[SPORT]Fellaini executes Guangzhou FC and Cannavaro causes a fire: "The objective is not to win the league"

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Accustomed to glory, it was known in advance that it was going to be a difficult season for Guangzhou FC. But maybe not so much from the start. After drawing on the opening day in the derby against Guangzhou City (2-2), Cannavaro's men have fallen by the minimum in their duel with Shandong Taishan (1-0).

 

 

 

A goal by Marouane Fellaini with a header in the 93rd minute has sentenced a match that Hao Wei's men deserved to win long before, and that placed Shandong Taishan as provisional leader with their six points in the first two league games. In contrast, Guangzhou FC has their worst start since returning to the Chinese Super League in 2011 at the start of the Evergrande era. And the press conference after the crash has only fueled the noise around the team.

 

If Guangzhou FC fans have been ranting harshly at Fabio Cannavaro since last season, his statements at the post-match press conference are not going to help the Italian. He has hinted that his mandate this season is not to fight for the championship, but to cultivate the young talent of the team with a view to helping the national team.

 

 

 

The coach has indicated that he is aware that the fans want to win the championship every year. However, "I am very clear about the ideas of the club. This year the goal is not to win the championship, it is to make the players grow. As is the case with Wu Shaocong, he was playing well until his injury." Some words that have raised a great dust in the environment of the club and throughout the Chinese Super League.

Whatever the institutional reality, what is evident on the pitch is that Guangzhou FC is noticing the fragility of the team at this start of the Chinese Super League, in which it has the absences of Paulinho and Talisca.

 

Shandong Taishan, again with Son Jun-ho and Xu Xin at the helm in midfield, have been dominating a fledgling Guangzhou FC at all times. Hao Wei's men made merits to go with the score in favor at half-time, but between the post in a header from Guo Tianyu at half an hour and a slightly successful Leonardo did not get the desired goal.

 

Just after Guangzhou FC started to unsettle Wang Dalei's goal through Alan twice, in the "90 Ramos" minute a measured center from Jin Jingdao headed Fellaini into the net. A new condemnation of Guangzhou FC at the last minute, taking advantage of their weak passing game.

The triumph confirms the strength of Shandong Taishan this 2021, surely the great cover of the competition after the incorporation of three national players of height in Ji Xiang, Shi Ke and Xu Xin, in addition to a Son Jun-ho that shows match to match the success of hiring the MVP of the K League 1 last season.