Reporter Chen Yong reported that on April 28, the fifth round of the AFC Champions League Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou teams began, this round of matches corresponds to the opponents in the first round, in the first round, the two teams conceded a total of 12 balls, and in this round, Taishan and Guangzhou reduced the number of goals conceded to half. Among them, the Taishan team was forced to make a rotation, and the average age dropped from 19.1 years old, 19.3 years old and 19.5 years old to 18.9 years old; as for the Guangzhou team, the two goals conceded were penalty losses, and the boys fought tenaciously enough, but the experience was obviously insufficient.
In the first four rounds of the AFC Champions League, The Taishan team won a draw and a clean sheet in the 3rd round, and scored 2 goals in the 4th round, but when they faced the fifth round of opponent Daegu FC, the whole team was already very tired and had to rotate, and the previously good performances of Bai Helamu and Yi Xianlong were sitting on the bench.
In this game, only 3 of the Taishan team's starting players are more than 20 years old, that is, the 22-year-old captain Lu Yongtao and the central defender Lin Guoyu, and the 20-year-old goalkeeper Cao Zheng. Of the rest of the players, only Tassi and Lu Hongda are 19-year-olds, zhang Yingkai, Yang Ruiqi, Chen Zhexuan and Liu Guobao are 18-year-olds, and Xiong Linrui and Yin Jiaxi are less than 18 years old, Yin Jiaxi is still the youngest player in the team, born on October 30, 2004, and is currently less than 17 and a half years old.
Substitutes Yi Xianlong, BaiHelamu, Deng Chunze, Long Tingwei and Liu Fanyi have an average age of only 18.2 years old, of which Deng Chunze, Long Tingwei and Liu Fanyi are also less than 18 years old, plus Yin Jiaxi and Xiong Linrui, who started the game, the total number of players under 18 years old in this game is 5. In addition, Zhang Yingkai and Yang Ruiqi were also born in 2004, but they are already 18 years old. In this game, 7 Tarzan players from the 2004 age group appeared.
Physical problems gradually appeared, coupled with forced rotation, Tarzan's loss of the ball is also related to mistakes and incompatibility with the game: Tarzan's first two goals conceded occurred in the first 11 minutes, the first of which was a passing error in the midfield and was counter-attacked, as for the second and third goals, the second and third goals were not tight after the header, and the fourth goal was scored by the counterattack.
Even so, compared to the seven goals conceded in the first game, the Tarzan team has improved a lot. During the game, Tarzan also created two good chances, a cross that went unguarded and a header that went too straight, and once burst into the box to face the goalkeeper to save, and Tarzan eventually passed by the goal.
After the game, the team's youngest player, Yoon Ka-hee, also said: "In this game we dared to take the ball more, and we were not bothered by the score of the last game (against Daegu FC), we just did our best to fight." Coach Yu Yuanwei said: "Today we rotated a few young players in the starting lineup, and their opening mistakes were caught by the other side, which affected the development of the situation in the next game, but I am very happy to enter the second half, we did show more scenes of possession and attack, and also close to scoring a goal." ”
In both games against Daegu FC, Tarzan had around 30 percent possession, higher than the two Lion City Mariners and the Urawa Red Diamonds.
In the first round, against Johor Bahru, Guangzhou lost 0-5, and Kwan Jin-ho was sent off with a red card, and Kwan Jin-ho was expelled from the team after the match. In the second round, Guangzhou lost 0-8 to Kawasaki Striker, which was also the biggest score record in the history of Chinese teams in the AFC Champions League.
It is gratifying that from the 3rd round onwards, guangzhou team gradually found the morale and the feeling of the game, the 3rd round only 0-3 defeated Ulsan Hyundai, the 4th round performance was slightly repeated, 0-5 lost to Ulsan Hyundai, to this round, facing Johor Johor Bahru, Guangzhou played more tenaciously, 0-2 lost, and both lost the ball are penalties, it is worth noting that although these two penalties are a hand action, a foot action, but it seems that it is not enough to cause the other party to fall to the ground, can only say that the other side is indeed more experienced, And the young man in Guangzhou is slightly immature.
Although there are no draws and goals like Taishan, it is not easy for Guangzhou to get out of the shadows of the first two rounds, and we can't be harsh on these lads, especially since they have played more tenaciously in the last three games.
More importantly, although the Taishan team lacks the main force of some elite echelons, the players who go out are still excellent players of all ages in Taishan, and the echelon of the Guangzhou team is now actually a team, and is currently staying in the domestic preparation for the Chinese Super League.