Shandong Taishan 0:7 Daegu, Guangzhou team 0:5 Johor Bahru, Guangzhou team 0:8 Kawasaki Forward... The "tragedy" of the Chinese Super League team in the AFC Champions League continues.

  On the evening of the 18th, Beijing time, the Guangzhou team, which had won the AFC Champions League twice, set the record for the largest loss by a Chinese Super League team in the AFC Champions League with 0:8.

  Only 15 minutes into the game, the Guangzhou team was already 0:3 behind the Japanese team Kawasaki Frontale, which is enough to show the strength gap between the two sides.

Group photo of the Guangzhou team before the game.

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  The two teams had played against each other in the AFC Champions League in 2017. At that time, the Guangzhou team drew 0:0 away in the first game and drew 1:1 at home in the second game.

  Of course, this is backtracking in the normal dimension.

In today's circumstances, there is absolutely no reference at all.

In the 2017 season, the Guangzhou team won the AFC Champions League for the second time.

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  Considering the reasons for the epidemic, the Guangzhou team and Shandong Taishan team sent the second team to participate, while the other two Chinese Super League teams, Changchun Yatai and Shanghai Haigang, chose to give up.

  Looking at the Guangzhou team and Shandong Taishan team's AFC Champions League lineup, I am afraid that loyal fans who are familiar with the team will not be able to say one or two.

It is precisely because of this that the AFC Champions League, which has attracted much attention from fans in the past, has become non-existent this year.

  However, after consecutive tragedies and the Guangzhou team expelled Guan Haojin, who received a red card in the game on the grounds of "violating team rules", the game was still "out of the circle".

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  For Chinese football, this is not a very helpless result.

  For the club, if they send their main lineup to go abroad to participate in the AFC Champions League games under the epidemic, even if they return home after the AFC Champions League group stage, it will be after April 30.

Coupled with the time to return to China and quarantine, there will be a time conflict with the new season of the Chinese Super League.

  If the team is out of the group stage, it will go abroad to play the AFC Champions League again in August, and the time conflict with the Chinese Super League will further increase.

Under the conflict, the team has a poor league record and even falls into the relegation zone. Such consequences are also an unacceptable situation.

Guangzhou team starting list, how many of them do you know?

Image source: Guangzhou Football Club.

  For the Chinese Super League, which has implemented a closed game system and has not yet started due to the impact of the epidemic, there is not much time to make way for the AFC Champions League as a whole.

  From the perspective of the young players going on the expedition, from youth training to professional teams, whether in the intercontinental arena or the domestic arena, their game experience is extremely lacking.

  With such a reserve of experience and strength to play in the top Asian competitions, it is destined to be vulnerable to Kawasaki Frontale, the top Japanese J-League, traditional Asian teams such as Urawa Red Diamonds and Ulsan Hyundai.

  If it is replaced by young Japanese and Korean players who have no game experience against the super strong teams with a neat lineup, it is destined to have no good results. This is due to the laws of football.

Guangzhou team in the game.

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  And this kind of game experience may do more harm than good for the growth of the expedition players, and even the psychological blow of the painful experience may affect the future career.

  After the consecutive fiasco, these teenagers will also face the problem of whether they can return home smoothly.

  In the AFC Champions League last season, one of the expedition members of the Beijing Guoan Second Team was unfortunately infected with the new crown abroad.

This problem is also a major consideration for the Chinese Super League club to send players from the second team to participate.

The young players of the Guangzhou team were powerless in the game.

Image credit: Osports All Sports Photo Agency.

  Therefore, in the face of the dazzling score card, don't rush to scold, this is a result that everyone is unwilling, but seems to have to accept.

  I just hope that the team that went to the AFC Champions League can return home smoothly.

Young players can adjust their mentality and maintain the courage to move forward.

(author Bian Liqun)