In the dappled memories of the Chinese Super League for more than a decade, the relegation blood battle has always been more thrilling than the championship battle. The uniqueness of Shandong Taishan this season has unveiled the suspense of winning the championship early, but the relegation situation is still confusing. On the afternoon of the 28th, two relegation life and death battles ended, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger failed to win the Henan Songshan Longmen, 0-0 was forced to draw by the opponent, behind the Jinmen Tiger 1 point Behind the Jinmen Tiger Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic 1-0 victory over the Dalian team, not only let their relegation situation be dark, but also completely pulled the Dalian team into the relegation melee. For Jinmen Tiger, the relegation situation has suddenly become severe again...
In this game, the Jinmen Tigers and Henan teams both lined up in a 5-3-2 formation, and both sides were based on defense and played the opponent's counterattack.
In the 86th minute, Luo Xin stepped on Barton's calf, and the referee directly showed Luo Xin a red card.
Before the battle of Jinyu, the outside world was generally optimistic about the Jinmen Tigers, not only because the team had just won the morale, but also because the Henan team, which had already landed ashore in advance, let go of Buya Toure and Ivo, two foreign aides. However, from the perspective of the course of the game, the single foreign aid starter Jinmen Tigers did not have an advantage, and even lagged behind the opponents of the three foreign aid starters in the team in terms of possession rate.
As we all know, the recent use of Jinmen Tiger personnel tends to play "back hand cards", and head coach Yu Genwei reminded the team members before the game not to be confused by the lack of major generals and weak combat will of the Henan team, and to face this opponent with strength and tenacity, or to put a low posture on defense and wait for the opportunity to launch an attack. It should be said that the players of the Jinmen Tigers have completed the tactical deployment well in terms of defense, the back line has not given the opponent any chance, but at the offensive end, because of the lack of offensive strength, it also lacks a highlight performance, even if the final stage of the game occupies the advantage of playing one more person, it also failed to complete the goal, and finally regrettably shook hands with the Henan team 0-0, which is also the only game in the second stage of the Chinese Super League so far, the Jinmen Tigers have not been able to break the opponent's goal.
Compared with their own regrets and loss of points, what is more nervous is another key relegation battle at the same time, the Second Stage 3 losses and 2 draws of Chongqing team, the final 1-0 victory over Dalian, with this victory, Chongqing team not only with the goal difference advantage to suppress Dalian, the relegation group ranking rose to 5th, but also with a 1-point advantage to squeeze the Jinmen Tigers into the relegation circle again.
After these two games, the relegation situation in the Chinese Super League, which was originally relatively clear, suddenly became very delicate again. At present, in addition to the Qingdao team, which has more points behind, which is basically sitting at the bottom of the group, the second-to-last Jinmen Tiger, as well as the Dalian team and the Chongqing team in front of them, are likely to fight for relegation to the end.
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It is worth noting that at present, the three teams of Tianjin, Lian and Chongqing have completed two rounds of confrontation, and the record of the three teams against each other is: Dalian team 9 points, the goal and loss is 5 to 2; the Chongqing team is 4 points, the goal is 2 to 3; the Jinmen Tiger team is 4 points, the goal loss is 3 to 5, temporarily ranking last.
That is to say, although the Jinmen Tigers and Chongqing team have a record of 1 win and 1 draw, the results are dominant, but if the three teams are finally scored together, there is also a risk of being squeezed out. It has to be said that in the first stage of the league, the Jinmen Tigers were "double killed" by dalian, and it is a big regret to look at it now.
In the last two rounds, the jinmen tigers played against Qingdao and Cangzhou Lions, Dalian against Cangzhou Lions and Qingdao, and Chongqing against Shanghai Shenhua and Wuhan respectively. But from the perspective of their respective opponents who are about to play, the Chongqing team's schedule is still the most difficult, but presumably all the teams that are deeply mired in relegation now know very well that the balance of victory or defeat in the game must not be determined by fundamentals, and the result of the game is kicked out, not calculated. At the same time, relegation can not rely on opponents, only the initiative is in their own hands the most solid.
Relegation war is different from the championship battle, if the peak of the championship is to compete who is stronger, whose skills and tactics are more reasonable, whose stars play more brightly, then the relegation war is more than who has more resilience, who has a firmer will, and who has stronger cohesion.
The next round of the Jinmen Tigers face the deputy squad leader Qingdao team that just lost a week ago, which is not only a revenge battle, but also a matter of the fate of the team. For the Jinmen Tigers, the most important thing now is to shield themselves from emotional interference, not look at others, focus on themselves, and devote themselves to the last two rounds of the team's fate.
Tianjin Jinmen Tigers Football Team Coach Yu Genwei :
The score is acceptable to both sides, Henan is a very strong team, the ability of the three foreign aides is very strong, we are based on defense, on the basis of solid defense, more possession, in the front of the offensive end to open some tactical execution. But to be honest, positional warfare is more difficult for us, when a team has more cross-pass back passes, it will not help a lot in the front, but I understand very well, we are this situation, so we can't force them to take risks, we still have to concentrate on playing the game well. Neither side had an absolute chance in this game, and the draw also reflected the situation on the field. This point is also important for us, and now it is time to adjust our bodies for the next game.
Tianjin Jinmen Tigers Football Team Captain Li Songyi:
We still have to be down-to-earth now, finish the next few games well, no matter what the results of other games, we have to do our own thing. Or choose to play steadily, do a good job of defense first, and there is always a chance to attack.