By Chen Yong
Super League started only four rounds, the injury problem will be like a tidal wave, especially the third and fourth rounds, the situation is particularly serious. It is worth paying attention to is that this wave of injuries and illnesses with the past is different, past injuries and illnesses in the joint ligament, muscle strains, but this time but frequent fractures and other hard injuries.
"This year the situation is very special, many of our injuries are not muscle problems, but organic injuries, such as cracked ribs, ankle sprains, and confrontation injuries like Biela." Before the fourth round of the Chinese Super League, Beijing Guoan manager Bilic said so. More precisely, this year, fracture-type injuries have surpassed ligament injuries and muscle strains as the most common soccer injuries.
On April 23, Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua game, Guoan player Yu Yang was injured, but insisted on playing the game, and in the second and third rounds of the game are playing the whole game. It was not until the end of the third round that Yu Yang went to the hospital for a checkup, which turned out to be a cracked rib.
On May 3, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic played against Cangzhou Lions, Cangzhou foreign midfielder Ahmadov was injured due to the clash, insisted on playing the whole game and went to the hospital for checkups, diagnosed with cracked ribs, and has now returned to Uzbekistan.
May 9, Henan Songshan Longmen against Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, the fourth minute of the game, Henan foreign striker Toure was injured in the scramble, was replaced off the field after the examination was diagnosed as: a fracture of the base of the fifth metatarsal bone of the right foot.
May 10, Hebei and Shanghai Shenhua game, Shenhua two players scramble injured, the first time after the game to the hospital, the examination results show that Peng Xinli right side of the distal fibula fracture; Zeng Cheng two ribs fracture, and accompanied by a mild pneumothorax.
In addition, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger player Li Xiang also suffered a comminuted fracture of the bridge of his nose in the first round of the match against Shanghai Harbor, but it did not affect his subsequent matches too much.
After four rounds, the Super League has seen six cases of fracture-type injuries, which is extremely rare in the past.
So why has the CFL suffered so many broken bone injuries this year?
This has little to do with the team's preparation and individual preparation. Inadequate team and individual preparation is more likely to lead to muscle strains and joint ligament injuries, while fracture-type injuries are often caused by confrontation. Take the 2020 season as an example, before the start of the Super League, the teams' preparation work is intermittent, the preparation is very inadequate, but at that time, the fracture type of injury is not common, more joint ligament and muscle strain type of injury. Therefore, the first four rounds of the 2021 season have a certain degree of chance in this situation, and I personally believe that this is the main factor.
But behind the serendipity, there is also a certain inevitability. The logical connection of this inevitability is this: the quality of the Super League competition is declining, especially the level of technical and tactical decline, in this situation, the team's mistakes are a lot of time is the mid-field confrontation and entanglement, or one side of the attack side of the defense, a lot of personnel intensively concentrated in a certain area, and more confrontation, confrontation, shoveling and so on, naturally, more simply lead to fracture type of injuries. As of May 11th morning, the CFA Disciplinary Committee has issued a total of 26 new season all kinds of on and off the field disciplinary fines.
Opposition against the increase in shoveling together, is the decline in the technical and tactical level of the Chinese Super League, on the one hand, the further loss of high-level foreign aid, on the other hand, the Brazilian epidemic led to many Brazilian foreign aid can not come to China, although the Chinese Super League teams have also put together a number of foreign aid, but a number of foreign aid from the introduction of the team in the middle of the A, completely is to make up for the number of.
The most affected by this wave of injuries are Shanghai Shenhua, Beijing Guoan and Cangzhou Lions.
First look at Shanghai Shenhua, Zeng Cheng is the team's main goalkeeper, Peng Xinli is the team's main midfielder, Zeng Cheng if absent, Shenhua team also has a replacement goalkeeper Li Shuai, but Li Shuai this year is 39 years old, although experience, awareness, technology are no problem, but by the physical limitations of the remedial ability is still a certain decline. As for Peng Xinli, now Shenhua's main midfielder, the state is also very good, his injury also makes the team's midfield affected.
Cangzhou Lions situation is worse, Ahmadov is the team's center of the foreign aid, driven by him, Cangzhou Lions once showed a very strong midfield control, the first three games Cangzhou Lions possession rate ranked second in the Chinese Super League, second only to Beijing Guoan, but after the injury of Ahmadov, the team's midfield control declined significantly.
Guoan's centerpiece foreigner Augusto originally did not return, and Bieira's injury has affected the team even more, in addition to Yu Yang who suffered a serious injury, while Kim Min Ja has returned home to South Korea. However, Guoan have been performing well recently, not only winning two consecutive matches, but also minimizing the loss of Kim Min-Ja's departure because of the postponement of their fourth round match.
Have to say a few words about the national football team, Zeng Cheng is the latest phase of the national team members, after he fractured his ribs, the national team will certainly have to re-draft the goalkeeper, and now look at the goalkeeper available for selection is mainly Wang Dalei, Housen, as for Han Jiaqi, if the daily training may be drafted, but this time to prepare for the 40 strong tournament, the young Han Jiaqi may not be drafted.
Of course, there are also people talk about the national football team early training, that is, worried about the injury problem of the national football players, which may be one of the reasons for the decision-making of the relevant decision-makers, but in fact, more injuries arose in the fourth round, including Ahmadov, despite the injury in the third round, but it was announced before the fourth round of the tournament, and at the moment the decision of the national football team to advance the training has been introduced, and in the first three rounds, injuries are still maintained at a normal level.
