Chapter 165: The Last A
Dalian Wanda 2:1 Jinan Taishan, Bayi 0:2 Guangdong Hongyuan, Qingdao Manatee 2:3 Shanghai Shenhua
Qianwei Huandao 1:1 Sichuan Quanxing, Guangzhou Songri 1:2 Shenzhen FIYTA
In the standings, the Suns and Beijing Guoan are tied for first place, Wanda is 1 point ahead of Shenhua in third, Songsun is 2 points behind Shenhua in fifth, and Shenzhen FIYTA is 3 points ahead of sixth.
On December 18th and 21st, the league played two games a week, and the top four teams even caught each other at such a critical moment, and its central five broadcast the match between Dalian Wanda and Beijing Guoan, and Guangdong Sports was naturally the away game of the Sun God team against Shanghai Shenhua. Originally, Shenhua's opponent in the last round was the weaker Qingdao Manatee, which was supposed to be easier, saving physical strength to face the Guangzhou team, but he didn't expect to do a 2:2 with the Manatee team in 90 minutes, but fortunately, Shen Si's super long-range shot at the best moment saved the Shenhua team.
At present, the Suns and Guoan are tied for first place with 39 points, Wanda is 2 points behind in third, Shenhua is fourth with 36 points, Songri is fifth with 34 points, and Shenzhen FIYTA is in 6th with 31 points.
Before the game, the Football Association has announced the reform of the new season of the league, under the rendering of the media, this year's league is called the last generation of A. Professional league from 94, the champions of the first 3 years are Wanda, Shenhua and Sun, then this last year of A, who won the championship will be the strongest representative of Chinese football in the era of A, it is very interesting that these three teams are also the top three in the league, and the gap between each other is a goal, in this case, of course, everyone has to fight. And Beijing Guoan naturally hopes to win this year's championship, so that they can be called the domestic giants together with the other three teams at the beginning of the Chinese Super League.
Of course, the fifth-ranked Matsuri will definitely laugh secretly when he sees this round of matchups, and the upstarts in this league must hope that the top four will play as hard as possible, and it will be the best to kick out the dog's brain, and one person will be punished by two main players, so that we can also think about the championship.
These two super matchups aside, the top teams in the other games in this round are also seizing every opportunity to desperately chase points, and the teams with the lowest points are not relegated this season, so many teams have begun to try new lineup plays, or let some potential players have more opportunities to play out, so these two rounds of games are not an upset.
Jinan Taishan 2:0 Bayi, Guangdong Hongyuan 4:4 Qianwei Huandao, Qingdao Manatee 0:2 Guangzhou Songri
Shenzhen FIYTA 3:1 Sichuan Quanxing
The Suns challenged Shanghai Shenhua away, and the last three rounds of games were all kicked off at the same time, so the teams competing for the championship have dedicated staff responsible for sending the real-time scores of other games. However, Van Gaal did not make such an arrangement at all, in the words of Lao Fan, we are 4 ahead of Guoan on goal difference, and the last few rounds of fixtures are all strong matchups, we just need to make sure that we win to maintain the lead in points, and we don't have to think about how many the opponent has won.
It is precisely Van Gaal's arrangement that allows the Suns' already strong strength to be maximized on the field, and the players don't need to think about what they have, they know before the game that their task is to win, and the current situation is that we are not too few goals, just play steadily.
From the focus of the game and the mentality of the players, the Guangzhou team has the upper hand, not to mention that Shenhua is still 2 points behind themselves, and they are in a hurry. The process of this game made the Shenhua team extremely uncomfortable, and every time they wanted to speed up the pace of the game, they would be controlled by the Guangzhou team, and the Shanghai team with a single core in the midfield soon fell into the slow pace that the opponent wanted. The Guangzhou team was not impatient at all, and Li Bourne didn't even try a long-range shot.
In the 42nd minute of the first half, Gattuso broke the ball from Cantona at the back, and the Guangzhou team quickly counterattacked, and Ballack's long pass accurately found Trezeguet, who spotted the ball down and handed it to Gao Zhongxun in the middle. Although Lao Gao is older, but for so many years, he has become more and more proficient in the skill of the straight pass, a kick over the top to the feet of Li Byrne, who used his speed to shake off the opponent's left back, the captain of the Sun God team crossed the bottom, the ball crossed Trezeguet at the front point and Gao Zhongxun in the middle, and Peng Weijun at the back point outflanked the goal and shot with a footpad.
Shenhua's biggest failure this season is to sell Wu Chengying, originally a golden left side of the domestic league, Wu Chengying + Shen Si, now the defensive intensity behind it, Shen Si needs more retreat to participate in the defense, resulting in a big reduction in the offensive power of this side, which also indirectly affects the play of Perez in the middle. This season's AA, a single line and a single core is no longer enough to dominate, Shenhua is like this, the old Fan on the back line, a Perez in the midfield, Cantona in the front court with a No. 9 and a half Qi Hong, head coach Xu Sanxie does not have the courage to let the team change the playing style of the 4-4-2 diamond position, in fact, if Shen Si is pulled to the back position, the front Perez partners Qi Hong, and the front line Cantona and Xie Hui, this will be more secure. To say that Shenhua has the advantage is that Perez has been playing in the team for a year, and it is true that Shenhua's performance at the beginning of the season is very good, after all, compared to other teams, they do not have a run-in problem. In the second half of the season, it was a little insufficient. It is said that Shenhua is already considering making an unprecedented overhaul to the squad next season, which also includes the selection of excellent managers around the world.
The Guangzhou Sun God team, which led by one goal in the second half, played more relaxed, and even had a scene where five Sun God midfielders played former French international Perez with their feet in a row, which attracted the collective boos of tens of thousands of home team fans at the scene. It doesn't matter, the more impatient you are, the easier it will be for us to play, and it's useless in the face of absolute strength to rush around.
In the 29th minute of the second half, Li Boen on the right side received the ball and prepared to break through, Shenhua got the left back and Shen Si to come up at the same time to grab it, the boy quickly sent the ball to Gao Zhongxun in the middle, Lao Gao seemed to be taking the ball to break through to the middle, in fact, it was just a person running forward, the ball was left by him backwards to the inserted Ballack, the German pushed a fast bocce ball with the arch of his foot behind Shenhua's left side, Li Boen had already started to run to the opponent's bottom line at the same time as passing the ball to Gao Zhongxun, three feet passed, 2 seconds before and after breaking Xu Sanxie's scrambling.
Li Boen, who broke through successfully, did not cross directly when there was no one on the side, but cut into the penalty area with the ball himself, Fan Zhiyi had no choice but to give up Trezeguet behind him to make up for Li Boen's position, but he ran out less than five meters, and this thing passed the ball out! It was from his left side near the baseline position that he passed out. Lao Fan's fill-in, and the defense of Gao Zhongxun's back has not had time to make up for Trezeguet, the ball has already been passed, and Trezeguet's volley from close range in front of the point directly scored the ball from the dead corner of the near point, 2:0.
Judging from the on-the-spot performance and player status of both sides in this game, Shenhua is already powerless. In the last 15 minutes, probably aware of this problem, Shenhua replaced Perez and Cantona with two young players, which also meant giving up the game in disguise. At the same time, the score of Wanda's home game against Guoan was still 2:2, Wanda scored two goals from Nemechek's long-range shot and Wang Peng's tackle in the penalty area, and Guoan's Czech striker Thomas scored twice to help the team keep hope until this time. In the 44th minute of the game, Wanda team took a free kick in front of the middle circle, Li Ming passed the ball to the back of the penalty area, Xie Chaoyang jumped the top ball, and suddenly a shadow flew over and smashed the ball into the goal, 3:2! Zhang Enhua, a sunspot who was taken advantage of twice by Thomas, got it back at the last moment!
After the penultimate round, the top 6 positions also changed:
Guangzhou Sun God 42
Dalian Wanda 40
Beijing Guoan 39
Guangzhou Songri 37
Shanghai Shenhua 36
Shenzhen FIYTA 34
With two rounds left at the end of this season, even Shenhua still retains the theoretical possibility of winning the championship, and the ownership of the championship is still confusing.