Reporter Lu Mi reports The new season of the Chinese Super League has completed two rounds, Wuhan Three Towns and Changchun Yatai have become the only two teams without points, what makes Wuhan Three Towns even more embarrassing is that they have not scored in the two rounds of games, and they are also the only ones in the Chinese Super League. Luckily, there is a break immediately after two rounds of the Chinese Super League, and during this three-week break, Three Towns head coach Martins will focus on improving the problem of inefficient attack, while strengthening the team's run-in, hoping to give a new look at the team after the league is back in action.
In the 2025 season of the Chinese Super League, Wuhan Three Towns started two consecutive games, which is a big challenge for the newly formed coaching team. The first opponent Chengdu Rongcheng was stronger, ranked third last season, successfully entered the AFC Champions League, and introduced outstanding domestic players this year, and the overall strength is above the three towns. Although Wuhan Three Towns also played good content in the game, the difference in strength objectively existed, and the opponent was more fluent in terms of player cooperation, and Three Towns lost 0-1 and suffered the first defeat of the season.
In the second round of away matches against Qingdao West Coast, although the opponent is a second-year student of the Chinese Super League, and last year experienced a hard battle for relegation, but this year it has spent a lot of money on recruitment, especially the introduction of former Wuhan Three Towns veterans Aziz and Davidson. Judging from the overall strength comparison, the two sides are actually at the same level, the three towns have the opportunity to grab points, but the game was full of twists and turns, the day's game was interrupted due to the impact of wind and rain, and after the next day, Wuhan Three Towns controlled the rhythm of the game, with good offensive organization ability in the midfield, and also created a lot of shooting opportunities, but Wuhan Three Towns finally lost 0-2. According to the official statistics after the game, Wuhan Three Towns had 15 shots on goal in the whole game, but none of them were on target - the data has clearly explained the reason for the Three Towns' defeat.
With only two shots on target in two games, the embarrassing statistic of zero goals was collected for Three Towns and Martins' coaching staff. On the offensive side, Palacios, who was the most important foreign aid, only arrived a week before the start of the game, resulting in few effective connections between several foreign players on the field, and too hasty in the handling of the last pass and shot. Palacios, who came on as a substitute in two games, judging from the process of the game, his physical advantage and speed advantage are still there, but he has not yet returned to 100% game condition, and at the same time, because of the short arrival time in the team, the cooperation between him and his teammates is not yet in place.
On March 7, after a few days of rest, the three towns of Wuhan resumed training at the base. Martins' first task is to focus on the efficiency of the offensive line. It was clear from the training sessions in the past few days that Palacios was trying to recover and actively look for game form.
Although they suffered two consecutive defeats at the beginning, the atmosphere in the team of Wuhan Three Towns is currently better, and the players have had a more in-depth review with the coaching staff after training. During the interval, in addition to focusing on the forward line to improve the success rate of shots, the Martins team also arranged a lot of training to increase the tacit understanding between new and old players. As far as the squad is concerned, the biggest problem for Wuhan Three Towns is the serious attrition, among which the team's new star Wumi Tijiang has switched to Shanghai Port, which has helped the club relieve a certain degree of survival pressure, but also undoubtedly damaged the strength of the defensive line.
During this interval, Wuhan Three Towns arranged two warm-up matches, namely a home game against Henan on the 14th and a match against Xinpeng City in Shenzhen on the 22nd.
After experiencing great survival difficulties at the end of last year, Wuhan Three Towns is still in the process of restarting various tasks in the preparation stage of this season. Although the three towns of Wuhan have been pulled back from the life and death line of access with the support of the municipal government and the sports bureau, the club is still under a lot of pressure to maintain the stability of its operations throughout the year, and they are also actively looking for resources for business development to strive to operate independently.
There is no doubt that Wuhan Three Towns is facing a big challenge this year, on the one hand, the club strives to operate smoothly, and on the other hand, the team's results are the premise of everything. After focusing on improving the team's attacking problems during this break, the players are confident that the team's first win of the season will be on the horizon soon.