After starting backward, struggling to catch up and taking the lead, it experienced a period of twists and turns & hellip& hellip; In the end, Guangzhou Evergrande was in danger and won the 2019 Chinese Super League Championship in the last round.
A year ago, Shanghai broke Evergrande's monopoly on the Chinese Super League champion for seven consecutive years. This time Evergrande climbed to the top again and soon regained the hegemony of China Super League.
Compared with Shanghai's entry into Hong Kong without Wu Lei and Beijing Guoan's lack of stamina, Evergrande is more stable. While winning the championship, Evergrande also quietly completed the blood change of the lineup.
At the moment when the new deal of the league is about to come out, Evergrande seems to have taken the lead in policy. In the future, will Evergrande start a continuous Championship model?
Wu Lei left and was unable to compete in Hong Kong
The 2019 season is the penultimate round of the league. Shanggang and Evergrande are the "champions of World War I" in Tianhe Sports Center.
Compared with the starting lineup of the war a year ago, the only change in Hong Kong is that Wu Lei was replaced by Li Shenglong. The final result, from winning a year ago to losing.
There is no intention to belittle Li Shenglong. If he had not scored in three consecutive games against Jianye at home, Guoan away and Dalian at home, Shanggang would not even be qualified to come to Tianhe and Evergrande for the final showdown.
However, it has to be admitted that Wu Lei's departure is still a great blow to Hong Kong's strength. If a team without a super striker who scored 30 goals last season can still successfully defend the title, it may only show that other championship teams in the League must have great problems.
When Wu Lei left the team, Pereira changed the formation and then tried to integrate more role players into the team as much as possible. But even so, the Portuguese is still unable to change the downward trend of the overall strength of the team.
Shanggang has fought for the last three rounds of the Chinese Super League this season. The FA Cup has reached the semi-finals, the Asian championship has also eliminated Quanbei Hyundai and entered the East Asian semi-finals. Generally speaking, this achievement is acceptable, but Shanggang still lacks some hard strength to impact the championship.
In the next few years, Hulk's age will grow. Whether Oscar can renew his contract has a lot to do with the policy. It is difficult to significantly improve his strength in Hong Kong.
As Evergrande's biggest competitor to the League Championship in recent years, Shanggang needs to experience "secondary entrepreneurship" in the future. Obviously, it is not easy to achieve this goal.
After the change of command, Guoan sent out the champion in disorder
At the beginning of this season, China Super League played a wave of very strong ten consecutive victories, expanding the leading edge against Shanghai Hong Kong and Evergrande to 8 points. However, when Guoan's leading edge was gradually eroded, Guoan chose to change his coach.
As a result, Bruno & middot, who is not familiar with the team; Genecio failed to save the team. In the two direct conversations related to the championship at home with Evergrande and Shanghai, Guoan lost and gave up the initiative to compete for the championship.
In contrast, Evergrande is not so 'hasty' - Evergrande's performance has also declined at the end of the league, and Cannavaro's position has wavered. Evergrande group issued a notice asking Cannavaro to "study" in the group. Even the Italians themselves thought it was a signal of the end of class and had said goodbye to everyone on the pitch.
But in the end, for whatever reason, Evergrande did not choose to change the coach at the most critical moment. Cannavaro also withstood the pressure and ushered in Evergrande's first league title.
Guoan, who lacks the experience of competing for the championship and winning the championship, will always make mistakes in making key decisions, which is also the biggest problem perplexing Guoan.
From the perspective of personnel allocation, Guoan still has the potential to compete with Evergrande for the championship in the next few years, but the premise is to make fewer mistakes.
As some fans joked: Guoan never falls off the chain at critical moments. To change this situation, Guoan can only rely on a championship trophy to improve the team's temperament.
Completing the blood change is more important than the champion
Then I went back to the game between Evergrande and Shanggang to decide the champion.
In that duel, the starting lineup in Hong Kong was almost the same as that of last season, and the average age of the main lineup was close to 30. The first batch of excellent players in Genbao base, such as Wang shenchao, LV Wenjun and Cai Huikang, have entered their thirties.
Among Evergrande's starting lineup, Zhong Yihao and Zhang Xiuwei were born in 1996, Wei Shihao was born in 1995 and Yang Liyu was born in 1997.
Quietly, young people have occupied an important position in Evergrande's starting lineup. A season ago, Evergrande was considered to be a team dominated by veterans and seriously aged.
"The group doesn't have much requirements for my grades. It mainly hopes to quickly solve the problem of the replacement of the old and the new and reduce the average age of the team." After the game with Hong Kong, Cannavaro's interpretation well explained Hengda's biggest expectation this season - to complete the blood change with the lowest impact on the results.
To some extent, the significance of completing the blood exchange for Evergrande even exceeds that of the champion. At the beginning of the season, Evergrande introduced five post-1995 players: Wei Shihao, Gao Zhunyi, Zhang Xiuwei, Liu Yiming and he Chao. Although there are great doubts about the background of the transfer, the final result is that Evergrande has completed the blood exchange and obtained a number of the best players in China after 1995.
At least before the players born after 2005 become professional players, the current situation of Chinese players is that generation is worse than generation. Due to the weakness of the youth training, the current national football team make complaints about the best national team in the next ten years.
In a few years, Chinese football is about to enter the era dominated by players of 1995 age, and Evergrande has quietly completed a new round of layout & hellip& hellip;
Is the new deal more favorable to Evergrande?
Just before the CSL entered the final stage, the Chinese Football Association issued a notice to suspend the signing of domestic players. Subsequently, the CSL investor meeting was held in Shanghai, at which the Chinese Football Association and clubs discussed a series of policies in the future.
It is reported that after the end of the league, the Chinese Football Association will continue to hold an investor meeting in Guangzhou, at which time the new deal of the league in the next few years will be announced.
At present, there are several new policies that may have an impact on the league, including salary limit and quota of naturalized players. According to the current rumored version, Evergrande will take some advantages.
If the salary of all local players is limited, Evergrande has completed long-term contract renewal with many veterans in the team at the beginning of 2018 season, while most of the players of 1995 age joined in early 2019 and signed high salary long-term contracts.
In other words, the salary limit order will have little impact on Evergrande players in the next three years at least. If the salary limit order is strictly implemented, most players of other teams can only get an annual salary of 5.5 million yuan after tax, while the income of Evergrande players is at least three times the salary limit standard, and they have won before the war.
The restriction on the number of unrelated naturalized players will make Evergrande have to deal with a lot of redundant staff, but compared with the vast majority of other clubs with almost no unrelated naturalized players, Evergrande undoubtedly took the lead.
After the naturalization, Exxon and Gorat will be used as internal aid, which will undoubtedly greatly enhance Evergrande's strength.
After winning the league title again this year, it seems that Evergrande will have more and more advantages in the next few years.