Although there is still no accurate information on when and where the New Season of the Chinese Super League will start, the preparation of the Chinese Super League teams has entered the sprint stage. After a long period of preparation, the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers are finally going to usher in the warm-up game again. At 3 p.m. on April 23, the Jinmen Tigers will play a warm-up match against Henan Songshan Longmen in the infield of the Water Drop Stadium.
The last warm-up match for the Jinmen Tigers was in Shanghai in mid-March. At that time, the Jinmen Tigers played two warm-up matches with the U21 National Youth Team, and also played a match with the Shanghai Harbor Reserve Team and the Qingdao Youth Island Team. Since then, the epidemic situation in Shanghai has begun to become severe, the Jinmen Tigers have contacted the Guoan team to warm up, and a planned multi-team invitational tournament to Suzhou has failed, and the Jinmen Tigers have also returned to Tianjin shortly thereafter after an early end of their training in Shanghai.
After returning to Tianjin, the Jinmen Tigers trained and prepared for the battle, and also contacted the warm-up opponents while complying with the epidemic prevention regulations. However, due to the changeable epidemic situation in various places, the Jinmen Tigers' planned warm-up matches against Shandong Taishan, Beijing Guoan and Wuhan failed to make the trip. Not long ago, the Jinmen Tigers and henan Songshan Longmen team got in touch, although from the perspective of military training, the two sides hit it off, but this Henan team's warm-up match between Tianjin also needs to take into account the relevant epidemic prevention regulations. In the end, with the approval of the relevant departments, the warm-up match finally came to fruition. On the morning of April 23, the Henan team conducted a training session at the Zhengzhou Navigation Stadium and set off for Tianjin in the afternoon.
Henan Songshan Longmen is one of the more stable teams in the Chinese Super League. Like the Jinmen Tigers, the Henan team's work during this preparation period was carried out in an orderly manner. At present, the four foreign assistants in the Henan team, Kalanga, Shunić, Toure and Dorado, are all training with the team. In addition, Chongqing's former foreign aid Adrian is also expected to join the team as a free agent, and at the same time, Henan now has several internal support targets, including full-back Zhao Hongluo, who once played in Tianjin. Due to the salary arrears of the Wuhan team last season, Zhao Hongluo has been training with the Henan team for many days, and it is no accident that Zhao Hongluo will become a member of the Henan team. The same situation as Zhao Hongluo is Huang Zichang, who should only be a matter of time before he joins Henan, and Zhong Yihao, who played for Guangzhou last season, is also training with Henan. Since the Guangzhou team currently hopes to sell the existing players, Zhong Yihao's joining may still have some suspense, but these players will come to Tianjin. Playing against the strong Henan team is also an extremely valuable warm-up opportunity for the Jinmen Tigers.
Looking back at the Jinmen Tigers, after ending the Shanghai training early, the Jinmen Tigers did not play warm-up matches again. In addition, the main role of the team's warm-up match in the Shanghai training stage was to allow the players to transition from physical reserves to technical and tactical run-in at that time, and the second was to examine a number of trial players through the warm-up game, so the warm-up match in Shanghai would not directly play the role of the team's tactical drill and determining the lineup.
In the past month or so of preparation, the Jinmen Tigers have fully reached the stage of refining the technical tactics and lineup, and at the same time, internal assistants such as Yang Fan, Wang Qiuming and Tian Yinong, as well as two foreign assistants such as Rosa and Radonic, have also begun to train with the team, and they have not yet played warm-up games for the Jinmen Tigers. I believe that these new signings, like other players, are looking forward to playing a game with other teams, proving their strength to the coaching staff, and taking the initiative in the healthy competition within the team in the new season.
It is also worth mentioning that this Jinyu warm-up match will be played in the water drop infield. Affected by the epidemic, the Jinmen Tigers have not played in the Waterdrop Stadium for too long, and in March, the team is still looking forward to the resumption of home and away games in the league, and everyone meets with Tianjin fans at their real home stadium. Now that the epidemic has recurred, the opening stage of the new season of the Chinese Super League will continue to be carried out in the form of a tournament system, and the official debut of the Jinmen Tigers at the Waterdrop Stadium after the "rebirth" can only continue to be postponed. Nowadays, the match with Henan Songshan Longmen Team, although it is carried out in a closed form, is played in the water drop infield after all, and the Jinmen Tigers players can also find the feeling of the home game through this warm-up game.