The Chinese Super League thrillingly surpassed guangzhou team and won the runner-up, the FA Cup was killed by Shandong Taishan and once again relegated to the second place, twice in a season by Taishan, the Shanghai Harbor aiming to win the championship harvested another year of bitter and lonely double Asian king. It is also the double "second oldest", the 2021 season of SIPG, and then fall into the "Qin Sheng curse".
In this FA Cup final, the Harbor team, which played with mourning soldiers, did not play badly, only 2 foreign aid against Shandong Taishan's 4 foreign aid. Throughout the game, SIPG was 10 percentage points higher than their opponents in possession and more than twice as many free-kicks as Tarzan. But ironically, Shandong Taishan's killing was based on a free kick opportunity.
Look at the number of shots on goal: Tarzan has 8 shots on goal, which is 4 times that of SIPG, and the only shot is on target. Combined with the possession rate of the two sides, it shows that SIPG's possession is more of a backfield and a cross, so the threat to the opponent is not large.
Attack is not a threat, how to win? This is exactly what Harbor coach Lecco is bothering.
In the 84th minute of the game, a scene that Leco and the harbor players did not want to see appeared - Yang Shiyuan made an unnecessary foul and gave Shandong Taishan a perfect opportunity to break the goal. Although Zheng Zheng kicked the ball on the crossbar, Yan Junling's batting was mistakenly bounced in front of Jia Desong, who made a powerful volley and directly kicked the championship dream of SIPG.
Originally, the Harbor team was ready to play overtime, but Shandong Taishan's goal was too sudden, and Lecco, who was standing on the sidelines, was also dumbfounded. There was not much time left for SIPG at this point, and in the end, Lecco once again mobilized troops to strengthen the attack, but it was too late.
In the end, SIPG regrettably relegated to the second place again in a week, watching rival Shandong Taishan win the season double.
This is the second time that SIPG has won the Chinese Super League + FA Cup at the same time in a season, the last time in 2017.
In the final of the 2017 FA Cup, SIPG lost to the same city team Shanghai Shenhua, and the huge investment was once again empty. After the game, Shenhua player Qin Sheng faced the Shenhua fans in the stands and shouted loudly that "we (Shenhua) are not the second oldest, they (SIPG) are the second oldest".
In the 2018 season, SIPG turned around and won the first Chinese Super League title in the history of the team, but in the following seasons, not only was it difficult to find a championship, but even the runner-up was not won. In the 2019 season, SIPG finished third in the Chinese Super League; in the 2020 season, SIPG did not reach the final.
It was easy to get to the 2021 season, SIPG finally promoted to the second place in the league, did not expect to take the second place, even take a double, and once again won the title of double Asian king. This scene seems to be familiar, as if it has been hit by Qin Sheng's spell, this runner-up does not take it, and once it is taken, it is a good thing to become a pair.
The 2021 season is the so-called post-Golden Dollar football era of the Chinese Super League, the defending champion Jiangsu team is gone, the Chinese Super League overlord Guangzhou Evergrande has begun to decline, and the championship team Beijing Guoan has plummeted, at this time, the most stable SIPG is considered to be the biggest favorite to win the championship, but it is still the opposite!
According to the team's investment and value, SIPG is the first in the Chinese Super League and the 1st gold dollar football player in the Chinese Super League today. But the investment is not proportional to the results, even if the double Asian king is in hand, from the perspective of competitive sports winners as kings, SIPG has experienced another failed season.
What makes SIPG depressed is that the Guangzhou team played in the all-Chinese class, and thought that it was missing the biggest champion. Unexpectedly, when pressing the gourd to float up the scoop, Shandong Taishan came up again, this competitor who has not been in the eyes of SIPG in the past few years, this time it has given SIPG two times to the top of Tarzan.
This season, the Harbor team is also unlucky, the earliest preparation at the beginning of the season, the fastest collection of 5 foreign aid, but kicking and kicking, foreign aid is getting less and less, and finally only Oscar + Mui can play.
At the end of the 2021 season, SIPG won the double Asian king but both were empty. What do SIPG players think about this?
After the game, international Wang Shenchao summed up the season at Harbor, saying that in the case of many internal and external aid injuries, it is very hard and difficult to get the current result.