The happiest thing for Zhao Kangming was that after the national team match day, he saw Hu Lai, Wang Guangwei, Chen Xingyi and Zhang Qinghuan with their limbs intact and alive at the Liucheng training base of Anton Shining Star.
They have not been attacked or troubled by injuries in the past few games as a national team.
Because the head coach of the National Olympic team Shi Wuyuan mainly tried tactics and personnel in the three warm-up games of the National Olympic team, Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei did not play a full nine games in the National Olympic team.
Ten minutes passed, which meant that although they had played three Olympic games, they were not very tired.
The same was true for Zhang Qinghuan in the two games of the national team. He only played for 60 minutes in the two games, all of which were substitutes. It can be seen that after re-entering the national team after three years, he still needs to find his rhythm and feeling again.
Although some of the national team members are his teammates from three years ago, his playing style is completely different from before, and everyone needs to adapt again.
But no matter what, being able to return to the national team is a very good improvement for Zhang Qinghuan.
Back in the league, Flash Star has one and only one goal, and that is to upgrade.
Although the first leg of the FA Cup final will be in half a month, no one has the time to think about that issue now.
Because the promotion places are the top two in the league, so to ensure that they can be promoted, they only need the gap between them and the third place.
The league has played 26 rounds, and there are still eight rounds left before the end. Flash Star ranks first with 62 points. The third place in the league is Ningtian Yongan. They currently have 55 points, seven points behind Flash Star.
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Judging from the remaining schedule, only Lingnan Nanhai can be considered a strong team that can directly threaten them, and the other teams are not very strong.
Of course, relegation teams should not be underestimated either.
But as long as Shining Star doesn't let up, there won't be much suspense about beating those teams in the league.
The only variable is the FA Cup final.
When the FA Cup reaches the final, it is no longer a game that determines the outcome, but becomes a home and away game.
According to the schedule determined by the draw, in the first round of the final, Flash Star will travel north to challenge Dashun Golden Arrow on Saturday, November 4th.
The second leg of the final will be on Sunday, November 26th, with Flash Stars returning home to face Dashun Golden Arrow.
But to be honest, if there is no suspense in this second round of the final, it will have little impact on the league.
The most important thing is the first round of the final.
And because of this final, the 30th round of the league match between Shining Star and Baishan Linchun Hongqi at home, which was originally scheduled for the weekend, will be postponed to December 3. Shining Star will once again have one game less than other promotion competitors.
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Fortunately, the league games before and after the final were not played in midweek, so the physical impact on Flash Stars was slightly smaller.
The final round of the league was also postponed to Thursday, December 7 due to a conflict with the second leg of the FA Cup final.
But if Flash Star performed stably before, then the two rounds of make-up games after the second round of the FA Cup final may be meaningless.
Zhao Kangming's strategy is that before the first round of the FA Cup final, the team cannot let itself slip, and it must win all the remaining three games.
Fortunately, there is a full week between the international match day and the league match day, so in terms of physical fitness, Zhao Kangming does not have to worry too much.
Now that the four players who were transferred to the national team are not injured, that's even better.
Another situation that is beneficial to the Stars is that two of these three league games are at the home court of the Stars, so they do not have the disadvantage of traveling back and forth.
In the 27th round of the league on October 21, Flash Star faced Wuzhou Dongshan, a mid-to-lower team, at home, with Zhao Kangming making a slight rotation.
In the end, Flash Star easily defeated their opponents 3:0, but because Lingnan Nanhai and Ningtian Yongan also won their respective games, the point difference was not further widened.
On the other hand, Sichuan Nan Chongshan, ranked fourth, lost to Flash Star 0:1 in the previous round and was tied with Xiaojiang Lulin in this round. It has been winless for two consecutive rounds and currently only has 51 points. It can be said that it is in the process of promotion.
Already falling behind in the sprint phase.
The final two promotion spots will most likely come from the three teams of Anton Shining Star, Lingnan Nanhai and Ningtian Yongan.
After playing this league game, there will be another league game on Thursday. These two games are very close to each other, but the Flash Stars are playing at home in these two league games, so they don’t have to travel back and forth in a short time. This is their schedule.
Take advantage of arrangements.
Flash Star’s opponent in this round of the league is Xiaojiang Green Forest, which is ranked sixth.
Xiaojiang Green Forest is naturally not weak, and they also drew with fourth-placed Sichuan Chongshan in the last round of the league, so Zhao Kangming fielded the strongest lineup he could field in this game.
Flashing Stars, who played with all their main players, did not disappoint. They defeated Xiaojiang Lulin 2:1 at home and continued their winning streak.
At the same time, Hu Lai scored a goal in this game. This goal was his twentieth goal in the Chinese League One this season.
Although Ivar Moses, the second-ranked scorer in the league, has been in good form recently, scoring consecutive goals, bringing his total number of goals in the league to 16, Hulay still maintains a four-goal advantage over him on the scorer list.
Leading advantage.
Hu Lai is now only one goal away from the single-season scoring record set by Lin Gang for domestic players in the Chinese League One. Everyone thinks that it will not be a problem for him to equal or even break this record.
Once Lin Gang's record is broken, he will also have the opportunity to break the Chinese League single-season scoring record set by Olivier Ferrier last season.
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After the game against Xiaojiang Lulin, although there is still one league game left to play, Flash Star is already preparing for the FA Cup final.
The Football Association Cup final is a two-legged system of home and away. The first leg of Flash Star is an away game, so Zhao Kangming’s strategy for the team is to set up a bus in the away game and try not to concede the ball, or in other words, concede as few goals as possible.
"...Although our opponents are very strong, it does not mean that we have to admit defeat in advance. The reason is very simple, because we are also a participating team in the finals." Zhao Kangming stood in front of all the first-team players on the training ground and said,
They were just about to start a day of training. "Now that we have reached the finals, we can't just give up casually, right? Otherwise, why are we still working so hard to reach the finals? If we want to give up, why not give up from the beginning? Since we have already entered
If we win the final, no matter how big the strength gap is, we have only one goal, and that is...the championship!"
Zhao Kangming said it categorically and as a matter of course.
It's as if the Flash Stars are really a team capable of competing for the FA Cup championship.
The players of the Flash Star team, which had eliminated two Chinese Super League teams in a row, especially after defeating Poseidon 2:1 in the away game, did not feel there was anything inappropriate about the head coach's words.
If you think of giving up after reaching the semi-finals, that would be understandable.
But since they have reached the finals and want to give up, then such a person will definitely not be able to become a professional player, because he does not even have a basic competitive spirit.
"The offensive power of Dashun Golden Arrow is relatively strong, so we only do one thing when we go to the away game, and that is to defend, and defend with all our strength. If we only lose one goal in the end, then we have completed the task. If it is 0:0, we will
We won. So in the next week and a half, we will continue to strengthen our defensive training, just like before the semifinals."
After boosting morale and arranging training tasks, Zhao Kangming asked assistant coach Chen Mo to lead the team to warm up.
He himself took the other coaches and started to get busy on the training ground, putting out the facilities and equipment that would be used for training later.
After doing this, he stood on the training ground and watched more than 20 first-team players warming up in the already biting cold wind in the morning. He suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment.
He used to be just an ordinary coach.
Although turning from a professional player to a coach is the first choice for many players after retiring, it is only after they become coaches that they realize that things are not that simple. It is not that after receiving too much training from other coaches, you can learn everything on your own without a teacher.
How to be a coach.
At the beginning, he was just a grassroots youth training coach and only needed to be responsible for training.
Later he gradually became the head coach of the youth team and later the youth training director.
He stepped down from the training ground and became a manager.
Now, he is the head coach of a first-team team in the Chinese League One, and he has also led this team to rank first in the league and reach the FA Cup finals.
This team includes veterans like Qin Lin, Mesozoic players like Li Tielin, and young people represented by Hu Lai and Zhang Qinghuan.
The three generations of old, middle and young people are reasonably distributed, with a perfect combination of experience, physical fitness and the momentum of young people.
And this was all built by him himself.
This team is the best embodiment of his football philosophy.
Now he is like a hard-working old farmer, watching the crops growing in his fields and looking forward to a good harvest.
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On October 30, Monday, Flash Star challenged the relegation team Nanjia Tianyu away from home.
Unlike what many people thought before, the Flash Stars did not undergo a major rotation in this game.
So even though they were playing away from home, and even though Nanjia Tianyu was ranked 16th and in urgent need of relegation, they had a strong desire to fight.
However, Flash Stars, with most of their main players starting, still defeated their opponents 4:1 in the away game and won an unexpected victory.
The reason why I say it was unexpected is because everyone originally thought that Zhao Kangming would give up this league game and concentrate on preparing for the first leg of the FA Cup final, just like they did before the FA Cup semi-finals.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Kangming did not do this, but prioritized ensuring the league.
His choice has made people speculate whether this means that Flash Star has given up on the FA Cup final?
After all, their opponents are strong, and the Flash Stars who can reach the final have tried their best. The creative set-piece tactics were also exposed in the semi-finals. The Golden Arrow side must be prepared, and they almost try to defeat the Chinese Super League team by playing tricks.
It's impossible.
Not to mention that Golden Arrow is currently ranked first in the Chinese Super League, and its strength is completely different from Poseidon, which was ranked sixth.
There is such a big difference in strength between the two sides, and they still play at home. Why would Flash Star give up the league for a game that they must lose?
The league ensures promotion to the Premier League, and even if they lose the FA Cup final, no one will blame Zhao Kangming.
Based on this speculation, everyone thinks that Dashun Golden Arrow is a sure winner of the Football Association Cup.
Moreover, they were very lucky to meet a Chinese League One team in the FA Cup final. This means that they do not have to spend too much effort in the FA Cup final, thus ensuring that their main energy can be devoted to the league.
to compete with the Lingnan South China Tigers for the Chinese Super League championship.
Since the latter was eliminated by Dashun Golden Arrow in the Football Association Cup, it went all out in the league and immediately caused huge trouble to Golden Arrow. Now the two teams are inextricably locked in the league.
Until the last moment, I don’t know who will win the league championship.
If Dashun Golden Arrow wants to successfully defend its title, it really must not make any mistakes in the league.
Originally, the Football Association Cup final would be an important factor affecting them, but now that they see that their opponent is a Chinese League One team... many fans of Dashun Golden Arrow feel that they are European.
Try to end the championship suspense in the first round of the two-legged FA Cup final!
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