The draw for the round of 16 of the FA Cup has been released, and the king of the cup has been drawn, and it will be escorted to the final without accident, and the top three in the upper half will face off!
In the 4th round of the FA Cup, 3 Chinese Super League teams were eliminated, namely Meizhou Hakka, Wuhan Three Towns and Cangzhou Lions, that is, there are 13 Chinese Super League teams in the top 16 teams, and the remaining three teams are Guangxi Pingguo Hayi, Wuxi Wugou and Nanjing City.
On 25 June, the draw for the round of 16 of the FA Cup was held, divided into the top half and the bottom half. There are 7 Super League teams in the first half of the district, and Wuxi Wugou has to pick 1 to 7. Guangxi Pingguo Ha Yi and Nanjing City are in the bottom half of the bracket and will face six other Chinese Super League teams.
The first half of the zone can be said to be the death half of the zone, not only 7 of the 8 teams in the Super League, but also only two of the 7 teams are relegation captain Changchun Yatai, Shenzhen Xinpeng City, and the other 5 teams are the top 7 teams, namely the top 2 Shanghai Port and Shanghai Shenhua, the 5th, 6th, 7th Beijing Guoan, Zhejiang team and Tianjin Jinmen Tigers.
The first half of the district is the death half zone, and the super teams except Shandong Taishan and Chengdu Rongcheng are all in the upper half. Shanghai Shenhua and Haigang, plus Beijing Guoan, can really be said to be a three-strong showdown, who can finally enter the final is difficult to predict, then it depends on who wants to win the championship in the end. Teams that don't want to win the championship, in order to protect the results of the Chinese Super League, or to grab the AFC Champions League place, may choose to give up strategically.
The first round of the first half of the matchup: Wuxi Wugou vs Beijing Guoan, Shenzhen Xinpeng City vs Shanghai Shenhua, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger vs Changchun Yatai, Zhejiang vs Shanghai Port! If nothing else, it will be Beijing Guoan, Shanghai Shenhua, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, and Shanghai Port that will be promoted.
The eight teams in the lower half are Shandong Taishan, Chengdu Rongcheng, Henan, Qingdao West Coast, Qingdao Manatee, Nanjing City, Guangxi Pingguo Ha Yi and Nantong Zhiyun. For Shandong Taishan and Chengdu Rongcheng, being assigned to the lower half of the district is completely a welfare area, especially Shandong Taishan.
Shandong Taishan is the king of the cup, and the other teams in the lower half of the region, except for the two Chinese Super League teams, the remaining five Chinese Super League teams are either working hard for relegation, or Chengdu Rongcheng, which wants to fight for the AFC Champions League. So when the draw results came out, fans said that Shandong Taishan, the king of the cup, was going to be escorted to the finals!
The first round of the second half of the region: Henan vs Guangxi Pingguo Hayi, Qingdao West Coast vs Shandong Taishan, Qingdao Manatee vs Nanjing City, Chengdu Rongcheng vs Nantong Zhiyun. Under normal circumstances, the promotion will be Henan, Shandong Taishan, Qingdao Manatee, and Chengdu Rongcheng.