Competing for the championship still needs the support of many parties! Five consecutive victories are soaring, but Guoan is a little embarrassed

Special correspondent Song Ci reports With 5 consecutive wins, Beijing Guoan team continues to set a record in team history. On the evening of May 10, with the Guoan team defeating Shenzhen Xinpeng City 3-1 at home, the Guoan team ushered in the seventh consecutive league win in team history, and at the same time extended the new record of unbeaten across the season to 20 games. What's more, Shenzhen Xinpeng City, which doubled against itself last year, was the only team in the Chinese Super League that had never been defeated by Guoan, and Guoan finally won the opponent this time. At the same time, according to Beijing Guoan's official statistics, this is the 300th Chinese Super League victory in the team's history.

After a series of player injuries in the previous period, the Guoan team, which has survived the difficulties, began to gradually usher in the return of injuries. In this week's training, foreign aides Spardjic, Fan Shuangjie, and He Yupeng all appeared on the training ground. Spardjic also returned to the squad for this game, but as the game went relatively well, Setien did not choose to risk the defender on the pitch, instead sending another player, Feng Boxuan, who has returned from injury, to come off the bench to find a feel for the game.

In this game, the Shenzhen team still created great difficulties for the Guoan team, the active pressing of the whole field and the dense iron bucket formation, so that the Guoan team's attack was greatly hindered, fortunately, the midfield players were in very good condition, Serginho and Lin Liangming, the two big players connected, the Guoan team took the lead in scoring, this scene made the national team coach Ivan sitting in the stands take out his mobile phone to record a live video.

After the game, Setien also commented on Lin Liangming, who has been in excellent form recently, and Setien said bluntly: Lin Liangming plays a very key role in his tactical system, and he has done a very good job in many details in addition to scoring goals. Lin Liangming is a very well-rounded player and has a deep understanding of his own tactics, which is what makes him a key player.

Last season, the Guoan team was not only killed by Shenzhen, but also lost to Henan, Changchun Yatai, Wuhan Three Towns and other middle and lower teams, in addition to being forced to draw 8 times by opponents, it can be said that the team's state has fluctuated very much. And this season, the Guoan team is still undefeated, not only with a good record against their direct rivals, but more importantly, they did not let the victory slip away in the game where they had to take three points. In this regard, Setien believes that the players have formed a certain natural reaction to their tactical demands, which is what he requires them to do. In a lot of games now, the players are able to create 25 or 30 chances, some of which have resulted in goals. So, the team is playing better and better now and improving every day.

In this round, the top five teams with championship strength all won, and it is predictable that the battle between these teams will likely continue until the last two rounds. In the long league competition, many times the competition is about the details, if there is a mistake in any link, it will have an impact on the final championship. For the Guoan team, although the ambition to win the championship is needless to say, compared with other opponents, there is a little embarrassment, that is, the team has been plagued by the training ground for a long time. That's unimaginable for an established team.

Before the match with the Shenzhen team, Setien, the head coach of the Guoan team, unexpectedly exposed himself as a "family ugly" and poured bitter water on the current situation of the Guoan team's training ground. In fact, it is no secret that Guoan has been plagued by training grounds for many years, and the players of the Guoan team have long been used to it. Including before Setien, after Schmidt, Genesio, Bilic, Suarez and other European coaches came to coach Guoan, they couldn't believe that as a club like Guoan, they didn't have a base of their own, and they had to rent training venues everywhere. This alone, not to mention that it is on a par with foreign giant clubs, even with old rivals such as Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Shenhua in China, it cannot be compared.

The team has been renting a training ground near Beijing's South Fourth Ring Road in recent years, after the club had spent money to renovate the interior of the base, building locker rooms, conference rooms and treatment rooms, but it was later demolished overnight because it was an illegal construction. At the beginning of this year, in order to allow the players to have a place to conduct strength training, the club built a simple greenhouse, but not long ago Beijing was forecast to be super windy, and had to be dismantled in advance. As for coach Setti's remark that if you want to wash your hands when you come out of the bathroom, you need to run to the watering pipe to wash your hands, but it's not a problem. The real impact is the quality of the field, Guoan has always had players injured in training in the past two years, which has a lot to do with the unevenness of the field.

Not being able to take a shower immediately after training is also rare for a Super League team. The club rented a small hotel for the team near the training ground, but sometimes the players had to walk back to take a shower after training for at least 15 minutes. So, sometimes I simply ride a shared bicycle back, so that it is easier to catch a cold when I am soaking wet. Fortunately, this embarrassment will be resolved in June, and the club has found a training ground with better conditions for the team, and the new field has been renovated, but this training ground is also on loan and is a temporary base that does not belong to itself.

So, as a club that has been established for more than 30 years, why has it not had a training base of its own in Beijing? The reason for this, for the Guoan Club, can only be a long sigh. After all, in a super first-tier city like Beijing, where land resources are extremely scarce, as a private enterprise, it is really powerless to obtain land that can build a training ground through market behavior. On the one hand, it is limited by the high cost of land, and on the other hand, it is unknown whether it can obtain policy resources from relevant parties.

Compared with clubs in other places, many state-owned enterprises can obtain land at a lower cost through government allocation or agreement transfer. For example, Shandong Taishan Club relied on the strong support of Luneng Group, with stable funds, and the land for building the base could be obtained, so that it could undertake long-term heavy asset investment such as the training base. Including the later Shenhua is the same, Shenhua has several share reforms, whether it is Greentown or Jiushi, they are large state-owned enterprises, relying on the strong blood transfusion of the parent company to successfully put the Kangqiao base next. In contrast, Sinobo has been facing the dilemma of not being able to solve the base since taking over the Guoan Club.

Such difficulties do not only belong to Guoan, but also other professional clubs that have survived in Beijing over the years, such as Beijing Renhe and Beijing Beikong, do not have their own football bases, and without exception all rent temporary training venues. All these show that as a professional football club in Beijing, if it wants to survive better and have more room for development, it must be inseparable from the support of the city.

As the saying goes, there are always more solutions than difficulties. In the past two years, when the Guoan Club was facing difficulties in access, the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau and the Beijing Football Association also helped the team tide over the crisis. Now, Guoan is once again facing a new opportunity in history, that is, with the strength and state of the team this year, it is entirely possible to hit the Chinese Super League championship again. For the capital's side, having won only one championship in the professional league in 30 years, it is clear that it does not match such a cosmopolitan city. But in retrospect, if you look at the team's training base, it seems to explain why they have only won the championship once in years.

For the city of Beijing, Guoan has now become one of the cultural symbols of the city. Therefore, to a certain extent, the word "national security" does not only belong to the club and Sinobo Group, but also belongs to all the people of Beijing. If the Guoan Club can get more support from relevant parties in Beijing, it will not only bring more joy to the people of Beijing again this year, but also add more honor and heritage to the city.