On November 2, 2019, Qingdao lost 1:2 to Nantong Zhiyun at Guoxin Stadium, but still won the Chinese League One championship with a record of 17 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses.
On November 2, 2020, Qingdao beat Wuhan 2:1 at the Dalian Football Youth Training Base, pulling the total score to 3:3, and then defeated the opponent through a penalty shootout, thus ranking in the top 14 of the Chinese Super League, thus declaring the success of relegation.
On January 12, 2022, this time, the goddess of luck did not take care of the Qingdao team again. In the second leg of the 2021 Chinese Football Association Super League play-off at the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium, the main Qingdao team exchanged white rolls with their opponents with a ball possession rate of 12 percentage points more than Zhejiang. Due to the 0-1 defeat in the first leg, Qingdao team unfortunately relegated to the middle division.
On the same day, another "football city" Dalian lost the Chinese Super League team because dalian, the 15th place in the Chinese Super League, lost to Chengdu Rongcheng, the 15th place in the Chinese Super League, with an aggregate score of 1:2. For Qingdao, this is not good news, after all, this means that if a Chinese Super League team withdraws or even disbands before the start of the 2022 season, Dalian will rank first in the relegation sequence, and Qingdao will be second.
The last time Qingdao lost a Chinese Super League team was on November 3, 2013. At that time, Qingdao Manatee lost 0:1 away to Beijing Guoan in the case of a successful draw and relegation, regrettably bidding farewell to the Chinese Super League. On the same day, Qingdao won the Chinese Second Division championship at Hongcheng Stadium. Coincidentally, in the 2021 season, Qingdao was relegated from the Chinese Super League, but the Manatees dominated the Chinese Second Division.
History is always strikingly similar, but not simply repetitive. Although the number of professional teams in Qingdao has increased from 2 to 4 compared with the 2013 season, Qingdao's farewell to the Chinese Super League has made Qingdao fans feel disappointed and even desperate. First, because the Chinese Super League will expand to 18 teams next season, and the second is because Qingdao's record in all competitions this season is only 4 wins, 3 draws and 19 losses, and the average score per game in the Chinese Super League is as low as 0.5 points, far less than the 1.03 points in the 2013 Chinese Super League relegation.
▲ Alessandrini, who shined in the Chinese Super League last season, finally returned from injury, but even if he wore the captain's armband and played all over the field, he still could not help Qingdao team relegation. The picture shows Alessandrini fighting with Zhejiang's Qingdao player Dong Yu in the match. Dong Yu, who came out of the Manatee Football School, is quite active, and the 27-year-old has a bright future.
▲ Spanish coach Jody (first from the right), who has coached Qingdao for nearly 4 seasons, led the Zhejiang team to return to the Chinese Super League after 5 seasons, which can't help but make people feel emotional.
In the 2022 season, Qingdao will have 3 Chinese League A teams at the same time, namely Qingdao team and Qingdao Manatee, who won the Chinese Second Division championship and the temple army in the 2021 season, which means that Qingdao fans have the opportunity to watch 6 "Qingdao derbys" at the "doorstep".
The Qingdao Red Lion, which is about to play in the Central B for the fourth consecutive season, is also worthy of praise, because in the 6 groups of promotion and relegation play-offs this season, the red lion is the only higher-level team to win.
Nowadays, Qingdao is facing a large number of player contract expirations, which is obviously not conducive to the team's comeback in the 2022 season. And Manatee and Youth Island will certainly not shout the slogan of rushing in the 2022 season. From 2014 to 2019, Qingdao had been away from the Chinese Super League for 6 seasons, this time, how long will Qingdao fans have to wait?
▲ In the second leg of the Zhejiang team, Qingdao team acting coach Yang Weijian discharged the strongest lineup, only the defensive backbone Liu Jiashen failed to enter the 23-man roster due to injury.
▲ Zhejiang's Qingdao player Sun Zheng'ao defended Zhu Jianrong, who contributed 5 goals and 1 assist to Qingdao this season.
▲ Perhaps because Suzhou is closer to Zhejiang, a number of Zhejiang fans came to the scene to cheer for the Zhejiang team, cheering and cheering, which improved the morale and combat effectiveness of the team to a certain extent.
▲ Qingdao's former international Liu Jian experienced the fourth relegation in his career.
▲ On November 3, 2013, when the Manatees lost 0:1 away to Beijing Guoan in the Relegation of the Chinese Super League, Qingdao's former international Zou Zheng was absent due to injury.
If I win, I will accompany you to the world, and if I lose, I will accompany you to make a comeback! In any case, I hope that everyone can continue to support the Qingdao team and put forward more constructive suggestions and less meaningless ridicule and insults.
At 8:35 this morning, will someone go to Jiaodong International Airport to welcome the return of the Qingdao team on flight MU2701?
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