Chapter Seventy-Eight: Champions, and Bigger Dreams

Regardless, Guangzhou Evergrande's upset elimination of Bayern Munich is definitely big news. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the Champions League champions, they were eliminated in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup, and Bayern also created the worst result for a Champions League winner in the Club World Cup.

The Bayern Munich team returned to Germany the same day after the game, and after getting off the plane, Guardiola did not say a word in the face of media pursuit.

The relationship between him and the German media was not very good, and now he has "lost" the Club World Cup championship, and the pressure on him from German public opinion can be imagined.

As for Guangzhou Evergrande, they will be preparing for the final of the Club World Cup in Morocco. The final will be held on December 21 at 19 p.m. local time in Morocco.

Their opponents in the final will be between the Copa Libertadores winners and hosts Casablanca. The match between these two teams will be played on December 18.

As a result, Guangzhou Evergrande still has a slight advantage in the final schedule, and they will get one more day of rest than their opponents.

After a brutal battle with Bayern Munich, Lippi gave the team a day off on the 18th.

In Adigal, a coastal city on the east coast of the Atlantic, Guangzhou Evergrande's players went to the beach en masse during the day before rushing back to their hotel in the evening to watch their next round of matches between potential opponents.

However, the result of the competition was much more than everyone expected.

Hosts Casabrac beat South American champions Atlético Mineiro 3-1 cleanly!

The players of Guangzhou Evergrande, who learned of this result, looked at each other, which was really unexpected. However, this is not a bad thing for Guangzhou Evergrande. After all, in terms of strength, there is still a considerable difference in strength between the little-known Casablanca and the South American powerhouse Atletico Mineiro.

In this way, maybe this Club World Cup champion can really settle on an Asian team for the first time?

Of course, this is also the first time in the history of the Club World Cup that there is no European champion or South American champion at the same time.

After this game, some media have begun to say that this Club World Cup final is the coldest final in history.

Underdogs vs Underdogs, Dark Horses vs Dark Horses

These two teams, whoever wins the tournament, will make history for the Club World Cup, which has won the club world for the first time in South America and Europe.

Judging from the odds offered by the bookmaker, it is generally optimistic that the Asian champion Guangzhou Evergrande will beat the host team to win the Club World Cup.

After all, from the perspective of the strength of the two sides, although Guangzhou Evergrande's main scorer Li Qingshan was suspended and absent, they have three South American foreign aides and a South Korean national plus half of the Chinese national team, while Casablanca has only one foreign aid from Spain, and the rest are all local players, but they only have three Moroccan internationals in the team.

The strength of the Moroccan national team and the strength of the Chinese national team are between the two sides, one is ranked 82nd in the world and the other is ranked 88th, and the Chinese national team is still higher.

Therefore, in terms of strength, the outside world generally believes that Guangzhou Evergrande has the advantage.

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8 p.m. local time on December 21 in Morocco. The FIFA Club World Cup final is being played at the Adigarh Stadium.

Li Qingshan sat in the stands in a set of casual clothes, and at this moment he frowned, looking at the situation on the field with some concern.

"The game has been going on for thirty minutes, and now the score is 0-1, Guangzhou Evergrande is behind Casablanca." Duan Xuan's mood is not very high now.

"Judging from the current scene, Guangzhou Evergrande does not have much advantage in the face of Casablanca." Duan Xuan said worriedly, "Lippi has to think of a way." ”

Guangzhou Evergrande, who were generally favored before the game, fell behind in the 10th minute of the game, and Casablanca scored a goal through a quick counter-attack.

After falling behind, Guangzhou Evergrande pressed hard, but did not create many absolute scoring opportunities. Without Li Qingshan's high point in the front, Guangzhou Evergrande's offense seems to have lost its direction.

At least in the first half, apart from a couple of long-range shots that threatened the opposition goal, they didn't get a single chance in the box.

Lippi stood on the sidelines with a frown, and the impact of losing Li Qingshan was even greater than he expected. In this game, Gao Lin replaced Li Qingshan's position and was at the front.

Gao Lin, who replaced Li Qingshan as a center forward, had no way to play the same effect as Li Qingshan, and Guangzhou Evergrande's offense this season relied quite on the tactical role of the center.

His style is completely different from Lee's, he can't control the high points up front, and the passing on the ground is severely limited by Casablanca.

Guangzhou Evergrande can dominate in midfield, but the lethality in the penalty area is like a spear losing its spearhead after losing Li Qingshan, turning into a stick.

The first half of the game passed quickly, and Guangzhou Evergrande entered the dressing room with a one-goal deficit.

If there's anything to be thankful for, it's that Guangzhou Evergrande conceded just one goal in the first half. Casabaka's counterattack is quite resolute and fast, they have had several opportunities to counterattack in the first half, if it were not for Zeng Cheng's play, it is estimated that Guangzhou Evergrande will now concede more goals.

After returning from the second half, Lippi made a change, Zhao Xuri replaced Gao Lin, and then pushed Elkeson to the center of the striker.

Such attempts quickly paid off.

In the fifty-sixth minute of the game, Conca went straight to Muric, Muric swept in front of the goal after the successful anti-offside, and Elkeson grabbed a point in front of the goal, one to one! Guangzhou Evergrande equalised.

Encouraged by this goal, Guangzhou Evergrande's offensive became more and more fierce. In the 60th minute, Conca once again pried open the Casablanca goal with a cold shot from the edge of the box.

Two to one!

Guangzhou Evergrande overtook the score.

In the end, this score was maintained until the end of the game, with the goals of two foreign aids, Guangzhou Evergrande won the championship trophy of the Club World Cup in history!

Although Guangzhou Evergrande suffered a little trouble in the first half of this game, with Lippi's adjustment, they quickly stabilized the situation and scored two goals by relying on the ability of foreign strikers!

Elkeson's goal was crucial, and he stabilized the entire Guangzhou Evergrande team. This also allowed Lippi to see the new attacker after Li Qingshan left.

After the game, the camera focused on Li Qingshan, who was jumping from the stands to celebrate the victory and championship with the team.

There is no doubt that this is the biggest contributor to Guangzhou Evergrande's Club World Cup victory. In particular, he faced Bayern Munich's senior in the semi-finals, almost knocking out the European champions by virtue of his one-man performance.

"Well done!!"

Li Qingshan hugged his teammates one by one.

This is his last match for Guangzhou Evergrande. Tomorrow, he will fly to Manchester to discuss his future with Manchester United.

He became the most popular mission. The players of Guangzhou Evergrande came up one by one and hugged him. Everyone knows that Li Qingshan, the success of Guangzhou Evergrande this season, is definitely the most indispensable task. Without him, maybe the AFC Champions League would not have gone so smoothly, maybe the FA Cup would have been eliminated by Guizhou Renhe, and the Club World Cup would not have been able to break through Bayern.

Whether or not he can stay at United and play under David Moyes, he is unlikely to stay in Guangzhou next season. A player like this deserves a bigger stage!

Even after the wonderful performance of this season, the three foreign players in the Guangzhou Evergrande team, except for Conca, have received offers from Europe due to their age, but their contracts are in Guangzhou Evergrande, and Evergrande Group does not expect to sell people to make money, so they basically have no possibility of transferring away.

However, many foreign players who come to play in the Chinese Super League are for high salaries and money.

In fact, after the semi-finals, the general manager of Guangzhou Evergrande flew to Morocco to negotiate with Li Qingshan in person, and if Li Qingshan is willing to stay in Guangzhou Evergrande, Evergrande Group is even willing to offer the highest salary in football.

But after Li Qingshan wavered for a moment, he refused Guangzhou Evergrande's retention. Such a high salary really made him excited, but continuing to stay in the Super League did not have much benefit for his strength. And, he still has his football dreams.

His dreams were full of ambition.

And the stage of the Chinese Super League is too small to accommodate too big dreams.