Reporter Lu Mi reports In the 2025 season of the Chinese Super League, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers suffered a thrilling battle in the first round, and were almost taken away by Meizhou Hakka, who was substituted at home, exposing the discomfort and run-in problems in various positions after the personnel were greatly adjusted. Fortunately, after missing the penalty, Kiles played bravely and turned the tide and staged a good equalization. In this game, in Chengdu, facing a strong opponent, Yu Genwei spent a week reorganizing the team, and put the pertinence of tactics and the execution of players in place. With Wang Qiuming's opener and Ademi's goal on the counter-attack, the Jinmen Tigers finally took three points from Chengdu Rongcheng this time, which was also the first time in three years, and also got their first win of the 2025 season.
In this game against the powerful Chengdu Rongcheng, Yu Genwei continued to send five foreign aids, and the domestic players only made one adjustment, replacing Shi Yan with Huang Jiahui, and Barton still appeared in the right wing-back position.
At the beginning, Chengdu Rongcheng showed the hard power of the third place in the league last season, declaring the dominance of the home field, constantly using the side to open up the defensive distance of the Jinmen Tigers, and there was Zhou Dingyang who frequently stepped forward in the middle, and Romulo who repeatedly sent wonderful passes.
From the perspective of the cooperation of the frontcourt, the large personnel changes of the Jinmen Tigers this year are an unstable factor. But in the face of many difficulties, the Jinmen Tigers took the lead with a counterattack. After withstanding the opponent's wave of offensive, in the 11th minute, Jinmen Tiger launched a quick counterattack, Hadas took the ball to the left side of the penalty area, and involved the attention of two defenders, Wang Qiuming, who was outflanked in the middle, received the cross without stopping, and directly hit the ball into the gate guarded by Jian Tao.
After the goal, Wang Qiuming fell to his knees in celebration, and it was his third goal in his fourth season as Tianjin captain against Chengdu Rongcheng, but the Jinmen Tigers have not won against Chengdu Rongcheng once in the past three seasons.
This victory made Wang Qiuming wait for three years. When the two teams meet in the 2024 season, it is also the time when the overall strength of the Jinmen Tigers is the strongest and the momentum is the strongest, but when the two teams meet, the Jinmen Tigers always lose to Chengdu Rongcheng by one goal. Therefore, in the first half of last year, when the two sides played each other at TEDA Stadium, after the Jinmen Tigers were three goals behind and struggled to catch up to no avail, Wang Qiuming, as the captain, burst into tears, and in his heart, he really wanted to win this powerful opponent once.
In the past, Wang Qiuming's first two goals occurred when he helped the team equalize, and this goal was his first home goal in Chengdu, and it was also the first goal to help the team rewrite the score, which was of great significance to him, and for the team, it was also a mental force in passivity.
When asked after the game how he felt about scoring this goal, Wang Qiuming just replied: "It's normal, every goal is normal." "As a seasoned core player, his experience is enough for him to ignore the gossip of the outside world, and only have a reverence for competitive sports, and a pure sense of strength when he is strong.
When the opponent's core Zhou Dingyang was sent off by Zhihong near the end of the half, the Jinmen Tigers saw the dawn of victory. Ademi once again used a counter-attack to overtake the score. In the end, the Jinmen Tigers won 2-1.
This game is also a bump and a pang for the Jinmen Tigers, just like their first round match with Meizhou. But the performance of the Jinmen Tigers was different from the first round. In terms of strength comparison, the game process between Jinmen Tigers and Meizhou was unexpected, and the whole game was full of unfamiliarity and discomfort after the adjustment of personnel positions. And this game with Chengdu was originally a game with a big difference in strength and bench depth. When everyone thought that the Jinmen Tigers would end miserably, they brought a surprise to everyone.
'After the first 2-2 game, there was a lot of pressure on the team, but the team was very united and after the first round and today's game, I believe the team will slowly get better and better. After the first round of the draw with Meizhou, Yu Genwei spent a week preparing for this round of the game, and the main targeted arrangement fell on the defensive end: replacing Shi Yan with Huang Jiahui, strengthening the defense in the middle, including the man-to-man arrangement on the defensive line, are the reasons why they can withstand the opponent's multiple attacks in the first and second halves. In the first half, Romulo sent a precise through ball, Felipe saw that the outflanking was in place, and Barton, who switched to full-back, insisted on resisting Felipe with his body, with only one belief, that is, he could not let Felipe touch the ball. This goal-line rescue is also the best performance of the team's execution of Gen Wei's tactical arrangement.
Whether it is a defensive counterattack behind the opponent, or in the face of the opponent's personnel adjustment and two changes in the second half, Yu Genwei has an estimate in advance. He said: "We do have an estimate of their formation adjustment in the second half, and we also judged that Caron and their foreign central defenders will play in the second half, so we have made some arrangements in the formation, including the adjustment of the alignment, and our formation has also been adjusted according to the situation of the opponent. "Adequate preparation and reasonable adjustment are the key to the team's victory in this game, even though the Jinmen Tigers have undergone major personnel changes this season and the game has some shortcomings, but this ability to quickly adjust their form is worthy of recognition.