The second stage of the Chinese Super League is in full swing, and the most eye-catching nature is naturally the two major champions in Shanghai Harbor and Shandong Taishan. If the Taishan team's 5-0 victory over Hebei is expected, then Shanghai Harbor's 3-1 victory over Shenzhen is still a bit of a surprise. Because although the harbor is powerful, it can also break their wrists in terms of staffing.
In last night's game, there were kaldek and Achimpen on the deep foot front, Quiintero, Pei Shuai, Li Yuanyi and Dai Weijun in the Chinese Super League, and there were also strong players such as Yuan Mincheng, Mi Haolun, Zhang Lu and young player Ye Lijiang on the defensive line, and there were former internationals such as Gao Lin, Jiang Zhipeng, Wang Yongpo, Zheng Dalun and Sun Ke on the bench.
On the other hand, the Harbour team, although there is a former Brazilian international Oscar and Australia international Moi to lead the midfield, but the front and back lines are not neat, the veteran will be topped to the left-back position, because Wang Shenchao was mentioned in the Chinese Super League to play at the back, and with the departure of Arnautovic on the front line, Lecco can only choose to let U23 young player Liu Zhurun start. To put it bluntly, in terms of the hard power of the starting lineup, the harbor is not stronger than the deep foot, and the bench is even more inferior.
But in the game, Oscar showed his core true colors, he first instigated the attack to help Li Shenyuan open the record, and then used a direct free kick opportunity to score the goal himself, and Harbor led 2-0 in the first half. On the other hand, although several players such as Dai Weijun and Quintero were very active, they did not get the support of their teammates. In the second half, although they pulled back a goal, they scored in a direct long pass from the back, and then used Achimpen's personal ability to single out the Harbor backline to complete the goal. But then Oscar completed the assist again, And Mooy extended the score to 3-1 and sealed the victory completely, and the deep foot could only accept the defeat despite the dispatch of troops.
In this campaign, the gap between Harbour's 14 shots and 6 shots and deep foot's 11 shots and 5 positive is actually not large, but in terms of the number of passes, they have a significant lead of 507-386, and the pass success rate is also 86% to 81%. In other words, The Harbour is more like a team playing football, the cooperation between the players is more skillful and tacit, and the deep foot, although full of talent, is loose overall, and there is no way to play with excellent ability.
Last season, Shenzu took the opportunity of the dissolution of Tianjin Tianhai to return to the Chinese Super League, and they were shocked to attract reinforcements, almost eating most of the Tianhai team, and recruiting strong reinforcements such as Gao Lin, Wang Yongpo and Jiang Zhipeng, but in the 2020 Chinese Super League, their record was not satisfactory and they could only play the relegation group game. This season, they also signed strong foreign aides such as Achimpen, Kaldek, Kintro and Wakaso and other strong internal reinforcements such as Yuan Mincheng and Ye Lijiang, and their record improved from the previous season, and finally locked in the qualification for the championship group as the 3rd in the division, but in the match against Guangzhou and Shandong Taishan, they were still in the inferior position of 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses, and this time they encountered Haigang and lost 1-3.
Coincidentally, in the first round of the relegation group, the Cangzhou Lions also lost 2-4 to the Wuhan team that only won 1 win in the first stage of the first round, and they are very similar to the deep foot, the same is the return to the Chinese Super League, and also crazy reinforcements before the start of the season, almost to the point of daily announcement, and finally introduced 18 internal and external reinforcements, compared to last year's deep foot.
However, in the first stage of the Chinese Super League, the Cangzhou Lions, who had a good lineup, did not play at the level they should have, winning only 2 games in 14 rounds, one of which was the Shenzhen team, which was also a mercenary. Today, they have suffered from a 2-4 defeat to Wuhan, and there is still a long way to go to form a whole. It seems that no money can not be done, and money may not be able to buy results.