Special correspondent Zuo Rui reports Facing Wuhan Three Towns, the home team with the bottom of the points and zero goals, how did Zhejiang Greentown, which has continuously "sent warmth and surprises" to the weak team this season, respond? How do you compete with other strong players after missing out on consecutive wins? In this regard, the reaction of head coach Kaneda and captain Frank was quite calm.

Frank takes every fight seriously

Unlike many Chinese Super League teams that start with a holiday, Zhejiang Greentown, which drew Dalian Yingbo and Yunnan Yukun in a row home and away, returned to Hangzhou to continue training for two days after leaving Yuxi, and then gave the whole team a five-day holiday. After that, they continued to practice every day at the Sino-Thai base, during which they took the opportunity of visiting the training camp on the west coast of Qingdao to play a warm-up match with their opponents.

In last Monday's warm-up game, both teams made a massive move. Almost all of Zhejiang Greentown's soldiers in the team have been displayed. It is worth noting that the heavily brought Gabonese striker Bupenza has been given more playing time, and the former Turkish Super League top scorer who has not yet opened the draw will obviously need more run-in to fulfill his duty to score goals as soon as possible.

In the first two league games, both goals came from captain Frank. Although the 33-year-old Croatian midfielder is no longer in peak form, he can still lead the team to steal points with his professionalism and goalmouth experience. After all, in the first two seasons of returning to the Chinese Super League (2022 and 2023), this mid-to-upper team, which has the ability to influence the situation of the Chinese Super League, played until the sixth round to get its first win twice, but won the third place both times.

In Frank's mind, Wuhan Three Towns is a good team, "We can always play good games against them in the past. "In the past three seasons, the two sides have played each other 6 times, and Zhejiang has 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, occupying the advantage.

What makes Frank a team leader is his consistent approach to training and playing. 'Of course we will prepare for this away game as we do every game. "Concentrate and refine the details of the game, and I'm sure we'll have a better game in the first game after the break," Frank said. ”

The new international blesses Wuhan away

In the team that practiced behind closed doors during the intermission, there were no 6 national players. Cheng Jin and Wang Yudong just spent an unforgettable night in the stands in Riyadh. Liu Haofan and Wang Shiqin joined with club teammates Bao Shengxin and Huo Shenping, who joined the U22 national team earlier, to help the Four Nations Invitational Tournament.

In Yancheng, in the two matches between China U22 and Uzbekistan and South Korea, only goalkeeper Huo Shenping sat on the bench of the four young talents from Zhejiang, and the other three all started, Liu Haofan also wore the captain's armband and contributed a stunning goal in the game against South Korea. If there are no accidents, the three starters of the U22 national team will also continue to start at the Wuhan Sports Center.

The next home game of the national football team in Hangzhou and the last round of matches of the U22 national team will end on the 25th, in other words, the six national players of Zhejiang Greentown can catch up with the Chinese Super League that will restart on the 28th, as long as they do not suffer injuries or are too tired, they will play their own instant combat power in the domestic league.

'I'm very happy to see that we have two players in the national team and four players in the Under-22 national team. Head coach Caneda said, "We're waiting for them to come back. "Can Wang Yudong, who was selected for the national football team for the first time, score his first goal in the Chinese Super League, and can Liu Haofan show that he is worthy of the national football call-up in his hometown of Wuhan? will add more excitement to this game.

Caneda is looking forward to a boost

According to the plan, Kaneda will lead the team to Wuhan on the 26th. Different from the team's previous practice of going to the away stadium one day earlier to adapt to the field, the Spaniards went to Kunming for closed training four days in advance in order to adapt to the plateau, and also saw results in the field control, scoring opportunities, and physical fitness of the game. This early trip shows that they are no less hungry for their first win of the season than the home team.

Kaneda has done a lot of homework on the difficult Wuhan Three Towns, "The league has only played two rounds, and it is still in the beginning stage, but I can feel that the overall strength of each team is more balanced this year. Wuhan actually played well in the first two games, especially in the second game, they had a lot of chances, but unfortunately they didn't get points. ”

Just as Zhejiang Greentown has never publicly announced his goals for the season, Caneda also did not reveal his ambitions for the Wuhan game, but judging from the team's personnel allocation and the club's stable investment, it is obvious that Zhejiang Greentown, which ranked 8th last season, will strive for the top in the 2025 season.

Kaneda admits his side are "actively preparing for this game" and believes that the problem of conceding too many goals last season has changed a lot since he took over, and the next focus is on tackling the scoring problem. "We've improved a lot defensively compared to last year, and we need to improve better on the offensive end. That's our goal and we're going to give it our all. Caneda said.