Chapter Thirty-Eight: Your Face Is My Face

When the media, coaches, and players of both sides competed with each other before the game, the main force to pay attention to this game was, of course, the fans. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Outside the Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul FC fans have begun to gather, with Seoul fans wearing red and black sword stripes gathering from all directions around the Seoul World Cup Stadium, crowding the surrounding open space.

And Guangzhou Evergrande's fans, although they are smaller than Seoul FC in numbers, are no weaker than scattered Seoul fans because they gather together. Before the game, there were media reports that about 15,000 Guangzhou Evergrande fans would come to watch the game, including most of the local Chinese and international students in South Korea, except for the fans who flew all the way from China to South Korea. At this moment, they put down the geography and came to the scene to cheer for the Chinese team.

Guangzhou Evergrande also attaches great importance to the atmosphere of fans in the away stadium, in order to encourage fans, Guangzhou Evergrande Club presented a fan uniform to every Chinese fan who attended.

Chinese fans dressed in neat away yellow fan uniforms spontaneously gathered together, and for a while, yellow Chinese fans and red and black Korean fans gathered.

When everyone is more and more focused, and finally focuses on the sky above the Seoul World Cup stadium, the much-anticipated first leg of the AFC Champions League final will begin.

The bus carrying the whole team of Guangzhou Evergrande slowly arrived at the Seoul World Cup Stadium. Outside the stadium, Guangzhou Evergrande fans wearing yellow away jerseys and carrying the five-star red flag and South Korean fans wearing red and black jerseys and holding Tai Chi flags occupied a clear area.

"Finals! AFC Champions League final! I really didn't expect my boss to have a chance to play in the AFC Champions League final!! Inside the bus, Gao Lin looked at Nan Nan, a Guangzhou Evergrande fan cheering for them outside the stadium, and said.

At the front of the bus, the captain of the team, the veteran Zheng Zhi, was very silent, he turned his wedding ring, not knowing what he was thinking.

For the veteran, this could be one of the most important matches of his career. In the 20002 World Cup squad of the Chinese team, Zheng Zhi, who was still a teenager at that time, was not selected for Milu's national team squad, which became an eternal regret in his heart, and after that, he gradually became the core and captain of the Chinese team, but due to the overall weakness of the Chinese team, after that, the situation of the Chinese team has deteriorated day by day, and as the core of the Chinese team, he has also become a backstabber, he has been criticized by many people as a "ball bully" and "tumor"!! However, he is actually the most capable Chinese player in the last seven or eight years. Failing to represent the national team in the World Cup is also a pain in his heart, with his age, I don't know if he can catch up with the Chinese team's World Cup journey.

Today's race may be one of the most important races of his career, Zheng Zhi sighed as he sat in the seat of the bus.

The vast majority of Guangzhou Evergrande's players are stepping on the field of this kind of final for the first time, and the atmosphere in the car is slightly tense at this time. Zhang Linpeng, who was sitting by the window, closed his eyes and adjusted his overly excited mentality. He had waited too long for this moment. When Guangzhou Evergrande bought him from Shanghai East Asia, which was still in the Chinese League at the time, many people scolded him for seeing money and forgetting his righteousness. But what could he do? You must know that at that time, Genbao's old coach Chongming base was almost unsustainable, and he could only rely on selling players in exchange for funds, and Guangzhou Evergrande's bid far exceeded that of other domestic teams.

And the facts have also proved that his transfer to Guangzhou Evergrande has a positive effect on his career, in Guangzhou, he played the main right-back, and many high-level internationals, foreign aid together, so that the young Zhang Linpeng improved quickly, he was soon transferred from the national Olympic team to the national team, from a fringe international to the most valuable domestic player, of course, before Li Qingshan was born.

Li Qingshan sat in his seat and looked at the fans who raised their hands and cheered at them outside the stadium. He wasn't nervous, or excited. He's at peace now, as if this was just a normal game. Because his ambitions don't stop there.

If I can't even pass the Seoul FC level, how can I compete for a place in the European giants?

He has no regrets about returning to China from Europe, where he was carefully mentored by Lippi, a world-class coach, and his coaching staff. His progress has been evident this season.

He is not just an amateur player who can only head the ball, in Guangzhou, he has grown into a qualified professional player. His header is still sharp, but the tactical role of his central striker is becoming more and more obvious, he can use reasonable movement to involve the opposition defence, he can create one-on-one opportunities for his team-mates in the counterattack, and he can use his body more rationally on the field.

Since the beginning of this season, Li Qingshan has been the attendance king of the Guangzhou Evergrande team, and has participated in almost all the games except the FA Cup.

And this is not only his own efforts, but more important is Lippi's attention to himself. In the team's tactical training, the tactical routines designed around Li Qingshan are second only to Conca, which can be said to be the offensive tactical core of Guangzhou Evergrande this season.

This is also the reason why he has scored so many goals this season, Lippi has designed a tactical system for him to maximize his strength, Guangzhou Evergrande's attack is more than half of it is creating opportunities for Li Qingshan, if there is no offensive system around Li Qingshan, Li Qingshan will not be able to challenge the opponent's entire defense line alone by his own ability. He can win one-on-one, and even find opportunities in one-on-two, but if Li Qingshan is asked to single-handedly challenge the opponent with a complete defensive system, it will be difficult for him to do so. After all, he is a man, not a god..........

The grace of knowing what to do!!

Li Qingshan glanced at Lippi, who was sitting at the front with silver hair, and secretly made up his mind. Since I have decided to go to Europe after this season, I must win this championship, otherwise, it will become the regret of my life!!

"Old Zhao, stretch your face over quickly........." Li Qingshan retracted his thoughts from the car window, and heard Feng Xiaoting, who was sitting opposite him, say to Zhao Xuri seriously.

Zhao Xuri, who was swiping his mobile phone, raised his head after hearing it, and said in a northeastern accent: ", my sister is busy!" ”

"Let me slap me and see if I'm dreaming!" Feng Xiaoting affectionately held Zhao Xuri's face and said!

"Hit your own!" Zhao Xuri slapped his hand off angrily.

"Isn't your face my face.......

Hearing the gag between the two of them, a burst of laughter erupted in the carriage. The atmosphere in the car that was slightly tense before was all washed away without a trace.

Lippi glanced back at the players who were laughing and joking, and he had a smile on his face.

He was a little worried before, after all, it was the first time for the players to play the AFC Champions League final, and almost all of China was watching them, and almost all of China had expectations on him. Under such pressure, the players will be breathless.

The atmosphere in the car was a little depressing, and he had been thinking about how to relax the players.

But you can't let the players relax too much, after all, it's the final, and there is still a little bit of tension.

It's hard to grasp this degree, if the car is full of Italian players, of course Lippi knows what to do, but in the face of Chinese players, the cultural differences make Lippi scratch his head, although he has been in China for more than a year, but he is still in the stage of adapting to the cultural differences between China and Italy. Sometimes he makes a joke in the team, tells an Italian joke, but the Chinese players don't understand the Italians' jokes. This cultural difference is his biggest difficulty in coaching this team.

He thought about it, and he didn't think about what to say.

Well, now, although he didn't understand what Feng Xiaoting and Zhao Xuri were saying, it seemed to work very well and successfully turned the atmosphere around.

Lippi breathed a sigh of relief, and the carriage was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.