Spraying Zhang Xizhe and praising Dai Weijun is a necessary skill for tennis fans. Many people say that when the Chinese team naturalizes Dai Weijun next year, the midfielder will be able to gain a foothold in Asia.
That's scary enough. So, how strong is Dai Weijun?
Flipping through the resume of the "savior" of the national football team, he played in overseas low-level leagues before 2020, made sporadic appearances in League One and Dutch Second Division, and made 5 appearances in the U23 team of The Premier League Wolves.
| Dai Weijun played briefly for Wolves' U23 in the Premier League
After joining the Chinese Super League Shenzhen team in 2020, he made 17 appearances, started 13 times, scored 1 goal and 2 assists. He made 11 appearances in the first stage of the year, starting 6 times, scoring 3 goals and 2 assists.
Dai Weijun was born in 1999, is 22 years old and is still a U23 player. He holds a dual passport from Hong Kong and the UNITED Kingdom, and at the age of 11 moved to the UK with his father to join the Reading Academy.
Compared with Dai Weijun's experience in Europe and Guoan's He Zhenyu, He Xiangyu made five appearances for Wolves in the 2019-2020 season, as many as Dai Weijun. However, He Zhenyu himself is 2 years younger than Dai Weijun, and he represents wolves in the U23 game, which is a jump in itself, and it is normal that he can't play too many games. From this point of view, Dai Weijun is actually not stronger than He Zhenyu, because although he is two years older, he has almost the same number of appearances, but he has a certain advantage in playing time.
And He Zhenyu's U23 pick in the national security team is still behind Gao Tianyi, and if Hou Yongyong can play, he will definitely lag behind Hou Yongyong. Of course, Gao Tianyi and Hou Yongyong still had an age advantage over He Zhenyu.
| Beijing Guoan He Zhenyu
If you compare the data in the Chinese Super League, you will find that Dai Weijun is actually far less NB than many fans boast. At the age of 21, Dai Weijun made 17 appearances in Shenzhen, starting 13 times, scoring 1 goal and 2 assists; at the age of 22, he made 11 appearances, starting 6 times, 3 goals and 2 assists.
Compared with Hou Yongyong, who was 1 year older than him. Hou Yongyong made 16 appearances at the age of 21, starting 2 times and scoring 1 goal; at the age of 22, he made 8 appearances, started 3 times, and scored 2 goals.
Hou Yongyong's playing time in Guoan is significantly less than Dai Weijun's playing time in Shenzhen, but the efficiency of goals is much higher than that of Dai Weijun, but there is no gain in assists.
Duan Liuyu, who is the same age as Hou Yongyong, when he was 21 years old, made 19 appearances, started 10 times, scored 2 goals and 5 assists; when he was 22 years old, he made 20 appearances, started 18 times, scored 3 goals and 2 assists. This efficiency is also significantly higher than that of Dai Weijun.
It can be said that if you compare Duan Liuyu and Hou Yongyong, who were born in 1998, and Dai Weijun, who was born in 1999, their Chinese Super League performance at the same age is Duan Liuyu> Hou Yongyong ≥ Dai Weijun.
And if you use Dai Weijun to compare with Zhang Xizhe, it is a little worse.
Born in 1991, zhang xizhe was 21 years old in 2012, and made 16 appearances in the season, starting 15 times, scoring 4 goals and 2 assists; in 2013, when Zhang Xizhe was 22 years old, he made 30 appearances, 28 starts, 11 goals and 10 assists.
| Zhang Xizhe was a blockbuster as soon as he debuted
From this, it can be seen that Dai Weijun, who is also 22 years old, and Zhang Xizhe, who is 22 years old, are at least two grades apart.
Don't forget, Zhang Xizhe won the Chinese Super League double-double when he was 22 years old, the first local Chinese Super League double-double player in Chinese football, and at the age of 23, he pressed Conka to win the Chinese Super League assist king, and then stayed in the Yangdesliga. No one could match this experience in the next 10 years.
In the past three or five years, from the data alone, Zhang Xizhe's goals and assists have declined, about 2-3 goals and 3-4 assists per year. This has a lot to do with the gradual retreat of Zhang Xizhe's position since 2017, he has changed from an offensive midfielder to an organizational midfielder, from an AM to a CM. Although assists have declined, Zhang Xizhe's ability to pass two passes (the penultimate foot before scoring) is very prominent, with more than 7-8 second passes for several consecutive years.
Therefore, if it is said that the same is 21-22 years old, Zhang Xizhe > Duan Liu Yu > Hou Yongyong ≥ Dai Weijun, saying that Zhang Xizhe is stronger than Dai Weijun two grades is not false at all. And if you only compare from now, 22-year-old Dai Weijun and 30-year-old Zhang Xizhebi, the position, role and characteristics of the two people are not very different.
It can only be said that Dai Weijun is walking the path that Zhang Xizhe has walked, and he is not as good as Zhang Xizhe. As for whether Dai Weijun can still have the height of Zhang Xizhe when he is 30 years old, that can only be said with the facts of the future.
From here, it can also be seen that those who spray Zhang Xizhe and hold Dai Weijun at the same time, their vision is so narrow after all, not to mention whether they have seen how the same 22-year-old Zhang Xizhe plays football, I am afraid that even Duan LiuYu and Hou Yongyong have not seen much.
This is called the fearless of the ignorant.