The Chinese Super League ushered in a battle of focus, and the Cangzhou Lions, known as the big dark horse this season, challenged Shanghai Shenhua, the favorite for the championship, away. In the end, Shenhua relied on Xu Haoyang's dream start, Zhu Chenjie's super world wave and Andre Luiz's brace, defeated the Cangzhou Lions 4:0 and continued to lead the standings.
After the start of the game, Shanghai Shenhua, who was fighting at home, was like a rainbow, and the two wings continued to attack, and the middle and side of Xie Pengfei and Teixeira made the defense of the Cangzhou Lions a little chaotic. Only 4 minutes into the start, Shenhua used Xu Haoyang's follow-up shot to penetrate the gate of the Cangzhou Lions.
The dream start did not stop Shenhua from attacking, but continued to suppress the opponent on the field. However, Zhao Junzhe on the sidelines signaled everyone not to worry, still follow their own rhythm, go all out to defend, and still give the initiative of the offense to Shanghai Shenhua.
In the 25th minute, the Cangzhou Lions broke the ball and launched a quick counterattack, Ma Fuyu broke through and caused Wu Xi's foul, and the team won a good set-piece in the corner of the penalty area, but unfortunately the cooperation did not come out, and the shot was unfortunately high. However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and in the 39th minute, Cangzhou Lions general Zhukov accidentally strained and had to be replaced in advance. In the last 10 minutes, the Cangzhou Lions played several good frontcourt cooperation, but they lacked several strong attack points, and the final key kick was always a little lacking. At the end of the half, Shenhua temporarily led by 1 goal.
Throughout the first half, there was no doubt that Shanghai Shenhua had an absolute advantage, whether it was possession or shots on goal, and other key statistics, Cangzhou Lions were far behind. For Shenhua, although the situation is under his control, it is still a pity that he did not take advantage of the situation to expand the score.
And the passive situation of the scene is also expected by Zhao Junzhe, after all, the main generals of the team are all on the bench, even if the team is behind, they are not in a hurry to recover the score. Obviously, in the second half, after the Cangzhou Lions returned, the team would launch a sharp counterattack.
After the start of the second half, although the Cangzhou Lions did not make personnel adjustments, they were more inclined to attack in terms of play. Just when the team was improving, Shanghai Shenhua scored again, and in the 50th minute, central defender Zhu Chenjie hit a super world wave 30 meters away, expanding the advantage to 2 goals, and this goal is also destined to be the best goal of the round.
After 60 minutes, several players of the Cangzhou Lions showed signs of cramping, and then Teixeira took advantage of the gap to pass in succession in front of the court and hit the crossbar with a one-kick!
Although many main players played, Shanghai Shenhua began to slow down the tempo, pursuing the success rate of passing, and not giving the Cangzhou Lions a chance to counterattack. In the 75th minute, the Cangzhou Lions were hit again, Dai Weijun shot hard, was saved by the goalkeeper, and then followed Andre Luis to make up the goal, Shenhua extended the advantage to 3 goals!
In stoppage time, substitute Cao Yunding flashed around in the penalty area, crossed Andre Luis in the middle, and scored an empty goal! In the end, the Cangzhou Lions defeated Shanghai Shenhua away.
Congratulations to Shanghai Shenhua for winning this battle of focus, although Shenhua has achieved good results before, but in the face of a dense defensive team, the performance has not been ideal. Now that they have met the Cangzhou Lions, who have played quite well in defensive counterattacks so far this season, Shanghai Shenhua has finally proved that they can not only play against strong teams, but also play brilliant results in the face of dense defense.
For the Cangzhou Lions, the recent sluggish performance has gradually faded away from the dark horses at the beginning of the season. After losing to Shanghai Shenhua, the team has suffered three consecutive defeats. However, in this game, if the team did not deliberately give up, then it was an absolute failure of the coaching staff's tactics, Zhao Junzhe wanted to exert his strength in the second half, so the starters made a number of adjustments, and Tian Ji's horse racing tactics obviously did not achieve the expected goal.