Reporter Cheng Shan reported on the 5-2 victory over Changchun Yatai, and head coach Muscat gathered the players under the stands to let everyone thank the team's "12th man". With three consecutive big wins, in this May, when the schedule and distance are a little difficult, Harbour seems to have opened up the second vein.
Changchun Yatai ended its embarrassing seven-round winless streak in the last round, but as soon as he led the team out of the relegation zone, Xie Hui turned his head and ran into a powerful harbor. Before meeting Yatai, Harbour had an eye-catching performance in the early stage of this season, unbeaten in the first 9 games, and stood firmly in the championship group. What's more, looking at the number of goals scored in Harbour's previous games, it can be described as terrifying - 27 goals in nine games, an average of three goals per game. Also with a very aggressive technical and tactical play, Xie Hui and Muscat went head-to-head. In this season, Muscat instilled a tactical system in the harbor that is to rush quickly and attack quickly, and this approach of "pressing the opponent" with offense instead of defense has really stimulated the harbor, and the forward line that was somewhat weak last season has been revitalized in the hands of Muscat.
Xie Hui is naturally very familiar with the Harbour team, he has been an assistant coach in the Harbour team since the 2017 season, assisting Boas and Pereira respectively, and Oscar, Wu Lei, Yan Junling, etc. in the team are all old acquaintances. However, this is the first time that Shanghainese Xie Hui led Changchun Yatai to challenge his hometown team, as the "host", Xie Hui also took the players to eat at a Brazilian steakhouse in Shanghai before the game, which made the Brazilian foreign aid in the team also feel very affectionate.
Despite entering May, the intensity of the competition in the Chinese Super League is very high, and the intensive schedule and the impact of extreme weather have made the port consume a lot. Fortunately, the team's form has not been affected too much, and after returning to Shanghai, the weather has been good in recent days, and the recovery and preparation training at the port have also been going well. Although the intensity is quite high, the good news is that the teams they have faced recently are not strong teams, and it has also given Harbour some respite. Before the fight with Harbour, Xie Hui also said bluntly: "This is a comprehensive test for Yatai, and this time we hope to be able to play more in the opponent's half." ”
After the opening of the game, the outside world found that Xie Hui's words before the game were really not "modest". Harbour continued to send five foreign players to start the previous game, while Yatai had four foreign players to start the game. As soon as the opening home game was at home, the harbor clearly dominated the field, Gustavo's supplementary shot, Wu Lei's goal after missing a single knife, less than half an hour after the opening, the win seemed to be logical. Although Yatai pulled a goal back from a free-kick after that, everyone at the harbour didn't think about giving them any chances. Before half-time, Vargas entered the penalty area, but he was densely surrounded by defenders, but he found the gap and scored with the outside of his right foot.
For most of the second half, Yatai didn't get any better chances, and their only goal came from a mistake in the Harbour defence, with Beric using a counter-attack to score Yatai's second goal. However, Wu Lei soon widened the score again. The "fast" tactics arranged by head coach Muscater still run through the entire team, even if Gustavo failed to break through the opponent's goal in the previous fast attack, Muscatt on the sidelines did not complain at all, raised his thumbs with both hands, praised Gustavo, and signaled that the players' tactical ideas were implemented in place. In the 71st minute, Gustavo scored with a header, and the opponent's coach Xie Hui's face was already very ugly, and the Yatai goalkeeper was even so depressed that he knelt directly in front of the goal and shook his head.
In the end, Harbour won the game 5-2, winning three consecutive Chinese Super League games by a big score, and scoring 16 goals in three games. The level of Harbour's offensive run-in has also been praised, "We have always followed the manager's requirements to play for any team. "Because we have a lot of time together, we get to know each other better, we all have a lot of quality and quality, and we will get better and better if we work hard." ”
In fact, not only Gustavo, in the game against Yatai, it seems that in addition to the high point flowering, the small points on the sides and scattered everywhere also give the entire offensive end a great help. The absolute good form of several players has also allowed the Harbour team to show strong momentum in recent times. However, the two goals conceded also alerted Harbour, after all, the opponents below were more difficult to play than the other.
At the end of the game, Muscat and the players went to the side of the field to thank the fans, and Muscat also gathered the players together, in addition to sending congratulations to the audience, but also allowing the players to send more thanks to those who cheered for him. "Actually, we've played a lot of away games and we have a very busy schedule, so it's good to be back at home today. We played with our performances and made our fans happy, cheering us on. I should say that we played attacking football in the course of today's game, and I am still very satisfied with all aspects, and then we have to recover. Muscat said after the game.