Zhang Sheng's hospitality does not mean to create any trouble for the opponent off the field, of course, it is impossible for the Al Ahli team to be treated preferentially, and Zhang ShengTM is S.B.

The so-called "hospitality" refers to the fact that on the field, the firepower is fully opened, and a few can be scored, so that the fans can send the greatest cheers, as for saving face for others, they don't want to save face themselves, and it doesn't matter if they stay or not.

Zhang Sheng is very confident in this game.

Although Pato was injured in the last game, it was a hard injury after returning to China, and with the unique "hygienist" skills of Zhang Sheng's system, Pato recovered completely in less than a week.

Now that Nie Jiang has returned from the World Junior Championships with the completed tasks and the soaring ability value, the strength of the Longteng team has risen to a higher level.

And the most important thing is that after Nie Jiang returns, the front-court striker formation commonly used by the Longteng team can be used, and in front of the West Asian teams with low general tactical level, the striker formation can be said to be the best to use.

Compared with Zhang Sheng's firm idea, the outside world is extremely cautious about this game, because although the first leg is a 1:2 away victory, this score is not very advantageous, and there are many cases of big score reversals in history, not to mention that it is only a small victory.

The hype of the game from the outside world is also a big help for the Dragon Club, especially in the pricing of ticket prices.

In fact, before the first leg of the AFC Champions League final, Longteng Club was discussing the price of home tickets for the second leg.

On this issue, although Zhang Sheng has a lot to say, he just thought that he had decided not to participate in the operation of the business, so he didn't intervene again, because now the Longteng team's pricing of tickets is very similar to that of Guangzhou Evergrande in history, and the price is set very high, especially in the highest grades of tickets.

In the 2013 season, when Guangzhou Evergrande reached the AFC Champions League final for the first time, the home tickets were divided into eight levels, namely 400 yuan, 600 yuan, 800 yuan, 1000 yuan, 1500 yuan, 2000 yuan, 5000 yuan, and 8000 yuan. Among them, the 5,000 yuan ticket is limited to 500, and the 8,000 yuan ticket price, known as the "local tyrant gold", is limited to 20.

In that ticket sales, it was the 5,000 and 8,000 tickets that sold the fastest, which also surprised all the melon-eating fans.

When I think about it, this is actually normal. These two grades of tickets are really expensive for ordinary fans, but for fans who are not short of money, they are really nothing, but because these two grades of tickets are scarce, they are even more precious, after all, there are many local tyrants.

In the 2014 season, because of the emergence of the Longteng team, Guangzhou Evergrande was different from history, and once again entered the AFC Champions League finals, and the ticket pricing at home was also increased again, of which the highest two ticket prices exceeded 10,000 yuan, and the first ticket price was as high as 20,000.

The ticket price of the Longteng team is also based on the ticket price of Guangzhou Evergrande last year, and the ticket price is divided into eight levels according to the stands and seats, the lowest ticket price is 500, and the top is 800, 1600, 3000, 5000, 8000, and the highest two grades are 15,000 and 30,002.

Among them, the ticket price of 32,000 is more expensive than the top VIP ticket for the La Liga "national derby" Real Madrid and Barcelona match that starts a few hours later, and the highest ticket price for the world's high-profile game is only 2697.7 euros, equivalent to about 18,000 yuan, which is far more expensive than the official price of the highest price ticket for the men's World Cup around 1,000 US dollars.

However, the price of the Longteng Club is similar to the price of 600 yuan (a small amount), 1500 yuan, 3000 yuan, 4000 yuan, 6000 yuan, 10000 yuan, 18000 yuan (VIP), 39000 yuan (VVIP) (only ten) in the history of Guangzhou Evergrande, the only difference is that the lowest ticket price of 500 yuan ticket, the proportion of Longteng Club is much higher than that of Guangzhou Evergrande.

This welfare for ordinary fans is still the result after Zhang Sheng complained to Zhang Zhijun, otherwise as in history, Guangzhou Evergrande only put less than 1,000 tickets of 600 yuan, blocking many students and ordinary fans who want to watch the game out of the stadium.

It's a pity that the process of selling tickets once again proves that Shi Zhiqiang's business ability far exceeds that of Zhang Sheng, and the only 10 tickets for 32,000 are not only snapped up, but some people even called to Longteng Group.

The reason for this is that the vice governor in charge of culture and sports in Hubei Province, the mayor of Jiangcheng City, the deputy mayor in charge of culture, sports and health, plus the chairman of the Football Association, vice chairman, and Zhang Zhijun, chairman of Longteng Group, who came to sit on the rostrum to watch the game, became the target of those ticket buyers.

And from the point of view of the progress of ticket purchase, the high-end tickets are sold the fastest because of the small number, and the other grades of tickets are because of the large number, and the Longteng Club is also sold in batches, until the high-end tickets are sold out, and the tickets in the middle are still left.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Sheng had to admire Shi Zhijun's business and public relations minds.

Once the tickets can be sold out as scheduled, the single-game ticket income of the Longteng Club will be much higher than the 55 million ticket income of Guangzhou Evergrande in 2013, and it is also higher than the 100 million yuan ticket income of Guangzhou Evergrande last year, which may reach nearly 200 million yuan in sales, which is enough to feed many Chinese Super League clubs for a season.

The AFC Champions League final of the Longteng team also changed another construction plan of Jiangcheng, and the subway line 3, which was opened in December in history, was also opened in advance a week before the game, because the sports center station where the Jiangcheng Sports Center is located is a sub-station of Line 3, which can be regarded as Jiangcheng City's special speed up for the convenience of fans of the AFC Champions League final.

For the AFC Champions League final, Jiangcheng put forward the slogan of striving for a "national civilized city", the bus line where the Jiangcheng Sports Center is located was delayed, and most of the parking lots near the stadium were banned.

Fortunately, the Jiangcheng Sports Center is far away from the urban area, and there are still a lot of parking spaces around it, which is far more relaxed than the surrounding environment of Guangzhou Evergrande in Tianhebei in history.

In addition to the preparation for the competition, this AFC Champions League final also attracted countless media reporters.

At the pre-match press conference on November 20, more than 200 journalists attended. The crowded press room was only a fraction of the reporters. According to the data provided by the AFC, more than 600 journalists signed up this time, and the number of journalists who finally passed was 533, including 340 reporters and technicians for anchor television, rights-holding television broadcasters, and 193 text, photojournalists and non-rights-holding TV reporters.

The size of the reporters scared the UAE reporters who came from afar, and they all agreed that it was the biggest press conference they had ever seen with the team covering Al Ahli in Dubai.

Most of the Emirati journalists also expressed a desire to put friendship first and match second, with the words of Al Ahli's regular team reporter in Dubai typifying: "We don't have any idea about the outcome of this game, although we also want to win the game, but the Dragons are too strong. It's enough for us to come to Jiangcheng, it's an opportunity to show the UAE. ”

Not only the media reporters of the United Arab Emirates think so, but the senior officials of the club including Dubai Al Ahli are also very low-key, and the chairman of Dubai Al Ahli Club Nabuda also came to Jiangcheng with the team this time, and he admires the Longteng team and a large number of talented players cultivated by the Longteng team very much.

During the meeting with Ding Kun, the general manager of Longteng Club, the two sides discussed the possibility of future cooperation between the two teams, and Nabuda also sent an invitation to Longteng to visit Dubai again, and proposed the possibility of the two clubs jointly establishing a training camp in Dubai to help Dubai Al Ahli cultivate outstanding young players, which is also the first time that a foreign club has made a request to a Chinese club to "help" youth football players.

Of course, as a local tyrant club, Dubai Al Ahli is also a gold squandering on this game, in the first leg of the Dragon Club with two special planes to transport the team to Dubai on the day, Abu Dhabi Emirate Crown Prince, UAE Air Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief officially promised: the second leg will arrange a special plane to send Al Ahli Club fans to Jiangcheng for free, in order to better cheer for the Al Ahli team.

The final result was that Dubai Al Ahli used the diplomatic relations of the UAE ambassador to China to open up all the reception work in China, and used three planes to transport more than 700 domestic fans to Jiangcheng for free.

There's a reason why Dubai's Al Ahli side is so low-key.

In the last 17 AFC Champions League home games, Longteng has played a record of 13 wins and 4 draws at Jiangcheng Sports Center. In this year's AFC Champions League, the Longteng team has achieved a record of 7 wins and 1 draw in 8 home games.

With such a home record, any Asian team would be desperate.

And Dubai Al Ahly's away record in the AFC Champions League is really bad, the United Arab Emirates giants can only win 3 of their 21 away games, such a low win rate against the Dragons, in terms of probability, you can basically order a cool song to give them.

The only thing Dubai Al Ahly could hope for was that Pato was injured and could not play, but from the information they had, Pato recovered much faster than they expected, and the information showed that Pato had been involved in the team's training this week, and judging from his performance, there was no impact at all.

A few days before the game, there was another encouraging news, that is, the core of the midfield of the Longteng team, the captain of the team Lin Feng became a candidate for the 2015 "Asian Footballer", and also entered the final three-person shortlist, if he can lead the Longteng team to win the AFC Champions League on the 21st, he will have a great chance to win the "Mr. " award.

The selection criteria for the Asian Footballer of the Year are that the AFC selects the tournament based on the tournament it hosts and hosts, with reference to the MVP of each game. In September, 30 candidates were selected by technical experts, which was reduced to just 15 in mid-October, followed by the selection of three candidates, who were announced at the evening.

According to the AFC scoring principle, the MVP of each game in the AFC Champions League will receive 15 points, the AFC Cup will receive 10 points for the AFC second-level club competition, the winner will receive 60 points for each match participating in the World Cup finals, the winner will receive 20 points for each match in the second round of the World Cup qualifiers, 25 points for the third round, 40 points for the Asian Cup final, 25 points for each match selected in the Olympic qualifiers, and 40 points for each match selected in the final stage of the Olympic Games. If you receive a red card in a match, you need to lose 10 points, and if you receive a yellow card, you need to lose 5 points.

In addition to Lin Feng, the candidates who finally made it to the top three were Al Ahli captain Al-Khalil and Omar, another UAE team. If the Longteng team wins the AFC Champions League, they will win the AFC Club of the Year award, and Lin Feng's hopes of being elected Asian Footballer of the Year will also be greatly enhanced.

In history, Zheng Zhi, the captain of Guangzhou Evergrande, was also selected for this three-person list, but Zheng Zhi still lost in the final selection, and Khalil of the United Arab Emirates won this honor.

At that time, although Zheng Zhi led the Evergrande team to win the AFC Champions League for the second time, in the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, the national football team only entered the quarterfinals, and the world preliminaries were also in danger of being eliminated, which became Zheng Zhizhi's fatal wound for missing the trophy.

Khalil not only led Al Ahly to the AFC Champions League final, but also led the UAE team to a third-place finish in the Asian Cup, and also has a good chance of advancing to the round of 12 in the World Preliminary Round.

And now it is different, although in the Asian Cup, the Chinese team met the host Australia and was eliminated, and still stopped in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup, but in the World Preliminaries, the Chinese team can be said to be a triumphant song, Lin Feng scored the winning goal and won the MVP on the spot when facing the strongest opponent in the group Qatar away.

In this way, in terms of points, Lin Feng can be said to have surpassed Khalil and become the most popular candidate, and once the Longteng team wins this game, Lin Feng will become the third person in the history of Chinese football to win the Asian Footballer of the Year, and the hope will be infinite.

At the press conference before the game, a reporter asked Lin Feng about his views on the Asian Footballer, and Lin Feng, who attended the meeting with Zhang Sheng as the captain of the team, was very calm: "For me, it is a great honor to be able to participate in the competition of the Asian Footballer of the Year, and being one of the three candidates is an affirmation of me and the team." ”

Zhang Sheng also took over and said: "Lin Feng's performance this season is obvious to all, and I think he is one of the best players in Asia. ”

In fact, Zhang Sheng and Lin Feng had a long talk before the game, and the content of the two sides was exactly the transfer issue that was rumored before, and later because Lin Feng said cruel words, he was interrupted by the bottom of the kettle.

Lin Feng insisted that he should play in Europe, and he didn't want to go to a team outside the five major leagues, even if he was relegated from the five major leagues or even a midstream team, he seemed a little disdainful.

Also insisting on his own point of view is Zhang Sheng.

In Zhang Sheng's opinion, Lin Feng's idea is too optimistic, even if it is operated by other teams in the Chinese Super League, it is extremely difficult to go to the giants of the five major leagues. It's quite possible that after that, you'll make a gimmick, train with the team for a while, and then be placed on the cold bench.

And in order to keep the hype in the team, Lin Feng's time on the cold bench will definitely not be short, unless Lin Feng himself is determined to play the game and maintain his condition, the opposing club will never easily let him out on loan.

Once Lin Feng enters such an embarrassing situation, then he will only turn 22 years old in March next year is likely to be abandoned because he has not played for a long time, after all, participating in more games at this age is the key period to maintain the player's ability value and increase the ball.

In the end, the conversation ended with both sides having their own opinions.

Zhang Sheng also agreed to Lin Feng's request to leave the team without arranging a transfer to the top five European leagues, in Zhang Sheng's idea, no matter which Chinese Super League team buys him over, the process of helping the club play in the Chinese Super League for a few years and then agreeing on the transfer is likely to change Lin Feng's mind, and at the same time help him maintain his condition.

The Chinese Super League teams that heard the news of Lin Feng's transfer and were about to move immediately boiled in private.