Chapter 7 The AFC Champions League is easy, but the Super Cup is difficult

However, in the first round of the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande won very easily at home. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning of the game, both sides played very aggressively and played against each other.

Although Guangzhou Evergrande reached the quarter-finals of last season's AFC Champions League, many Japanese and South Korean teams are seen as confident when they play against Chinese Super League sides. That confidence is something they've built up in the past against Chinese Super League teams.

However, Urawa Red Diamonds greatly underestimated the offensive strength of Guangzhou Evergrande. Under Lippi's tutelage, Guangzhou Evergrande's strength is already one of the top teams in Asia.

In the fifteenth minute of the game, Guangzhou Evergrande took the lead. Conca took the ball on the left and found Muric in front of him, who got rid of several defenders in succession and crossed down the middle, where Barrios followed up and fired into the empty net.

Except for Qin Sheng being replaced by Feng Xiaoting after being injured in an interception in the 28th minute, which brought some opportunities for Urawa Red Diamonds to take advantage of the chaos, the subsequent game was completely under the control of Guangzhou Evergrande.

In the second half, Urawa Red Diamonds made a mistake in passing, and Rong Hao cut off the ball in front of the field, and knocked on the door after a two-one-one with Muric, Muric followed up and scored the goal, and the score was rewritten to 2-0.

In the 90th minute, Gao Lin, who came on as a substitute, shot after winning the ball in the penalty area, and after being saved by the goalkeeper, captain Zheng Zhi scored with a header, and the score on the bar was rewritten to 3:0.

Guangzhou Evergrande got off to a good start to the season with a complete win at home.

And Li Qingshan sat on the bench for 90 minutes, and he was still waiting for his opportunity.

After completing this match, Guangzhou Evergrande began to prepare for the Super Cup match on March 3.

The full name of the Super Cup is the Super Cup of the Chinese Football Association, which began in 1995 and was once called the Chinese Football Super Cup. In 2004, the tournament was reinstated in the middle of the tournament until 2012, when it was reinstated and changed to its current name.

The Super Cup can be seen as the real end of a season in the Chinese Super League and the beginning of a new season, just like the Community Shield in the Premier League or the Spanish Super Cup in La Liga.

Because in 1999, Shandong Luneng Taishan team won the league and cup championships for the first time, so in order to ensure that the Super Cup in early 2000 can be held, the 1999 league runner-up Liaoning team was specially invited to participate, and it has become a rule since then. That is, when a team wins the FA Cup and the Chinese Super League, the other team participating in the Super Cup is the runner-up of the Chinese Super League.

Therefore, Guangzhou Evergrande, who won the FA Cup and the Chinese Super League last season, will face Jiangsu Shuntian, the league runner-up last season, in the Super Cup.

Jiangsu Shuntian played the role of a Guangzhou Evergrande chaser last season, and they held Guangzhou Evergrande all the way to the final round of the league before confirming the ownership of the Chinese Super League champion.

And the hero of all this is undoubtedly the hero of Jiangsu Shuntian, the head coach Dragan. In 2011, Bosnia-Herzegovina coach Dragan took charge of Jiangsu, and in the following two seasons, the former Yugoslav coach rushed Jiangsu Shuntian, a team in the middle and lower reaches, to the runner-up of the Chinese Super League, and even threatened Guangzhou Evergrande's championship for a time.

Under the tutelage of Dragan, Jiangsu Shuntian became one of the most combative teams in the 2012 season, and on the defensive end, the back line led by Deng Xiaofei and Erelson created a Chinese Super League record of 643 consecutive minutes without conceding a goal; On the offensive side, Dana Lach scored 23 goals in a single season, setting a new league record for foreign aid goals held by Guangzhou Evergrande player Muric, and Jixiang's opening seven-second goal against Guangzhou Evergrande also set a new record for the fastest goal in the history of the Chinese Super League. The team's home record is very impressive, with 9 wins, 5 draws and 1 defeat in 15 home games in the 2012 season, with only Changchun Yatai winning at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.

The number of Jiangsu Shuntian's home games has increased from less than 10,000 at the beginning of the 2011 season to more than 20,000 in the 2012 season, and the 1-1 draw with Guangzhou Evergrande at home on October 20, 2012 saw 65,769 spectators rush to the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center to watch the game, setting a new record for the highest attendance in the Chinese Football League.

And all this started with Dragan taking charge of Jiangsu.

Dragan has single-handedly built a team that has been solid defensively, sharp on counter-attacks, and direct and fast in play. In last season's league title race, they lost to Guangzhou Evergrande.

In this Super Cup, the whole team of Jiangsu Shuntian came to Guangzhou with an inevitable momentum.

On the Guangzhou Evergrande side, since the Super Cup match was held at the Tianhe Sports Center, the home of Guangzhou Evergrande, for them, they also hope to win the first championship trophy of the new season for fans at their home stadium.

Therefore, both sides are doing their best for this game and have no reservations.

On the side of Jiangsu Shuntian, Dragan sent a slightly rusty lineup, Guan Zhen replaced Deng Xiaofei in the goalkeeper position, Zou Yun, Ai Zhibo, Ren Hang, and Tagiyev formed the back line on the back line, Liu Jianye and foreign aid Krivetz partnered with double backs, Wu Xi partnered with Jixiang and Bali on the front line, and striker Saleh.

On the Guangzhou Evergrande side, the back line is Zeng Cheng, Zhang Linpeng, Feng Xiaoting, Jin Yingquan, Sun Xiang; Midfielders Zheng Zhi, Huang Bowen, Conca, and striker new signing Elkeson made their season debut, partnering Muric and center Gao Lin.

In this game, Li Qingshan once again entered the squad for the competition, and being able to enter the squad for two consecutive rounds of matches did not attract much attention; although Li Qingshan's decision to return to China a month ago made a big news, but now not many people pay attention to him -- the people's forgetfulness is always very great.

Li Qingshan was waiting for his opportunity, Li Tie told him last time that he should be ready to play at any time, and he knew that he would be able to get the opportunity to play.

Therefore, he trained harder, and the progress during this time was also seen in Li Tie's eyes.

He doesn't know when his chance will come, but he does know that he needs to be ready at all times – as a high school striker and having not had any tactical training with the team this month, he certainly knows that in this situation he will only be available when the team needs to attack. And his appearance means that the team's tactics are limited, so it is necessary to send a high school striker to use the simplest high-altitude ball tactics to score for the team.

This is really a contradiction, on the one hand, Li Qingshan certainly hopes that the team can go well, but on the other hand, he is also eager to get on the field.

It was a cold day, however, after 30 minutes of the game, the temperature around me felt several degrees lower.

Because Guangzhou Evergrande is behind, and it is two goals behind.

In the twentieth minute, Zhang Linpeng oolong, Shuntian took the lead, nine minutes later, Krivetz took the ball on the line of the penalty area with his left foot and shot into the lower right corner, Shuntian led Guangzhou Evergrande 2:0!

This is really unexpected in the first 30 minutes, Guangzhou Evergrande, which won a big victory in the AFC Champions League, returned to its home stadium against Jiangsu Shuntian, and actually fell behind by two goals in the first 30 minutes.

Li Qingshan's eyes were shining at this time, and he frequently turned his head to look at the team's head coach Lippi not far away.

He had a hunch that in this case he would get a chance to play.

Li Qingshan, who was sitting on the bench, was already gearing up and eager to try!