In this year's AFC Champions League, Changchun Yatai and Shanghai Haigang of the Chinese Super League have abstained, while guangzhou and Shandong Taishan have sent two teams to participate. As a result, the two teams suffered bigger losses than last year's Chinese Super League teams.
In the AFC Champions League last year, Guoan's team composed of reserve players lost 0-7 to Kawasaki Forward, creating the biggest defeat in the AFC Champions League of Chinese Super League teams. And that record was quickly tied and then quickly broken. This time, the problems were presented by the two teams of Shandong and Guangzhou.
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Set a new record for the biggest goal conceded in the AFC Champions League
Originally, the two teams participating in the AFC Champions League aimed to train the team, but after the big score loss, the controversy about whether the second team can get exercise in the AFC Champions League began to appear. A considerable number of them believe that this is not "exercise", but "beating".
With such doubts, it is obvious that it is the old fault of Chinese football - the theory of only achievements.
In last year's AFC Champions League, there was not much such controversy. Although the Guoan Reserve lost 0-7 to Kawasaki, after all, the Guoan Reserve team drew with the Philippine champion United City in the first game, winning the only 1 point of the Chinese Super League team in last year's AFC Champions League, and then almost defeated Liancheng in the second leg. Similarly, the Guangzhou reserve team did not make too much score in a group that was relatively not very strong. In this case, there is naturally almost no doubt.
But this year's AFC Champions League, from the beginning, is 0-5, 0-7, 0-8 and other scores, many people, or "football hooligans" jump out again, to talk about the results.
In fact, whether young players play the AFC Champions League has exercise value, last year's national security reserve team has clearly answered this question. Looking at the performance of Liang Shaowen, Ruan Qilong, Xie Longfei and others in the last few rounds of the league after the AFC Champions League returned, you can know that the value of exercise is very large.
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Taking the two-legged match between Guoan and Lianlian City as an example, the first game was a draw before the final match, which not only won points, but also added confidence to the young players. Being pulled three goals in a row in a 2-0 lead in the second leg, exposed the inexperienced and inexperienced young players on the spot, which is also a wealth for them.
In fact, even against the match between Kawasaki and Daegu, The young players of Guoan played their own things. Especially when facing Daegu, there was a time when opponents could not find good opportunities. In the end, it was only by relying on foreign aid high school striker Edgar to use his strong body to eat the defense formed by Guoan's young people to destroy Guoan's goal.
After this match, when returning to the Chinese Super League and watching Ruan Qilong and Liang Shaowen defend the Chinese Super League-level strikers, their response was more relaxed than when they faced the Chinese First Division team in the FA Cup the previous year.
In fact, in the AFC Champions League game, you can feel that Guoan's last three games are faster than the first three games in terms of rhythm, and young players are trying to keep up with the rhythm of the game as much as possible through the AFC Champions League.
That's the value of exercise.
Of course, the value of such exercise is based on taking the AFC Champions League seriously. Although it may be expected that the game will be difficult and the result may be miserable, whether it is serious about the AFC Champions League game can only be seen from the score.
For example, Shandong Luneng, who went out on this expedition, although it was also a big score loss, but individual young players showed certain characteristics and abilities in the game, although many times such wonderful actions only appeared as if they were flashes, but this was enough to give the young players some confidence.
Sometimes the basic technical and tactical ability of Chinese players is not bad, but when it comes to fast-paced, high-confrontation games, they can't play out, which is because of the lack of enough high-intensity competition. Games like the AFC Champions League, while three or four notches higher in intensity than young players are accustomed to, are helpful for them to adapt to faster-paced, higher-intensity matches.
But on the other hand, playing the AFC Champions League like Guangzhou, the significance of exercise is much smaller.
Guangzhou's players participating in the AFC Champions League this time are mainly young players, but they are also mixed with some marginal players who cannot play in the team for many years. For example, Guan Haojin, who was expelled from Guangzhou because of the red card he received this time, is actually 26 years old and played in the Chinese Second League last season.
In addition to Guan Haojin, guangzhou team also has players over 25 years old in the AFC Champions League lineup such as Ye Guochen and Yang Xin, that is to say, this team is not a reserve team in Guangzhou at all, but a miscellaneous army.
Letting these players over the age of 25 who can't play in the Chinese Super League for many years play in the AFC Champions League is a lack of respect for Guangzhou clubs to their opponents in the AFC Champions League, and it does not have any exercise value. Because these 26- and 7-year-old players, no matter how they exercise, have little meaning.
Moreover, their appearance is not a good thing for young players. As veterans, young players may rely on them psychologically, but they cannot rely on them in terms of ability. In this case, on the contrary, it is not as pure as Guoan and Luneng to send a purer reserve team to play, which is more pure and united.
In fact, the Guangzhou team's participation in the AFC Champions League this time also has its unseemly purpose. Guan Haojin's red card was later expelled, which exposed this. As a Guangzhou Evergrande Group that has been unwilling to invest, it first gave the team a salary cut to a salary that was seriously lower than the market price, and then expelled the player because of the player's red card, and what he did was completely disregarding the laws of football, which was completely perverse and did not give up on the destruction of Chinese football.
Such a team to play in the AFC Champions League, not to mention the value of exercise, not even the value of existence.
In the AFC Champions League, the youth troops of the Chinese Super League team can be inferior, which can be learned, can be exercised, and will also gain something in the AFC Champions League. And for a team like Guangzhou, incorporating the game into too many other ulterior motives is an insult to the opponent, an insult to Chinese football.
In the end how to train the team, last year's national security has set an example.