Since the 21st century, chinese football has been rumored to have two model clubs that are doing youth training in a down-to-earth manner: North Luneng and South Greentown. After listening to this sentence a lot, we believe it. So, when Greentown was relegated from the Chinese Super League on October 30, 2016, we believe Greentown will be back soon, one year or two years, up to three years. With a strong youth training as a support, why not rush overtake?
It's just that we didn't expect that this wait would be five years.
In five years, Chinese football has gone haywire. How many coaches have gone back and forth, how many foreign aides have never returned, how many teams have vanished, how many fans have withdrawn? When Evergrande and SIPG are no longer brilliant, when the bubble is squeezed to pieces, when the scene to watch the ball becomes helpless, the so-called Chinese Super League, why stay nostalgic!
How many fans say that such a Chinese Super League does not have to go. How many fans say that such a Chinese Super League Greentown does not want to go. In five years, 1900 days and nights, we have long since faded the passion of Warring States Security and Dou Shenhua, dissipated the arrogance of playing Evergrande and playing Luneng, and exhausted the courage of Bo jiangsu and killing Yatai. Those stories of love and killing were only left in the archives of the Chinese Super League, and no one mentioned them.
In my mind, the Chinese Super League is not the coordinates of Greentown, but a landmark. Greentown wants to use a unique youth training to interpret its own existence. Only the Chinese Super League can be worthy of the name of Song Zong's paranoia about youth training.
Therefore, in the five years that Greentown has been dormant in Zhongjia, on the one hand, I expect Greentown to be able to use young people to kill a bloody road, set off a storm of youth in Zhongjia, and return to the Chinese Super League in a timely manner, on the other hand, I look forward to the children and soldiers who go out of Greentown, can carry the banner of Greentown Youth Training, call the wind and rain in the Chinese Super League, and make a difference in the national football team.
However, I was disappointed in both aspects.
In these years, Greentown has played trembling in the middle division, like walking on thin ice, and those young junjie have not been able to take root, most of them can only spend years on the bench, watching the years grow, helpless to sit on the bench.
And those elites who transferred from Greentown, in addition to Zhang Yuning, who else can sit firmly in the main force of national football? Xie Pengfei, Shi Ke, Tong Lei, good villains can be regarded as marginal internationals, others such as Luo Jing, Zhao Yuhao, Feng Gang, after a flash in the pan, I just don't know where I am now?
In vain, the name of doing youth training in a down-to-earth manner is not to say, mixed in the middle division, neither can train the calves, nor can it be overtaken, it is really incomprehensible.
It seems that this year is the biggest rush of Greentown and the closest to the Chinese Super League since the relegation in 2016. With 90 minutes to go, five years of his career in the Middle Division will come to an end.
In the 2017 season, Lao Song li led the team to be younger, gambled heavily on the National Games, and the league results were difficult to be satisfied with, and finally after several rounds of winless, he was reluctantly relegated, ranking ninth in the Central League with 8 wins, 12 draws and 10 losses accumulating 36 points. After the relegation of the Chinese Super League, the difference in results that year made countless Greentown fans sad.
In 2018, the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of greentown clubs, the old Song Youzhi returned to the Chinese Super League. So the Spanish head coach Sergi joined the main, focusing on the passing style, and introduced a number of strong reinforcements, and the green city team's record was significantly improved. Although the home team has not won many rounds, the away record is impressive, and the fans are fascinated by the many matches.
In the last round of the game, greentown team away to meizhou hakka, which is unwinnable in ten rounds, only needs to defeat the opponent to realize the dream. As a result, Meizhou Hakka's combat effectiveness exploded, and Zhejiang Greentown lost 1-2 and lost the Qualification of the Chinese Super League. This season, Greentown ranked third with 51 points from 14 wins, 9 draws and 7 losses, 2 points away from second place Shenzhen Kaisa.
In the first half of the 2019 season, Sergi continued to lead the team, but unfortunately the luck was not good, losing 2-6 to Guizhou, 0-0 by Nantong Zhiyun forced to draw, 2-2 draw with ten people's Meixian Tiehan, under various factors, Sergi helplessly left class, Zheng Xiong took the position. In the second half, the Greentown team improved slightly, but in the end it still failed. In the penultimate round, the third round lost 1-2 at home to Nantong Zhiyun, and the road to overtaking came to an abrupt end. As in last season, Greentown scored 51 points from 14 wins, 9 draws and 7 losses, ranking sixth, five points behind second place Shijiazhuang Yongchang.
In the 2020 season, Zheng Xiong continued to lead the team. Due to the epidemic situation, the competition was changed to a tournament system and was held in two stages. In the first stage, the Greentown team ranked second in the group with 5 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, and successfully entered the second stage of the overtaking group. In the ensuing game, Greentown won 3 wins, drew 1 draw and lost 10 points, 3 points behind the first-place Changchun Yatai. Since the season rushed to overtake the quota 1+1, the first place directly rushed to the top, and the second place played in the play-offs.
The Greentown team had no choice but to play a play-off match with Wuhan Zhuoer, the 16th place in the Chinese Super League, to compete for an upgrade place. As a result, Greentown scored two goals in a row in the first game, drawing 2-2 with their opponents. In the second leg of the game, Greentown lost 0-1 to Wuhan Zhuoer and ultimately failed to overtake.
The best result in these four years was the 2020 season, where Greentown finished second and lost the second leg of the play-offs. The best chance is in 2018, the away victory over Meizhou Hakka can return to the Chinese Super League.
In the 2021 season, the bitter Zhejiang team hired Spanish coach Jody to recreate the passing style, and the addition of Yao Junsheng, Liang Nuoheng, Gu Chao and Frank greatly enhanced the strength of the team. Overall, the Zhejiang team played well and achieved good results, ranking third with 74 points in 22 wins, 8 draws, 4 losses, and 1 point from Meizhou Hakka, the second place that directly overtook.
It is worth mentioning that before the last round of the game, the Zhejiang team was 3 points away from Meizhou Hakka, if the Zhejiang team won and Meizhou Hakka lost, then the Zhejiang team rushed to overtake. The result is that Zhejiang team beat Wuhan three towns 2-1, Meizhou Hakka scored in the last 1 second, drew 1-1 with Kunshan, Meizhou Hakka won the place of direct overtaking, And Zhejiang team had no choice but to participate in the play-off against Qingdao.
Objectively speaking, the record this season is still not satisfactory. In terms of points, playing 34 rounds is a lot higher than the 30 rounds of the previous years, but in terms of ranking, falling to the third place is a bit unspeakable. Playing in the Middle Division with the configuration of the Chinese Super League, it is impossible to ride the dust, at least it should be on a par with the top two, and the final battle is until the last moment, but the poor performance in individual games has led to the loss of the initiative to rush overtake.
Of course, it is not yet time to settle the coffin, because there is still a round to be played in this series of play-offs, and whether Zhejiang can overtake it depends on the last 90 minutes.
Compared to last year's play-offs, this year's opponent Qingdao is much weaker than Wuhan Zall. From the perspective of foreign aid, Wuhan Zhuoer has strong reinforcements such as Evra, and it is indeed very difficult for the Greentown team to defend. This year's situation in Qingdao is more special, if the second leg with Zhejiang team, Qingdao team can still only go to Badu, and Alessandrini can only watch from the sidelines, then the possibility of overturning is extremely small.
In the first leg, the Zhejiang team was full of momentum, and won the first leg with Frank's 1 goal to win the Qingdao team, taking the lead. In the second round, you only need to draw and enter the Chinese Super League sequence with your head held high. Such a situation is obviously much better than 2018 and 2020, the initiative is in their own hands, and it only takes a draw to achieve their wishes.
There is no reason to overtake, only water comes naturally.
What I hope is that with the help of the Chinese Super League, greentown's young talents have a broader stage to show their talents and football ambitions.
I always firmly believe that the Chinese Super League, when there is a place for Greentown, and the national football team, there should be the shadow of Greentown players.
Compared to the Zhejiang team, I prefer the name Zhejiang Greentown.