The Super Cup final at the end of February is less than twenty days away.
Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai Port have entered a stage of intense preparation for this Shanghai derby. However, by all accounts, Slutsky's Shenhua is one step ahead. It's not just that Slutsky himself came to Shanghai earlier than Muscat and has a better understanding of the team, but importantly, Shenhua has now begun to prepare for the warm-up match in Qatar, while the winter training port in Haikou has not yet officially entered the stage of the warm-up match.
In addition, several new signings of Shenhua have already completed the official announcement, Teixeira, Malele, and Amadou are also foreign players who stayed in the team last season, and Luis and Manafa have been running in the Doha warm-up match as new signings, and this port has just officially announced the addition of Gustavo and Mateuslusa. In addition, don't forget, many Shenhua internationals returned to Shanghai as soon as possible after the Asian Cup was out, and soon rushed to Qatar, Zhu Chenjie, Dai Weijun, Wu Xi and others have already played in the warm-up game, Slutsky looked at them when they were not there, and had a detailed understanding of them in advance, and several international players in the harbor Yan Junling, Wu Lei, etc. returned to the vacation was significantly longer, and Wu Lei and others did not participate in the joint training on the first day after returning to the team.
In addition, after Muscat arrived at the Harbour Club, he brought in his old friend Aloisi, and the two put forward high-intensity training requirements for the Harbour players, requiring the players to pay attention to the quick rebound after losing the ball, as well as the pursuit of passing accuracy, and their loud voices showed strong dedication; On Slutsky's side, old partners such as Berezudsky and Yalovinsky have clearly entered the state earlier, and they have even been able to accurately name most of Shenhua's players and know their characteristics. In many ways, Shenhua is obviously ahead of their city rivals in the preparation for the Super Cup, but the sooner they prepare on the football field, the sooner they are prepared, they will definitely win, and Shenhua wants to win the Super Cup and take the lead in the confrontation with old opponents in the new season, but it is still not completely certain.
Many Shenhua fans pointed out that Slutsky was indeed preparing earlier, but Shenhua still has a lot of problems in the lineup, such as Teixeira and Malele still haven't improved much on the field than last season, and the new signing Luis is indeed working very hard, can be a fulcrum and can dribble the ball, but it seems that it is easy to assimilate with Malele for a long time, and the team still has weaknesses in the left position, and the club does not seem to be ready to bring in reinforcements in this position, and pays more attention to internal potential. For Slutsky, the staff around him will definitely tell him that the city derby is important to Shenhua, especially the 0-5 defeat last season has always been a knot in the hearts of Shenhua fans, and it is also the direct fuse for his former coach Wu Jingui to step down.
Here, we wish Shanghai Shenhua and Mr. Slutsky that they can really get up early in the morning, gather early, and lead Shenhua to play a wonderful game, and if you want to truly conquer the discerning Shenhua fans, start with beating the harbor in the Super Cup.