1-0 to 2-1! Double track ahead of the seaport+win a championship, Shenhua will run for the half way championship again, and the PK relegation team should be stable

After several seasons of continuous growth, Shanghai Shenhua has completed a real transformation, with the local young international players coming to the top, which has greatly improved the lineup thickness and strength limit of Shenhua, and therefore they have become the most ideal team in the CSL lineup, basically completing the replacement of old and new, and other teams are basically in the aging stage.

In 2024, Shanghai Shenhua played the dominant role of the Chinese Super League team. From the first official game, the Super Cup final, to the 13th round of this season, the Chinese Super League team defeated Henan 2-1, and kept the 14 consecutive official games unbeaten, 11 wins and 3 draws. The two lines beat Shanghai Haigang, and won the Super Cup. The Chinese Super League scoreboard shows that Shanghai Shenhua continues to lead the way, ranking first with 33 points at present, and second with 30 points in a short race at Shanghai Harbor.

Now at the end of May, the 14th round of the Chinese Super League will start in full swing. Shanghai Shenhua will go straight to the half distance champion of the Chinese Super League. This round of away game against the relegation team Shenzhen Xinpengcheng will be a game with distinct strengths and weaknesses, and Shanghai Shenhua will score points again. The team of Shenzhen New Pengcheng is worth 8.5 million euros, ranking the third from the bottom of the Chinese Super League, with only 2 wins, 4 draws and 7 minus 10 points. What's worse, Shenzhen Xinpengcheng has been unbeaten for 8 games in a row, and almost has no state to score in front of Shenhua.

For Shanghai Shenhua, the biggest problem at present is injury and fatigue. On the one hand, the team's internal and external players have suffered frequent injuries recently. Teixeira was injured in the game against Zhejiang team at the beginning of this month, and has not returned yet. Manafa was also injured in the last game against Henan team, but the good thing is that their problem is not particularly big. According to the report from the well-known media "Five Star Sports", Manafa, a foreign aid from Shanghai Shenhua, confirmed that he would go to Shenzhen with the team to participate in the 14th round of the match, which meant that his injury was not serious. Teixeira would not be back until June, probably catching up with the 15th round of the match between Shanghai Shenhua and Chengdu Rongcheng.

On the other hand, Shanghai Shenhua will face the pressure of national players being transferred in batches, which will inevitably increase the fatigue of its players. According to the latest national football training list, Shanghai Shenhua has seven players selected, including Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong, Gao Tianyi, Yang Zexiang, Xie Pengfei, Xu Haoyang and Bao Yaxiong. Shanghai Harbor, Shenhua's arch rival, has five players selected for the national football team, namely Wu Lei, Yan Junling, Jiang Guangtai, Wang Zhen'ao and Li Shuai.

It can be seen that the middle of the season will be a critical stage for Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai Harbor to compete for the supremacy of the Chinese Super League. Anyone who can withstand the pressure to get rid of fatigue and injury will be able to obtain more points. From the perspective of the rationality of the line-up system, Shanghai Shenhua is obviously more advantageous. Their national players are young and more energetic, which is expected to promote Shenhua to maintain a strong stamina, The international players of the Port Team are basically veterans, and physical fitness may become a major disadvantage. Therefore, Shanghai Shenhua is worthy of being optimistic this season.