On January 12, Beijing time, the Chinese Super League promotion and relegation play-offs were all over, and finally Qingdao and Dalian were unfortunately relegated and will participate in the 2022 China League One, while Chengdu Rongcheng and Zhejiang will participate in the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League.
On the afternoon of January 12, Beijing time, the two matches in the second leg of the Chinese Super League relegation play-off continued. Chengdu Rongcheng beat Dalian 1-0, Romulo scored the only goal of the game, Chengdu Rongcheng finally successfully overtook with a total score of 2-1 in two legs, and Dalian regrettably relegated. In another match, Zhejiang drew 0-0 with Qingdao, winning with a total score of 1-0, and will play in the Chinese Super League next season, and Qingdao will be relegated to the Chinese First Division.
In the second leg of the 2021 Super League promotion and relegation play-off, Zhejiang drew 0-0 with Qingdao, and after 180 minutes of fighting, Zhejiang finally completed its dream of overtaking and returned to the top league after 5 years. The team, which once held high the banner of youth storm, became more pragmatic after Song Weiping's Greentown Group completely withdrew, and after missing 3 opportunities to rush the past, this time they finally realized their dream.
In the 2016 season of the Chinese Super League, the team named Hangzhou Greentown at the time invited South Korean star Hong Mingfu to take charge of Shuaiyin, and under the tide of the Jin Yuan era, the team tightened its roots and still insisted on the youth storm, resulting in a 2-2 draw with Yanbian Fude in the last round and relegation.
In 5 years, the Zhejiang team has undergone earth-shaking changes, and in 2020, Song Weiping's Greentown Group basically withdrew from club management. Zhejiang Energy Group, a subsidiary of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Zhejiang Province and the controlling shareholder of Zhejiang Energy Power, acquired a 50% stake, and the other shareholder of the team is Greentown China, which holds a 50% stake, listed in Hong Kong, China, and its major shareholder is China Communications Construction Group under the SaOUS Commission.
This is also one of the reasons why the outside world calls the Zhejiang team a double-state-owned team, but what is slightly surprising is that the Zhejiang team with strong financial strength did not follow the trend of Jinyuan Football, but played steadily and cautiously.
In the 5 years of the Chinese League, the Zhejiang team no longer insisted on using young players in an extreme way, but took the road of combining old and young, and especially favored experienced veterans. This season, the team was able to finish third and rush to the top after participating in the play-offs, thanks to two experienced foreign players, Mushekwi at the age of 34 and Matthews at 38.
In addition, in terms of investment, the Zhejiang team is within its means, this season they officially bought Yao Junsheng spent 20 million yuan, and after the dissolution of Jiangsu Suning, the former national gate was introduced, also from the team's youth training Of Gu Chao, the team's strength has steadily increased.
Since the 2017 season of zhejiang team in the Chinese First Division, almost every season has shouted the slogan of returning to the Chinese Super League, but unfortunately it has not been able to achieve its wishes. In the first season of the Chinese League, the team won the 9th place; in the 2018 season, Zhejiang has been ranked second in the league from the 17th round to the 29th round, leading the 13 rounds of their loss in the last round, sending the opportunity to rush to Shenzhen, after the game, many players burst into tears, coach Sergi and team leader Rongyu also had a verbal conflict.
In the 2019 season, Zhejiang team's goal was to rush to the championship, and only won the 6th place, and Sergi had no choice but to leave the class. Last season, they finished second in a play-off match with Wuhan, and in the first leg, they stubbornly drew 2-2 with two goals in a row, but lost 0-1 in the second leg.
Originally due to the withdrawal of Tianjin Teda, the Zhejiang team once received a notice to play in the Chinese Super League before the 2021 season, but after the reversal of things, the Tianjin team came back to life before the start of the game, and the Zhejiang team could only return to the Chinese First Division.
This season's Zhejiang team is relatively stable, ranking at the top all the way, and winning all the last 4 rounds. At the end of the war, the team won 2-1 against the three towns of Wuhan, and they were about to celebrate the time-out, when rival Meizhou Hakka scored a perfect goal and squeezed out Zhejiang Chongchao.
Fortunately, in this play-off, the Zhejiang team did not miss another opportunity.
Zhejiang Chong Chao succeeded, Andy repaid "one arrow of revenge"
Although this season's Zhejiang team has not been able to obtain a direct overtaking place before, the style of emphasizing pass control and the style of steady and steady play have attracted a lot of fans, and coach Jody's transformation of the team is very successful.
Previously, in the 5 seasons of the Chinese League One, the Zhejiang team had great ups and downs. So this time, coach Jody did not give the team a chicken blood mobilization before the game, nor did he emotionally emphasize anything, but only hoped that the players would stabilize their mentality and play the characteristics. Judging from the tactics of the steady counterattack, the Spaniards' tactics worked successfully.
As the former manager of Barcelona B team, Jody became the manager of Qingdao team in the 2016 season, leading the team to play in the central league for nearly four seasons. The pass control and the style of play that he advocated emphasizing the possession rate were unique in Chinese football at that time, and that team was even called "Barca in the Chinese League One".
In the first season of coaching, Qingdao team accumulated 59 points with Tianjin Quanjian and Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng, but they had no chance to overtake due to the win-loss relationship. In the 2019 season, although it led the way, in the middle of the league, Jody had no choice but to leave the class due to disagreement with the senior management, and as a result, Qingdao team rushed into the Chinese Super League that year. In this regard, Jody has always been quite critical.
This time back to China, leading the Zhejiang team just defeated the old owner Qingdao team, completed the overtaking, the Spaniards can be regarded as their own name at the same time, to avenge the original arrow of revenge.
It is worth mentioning that after relegation and then rushing to overtake, the players in the Zhejiang team are currently only Sun Zheng'ao.
The most brilliant period of the Zhejiang team was in the 2011 season, the team participated in the AFC Champions League with the fourth place in the 2010 season, when the stars in the team were bright, there were a number of former internationals and fierce players such as Dewey, Rong Hao, Gu Chao, Wang Song, Shen Longyuan, Jiao Zhe, etc. Even in the year of relegation in the 2016 season, there were Cahill, Huang Xiyang, Zhao Yuhao and others in the team.
Now, after 5 years, among the players who played in the Chinese Super League that year, only central defender Sun Zheng'ao is still playing for Zhejiang. The 27-year-old has played 21 games in the Central League this season, averaging 58 minutes per game. In two key play-offs, he played a full 180 minutes, with two successful steals in the second leg and four key breakouts, witnessing the team's path to nirvana from the trough. In an interview after the game, Sun Zheng'ao admitted, "It is an honor for me to accompany the Zhejiang team to relegation and then rush to overtake, and I hope to accompany this team for a longer time." ”
What can reflect the strong combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang team is that most of the players in the team have been working hard in the Chinese First Division for many years, and there are very few who can have experience in the Chinese Super League, in addition to the two strikers Mushekwi and Matthews, Gu Chao's return this season has made the backline more stable, conceding 28 goals in 36 games throughout the season, averaging less than one goal per game.
Gaudí, a 32-year-old veteran on loan from Shanghai Shenhua, has also scored five goals this season and has played a good substitute role. And Gaudí is known as the super-lucky general, and he just helped Changchun Yatai return to the Chinese Super League last season. Yao Junsheng, who played for Shandong and Tianjin Quanjian, scored 4 goals and 5 assists in 29 appearances this season, becoming the core of the team's midfield.
Taking the second leg of the play-off as an example, including Yue Xin, Gu Bin, Zhong Haoran and others, all of them are players who have been working hard in the Chinese First Division for many years, and the main center-back Liang Nuoheng was only an ordinary player in the Chinese Hong Kong League 3 years ago, and he contributed the most 9 times in the game. Such a team can finally overtake, which is quite inspiring.
Return to the Chinese Super League after ten years! Sichuan football is now reviving tears flying
A small 1-0 win is exciting enough for the players in Chengdu Rongcheng. The final whistle sounded, the players on the field and the coaches on the field cheered, and tears flew in the field. From the 2018 Championship to the 2021 Super League, Chengdu Rongcheng has completed the leap from the bottom to the top league in just 4 years; and this club transformed from the youth training camp and preserved the sichuan football torch finally helped Sichuan football complete the recovery after 10 years. With the success of Rongcheng Chongchao, Sichuan football's 10-year history of no Chinese Super League team came to an end.
In the history of Sichuan football, there have been 2 teams competing in the top league. Sichuan Quanxing was a founding member of the Chinese A League A, and after the 2005 season, the team, which later changed its name to Sichuan Guancheng, was disbanded. Sichuan Quanxing once blew a yellow surge, winning the first A third place twice in the 1999 and 2000 seasons, which became a force to be reckoned with in Chinese football at that time. In the 2004 season, Sichuan Guancheng also won the second place in the FA Cup.
Chengdu Wuniu, who began playing in the professional league in 1996, later renamed Chengdu Sheffield United, has played in the Chinese Super League for three seasons: ranked 13th in 2009; ranked 7th in 2010 to create the best record in the history of the team, but was ordered to be relegated due to a match-fixing incident; Chengdu Sheffield United returned to the Chinese Super League after a year, but was relegated again in 2011. The team was relegated to The Second Division after three seasons in the Chinese First Division, ending its historic mission after the 2014 season.
Since Sheffield United's last appearance in the Chinese Super League in 2011, Sichuan football has been away from the top league for 10 years. With the success of Rongcheng Chongchao, Sichuan football has once again returned to the territory of China's top league, and Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic is no longer the only representative of Southwest football.
The rise of Chengdu Rongcheng is actually a mixture of persistence and legend. On March 7, 2018, Chengdu Xingcheng Club, the predecessor of Chengdu Rongcheng Club, was established, and it won the second place of the Chinese Champions League and became a professional club that year. In 2019, Chengdu Xingcheng won the second place of the Chinese Second Division and successfully broke through the first division. In the 2020 and 2021 seasons, the team won the 4th place in the Chinese League one for two consecutive seasons. On January 15, 2021, Chengdu Xingcheng Club officially announced that it was officially renamed Chengdu Rongcheng.
The birth of Xingcheng occurred at the darkest moment of Chengdu football and even Sichuan football. After the complete failure of the cooperation between Tiancheng Real Estate and Sheffield United, Chengdu not only no longer has a professional league team, but even the national team may not be able to participate in the Chinese Second Division; in this case, Chengdu's Youth Training Derui Club and Xingcheng Real Estate cooperated to close in the scattered Sichuan players and began to cultivate their own young players. After the rush to the first division, Chengdu Rongcheng showed significantly stronger potential and resilience than other clubs, even if the rush failed, it did not affect the team to continue to increase investment this year.
Looking back at Rongcheng's rush to overtake this season, it can be seen that the team almost failed. Rongcheng Chengjia was in the promotion zone 15 times a year (10 times 1st, 5th 2nd), but all in the first 21 rounds. Rongcheng has appeared in the play-off area 16 times this season (3rd and 4th 6th times in 10 times) and has been in the play-off area since round 22. Rongcheng only ranked outside the top 4 once in the whole year, that is, after the 8th round, it was ranked 6th. In the end, Rongcheng hit the line with the 4th place in the Chinese First Division. However, due to the expansion of the Chinese Super League this year, Chengdu Rongcheng has ushered in a golden opportunity on the next gram. In the end, they also seized the opportunity.
In the two-legged match against Dalian, Chengdu Rongcheng was once considered to have no chance. Opponents have hoarded a large number of young talents in Chinese football and have played some better matches this season; and the decline of Chengdu in the second half has made their status somewhat mysterious.
But head coach Xu Zhengyuan has always been confident in the team. 'Football, it's not possible for all games to be the same, facing different teams, it's also different situations, we are the team that scores the most goals in the middle division, I believe the team's ability to attack the line can be shown in the play-offs." South Korea's new-generation manager, who completed the first step of his five-year goal in his first year of coaching in China, was also surrounded by players after the game, and he shed tears of excitement.
Also shedding tears of excitement were the fans of Chengdu Rongcheng. After the game, Rongcheng Club posted on the social platform that "ten years of drinking ice, four years of journey", after 3724 days of waiting, Chengdu finally has a Chinese Super League team again. Young player Liu Ruovan played the best season of his career here; Romulo, who refracted the winning goal, maintained a high-intensity combination with the team throughout the season and is considered one of the best players in the history of Sichuan football; Zhang Yan, who was in danger due to Zhang Yinuo's low-level mistakes, made countless fights in the last few battles of the season, and this game also defused a very threatening shot of Dalian team.
The legend on the lower gram is not the end for Chengdu Rongcheng. Ten years of drinking ice, a romantic return of Chinese football, this is perhaps the best way to unfold the legendary story of this winter.
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