In the middle of the game, the West Coast lost away

Reporter Chen Yong reports Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, Qingdao West Coast, Meizhou Hakka, Zhejiang, and Yunnan Yukun are the teams that are relatively stable in the middle and upper reaches of the 2025 season, ranking 6th to 10th before this round (Round 9). This round of the Chinese Super League Zhejiang Greentown and Qingdao West Coast directly faced, this time, the Zhejiang team that suffered a personnel accident stopped the decline of 4 rounds of winlessness, and Qingdao West Coast returned with regrets.

In this game, Qingdao West Coast five foreign aid exhausted, other local players are: goalkeeper Li Hao, defenders Zhao Hongluo, Wang Peng and He Longhai, supplemented by Richley, the midfield is Xu Bin and Zhang Xiuwei partner Mateus, the front court is naturally Aziz, Davidson and Nelson Luz's offensive trident. Zhejiang club Greentown currently has only 4 foreign aids, only 2 starters, namely central defender Lucas and winger Owusu, a little bit of a lonely feeling, but in the 63rd minute of the second half, Frank came off the bench to strengthen the strength of the Zhejiang team, and then Evra also came off the bench.

The two sides were evenly matched in this game, Qingdao West Coast was dominated by the opponent and dominated by more possession, with 56.6% possession in the first half, but the shot ratio was 1 to 4, and the West Coast possession rate was 54.4% in the whole game, the shot ratio was 6 to 7, and the shot on target ratio was 2 to 2.

The first half of the game was a 0-0 draw between the two sides, the most threatening attack was the 26th minute of the Zhejiang team Tao Qianglong's long-range shot to the post, after the start of the second half, the two sides played very closely, in the 62nd minute of the game, the balance of power was broken, Wang Yudong took the ball in the middle and shot straight into the corner, Li Hao tried his best to stop it. Unfortunately, only 3 minutes later, Zhejiang team's free kick, Li Hao knocked down Lucas, the referee did not hesitate to award a penalty, Frank hit the penalty, for the young goalkeeper Li Hao, this is also the price of growth.

Then Shao Jiayi made personnel adjustments, Zhang Chengdong and Ding Haifeng two fullbacks appeared, and the midfielder replaced Zhang Xiuwei with Duan Liu Yu, and then Liu Xiaolong also played. In the 79th minute of the game, Davidson passed through the crotch, Duan Liuyu's shot was saved by the goalkeeper, and Aziz in front of the goal scored a goal back. Subsequently, Qingdao West Coast attacked frantically, but the Zhejiang team, which had not won in four rounds, defended very tenaciously and finally held the score of 2-1.

"Personally, I'm still very sad that we made some small mistakes in defence in this game and we need to improve. We couldn't get the second goal, but we fought until the end. Aziz said after the game.

At present, the points situation of the midstream teams is very stale, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers are still 13 points after losing in Wuhan, Zhejiang Greentown, Meizhou Hakka and Qingdao West Coast are 12 points, Dalian InBev is 10 points, Yunnan Yukun and Wuhan Three Towns defeated Tianjin Jinmen Tigers are 9 points and 8 points respectively, and the victory or defeat of the next game means a big change in the standings. Among these teams, Qingdao West Coast has played one less game, which is the away game against Beijing Guoan.

Qingdao West Coast is unbeaten at the start of the season with 2 wins and 3 draws, and after losing to Shandong Taishan, the team defeated Dalian InBev at home and lost to Zhejiang in this game. For Qingdao West Coast, pressing and conversion, as well as appropriate control, is a suitable tactical system for them, this tactical play has also won a lot of praise, while the front trident of the West Coast performance is stable, Aziz has 4 goals and 3 assists, the key player of this game Davidson also has 1 goal and 3 assists, Nelson Luz also scored 2 goals, but Qingdao West Coast's defense is somewhat weak, which objectively affects their record and points.

Before the break, Qingdao West Coast's schedule was a home game against Meizhou Hakka, another ranking battle for the midstream legion, followed by a home game against 14th-ranked Shenzhen Xinpeng City, and then the next two rounds of matches were quite difficult, away to Shanghai Shenhua and Chengdu Rongcheng, in addition to Qingdao West Coast away to Beijing Guoan. Qingdao West Coast have also had a good season against strong teams, drawing 3-3 at home to Shanghai Port, and fans can expect an impressive performance from Qingdao West Coast in three away games against strong teams.