Southern Guangdong soccer powerhouses Guangzhou, Guangzhou City and Shenzhen, who are strategically aiming to go all out in their quest to be among the top four in the first stage of the team competition!
As the first five rounds of the first stage of the tournament came to an end, in Group A of the Guangzhou tournament, Shandong led the way with 11 points, followed by Guangzhou City and Shenzhen, both with 8 points in the second and third places, while Guangzhou ranked fourth with 7 points from one less round of the tournament. The first task of the current coach Cannavaro is to lead the team to be among the top four in Group A in the first stage, and then impact the "championship group".
During the past two months of the off-season, the Guangzhou team has been conducting regular training at the Panyu training base, for which they only sent their youth team to participate in the AFC East Asian Champions League group stage. The internationals who participated in the Top 40 have all returned to the team after the quarantine period, and their physical and mental conditions are not abnormal. At present, except for Fernando who is unable to participate due to injury, all other registered players are able to participate in the game.
Although currently in the "second transfer" period, but the Super League teams did not introduce important internal and external aid, but will be some redundant players loaned to the Central A, Central B clubs. Guangzhou team in this summer also did not introduce new aid, "Pagoda combination" has returned to the team, the team in the lineup to complete the "full Chinese class" layout. Despite the fact that Cannavaro has been unable to practice with a full squad over the past two months due to the absence of a number of international players, the team is fully prepared for the 10 matches to be played in the next 28 days. 13th night, Guangzhou will stay at the Oriental Hotel, while the bye match opponent, Henan Songshan Longmen, will check in in the afternoon of the same day. 7:30pm, July 15th, Guangzhou will play a bye match against Henan at the Huadu Stadium, which will be the first match after the restart of the first phase of the Chinese Super League. The first match after the first phase of the restart.
Guangzhou City has been stationed at the University City Stadium for training during the off-season, and apart from Wen Yasen's participation in the European Cup, no other players have been absent. The club also loaned out players such as Jin Bo, Wang Peng and Wu Chengru to a Central League club in consideration of development. Currently, Wen Yasen has returned to Guangzhou to isolate, head coach Van Garst focuses on two aspects of improvement during the training period, one is the tactical changes in the offensive end, and the other is the defensive end of the anti-aircraft ability. Van Garst believes that they must learn the lessons from the big loss to Shenzhen in the first 5 rounds and hold on to the top 4 positions in the group for the next 9 rounds. In Round 6, Guangzhou City will challenge Shandong Taishan, who are currently top of the group, at the Huadu Stadium.
Shenzhen team has a luxurious lineup this year, but the first 5 rounds of matches did not fully utilize its strength. In the past two-month training period, SZFC was led by new manager Carlos. Carlos has coached teams such as Levante and Alaves in the lower divisions, and last year coached Chengdu Xingcheng in the Central League. Shenzhen will face Cangzhou Lions at University City in the 6th round of the competition, which will also be Carlos' debut for SZFC. Currently, Shenzhen's Iranian international Praliganji has returned to the team from isolation, and the Shenzhen soccer team led by Jintero will not only try to keep the top four in the group next, but also need to play more exciting matches to prove their luxury lineup this year.
