In the second round of the Chinese Super League championship group, Shandong Taishan will play against the old rival Beijing Guoan, who eliminated Shandong Taishan last season, but because of the referee dispute, the battle between Jinglu and caused a huge public opinion storm. According to the results of the selection of referees in the new round of matches officially released by the Chinese Super League, Zhang Long, the referee of the battle of Jinglu, is also a controversial person.
In the 2017 Chinese Super League reserve team match Tianjin Teda and Changchun Yatai match referee Zhang Long was reported by Tianjin media that Zhang Long blew a penalty when the game was drunk, and there was also a controversy in the game, Tianjin TEDA player Liao Bochao said in an interview that Zhang Long mistakenly regarded the No. 16 player as the No. 26 and blew a penalty for handball fouls, Tianjin media believed that there was no handball.
This report by the Tianjin media made Zhang Long angry for a while, but then the Information Office of the Chinese Football Association issued a public rumor about Zhang Long's drunken blowing of the game, and said that there was no case of recognizing the wrong person on the penalty, and Liao Bochao was also suspended for publicly commenting on the referee.
In addition, Zhang Long has also dominated some other controversies, in 2017, Mi Haolun arranged for water replenishment during the injury treatment in the second half of the match with Henan Jianye when he played for Tianjin Quanjian, and with the end of the replenishment, Mi Haolun entered the venue together, due to prior permission, Zhang Long took out a yellow card and sent off a red card for Mi Haolun, who had already had a yellow card before, and this well-founded but somewhat rigid blow penalty also caused a huge controversy.
Also in 2017, in the FA Cup match, Shanghai Shenxin and Jiangsu Suning played, Shenxin foreign aid Birobiro was fouled in the opponent's penalty area in the moment the ball was passed out, and then the teammates wrapped the ball in the back point, but Zhang Long immediately blew the whistle after Birobiro was fouled, which also led to the invalidity of this goal was canceled, after a long dispute with the players and coaches of both sides, Zhang Long discussed with the referee, and the game was forced to be interrupted for 7 minutes.
Zhang Long has also blown off the Taishan team's game before, the more classic is that Shandong Luneng defeated Jiangsu Suning 2-1 in 2016, when Jiangsu Suning's big-name foreign aid Ramirez protested seriously after the game because he was dissatisfied with Zhang Long's penalty, and even hit Zhang Long's back, Ramirez was suspended for 4 games and fined 20,000 yuan while receiving a red card.
In the first stage of this season, Zhang Long also caused controversy in the Suzhou division, guoan and Dalian team match Dalian players kicked the national security player Park Cheng, as a VAR referee Zhang Long intervened to give Beijing Guoan a penalty, but then Guoan and Shanghai harbor similar action Guoan player kicked to the harbor foreign aid López, as the main referee Zhang Long said that there was no penalty, no foul, the Guoan team profited twice, for which dalian team felt that it was wronged and also sued Zhang Long to the Football Association.
It is worth mentioning that in the first stage, Zhang Long participated in 4 consecutive beijing Guoan games as the main referee (2 games), video referee and fourth official.