On the night of April 28, Capital Powerhouse
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Teams in the 2021 season
China Super League (soccer league)
The second round of league matches will see them face Shanghai Harbour in a straight fight.
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Bilic, the team's head coach, revealed at the pre-match press briefing on the 27th that he has used this time to keep motivating his players to regain their confidence and expects the whole team to show a strong attacking desire against the harbor team.
Bilic attends briefing
1-2 in the first round
Shanghai Shenhua (soccer team)
team, Bilic's start to the Super League has not been ideal. Facing the strength of the harbour team, Bilic's challenge is obvious. At the briefing, Bilic shared the team's recent preparations, in addition to the regular technical and tactical training, he paid more attention to the adjustment of the players' mentality, "We are not complete during the preparations, I told the players that the most important thing is to maintain confidence, and I hope that they can continue to be confident and ready for the next game."
Talking about the lessons learned from the first loss, Bilic said: "I'm very clear about the problems exposed in the last game, mainly the team's lack of desire to attack, allowing the opponent to create a lot of trouble for us in the offensive end, but also led to a long period of possession of the ball but can not be converted into an effective offense. The coaching staff also expected that the players might have fluctuations in their form before the game, so I expect the team to make progress one game at a time and gradually improve their form. For this game, I expect the players to improve significantly on their physical play and desire to attack compared to the previous game."
For the Harbors, Bilic took over the
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The team was known beforehand. Among them, there was a team from
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The team has provided video footage of last season's matches, as well as his familiarity with Seaport's current Croatian-born skipper, Leko, and goal scorer, Arnautovic. "Harbor is also a strong team with a good tactical approach that is very different from Shenhua's, and we need to be ready for that." Bilic said he and Leko, who both hail from Croatia's second-largest city, Split, and got their start with the country's second-biggest team, the Split Free Soldiers, as well as playing for the Croatian national team in succession, are familiar with each other. While he was in the
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Arnautovic was a starter for West Ham United when he was in charge of the team. Bilic said he will inform his players of what he has learned about the opposing team's playing style and characteristics, however, whether these will help the game or not will depend on how the players play on the field.
Players, absent from the first game of the side defender Wang Gang and newcomer Lucas Sosa have become the focus of attention. Bilic frankly, the former's injury recovery is good, basically close to the starting state; the latter individual ability is outstanding, the training effect is also very good, is a very good defensive midfielder, but because of the shorter time to the team, and the same position on the competition is very fierce, so it needs to be and the team more integration.
Harbour master Leko
Harbour master Leko, who attended the briefing later, said the team was in good shape overall after a 6-1 thrashing of Tianjin Jinmen Tigers in their opening match. But with
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The team's playing. It's a completely different situation.
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The team is stronger and will come out with more motivation to win after the first loss. Therefore, he expects his players to perform better than they did in the last game.
Talk about yourself and
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On team owner Bilic's relationship, Leko said, "First of all, I've known Bilic for many years and we've been teammates, and I've always had a lot of respect for him. Specifically for this game, I think we're both going to put our personal relationships aside because it's a game between the Harbors and the
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The game between the teams, we as head coaches will just go our own way."
