Chapter 59: The Triple Crown

When Raiola received a reply from Manchester United, he pouted helplessly, which may be a common problem of big clubs. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Bureaucracy is always unavoidable.

But he doesn't care, several major league teams have expressed their interest in Li Qingshan, but at present, he still feels that he is not worthy of Li Qingshan.

Anyway, the winter window is still long, and Raiola is not in a hurry.

Of course, Li Qingshan will not be in a hurry, he is still in Guangzhou at the moment, preparing for the semi-finals of the FA Cup with the team.

After winning the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande is now aiming for the FA Cup, and they hope to lift this trophy and become the first treble winner in the history of Chinese professional football!

And at present, it seems that there is no team in China that can stop Guangzhou Evergrande's FA Cup.

Before the semi-finals, Lippi had been using a semi-main team plus a substitute lineup to play in the FA Cup, but Guangzhou Evergrande successfully broke into the semi-finals of the FA Cup even with a second-tier lineup. Since it has played this part, Guangzhou Evergrande certainly does not want to lose the FA Cup.

With no other competitions to drag him down, Lippi can field his strongest squad in the FA Cup and go all out to win the third trophy of the season, and of course, if you count the Super Cup at the beginning of last season, this is the fourth!

Guangzhou Evergrande's opponent in the FA Cup semi-finals is the old rival Beijing Guoan, and both sides know each other. Beijing Guoan could have another season of no results, finishing third in the league and still holding on to their hopes of winning the FA Cup.

However, in the eyes of the outside world, it may be difficult for Beijing Guoan to break through the hurdle of Guangzhou Evergrande, and the end of another failed season is inevitable.

The first leg of the match is on November 23, and before that, in Xi'an, the Chinese national team will face two Asian Cup qualifiers, against Indonesia on November 15 and Saudi Arabia on November 19.

It is worth mentioning that the acting head coach Fu Bo did not recruit Li Qingshan into the team, and even the players of Guangzhou Evergrande also recruited Zhang Linpeng, Feng Xiaoting and Gao Lin, which is extremely rare for Guangzhou Evergrande, a major international player. In this regard, Fu Bo's explanation is that because Guangzhou Evergrande has just experienced two rounds of difficult AFC Champions League finals, the players need to get time to rest. As for Li Qingshan, Fu Bo said that he would be recruited into the national team "at the appropriate time".

In this way, Li Qingshan's national team career can only be postponed.

Of course, Fu's approach has sparked a wave of conspiracy theories, especially in the Beijing media, that the crusade against Fu Bo was made in response to "pressure from certain clubs".

The logic of the Beijing media is that Fu Bo did not wantonly recruit Guangzhou Evergrande's international players to join the team in order to create obstacles for Beijing Guoan's FA Cup. But the problem is that only Zhang Xizhe was recruited into the national team in Beijing Guoan. I don't know exactly where the obstacle lies.

The disturbance of the domestic media did not affect the preparations of Li Qingshan and Guangzhou Evergrande.

On November 23, the first leg of the FA Cup semi-final was played at the Beijing Workers' Stadium, presumably because of the excitement of winning the AFC Champions League. Guangzhou Evergrande was not too excited to play in this game. However, Beijing Guoan did not have more offensive opportunities because of this, and the overall rhythm of the game was still in the hands of Guangzhou Evergrande.

The score of 0-0 was maintained until the 80th minute of the game, just when the fans thought that this dull and boring game would end with a score of 0-0, Muric, Conca and Elkeson played a tacit cooperation, Conca passed the ball to Muric, Muric passed the ball to Elkeson without stopping the ball and then inserted forward, Elkeson did not adjust and passed directly in front of the goal, Muric rushed to the goal in front of the goal, and finally with this goal, Guangzhou Evergrande defeated Beijing Guoan from the Workers' Stadium.

A week later, on November 27, the second leg between the two sides began at the Tianhe Stadium. There were many twists and turns in this game.

In the last game, Guangzhou Evergrande led Beijing Guoan 2-0 with Elkeson's brace. However, in the second half, Beijing Guoan's foreign aid Utaka performed quite amazingly.

In the 56th minute, Gelong crossed Kanute, Kanute cleverly plugged in front of the arc of the penalty area, Utaka controlled the ball in the penalty area and turned around, and scored with a low shot, and the score became 2-1.

In the 58th minute, Guangzhou Evergrande also scored quickly, Sun Xiang crossed to the front of the penalty area, Li Qingshan ran in the back row, and pressed the opponent's central defender Klimets to score with a header, and the score became three to one.

However, in the 60th minute of the game and the 67th minute of the game, Utaka scored two goals in a short period of time to equalize the score to 3-3!

Seeing the hope of promotion, Beijing Guoan pressed hard and tried to crush Guangzhou Evergrande in one fell swoop, but Beijing Guoan, which was pressed hard, also gave Guangzhou Evergrande more space.

In the 60th minute of the game, Feng Xiaoting launched a long pass, Li Qingshan returned the header in the penalty area to Huang Bowen, Huang Bowen took the ball in the vacant position and adjusted it slightly and then pulled out his legs and shot angrily, Guangzhou Evergrande once again exceeded the score, 4 to 3!

In the 79th minute, Muric burst into the penalty area with the ball, got rid of the defense and scored from a small angle, and Guangzhou Evergrande led 5-3. In the 89th minute, Conca scored the ball in the middle of the penalty area, and Guangzhou Evergrande sealed the victory 6-3 and successfully advanced to the FA Cup final.

In the other semi-final, Guizhou Renhe defeated Dalian Albin to advance to the final.

The final will take place three days later, on December 1. Guangzhou Evergrande needs to play away first. Such a schedule also made Lippi very unhappy.

In the tenth minute of the game, Elkeson was directly shown a red card by the referee because of the scramble with Yang Hao, Guangzhou Evergrande was forced to play one less, Guizhou Renhe who seized the opportunity and because of the sea scored a goal in the 37th and 52nd minutes of the game, Guizhou Renhe led Guangzhou Evergrande 2-0 at home. Ten men to fight against the exhausted Guangzhou Evergrande player Bin could not provide much support to Li Qingshan. It wasn't until the 91st minute of the game that Li Qingshan scored a goal through a corner kick to help the team score a valuable away goal. In the end, Guangzhou Evergrande could only lose Guizhou 1-2.

A week later, on December 7, the second leg of the final came to Tianhe Stadium. However, Guizhou Renhe has become the nemesis of Guangzhou Evergrande, after Guangzhou Evergrande opened 30 minutes to besiege Guizhou Renhe and did not score a goal, in the 38th minute, Guizhou Renhe won a set-piece in the front court, Misimovic crossed a free kick diagonally into the penalty area, Yu Haili pressed Huang Bowen's header to break the goal, Guizhou Renhe led 1-0, and the total score was 3-1 ahead of Guangzhou Evergrande.

Until the 59th minute of the second half, Zheng Zhi sent a long pass in the middle of the field, Li Qingshan ferried in the penalty area, and substitute Feng Junyan scored with a right-footed volley into the upper corner of the goal on the right side of the penalty area. Guangzhou Evergrande chased the score to 1-1, but the total score was still 2-3.

In the 61st minute, Conca scored with his left foot after winning the ball in the middle of the small penalty area, and Guangzhou Evergrande scored two goals in two minutes to overtake the score, and the total score became 3-3.

Guangzhou Evergrande, whose morale was greatly boosted, began to press the siege of Guizhou as a whole, and their efforts finally reaped the results. With Li Qingshan's violent long-range shot on the periphery of the penalty area, Guangzhou Evergrande won the FA Cup with a total score of 4-3!

Guangzhou Evergrande also created another history of Chinese football and became an unprecedented treble.

After this game, Guangzhou Evergrande will fly to Morocco, and their last few games this season will be the 2013 Club World Cup!