The Chinese Super League teams have started winter training one after another to fully prepare for the new season. Recently, the team that has attracted much attention is Shanghai Shenhua, this old team has completed a major adjustment of the lineup system, completed the change of coach, and added some new signings. The new coach is the 52-year-old Russian coach Slutsky, and there are 6 assistant coaches, namely Vasily Berezutsky, Ogre Yarovinsky, Owen Wilk, Li Shuai, Zheng Kewei, and Li Chengming.
In terms of players, Shenhua has introduced Xie Pengfei, Manafa, Andre Luiz, and Gao Tianyi, and the front, middle and back three lines of the lineup are obviously thicker than last season, and if the run-in is good, the overall strength will be further improved. Slutsky has led Shenhua to start the warm-up preparation mode, participating in an overseas invitational cup, namely the Equality Cup, against Qatari giants Duhail, Brazilian giants Santos, and Russian Premier League giants Zenit.
In the first two games, Shanghai Shenhua played very strong and was in excellent form, defeating Duhail 1-0 and Santos 4-1. Playing Duhail, Shanghai Shenhua had 48% possession, 9-4 shots on goal and 3-1 shots on target, which eventually turned into a 1-0 victory, and Yu Hanchao scored the only goal of the game in the opening 6 minutes. Playing Santos, Shanghai Shenhua directly attacked, with Santos's shot contrast of 15-8 and shot on target of 6-4, with a more efficient performance to complete a 4-1 victory, Teixeira, Malele, Andre Luiz, Dai Weijun scored a goal each.
Seeing that Shenhua was going to complete the first championship of the New Year, it was a pity that it became the first "irrigation" of the New Year, and failed in the last game of the Equality Cup, missing the championship of the Equality Cup, and losing 0-6 to Zenit, who is currently ranked second in the Russian Premier League with a strong lineup, and Shenhua missed the three giants in a row. Zenit did not release water in this game, showing a luxurious lineup, the main force was exhausted, playing in a 433 formation, led by Caseila, Pedrinho, Artur and others The starting 11 people.
Shanghai Shenhua's starting lineup is also considered to be the main force due to the leadership of Han Chao, Malele, Andre Luiz, Teixeira, Amadou and others, and the formation is also 433. In the game, the two teams are not in the same order of magnitude, and the whole team of Zenit is worth as much as 1600 million euros, directly kicked crazy, tyrannized Shanghai Shenhua, in the 2nd minute of the game, Pedrinho scored, Shanghai Shenhua fell behind 0-1; In the 43rd minute of the game, Caseira scored; In the 46th minute of the game, Caseira scored twice; In the 54th minute of the game, Douglas Santos scored; In the 60th minute of the game, Caseira scored a hat-trick; In the 82nd minute of the game, Gustavo Mantuan scored a goal, and Shanghai Shenhua lost 0-6.
In the whole game, Shenhua only had 32% possession, and the shot contrast with Zenit was 7-10, and the shot on target ratio was 3-8, and was finally beaten and became 0-6. With 6 goals in a single game, Shenhua's defense exposed many problems, the focus of which was the constant change of the lineup system, and coach Slutsky tried different back systems in a row, playing 3 back in the last game and 4 back 4 in this game. Therefore, the coach needs to prioritize fixing the formation and making good use of La Liga defender Manafa to improve the balance of attack and defence.
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