There are still 4 rounds of the 2021 Chinese Super League, but the championship suspense has almost no suspense, Shandong Taishan has led the Guangzhou team and Shanghai Harbor behind him by 10 points after reversing the little brother Changchun Yatai 2-1, as long as the next round defeats the weak Hebei team, this old Chinese Super League giants will regain the top league championship after 11 years, and even hope to win the double after 15 years.
In this game, the Taishan team suffered the most severe test since the beginning of the Chinese Super League, and Changchun Yatai, who was fierce and good at defensive counterattack, caused them a lot of trouble, and Eric's goal forced the Taishan team to the edge of the cliff. At the crucial moment, Delgado, who came off the bench, equalized the score, and in injury time, the 22-year-old young center Guo Tianyu knocked on the Yatai goal with a pumped shot from inside the box, and Taishan finally made a thrilling comeback 2-1.
Guo Tianyu after the goal was very excited, he ran to the scene and hugged the head coach Hao Wei tightly, in fact, Xiao Guo really had to thank Hao Wei, because the latter was unusual, in the second half after replacing Duan Liuyu, who was also a U23 player, he still left Guo Tianyu on the field, if according to the previous habits, Xiao Duan would only replace Guo Tianyu. Before scoring in this game, Guo Tianyu's performance can only be regarded as decent, 4 shots on goal 2 shots, 1 breakthrough also declared failure, scoring 1 goal was also blown off first because of offside. But in the end, the kung fu paid off, and he became the hero of the Tarzan team with 1 goal.
It was Guo Tianyu's 10th Chinese Super League goal of the season and his first single-season league goal in double figures. Last season, he scored four goals and one assist in 16 Games in the Chinese Super League, including the only goal of the game in the first leg of the first leg to beat Evergrande 1-0. However, in the two big games with Beijing Guoan in the second stage, the young man did not get 1 minute of playing time, and finally could only watch his team being eliminated by the opponent and the referee.
This season, with the departure of Pele and Guedes, Guo Tianyu has become the biggest beneficiary, and his offensive talent has been gradually released in sufficient playing time, and the first season as a main center can win a long-lost league championship or even a double for the team, and the young Guo Tianyu, whether personal data or collective honor, can quietly match the predecessor Han Peng.
As the second famous center in the history of the Taishan team, Han Peng has left countless goals in the Chinese Super League, and the championship has also been soft. But although he was recruited into the first team by Santrach at the age of 16 and made his top league debut at the age of 19, it was already the 2006 season of the Tuba era that he really established the position of the main center. At that time, Han Peng was 23 years old, 1 year older than Guo Tianyu today.
In the 2006 season, Taishan won the Chinese Super League six rounds in advance, and also defeated Dalian Shide 2-0 in the FA Cup, winning the double crown for the third time in the history of the team. Han Peng, together with Zheng Zhi, Lee Jinyu and Zhivkovic, formed the team's indestructible frontcourt attack quartet. That year, he played 26 games in the Chinese Super League, scoring 10 goals, just the same as Guo Tianyu this season.
Of course, in addition to this somewhat coincidental data, Han Peng and Guo Tianyu's growth experience is also somewhat similar. He was promoted to the first team at the age of 16, but only trained with the big brothers, and then returned to the Luneng second team to continue his studies in the following season, until 2002, when he returned to the first team and made a name for himself under Nebo. After Su Maozhen was forced to retreat by Luneng, Han Peng performed well for a while, but the capricious nebo in the 2003 season and Tuba, who arrived in early 2004, did not give him much chance, so that the depressed Han Peng even moved the idea of playing center-back.
In the 2005 season, Luneng introduced Romanian international center Danchunescu in a big way, but unfortunately the latter was somewhat similar to Li Jinyu's technical characteristics, and the two did not play well together. In this case, Tuba gave Han Peng some opportunities, and the result was that the young man was like a fish in the water, and Li Jinyu was more complementary to each other. The stats of 7 goals in 24 games allowed Luneng to finally release Danchunessuscu, and Han Peng soared from then on.
Look at Guo Tianyu, who was born in 1999 and made his Taishan first-team debut in the 2016 season, when the team coach Magat admired the young center forward very much, and even gave him the No. 8 jersey left by Wang Yongpo after leaving the team. If he can play well under the old horse, Guo Tianyu's future will be unlimited, but unfortunately, in the two seasons of 2017 and 2018, he rushed between the National Games and the national brand, and there was no time to play for the Taishan team. After the 2019 season on loan to Wuhan, he had already made a name for himself, and was sentenced to a six-month suspension for the national brand training. This degree of bad luck was even worse than that of Han Peng at that time.
Fortunately, after returning to the Taishan team last season, Guo Tianyu got a lot of playing opportunities and became an important rotation player for the team. At the end of last season, Pele's contract expired and he left, and Guo Tianyu really established the position of the main center of the Taishan team, which is similar to the main position that Han Peng took from Danchunescu that year.
What is more worth mentioning is that Han Peng is now the assistant coach of the Taishan team, and coaching Guo Tianyu is one of his main jobs. The two generations of Tarzan have experienced somewhat similar centers, and it is also a kind of fate to gather in the team in this mentoring way. However, xiao guo obviously has a long way to go if he wants to replicate the glory of his mentor.