Gao Yunan (front, right) of Hebei FC competes in the 2022 Chinese Super League match against Shanghai Shenhua in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, June 16, 2022. (WANG YIJIE / XINHUA)

BEIJING - Home and away games, which will resume in early August in the Chinese Super League, will make better conditions for the teams to improve, said Dalian Pro head coach Xie Hui.

The first phase of the CSL 2022 campaign has concluded under a centralized format with constant complaints from some teams about the lack of time to recover.

We found a lot of problems about my team in the first ten rounds of the first phase but had no time to solve them. During that period, we had to play a game every three days.

Xie Hui, Dalian Pro head coach

The second phase, to begin in early August, will see the resumption of home and away games, a move welcomed by Xie.

"We found a lot of problems about my team in the first ten rounds of the first phase but had no time to solve them," he said.

"During that period, we had to play a game every three days. What we could do was play the match, then recover, then play the next match."

"There was hardly any time to train. And the best way to solve the problems of a team is through training," he said.

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Franko Andrijasevic (right) of Zhejiang vies with Lyu Peng of Dalian Pro during their 2022 season Chinese Football Association Super League match in Haikou, South China's Hainan province, July 6, 2022. (YANG GUANYU / XINHUA)

"If we play one match one week on the home-and-away basis, that means we will have more time to solve the problems arising during the games," he said.

"The home-and-away format is an integral part of professional football games," he added.

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The CSL has adopted the centralized format since the 2020 season after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.