0-5 defeat to Guangzhou City, is this still Beijing Guoan? The result of this game was completely unexpected by everyone, and it also became one of the biggest unpopular goals since the start of the Chinese Super League this season. Facing a team that could not even put together a seven-person substitute line-up, Guoan actually conceded three goals in the first half, and the performance of the net swallow was the first time in the league after their 1-5 away defeat to Shanghai SIPG in the 2017 season. What's worse is that this is also the biggest score loss suffered by Beijing Guoan in the domestic top league!
At the beginning of this stage of the league, 1 win and 1 loss, Guoan's performance is basically in line with the expectations of the outside world. But what no one expected was that in just 3 days, the team would suffer a rout. If it is because of the absence of the main players, then in the last round of the game, Guoan once had 3 main defenders who were not in the squad but advanced the ball, and this game, but in the opening 8 minutes, it was even poured 2 goals, and the opponent was still not as good as his own Guangzhou City team in terms of overall strength and personnel allocation, which can only be said to be in the platoon deployment, Guoan has obvious loopholes. Even Bilic's assistant De'an said at the post-match press conference that Guoan played too badly in the start, and after conceding two goals in a row, it was difficult for the players with an imbalanced mentality to reverse the disadvantage on the field.
Now that you see the problem and are already three goals behind in the first half, why don't you make targeted adjustments at halftime? This is also a problem that plagues many people. Guoan coach Bilic was unable to coach on the sidelines due to a suspension for accumulating a yellow card, and his assistant De'an took his place, but the former court tough guy was embarrassed to witness such a humiliating defeat.
Puzzlingly, the problem of the three centre-backs, which had been exposed in the first 45 minutes, was frequently counter-attacked by the opponent, and after a 15-minute break, nothing had changed. The man changed, but the formation still did not make any adjustments, and after 45 minutes, the opponent could still use the gap behind the center-back to frequently counterattack. After such a game, the 5-0 score is also in line with the real performance of both sides on the field.
De'an's loneliness at the press conference and Guangzhou city coach Van Gaste's smile is in stark contrast, the former mentioned the word "shame" many times, while the latter is very happy to see such a big victory, even the Dutch themselves did not expect that with the existing personnel of the Guangzhou City team, they can win 5-0 against Guoan. And Guoan, who has suffered 2 consecutive defeats, if it does not make targeted adjustments to the formation, the problems that have been exposed will be further targeted by the opponent, you know, Guangzhou City is the weakest of the 4 opponents of Guoan at this stage, since even this opponent can lose 5, 3 days later against Shenzhen, I really dare not imagine what Guoan will be like.
Such a downturn, the players are responsible, but the real responsibility for this should be the coaching staff. Is the formation of the three centre-backs really suitable for Guoan? When there is a big score behind, why not make more targeted adjustments? These questions need to be answered by Bilic.
In the case that strong foreign aides have left the team and Anderson has not yet torn off the "parallel goods" label, Guoan has no competitiveness in the championship group, and there is no suspense in the mediocre or even dismal end of this season. The focus now is, how long can Guoan endure Bilic? Whatever the reason, the result of losing 0-5 is unacceptable to the guoan executives. What's more, in the case of Li Lei and Wang Gang and other main players or leaving the team or injured, Guoan also makes people unable to see the hope of quickly reversing the decline, and I am afraid that at present, I can only "open the knife" with Bilic.