On January 3, Beijing time, the Chinese Super League relegation group competition was all over, although dalian team defeated Qingdao team 4-1, but because Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic and Tianjin Jinmen Tiger also won the game, Dalian people still had to accept the fate of going to the play-offs with Qingdao team.
Compared with Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, the victory of Tianjin Jinmen Tigers came more suspensefully, until Xie Weijun, who played 85 minutes as a substitute, scored the only goal of the game.
The goal caused a huge controversy, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger foreign aid Magno had a suspected handball foul before shooting, but both the referee and the VAR referee who intervened later finally determined that the goal was valid, this ball was insignificant for the Cangzhou Lions, but Liu Yang, a Cangzhou Lion player who also played for Tianjin Jinmen Tigers last season, also received a yellow card for protesting the referee's goal determination.
The post-match scoring did spark a huge controversy, with fans ridiculing that even Bayern and Manchester City were pulled up for comparison.
Whether it is promoted to the Super League or relegated in the Chinese Super League, various "scripts" have emerged over the years, and whether this goal is a real handball can no longer change the outcome of the game, and the final "victim" of this goal is the Dalian ren team.
Dalian people had taken the lead in winning 2 consecutive wins before the start of the relegation group, and the relegation situation was quite clear, but in the third round of the relegation group with the Cangzhou Lions, Dalian people unexpectedly put up a starting lineup of the all-Chinese class, which directly led to a 0-2 fall behind in the first half, and only replaced the two major forwards Outside Boateng and Larson at halftime, and finally only pulled back a goal, 1-2 defeat, perhaps Jose was blinded by the infighting between his own players after the Cangzhou Lions' last round of matches with Shanghai Shenhua.
Another game that caused Dalian to lose the initiative was the penultimate round match with Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics, the full shot ratio was 17-2, but these 17 shots were all useless, but Chongqing team scored 1 goal with 2 shots.
The first loss to the Cangzhou Lions was that dalian people laughed too early after two consecutive wins, underestimating the cruelty of the relegation group melee, while the siege of Chongqing lost the heart of Dalian, and then lost to the Cangzhou lions who originally only needed 1 point to relegate early.
The "script" of the Chinese Super League relegation is available every year, and for dalian people, they still have the opportunity to make consecutive mistakes before giving the opponent the opportunity to take the lead and giving the opponent the opportunity to act according to the script.
If they want to stay in the Chinese Super League, dalian can only fight in the play-offs.