Reporter Cheng Shan reported that before the FA Cup final, although most people were not optimistic about the harbor to win the championship, but the harbor was not a little idealess, "there are still expectations, after all, it is the FA Cup champion, we are getting older, who does not want to have the memory of a Grand Slam." As veterans of the first phase of Chongming, Yan Junling and Lu Wenjun expressed their expectations in private. But after the game, they were disappointed after all. This season, the harbour is clearly empty-handed, but fortunately, there is one more thing they feel rewarded – the young people have grown.
Just a few days before the game, Paulinho did his second MRI in Shanghai, and even though he knew that his injury was not optimistic, the harbor side was still expecting him to play. However, the inspection results confirmed that Paulinho's injury situation returned to stability, and "stability" means that the strong reinforcement still needs a long recovery period and is determined to be unable to play in the FA Cup final. The harbor had to "admit its fate" and flew to Chengdu with a lineup of two foreign aides.
Fortunately, Liu Zhurun, who was injured in the ribs before, appeared in the team that went out on the expedition. "When we were first injured, we were all afraid that he would hurt his internal organs, but then it was a rib problem." After a few days off, Liu Zhurun also offered to play, and in the case of insufficient team personnel, Lecco finally decided to put him in the substitute lineup after consulting the players for their own ideas.
The injury of the harbor in the 2021 season has always been a depressing topic, facing Taishan's five foreign aides, Lecco does not have many cards in his hand, large and small injuries and the absolute main force of this season dragged the center back Wei Zhen in the final red card suspension, according to the harbor side, the team has reached the dilemma of "even wanting to change the team can not change".
The lineup can't rotate, so you can only break in another way. The only thing Leco and the coaching team were able to do was to figure out a way on set-pieces, and the pre-match team did a lot of research on Tarzan's defense this season, especially in the defense of set-pieces, and in the case of a large gap in the strength of the lineup, set-pieces became a breakthrough for Harbor's hopes.
It should be said that these efforts have paid off. In this game, the performance of the Harbor team really surprised the outside world - in the first 80 minutes of the game, the Harbor team showed positive form at both ends of the attack and defense. The defensive attack in the midfield area switches smoothly, and in the case of weak forwards, it creates opportunities to attack the goal by interspersing running and set-pieces, creating a lot of trouble for Tarzan, who is eager to get the double crown.
To be precise, the harbor is the world wave lost to Jia Desong, in the 82nd minute, Zheng Zheng's free kick hit the goal crossbar, Yan Junling pounced with both hands, the landing point was just at the feet of Jia Desong, Jia Desong did not hesitate to kick the world wave to break the goal, and the harbor was attacked by the goal. The 0-1 score also became the final result.
During the award ceremony, the Harbor players were visibly depressed, "Everyone worked hard all year, and it was very sad not to win the championship, but life still had to go on." Coach Lecco's mood is also a little bad, but he has always been a gentleman who tries to cover up his regrets with words, "I can personally talk about a lot of excuses and reasons, but I am not such a person." As long as the team tries its best, even if it fails, we accept the facts. The players have played their best and they have spelled it all out. Lecco said he really couldn't say he was happy with the results, "because everyone wants to be number one." ”
A full year of hard work ended with two runners-up, which is a bit depressing for The Harbour, which has not invested too little this season, but thankfully, in the season under Lecco, the Harbor has gained a lot of fresh blood, and the young strength is also the team's biggest consolation this season.