Reporter Wang Wei reports In a match in the 8th round of the Chinese League on the evening of May 10, Guangxi Pingguo Guojing, who had just changed the coach, failed to "change the coach like a knife", and lost 1-4 to Shijiazhuang Kung Fu at home, and currently only has 2 points and continues to be at the bottom of the standings.

The new coach rushed into battle

On the afternoon of May 9, Guangxi Pingguo Football Club officially announced that it would hire Koji Maeda as the head coach of the first team of Guangxi Pingguo, and be fully responsible for the team's coaching work. At the same time, its coaching team will also join, including assistant coaches Wang Haixin, Sun Jiangshan and Sun Weirong.

The day before the club's official announcement, that is, at noon on May 8, Koji Maeda and the assistant coach arrived in Pingguo, Guangxi, and immediately led the team to the first training in the afternoon, plus a practice before the game on May 9, and then the game officially started on the evening of May 10 - Koji Maeda, who served as the head coach of the Guangxi Pingguo Guojing team, led the team to train a total of twice. For Koji Maeda, who has not even recognized the players, his first game in office is very difficult.

The starting lineup of this game against Shijiazhuang Kung Fu team, compared with the previous round of the game with Dalian Kuncheng, Koji Maeda made several adjustments, Lu Chenghe and Hu Jiajin replaced Yao Younan and Ge Hailun into the starting list, Lu Chenghe and Ding Quancheng partnered to play double back, foreign aid Asamoah was pushed to the forward position, and played double striker with another foreign aid Mateus, Guangxi local players Hu Jiajin and Yang Jingfan were separated from the left and right wingers. At the back, Koji Maeda made a personnel change, using Zhang Ran at left-back to replace the starting left-back Helen Ge in the last round.

It is worth mentioning that Guangxi Pingguo Club set up a winning award and a flat ball award for this game before the game, with a winning bonus of 300,000 yuan and a flat ball bonus of 200,000 yuan, which is the first time this season that the club has issued a heavy prize for a game, with the aim of motivating the whole team to win.

Throughout the game, the whole team of Pingguo Guojing team actively scrambled, and after Shijiazhuang Kung Fu scored the first goal in the first half, only 6 minutes later, Yang Jingfan shot in the penalty area and equalized the score for the home team. Then Shijiazhuang Kung Fu scored another 3 goals, and finally the Pingguo Guojing team lost 1-4 to Shijiazhuang Kung Fu, and Koji Maeda failed to get off to a good start in his debut.

It is crucial to play the "six-point battle" well

After the game, Koji Maeda said: "I trained for two days after I came, and before the 60 minutes of the game, our team showed some good things. ”

Although Koji Maeda only led the team to two training sessions, the players generally reported that there was something and quality in his training. As a Japanese coach, his football philosophy was originally based on passing and control, but he said that he was willing to design technical and tactical play according to the actual situation of the team's existing player composition, and hoped that the whole team would stick to the content played in the first 60 minutes of the game, and improve the overall strength of the team through high-quality training.

After the game, Koji Maeda led the whole team to the sidelines, thanked the fans on the spot, and the two foreign aides also signed autographs and took photos for the fans, and the team of Koji Maeda also continued to bow to the fans on the scene to thank them, which also received a positive response from the fans, shouting to the beat of applause "Keep fighting, Guangxi team!" At the post-match press conference, Koji Maeda thanked the fans again, "When we went to thank us after the game, we heard the fans' support for us. Hopefully, from now on, we can move forward one step at a time. ”

Judging from the current situation, Guangxi Pingguo's completion of the change of coach is only the first step of the club's self-help, and after the summer window opens in June, reinforcements will be introduced to improve the team's strength. The failure to introduce strong reinforcements in the winter window has made Guangxi Pingguo have been passive after the start of the season, and currently the league has played 8 rounds, only 2 draws, and the other 6 games have all lost, accumulating 2 points and ranking at the bottom.

What is beneficial to Guangxi Pingguo is that the points have not been thrown away, and there are still a few teams in the front relegation opponents with 4 points, 5 points, and 6 points, and there is a gap of one or two games. In the 9th round on the evening of May 16, Guangxi Pingguo will face the relegation opponent Foshan Southern Lions at home, and play this "6-point battle" well, which is very critical to the relegation goal this season.