Chapter 49 The Storm is Coming

With the end of the Chinese Super League, the whole team of Guangzhou Evergrande began to turn into the rhythm of preparing for the second leg of the AFC Champions League. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, from the end of the first round, Lippi's training was geared towards the second round. Even if there are two Chinese Super League games in between. The importance of this game of Guangzhou Evergrande team can be seen.

The Chinese team's historic entry into the AFC Champions League final has also made domestic fans look forward to this game.

It can be seen from the ticket sales of Guangzhou Evergrande's home stadium that the night before the ticket was released at the ticket center of Tianhe Stadium, there were Guangzhou fans with quilts to line up, and that night, the queue army of more than 100 meters was already waiting at the Tianhe Sports Center, ready to fight all night, just for a ticket to the AFC Champions League final.

Guangzhou Evergrande Club, on the other hand, began to build momentum for this game a week before the game.

On November 4, Guangzhou Evergrande officially released the latest poster of the AFC Champions League final.

It is the tradition of Guangzhou Evergrande to send posters before the game, and many teams in the Chinese Super League have followed this trend in recent years, and the release of pre-game posters before the game has also become a unique scenery of the Chinese Super League.

The poster released by Guangzhou Evergrande is slightly different from the previous one, the theme of this poster is "the champion always belongs here", if only so, there is not much need to discuss. The key point is that the top half of the poster is the emblems of Evergrande and Seoul, and the bottom half uses two mathematical formulas to predict the score of the second leg of the final.

If you don't know these two mathematical formulas, you may not really know them, but some enthusiastic people will soon solve them.

On the left is the famous Ramanujan identity, the result is 3, and on the right is Euler's formula, the constant is equal to 0, so the theme of the poster is actually to imply that in the second leg of the final, Guangzhou Evergrande, which returns to its home stadium, will lift the AFC Champions League trophy with a 3-0 victory.

This season, Guangzhou Evergrande can often score more than three goals at home, so many fans wash the dust and 3-0 at home is the "minimum consumption"!

Guangzhou Evergrande is full of confidence, and Seoul FC is not to be outdone.

Despite their recent poor form in the K-League, they lost to Ulsan Hyundai in their most recent round and dropped to fourth place in the K-League, stretching the gap to first place to 13 points. Seoul FC's defending K-League title this season is almost unlikely.

Choi Yong-so said at the post-match press conference that winning the AFC Champions League is the most important goal of Seoul FC's 2013 season! With no hope of winning the K-League, FC Seoul put on an all-out posture in the AFC Champions League.

Choi Yong-so appeared to be very confident of winning the title, and the reason he gave was: "The Korean team has won the AFC Champions League five times, and the Chinese team has never touched this honor. In the final, Chinese players will feel nervous, and the psychological quality of Chinese players may be shaken when facing such a final scene. When in China, Guangzhou is indeed a good team, but the mental strength of the Chinese players is very pitiful, we only need to score first, although the strength of the Chinese players has indeed improved, but as long as they concede the goal, there will be a rapid collapse. ”

And the Korean media naturally touted Seoul FC. In the face of the poster released by Guangzhou Evergrande before the game, it obviously made the Korean media very angry, believing that this was the naked humiliation of Guangzhou Evergrande.

South Korea's professional media "inews24" believes that Evergrande's pre-game behavior is too arrogant, and called this self-confidence "self-destruction". "inews24" began with a sarcastic look at Evergrande, writing: "Evergrande seems to have won the final victory and is picking up a glass to celebrate, while the reality is that the second leg of the contest between the two sides will be held on November 9." Before the game started, Evergrande was already immersed in the atmosphere of winning the championship. Evergrande wrote the ridiculous result of 3:0 on the official website, which is full of provocation, which is their confidence and a kind of arrogance ...... of their deep pockets."

And Seoul FC player Kim Joo-young also expressed his desire in an interview with the media: "In the expedition to Guangzhou, we will never be willing to play a supporting role and do something that cheapens others." It is said that Evergrande has already prepared for the championship celebration, but we will definitely lift the championship trophy on their home stadium and add to their blockage. ”

Seoul FC is very active and high-profile from the head coach to the players. In contrast, Guangzhou Evergrande's head coach Lippi is much more low-key.

Lippi was a little low-key in an interview with the media, and Evergrande will need some luck to win the title. However, Lippi said that if he wins the AFC Champions League, this feeling should be only inferior to winning the World Cup, which shows how much Lippi is eager for this Asian title. He cautioned all Evergrande players not to take it lightly.

But the players of Guangzhou Evergrande are full of confidence!

Conca, the heart of the team, said: "A 2-1 score away from home doesn't guarantee us the title, so the whole team has to be very focused. When it comes to the final, we are all very hungry for this championship and we will do our best! ”

Captain Zheng Zhi said: "We must show 200% hard work, keep the championship in Guangzhou, and create the history of Chinese football!" ”

As the game time gradually approaches, the atmosphere of the AFC Champions League final in Guangzhou City is getting stronger and stronger.

The day before the game, fans from all over the country had already poured into Guangzhou to set up camp in Guangzhou, waiting for the start of the AFC Champions League final.

............ from Nanchang, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Qingdao, Wuhan

Fans from almost all parts of the country came to Guangzhou, and the final of the AFC Champions League turned into a common carnival of fans across the country.

They carried banners and waved flags through the streets and alleys of the city of Guangzhou. Such a scene has not been seen in China for a long time. In this moment, it was as if the whole city was revolving around a football match.

Li Qingshan took his parents from Changsha. The club gave each player a few tickets to the AFC Champions League final, and Li Qingshan got five in his hand, and he took his parents, uncle, aunt, and cousin Gao Tiantian to Guangzhou.

It was his biggest game of the season and Li wanted to share it with his family.

However, he had to stay in a hotel arranged by the team three days before the game, so he has not been able to see his family yet.

In fact, a week before the game, Lippi arranged a completely closed training session, and all media reporters and fans were not allowed to approach the training base of Guangzhou Evergrande.

Three days before the game, all the players stayed in a hotel arranged by the club.

This is also deliberately arranged by Lippi to isolate the players from the outside world, reduce the impact of external pressure on them, and control the tension within a moderate range.

Lippi, of course, knows what he cares most about for his boss. There is no room for error in this game, so Lippi's arrangement for this game has covered almost every aspect of the team.

This game, in the atmosphere of a stormy battle, is coming!!