On the evening of May 1st, Beijing time, the ninth round of the new Chinese Super League season staged an attention-grabbing battle. The defending champion Shanghai Harbor was a guest to challenge the average Qingdao Hainiu.
thought that Shanghai Harbor would win a victory, but he did not expect that Shanghai Harbor would win such a hearty and heart-warming victory. After a fierce battle of more than 90 minutes, Shanghai Haigang beat Qingdao Hainiu with a score of 5:0, winning the biggest victory since the new season.
The first contributor to Shanghai Haigang's 5-0 victory was naturally local forward Wu Lei, who contributed two shots and one pass. In addition to Wu Lei, there is another person who takes the greatest credit, not Gustavo who scored two goals, but the national football goalkeeper Yan Junling who has made great saves at critical moments many times. In this campaign, although Qingdao Hainiu did not have the upper hand, they also made many wonderful counterattacks. They created a total of 12 shots, 6 of which were on target. If Yan Junling had not made many key saves, it would be difficult for Shanghai Harbor to achieve such a smooth victory. A great victory. For Qingdao Manatee, perhaps the most troublesome thing is not Wu Lei's frontcourt lethality, but Yan Junling's wall of sighs that "one man can guard the barrier, and ten thousand men cannot open it".
What’s interesting is that, except for Yan Junling, the recent Chinese Super League goalkeepers have experienced a big explosion together as if they had been discussed before the game. Shandong Luneng's Wang Dalei and Beijing Guoan's Hou Sen, like Yan Junling, have experienced a big breakout in the Chinese Super League. In the 1:0 victory over Chengdu Rongcheng, Wang Dalei performed steadily and responded quickly, becoming the last barrier for Shandong Luneng's defense. Guoan goalkeeper Hou Sen has also performed amazingly in recent games, frequently resolving defensive crises and contributing 8 superb saves in two consecutive games. He has become the goalkeeper with the best form in recent Super League games, and is even ahead of Shandong Luneng's Wang Dalei and Shanghai Haigang. Yan Junling.
With the collective outburst of these three ace goalkeepers in the Chinese Super League, national football coach Ivankovic can be said to have encountered happy troubles. Against the Thai men's football team in June, Ivankovic really didn't know which goalkeeper to reuse. Because these three goalkeepers are all good goalkeepers with outstanding abilities and their performances are impeccable, no matter who they choose to use in the end, they will inevitably have many regrets.
Interestingly, a few days ago, the famous Chinese football commentator Huang Jianxiang said on social platforms that Chinese goalkeepers generally lag behind in style and are all squatting in the goal. The Football Association should break the rules and allow the introduction of foreign goalkeepers to fundamentally solve the problem. Unexpectedly, just a few days after Huang Jianxiang finished speaking, the Chinese Super League's local goalkeepers collectively ushered in a big explosion. Isn't this a direct slap in Huang Jianxiang's face? With the heroic performance of these three ace goalkeepers in the Chinese Super League, even if Ederson and Alisson come, it will be nothing more than that. The level of players in other positions of the Chinese men's football team is indeed limited, but at the goalkeeper position, Chinese football has never lacked talented players, and there is no need to spend money to introduce foreign goalkeepers.
