Continue to lead the Chinese Super League! Although Shenhua's clean sheet is broken, the winning streak does not stop

Special correspondent Gan Hui reported that with Teixeira's whistle stunner, Shenhua defeated Yatai 2-1 away, won 4 consecutive wins in the opening game of the Chinese Super League, and continued to lead the standings. With the Super Cup, they have won five in a row.

In the 98th minute of the game, the score was still 1-1. Shenhua launched the last attack, Malele's cross from the right was blocked by Yatai, and the ball changed lines and caused Andre to stop the ball too much, but Teixeira quickly followed up and picked up a long shot, the ball flew into the far corner, and the Yatai goalkeeper Wu Yake, who performed very well in the whole game, was beyond the reach of the whip.

This is a goal that directly killed the game, and it is also a goal that helped Shenhua win four consecutive wins in the Chinese Super League.

After Teixeira scored, the usually calm head coach Slutsky couldn't hold back and hugged his players in celebration. After scoring twice in the previous round, Teixeira scored another game-winning goal, and the performance was very eye-catching.

"Teixeira's goal today is his best evaluation and commentary in recent times, and there is no need to repeat it. Slutsky said after the game.

After Teixeira's goal, Shenhua soldiers vented their passion, which to a certain extent illustrated the difficulty of the game.

In fact, from Shanghai to Changchun, Shenhua experienced twists and turns. Due to the temporary cancellation of the original flight, Shenhua had to change the book, but there was no suitable flight that could accommodate the whole team, and the team had to split up. Slutsky set off from Pudong Airport with foreign aid, and team leader Mao Yijun led most of the domestic players and staff from Hongqiao Airport.

The process of the game was also full of twists and turns. Compared with the game with Taishan, Slutsky fine-tuned the starters, and Xu Haoyang, who scored the world wave in the last round, replaced Gao Tianyi. Yatai was unlucky, only 25 minutes later, Cheng Changcheng and Rosiqi were substituted due to injury, and shortly after Rosiqi, who was the backbone of the defense, went off the field, Shenhua took advantage of the corner kick opportunity to score - Xie Pengfei drove the ball to the back point, and Jiang Shenglong's head hammer scored.

After the score fell behind, Yatai changed its strategy, no longer shrinking the half-court defense, but slightly raising the line. In the 37th minute, Guilherme crossed from the right, Shenhua's defense was short-circuited, and Tan Long scored with a header unguarded to equalize the score. Including the "Super Cup", in the 5 games that have been played in the 2024 season, Shenhua has not conceded a single goal, and Tan Long's goal is also the first time Shenhua has conceded a goal in the new season.

After equalizing, Yatai returned to the "iron bucket formation", which brought a lot of difficulties to Shenhua's attack. As time went on, Shenhua became more and more anxious as she played. Unable to open up the situation again, Slutsky brought on the newly injured Malele, hoping to tear apart the opposition defence with his speed and impact.

At the end of the 98th minute, the score was still 1-1. At this time, the 7 minutes of stoppage time had been used up, and due to the frequent fall of Yatai players in stoppage time, the referee made up a little more time as appropriate.

Although the game could end at any time, the Shenhua team did not give up and continued to try to find opportunities, and in the end, Teixeira was stunning. After the game, Slutsky affirmed this spirit, "The last goal is a reflection of the tenacious spirit of the team, which is very valuable. ”

Teixeira's golden goal allowed Shenhua to continue the winning streak, however, in terms of process, Shenhua is not too ideal, Slutsky also said, "This game can no longer be commented on from a technical and tactical point of view, throughout this game, we have a lot of areas to improve and improve in the subsequent games." ”

In this battle, Yatai discharged a 541 formation and built two lines of defense in front of the goal. In addition to the stage from conceding a goal to equalizing the score, Yatai is hoarding heavy troops to defend at the back. For Yatai's "iron bucket formation", Shenhua has a certain amount of preparation, the whole front is pressed very high, the two fullbacks Yang Zexiang and Manafa are basically pressed through the half, hoping to use the width of the court to tear out the space and find out the flaws in the opponent's defense. But judging from the actual combat, the effect is average.

In addition, the court limited Shenhua's play to a certain extent. Affected by the cold weather in Changchun, the Changchun Sports Center is in poor condition, with withered yellow turf and bare and uneven soil. Some of Shenhua's technical players are obviously very uncomfortable, and the error rate of long receiving is relatively high, which also affects the performance of the whole team and the implementation of tactics to a certain extent.

At the post-match press conference, Slutsky admitted that the ground pass penetration attack was not effective, so he replaced Malele and Cao Yunding, "Malele's appearance is not a risky move, because we have a lot of communication with the medical team and himself before he comes on the field, and we are completely relieved in terms of health." The reason why we only made one substitution and made two personnel adjustments in this game was because we found it very difficult to penetrate and attack through ground passing, but Malele was more suitable for the scene at that time, and secondly, Cao Yunding was a veteran player, and his ability to read and control the game, as well as creativity, were all things that we needed very much. ”

In the first few rounds, Shenhua's defense was very solid, but the game against Yatai exposed certain problems. When Tan Long's head hit the goal, the defense line was unmarked. In the subsequent game, the Shenhua defense also had a similar leakage, and was almost broken by the substitute Berridge.

After the match with Yatai, Shenhua took an overnight flight from Changchun to Shanghai. Next week, the Chinese Super League will usher in the first double match of the new season, and Shenhua will play three towns and Guoan at home in succession. Judging from yesterday's game, after the highlight performance of the battle with Taishan, the state of the Shenhua players has declined, and in the next few days, Slutsky must adjust the physical fitness and condition of the players as soon as possible to meet new challenges.