The fourth round of the Chinese Super League started, and the leader Shanghai Shenhua continued to soar and maintain a winning streak, defeating the Chinese Super League champion Wuhan Three Towns 4-1 at home. Shanghai Shenhua played a unique state, with an extremely strong performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and gave full play to the advantage of a young lineup.
Due to the more serious youth training problems of local players in the Chinese Super League, the talent is generally out of gear, most of the teams rely on veterans to support the field, among all the teams, only Shanghai Shenhua's new and old replacement is relatively smooth, with a group of young internationals, including Jiang Shenglong, Zhu Chenjie, Gao Tianyi, Dai Weijun, Xu Haoyang, Ma Zhen, Zhou Junchen, Wang Haijian, Fernando and others.
In the face of the sluggish Wuhan Three Towns in this round, Shanghai Shenhua played steadily, coach Slutsky enabled the 4231 formation, Malele as a single arrow, Xie Pengfei, Andre Luiz, Joao Teixeira partnered with three forwards, Gao Tianyi and Amadou partnered with double backs, Yang Zexiang, Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong, Manafa partnered with four defenders, and goalkeeper Bao Yaxiong. The average age of Shanghai Shenhua's starting lineup is 27 years old, and the starting 11 are worth a total of 8.18 million euros, while the starting lineup of Wuhan Three Towns is led by Mendes, Enrique, Deng Hanwen, Park Zhizhu and others, and is worth only 4.08 million euros.
The game was quickly one-sided, in the 25th minute, Shanghai Shenhua quickly completed the goal, Malele assisted Andre Luiz to break the empty goal, Shanghai Shenhua led 1-0; in the 44th minute of the game, Shanghai Shenhua got a free kick opportunity at the front of the penalty area, Xie Pengfei directly raised his left foot to blast out of the world wave, the ball hung in the upper right corner of the dead corner, Shanghai Shenhua led 2-0. In the 54th minute of the game, Jiang Zhipeng took a free kick on the right side of the front field, and also blasted out the world wave to complete a direct goal, and Wuhan Three Towns recovered a goal.
In the 63rd minute of the game, Xie Pengfei set up a cannon near the top of the arc of the penalty area to assist Gao Tianyi to follow up the blast goal, Shanghai Shenhua led 3-1; In the 67th minute of the game, Xie Pengfei sent an assist in the midfield, Teixeira completed a 30-meter blast of the world wave, and Shanghai Shenhua locked the victory 4-1 and easily defeated Wuhan Three Towns.
In the whole game, Shanghai Shenhua had 59% possession, and the shot contrast with Wuhan Three Towns was 22-7, and the shot on target ratio was 12-1, which finally turned into a 4-1 victory. Teixeira scored a game-high 8.8 points, completing six shots, creating one great chance, two successful dribbles and three steals, while Xie Pengfei had 8.7.
Achievement statistics, Shanghai Shenhua has repeatedly achieved good results this year, starting from the Super Cup final 1-0 defeat of Shanghai Port, until this round of the Super League 4-1 victory over Wuhan Three Towns, to achieve a double-line take-off, in the Super Cup and the Super League, 6 consecutive wins, won a championship and achieved 4 wins in the Super League championship team, Shanghai Port, Shandong Taishan, Changchun Yatai, Wuhan Three Towns 4 teams with the title of the Super League were cut down by Shenhua, successively 1-0 Port, 3-0 Taishan, 2-1 Yatai, 4-1 Three Towns. The Chinese Super League standings show that Shanghai Shenhua dominates the Chinese Super League in stages, and is currently leading the Super League with a perfect result of winning 13 goals and conceding 2 goals and 15 points in 5 rounds, and all data dominate the Super League.
What's even more rare is that Shanghai Shenhua has set two historical records, first, for the first time in team history, it has won 5 consecutive wins in the opening season of the Chinese Super League, and second, it has won 5 consecutive wins in the Chinese Super League for the first time since 2008. It can be seen that Shanghai Shenhua is in a good situation for the Super League championship this season.