If you choose one of the most surprising domestic teams this season, then Jiangsu Suning will definitely do its part. In the Super League final, Jiangsu Suning defeated Guangzhou Evergrande in two rounds without being optimistic, and won the Super League championship trophy for the first time in team history! Winning the Vulcan Cup also made the club ecstatic. Considering that the team's foreign aid has been closed in China for nearly half a year and separated from their families for a long time, the team gave them an early vacation for humanitarian reasons. In the following FA Cup, Jiangsu Suning had to fight the "All-China Class".
Although there is no foreign aid, the new Super League champion has shown good strength. In the second round of the FA Cup, Jiangsu Suning beat her opponent 7-2 without bloodshed and advanced to the quarter-finals. 1/4 finals, facing another China team, Kunshan FC, Suning successfully advanced 2-0, locking in a semi-final place early.
In the semi-final, the real test of Jiangsu Suning is coming. The opponent of this campaign is Tianjin TEDA, a super league team. Unlike Suning's foreign aid, TEDA's foreign aid is in the team, except for Ahmed Doff who left the team early because of something, that is, winning the FA Cup. In the first round, the two teams fought for 90 minutes. Although Tianjin team's foreign aid Achim Peng took the lead in breaking the deadlock, the team's victory was finally tied with an own goal from Liu Yang, the team's central defender.
In the second round of decisive battle, the Jiangsu team without foreign aid fell into a passive position early, but in the face of the iron bucket array, the TEDA team did not have many ways. The two teams tied again and the game had to enter a cruel penalty shootout. Do or die, the former goalkeeper of Jiangsu team, Gu Chao stepped forward. He saved the penalties from Sue and Liu Yang respectively, which helped the team win the penalty and missed the final ticket!
A few years ago, Guangzhou Evergrande, the overlord of the Super League, shouted the slogan of "All-China Class" and wanted to get rid of dependence on foreign aid completely in 2020. However, in order to pursue better results, Evergrande gradually forgot the goal of the all-China class, and now this grand plan is rarely mentioned again. However, this season, Jiangsu Suning completed the "All-China Class" one step ahead of Evergrande, and they made history by advancing to the FA Cup finals without foreign aid.
In the final, Jiangsu Suning will face Shandong Luneng with five foreign AIDS. I wonder if these local players can create greater miracles?