"Rich kids laugh, poor kids suffer!" Although this saying does not apply to the "post-Golden Age" of the
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, but the second half of the sentence is quite apt.
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The second phase of the campaign resumed with four matches each in the relegation and title contenders' divisions, and it was concerning to see none of the teams in deep financial trouble win their matches.
Among these teams, Qingdao seems to have the toughest time. Following the 0-3 defeat against Shenhua, news broke at noon on the 13th that Qingdao's head coach Wu Jinggui had decided to resign. Although Qingdao Football Club has not yet made an official announcement, several media outlets have contacted Wu Jinggui, who himself not only confirmed the news, but also said that the coaching team's inability to improve the level of players was the reason for his resignation.
Qingdao is in a really tough situation at the moment.
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Qingdao finished the first phase of the tournament with 9 consecutive losses, breaking the record of 8 consecutive losses set by Harbin Yiteng in the 2014 season, and finishing at the bottom of the table with Dalian People with 7 points. After the restart of the league, Qingdao suffered a heavy defeat in their first match, 0-3 against Shenhua, the number of consecutive defeats increased to 10, continuing to refresh the
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Historical losing streak record. What makes Qingdao fans even more anxious is that just before the
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Before the second phase restarted, Soccer News exposed that Qingdao owed wages for eight months, and the players even said at one point that they would not enter the tournament until the problem was solved. Now, Wu Jingui's resignation up front has added to Qingdao's woes.
Dating back to August 4, 2020, when Qingdao Football Club officially announced Wu Jingui as the team's head coach, Qingdao was also in a difficult situation. After Spanish star Lillo parted ways with Qingdao in June due to family reasons, despite the club urgently finalizing the appointment of former
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The team's head coach, Ma Qin, was not in China at all, but he let Qingdao off the hook. In the absence of a manager, Qingdao, which can only rely on two assistant coaches, Oscar and Yang Weijian, had no wins in the first two rounds of the league, with one draw and one loss, and Wu Jingui's arrival stabilized the team's precarious situation.
After Wu Jingui took over, the team drew 1-1 with Shanghai Seaport in their first match, and then drew 3-3 with Beijing.
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Qingdao beat Tianjin 2-0 in the first round, but they didn't expect to see another losing streak and eventually fell into the relegation group. After being eliminated by Guangzhou City in the first round of the relegation group, Qingdao welcomed Wuhan in the second round, and after falling behind 1-2 in the first round, Qingdao responded with a 2-1 victory in the second round, and saved themselves from relegation by winning the penalty shootout. After the match, Wu Jingui's tearful scene was touching.
In fact, regarding Wu Jingui's performance last season, Qingdao fans have mixed feelings, but regarding the "survival first" Qingdao Football Club, Wu Jingui, who is known as "the strongest fire-fighting coach", is trustworthy and dependable. However, Wu Jingui resigned in front of Qingdao, and Qingdao's situation is even more difficult than last season, at this moment, who can save Qingdao from the fire? If Wu Jingui is confirmed to leave, as things stand now, club veteran Yang Weijian will probably be appointed as the "acting head coach" once again, leading the team to play the last two rounds of matches, including the match with Tianjin Jinmen Tigers. It is worth mentioning that in the 2012 Qingdao season, Yang Weijian replaced Sliskovic, who only led the team for one game, to become the team's executive coach, but his first game Qingdao defeated the Tianjin team, which was led by veteran coach Kuzawa, by 2 to 1 at home.
On the 13th of
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In a marquee match in the first round of the championship bracket, Beijing
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With Zhang Yuning's header in the 82nd minute of the game, the 1-0 win over Guangzhou, an all-Chinese team with no foreign aid and no naturalized players, opened the season as expected. Since the 2019 season, the
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Unbeaten in 3 matches against Guangzhou for the last 3 seasons
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beat Canton for the first time; and the loss puts Canton in the
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The four-game winning streak in the first phase of the tournament came to an end.
The problems that Guangzhou team is facing now are well known, and even whether this team can exist next season is still a big question mark. But even so, Guangzhou players still organized themselves to attend the
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The second stage of the game, and from this game, Guangzhou players embodied a pretty good state of mind, from a certain point of view, they are also trying to repay their own know and cultivate the grace of the club, but also in the actual action to the outside world to prove that the Guangzhou team is in deep trouble is "not collapsed".
It is worth mentioning that in the second stage of the league matches, Liu Zhiyu, the former reserve team head coach of the Guangzhou team, was the head coach officially recognized by the Guangzhou club, but the command of the matches was actually in the hands of the executive coach and team member
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The hand. Just before the game, the former Guangzhou team boss Cannavaro also "space" for the
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Sending blessings and encouragement. Although
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The debut of the coaching ended in a loss, but public and private, as the team's "big brother", if the Guangzhou team did not have the
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, not even the possibility of pinching it together exists.
