On December 31, 2021, Beijing time, Dalian ushered in a "final battle" of the year, and the opponent was the Cangzhou Lion. In the super competition, the two teams have met 3 times, and the team has a disadvantage of 1 win and 2 losses. Moreover, judging from the recent injuries of players, there are 6 people who are likely to be absent, they are: Danielson, Dong Yanfeng, Wang Jinxian, Lin Liangming, Zheng Long. In terms of Cangzhou Lions, foreign assistants Senghor and Liao Chengjian, who were previously suspended, have lifted their suspensions, and Oscar on the front line has scored 3 goals in the last 3 rounds. The personnel reserves and states of the two teams have formed a very sharp contrast, so the Dalian team in this game is bound to be more fierce and less auspicious.
Affected by three major factors, dalian team will most likely enter a desperate situation. First, judging from the last two rounds of matches, Dalian team played against Cangzhou Lions in the penultimate round and Qingdao in the last round. The possibility of defeating Qingdao in the final round is extremely high, but if you want to defeat Cangzhou, it is indeed very difficult for the Dalian team that lacks major generals; second, the Cangzhou lions are bound to block the Dalian team, as the Tianjin Jinmen Tiger who is also in the "Yanzhao Land", the regional feelings are unavoidable. Therefore, the Cangzhou lion blocking Dalian is not only an emotional performance, but also a demand for Tianjin Jinmen Tiger.
Second, let's talk about tianjin jinmen tigers, tianjin team called relegation professional households, counting the previous super league, Tianjin team fell into the relegation of the hot area several times, but in the end can always be fierce, here both the tenacious struggle of players, but also a lot of external forces intervention. Looking at the schedule of Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, it is actually more advantageous than dalian team. First of all, Qingdao has basically announced that they have played a relegation play-off. In the last round of Tianjin against cangzhou lions, it will definitely win the opponent, don't ask why, because this is almost certain. If the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers won two consecutive victories and the Dalian team won 1 win and 1 draw, the Dalian team finally ranked behind the Jinmen Tigers.
Third, although Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic and Dalian team both accumulated 16 points, it was only because the goal difference was 1 more than Dalian, so it ranked above Dalian. In the last two rounds, Chongqing will play against Shanghai Shenhua and Wuhan. Shanghai Shenhua, which ranks first in the relegation group, has long had no desire, and training new talents and running into the team has become the top priority. Moreover, Zhou Jun, general manager of Shenhua Club, should not subjectively help Dalian block Chongqing. Don't ask why, if you are interested, check out the glory years of Zhou Jun in Dalian, you will know. The competition between the last round against Wuhan and southwest football will often make the Chongqing team burst out more combat effectiveness, and if it wins the Wuhan team, it is also in line with Li Jinyu's urgent need to cross the door. Therefore, the pressure of chongqing team relegation is not great at all.
On the other hand, the Dalian team, no friends, no relatives, the only comrade-in-arms team Changchun Yatai, people are still competing for the championship group. Moreover, in the 2018 season, it was dalian that kicked Changchun Yatai into the middle division, so it was impossible to count on others.
Some fans joked that if Dalian played a play-off, they were very much looking forward to playing against Zhejiang, who was in third place in the first division. Because the Zhejiang team has the presence of Mu Xiekui. If Mu Xiekui finally kicked Dalian into the middle division with a goal, in a phrase in "Wulin": if he can die under Mu Xiekui's sword, he will also be regarded as dead without regrets.
However, if Dalian plays a play-off, Dalian will most likely be the second to last place in the Chinese Super League, so dalian's opponent will be the fourth place in the Chinese First Division, that is, Chengdu Rongcheng. Therefore, the Dalian team did not have a chance to meet Mu Xiekui.