Still in the championship team! After 11 rounds, the top 6 points are missing, and what the Taishan team needs is a unified mind

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2024-05-13 09:11Posted on the official account of Guangdong Football News

Reporter Chen Yong reported that on the evening of May 11, the Chinese Super League leader Shanghai Shenhua's pace of progress was slightly blocked, and the away game drew 0-0 with Tianjin Jinmen Tigers. Shandong Taishan defeated Wuhan Three Towns 2-1 away after an embarrassing draw in the last round. After this round, Shanghai Shenhua has 27 points, Shanghai Port has 24 points for one less game, Beijing Guoan has 24 points, Chengdu Rongcheng and Shandong Taishan have 22 points and 21 points, and the five teams constitute the first group to compete for the championship.

Is the future direction of the Tarzan team upward? This is a concern for Tarzan fans. At this moment, it must be said that the league has only been played for 11 rounds, no matter from which point of view, Taishan should not give up the goal of competing for the championship, to do this, first of all, investors, clubs and teams need to unify their thinking; The second thing that needs to be manifested at the level of concrete action is that the recruitment of secondary transfers must be initiated. Of course, if the equity and capital allocation are thoroughly sorted out, it will be more powerful than recruitment.

Taishan has already experienced the regrets of the 2022 season and the 2023 season, and this time the journey to the championship is also a little difficult, but he can't give up easily.

The game between Taishan and Three Towns began in the 85th minute, and Three Towns goalkeeper Liu Dianzuo became the busiest person: in the 86th minute, Kazaishvili made an inverted triangle pass in the small penalty area, and Cressan's shot in front of the goal was saved by him; In the 87th minute, after colliding with Cressan against the wall, Kazaishvili broke through and his close-range shot from a small angle was saved by him; In the 91st minute, Liu Yang shared the ball, and Cressan burst into the left side and his shot was saved by him; In the 97th minute, Kazaishvili passed several people in the penalty area, and Chen Pu's shot was defused by him.

Although the Taishan team locked the score of 2-1, the fans were not satisfied with the team's performance, mainly because the team's overall technical and tactical performance was average, and finally the Taishan team had only 43.1% possession in the whole game, but after 85 minutes for more than ten minutes, the Taishan team played the highest performance of the game.

After winning this game, the recent record of the Taishan team is 4 wins and 1 draw, which is quite good in terms of results alone, but the whole process of the Taishan team played quite difficult most of the time: 4-1 Cangzhou Lions at home is considered bloodless, and the latter has no intention of fighting with the Taishan team; defeated Chengdu Rongcheng 1-0 away, Taishan team played in the all-Chinese class, the possession rate was as low as 31.9%, and the shot ratio was 4 to 19, and it was lucky to win; 3-1 Nantong Zhiyun at home, did not occupy an absolute advantage on the field; The 0-0 draw with Qingdao West Coast away broke the problem of weak defense; Then there was the away game against Wuhan Three Towns, the overall performance was not good but finally won the game.

The current problems of the Tarzan team are clear: first, the injury problem, especially the injuries of Judson and Fernando have a very big impact on the team; The second is the problem of foreign aid, so far in 11 league games, the Taishan team has a total of 24 foreign aid starts, 32 foreign aid appearances, basically an average of 2 foreign aid starts per game, which is actually an extension of the first problem; Again, after the Taishan team experienced an emergency a month ago, the team maintained a high level of professionalism, the team's fighting attitude is no problem, but the overall spirit is obviously insufficient, which has objective factors, there are also subjective factors, there are not only players who have this kind of mental problems.

Recently, pessimism has begun to appear among Taishan fans, on the one hand, the Shanghai duo is too strong, and on the other hand, the Taishan team is playing a little stumbling. However, the Chinese Super League has only played 11 rounds, and it is by no means the time to give up the goal of competing for the championship.

Fans should remember the regrets of the 2022 and 2023 seasons: in the 2022 season, Shandong Taishan and Wuhan Three Towns competed for the championship, and the two sides ended up with the same points, but the Taishan team ranked second with a goal difference; In the 2023 season, Shandong Taishan is 9 points behind Shanghai Port in the 11th round of the Chinese Super League, and still 9 points behind in the 16th round. Subsequently, the Taishan team once drew with Dalian in the 26th round, but the Taishan team finally saw hope at the end of the 28th round, only 5 points behind Shanghai Port, and the 29th round is a direct duel between the two sides, but the Taishan team of the third-line battle has been very tired, and finally only drew with Shanghai Port and missed the championship. In these two seasons, if there is no off-field distraction, if it is more tenacious, the Taishan team may win the championship.

This season, the Taishan team was once again interfered by off-the-field factors, and the problem of foreign aid was also obvious, but after 11 rounds, the Taishan team did not fall behind, and there was still hope.

Unified thinking and the goal of winning the championship are by no means something that investors and clubs can achieve by holding meetings and shouting slogans for the coaching staff and players, but must show their determination to compete for the championship with practical actions, which are very simple: recruitment. In the context of Zeka's normal return in the near future, the foreign players of the Tarzan team are: Cressan, Kazaishvili, Zeka and Judson, and the seriously injured Pato should not be registered in the second half of the season. Delgado signed up as a foreign aid, but at present, his performance is average, and the Taishan team is weak, but Choi Kang-hee would rather use no striker than let Delgado start.

If the Taishan team aims to win the championship, the second transfer will need to bring in suitable foreign aid. As for the type of foreign aid, there is not much need for a purely defensive midfielder, and an all-round midfielder similar to the Moises type is naturally the best, with the ability to go up and down in the middle, and has a certain ability to comb the attack. Of course, such players are not easy to find, so a forward type player with strong offensive ability can also be considered.

If there is no very suitable candidate, the Taishan team can even introduce a foreign aid central defender, if necessary, you can use two foreign aid central defenders to strengthen the defense, more importantly, considering Judson's "glass man" characteristics, the introduction of foreign aid central defenders can make the Taishan team's defense more stable, and also reserve space for the Taishan team to replace Judson in the future.

In addition to helping the team improve at the technical and tactical level, it is more important to show the determination of the team and the outside world.

If the conditions are indeed limited, the introduction of reinforcements needs to first terminate a foreign aid (release Pato or let Leonardo transfer), plus the funds of the recruitment, if the funds are insufficient, the Taishan team can also not be recruited, so that the Taishan team can give young people more opportunities, such as letting Shi Songchen play the main central defender directly, Jia Feifei enters the back rotation, Abdo and Maiwulang can rotate out.

Of course, Taishan fans hope to see the equity problem of Shandong Taishan Football Club completely sorted out, the problems left over from history solved, the future equity structure is clear, and there will be no more problems with capital allocation. If these problems are solved, even if no new foreign players are brought in, the team's fighting power can be stimulated.

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