4 consecutive wins and 0 goals conceded, defeating Taishan to show the "gold content" of Shenhua's leader
Special correspondent Gan Hui reports that Jinan can be said to be the sad place for Shenhua, where it has won only once in the past two decades. Last night, Shenhua "conquered" this away game, Teixeira's brace and Xu Haoyang's "world wave" helped Shenhua win 3-0 away. Shenhua won 3 consecutive league games and continued to lead the standings.
After the first two rounds of games, although Shenhua occupies the top spot in the league standings, after all, the overall strength of the opponents Meizhou Hakka and Qingdao West Coast is not too strong, so this contest with Shandong Taishan is considered to be the "touchstone" of Shenhua's real strength this season. Head coach Slutsky agrees with this view, in his opinion, Shandong Taishan is a strong team in the Chinese Super League, and its performance after the start of this season is also remarkable.
When he went on the expedition to Jinan, Slutsky deliberately took Malele with him. At the pre-match press conference, Slutsky said, "Malele came to Shandong with the team, but whether he can play remains to be given by the medical team after training." Obviously, until the day before the game, Slutsky was still expecting a miracle, after all, Malele has a very important value in his tactical system.
Although Malele followed the team to the stadium to adapt to the venue, he still failed to participate in the team's joint training and did not meet the conditions for 100% recovery, so Slutsky did not take any risks and still excluded Malele from the squad.
Malele was absent and his place was replaced by international Xie Pengfei. In addition, Slutsky has also fine-tuned the line-up, and another new signing, Gao Tianyi, who has just joined this year, has appeared in the starting lineup. This game is also the first time that Xie Pengfei and Gao Tianyi, two big players, have started for Shenhua in the new season.
The two internationals also lived up to Slutsky's trust, with Shenhua's first goal coming from Xie Pengfei's brilliant pass. In the 5th minute, Shanghai Shenhua made a perfect start, Xie Pengfei picked up a pass behind him in the counterattack, Tong Lei made an offside mistake, Teixeira made a single knife, and calmly pushed the goal in the face of Wang Dalei. In the 30th minute, Bao Yaxiong made a long pass, Andre headed back, and Teixeira volleyed after eating Taishan's defenders, and Shenhua led 2-0.
Teixeira, who joined Shenhua last season, has been controversial, and in the second half of last season, he basically faded out of the main lineup. In this year's match, Teixeira finally proved his worth. Speaking about Teixeira after the game, Slutsky said: "Malele is an important tactical value player for our team and after his absence due to injury, we will definitely hope that other players will step up and show the quality to take responsibility. Not only did we see other players step up today to take over Malele's tactical role, but we also saw the effort of the whole team. ”
Slutsky's substitutions also had a noticeable effect. In the 61st minute, Xu Haoyang and Yu Hanchao replaced Gao Tianyi and Xie Pengfei. Two minutes later, Teixeira quickly sent a set-piece, and Xu Haoyang dribbled to the front of the penalty area in the middle to hit a "world wave" with his left foot to seal the victory for the team. Regarding this beautiful goal, Xu Haoyang said very modestly: "There is an element of luck in this goal, and I believe that we can do it better and better through our own efforts." Slutsky spoke highly of Xu Haoyang's performance in this game: "When Xu Haoyang started the game, he performed very well, but I am not 100% satisfied yet. But in the previous interval, he still worked very hard in training, which also made me hesitate about his arrangement. I'm very happy with his performance today. ”
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Slutsky felt that this score was not a reflection of the true strength of the two teams, "This game was a difficult game, although the score was 3-0, but it did not reflect the strength of both sides. Shandong Taishan is a strong team, through today's game can see that the opponent's game intensity is very high, Taishan has won two penalties in the attack is very high, today is just luck favored us. After opening the scoring, we took advantage of the gaps in the opposition defence and took advantage of a couple of counter-attacking opportunities, but it was a very important win for us anyway. ”
With a big away win over Shandong Taishan, Shenhua continued its strong performance in the new season. Together with the "Super Cup" against Shanghai Port, Shenhua has won 4 consecutive matches since the start of the new season, scoring 8 goals and conceding 0 goals.
In this game, the Shenhua players completed Slutsky's tactical requirements well, and Slutsky said in an interview, "Whether it is losing the ball, or grabbing the ball, controlling the ball, the conversion speed of 3 seconds can fully reflect the ability and level of this team." "The three goals in this game, Shenhua are very concise, all of them were completed within 5 feet.
After a three-goal victory over Shandong Taishan, which entered the top 8 of the AFC Champions League, Shenhua's call for winning the championship is getting louder and louder. In the midst of praise, the Shenhua team is still very calm. Asked if he would raise his goals for the season, Xu said, "I don't think so. Shandong Taishan had a poor team in this game, they showed their level today and played with resilience, so I hope we and them can achieve good results. ”