On May 16, in the 12th round of the Chinese Super League, Shandong Taishan team played against Shenzhen team, on May 16 last year, Taishan team officially announced Cui Kangxi's appointment, exactly a whole year, the team's goal is naturally to get three points. From taking over the sluggish Taishan team halfway through last season, to competing for the championship with the Harbour team in the end, and then to breaking through in the group stage of the AFC Champions League, he kept the face of the Chinese Super League. Cui Kangxi is the best head coach of the Chinese Super League this year, he is more compatible with the Taishan team, although the introduction of reinforcements has been controversial, but the results have not been left behind.
This season, due to injuries, the Taishan team was once out of the championship zone, but Cui Kangxi has been on the battlefield for a long time and quickly adjusted the team again. The reuse of Xie Wenneng paid off, minimizing the impact of Fernando's injury, and also giving Ivankovic more options. Without foreign aid in the back, Huang Zhengyu took the position and played out the peak state before the big injury. Looking at the top five teams in the Chinese Super League, the foreign aid of the Taishan team is the weakest, but after 12 rounds, it is also closely followed, and Cui Kangxi has made great contributions.
Lao Cui "waited" for Zeka's comeback, even if it was a Shanghai double-hero, the tactical essence was a high school striker, Gustavo and Luiz, two Brazilian foreign aids, were the goal guarantee of the two teams in Shanghai. The Tarzan team also has Brazilian center forward Zeka, but unfortunately he was injured when he first arrived. I have to sigh at Guo Tianyu again, the center Guo Tianyu, who has disappeared for a year, appeared, and his current situation is fine. This means that he has a chance to get back on the pitch, the Football Association has not banned him, and anything is possible.
The Taishan team has cultivated a Guo Tianyu in 10 years, if he didn't have problems last season, Lao Cui would not have introduced Pato, let alone choose to sign Bi Jinhao this year. Since Han Peng, for a long time, the local center position was vacant, until Guo Tianyu was born. In 2021, 10 goals in a single season thought it was the beginning of the peak, but it ended up destroying its future. Taishan's next youth center Peng Yixiang's talent is far inferior to Guo Tianyu, if Guo Tianyu can return, the tactics of the Shandong Taishan team are like a tiger.
Before the international break, the Taishan team has three games left, with Shenzhen being the weakest one. followed by successive matches against Jinmen Tigers and Zhejiang team, and three rounds ago, these two teams still plummeted. But all of them caught up, ranking 6th and 7th respectively, closely behind the Tarzan team. These two games are the real tough battles, the strength is not as strong as the top three teams, but it cannot be ignored, and it can play some high-intensity games. After a month, Zeka can return, even if he can't play immediately, Cui Kangxi will have a bottom in his heart.
This season, Taishan team turned over twice on the weak team, once to draw 2-2 with Henan, and 0-0 to get only one point against Qingdao West Coast. These two games did not take all three points, it is an upset, if they win, Shandong Taishan team is only 4 points away from the top of the list. Cressan has fallen into a goal drought of 6 games this year, scoring 4 goals in the last 3 games, and Waco has not scored a goal in the last 4 games, but the effect is obvious. The twin stars of the Tarzan team gradually went from a conflict of positions to complementary characteristics. In the game against the Shenzhen team, the Taishan team went all out to fight for three points.