Facing the old coach, Guoan has only one goal: three points!

Contributing Writer / Song Ci This Saturday, Beijing Guoan will usher in the 14th round of the Chinese Super League, hosting Changchun Yatai, Guoan will face the former coach Suarez, this game is quite interesting.

On June 15, 2023, Portuguese Suarez became the head coach of the Beijing Guoan team, and in the 54 official matches led by Suarez, the Beijing Guoan team achieved a record of 30 wins, 11 draws and 13 losses, which is not a bad result, after all, the personnel strength at that time could not be compared with now.

It's just that Suarez has never completely conquered the Beijing fans, and after he took over the coaching seal of the Guoan team, many games have been criticized, although the club has renewed his contract with him until the end of 2025, but in the end he still left the class and left early.

In the face of the previous head coach, the national security team will not show any mercy. Before this game, Fabio said: Suarez is his football godfather, but now he is Guoan's opponent, and he will definitely go all out to beat his team. Fabio revealed that he had spoken to Suarez and told the Nationals that they had only one goal on their home turf, which was to take all three points.

However, Fabio also hopes that Guoan fans can give Suarez a round of applause during the game, after all, Suarez has contributed to Guoan, and he has a deep affection for Guoan and the city of Beijing.

After the FA Cup victory over Shijiazhuang Kung Fu, the Guoan team had an 11-day holiday, and the players got a precious period of recuperation. On June 2, the team regrouped and officially moved into a new base. Although the new base is still leased, the first contract signed by the two parties is to lease it for 5 years, and with various perfect conditions, it can be regarded as giving Guoan a stable home.

On June 7, the Beijing Guoan team played a warm-up match with the visiting Jinmen Tigers at the new base. It is very interesting that after the Guoan team moved to the new base, the Jinmen Tigers used the base where the Guoan team had previously trained as a temporary training location during the interval, and the whole team also lived in the business hotel temporarily rented by the Guoan Club.

The match between Guoan and Jinmen Tigers was divided into three quarters of 45 minutes each. Because the national team is missing a number of internationals, six or seven first-team players are played in each quarter, with three or four U21 players and U19 players playing. In the first quarter of the game, the Jinmen Tigers took the lead in scoring two goals, and the Guoan team was assisted by Feng Boxuan to pull Fabio back with a goal, and in the second quarter, both sides made no achievements, and in the third quarter, the Guoan team relied on Yang Liyu's assist, and Fang Hao equalized. After the game, Setien was not on hand to summarize and review, and the team was given another two days off. Two days later, the team assembled and entered the final stage of preparation with the Yatai team.

Judging from the performance of the warm-up matches, Guoan, who lacks a number of international players, has been affected a little, so the head coach Setien is also very concerned about the physical condition of the players selected for the national team. After the national team returned home from the match against Indonesia, several international players have been contacted within the national team to understand their situation.

For so many international players who missed this interval of training, and have been training with the national team without resting, coupled with the national team's early exit, the national security team is very worried that the international players will be affected, Setien hopes that the players will still concentrate no matter what, go all out to play the game in Chongqing on June 10, and only by giving full play to their abilities can they maintain their best condition and avoid injuries.

The match between Guoan and Yatai seems to have no suspense, after all, Yatai is ranked at the bottom, and Guoan has been unbeaten in 19 games in all competitions, but Guoan Club said that it would never despise any opponent, not to mention that the opponent's head coach Suarez is very familiar with most of the players of the Guoan team. In the league before the intermission, the Guoan team was forced to draw by Qingdao Manatee, which also made the Guoan team dare not be careless.

Until then, head coach Setien had been hoping to instill his tactical philosophy in the shortest possible time, but now he is slowly changing. The Spanish coach knows that Chinese players cannot be judged by the requirements of European players, and that the overall technical level and understanding of technical and tactical aspects need to be improved slowly. Indeed, for him, the most important thing in front of him now is the results, and the Guoan team must not make a mistake similar to the big lead and was finally forced to draw by Wuhan Three Towns.