The original Guangzhou division team lost 1:6 to the original Suzhou division team! What is this in the Chinese Super League? Isn't the serpentine grouping balanced?
This season's Chinese Super League is becoming more and more incomprehensible, it should be a very balanced snake-shaped group, kicking and kicking, and when it comes to the second stage of crossover matches, there is a one-sided situation.
In the first stage, the 8 teams of The Suzhou Division and the 8 teams of the Guangzhou Division were respectively caught and fought, and as a result, the 8 games in the 15th round were played - the Suzhou Division team won 6 wins, drew 1 and lost 1 loss, and the Guangzhou Division team collapsed across the board, only Shandong Taishan saved face and won the only victory.
4 games in the relegation group: 3 wins and 1 draw for the Suzhou division team
(Suzhou Division) Shanghai Shenhua 3-0 Qingdao Team (Guangzhou Division),
(Suzhou Division) Wuhan Team 4-2 Cangzhou Lions (Guangzhou Division),
(Suzhou Division) Tianjin Jinmen Tiger 1-1 Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic (Guangzhou Division),
(Suzhou Division) Dalian Renren 1-0 Henan Songshan Longmen (Guangzhou Division).
4 games in the championship group: Suzhou division team 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss
(Suzhou Division) Shanghai Harbour 3-1 Deep Foot (Guangzhou Division),
(Suzhou Division) Changchun Yatai 2-0 Guangzhou City (Guangzhou Division),
(Suzhou Division) Beijing Guoan 1-0 Guangzhou Team (Guangzhou Division),
(Suzhou Division) Hebei Team 0-5 Shandong Taishan (Guangzhou Division).
Is the first stage of grouping unreasonable?
The guangzhou team lost 1-6, and could not help but give the outside world an impression: does it mean that the snake-like group set at the beginning of this season is unreasonable?
Normally, the serpentine grouping is based on last year's league rankings, and the overall strength of the teams in the two divisions should be much different, but why is this inexplicable situation today? Personally, I think there are two main reasons.
The first reason: last year's Chinese Super League format is difficult to reflect the real strength of the team
Due to the epidemic, last year began to implement the Chinese Super League system, the first stage of the minutes also use snake-shaped grouping, the strength of the two divisions is also roughly balanced, but the strength of the Dalian division is relatively stronger than the Suzhou division, and the final appeared in the final is two Dalian division teams, Jiangsu Suning defeated Guangzhou Evergrande, thus winning the championship.
However, due to the format of the competition, last year's second stage adopted the knockout ranking system, although it increased the contingency of the game, but it is difficult to reflect the true comprehensive ability of a team, which also caused a certain accidental factor in the final league ranking, and there is a certain deviation from the ranking that really plays 30 rounds according to strength.
In this case, and then divide the 2021 season division with a snake-shaped group according to this ranking, the overall strength of the two groups will naturally be uneven.
The second reason: wage arrears lead to a decrease in combat effectiveness
In terms of salary arrears, the impact of the teams in guangzhou this season seems to be even greater. Whether it is Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics, Qingdao team, or Guangzhou team, they are all teams with more recent news, and their common denominator is that they are all teams in the first stage of guangzhou.
Similarly, the Hebei team of the former Suzhou Division lost to Shandong Taishan by a big score. This is enough to illustrate the magnitude of the impact of unpaid wages and the lack of readiness that comes with non-payments.
On the whole, in the second stage of the game, the strength of many teams in the former Guangzhou Division has decreased more obviously. For example, guangzhou team in the first stage of a number of naturalized players to help, but this game can only send a local all-Chinese class to meet the game, the appointment of Zheng Zhi as the team manager, but also broke the team has always used only foreign teachers as the team manager of the practice. It's tough!
Of course, we can't just rely on one game to conclude that the overall strength of the original Guangzhou Division this season must be much worse than the original Suzhou Division. With the deepening of the game, the team of the former Guangzhou Division will reverse the situation. By the end of the season, everything will be decided!
What's more, fans want to see even more exciting games!