On July 13th, the pending new schedule for the 2021 Chinese Super League season was finally revealed. After a round of fierce competition, the CFA Working Alliance gave an answer to the multiple choice question of "league and the Top 12".
According to the new schedule, the 6th round of CSL matches will start on July 18th, not counting the bye in the 5th round. This date is a full 22 days later than the originally planned resumption.
-Source: Qilu Evening News - Qilu One Point
Reporter: Xia Mingrui
The "race from hell" is back.
Shorten the number of matches, shorten the interval between matches, so that the national players have enough energy to prepare for the 12 strong match ...... On July 5, the Chinese Super League, China A, China B main person in charge of the meeting of the newly established Chinese Football Association working alliance announced that the 2021 season of the three levels of professional soccer leagues, the distance of the AFC Cup tournament system to be revised. Among them, the Chinese Super League will restart on July 15, and the original 30 rounds of matches have been reduced to 22 rounds.
According to the adjustments, after the first phase of the Chinese Super League is played in a double round-robin of 14 rounds of matches, the CFA will divide the second phase into a title contending group and a relegation group based on the rankings of the two divisions. The tournament still adopts a double round-robin system, where each team plays a double round-robin match against the four teams that did not play each other in the previous stage, and the final ranking of the season is determined by the points scored in the 22 rounds of matches.
This maneuver appears to be fairer than last year's two-round knockout system in the second stage, but is nowhere near as good as the previously agreed upon 30-round group double round robin system. At the same time, the temporary adjustment of the tightening of the practice also caused dissatisfaction of the fans. After all, this is not the first time this year, the CFA "said change".
Also curtailed is the interval between matches. According to the schedule, the matches will be played on three days instead of five, which will have a greater or lesser impact on the 16 participating Chinese Super League teams.
3 days a "hell schedule", continuous high-intensity combat, the test is the team's "bench" depth. Long-term physical exertion, will certainly increase the players on the field of injury, especially in the clubs of the main starting international players. Take the 40 strong Li Tie tasted the sweetness of early preparations, the CFA is determined to "national football" in front, the league to the side, and even at the expense of reducing the game away. To play out the results, but also to ensure that the body, but also three days a war of international players can be called a dilemma.
-Chinese Super League Wave
The Premier League, which has been quiet for two months, is not quiet.
The Chongqing team has not yet been able to solve the problem of unpaid wages, and Qingdao's financial situation seems to be in trouble as well. Popovic and Vukovic have returned to the team due to disputes, and there are rumors in the media that Qingdao will not even go to the Guangzhou tournament. Although Qingdao's official response was "the club is running normally", the fact that no foreign players have returned to the team always gives people the feeling that there is a lack of confidence. Hebei team's foreign aid Malcolm also did not appear in Suzhou, due to unpaid wages to leave the team news quickly spread ......
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has tacitly agreed to "abandon" the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League, and the speed of capital withdrawal is always beyond imagination.
The luxury team is also facing a crisis, Paulinho left the Guangzhou team, only a part of the legend belongs to him. The "Pagoda Team", which had led the Guangzhou team to the forefront, eventually became a witness to the end of the Guangzhou team's golden dollar era. Beijing Guoan, who sent their youth army to participate in the AFC Champions League, set the biggest record for goals conceded by a Chinese Super League team in the AFC Champions League with a 0:7 defeat, which led countless fans to question whether our soccer can really get better and better.
--Tarzan is ready to go
The only consolation is that even though the winds and waves are rising, the Taishan team is still the same Taishan team.
On July 12, Shandong Taishan team departed from Jinan to Guangzhou. Artemisia Junmin, Wu Xinghan, Zheng Zheng, Ji Xiang, Wang Dalei, Liu Binbin, and Jin Jingdao, who had previously been called up by the CFA, traveled with the team. In the first stage of the 5 games, Shandong Taishan team with 3 wins and 2 draws ranked first in Guangzhou. As the first team to travel to Guangzhou, Shandong Taishan also prepared for the subsequent rounds of Chinese Super League matches.
Throughout the break, Shandong Taishan played friendly matches against Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, Shanghai Seaport and Beijing Guoan. With the absence of international players and an unorganized lineup, Taishan won 4:2 against Tianjin Jinmen Tiger and then lost 0:2 to Shanghai Harbor. Among them, Leonardo performed brightly, and Huang Cong and other young players also played many wonderful games.
Now, 7 international players have been restored to the "club state", Sun Junhao also returned to the team to start the joint practice, Taishan team lineup gradually complete. Facing the "hell schedule" of one match in three days, Taishan team has enough "bench" to support.
Unsurprisingly, Taishan's lineup for the first 5 rounds will not be easily rotated. With Gerdes not returning, Taishan's offense still needs Leonardo and Fellaini in front. The tight schedule also means that young players like Guo Tianyu and Duan Liuyu will get more chances to play.
