Tonight, Shenhua flew from Shanghai to Changchun for the FA Cup of the season, which will begin on October 13. This time, acting head coach Mao Yijun brought a total of 30 team members, including all the first team members except Wu Xi, Zhu Chenjie, Zhu Yue and Bassogo, as well as two young players Chen Shenji and Jiang Yongjie, who had just been drawn from the 01 echelon.
International wu xi and Zhu Chenjie are playing with the national team in the world preliminary round of 12, and Bassogo has won the cameroon national team, and they will not qualify for this season's FA Cup. Zhu Yue returned to Shanghai for a minor operation after finishing the National Games with the Shanghai U20 men's soccer team, and is currently recovering after surgery, so he did not go to Changchun with the team. Young player Wen Jiabao was selected for the U22 national football team and recently trained in Xianghe, but he will rush directly from Xianghe to Changchun to compete in the FA Cup. On the way from Shenhua to Changchun, the Chinese Football Association officially announced that due to the epidemic prevention and control and flight restrictions, the Chinese U-22 men's football team could not go to Tajikistan as planned to participate in the 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualifiers, and had to regret to withdraw from this competition.
Although Shenhua is one of the teams with the best record in the FA Cup battlefield in recent years, winning the FA Cup twice in 2017 and 2019, Shenhua can be described as a low-key expedition this time, and the club did not give the team a task indicator, nor did it hold a grand parade and a ceremony. Mao Yijun said in an interview, "This time the club did not say that there are any hard indicators in this FA Cup, but as our team, we will do our best to play every game to achieve the best results." Since the regrouping in early September, the team has also been making targeted preparations around the FA Cup, "We played the second division team for the first time, and we could only play in the all-Chinese class, and foreign aid could play in the later matches." Recently, we have made preparations in terms of physical fitness, technical and tactical aspects, and also have corresponding arrangements for the first all-Chinese class. We played two warm-up matches and conducted targeted drills, and the overall effect was good. ”
On October 14, Shenhua will usher in the first match of this season's FA Cup against the Chinese Second Division team Sichuan Minfa.
Source: Thoughtful