In 2022, Hangzhou will host the Asian Games. In 2023, Qingdao will host some of the asian cup football matches. In the 2022 season, Qingdao team and Zhejiang team, which team will compete in the Chinese Super League, and which team will commit to the Chinese First Division? The answer will soon be revealed.
At 15:30 today, Qingdao will play against Zhejiang, the third runner-up of the Chinese First Division, in the first leg of the 2021 Chinese Football Association Super League play-off, and CCTV-5 will broadcast this much-anticipated life-and-death battle. At 15:30 on January 12, the two teams will decide again.
According to the competition regulations, the winner of the total score in the two-legged competition will win the 2022 Chinese Super League seat, and the loser can only mix in the 2022 season. If the two teams are tied on aggregate, they will be killed by a 30-minute extra-time match or even a thrilling exchange of penalties.
Currently, the two teams each have 3 foreign players, and they can enter the 23-man roster for each game, but each team can only arrange for two foreign players to play at the same time.
▲ Alessandrini, Vukovic, Liu Jian, Lü Peng, Zhu Jianrong, Gao Xiang, Li Peng, Ji Xiaoxuan, Li Zhizhao, Zhang Haochen and other 11 players appeared on the pre-match poster of Qingdao's match with Zhejiang, will this be the starting lineup of Qingdao's team in this battle? In the view of "Qingdao Sports", this is just a smokescreen released by the Qingdao team.
A major attraction of this battle is that Spanish coach Jody, who has coached Qingdao for nearly 4 seasons, led the Zhejiang team to oppose the old owner.
Although at the pre-match press conference, Jody thanked Qingdao Football Club investor Wang Zekai for giving him the opportunity to coach in China and Qingdao fans for their long-term attention and support, he will certainly be worried about his "dismissal" in the middle of the 2019 season, after all, Qingdao team was still in the top of the middle division.
To be fair, one of Jody's weaknesses is that his luck is too bad, and in layman's terms, it is "not hard enough scalp". Don't forget that in the 2016 season, The Qingdao team coached by Jody once accumulated 59 points with Tianjin Quanjian and Guizhou Zhicheng, and was relegated to the third place in the Central League due to the disadvantage of each other's records, so it passed by the Chinese Super League seat.
This season, the Zhejiang team is about to rise directly to the Chinese Super League, but the Meizhou Hakka staged a "reading the seconds and a no draw" in the last moment of the final round of the Chinese League One, thus overwhelming the Zhejiang team with a 1-point advantage to win the second place in the Chinese League One, which had to participate in the promotion and relegation play-off.
Since the relegation of the Chinese Super League in the 2016 season, the Zhejiang team, which also played in the AFC Champions League in the 2011 season, has always been mixed in the Chinese First Division. In the 6 meetings with Zhejiang in the Chinese First Division, Qingdao achieved 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, including a 4-0 home sweep of Zhejiang in the 2017 season and a 4:1 away victory over Zhejiang in the 2018 season. However, in the 2018 season, Qingdao also lost 1:4 at home to Zhejiang.
In the 2016 season, when Zhejiang was relegated from the Chinese Super League, it scored 32 points in 30 rounds of competition. It is worth noting that Shandong Taishan, the third-to-last in the Chinese Super League, which only scored 2 points more than Zhejiang in that season, won the Chinese Super League championship with 15 wins, 6 draws and 1 loss this season. Both Shandong Taishan Football Club and Zhejiang Football Club are famous in Chinese football for their perfect youth training system.
▲ Qingdao Football Club investor Wang Zekai once praised Jody, who made the Qingdao team reborn and advanced by leaps and bounds. At the end of 2016, Wang Zekai gave Jody a high score of 99.9 in an interview with the "Football" newspaper, and not playing that 0.1 point may be afraid of the Pride and Complacency of the Spaniards.
▲ In the 2011 season, when Zhejiang team competed in the AFC Champions League, the manager was still Wu Jingui. Last season, Wu Jingui led Qingdao to defeat Wuhan's relegation team, and Zhejiang lost to Wuhan in the promotion and relegation play-offs. This season, Wu Jingui voluntarily resigned after Qingdao suffered ten consecutive defeats in the Chinese Super League, and his successor Yang Weijian can lead the team to relegation? Let's wait and see.
At the pre-match press conference, Qingdao acting coach Yang Weijian admitted that the "injury number" in the team has almost recovered, and whether Alessandri can appear in the first leg of the play-offs must be evaluated by the team doctor. According to the "Qingdao Sports Those Things", Alessandrini's chances of wearing a dress are greater than Vukovic's.
According to the pre-match video released by the Zhejiang team, the 3 foreign assistants in its squad, Mushekwi, Andreasevic and Matthews, are in good health.
Qingdao dealt with Zhejiang's Zimbabwean center Mushekwi. This season, the 34-year-old Mushekwe made 32 appearances for Zhejiang in the Chinese League One, scoring 23 goals and delivering 3 assists, undisputedly crowned the "king of goalscorers".
The Zhejiang team has Qingdao players Sun Zheng'ao and Shao Renzhe, both of whom have scored in the Chinese League One this season, and their performances are worth paying attention to.
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