Guoan: Fight with the harbor with real knives and guns

Special correspondent Song Ci reports With a 1-0 home win over Henan, Guoan ushered in its first consecutive win of the season. The day after the game, head coach Setien set up training as planned, and the Spanish coach knew full well that five days later, a crucial tough game awaited them and they could not afford to slacken: the away game against Harbour on 1 May. Facing the defending champions, Guoan has to fight Harbour with real guns.

Six points from two home games in a row is a good result. But the Beijing fans seem to be a little dissatisfied with the process of winning, after all, in the final stage of the second half of the 1-0 Henan team, the opponent's counterattack was very fierce, and everyone sweated, but fortunately, Guoan, who lacked major generals, did not let the Henan team equalize.

For Guoan, injuries and red cards have become the team's biggest difficulties at the moment. Counting the players who have been injured in Guoan, it is far more than a starting lineup, and there are injured players in multiple positions from front to back, from left to right. In the training on the 26th, in addition to the previously injured Dawan and Spajć, who were still unable to participate in the joint training, several players did not participate because of a cold. It is worth noting that a number of players in the team have recently been infected with the flu, so the medical team has repeatedly reminded the players to take precautions against colds.

In addition to the extensive injuries, the red card has also affected the team's effectiveness. With the addition of Zhang Xizhe, Guoan has received 5 red cards this season, which means that playing Harbour, Guoan is overstretched whether it is the starting lineup or the substitutes. However, even so, Guoan's fighting spirit has not diminished in the slightest, because everyone knows what this game means.

After defeating Henan, there was such a detail: Fabio, a foreign aid who replaced Zhang Xizhe and wore the captain's armband, took the initiative to call everyone together, and at first the players thought that Setien was going to speak, but this was not the manager's arrangement. After everyone gathered in a circle, Fabio summed up the encouragement loudly, and also deliberately started to mobilize for the next game, "Today, although we encountered great difficulties, we still won. I would say that we have to keep the mentality of a winner, if we want to stay in Group 1, we have to keep that mentality, and when we get to Shanghai, we have to keep winning. ”

Indeed, the two consecutive wins only ensure that Guoan can continue to follow the first group, but after Shenhua, Rongcheng, and Haigang all won in this round, Guoan must not relax in the slightest if they want to continue to be a championship contender. This is very clear to the players, and Fang Hao, who scored the Henan goal, also said firmly after the game: "The opponent (Harbour) has won the championship for two consecutive years, and if we are aiming for the championship, we must go all out to play this game well and play a real game with them." ”

In this round of the league, the top five teams except Taishan won all of them, and after Taishan lost to Shenhua at home, they are currently losing all the matches with the favorite teams. In contrast, although Guoan has a gap of 7 points and 4 points respectively from the top two in points, they have been unbeaten in their previous matches against Shenhua, Rongcheng and Taishan. Therefore, in this game with Harbour, as long as Guoan can maintain this momentum, it can still stabilize the first group and not fall behind.

For the situation of the league, Guoan has been analyzing it internally. Everyone knows that if you want to win the championship, you must first make sure that you don't lose to your direct rivals, and then get the points you should get against other teams. Although the previous 4-4 draw with Three Towns had conceded two points, looking back now, that draw was not a bad thing in a way. If Guoan defeated the opponent 4-3 at that time, there would be a lax psychology of "it's not a big deal, just a little relaxed at the last moment", which may affect the fighting spirit of playing Taishan, but it is the score of 4-4 that makes all Guoan people feel ashamed, which stimulates the team's hard work and blood, so that in the case of extremely untidy personnel, an unexpected victory can be obtained.

Therefore, playing an opponent like Harbour away, Guoan's own confidence is very important. In several consecutive games, captain Wang Gang emphasized the word confidence to his teammates: "Brothers, on the field, we must believe in ourselves, our teammates, and our team, and don't back down when we encounter difficulties." ”

This sentiment is also transmitted to every teammate, including foreign players. Gonzalo said: "Our next game is to win, whether it's home or away, on the field, our goal is to win. Yes, as our opponents on the road to the championship, whether it is the harbor or whoever it is, we have to fight to win it, and it doesn't matter what their names are. ”

It is worth mentioning that in the match against the harbor, Gonzalo will meet his teammate Gabriel in the Portuguese Super League at the River Ave, in this regard, Gonzalo bluntly said that Gabriel is a very good player, with speed and speed, "But no matter what, we went to win." ”