Chapter 16 Jeonbuk Hyundai of the Attack

March 12, 18 p.m. local time in South Korea. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Outside the Jeonju World Cup Stadium in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, fans from all over the world began to gather, and of course, the fans wearing the green jerseys of the home team Jeonbuk Hyundai were the majority. And the Guangzhou Evergrande fans wearing red jerseys are like a little red in the green bushes.

At this time, a group of fans in red jerseys walked along the street outside the Jeonju World Cup stadium singing songs, singing from far and near, making South Koreans along the way look sideways.

They are the Korean Expeditionary Force of the Guangzhou Evergrande Fan Club, which flew in from Guangzhou. They will be playing their part away from home.

In addition to the fans who flew from Guangzhou, Guangzhou Evergrande officials also gathered Chinese fans who studied and worked in South Korea in advance and distributed more than 1,000 Guangzhou Evergrande jerseys for free. Many Chinese in South Korea may not be fans of Guangzhou Evergrande, they may support other domestic clubs such as Jiangsu Shuntian, Shandong Luneng, Beijing Guoan and so on, but in the AFC Champions League, most people will put aside their grievances at home and unanimously support Guangzhou Evergrande.

This is perhaps the big difference between the football culture in China and Europe, which does not have a community football culture that has been built up more than 100 years ago like England, and they are able to distinguish the "supported clubs" from the "national team" very clearly. Manchester United fans will never support Liverpool when they go to play in the Champions League, and they will even curse Liverpool for their heavy defeat. But when Steven Gerrard came on for England, England's Manchester United fans were able to turn into England fans cheering for Gerrard.

But in China, it seems that as long as it is an "outstation" to the outside world, even the competition between clubs must be crowned with such a serious word as "national honor". This is more or less manifested in the three countries of the East, China, Japan, and South Korea.

Therefore, it is not surprising to see Chinese in South Korea wearing Guangzhou Evergrande jerseys to cheer for Guangzhou Evergrande. Some of them don't even watch football at all, but in times like this, they are willing to stand up and support their own teams.

Jeonju World Cup Stadium was built as a new soccer stadium to host the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, and is now the home stadium of Jeonbuk Hyundai. The venue can accommodate 43,348 spectators.

There is still an hour to go before this game starts, but the stadium is already crammed with green Jeonbuk Hyundai fans. Guangzhou Evergrande fans in red jerseys sat in the narrow stands, almost drowning in this sea of green.

Jeonbuk Hyundai's players and coaches are thinking about revenge, and Jeonbuk Hyundai's fans are no exception.

In fact, South Korean clubs rarely sell tickets for AFC Champions League matches. Because the AFC Champions League is played in midweek, the work pressure of South Koreans is very high, and many Korean fans will not choose to come to the stadium to watch the game on a weekday night like midweek. But in this game, Jeonbuk Hyundai Club sold out of tickets early. Even many South Korean fans enter the stadium by buying high-priced scalper tickets.

Before the game even began, the home fans set off a huge wave of noise, waving the Korean flag in their hands, the white, red and blue Korean Taiji flag and the green jersey of Jeonbuk, completely insulating the stadium from the bitter cold of the Korean Peninsula in March.

When the players from both sides entered the stadium, in the stands across the tunnel from the players' tunnel, the home fans pulled up a huge South Korean flag, which was facing the players from both sides, and the Koreans demonstrated against the Chinese team in this way.

Li Qingshan stood in the queue of Guangzhou Evergrande without squinting and walked into this hot stadium, and in his ears was the huge sound of more than 40,000 Korean fans at the scene.

During the handshake between the players of the two sides, the expressions of the Korean players in Jeonbuk Hyundai's team seemed to be portrayed in a mold - they all pursed their mouths tightly and their eyes were fixed on each Guangzhou Evergrande player who shook hands with him. In this way, they expressed their determination for this game.

At the moment, however, Lippi looked relaxed, and after shaking hands with the opposing acting head coach, he returned to his place and leisurely lit a cigar.

For Lippi, both the Champions League final and the World Cup final have been mentioned, and it is almost difficult for such an ordinary game as the AFC Champions League to make any waves in his heart.

If there must be anything, he is a little regretful, the registration rules of the Super League are 4+1, that is, you can sign up for 4 foreign aides plus an Asian foreign aid, and the registration rules for the AFC Champions League are 3+1, and the foreign aid is one less registration place than the Super League. In this way, the team's new foreign players will not be able to register in the AFC Champions League, and naturally they will not be able to play in the AFC Champions League. But now due to Barrios' injury, Lippi can only deploy two foreign players in the attacking group up front: Conca and Muric. This also made Guangzhou Evergrande's offensive strength suffer a lot.

Fortunately, he still has Li Qingshan in his hands, which can more or less make up for the impact of Barrios' injury. It is even possible that because of Barrios' injury, Guangzhou Evergrande's attack will become more direct and sharp.

In this game, due to the lack of Barrios, Lippi arranged a 4231 formation, the goalkeeper is still Zeng Cheng, the central defender Feng Xiaoting partners Jin Yingquan, the left fullback Sun Xiang, the right fullback Zhang Linpeng, the captain Zheng Zhi and Huang Bowen partner double back, front Conca, left forward Muric, right forward Rong Hao, and the center position is naturally Li Qingshan.

In Lippi's heart, if the attacking combination in the front court is Elkeson, Conca, Muric, and Li Qingshan, then he doesn't have to worry too much about the offensive strength of this game. And now it is Rong Hao who plays the position of right midfielder, so the attack on the right side is obviously not as good as Muric's side on the left. However, there are also benefits to bringing in Ronghao - at least the defense on the right side will reassure Lippi. Rong Hao was born as a defender, so he has a certain defensive ability and awareness.

In the first half, it was Guangzhou Evergrande's side that kicked off first, with Li Qingshan and Conca standing in the middle circle ready to kick off.

As the referee blew the whistle, Li Qingshan gently passed the football to Conca, then turned around and ran forward. And after Jeonbuk Hyundai's players kicked off Lee Than-san, they pounced forward like tigers descending the mountain.

Conca could only pass the ball back to Zheng Zhi behind him, Zheng Zhi had no time to adjust after taking the ball, Jeonbuk Hyundai striker Lee Dong Kook had already pounced, and Zheng Zhi could only give up the option of holding the ball at his feet and continue to pass the ball back. Lee Dong-guk's speed had no intention of stopping, and he continued to chase after the football.

Zheng Zhi passed the ball to goalkeeper Zeng Cheng, Zeng Cheng saw that Li Dongguo was so fierce that he could only face a big foot in the football rolling towards him, but he did not control his footwork and raised the right sideline.

Jeonbuk Hyundai was aggressive as soon as it came up, and it was forced to grab it all over the board.

Guangzhou Evergrande didn't even organize an attack before losing the ball.

This game doesn't seem optimistic..........