The happiest thing for Zhao Kangming was that after the end of the national team break, he saw Hu Lai, Wang Guangwei, Chen Xingyi and Zhang Qinghuan in the Liucheng training base of Anton Shining Star.

They have not been plagued by injuries in the last few matches against the national team.

Because the head coach of the National Olympic team, Shi Wuyun, mainly tried tactics and personnel in the three warm-up games of the National Olympic team, so Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei did not play a full 90 minutes in the National Olympic team, which also made them not very tired although they played three games of the National Olympic team.

Zhang Qinghuan did the same in the two games of the national team, and only played 60 minutes in the two games combined, all of which were substitutes. It can be seen that he has re-entered the national team after three years, and he still needs to rediscover his rhythm and feeling.

Although there are some teammates in this team who were his team-mates from three years ago, his style of play is completely different now and everyone needs to adapt to it.

But in any case, being able to return to the national team is a very good progress for Zhang Qinghuan.

Back in the league, the Twinkles have one and only one goal, and that is to get promoted.

Although the first leg of the FA Cup final is half a month away, no one has the heart to think about that issue now.

Because the promotion spots are in the top two of the league, all they need to do is to secure promotion, all they need to do is to be separated from the third place.

Twenty-six rounds of the league have been played, and there are eight rounds left before the end, and the Twinkles are in first place with 62 points. The third place in the league is Ning Tian Yongan, who currently has 55 points, and there is a gap of seven points with the shining stars.

Judging from the rest of the schedule, only Lingnan Nanhai can be regarded as a strong team that can directly threaten them, and the strength of the other teams is not too strong.

Of course, the relegation team should not be underestimated.

But as long as the flash star himself does not drop the chain, there is not much suspense about playing those teams in the league.

The only variable is the FA Cup final.

When the FA Cup reaches the final, it is no longer a winner-or-lose game, but a home-and-away system.

According to the schedule decided by the draw, the first leg of the final, the shining stars will travel north on Saturday, November 4 to challenge the Dashun Golden Arrows.

The second leg of the final is on Sunday, November 26, when the Twinkling Star returns home to face the Dashun Golden Arrows.

But to be honest, if the suspense of this second-leg final is lost, the impact on the league is not much.

The main thing is the first leg of the final.

And because of this final, the 30th round of the league against Baishan Lin Chunhong, which was originally held at the weekend, has been postponed to December 3, and the flashing stars will once again have one less game than other promotion rivals.

Thankfully, the pre-final and post-final league games were not played in midweek, so the impact on the stars was slightly less physical.

The final round of the league was also postponed to Thursday 7 December due to a clash with the second leg of the FA Cup final.

But if the flashstar has been consistent before, then the two rounds of make-up matches after the second leg of the FA Cup final may be meaningless.

Zhao's strategy is that before the first leg of the FA Cup final, the team cannot drop the chain themselves, and the remaining three games must be won.

Fortunately, there is a full week between the international break and the league break, so in terms of fitness, Zhao Kangming does not have to worry too much.

Now that none of the four players who were sent to play in the national team were injured, it would be even better.

Another favourable situation is that two of these three league games in a row have been home to the Flashstars, and they have less disadvantages of going back and forth.

In the 27th round of the league on October 21, the flashing stars faced the middle and lower reaches of Wuzhou Dongshan at home, and Zhao Kangming rotated slightly.

In the end, the shining star won the opponent 3:0, but because Lingnan Nanhai and Ning Tianyongan also won their own games, the score difference was not further widened.

However, the fourth-ranked Chongshan in southern Sichuan lost to the shining star 0:1 in the last round, and was forced to draw by Xiaojiang Green Forest in this round, without winning in two consecutive rounds, and currently only accumulates 51 points, which can be said to have gradually fallen behind in the sprint stage of promotion.

The final two promotion places are likely to be produced in the three teams of Anton Flashing, Lingnan Nanhai and Ningtian Yongan.

After this league game, there is another league game on Thursday, and the two games are very close to each other, but the Shining Stars are playing at home in both league games, so they don't have to go back and forth in a short period of time, which is what they have to take advantage of in terms of schedule.

The opponent of the shining star in this round of the league is Xiao Jiang Lulin, who is ranked sixth.

Xiaojiang Lvlin's strength is naturally not weak, and they also drew with the fourth place Sichuan South Chongshan in the last round of the league, so Zhao Kangming sent the strongest lineup he could send in this game.

The all-main Shinkin did not disappoint, as they continued their winning streak with a 2-1 win streak at home against Xiaojiang Lvlin.

Hulai, meanwhile, scored a goal in this game, his twentieth goal of the season in the league.

Despite the league's second-placed goalscorers, Ivar Moses, who have been in good form lately, scoring in quick succession to take his league tally to sixteen, Hurley still holds a four-goal lead over him in the scorers' charts.

Now Hulai is only one goal away from Lin Gang's single-season goal record for domestic players in the Chinese League, and everyone thinks that it is not a problem for him to equalize or even break this record.

And once Lin Gang's record is broken, then he also has a chance to break the single-season goal record set by Olivier Ferraire last season.

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After playing the match with Xiao Jiang Lvlin, although there is still a league game not played, the flash star has already started to prepare for the final of the FA Cup.

The FA Cup final is a two-legged home and away system, and the first leg of the flash star is to go away, so Zhao Kangming's tactics for the team are to put the bus away from home, try not to concede goals, or concede fewer goals.

“…… Although our opponents are strong, it doesn't mean we have to throw in the towel early. It's simple, because we're also a finalist. On the training ground, Zhao Kangming stood in front of all the first-team players and said that they were just ready to start a day of training. Now that you've reached the finals, you can't just give up with a perfunctory look, right? Otherwise, why would we have worked so hard to reach the finals? If you want to give up, why not give up in the first place? Now that we have reached the finals, no matter how big the difference in strength is, we have only one goal, and that is to ...... Champion! ”

Zhao Kangming said it categorically and naturally.

It's as if the Twinkles really are a team capable of competing for the FA Cup.

And the players of the Shining Star team, who eliminated two Chinese Super League teams in a row, especially after defeating Poseidon 2:1 away, did not feel that there was anything inappropriate in the manager's words.

If you want to give up until the semifinals, it's understandable.

But since they have reached the finals and want to give up, such a person must not be able to be a professional player, because he doesn't even have a basic competitive spirit.

"Dashun Golden Arrows have a strong attacking power, so we only do one thing when we go away, and that is to defend, defend with all our might. If we only lose by one goal in the end, we are done, and if it is 0:0, we win. So for the next week and a half, we're going to continue to work on our defence, like we did before the semi-final. ”

After boosting morale and arranging training tasks, Zhao Kangming asked assistant coach Chen Mo to take the whole team to warm up.

He himself took the other coaches and started to get busy on the training ground, putting the facilities and equipment that will be used for training for a while.

With that done, he stood on the training pitch and watched the twenty-odd first-team players warm up in the already chilly morning wind, and he suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment.

He used to be just an ordinary coach.

Although turning from a professional player to a coach is the first choice for many players after retiring, they really become a coach and find that things are not so simple, and it is not that after receiving more training from other coaches, they can tell themselves how to coach.

In the beginning, he was just a grassroots youth coach, and he only needed to be in charge of training.

He went on to become the head coach of the youth team and later the head of the academy.

He retired from training and became a manager.

Now, he is the manager of a first-team team in the Chinese league and has also led the team to top the league and reach the FA Cup final.

There are veterans like Qin Lin in this team, there are also Mesozoic generations like Li Tielin, and young people represented by Hu Lai and Zhang Qinghuan.

The distribution of the old, middle and young generations is reasonable, and the experience, physical fitness and young people's momentum are perfectly combined.

And this is all built by him.

This team is the best embodiment of his football philosophy.

Now he is like a hard-working old farmer, watching the crops in his field grow, looking forward to a good harvest.

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On Monday, October 30, Shining Star challenged the relegation team Nanjia Tianyu away.

Contrary to what many people thought before, the flash did not rotate significantly in this game.

So although they are fighting away, although Nanjia Tianyu is ranked sixteenth and urgently needs relegation, the desire to fight is very strong.

However, the shining star, who started the game with most of the main players, won 4-1 away from home and won an unexpected victory.

The reason why I said it was unexpected was because everyone thought that Zhao Kangming would abandon the league and concentrate on preparing for the first leg of the FA Cup final, just as they did before the FA Cup semi-final.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Kangming did not do this, but to ensure that the league was given priority.

His choice has led to speculation about whether this means that the Twinkles have given up on the FA Cup final?

After all, their opponents are strong, and the shining star who can make it to the final has done his best. Creative set-piece tactics were also exposed in the semi-finals, and the Golden Arrows must have been prepared, and it was almost impossible to beat the Super League team by playing smart.

Not to mention that Golden Arrow is currently ranked first in the Chinese Super League, and its strength is completely different from that of Poseidon, which was ranked sixth.

The difference in strength between the two sides is so big, and they are still fighting at home, why should the shining stars give up the league for a game that must be lost?

The league ensures the success of promotion, and even if he loses the FA Cup final, no one will blame Zhao Kangming.

Based on this speculation, everyone thinks that Dashun Golden Arrow, the FA Cup champion, is secure.

And they were lucky to meet a Central League team in the FA Cup final. This means they don't have to spend as much effort in the FA Cup final, ensuring that their main focus is on the league and competing for the Super League title with the South China Tigers.

The latter since the FA Cup was eliminated by the Dashun Golden Arrows, in the league to go all out, immediately created a huge problem for the Golden Arrows, now the two teams in the league is difficult to solve, there is no last moment, I don't know who can win the league championship.

If Dashun Golden Arrow wants to defend the title successfully, it really can't be negligent in the league.

Originally, the FA Cup final would have been an important factor affecting them, but now they are facing a Central League A team...... Many fans of Dashun Golden Arrow feel that it is European.

Strive to end the title suspense in the first leg of the two-legged final of the FA Cup!

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