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Before the start of the 2024 Chinese Super League, looking ahead to the championship race, the defending champion Shanghai Port and the greatly strengthened Shanghai Shenhua are naturally the favorites to win the championship. Shandong Taishan is even more favored than the two Shanghai giants.

In the 2023 season, Shandong Taishan finally finished second with a difference of 5 points. In the first 7 rounds of the league, Taishan's record was 1 win, 4 draws and 2 losses, and lost 14 points. Choi Kang-hee only started coaching in the 8th round. If he started coaching from the beginning of the season, it is entirely possible to beat Shanghai Port and win the championship.

Shandong Taishan's lineup is strong enough to compete for the Chinese Super League championship. Choi Kang-hee will be able to coach the team for the entire 2024 season, so it is worth looking forward to. But the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. After the failure in the Asian Champions League, Shandong Taishan fell behind early, just like Manchester United in the Premier League last season.

In the current Chinese Super League standings, Shandong Taishan ranks fifth with 37 points from 24 games, 10 wins, 7 draws and 7 losses. It is 26 points behind the leader Shanghai Port and 14 points behind the third-placed Chengdu Rongcheng.

Compared with Shanghai Port, Shanghai Shenhua and Chengdu Rongcheng, Shandong Taishan's biggest problem this season is the long-term injury problem of foreign players. They can basically play with five foreign players in every game, but Shandong Taishan has only three, two or one foreign players for a long time, or even an "all-Chinese team" playing, so the results are naturally not good.