AFC Champions League
0 to 8 to 0 to 1
On April 30, Guangzhou lost 0-1 to Japanese Kawasaki Striker in the final match of this year's AFC Champions League group stage. This is an expected result. With the end of the match, Guangzhou ended their trip to Malaysia with a record of 6 defeats and no goal. However, do not feel that Guangzhou has improved because of the first loss of 0-8 to Kawasaki Forwards, the last battle is only a small loss of one goal, so self-deception, how can Chinese football improve?
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Conceded 24 goals A Q Spirit
As early as before the start of the AFC Champions League, the author clearly expressed his hope that the Chinese Super League clubs would choose to withdraw from this year's AFC Champions League, and still adhere to this view. Because if you send a team to participate, it is obviously to "make an ugly" and further embarrass Chinese football and let the world see the joke of Chinese football. This is also true in practice.
Taking Guangzhou as an example, the cumulative number of goals conceded in 6 games was 24, the average number of goals conceded per game was 4, and the possession rate in each game was not more than 30%, and the least even 20% was not reached. In a game, Guangzhou's total number of passes is also less than 200 times, and the opponent has at least 4 or 500 times in a game. In the final match, the Kawasaki forward made 799 passes. As for attack and shooting, I am afraid it is not necessary to say more, every game, the opponent is in the half-court offensive practice. So, what is the significance and value of such a competition, exercise?
In the first round of the round, Kawasaki won 8-0. In the second round of the game that ended tonight, Kawasaki won only 1-0. Judging from the score alone, it seems that it has indeed improved. But there is a reality: Kawasaki is thinking about qualifying. However, Kawasaki's chances of qualifying are very small, and only in the case of a simultaneous draw between Johor malaysia and Ulsan Hyundai, Kawasaki can only qualify if he wins a small victory over Guangzhou. At that time, Johor, Ulsan and Kawasaki all scored 11 points and then compared the winning and losing relationship between the three teams. With all three teams scoring 5 points against each other, Kawasaki could qualify because of his goal difference (+4) advantage, Ulsan (0) second, and Johor (-4). But if Johor and Ulsan win or lose, no matter who wins, Kawasaki will be eliminated, and even if he finishes second in the group, he is at a disadvantage in the comparison with the second place in other groups, and it is impossible to qualify.
Against this backdrop, it is enough to play against Guangzhou, score one goal, and then wait for the result of the match between Johor and Ulsan. So, Kawasaki started by sending all the substitutes to play, and after scoring a goal early in the first half, the rest of the time has been waiting for the result of another game. In the final moments, johor scored a goal and Kawasaki was eliminated.
Understanding such a background, thinking that losing 0-1 is progress, this is a typical "A Q spirit"! Of course, it is not to negate the efforts of the team and the players in the game. But football has always been a hero based on victory and defeat, and it has always been the goal of victory, when has the Guangzhou team fallen to the point of losing one or two goals less and began to be complacent?
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From "0:8" to "0:1"
At the beginning, guangzhou team insisted on competing in the AFC Champions League, and one of the reasons was that after 10 years of operation, the football school had been self-sufficient. However, in the past 10 years, the largest football school in Asia has been founded in the past 10 years, and what kind of players have been trained in the past 10 years? Sending a group of young players who have not even made a debut in the domestic professional arena to play directly in the AFC Champions League is the level of the AFC Champions League also degenerate? Or is it purely for the sake of messing up and making Chinese football ugly?
Other factors aside, as far as football itself is concerned. Due to the limited strength and level, the Guangzhou team almost adopted a "turtle shrinking" strategy. There is no problem in adopting such a strategy, but in defense, as an individual player, what is the most important or first choice? Between "position", "ball", "person", what should be chosen first? At least from the six games of Guangzhou's group stage in the AFC Champions League, the biggest defensive problem exposed is "watching the ball without looking at people"! And this is precisely the worst choice, because the first choice in defense is "position", followed by "people (i.e., opposing attacking players)", and finally "ball". But the player first just stares at the ball, and does not pay attention to the opposing attacking players around or around him, let alone the "position". The "sense of position" of the players in the defense is extremely poor, and there is even no "sense of position" to speak of.
In this case, even if the team's focus is all on the defensive end, there are more defensive players, but the number of goals conceded is still quite large, and it is normal to concede an average of 4 goals per game. Because not only that, in the process of one-on-one defense, there is also a common disease, that is, facing the opponent's ball-handling players, our players do not dare to boldly press forward or grab in defense, but blindly retreat, and maintain at least one meter distance from the opposing team-holding players. In the case of personal physical and personal ability is far from being able to compete with the other party, it is normal to maintain such a long distance from the opposing team player, and the other party can easily break through the defense.
Such a series of details reflects that there are serious problems in the competition of football schools. Therefore, we also have reason to ask the question: in the past 10 years, what kind of coaches have been hired by the football school that are called "first-class foreign teachers"? In the domestic youth competition, because the whole is at a low level, winning a national championship can show that the football school has cultivated a high level of reserve talents?
Remember the young players such as Afif and Moiz who were already representing the Qatari national team in the World Preliminary Tournament in their early 20s? A look at Qatar's elite football academies, and then look at what was once known as "Asia's largest football school" and the young players it has produced, perhaps we know exactly where we are. The training of football players cannot be achieved by "shouting slogans", because Chinese football has never been short of trumpets and bold words.
So, from "0-8" to "0-1", stop talking about so-called progress. Facing reality, acknowledging the gap, being down-to-earth, and working hard, this is the only choice for Guangzhou team and Chinese football!