Two sides: Perth Glory vs Shanghai Shenhua Event type: AFC Champions League group match time: November 18, 18
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Perth Glory: Favorable Information 1. Perth Glory is a club located in Western Australia. It was established in 1995 and is one of the eight founding clubs of the A-League.
Won the Australian Super League regular season champion last season and participated in the AFC Champions League for the first time.
2. The 2019-2020 A-League season has ended at the end of August this year.
Perth Glory has 10 wins, 7 draws and 9 losses in 26 games in the regular season, scoring 43 goals and conceding 36 goals, ranking 6th.
After the playoffs, they eliminated Wellington Phoenix 1-0 and lost to Sydney FC 0-2 in the semi-finals. They were defeated by the final champion Sydney FC for the second consecutive year.
3. Perth Glory took a special plane to Doha last Saturday. All the group matches will be held at the newly built Education City Stadium in Rayyan.
The stadium, which will be one of the venues for the 2022 World Cup, can accommodate 45,350 spectators and is air-conditioned throughout.
4. In this AFC Champions League, Perth’s glorious coach Garcia has selected 22 players to participate.
Five teenagers were promoted from the Perth Glorious Youth Team. The old captain Castro did not participate in the game after the rematch last season, and this time he returned to the AFC Champions League.
Kilkenny, Malik, D’Agostino and Reddy all made it in, while Grant lost due to injury.
Irish striker Andy Keogh has been waived due to foreign aid quota restrictions.
5. Perth Glory head coach is former Australian professional Richard Garcia.
He has played for teams such as West Ham United, Hull City, Melbourne Ambition (Melbourne City) and Sydney FC. He has served as the glorious captain of Perth and won more than 50 Australian Super League games for the team.
After retiring in 2018, he served as the head coach of the Perth Glorious Youth Team. The young players promoted this season were all his disciples in the youth team.
Garcia has not yet obtained a coaching license, and the club has assigned him a certified assistant to assist in coaching the team.
6. Perth Glory terminated the contract of 22-year-old goalkeeper Daniel Margush and signed a one-year contract with 33-year-old goalkeeper Tando Velaphi.
Tando Velaphi has played 74 times for Perth Glory. He joined Perth Glory for the first time in 2007 and switched to Melbourne Victory in 2011. He was successfully selected for the AFC Champions League squad.
Unfavorable information 1. The new season of the Australian Super League will officially start in late December. At present, all Australian Super League teams are still in the offseason.
The team had a three-week training camp, but did not participate in an official game, and it was difficult to maintain their state.
2. This game is the debut of Perth’s glorious new coach Garcia, who is inexperienced as a rookie coach.
3. The former coach of Perth Glory Popovich left the team at the end of last season, and his two sons also left the team.
Zhongli Intelligence 1. AFC Champions League East Asia Group F, Shanghai Shenhua and Perth Glory, Ulsan Hyundai and Tokyo FC are in the same group.
2. Due to the epidemic, all the AFC Champions League games will be held in Qatar.
Shanghai Shenhua ranked third in the group without playing a game.
Perth Glory played 1 game and lost 0-1 away to Tokyo FC, currently at the bottom of the group.
Shanghai Shenhua: Favorable information 1. The head coach Cui Kangxi said that the overall style of the Australian team is tough and has physical advantages, which is different from the Japanese and Korean teams.
2. The head coach of Shanghai Shenhua is Cui Kangxi, a famous South Korean coach who served as the head coach of the South Korean national team in 2011.
He led Jeonbuk to win the AFC Champions League twice in 2006 and 2016.
3. Cui Kangxi led the team to play against the Australian team three times before, and all three games were tied with the opponent in regular time. The last time he played against the Australian team was in 2014.
4. Shanghai Shenhua performed well in the Super League this year, with 8 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses in 20 league games. In the ranking match, they finally defeated Hebei China Fortune with a total score of 5-1 and won the seventh place in the league.
Unfavorable information 1. This game will be enforced by UAE referee Hassan Mohamed.
He once enforced the match of the Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande. In the quarter-finals of the 2014 AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande played against the Australian Super League team Western Sydney Ramblers. In the end, they lost 0-1. Two Chinese players were sent off in the game.
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2. Shanghai Shenhua is facing serious injury problems and has made a trade-off in personnel selection.
Head coach Cui Kangxi said that Moreno and Jin Xinyu may be absent in the first few games of the group stage.
3. Shanghai Shenhua is not good at foreign wars, and has not won the last 16 AFC games.
The last time they won was a 2-1 victory over Suwon Samsung in July 2009.
4. After Shanghai Shenhua has experienced a season in the Chinese Super League, the team is very tired.
5. Shanghai Shenhua’s foreign aid Bolaños missed the AFC Champions League due to restrictions on foreign aid rules. The team currently only has one healthy foreign aid in Mbia.
Zhongli Intelligence 1. AFC Champions League East Asia Group F, Shanghai Shenhua and Perth Glory, Ulsan Hyundai and Tokyo FC are in the same group.
2. Due to the epidemic, all the AFC Champions League games will be held in Qatar.
Shanghai Shenhua ranked third in the group without playing a game.
Perth Glory played 1 game and lost 0-1 away to Tokyo FC, currently at the bottom of the group.