Live Bar, January 3, according to The Paper News Network, two fully-maintenance teams, Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Haigang, are likely to meet in the Football Association Cup final.
The matchup situation shows that in the first half of the Football Association Cup, Taishan will play against the new champion Wuhan Three Towns , while Shanghai Shenhua will have a two-round match with the Cangzhou Lions. In the second half, Haigang will face Chengdu Rongcheng, and the Zhejiang team will face off against Jinan Xingzhou.
Three Towns, Zhejiang, Cangzhou and Chengcheng were in the same situation. They all completed the season league goals, so they were not concerned about the FA Cup. Three Towns won the first league championship trophy in team history. All foreign players returned to China for vacation the day after the award ceremony. The three towns will compete in the FA Cup as an all-Chinese team. Without super foreign aid, the three towns have basically no chance of winning against Taishan.
The Cangzhou Lions completed their relegation goal, and the team almost immediately entered a holiday state. It is understood that the Cangzhou Lions will mainly compete in the FA Cup with young players, and foreign players who have contributed to relegation will not participate in the FA Cup. Chengdu has won three consecutive games at home in its last three league games, but head coach Xu Zhengyuan said that players are generally physically tired, so the FA Cup team may let more young players play.
The Zhejiang team has unprecedentedly won the third place in the Chinese Super League , creating the best result since the professional league. The Zhejiang team played against Jinan Xingzhou. According to regulations, it cannot send foreign players to play, so the team does not rule out letting foreign players directly take leave.
Due to the work of resolving wage arrears and player contract renewals not yet completed, Shenhua's lineup for the FA Cup is also quite unsatisfactory. Being able to get past the Cangzhou Lions is already the limit, and the hope of going further against Taishan in the semi-finals is extremely slim.
The most serious attitude towards the FA Cup is last season's champions Taishan and Haigang. Both teams failed to win the league this season. The FA Cup has become the last straw for both sides. Both teams will play with their full strength. In the previous stage, both sides experienced widespread fever among players, but the related symptoms have now been greatly alleviated. Judging from the last two rounds of the league, Taishan and Haigang have basically returned to their full lineups. As expected, there is a high probability that the two teams will meet in the finals.
(Nanling Cries and Lives)
