At noon on August 7, Beijing time, another team in the Chinese Super League officially announced the change of coach. After being killed 1-2 by Yatai, Shenhua's coach Choi Kang-hee announced his resignation, and the leader Mao Yijun would take over as acting commander.
The team's recent record has been very bad, a wave of four rounds of no wins has caused them to fall to the fifth place in the division, and only 1 goal has been scored in these 4 games, and there are many problems in both offense and defense.
Before the deadline of the summer window, the team has just changed new foreign aid, South Korea international Kim Xinyu was withdrawn from the registration, the team introduced African foreign aid Dunbia from the Chinese League A, but the replacement of foreign aid also failed to plug and play, and the last two games Dunbia failed to achieve results. After being subjected to great doubts, Choi Kang-hee chose to resign and leave.
Since 2019, this is Choi Kang-hee's third departure in the Chinese Super League. In fact, in the two years of cooperation with Shenhua, he has achieved good results, especially in the middle of the 2019 season, he took over the team to lead the injured Shenhua to complete the relegation task, and won the FA Cup championship that season.
Last year, he also helped the team to enter the championship group, and finally won the seventh place in the league. After passing the proof of the previous two years, Shenhua originally had stronger ambitions this year, signing Chinese Super League stars such as Wu Xi and Bassogo at the beginning of the season, and at one point in the early part of the season, it was also ranked in the top two in the division alongside SIPG. Unfortunately, Shenhua has been in an endless predicament since the restart of the league in July, and now they are fifth in the division, two points away from fourth-place Guoan, and must win all the rounds to reach the championship group.