This season’s Chinese Super League has presented a completely different situation than in the past. Seven rounds of the league have not yet been completed, and the situation between the championship team and the relegation team has begun to take shape.
The former eight-time Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou team has performed very poorly this season. So far, the Guangzhou team has only achieved a record of 1 win and 5 losses, ranking third from the bottom in the standings, and the relegation situation is worrying.
Although the Guangzhou team has lost a large number of main players this season and plays in the league with an all-Chinese class, they still have 5 active international players including Jiang Guangtai and Wei Shihao . Compared with the all-China teams like and Dalian , which are dominated by the Chinese League One team, their strength is obviously much stronger.
I have to say that the Guangzhou team's results this season are so messed up that the team's new coach Liu Zhiyu must bear a large part of the responsibility.
Liu Zhiyu, a technical analyst, is a typical academic head coach. Although he is extremely professional in tactical analysis, Liu Zhiyu is completely unqualified as the team's coach.
led the Guangzhou second team and suffered a severe defeat from their opponents in the AFC Champions League. After taking over the first team, they recorded a record of 1 win and 5 losses, which shows that the 37-year-old coach is completely unqualified to be the head coach of the Chinese Super League team.
For the Guangzhou Football Club, if they want the team to stay in the Chinese Super League next season, they must change the coach in time. If this continues, the team will dig a deeper and deeper hole. In the later stages of the league, there will be another It can't be filled in either.
Compared with the Guangzhou team, their brothers from the same province, the Shenzhen team, are also having a hard time this season. Due to the financial situation of the club's parent company, the Shenzhen team has also undergone considerable changes this season. In order to rebuild morale, the Shenzhen Club invited Korean iron coach Lee Jang-soo .
However, this former Chinese Super League coach is obviously a bit outdated now. Although it achieved a record of 3 wins and 1 loss in the first 4 rounds of the league, in the subsequent 3 rounds of the league, the Shenzhen team had 2 losses and 1 draw without winning in 3 rounds of the league. The league ranking also dropped to 10th place, which was lower than the 5th place from the bottom. The Cangzhou Lions only have 4 more points.
It can be said that Li Zhangzhu's stubbornness in tactical arrangements and personnel selection are the main reasons for the Shenzhen team's 3-round defeat. If the South Korean coach cannot make adjustments in time to get the Shenzhen team back on track, then his dismissal will be inevitable.
In the same boat as Lee Jang-soo, there is also the head coach of the Harbor Team, Leko. As one of the favorite teams to compete for the championship this season, the Harbor Team had high hopes from many Shanghai fans before the start of the Chinese Super League this season.
But what he didn’t expect was that the Harbor team suffered two consecutive defeats right from the start, especially in the second round of the league when they lost to their city rival Shanghai Shenhua. This was a result that was completely unacceptable to the club’s senior management. In this round of the league, if it hadn't been for a penalty kick due to the opponent's mistake in the final stage of the game, the Harbor team might have suffered a double kill from Shenhua.
Objectively speaking, the Harbor team's poor performance this season was due to the inability to train normally during the offseason and the inability of two big-name foreign players, Oscar and Mu Yi, to return to the team in time.
But without the core midfielder Oscar, you cannot win the ball, which shows that Leko's coaching level is not as magical as everyone imagined. Stubbornly insisting on using the defensive system of three central defenders is Leko's biggest failure this season.
In the second game against Shenhua, the Harbor team's defense made repeated mistakes and was almost useless. If it weren't for the Shenhua team's lack of foreign forwards who are capable of seizing opportunities in front of the goal, then Haigang would definitely suffer another defeat in this game.
It can be said that the record of 3 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses achieved by Leko this season is completely unworthy of his annual salary of 17 million. If he still can't lead the team out of the trough in the next league, then maybe Leko will be dismissed before Oscar returns to the team...
