Report
Tonight in the 12th round of CSL league, Shanghai SIPG held Shandong Luneng to a 1 to 1 draw in away game, both team to shake hands for the draw of top battle, the Brazilian star Oscar contribute one goal for Shanghai SIPG.
This match was taking place under boiling weather of 30 degree. Shanghai SIPG continue the same line up before the break period, the only change was Wu Lei back to center forward again, the captain Hulk was appear at the right position.
Just beginning of the match, Shanghai SIPG has already received a single shot opportunity, buy unfortunately Hulk¡¯s flip shot was saved by the GK of Shandong Luneng Wang Dalei. In the 31¡¯minute, Shanghai SIPG has gap on the side of the defense, Jin Jingdao from home team contribute a goal of single shot from small angle. In the 34¡¯minute, Shandong Luneng has score another goal, but was confirm by the VAR referee, this goal was a foul which done by Shandong Luneng first, therefore the goal was disallowed. When the half time ended, Shanghai SIPG was temporarily 0 to 1 behind.
In the second half, Shanghai SIPG replaced Lyu Wenjun to improve the attack, then the change has make a difference. In the 54¡¯minute, Hulk passing the ball in a cross from the right, Lyu Wenjun head the goal although was saved by the GK Wang Dalei from Shandong Luneng, but then Oscar followed up to score the goal when there is no GK, to equalized the score. Either side of the team was satisfied with the draw, therefore they continue to attack actively, but both GK of the team perform very well, finally the battle was end up 1 to 1 draw.
The break period of the schedule for CSL league is still very tight, after that it will be two matches in one week, on the 21st July ( this Saturday) Shanghai SIPG will be compete against defending champion Guangzhou Evergrande in home ground.
Pereira ( head coach of Shanghai SIPG)
Before we lost the first goal, I think we play very well, have create some scoring opportunities, have chance to score the goals, the players kept on passing and weaving, it makes good use of the gap on the pitch. But when the opponent scored, the quality of our competition has declined. When the second half started, we found our feelings again, and we have play very well, very well by passing left and right, and scored a goal. Once again, we have lost our style of play, could not control the ball. At the final moment, after all Shandong fight at home ground, and their center forward Pele who is very threatening, so their attacking was even more fierce, which bring us a lot of troubles.
Over all, this match is not on a very top level. Our idea is to win the match, however, there is still a gap in small details, so the result of 1 to 1 draw was fair. It was not the best, but it was not bad either.
Wu Lei and Akhmedov fight very hard on the pitch, you can see that they are very tired when they off the pitch, so I chose them to substituted by other players.
We both performed well in the opening stages of the two halves, what is lacking is that, it did not extend the good performance to the whole match. We want to play faster in the match, but sometimes it's not the right way to do it. Too impatient to control the ball, or those who received them were not in the right position. If the player do not think when he runs with the ball, that is unacceptable to me.
I have seen many good things in the match, this was what we have practice in the summer training at Portugal. But to play out these characteristics is to control the ball, it is impossible to create opportunities by dropping the ball all the time. Only when you control the ball you can then control the rhythm, can be fast or slow. Under such weather, you are constantly switching between grabbing the ball right and losing the ball, it is impossible to have a good performance. I hope the players can play out the performance like beginning of the 30 minutes of first and second half, such performance can continue to for 90 minutes. Of course, I am still satisfied with player¡¯s performance, they fight very hard on the pitch, and try all their best,
therefore such a result has been achieved.
Li Xiaopeng ( head coach of Shandong Luneng): In such hot weather we have so many supporters come to cheer up for us, I would like to thanks to them. I would like to thanks to the players as well, they are not easy either. Both team played very well, they have play their style of play, the result was reasonable.
As for our physical fitness decline in the second half, In fact, the players' physical ability changes with the competition situation, Up and down are still normal. And the last part of the second half, we have more opportunities.
Starting List
GK: Yan Junling
DF: Wang Shengchao; He Guan; Shi Ke; Yu Hai
MF: Akhmedov ( 84¡¯ Yu Hao), Cai Huikang, Oscar
FW: Hulk, Wu Lei ( 87¡¯Lei Wenjie), Chen Binbin ( 46¡¯ Lyu Wenjun)
