Qingdao Manatee is winless in nine rounds! Under the double dilemma, one point is far from quenching thirst

Reporter Chen Yong reports Silva's penalty helped Qingdao Manatee draw 1-1 with Meizhou Hakka, halting a four-game losing streak, but one point is not a thirst quenching for the current Manatee. After this battle, Manatee accumulated 3 points with 3 draws and 6 losses, 4 points behind the 14th place Xinpeng City, and 2 points behind the second-to-last Yatai.

In this game, the Manatees only had two foreign starters, namely central defender Nikola and midfielder Saric, center forward Santiago continued to be absent due to injury, Augusto entered the bench but did not play in the end, left winger Silva also sat on the bench, coach Li Xiaopeng seemed to want to use him as a surprise attack. On the Meizhou side, all five foreign aides played.

Manatee's loss of the ball was too easy, in the 12th minute, Jin Yangyang fell down in the confrontation with Meizhou players, but the referee did not give a foul, Meizhou took the opportunity to send quickly, and took advantage of the Manatee's defense line to score a goal. The key to Manatee's loss of the ball is that the player is not concentrating, and he takes it for granted that the referee will give the opponent a foul. In the 32nd minute, Manatee made another serious mistake, Song Long's return pass was slightly less powerful and was stealed, but fortunately, Yang Xun hesitated after shaking the goalkeeper with a single knife, and then hit the post in the face of the empty goal, and Manatee escaped.

After all, only 2 points in 8 rounds have seriously hit their self-confidence, resulting in the loss of goals in recent games too casually, such as the goal against Rongcheng is goalkeeper Mu Pengfei's slip and mistake; In the match with the Henan team, they conceded 3 in one go from the 65th minute to the 79th minute. You must know that although the Manatees did not win in the first few rounds of the league, their defense was quite tenacious, and now they are conceding more and more goals and it is getting easier and easier, and the outside world speculates that there may be a problem with confidence.

In the second half, the Manatees stepped up their attack. In the 61st minute, Song Long sent an extremely accurate cross from the left, but unfortunately, his teammates in front of the goal flanked the opportunity that was close at hand. In the 79th minute, substitute Silva broke through and was tripped up, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty, and Silva himself scored the equalizer. After the goal, Silva ran to Li Xiaopeng, and the general hugged and celebrated, this shot shows that Li Xiaopeng replaced him in advance and arranged him to be on standby in this game, which did not affect the relationship between the two.

In the next round, Manatee played Taishan away, which was very difficult, and then it was at home against Yatai, which can be said to be a crucial game.

The day before the race, Manatee made an announcement. On the morning of April 26, Cai Quanji, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of Qingdao Sports Bureau, led a team to Manatee Club to carry out a special investigation.

At the symposium, Qiao Weiguang admitted that the club is experiencing the "most difficult moment": the team has frequent injuries in key positions, coupled with the continuous expansion of the operating fund gap, the team has fallen into the difficult situation of "fighting on and off the field"; At the same time, it was revealed that it would introduce reinforcements in a targeted manner in the summer window to achieve the goal of relegation. After listening to the report, Cai Quanji negotiated the club's practical difficulties on the spot, and said that the Sports Bureau will coordinate the resources of all parties through multiple channels and ways to fully support the Manatee Club to complete the relegation battle.

To add insult to injury, some of the original funds for the new season have not yet been put in place, and Qingdao's support policy for the 2025 season has not been finalized before, resulting in a growing financial dilemma for Manatee. At the team level, continuous injuries have led to a sharp reduction in combat effectiveness, and "two-front combat inside and outside the field" is indeed the truest portrayal of Manatee's current situation.

Although the club was very difficult, in the match against Meizhou, Manatee held a public welfare viewing activity of "Building Dreams and Flying Children's Heart", and the club and the Qingdao Civil Affairs Bureau invited the children and staff of the Qingdao Children's Welfare Institute to watch the game, and some of them served as caddies for the game. Before the game, the manatee mascot "Ben Ben" made a special trip to the welfare home to send an invitation to watch the game. At the scene, the Manatee players went to the box to visit the children and presented the club's gift bags. In addition, in the northwest square of the Youth Football Stadium, the children made their own crafts and conducted a charity sale under the guidance of teachers and staff.