully let him recover, but perhaps the competition task is different, the national team want to speed up to let him recover, but perhaps it is very unfortunate to be injured from the beginning." Also captain Zheng Zhi is confirmed to be out of the first few rounds of the restart due to his participation in the latest FA B coaching license study test
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Contest.
The good news is that He Chao and Zhang Xiuwei have fully recovered from their injuries, and Li Xuepeng and Luo Guofu, who have been recovering from injuries for a long period of time, are also close to returning, which will allow Cannavaro to have more space to choose from in terms of his formation. The first phase of the first four games, the Italian in the formation selection are maintained in an iron four defenders and three midfield combination, and when the Devil's schedule, out of the need for rotation, we will also be about the rate to see a different formation of the Guangzhou team to present.
Because of the change in the system, the last time Yu Sui battle back in August 2019, that time Chongqing away 1-1 draw just into the low period of the Guangzhou team, indirectly leading to the aftermath of the card Shuai "class" clouds present. After two years to meet again, the formation of the two teams are no longer in the heyday of the time, for the first four rounds of only two wins in the eight champions, the first phase of the completion of the group into the title contention is necessary to complete the minimum goal, and the immediate three points is what they must take.
