At 4:30 p.m. on July 19, outside the Gusau Olympic Sports Center, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers will soon face Beijing Guoan, their sixth round opponent after the first stage of the Chinese Super League rehabilitation. This is the Football Association and the CFL preparatory group announced yesterday the detailed arrangements for the second half of the first phase of the league, the amount of information is staggering. The key is that the match is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. and the venue is located in the outer field of the Gusu Olympic Sports Center, which means that the Jinmen Tigers will be in the hot summer sun in the south of the Yangtze River, a game with no empty spectators.
Intensive game schedule for each team is a test, for the Jinmen Tigers, from July 19 to August 12, just 25 days to play nine rounds of matches, each round interval of only two days, three of the matches are arranged in the afternoon at 4:30 p.m., including against Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua. Tianjin fans are well aware of the summer heat in Jiangnan, but perhaps do not understand, Jiangnan has been out of the plum, the temperature from the "boiled mode" upgraded to "barbecue mode", imagine, such high temperatures under the 16:30 game, will be how torturous.
Two days before the official release of the schedule, the Football Association and the CFF preparatory team have sent the preliminary schedule for the Guangzhou and Gusu zones to the teams. Take Gusu as an example, the biggest difference with the officially released version is that in the preliminary arrangement, the afternoon match time is 16:00, while the evening match has two times, 18:00 and 18:30, and the night match is 19:30 and 20:00. It may be due to the strong reaction of the teams caused by the 16:00 match time in the afternoon match, and finally the "final version" will postpone the afternoon match time by half an hour, which also leads to the "final version". Probably due to the strong reaction of the teams to the 16:00 afternoon session, the "final version" postponed the afternoon session by half an hour, which led to the postponement of some of the evening matches to 20:30, such as the three matches between the Jinmen Tigers and Hebei, the Dalian People's Team and Shanghai Shenhua.
Playing an intensive schedule of matches in the scorching heat tests not only the team's physical reserves but also its medical support capabilities. The Jinmen Tigers have made detailed organization and preparation before departure. As for the fans' concern about reinforcements, internal reinforcements, in addition to yesterday's announcement of Jin Yangyang officially joined, Wang Jiannan, Shi Yan, Li Haoran, Yan Bingliang and other players' formalities have been submitted, is currently in the approval process. As for foreign aid, fans do not need to be anxious, with some unpredictable conditions continue to appear, the Jinmen Tigers are also constantly adjusting the reinforcement program, the near future will have a confirmed candidate announced. Regardless of the route of attraction, the joining procedures must be completed when the summer transfer window opens in July, as this is the last opportunity to attract reinforcements, while ensuring that the foreign aiders are able to participate in more matches, which is also the clear goal of the Zimmen Tigers.
