Because of the salary arrears, it was already later than other teams to enter the zone; and Marcinho and Sirino had not yet returned, the big motorcycle was only released when the league was about to start, the new foreign aid Tursunov was only joined by the team after the start of the league, and another new foreign aid, Bolaños, was injured in the preparation period... This series of changes has led to Chongqing's first three rounds of the new season can only start with the all-China class, which is the most difficult team in the Chinese Super League this year. After the Cangzhou Lions were relegated back to the Chinese Super League, they were the team with the greatest strength in the winter window. From the perspective of strength alone, the current Chongqing is certainly not as good as Cangzhou; but this time in the case of two goals behind, Chongqing rose up to catch up and get the first point of the season.
From 0-2 to 2-2, Chongqing's domestic players showed a strong fighting spirit; and scored a direct free kick, which also instigated Chongqing to equalize the score, and the veteran player Huang Xiyang played a style comparable to Pirlo, and they equalized in the first half.
And in the second half, successively replaced by big motorcycles and Bolaños, Zhang Wailong was also a bit open-minded; when Cangzhou's defenders could only pull and pull to make big motorcycles stop, big motorcycles hit a door frame in the second half, creating 3 yellow cards, and Chongqing, whose strength was inferior, did not win, but it seemed a pity, and indirectly reflected that Cangzhou's performance was too bad.
So why does Cangzhou, which looks like a good strength, "show stuffing" when it fights? Of course, there are too many new signings to cause the run-in problem; but looking at the process of the three games, in fact, Cangzhou is the performance of coming up to fight Qingdao, which is obviously better than playing Henan and Chongqing after that; playing Qingdao is also a far better performance in the first half than in the second half; this actually indirectly reflects the biggest problem in Cangzhou at the moment, not the team's run-in, but in the strain and tactical construction of head coach Gutby.
In the past few years, Yongchang's coaches have been played as Yasen and Gutby; it is also Gutby who brought the team to the Chinese Super League after entering the palace for two years. After the relegation of Yongchang last year, the outside world was complaining about the format of the game, and at the same time, it was also believed that this was related to the team configuration, and all parties could see that Gutby's adaptability was slightly insufficient. After relegation, Yongchang Club did not blame Gutby; after the new season was renamed Cangzhou Lions, the team's card surface was much stronger than last season' situation, And Gutby himself was looking forward to the new season; however, as far as the content of these three games at the beginning of the season was concerned, perhaps Gutby was not ready for a bigger test.
Last year, Yongchang was recognized as a relatively weak team, so who they played was defensive counterattack, and the offense was basically left to Matthews and Muric to solve the problem. But this year, their card face has reached the middle reaches, and the paper strength is definitely above Qingdao, Henan, and Chongqing, and at this time, Cangzhou's ability to fight offense will be tested. Although Akhmedov's core position has been clarified, Muric, Xie Pengfei, Luo Jing and others, Gutby are not good, which directly led to the fight against Chongqing, although Cangzhou's possession rate and offensive dominance are far ahead, but their shots are far less than their opponents.
Considering that after the relevant parties in Cangzhou City intervened this year, there are high expectations for the performance of the team; the team that came up to play three cards was not as good as his own team to get two points, such a result is difficult to satisfy all parties At the same time, too many newcomers join, which also means that the team is not monolithic. At present, from the inside of the division, it has been rumored that the relationship between Gutby and some core players is more delicate.
A team that is heavily replenished and improved by improving its cohesion by winning, but Gutby is not capable of doing so, resulting in a very delicate relationship within the team, and the sound of Wang Baoshan being ready to go out again has appeared in the jianghu.
Considering that after the fifth round of the league, there is exactly a gap period; and Cangzhou has no international competition tasks except for Akhmedov, and the new coach can give the new coach enough time to polish the team' background, Gutby has entered the countdown stage!