April 9 and April 10 are match days for the fifth round of the 2024 Chinese Super League season, and four matches ended on the first day, Shanghai Port defeated Nantong Zhiyun 3-1, Shandong Taishan drew 2-2 with Henan, Beijing Guoan lost 1-2 at home to promoted horse Shenzhen Xinpeng City, and Shanghai Shenhua continued its good momentum to beat Wuhan Three Towns 4-1, which also made the top two teams in the Super League standings from Shanghai are two teams, Beijing Guoan and Shandong Taishan are fourth and fifth in the standings respectively.
This weekend's sixth round of the Chinese Super League will begin, with two matches between the four teams of Beijing, Luhu and Shanghai, namely Shanghai Shenhua at home against Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Port and Shandong Taishan. These four teams are arguably the traditional powerhouses of the Chinese Super League, with Shanghai Shenhua, Beijing Guoan and Shandong Taishan all being old powerhouses that have never been relegated from China's top professional league, while Shanghai Port were the champions of last season's Chinese Super League. These two matches will also be the highlight of the sixth round of the league.
Among them, the match between Shanghai Shenhua and Beijing Guoan is also called a "can't lose" game by fans of the two places, after all, as the representative teams of China's two largest cities, they don't want to lose to each other. The history of loving and killing each other has come to its 31st year, and this attitude of never losing is also a manifestation of the respect of fans on both sides for their opponents. However, the situation of the two teams is very different at present, on one side is Shanghai Shenhua, which has won five consecutive victories, and on the other hand, Beijing Guoan, which is difficult to find a win at home. At present, the strength of the two teams is also reflected in the standings, obviously Shanghai Shenhua is stronger than Beijing Guoan, but regardless of the gap between the strengths, I believe that in this game, both teams will go all out to fight every minute and give the fans a wonderful game.
The other game is the contest between the defending champions and Shandong Taishan, and the two teams can also be said to be old rivals, both teams have been ranked high in the Chinese Super League for many seasons, and the difference in strength has not been obvious. This season is also the same, although Shanghai Port has the aura of the defending champions, they have not been able to show absolute dominance in the five games they have played, and they are also far behind the city side Shanghai Shenhua in this regard. Shandong Taishan in the AFC Champions League at the beginning of the season also once dreamed of creating the best AFC Champions League results in team history, but with the progress of the Chinese Super League, it is obvious that the current Shandong Taishan can also be said to be in poor recent condition, especially in this round of the game against the Henan team, which is not very strong, in the final stage of the game to equalize the score, obviously not like a traditional strong team should have.
In the sixth round of the game, these two games are undoubtedly the highlight of the Chinese Super League, and we should not be surprised by any result of the game, no matter what the result is, as fans, we all hope to see a more exciting game.