Chapter 35: The Footsteps of the Final

Guangzhou Evergrande, who reached the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League, is only four games away from the championship. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Their opponents in the semi-finals are Japan's J-League side Kashiwa Suns, with Guangzhou Evergrande playing away and then home, giving them some advantage in the schedule.

In fact, in the group stage of the AFC Champions League last season, Guangzhou Evergrande was in a group with Bai Sun God. They beat Kashiwa Suns 3-1 at home before drawing 0-0 away from home.

Guangzhou Evergrande has won all three meetings with Japanese teams at home, but the memories on the road are not so good, in the first two meetings, they were only drawn, and this season was almost forced to draw by Urawa Red Diamonds.

Therefore, as long as it can not lose to Bai Sun God away from home, Guangzhou Evergrande, which returns to its home stadium, will have a high probability of advancing to the finals.

Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Lippi said: "Our goal is to qualify for the final, so in the 180 minutes of the semi-finals we will not relax, even if it is away from home, we will give it our all to establish an advantage in the first leg!" ”

Guangzhou Evergrande can arrange the strongest squad to play in this game, they have no injury problems, and in order to let Guangzhou Evergrande fully prepare for the AFC Champions League, the Chinese Super League specially adjusted the time of the Chinese Super League game for Guangzhou Evergrande. Now the morale of the whole team is high and the fighting spirit is high.

The domestic media are full of confidence in their victory, and the source of this confidence is not only Guangzhou Evergrande's past record against Japanese teams, but also confidence in Guangzhou Evergrande's overall strength.

On the Japanese side, the media focused on Evergrande's three super foreign aides and Li Qingshan.

Especially Li Qingshan, his current state is hot and hot. And that form has continued since the start of the season shows that his performances are not short-lived, but a centre-forward with a consistent and terrifying goalscoring efficiency.

And his style of play happens to be the type that Japanese teams fear the most. The Japanese are limited by their national constitution and Japanese youth training style, and it is difficult to have the kind of tall central defender who is good at frontal interception and the kind of center forward who has a strong body and a good header.

Japan's style of football is modeled after Brazil, but on that basis they have developed a Japanese football culture, they advocate ground passing and passing and cutting, the Japanese team is very good at ball control and passing ability, their tactical style is very agreeable, Japan from club to school football, use the same set of tactical style of football, which allows their academy players to plug and play into the first team without adapting.

And Japanese football also has its own shortcomings, that is, they are not good at physical confrontation, and they still defend high-altitude balls. In the 90s, when the national football team was still known as the "head team", the Japanese were most afraid of the Chinese team's side crosses.

Unfortunately, as the gap between the two countries grows wider, we are no longer opponents of each other.

In the Guangzhou Evergrande formation, there happened to be such an air bully who was good at heading, which made the air defense pressure of Bai Sun God unprecedentedly huge.

So, how can the Bai Sun God contain Li Qingshan?

For this reason, the Japanese media have offered advice to the Kashiwa Sun God.

What to strengthen ball control, curb crosses, limit Conkamuric, use tall central defenders to fight with Li Qingshan, etc.

What tactics the Kashiwa Sun God will adopt, no one knows. For the weak side, it is best to hide their tactical intentions, since they can't be a beast, then as a poisonous scorpion, they also have a chance to defeat the opponent.

Lippi's team has nothing to keep secret, as the strongest team in the AFC Champions League so far, Guangzhou Evergrande's starting lineup and tactical play have no need to change and cover up, anyway, no matter who the opponent is, they will dominate me and control the rhythm on the field.

In the first leg of the game, Lippi sent his strongest lineup, goalkeeper Zeng Cheng, backline Sun Xiang, Jin Yingquan, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng. Double back Zheng Zhi and Huang Bowen, Brazilian trident in the frontcourt, Muric, Conca, Elkeson. At the forefront, there is no doubt - No. 18 Li Qingshan!

At the beginning of the game, Guangzhou Evergrande launched an attack without probing. This is Lippi's request, and now Guangzhou Evergrande, with a big victory over Lekhvia a few days ago, is much stronger in terms of team form and morale than the Kashiwa Suns who fought hard in Saudi Arabia and returned to the J-League and fought with Osaka Sakura for 90 minutes. In this case, shrinking into your own half and slowly grinding time with the opponent is obviously not good for yourself.

At that time, Guangzhou Evergrande's attack had not yet achieved results, and Bai Sun God scored first.

In the tenth minute of the game, Bai Sun God won a free kick on the left side of the front, Wagner's free kick was passed into the penalty area, and Guangzhou Evergrande's veteran Cleo headed the ball into the goal!!

Kashiwa Sun God got off to a dream start.

After scoring the goal, Bai Sun God did not retreat into the half to play a defensive counterattack - they could not prevent Li Qingshan's header.

Bai Sun God moved the defensive line forward and tangled with Guangzhou Evergrande in the midfield.

After Guangzhou Evergrande's opening, the momentum of the Tigers' descent was extinguished a lot by this goal. For a while, the battle between the two sides in the midfield fell into a stalemate.

Just when the first half of the game slowly passed in such a stalemate situation, and everyone thought that Bai Sun God would enter the break with a lead, in the 45th minute, Guangzhou Evergrande won a set-piece in front.

Li Qingshan headed a free kick from Conca into the goal of Bai Sun God to equalize for Guangzhou Evergrande on the road.

At the beginning of the second half, Lippi replaced Feng Xiaoting with Zhao Xuri, ripped off a defender and replaced it with a back midfielder, strengthening the strangulation of the midfield.

Lippi's change of formation quickly paid off, and in the 58th minute, Sun Xiang crossed from the left; Li Qingshan jumped high, and the defenders of Bai Sun God did not have an effect on Li Qingshan's interference in the air, and the ball was sent into the goal by Li Qingshan again! 2-1, Li Qingshan scored twice for the team to overtake the score!!

The next game completely entered the rhythm of Guangzhou Evergrande, and it was the sixty-seventh minute. Elkeson's powerful left-footed shot from outside the box was blocked by a defender, and Conca made a slight adjustment after stopping the ball, and volleyed a powerful left-footed shot at the edge of the arc that flew straight into the left side of the net. 3-1！！

In the eighty-second minute, it was Conca again!! He took a corner kick on the right side and broke the net directly, the goalkeeper and defender of Bai Sun God were concentrating on defending Li Qingshan, which Cheng wanted to be a bold Conca's corner kick directly into the goal!! 4-1！！！

In stoppage time, the Kashiwa Sun God, who had lost his fighting spirit, was hit again! Gao Lin, who came on as a substitute, swept the ball in front of the goal after passing on the side, Li Qingshan grabbed the point in the middle, and the ball bounced into the goal after touching his foot. This is Li Qingshan's rare goal with his foot!!

5-1！ This score completely lost the suspense of the second leg!!

Li Qingshan, who completed the hat-trick, raised his arms and looked around the court.

AFC Champions League Final!

I'm coming!!

I conquer !!