After the seventh round of the 2022 Chinese Super League season, compared with the past Jinyuan Super League era, with the departure of big-name foreign players, the appearance of this year’s Chinese Super League is quietly changing.
Domestic players are playing an increasingly important role in the Chinese Super League teams, especially the forward line, which was generally dominated by high-level foreign players in the past. Now local forwards are also getting more opportunities to perform. In the top scorer list of the first seven rounds of the Chinese Super League, domestic players generally competed with foreign players. In terms of the number of goals scored, domestic players also surpassed foreign players. This is a phenomenon that has never happened in the Chinese Super League in the past many years.
Guangzhou, Hebei and Dalian who hold high the banner of the All-China Class are naturally led by domestic players. Guangzhou City’s single foreign aid Cardona only joined the team in the 6th round. All the goals scored by this team Also from domestic players. In addition, the new Chinese Super League team Chengdu Chengdu also scored all goals from domestic players. They have drawn in the last 5 rounds and remain unbeaten.
Without superstars such as Kongka , Paulinho , and Lavezzi, the Chinese Super League has certainly become less enjoyable, but it has become more real and more like our own league. Under the false appearance of prosperity that used to be known as the sixth largest league in the world, what it brought about was that Chinese football was losing ground.
In the 7 rounds of the league, a total of 9 people have scored 4 goals or more. Although there are only two Chinese players, Zhang Yuning tops the list with 6 goals, which is exciting.
Zhang Wei, a 22-year-old handsome young man from the Hebei team, scored all 4 goals in the team’s 7 rounds. He even scored twice in the last round, helping Hebei beat Wuhan Yangtze 2-1 and win the first victory of the season. Make the first move. Zhang Yuning and Zhang Wei, two forward players with bright and handsome images, represent the short-term and long-term future of Chinese football respectively.
There are also 9 players who scored 3 goals. Among them, there are 5 domestic players including Tan Long, Jin Jingdao , Xie Pengfei , Barton and Lin Liangming , accounting for more than half.
Lin Liangming is the top scorer of Dalian in the All-China Class. He is the most threatening arrow figure in Dalian's high-position pressing and high-speed counterattack tactics. Tan Long and Button are also the current top scorers of Changchun Yatai and Tianjin Jinmen Tigers respectively. However, after Tan Long scored a hat trick in the first round against Guangzhou City, his ball luck and condition seemed to have been exhausted. , he failed to score in the next 6 consecutive rounds.
The 26-year-old Button was first on loan from Beijing Guoan and then joined the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers. He got more game training and became more and more mature, becoming an indispensable link in the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers' offensive system. Since the start of the new season, Shandong Taishan's forward performance has been average, relying entirely on midfielders to score goals. Jin Jingdao and another powerful foreign aid midfielder Moises have scored 3 goals each and are tied for the top scorer list in the team.
A total of 14 players scored two goals, including 7 domestic players including Yu Dabao , Yan Xiangchuang, Feng Zhuoyi , Zhu Jianrong , Cao Yunding , Sun Guowen and Zhu Chenjie , accounting for Halfway through. Although they are not high on the scorer list, they have all made outstanding contributions to the team's offensive end.
In addition, 66 players scored one goal each, of which 47 were domestic players, accounting for more than 70%. There are Gao Lin , Yang Xu , Ren Hang, Peng Xinli , Zhang Linpeng , Li Tixiang , Chen Zhizhao , Zheng Kaimu , Yin Hongbo and other veterans who have been famous in the Chinese Super League for a long time. Liu Tao, a 37-year-old veteran from Chengdu Chengdu, opened his Chinese Super League goal account and wrote an inspirational story like Fan Jin's winning the championship.
U23 players such as Xu Yue, Han Dong, Xu Haoyang, Yang Yilin, Wu Chengru, and Buglahan who scored the first goal in the Chinese Super League carry the future of Chinese football.
In all 63 games of the first 7 rounds of the Chinese Super League, a total of 165 goals were scored, with an average of 2.62 goals per game.Excluding 3 own goals, the number of active goals was 162. Among them, domestic players contributed more than half of the 86 goals, accounting for 53%. This is an achievement that was unimaginable in the Chinese Super League in the past Jinyuan era.
Before, teams with better results in the Chinese Super League often had more severe dependence on foreign aid. Domestic players were only responsible for defense. After getting the ball, they handed it over to foreign players in the midfield and frontcourt. Their participation and contribution on the offensive end were both Very low. Now, domestic players in Chinese Super League teams are getting more and more space to perform in the offensive link, and some have even become the core of the team's offensive tactics.
The Chinese Super League is indeed not as exciting as in the past, but what is lost is what is gained. Domestic players have more opportunities to train and perform, which is more beneficial to the future development of Chinese football.
The AFC Champions League may not return to the Chinese Super League team for a long time, but what Chinese football needs more is to do the right thing at the right time. If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles.
